just realized we don't really have riots anymore that shit used to go down all the time in 18C but it's really quite rare these days this seems significant. I would have pegged riots as Lindy knowing history up through idk 1900
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and there's not any technical development that seems likely to have caused this must be a social cause? why would people stop rioting
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1. Higher opportunity cost because wealth 2. drugs in the water 3. redirected online? Hm doesn't seem to exactly fill the ecstatic component of mobbing or maybe it does not that I think on it
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4. mega-Cop's better at shutting down riots this seems plausible
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5. demographic greying, mostly kids and young adults riot and you need some kind of critical density for a riot to fire
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I guess it got costly to riot IRL so people shifted their antisocial passions online? ok I buy it good work everyone we figured out the Discourse we can all go home
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