Youtube comments of Mighty One (@mightyone3737).

  1. You probably are already aware, but in the US there is a recent tactic of the pretty far right to declare that they are 'center right', and thus electable, and that anything left of them is 'dangerous radical left' territory, and they say isn't electable. It's all complete BS of course, but even the Democratic Party is pretty far right by world standards, so it's the kind of BS that is deeply irritating, as it's obviously false, and everyone knows it.
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  2. That's not self imposed exile when everyone treats you like shit until you leave, that's maybe a 'soft' exile. You're still exiled, just nobody will tell you that precisely, they'll just treat you like shit until you leave. You're being way, way to kind to the other reindeer.
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  3. 'Kind of a jerk' seems somewhat understating things. He was a deeply evil man who delighted in the suffering of the powerless.
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  4. Twice divorced, his third wife slaps his hand away, and he's personally the most unpopular president in living memory, yet is arguing that a man who's brand is being liked and trusted is disliked?? This is the kind of lie that's just pathological, it doesn't have a shred of reality and is pointless.
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  5. Doesn't this Cody Johnson have Some News show of some kind? I think he did a short bit on peterson on that show too.
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  6. That he's statistically not stubbing his toe right now. He should never be not stubbing his toe.
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  7. What I've learned about mike johnson is that however many swirlies he was given (and I'm sure it was quite a few, he is an incredibly nerdy adult, and in the 'psychopath' way, not the 'I like math' sense), mikey wasn't given enough. I will only say 'it's never too late!', and hope for the best! So glad the house got an 'every sperm is sacred' moron to run things, if we're lucky the constant barrage of bullying via late night hosts will crumple him a bit, he seems incredibly dainty, like he has the constitution of a sea cucumber, and presumably similar defenses.
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  8. It's incredibly hard to justify killing an otter, but protecting your family seems like it'd be on the list.
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  9. Their is a large portion of the rich in the west who are very interested in going back to the old system of massive wealth inequality, with the veneer of 'worthiness' since the wealth was 'earned' in a 'legitimate way', not like when the Nobility had all the money. The rich make the rules in the US, and oddly enough the tax and legal systems really seem to like to help them get even richer, while openly sabotaging the educations of the poor, to keep them ignorant and manageable (while leaving them very unable to improve their situation at all). Of course their are many rich people that say 'you don't to get an education' in countless talks, they want ignorant and desperate workers they can mold into whatever they need, and treat them as they see fit. This desire to rule over the poor is why populism is being pushed world-wide, to distract people from the actual issues with idiotic cultural irredentism about how much better their parents had it. They then take away the progress that has been made over the last 500 years under the cover of 'helping', and make us all effectively serfs again. Note, slave owners historically cared more about their slaves than serf owners cared about their serfs, since serfs were literally slaves you didn't have to pay for, and they were valued accordingly. The beauty of course is that if you have a serf, he can lie to himself and say he is 'free', even though he can't move, stop working for any reason (or he can be punished, even killed), refuse military service, choose to be single if fertile, etc. This is what they want to bring back, absolute power over the poor, and they are inundating us with propaganda to achieve this end, so that we will willingly embrace a slight variant that has been prettied up.
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  10. Yeah, I'm gonna have to call BS on any billionaire that claims to be a fan of Star Trek... you're 1000% not a fan by definition.
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  11.  @Kayenne54  Propaganda is not a new thing at all
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  12. Tiberius was notoriously pretty competent, even (seemingly) realizing that he was gonna go bonkers and stepping down to do it in privacy. Rome was weird.
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  13. It's awfully hard to just 'move on' from seditious behaviour when someone refuses to admit they were wrong, and explain why they were wrong, and then explain how they have changed to prevent being wrong in the same way again. Those are the steps to be accepted again in normal society I think. You don't just get to say 'I've moved on from my borderline treasonous behaviour' and have that be it. If you commit a crime, and you're not famous/wealthy beyond words, you don't get to say 'I moved on from that', you get charged.
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  14. 1) We've never heard trump actually laugh 2) Kamala has a delightful laugh.
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  15. She is hilarious, such a great energy bouncing back and forth here
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  16. I actually use a cast iron pan a great deal specifically because I despise non-stick coatings, they have all been bad with the exception of porcelain I think, which seems like a good coating, but hard to find in NA. The key to using these is just using more oil/butter, just bite the bullet and do it, and you will have tastier food that has less terrifying chemicals in it that are ruining the world. Also, those coatings peel, so you know you're eating that shit, and you have to replace them constantly. A good cast iron pan can be passed down. That last line from DeVito should maybe be 'It's not often you get paid billions upon billions to put toxic things into the world', because companies aren't just 'allowed' to pollute, they are massively, disproportionately rewarded for doing it. They get a bigger paycheck likely if the company dumps more stuff and gets away with it, that's how this goes. Why do we reward sociopaths for harming us as a society, are we fucking stupid or something? I mean obviously yes, but I mean even dumber than we suspect?
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  17. Anyone that actually believes melania needs to give someone power of attorney over their life. You're giving trump WAY too much credit, the man's 'brain' is nothing but overcooked apple sauce at this point, and he was never what you'd call clever, voters are voting for him for LITERALY one reason, and that ONE REASON is that he's openly racist. That's all the reason they need.
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  18. With the salary cap, I just can't see it getting rid of the necromancers... You just need too many warmed up corpses to win now.
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  19. It's the only requirement to be a billionaire, you have to get off on be sadistically cruel (for pleasure AND profit) to the people who actually run society, the poorest among us. The most important caste in any system is the bottom one, whose labour and suffering everything is built by, from, and on top of. The least important caste is the highest, the one that contributes nothing but evil.
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  20. ffs, people didn't just think the summer surge was horrific, it was horrific, it's just that this is ludicrous.
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  21.  @elliec4154  AI art is nothing but shitty collages made up of other people's work, which they don't get remunerated for atm, which is usually called theft (and copyright violation in many cases). We're many years from when AI can actually 'make art'. I suggest you learn more about art if you think 'art' is literally nothing but the physical creation, AI can't express emotions it doesn't have for example, there is a reason we don't call a beautiful natural waterfall a work of art, because there is no artifice, just because it's beautiful to witness doesn't make it art, it being created by an intelligent being with intentions is what makes it art.
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  22. So, trump is roughly as classy as Joliet Jake when he, actively trying to make a hugely ugly scene, says 'Your women, I want to buy your women!' to the next table over. Seriously, this is absurd.
