The fax machine actually had a massive impact on society and is much older than you think (newer than the telegram, older than the telephone, and in use during Abraham Lincolns life time).
Just because it's usefulness had declined in the prior 10 years to him making that statement, doesn't mean it didn't affect the economy.
In the year 2100 or 2200 the internet as we know it may have been superceded by methodologies we can't even comprehend right now.
Part of it is they are mixed in professional environments (studios) for professional environments (cinema).
Part of it is they can't mix for someone with a 10 year old tv using its built in speakers in a shared living room with street noise, 15 feet from the sofa and a brand new TV through a sound bar in a rural mansion 8 feet from the sofa, and someone using airpods over Bluetooth.
Plus people tend to listen to things at a volume similar to conversational level, but in a cinema you listen to things at a volume that would be considered impolite to your neighbors if you did it in an apartment block.
Finally, sound engineers are artists and dynamics (louder and quieter parts) are part of their craft. Actors are artists and their vocal performances also have dynamics.
A question to ask yourself is have you considered more actively participating in the sound delivery methods of your media? I'm not here to say "all people are watching TV wrong!" but I would ask if most people have even thought carefully about their sound delivery choices, their own EQ settings in their TV, how well tuned their environment is for active listening, and if they just need to turn their volume up?
I appreciate not everyone can blaze the sound on max — but if you do have to sacrifice some volume, maybe part of that tradeoff is clarity of dialogue?
people found information for hundreds of years before reddit and will for hundreds of years after.
yeah, it's for buying secret Christmas presents for your wife
gArlIC BreAD - AI BAD.
it's trying to warn us
I agree. I have it turned off for now because it was dumb seeing stupid porn, but I don't mind reading about other adult topics, and self-tagging NSFW stuff is obviously capriciously applied. What would be inappropriate to some is not to others. It would be nice to be able to control that more granularly.
I guess disaster movies are right, we do go straight to hell real quick.
most people nowadays say to just follow Viva New Vegas https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/index.html
"no one is allowed to imagine anything that's not a grotesque exaggeration of a bizarre sex doll"
technically signing up for any service gets you put on a list, and there are very few lists anyone has - including handwritten ones in your kitchen drawer - that the government/police couldn't access if they really wanted to.
Privacy, safety, security are conventions and habits of politeness mostly.
Really the main protection is that there are much bigger fish to fry than people reading internet posts about politics, and even within anarcho-social circles, there are bigger players with more concerning activities than you.
I genuinely do think it depends. YouTube is actually a good example here: content videos created to enforce a feedback loop to beat the algorithm are more likely to be optimized to tend towards beating out the competition and meet watchtime and engagement metrics. In that way they are (arguably) more akin to advertisements (that have a very high volume and prioritize cutting through noise) than they are to drama (and comedy).
Although drama isn't looking to bore you either, if it opened with dramatic sobbing and weeping, ended with dramatic sobbing and weeping, and also consisted of 90s mins of sobbing and weeping between — it would fail. Drama needs dynamics, youtubers do not (necessarily).