That's what happens when you gut Civic studies and make people apathetic about the Political process and their own countries. Despite parties claiming over and over that elections are important, barely over half the voters care enough to go vote.
In my city, barely over half care, too.
Farming has always been a bit precaurious, where bad seasons can fuck you up financially, and where needed hardware to remain competitive is extremely expensive to purchase and maintain. On top of that, if you are a smaller farmer you have to compete against other farmers, plus much larger companies. Either by selling your stuff yourself or selling it to them.
Keeping even a mini empire plus working the land can be difficult and time consuming. Plus, not everyone wants to be a farmer so your kids may not want to follow the trade which was not the case 50+ years ago. So, just lots of challenges.
They stole the idea from Xerox and they could not even do it right.
Sure. Maybe one day. But not in a rush. Once I move out more into the country.
Good on them. The use of AI in military applications conveniently gets next to 0 coverage both in these type of events and also in the general news media.
Same with drone warfare. Which should terrify us all. Imagine a swarm of 30-50 drones with small explosives attacking some public event? Hell. Even jist a couple. Sadly. It will happen one day, sooner than we think.
Or, the most obvious, less moving parts answer is that they are corrupt and only will push policies and fear mongering that will keep them in power. Irrelevant if they are Left or Right.
You are being too kind if you think they are not 100% aware of what they are doing. They do not need a lesson in Civics, they need to be replaced.
For all the talk that Obama did, great job of showing that he is a sell out by extending the Patriot Act and all the spying that it allows.
Uh, FreshRSS coupled with Wallabag? Or Nextcloud?
Are people who care or are paying attention, idiots? It won't work.
I do not know, there could be the option of a very sexy cheesecake recipe.
So, what is your definition of not happiness l, which is short-lived and fleeing, but of true contentment?
Hint, if you need 'things' to make you content aside the obvious necessities, chances are that you may be a bit wrong.
Not saying it is easy, but what would you like to do different?