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  23. Having a strong group of allies is going to be key for the US, as China has made plenty of allies in developing countries, countries that are growing wealthier quickly, meaning China is going to not only be individually much stronger in the future, it will have a strong base of allies it can use/rely on. Meanwhile, the US seems to being trying to drive NATO apart, and actively seems to be worsening relations with all traditional allies. This bodes ill for the future!
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  24.  @larsg.2492  I took two classes in economics at a university (not a prestigious one), while I certainly learned stuff there is a huge amount of resistance (or there was then, ~20 years ago) to teaching anything that would be disagreeable to someone like reagan. I certainly learned stuff, but even at that level nobody wants to explain to the mostly working class students that they have been exploited their whole life and are going to be exploited until they die. I suspect once you get to Masters level classes they get more honest/forthcoming, because Masters students are either moving up (and need to know how to help the capitalists exploit us) or aren't going to matter because they're working a dead end job to pay loans until they're too old to want a revolution.
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  25. I eagerly await the capitalists disbanding the military, since having everyone pay into it and then let the government deal with things is socialism, and the only truly capitalist military is a militia where everyone brings their own gear. Same for police, fire departments, and most infrastructure. People pretend that pooling resources for this or that is somehow magically different than pooling resources for something else, but the important question is can the government do the job better than the free market and individual purchases. Capitalism is about making money, not offering services that don't make money but might be very necessary. Do we want for profit police? Look at the fiasco that is the private prison industry, where the prisons owners bribe judges to get harsher sentences. Regarding healthcare, it is patently obvious that the US health care system is broken and financially onerous to the people it is supposed to be servicing. Spending is much lower in countries that offer a strong government option, even if they don't remove the option of 3rd party insurance, and healthcare is comparable. The US has a system designed to make money for rich people, not so much help masses. People should not be bankrupt by what is essentially bad luck. Wealth can be pretty toxic to a society if it gets out of hand, and the US won't be a magical exception to the fact that the real drivers of the economy are the workers/consumers, not the owners of businesses. Rewarding owners with all of the increases in profitability per hour of labour was unfair, and it sabotages long term growth. Government debt may not be the bugbear it's made out to be, but individual debt, especially bad debt, is a very serious problem for an economy. The rich are trying to pull up the ladder now that they are rich, and it's pretty disgusting.
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  26. It should be noted that people hated lobster when they arrived in North America, their were laws about how often it could be fed to prisoners before it became cruel.
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  27. I definitely loved Tragic Kingdom in high school, stuff like I'm Just a Girl speaks to not just girls, but how the establishment/patriarchy keeps all of us down. Was not really there for the non-punk stuff, but that's fine, lots of people were. I don't like artists that don't change over time, even if I don't love their new stuff, I can always enjoy what they already made.
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  28. Also, like every other billionaire, bezos was chosen BECAUSE of that lack of empathy, that and the endless greed that makes him completely predictable to those handling him. You tickled around the issue a bit with the whole 'never showing a profit' for years (because money kept being dumped on him with big trucks, a privilege other people don't get it should go without saying), but people don't seem to like to point out that modern capitalism is completely rigged.
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  29. As a kid, I honestly felt like Reese's Puffs crossed the line. They were good, but they weren't 'food', they were 'candy' to my brain. Fortunately, my dad loves grocery shopping (and is Dutch, and loves saving money), so we just bought the periodically on sale Mini-Wheats (and had dozens of boxes, and consumed them based on Best Before), because they were actually candy enough to be pleasant, yet were actual food and didn't digest in 15 minutes. We actually never got sick of them, despite literally eating almost nothing but the 2 kinds of Mini-Wheats. We'd get other cereal for birthdays and Christmas, as well as just whenever, but the overwhelming bulk was the very palatable Mini-Wheats. I can't eat most cereals now, since I can't eat gluten, but I don't really miss most of them. Most of them are too quick to digest, and have too much sugar, resulting in a brutal energy crash vs something like buttery gruel (you can use peanut butter if you want protein). I think kids understand this intrinsically (by feel, adults tend to ignore their bodily feelings more), which was why I didn't have any problems switching to less sugary (but still sweetened!) cereal. It's disappointing that for almost all cereals, the milk is the nutritious part by far, and you'd be better served by just drinking twice as much milk provided you can digest it.
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  30. The only question here is this: Are you okay with a bunch of the elderly dying? If so, you're fine with not locking down. it's not just the elderly of course, but statistically it's mostly them, so that's the question. I suppose you could also ask, 'are you remotely ethical, or are you okay with people who've largely finished their contribution and are owed retirements (that they were promised and paid into) dying many years sooner then they had to?' Hint, people who are fine with that will also happily screw anyone else over, as they are sociopaths, if not psychopaths. This ignores the fact that the graph you show makes it hilariously clear how many more people there have been dying vs somewhat similar countries with stricter measures. All for the possibility of herd immunity, while vaccines are already on the way. They made a mistake, many, many people died that didn't have to, and countless other people who got sick will possibly have long term effects.
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  31.  @Joose  Socialism has literally nothing to do with dictatorships, almost none in history were remotely socialist. Will Stone be pardoned? I'll be pleasantly surprised if he isn't.
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  32. I mean Mike, my guy, you know that the of the two 'empires' that were 'at cold war', the side that actually admitted it was wrong was NOT the West. Your American compatriots still use socialism and communism as buzzwords utterly divorced from meaning, and the majority of the public is HAPPY with this, because the Western propaganda was much BETTER than the soviet, and thus we didn't revolt and they did. This video is stupid and I'm 3:20. What happened man?
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  33. He also said Bolton, who was 'so tough he got us into Iraq' (which Trump considers bad), and follows this up with claims that HE WASN'T TOUGH ENOUGH... as in, if it wasn't for Bolton, Trump would have started MORE IRAQS. Which he claims were bad. This man should be forced to give a 20 minute speech with no teleprompter, I don't believe he can follow cue cards.
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  34. Rich people aren't smarter, that's not the selection criteria to 'join the club'.
