Because everything anyone says nowadays has a name above it, along with a number that is supposed to indicate the quality of the thing being said, or more like the amount of people who have read and agreed with the thing. That makes it seem like that thought is then somehow intellectual property of the person, while most of the time it's too trivial to have any sort of copyright law surrounding the thing. Yet people still want to enforce ownership, because it makes them feel good, and like it's them that contributed something to the public discourse and no one else. Ego and the need for social validation, which is something you can apply to almost every situation on social media that makes you question why someone said something. I must say I'm feeling kinda correct here, this may get validated and produce good feels for my primate brain

it's probably partly a consequence of the internet becoming more accessible over the years, so you'll have a larger share of idiots ruining stuff for others. like all these services trying to make setting up your own brand as easy as possible, and i'm just thinking please no we don't need more of these obnoxious assholes shoving their mediocre lifestyle in everyone's faces.

i think if you can set up decent scum filters that get rid of the sludge and slime, you can be left with a pretty clear and pure bit of online content, but it becomes harder to do as people just keep pouring bucket loads of garbage into the pond

could also just be multiple people coming to the same conclusion independently, cause it's not such a leftfield thought i think. it's just the truth if you observe stuff honestly. i've thought about this as well, just never had the urge to make a post about it. same goes for a lot of stuff, people aren't that original most of the time

Interesting, this is pretty much the way I see things as well. Also not surprising as of course my views are almost entirely based on existing existential writings, combined with real life experience

Humans: "OH BUT MAYBE IT COULD BE BETTER LIKE BLAHBLAHBLAH, BLAH BLA XYZ BLAH I REALLY DO THINK IT BLA BLAH BLAH"

Reality:

Oh, don't worry, ive got it covered, the stuff that comes up in my most personal moments couldn't be any more bleak and hopeless 🤣👍

There's this little work called "beyond good and evil" by friedrich nietzsche, that seems to touch on this topic a bit. Might be worth checking out sometime

a reminder of the cyclic and finite nature of life, definitely. it's also in the contrast between people in your immediate environment's joy, and the reality remaining as apathetic and dull as ever, that your own sense of meaninglessness can become more intense than any other time of year.

grug see dark, grug feel cold, grug make light and warm

That guy is about to meet a suspicious man with an umbrella walking down the street. Or he might get invited for tea with one of putin's associates

real time monitoring would mean the device is sending out a constant stream of video/audio data. i'd think this is something people can notice pretty quickly if they keep an eye on their network traffic. also, to get a device into a state where it does this, it would need to be hacked into already, or come with pre installed spyware. you're not getting video data from someone just browsing the web. and besides, if they're using an encrypted protocol the isp will only be able to tell the websites they've been visiting, unless they can somehow get a hold of the encryption key for that session.

what they could do, is restrict access to sites using ssl encryption, so they are forced to use an unencrypted protocol and then they'd be able to see everything that gets sent back and forth, but that seems like a lot hassle for some info about the average citizen. if they are suspicious and start targetting individuals though, then i think it becomes very hard to stop it, cause they can start attaching spyware to replies from the isp and everything probably. this is why you don't want your government to collaborate with isp's. as an average citizen though, i wouldn't worry about it too much. maybe use a good and trusted vpn server, but otherwise it's not worth losing sleep over.

i say that only cause it's gotten really bad for me in the past, but now it just feels like i wasted a lot of time on something that most likely won't have any real impact on my life anyway.