Punatang - It is your job to explain how January 6th and Qanon belong on Punaweb and are either good or bad for Puna.
Seems odd having to connect these dots for you of all people, but okay - Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for Oct 2020 in which we find:
* QAnon Conspiracies, Proud Boys And The Future of Hawaii’s GOP, where the Hawai'i GOP candidates are catching heat for promoting the Qanon conspiracy theory "that President Donald Trump is in an epic battle with a secret cabal of Satan worshipping pedophiles comprised of Democrats and Hollywood elites who are running a global sex trafficking ring that harvests the blood of children." One of those candidates is Nicholas Ochs, "the founder of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys, a far-right organization of Trump supporters with a penchant for political violence."
* January 8th, 2021 - Nicholas Ochs, "the founder of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys who boasted on social media about storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was arrested and charged by the federal government for taking part in the riot." (He would later be pardoned in 2025 by President Trump)
My assertion is that online conspiratorial beliefs that radicalize people into violence based on nothing but made up fantasies and lies is not a sign of a healthy and well-adjusted society both here in Hawai'i and elsewhere. Is there an argument here to be had?
The question of the thread was "What effect does AI have on people in Puna?" and the predominate impact I see is the AI slop videos being passed around in local facebook groups that extend and build upon Qanon's all-encompassing conspiracy theory model including how the Lahaina fires were caused by a Directed Energy Weapon (which is also what those green streaks seen over Mauna Kea in the early morning hours during the height of the Perseid meteor showers were, actually, for those who "know" the UN agenda of the global elites), or the chemtrails over Pahoa story Julie pointed out (perennial favorite those chemtrails - big hit on all islands, check your local DVD collections), and how the Hawaii County General Plan is a UN agenda to take their truck, and so on.
The largest impact AI in Puna is having apparently is to provide more mis- and dis-information brainrot fodder for people to disconnect from reality and take their imagined grievances to potentially violent ends, like January 6th, including against local politicians. Sounds bad for Puna, to me at least, given we have actual challenges in the real world to address, but opinions clearly differ (again, see facebook, or don't, really)
Seems odd having to connect these dots for you of all people, but okay - Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for Oct 2020 in which we find:
* QAnon Conspiracies, Proud Boys And The Future of Hawaii’s GOP, where the Hawai'i GOP candidates are catching heat for promoting the Qanon conspiracy theory "that President Donald Trump is in an epic battle with a secret cabal of Satan worshipping pedophiles comprised of Democrats and Hollywood elites who are running a global sex trafficking ring that harvests the blood of children." One of those candidates is Nicholas Ochs, "the founder of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys, a far-right organization of Trump supporters with a penchant for political violence."
* January 8th, 2021 - Nicholas Ochs, "the founder of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys who boasted on social media about storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was arrested and charged by the federal government for taking part in the riot." (He would later be pardoned in 2025 by President Trump)
My assertion is that online conspiratorial beliefs that radicalize people into violence based on nothing but made up fantasies and lies is not a sign of a healthy and well-adjusted society both here in Hawai'i and elsewhere. Is there an argument here to be had?
The question of the thread was "What effect does AI have on people in Puna?" and the predominate impact I see is the AI slop videos being passed around in local facebook groups that extend and build upon Qanon's all-encompassing conspiracy theory model including how the Lahaina fires were caused by a Directed Energy Weapon (which is also what those green streaks seen over Mauna Kea in the early morning hours during the height of the Perseid meteor showers were, actually, for those who "know" the UN agenda of the global elites), or the chemtrails over Pahoa story Julie pointed out (perennial favorite those chemtrails - big hit on all islands, check your local DVD collections), and how the Hawaii County General Plan is a UN agenda to take their truck, and so on.
The largest impact AI in Puna is having apparently is to provide more mis- and dis-information brainrot fodder for people to disconnect from reality and take their imagined grievances to potentially violent ends, like January 6th, including against local politicians. Sounds bad for Puna, to me at least, given we have actual challenges in the real world to address, but opinions clearly differ (again, see facebook, or don't, really)