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  35. I am here for both railing against the presumption that the woman is the homewrecker (it's a two person act, minimum), but I'm also super here for pointing out that writing songs like that is absolute douche territory. Oh, and this guy who dumped his life partner for a fling? Have fun with that, honestly, I will laugh as you crash and burn. His wife was given a 'get out of a relationship with a d-bag for free' card, and I hope she's mature enough to recognize that she didn't have a real relationship before and thus didn't lose anything in this exchange. I personally have zero patience with people cheating, but since I think most women are contributing FAR more to the relationship the man are usually the scumbag. If you can't be loyal, be up front about it, cheating is so scummy! I like to embrace my sex-negative side, but it is true that because I'm not a hypocrite that does limit my options a bit, most people don't like sex negative people.
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  36. I love how Tolstoy served in Crimea and learned only wrong lessons/got off on other people dying, while Dostoevsky was imprisoned for fighting for the people and learned more truth than Tolstoy ever new. Maybe I'm biased, but of the great Russian authors, I think I least enjoyed Tolstoy, he seemed entirely a part of the elite, which he literally was. Maybe this is too harsh, but I didn't say he was a terrible artist, I more said that his art taught wrong things.
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  37.  @seitanbeatsyourmeat666  The peanut butter over here has the peanut oil removed because peanut oil is prone to separation if you don't refrigerate it (it melts at room temperature, but we have a bottle and it's semi-solid in our cellar). Still, if the fat you put in to replace it has a different consistency then it's almost certainly worse for you, because they're adding fat that stays more firm at elevated temperature (meaning it's probably palm oil, which is artificially cheap).
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  38.  @kinsmed  Why do people always try to play women against one another?? Sheesh. Both can be great.
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  39. I don't know that it's psychopathic necessarily to ever shoot a puppy, but if you don't have a great reason (she had a terrible one) it's obviously something nobody should be eager to do, and I think it's safe to say that the majority of the US's population would outright refuse to shoot that puppy in that situation, their are better ways. That said, if you BRAG about it after, like in a book, then yeah, you're a psychopath who has no idea how other people have empathy for cute animals, even ones that killed a chicken (after the owner didn't keep her dog under control it should be noted). At least she got the puppy in one shot (I haven't heard otherwise at least), I can't help but imagine that poor goat bleating while she waddled off to reload.
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  40.  @hemidas  There is a great video by Second Thought about how socialism had a significant place in US history/policies, and it has been relatively popular at times when the abuses of the rich were at their most extreme (back when, as the vid points out, the police were mostly strike breakers for the rich, more of a private army than peace keepers).
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  41. I'm glad you gals are willing to cover topics like this, women's rights are human rights, it's insane that a frozen embryo has more rights than many adults/children (including refugees/economic refugees) in America, and that an embryo has more rights than the mother carrying it. The Church long held the standard that when it was a question, it was always correct to save the adult mother over an unborn child. It's a recent change we're living with in Church doctrine, and it was all in response to women gaining reproductive freedom, a thing the patriarchal religious right hated, so bam, new doctrine to put those uppity 'females' in their place.
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  42. I think most of us can agree that Biden's past is embarrassingly bad (note the right doesn't really attack him on his right-of-center youth... they're blind to Biden's biggest weakness because they LIKED that Biden, and think bringing him up would hurt the repubs), but most honest people would also admit that he's tried harder than trump to run things properly, and that he's done objectively better by every metric.
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  43.  @jabbermocky4520  Nah man, there is WAY more sulphur in there.
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  44. The glorious mental image of widdle diaper-baby twump palming a stove over and over because he has the memory of a goldfish made my day.
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  45. It's also a way to make teens busier so they don't have as much time to protest against the policies that are ruining their presents/futures.
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  46. I still remember studying maps as a kid, we had a big world map across from our piano (irony! choose the piano or choose the map maybe? it was also the only reasonable place to put it, where you could actually look at all of it), and I used to look at countries and wonder why they ended up that way, and what 'adjustments' some of them would make, some pieces of land stick out funny and don't make a lot of sense, but as I learned later as an adult, many colonial powers used their power to set boarders that wouldn't be based on ethnicity/traditional borders, famously the soviets did this everywhere, as did the colonial powers in Africa, which didn't want African states coming out of Imperialist hell to functionality and set boarders so that hostile groups were going to be shoved together. Nasty stuff, but we're not a 'nice' species at the higher echelons. Obviously belt/road initiative pipelines should help with oil/gas issues? It's not even like when the US abused countries, they do make infrastructure to make their projects work I understand? Former soviet states have tons of resources, it's not just Siberia that has resources. Important point in India Vs China, India has way more local food production at this point I understand, and India imports lots of extra pulses from Canada, a route that china has no hope of interfering with. If china offends the US, they can interfere with routes to South America and obviously North America, there is no way that ends well for china. Also, I will possess the strongest person near putin if he drains Lake Baikal, and I will beat him into a coma. Do not abuse such a sacred resource, you've already polluted it plenty!
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  47. I can't believe anyone thought it was a good idea to use establishment leverage/money to muscle past Katie Porter, probably the most inspiring politician since Obama (I think she has better politics fwiw, but it's a bit hard to know what Obama's actual politics were because his own party hamstrung him on everything, Katie Porter can take principled stands).
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  48. It's horrifying to watch something that certainly seems to meet any standard I can think of for calling it a genocide, deliberate targeting of civilians isn't acceptable, it doesn't matter who's doing the targeting, it's wrong. I cannot believe I live in a world where a professional propagandist adds the TMZ watermark/logo to it's vids 'to make them more believable'. I'm only slightly happier knowing that propaganda has always been stupid and mostly designed to get the stupid and vulnerable on your side, because stupid people that are loyal will shoot themselves in the foot. I feel if I had 'piss it away' money I'd buy enough cameos to trick people into doing a full reading of something obscure that I truly love via cameos, with none of the people doing it realizing the bigger picture. Nothing nefarious, maybe trick them into performing Pericles, the play everyone wishes everyone else would just forget about already, so nobody would have to memorize it, surely that'd be a good way to spend 100k when you're inanely wealthy?
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  49.  @tanhaoze  I think it's more accurately was many countries, just like what is now China was more than one country over time.
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  50. Just curious, but did anyone ever figure out why ted cruz is so persecuted? He famously asked I mean.
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  51. I also feel serious Astley vibes when he's got the sunglasses on. But yes, without, he's definitely 3 kids. Edit: Wow, someone beat me to that?!
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  52. I'm going to go out on a limb here and point out that their is a decided difference in businesses that provide entertainment vs those offering necessities/near necessities being overly consolidated.
