Mildly Interesting

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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 121 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Friendly reminder that the panopticon we live under today was considered horrifying a hundred years ago

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's still horrifying today. We're just powerless to stop it.

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We didn't start the fire....

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

But we're tryin ta fight it 🎶

[–] kwarg@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Ryan started the fire

[–] FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

It was always burning.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or even 25 years ago! They (and in many cases we) tried to warn them. Turns out the other "they" are happy to give it away for AI slop videos.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

That's not when they gave it away. It was well and truly gone 24 years ago lest terrorists win