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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.worksOPtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.worldSocial nuke
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    7 months ago

    It doesn’t matter if it’s 100%. Or 99%. Or even 90 or 30. It would still be quite the nuke.

    I think this is dead obvious. And I mentioned that.

    But you can’t get past that can you?

    It’s like you have your eyeball pressed up against the bark of a tree, insisting that there is no forest.

    (That’s what we call a “metaphor”.)






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    7 months ago

    Yr probably right. Society would go on as usual because the bottom line is, ultimately, unaffected.

    But, squishy moods on a mass scale constitute the weather of politics and commerce. From that angle, big things might happen.

    Consider the general stress of a population : X. When x goes up we vote and shop thusly. That’s a known thing.

    And x would definitely go up here.So such a hackyvirus could be a tool in shifting a close election or selling an unpopular product.

    (Not to mention the effect on phone sales, attitudes towards privacy, the eternally eroding nuclear family…)

    So that’s a thing to think about.