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  53. Religion is perhaps man's single most used excuse to do awful things to one another, until we developed capitalism, which has blown religion out of the 'horrors' water by leaps and bounds.
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  54. Yeah, the culture definitely evolved into other forms, and lives on to a degree today. They were diverse, and they were the origins of so much.
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  55. It's a 2 part joke even, if you're actually broke the law screws you over further, but if you were born rich like trump then the assholes line up to give you more money (in exchange for favors of course).
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  56. Yet conservatives still whine about legal weed at every opportunity.
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  57. From what I understand, the energy source mine is a different part of kessel, and the spice mines also exist in cannon (they can't not exist, due to Threepio referring to them), but I was bothered by this in Solo. Also, I wouldn't say those mines looked particularly pleasant to work in either, and used slaves.
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  58. Technically you should be MUCH more grateful when a kid learns to use the potty vs when a young adult passes the bar, if a kid isn't a practicing lawyer who really cares, if they keep shitting their pants it's going to be a bigger issue throughout their life, just saying! Don't lowball rolling over, be a proud dad!
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  59. Controlling reproduction has always been an important aspect of patriarchy, in part because the big threat against most men is that if they refuse to conform to patriarchal standards you won't be allowed to mate. Men are cursed with an excessive sex drive, patriarchy puts the responsibility for that sex drive entirely on women, and since patriarchy knows this it exploits it to force men to behave according their it's arbitrary whims. Controlling women is really just an aspect of controlling men unfortunately. The worst thing IMHO about the whole fiasco of male doctors that don't know anything about women being the primary care givers for births and the like is that it's not like men couldn't learn and do better, they explicitly don't want to, and any that do want to improve things is run out of the system. Police are the most high profile defenders of patriarchy (ever wonder why so many cops abuse their wives/GFs?), but doctors rank extremely high when it comes to people using their power to ruin women's lives.
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  60.  @None-lx8kj  I think it's not even that deep, he fetishizes the idea of having it as a fetish, of being that manly.
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  61. I feel like the core problem is that everyone is wired to be skeptical, up to a point, and some people are wired to be apparently too skeptical, have authority issues, and as a result they don't trust much of anything they can't 'prove' to themselves. They lack the educational resources needed to enable them to prove that the earth is, in fact, round. Theoretically, if they are smart, this kind of skepticism could be very useful to an actual scientist, but since they don't pursue formal education, they dabble with skills they have instead. Greatly exacerbating this skepticism is that the US for example has gutted it's education system, which is why you see more young people who aren't education enough scientifically to know why the earth is actually round, and thus a spike in young people that believe For others though it seems to be clearly just money, because followers will invest in this stuff apparently. People do a lot for 'fame'.
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  62. Yeah, worth noting that our own media isn't exactly giving us an accurate picture of reality in NA, before BLM most people weren't very aware of the realities of how policing is used to enforce racism and misogyny, and actively enables rightwing causes whenever possible. Even in Canada our city police in Ottawa refused to deal with the lunatics camped in the city, who were going out of their way to make life horrible for locals, it got so bad that the government had to use emergency measures before authorities felt they could go in, it was a gong show, and 100% because it was rightwingers protesting, OPP had no hesitations about opening fire on Native protesters, even killing them is fine, but who knew that all you have to be is a servant of the establishment for the police to not care if you break the law. Deeply fucked up world we live in is an understatement, so while north korea is not a good place to live, our place isn't as good as the propaganda portrays it, our shows and movies are in part to keep us compliant, keep us going to work. If we're not entertained then we'll have time to recognize how messed up our situations are, and if the entertainment paints a false picture, it's still hard for our brain to see through it, to realize actual life is pretty bad and has been getting consistently worse.
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  63. Yes, it's clearly all those other dictators (many of which the US empowered/enabled, because the US has always preferred dictators). Also there was only 1 rule, and that was the Superpowers could do whatever they wanted... the US has always been exempt from international law.
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  64. If CEOs as a rule don't actually do much, it's even more sharp in the entertainment 'business', an 'industry' where nobody actually knows how things work because they are in constant flux due to the tastes of consumers and the need to produce propaganda for the mono-culture. The premise that anyone in management in hollywood is worth more money than an extra is insane, at least the extra adds value to something, entertainment execs stick their noses in to tell the people who do know what to do to do a worse job. Obvious vanity pieces sharing 'secrets of the rich' make me want to bang my head on the table. The system is simply rigged, and your outcomes are mostly predetermined in life by your starting position, the rich didn't get rich because they made 'good decisions', and most of them didn't even get lucky, they inherited their wealth or got a huge head start from nepotism. Oh yeah, if you actually look at who is allowed into the 1% they are universally right wing nutters when you dig deep enough, even those with a surface veneer of progressiveness, they don't let progressives get rich for obvious reasons, this is why your starting position matters so much, if your parents raised you to be a good citizen you have no chance of becoming rich/famous for example, most rich people have the brains to keep a façade up, but because they are letting dumber and dumber people have more and more valuable positions it's getting obvious, because people like trump can't be bothered to pretend to be half-decent.
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  65. Re: 'Early' medical care had such a high mortality rate because they actively hated the idea of washing, and it was normal for practicing doctors to do an autopsy (on a woman that died after childbirth btw) early in the day and then, without having washed or changed clothes, shove their filthy hands into poor pregnant women's uteri. It was actually such a toxic culture that the medical authorities had the doctor that fought hardest for all doctors to have to wash their hands before treating patients (really basic shit in hindsight) was declared insane and died in an institution... because the hospital staff apparently brutalized his hands and then wouldn't let him clean them, and he died of septic shock because of it. You guys are right btw, that is literally what the right wants to go back to, they want the commoners to live in the dark ages, in large part because they don't need so many of us. For all elno's BS about population shortage, their is actually a huge surplus, productivity per worker has gotten (potentially) so high that we don't need to work full time hours to actually earn a good living, we have to because the system is set up to funnel almost all of the profits from our labor to the already wealthy capital owners.
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  66. IIRC, you just have to sing a proper sea chanty on air to get rid of the Sea Captain forever, that puts him to rest.
