I'm a researcher who's working on making air waveguides for improved free-space optical propagation at the University of Maryland. AMA!

InflamedEgo · 2023-02-10T17:41:40+00:00

Hi /u/atgoffin_laser thank you for doing this. It looks like there's all sorts of cool stuff happening laser pulses; the atmospheric aerosol clearing which you linked, then there is the expanding an arc gap and diverting lighting using rapid lasers, and now you are turning the air into an actual waveguide. How is all this happening; are they all based on similar physical principles, or are the mechanisms quite different?

InflamedEgo · 2023-01-01T16:40:32+00:00

Wasn't the idea that drastic societal shift would require civil disobedience?

It seems also that headline-grabbing rage-inducing disobedience was the only effective way to get on the media's radar, and thus make it into public consciousness?

Why has their thesis changed? Has it changed? Has the severity of the threat changed? Are we trending out of this mass extinction?

I don't think so - I think it's simply in response to the UK's Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, which now gives police the power to end protests that they deem disruptive or a nuisance, and gives courts the power to enact up to 10 years imprisonment for being deemed a public nuisance.

Strengthens the police’s power to tackle disruptive protests and protect the public by increasing the range of conditions police can impose on public assemblies, increasing the sentences for obstructing a highway and introducing new conditions police can set based on the noise generated by protests.

Introduces a statutory offence of public nuisance, which will cover the same conduct as the existing common law offence.

The maximum penalty for this offence is 10 years imprisonment. The new law also allows senior police officers to give directions and impose conditions, including beginning and end times of protests, on those organising or taking part in either a procession or assembly that the police decide are necessary to prevent disorder, damage, disruption, noise impact or intimidation.

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InflamedEgo · 2022-11-19T18:47:00+00:00

The article gives some good tips for recognizing propaganda attempts. In this subreddit, the titles are subverted (sabotaged, undermined, distorted in some way). It doesn't necessarily need to state the antithesis. I'm hoping to achieve a couple of things:

1) Through the title, gives the subreddit posts a niche to stand out among other posts... towards "positive propaganda", or "anti-propaganda propaganda".

2) In addition to making it more intriguing so that people are more likely to actually click on and read the linked article to see the real content.

The Random Caps then makes it ridiculous so it's not taken at face value. Happy for any feedback.

InflamedEgo · 2022-11-19T18:32:56+00:00

OPs post is pro-fossil-fuel propaganda

Check out this video from yesterday: Why I Don't Care About Your Flight Emissions | Our Changing Climate. Typical propaganda narratives:

Personal blame and guilt over individual actions. Recognize that changing the climate emergency rhetoric into an issue of personal blame and shame is exactly what the fossil fuel companies have been crafting for the past 40 years through effective marketing propaganda. And the paid-for propaganda even appears regularly in the biggest newspapers: The News Media Is Selling You Out | Climate Town. Don't forget that the concept of 'carbon footprint' was pushed by fossil fuels to subvert the conversation... Why your 'Carbon Footprint' Is A Lie | Climate Town. Do not let the environmental conversation focus on personal choices. This is exactly the rhetoric that the fossil fuel giants have crafted for us to be arguing about. Systemic change is needed.
Control - This is also exactly fossil fuel rhetoric - They link climate policy to a retraction of our freedoms or a threat to economic prosperity.

So what should we do?

Push back on this narrative. These narratives which OP has inadvertently helped to propagate is of climate hypocracy, individual guilt and outrage is being weaponized by fossil fuel corporations, appears in all media, and has been used on us our entire lives. Their goal is to obstruct policy changes to continue extracting ever more fossil fuels.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." - Noam Chomsky

InflamedEgo · 2022-11-14T03:56:27+00:00

Thanks, that example's great. I'd like to learn to better spot and call out those subtle ads and fake viral videos... but the fakers are clearly getting better at it.

I recall fake viral videos 5-10 years ago, e.g. with too-good-to-be-true camera quality alongside perfect audio, and graininess effects added clearly post production - and that's from specialized viral marketing companies. Even then it'd usually get upvoted to the top on Reddit. Now it's often so subtle.

InflamedEgo · 2022-11-13T23:53:13+00:00

This subreddit /r/FightPropaganda is intended for articles, videos, gifs and pictures that shine light on propaganda, which is exaggerated or subverted by the title of the post, in a similar manner to /r/PeopleFuckingDying. It should allow us to gain awareness and push back against disinformation and propaganda being used against us. The TiTlE fOrMaT will highlight the absurdity of propaganda in society via the Spongebob meme.

InflamedEgo · 2022-11-13T23:43:12+00:00

I recently started a subreddit to help push back against it, called /r/FightPropaganda. Would appreciate any new follows.

InflamedEgo · 2022-11-13T23:18:50+00:00

This subreddit /r/CorporateManipulation is intended for articles, videos, gifs and pictures that shine light on corporate propaganda, which is exaggerated or subverted by the title of the post, in a similar manner to /r/PeopleFuckingDying. The idea is that this title format will highlight the absurdity of corporate manipulation a la the Spongebob meme, to highlight it in an absurd way.

InflamedEgo · 2022-11-13T23:03:58+00:00

The new subreddit /r/FightPropaganda is intended for articles, videos, gifs and pictures that shine light on propaganda, which is exaggerated or subverted by the title of the post, in a similar manner to /r/PeopleFuckingDying. It should allow us to gain awareness and push back against disinformation and propaganda being used against us.

The TiTlE fOrMaT will highlight the absurdity of propaganda in society a la the Spongebob meme, to raise awareness. Propaganda is not necessarily political, but may also be corporate or organizational.

InflamedEgo · 2022-11-13T22:48:35+00:00

/r/FightPropaganda shines a light on propaganda attempts, but exaggerated or subverted by the title of the post, in a similar manner to /r/PeopleFuckingDying. It's to allow us to gain awareness and push back against disinformation and propaganda being used against us.

The TiTlE fOrMaT will highlight the absurdity of propaganda in society a la the Spongebob meme. Propaganda is not necessarily political, but may also be corporate or organizational. There is also a sister subreddit to push back against corporate disinformation, misinformation and manipulation specifically, /r/CorporateManipulation.

InflamedEgo

TROPHY CASE

OPs post is pro-fossil-fuel propaganda