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I'm saying it again: We can't know what's true anymore. Whenever something happens more than a few miles away, chances are high that you know nobody who was involved there physically, so there's no reliable way of knowing what actually happened anymore.
I think we can only make reasonable choices about things that are close enough to ourselves; not about very far-away entities.
I have no way to know whether the USA really exists.
it's real because nobody could make up so much bullshit
Idk have you read Ayn Rand
I'm pretty sure that dancing frog was real. It has soul.
If you record a video on your phone, is there no Metadata to help verify its validity? Gotta be something we can do about this.
There are forensic fingerprints that match a video to an image sensor. Maybe they could be faked by a sophisticated actor but let's be honest: the people watching these videos aren't checking that closely.