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  67. I was seriously waiting for one of those angry ladies at the start to ask to speak to the manager
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  68. You seem to have left out an important proof of your position, that any of the colonies that could/were settled by European settlers not only had genocide committed on the locals, they were all treated differently economically during and after, a colony without a white population was exploited exclusively, and not only were no efforts made to advance/develop these territories, they were deliberately isolated from trade and sabotaged further to ensure that all of these non-white states would be 'failed states', even if they somehow became independent. This was done by the political/economic elite of the West to empower Europe, but it's also worth noting that when a truly fascist state rises up in the West, the exploiters all gravitate toward that state, such as nazi Germany (which had money dumped into it by corporations) and the US (where the elites like to live, because you can literally do whatever you want and face no consequences if you're rich, and you're useless children will similarly be propped up, no matter how incompetent, provided they stay evil enough). In the present, corporations 'invest' in poor countries because the workers will/have to tolerate lower wages, and as china has shown, their are likely no consequences for state-enforced slavery in the international community, with the US elites going out of their way to normalize the enslavement and abuse in Western media, all the while dramatically wringing their hands and exclaiming 'clearly nothing could be done'. The US had no compunctions about installing rightwing lunatics in power anywhere they could (if it didn't have a white population of course), extending the influence of imperialism and fighting against the wave of progresses that was going through the world at the time. Anyways, there can be no doubt that the various failed former colonies were selected to fail, while the ones that succeeded were all handpicked and shown considerable favouritism. This exploitation was deliberate, and continues in various forms today. All that said, the biggest difference at this point between the global south and Western powers is that Western workers are still being 'broken', they still expect their lives to 'feel' better than that of their parents, even if their actual share of the economy has become literally trivial. Conditions grow progressively worse in the US, and the share of the pie going to the workers isn't much better than that of the workers in the Global South, the difference is that US workers requires a higher standard of living or they'll revolt, which is why the republicans keep sabotaging things, so that people will be forced to accept progressively worse conditions. American infrastructure rots away without care or replacement while the rich pay less and less tax on their arbitrarily gigantic share of the profits of OUR collective labour. Things look better here, but they are very quickly getting worse, and that's not a coincidence, it's more enemy action from the rightwing elites that have exploited and abused the people since they gained power.
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  69. Not only does America not have safe births as a rule, it also has a HUGE gap in terms of care based on the race of the expectant mother... if you're black, you're a LOT more likely to die for some weird and impossible to explain reasons that we'll just never be able to figure out!
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  70. You either need way more drugs or way, way less drugs.
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  71. I even double checked, and Mighty Google itself deigns to agree with us. Big Bird is a Muppet, it's just huge.
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  72. This does remind me of hearing about one of the great footnotes of the Falkland Islands War, when the British were using polyesther uniforms for troops, which they found out not only were prone to melting in far more conditions than wool, they also tended to result in worse burns. I've always wondered about using either heat treated steel or cold worked to save weight, both are wildly stronger than untreated material, but both suffer from serious heat vulnerability, which is a big issue in something like a ship, as the material will lose strength with exposure to heat and fail as it no longer meets he engineering requirements. I still think you could use stuff like that on an aircraft more reasonably, and it's strength is already competitive with titanium, the issue for the cold working is the dies, even diamonds stop being hard enough, while for the heat treatment it's hard to get deep heat treatment on thicker sections, which doesn't matter on aircraft at all. I also wonder about ceramics sometimes, aluminum oxide for example is extremely refractory, hard AF and exceedingly heat resistant.
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  73. If he's going to call her an 'young lady', I vote AOC calls him a wrinkled, washed-up dipshit. I mean, she is reasonably young, and pretty much a lady, so she should be honest in return.
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  74. Leon has not achieved the maturity or development of most 12 yo boys.
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  75. ​ @bignades1  You talk about work being required for existence, but you're flat out wrong, the wealthy among us don't have to work, your example is stupid. The point of being an elite in capitalism is you get to not work and getting paid well for this lack of labour. In American style capitalism you also get to do whatever you want to whomever you want once you're rich enough, so there is also that perverse incentive. Work becomes slavery when said work has little value to the worker and they are artificially kept desperate to keep them working longer, harder hours, and because they are desperate they can't fight back as their share of the pie shrinks continuously. We're still paid now, but only barely compared to how much of the profit from our labour is taken by the rich. Were the slaves of old 'technically' slaves because their owner had to pay them with food and other basic maintenance? Of course they were, and we're at a point where many workers in the US even struggle to feed their family despite working long hours, that's an example of wage slavery rather than properly paid work, because their minimum wage labour is worth a lot more to society than minimum wage, they just don't get a fair share because, never forget this, capitalism literally rewards bosses for underpaying their workers as much as possible, and modern shareholder's rights views dictate that companies are required to underpay their workers as much as possible, because only shareholders have rights in a company, not workers, because workers are more or less, well, I think you know what modern workers are in all but name.
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  76.  @janjorgendevries2927  Depends on the nut? Fortunately a coconut is not a nut afaik, so that won't count.
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  77. I mostly buy/do stuff I wanted to do as a kid, if it doesn't bring me joy why should I spend my money on it? I have derived more joy from making from scratch (handle and head from literal raw materials, I added the carbon to the steel and carved the tree trunk into the handle) a gigantic axe I use to split wood than most people will have in their entire lives, people need to wake up to the fact that you need to do things that make you happy sometimes to achieve contentment, it's not like life won't send you bad experiences you need to offset! Didn't people have dreams as kids, things that they looked at and thought 'wow! I really want to do/try that!', yet everyone is miserably working dead end jobs that are designed to pay you less than you need 'to keep you hungry'. As a rule, if you can make or grow something instead of buying it (without it being impractical) then you probably should. Mass produced stuff is terrible by and large, our ancestors used to buy hand made goods that they'd pass on to THEIR children, now we pass everything on to the landfill because it's nothing but trash, our society has forgotten it's soul in the name of perpetual profits for the rich. Try growing a tomato if you can, I grew up thining I hated tomatoes, only to find out I hated greenhouse tomatoes that are grown in fiberglass because they taste like nothing and are crunchier than carrot, when I moved out to the country and actually grew my own, I couldn't believe how good they were. Our ignorance makes us exploitable.
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  78. I think the biggest issue is that the insurance companies have been lulled into complacency by the sky-high profit margins during the good decades, now that they have WORSE profits it's 'not worth their time' to insure huge swathes of the country. The big insurance companies are pretty corrupt IMHO, be they health or whatever.
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  79. Back before the internet, when America had Ripley's Believe It Or Not for entertainment, they did feature 'lewd vegetables', which were fairly popular I understand. Some got pretty racy! Nice to know that people stay the same, despite wild changes in medium, the message remains disturbingly similar.
