The Outer Worlds is now an Epic Games Store Exclusive

[AlienALX]

All I know is that trains used to be awesome. There were loads, and they had at least 8 carriages. They were also big and spacious. Now? Ffs you are lucky if it has four, and if it's busy you are standing.

It's crazy how a country as great as ours has such a terrible rail system.

Certain things should not be capitalised imo. You turn them into a business and then every penny is crushed until it makes copper wire, to all go into some fat poohole's pocket.

Same thing with broadband. Again it's actually embarrassing that some third world countries have better than us. And the whole "being milked by energy companies" should stop as well.

Our world should be ran by doctors and scientists.

 

[Warchild]

i think this needs its own topic. Going way off track now.

 

[looz]

Our world should be ran by doctors and scientists.

They're only experts in their own field, though.


I think we need to educate people on source criticism, at least when I went to school it wasn't included in curriculum until senior high, which is optional so around half of my age group didn't get any lessons on the subject.
People should also be aware how social media works, since it actually drives people into small bubbles and gives people links to articles they want to read with little in the way of fact checking.
This has, for instance, led to distrust in "main stream media" since the story told there is very different from blogs which are primarily designed to generate clicks by abusing Facebook's algorithm and as a result, ad revenue for the host.

Democracy relies on voters being decently well-informed so outrage inducing campaigns like the NHS buses would be quickly dismissed as BS.



But I guess this discussion should be continued in small talk & chit chat.