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  80. Now I'm going to have to devote some brain cells to writing ACTUAL Jackal Editions (Jack Editions? did we decide that was officially a non-animal flub?) of classic literature, and it will be my LEGACY!
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  81. It felt personal... my mum makes really good carrot cake.
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  82. My Opa loved having carpet in the bathroom, he wanted it everywhere in the house.
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  83. Glad you guys won an award, our world would be better if more people had a basic grasp of just a handful of situations/issues, our collective ignorance enables countless atrocities.
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  84. This is such an important topic, glad you had two great guests that took it seriously!
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  85.  @Iown291  People who capitalize without rhyme or reason are usually trolling hard in my experience, but who can say these days? My pet theory as to why the interest went up is that trolls more or less pushed the 'theory' on unsuspecting bumpkins. Trolls have a pretty big influence on the internet, but most people are blissfully unawares.
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  86. My dude, calling your country socialist when it's just garden variety totalitarianism doesn't make it so. Socialism means you're actively trying to equalize society, meaning you wouldn't have an autocrat living a life of luxury while millions starve, just like the US claiming to be a democracy doesn't make it so. Lots of Americans left after the revolution, people who were still loyal to their legitimate government, and this is a part of why the US and Canada have a weird relationship, many settled in Canada. I think this is why Americans stereotype Canadians as being 'too polite', as in they were 'too polite' to 'fight for their rights' (aka not pay taxes, rich americans want to not pay taxes or workers, if they have money and are rich that's a sacred bond between them and their money! Totally different than when poor people have money, they deserve to be taxed and exploited so that they are stuck as wage slaves forever... capitalism is the only hell).
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  87. I was introduced to this concept in university by an english professor, who pointed out that the famous Robert Frost poem about the two roads is a bit of a koan. Once one chooses a path, one cannot know how the others would truly go (unless one actually went down them), meaning the author is arguably lying that his choice made 'all the difference', since we don't truly know the outcomes of our choices, even if we think we do, in part because every choice has larger ramifications that aren't easy to predict. For example, what if you made a 'better' choice, but luck wasn't in your favour, and things go poorly? Was it the right choice? Technically it wasn't, but arguably it was... though in life, you'd probably prefer to have made the better choice over the 'technically correct' choice!
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  88. Alyssa, we have black raspberry gin in Ontario, which doesn't have artificial flavor, just black raspberry juice and gin. Black caps are awesome! I have a 'union negotiating tactics' Elder Dragon Highlander deck, it's all stax, discard and discard payoffs, with a Commander that draws cards in Sygg, River Cutthroat. Nothing says 'general strike' like resolving a Static Orb imho, it's a Vorthos deck at it's heart, but it's absolutely hilarious when it can actually 'set up' and people just lose to having no mana and not being able to store up cards due to stuff like Bottomless Pit. I think the only deck I have that's more oppressive is my cEDH Zur deck, which is also stax, but has infinite combos to win before turn 25. Yeah, nothing like non-creatives that live entirely off of the work of creatives arguing that the creatives should take a big pay cut, and that people who don't measurably contribute to society (or even their company) should get an ever bigger share. It's a pet theory of mine that most executives that didn't work their way up in that field know functionally nothing about it, and are entirely at the mercy of their handlers. Rich people aren't smart because they don't have to be, they can pay smart people to think for them, and they're way more organized than the workers now. I hope this strike kneecaps these execs because they are terrible people, it was priceless hearing zazlav brag that the strike 'was saving his company money'... as if his company has ways to make money beyond producing new content (he's working hard to kill their streaming platform), that is a man that has all the utility of a wet sack of oats. It's exactly like a company that makes nails being happy because they have nowhere they can buy steel, you're not saving money dipshit, you're company isn't functioning.
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  89. Make that 'trump is a tape-worm that dreams of living in putin's ass' and I think we've got a winner
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  90. Which ones? The cis ones or the trans ones?
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  91. It'd be nice if people actually had any kind of solidarity with victims, but humans are a largely amoral species when remotely stressed/challenged. I'm also not surprised that scientologists in particular would side with the abuser, their 'religion' teaches that if something bad happens to you it's because you specifically deserved it, it's like hubbard once read a children's book on Hinduism and felt qualified to invent his own religion (because his writing wasn't panning out). No part of me is shocked that iggy azalea is now primarily an OnlyFans thing, I'm not sure how/why she ended up in the music business other than people wanting to exploit her. Trying to get lenience for a scumbag makes you also a scumbag, so yeah, I'll continue to avoid her work. Aside, I'm pretty confident that you can't 'spend' karma, the way I understand it is that it's best explained as a weighting of outcomes, if you have lots of bad karma you'll end up with bad outcomes almost regardless of what you do, if you have good karma things will tend to go well. You don't 'spend' your good karma, it doesn't go away because a good thing happened, you just keep getting more if you keep doing correct/appropriate things, while you keep accruing bad karma if you don't perform your assigned duties (by life/the universe) or perform evil/unclean acts. If you're ever curious why rich people tend to end up rich it's not because they have good karma, but because they have bad karma, excess wealth is a punishment if you're actually trying to progress towards enlightenment. This is also why society hates people who don't care about money (and tends to punish them whenever possible), most people who have accrued power are not good people and they don't like good people. Human nature makes a LOT more sense if you start from the perspective that we're mostly evil if we're allowed to be, children start out selfish and extremely cruel in most cases, that's why it's a chore to raise them (and is also a form of punishment). If you start from the angle that 'people are mostly good at heart' you end up confused because your world view doesn't match up with reality, there is too much evil that is deliberately sustained and enabled by our society for it to be accidental. Yeah, all of these celebs being dragged for being assholes' defense is 'well I wasn't planning on you all finding out...'. That is a great excuse when fucking children use it, such useless babies. Can't believe I used to be a big fan of kunis, but I've always thought kutcher was pretty trashy (his candid camera show was often mean spirited and was rarely funny) and got by 100% on his looks/other people writing funny things for him to say/do. I honestly think the term 'it' was invented to help obfuscate how we select people to work in Hollywood, women were historically selected because producers wanted to abuse them, while men were selected because they had connections. At least some of those monsters are facing consequences.
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  92. The 'problem' with uber is that it didn't actually have to meet any of the regulatory requirements of a taxi company while literally doing nothing but offering a taxi service. It's complete BS that the gov shoved it's head up it's ass and pretended 'there just isn't any relevant laws on the books...' when taxis have been around forever, doing literally the same thing. Both were even contacted primarily by phone. It would be exactly like if a taxi company changed it's phone number and said 'we're not a taxi service anymore, we're 'uber', ignore me taxiing people around and let me exploit workers way more brutally than taxis did', and it somehow worked. We're all idiots or something. This is what happens when you live in a fucking kleptocracy where those on top pick winners while whining about how having to pay taxes 'is socialism'.
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  93. Yeah, they didn't really go that deep into his anti-union stuff, or the very prominent history of sexism/racism at his companies, but I'm guessing they just felt like it had to end at some point, you could literally rant for hours about how shitty and stupid elno is... in fact, Some More News has done that, and they weren't kind.
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  94. I think the key to Seth's point is actually that Marley is being explicitly punished in the afterlife, and that's exactly why it would be roy, that's someone trump idolized/worshipped that died because he was an evil hypocrite, and trump has publicly stated that he misses roy still (well, he would still if he still remembered him but at this point it's like asking him what colour the sky is, even if he gets it right once in awhile it's just coincidence).
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  95. I'm not lying when I say I was looking forward to Kamala Harris making a major contribution to the Biden presidency, but she seems almost cloistered away, we hear so little about her. I guess after the circus that was the trump regime (where everyone was an incompetent showman/conman that wanted to be noticed/respected, because most these people were already disliked outcasts) a normal VP is going to feel invisible, the norm is for them to not be very active. If the options are 'overly visible and very obnoxious pence' or someone more traditional, if not very visible, I'll take the less visible. Honestly, at this point things aren't that ambiguous anymore, the republicans are embracing open racism in the lead up to the midterms, a thing that feels almost unprecedented in US history (not quite, but politicians haven't been this openly racist in my lifetime, and I'm not that young), it's no longer a question of simply 'left vs right', it's become 'delusional racist demagoguery vs a party that is actually trying to govern, even if they have profound corruption issues coupled and are still dominated by an establishment that keeps the progressives at the kids table whenever there is a discussion, though with inflation at least the Biden admin has had to swing a tad left of 'distinctly right of center', because things like legal abortion and marijuana are extremely popular, even among people who don't intend to take advantage of those things. In contrast to the liberals wanting to give rights to people, we have the conservatives who have literally taken away women's rights, and are fighting to take even more, this is very much a 'not really good vs pretty openly evil' scenario.
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  96. Seeing you guys lower yourself to analyze this movie is glorious... Why can't these kind of movies be better made? I mean I know why, the cause itself alienates most of Hollywood (from big names to the guy holding a flashlight off screen in internet porn), so it's talent pool is shockingly shallow, but that's not the only issue I'm sure. I feel like it's easier to cast the victims in those centipede movies I (thank all that is holy) have never seen, I feel like you have to be pretty far out of vogue to take this kind of work.
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  97. It makes me hopeful that there are politicians like this in the US, and not just republicans with their firehose of lies/raw sewage.
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  98. I feel like Amber handled this very well, possibly too politely/kindly.
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  99. It could easily be a side-effect of the decay of the education system. I think to graduate high school in Ontario, I only needed 2 low level science classes, which cannot cover this kind of thing in that time frame/level. I did more, but I don't think the average student takes science unless they have to, as it has a reputation for being difficult.
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  100. It's like you managed to be present and not absorb anything meaningful from this video... As a favor, I'll point out the obvious, and that's that the switch from midwives to doctors resulted in a GARGANTUAN spike in maternal deaths, pregnancy was such a terrifying prospect that women refused to get pregnant. Their was a huge problem with wives refusing their husbands in the 1800s you probably didn't hear about before, and the two main reasons were the incredibly risky birthing process that was forced on women by people who knew nothing about biology alongside the rampant spread of STDs due to promiscuous husbands. Birthing was WAY SAFER 400 years ago than it was 200 years ago, I feel like telling you to read a book or something. The doctors in the 1800s last time I checked locked the guy who said 'hey, maybe we should wash our hands after we do AUTOPSIES, before we help women give birth, which literally involved shoving your hands way up inside them.
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  101. I was going to say something like this, people rape in large part because they feel entitled to women's bodies, and that the women are abusing them by not making themselves available. Our society's attitudes toward rape is very hypocritical, we laud and honor rapists/abusers regularly while we pillory their victims, just look at the fucking supreme court, our Canadian one tried to argue that being drunk meant you should be allowed to rape people and was surprised by the blowback that came of it. The US one of course has one side literally selecting people for being rapists for it's court appointments, it's like there are consequences for being raped but not for raping. At least our legal system doesn't force victims to marry their abusers (this is still done elsewhere, and is Biblical naturally, so there are plenty of Americans who would happily do it here too), but I suspect that the system does so because most rapists don't want to marry their victims, not because the victims don't want to.
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  102. I'm not sure if your dad's tea idea is any weirder than double salt licorice, which is a Dutch remedy for colds (and whiny kids who keep asking for candy), the licorice is hard as a rock and tastes like you're eating licorice bullion. That said, it does make you feel better, and my dad almost never got sick (he's ~70 and still goes a good decade between colds). They have 'back to work' bells at some factories still, I guess everyone takes breaks at the same time.
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  103. I did babysitting, I think I wasn't terrible at it, but I felt vaguely overpaid since the life experience was pretty valuable and the work wasn't very hard, even if kids misbehave/can be annoying, lord knows I was a handful sometimes! But anyways, I also had to do actual work as a kid (mostly farm work), not a ton, but enough to understand how fucking hard it would have been to have to do it all the time as a kid, as ancestors had to. I'm really horrified that kids are being funneled into work like meat packing, even if I had some pretty rough summer jobs at least I wasn't in that kind of danger, and I was given training and provided with protective equipment as needed, these kids are having their workers comp taken away, purely because they're more likely to get hurt and it'll be expensive to pay for their injuries, so utterly fucked up. As for having kids, I agree, conservatives are beating around the bush pretty hard about the whole 'we only want white babies' thing, it would be refreshing in a way if they'd just be honest and say what they mean, also it'd be peachy if I could hear good ol' rishi say it, that he only wants white babies, on TV. A complete hypocrite! The irony about conservatives wanting lots of babies is that they're all members of a death cult that only wants those babies to feed into it's baby eating machine called capitalism, so nobody wants to have kids as conservatives gain influence, especially women that are having their rights stripped away. If they wanted more people to have kids they'd be adopting progressive ideas, but conservatives (and the rich that own them) don't want the 'underclass' to have a reasonable number of kids and raise them to be well educated high earners, they want to disempower workers as much as possible before AI arrives, for painfully obvious reasons. It's pretty disgusting how much media is beholden to the amoral rich, I hope Crooked doesn't get bought by some weird 'libertarian' rich douche who'll deliberately tank it like they did Jezebel (and don't even get me started about what they did to The Root and that sports one I refuse to mention, a whole thriving family of sites, each with it's own vibrant community that did a decent job of handling assholes due to sane/profit minded moderation, all completely destroyed when it was bought by scumbags who made up stuff about 'making more money' while they gutted anything progressive, including banning good commenters and enabling racist trolls 'in the name of free speech'. This has tanked the readership and commentariat brutally, so they keep adding more and more obnoxious ads in desperation/desire to tank the sites further, now they're nothing but rattling skeletons of a once important piece of the internet, at least the jackasses that bought it lost their money).
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  104. The idol is such a shitshow in part because they reworked it to make it 'less female-centric' or something similarly awful, it wasn't chauvinistic/abusive towards women to the desired degree, so they made it way nastier. Everything I've heard about it makes it seem awful, and even I, a huge Blackpink fan am aghast that Jennie (let alone her managers! they manage the HELL out of these girls ffs) thought it was a good project to be a part of. Such a terrible choice, I hope it doesn't hurt the band, she's arguably the 2nd highest profile member after Lisa (who is just insanely popular outside Korea and the West), though I think if they were forced to change one member Jennie'd be the easiest to replace. I don't expect that much blowback considering the intense chauvinism in Korean culture I hear about, probably similar to the blowback to when Jisoo starred in the left-leaning Snowdrop, which was ephemeral. I was pretty schizophrenic as a young teen, so I was both completely oblivious to many things yet also hyper-aware of how tons of complex things actually worked. Sex stuff that targets the average teen is usually implausibly dumb to adults, but most of it was stupid to me as a teen. I managed to be both way more informed than most kids my age as to 'how things worked', but would go on to struggle endlessly with the utter basics of life. I think it'd be nicer if I'd instead struggled with sex and life went really swimmingly, but from what most people say, it seems like most of the worst problems in life from from sex one way or another. Age gaps are so touchy, but yeah, big ones are so disturbing because there is no situation when a person should be mentally attracted to someone that much younger, they aren't dating child prodigies that are hyper-mature in meaningful ways, these overgrown boys (and it's usually old men that think it's reasonable) are looking for young and less sophisticated partners they can take advantage of. I think they are inherently exploitative, but obviously there is a certain range which is 'acceptable'. I like the premise that as you age the gap can be bigger, but I feel like puking when I see a man in his 40s/50s dating a teen/girl in her early 20s. No man in his 40s should want to hang out with a person that young, there should be a HUGE development gap, and as noted, they aren't going for 'mature' youths, they're looking for the least mature ones. I think I still like the premise of 'date within 3 years of your age as a teen, 5-7 years in your 20s, no more than 10-12 years in your 30s and after that whatever 40 yo should be an adult!', those are the extremes that I think you can look at as the acceptable maximum (as in, if you go that far you'll be officially weird, but not so weird that people will avoid you), but everyone's got their own opinions on this, I've heard of some people that married with a big gap and seemed fine, but it's hard to know how healthy those relationships actually were, people don't like to brag that they have a shitty marriage! I agree with Erin 100%, I am deeply suspicious of anyone who chases noticeably younger partners, those guys are rarely good partners (which is why they aren't competing for the most in demand women in their 'normal' age range), let alone the best partner that the younger person could have found, it's essentially a form of abuse founded on the premise that young people should be punished for being young and gullible. The most impressive/attractive/desirable men tend to date close to their age afaik, and they date women that are similarly high in similar metrics, it's the men who wanted those women and couldn't get them that desperately date much younger women, it's usually a sign that the guy is a loser. In reference to age gaps, I'm super tired of hearing conservatives complain that non-whites are the only men that try to marry child brides, the repubs are actively fighting to make it more legal to marry children, it's a very right wing thing to do to try to marry a child bride, yet 'lefties are groomers!!!' is a right wing slogan, it's uncanny. They have their base so mixed up they could stab one of their voters like scaramucci, right in the front, and then say Obama did it and they'd believe them. Also, final point, most young people are terrible in bed, anyone who's seeking out people who are very likely worse in bed is deeply, deeply suspicious, most of these men also look for less experienced women, aka women that don't know what to do so you can mislead them. I'll say it again, big gaps are pretty gross.
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  105. I always enjoy your videos, even if I was a terrible physics student in high school. I did have to do some mechanics (and other math, nothing too serious) in welding college, which I did much better than average despite going as an adult student, I still remembered a lot of high school math, even if I didn't excel at it. I did a lot of singing to cheer myself up then, who knew welding and singing go together? Keep making cool videos and I'll keep watching!
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  106. As a kid it was generally understood you bought only junk you planned to use once at a dollar store. I think just about the only time I shopped there growing up was when I was buying party supplies (for a children's birthday party, because I wanted to have one that had dumb shit, people preferred the Crokinole we'd always had haha) or buying things that were a bad idea to buy (like packs of Mercadia Masques, possibly after rotation). Also everything in those stores smells like actual poison (it's actually toxins from curing plastic because the turnover is so low that stuff doesn't have time to cure in peace). Also, I'm not sure if Jon Oliver has heard about this (or will read this, I highly doubt it), but apparently a Canadian city accidentally planted a female ginkgo tree in front of one guy's house... not sure if you're aware, but when you plant ginkgo trees in a city, they're all male clones because females produce copious quantities of incredibly stinky seeds, to the point where he's literally getting bushels of them from this one tree. The city refuses to remove the tree 'because it's alive', so the real question is who did this guy piss off in city hall to make this happen? Someone hated this guy enough, and was willing to wait 15-20 years before the tree would make fruit, it's the kind of story a comedy writer could really run away with.
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  107. Not enough people speaking up against modi, our media barely covers the resistance/protests against him, I think I mostly hear about them because I have a farming background (and see farm news). Also, India isn't a US ally and hasn't been in since they threw off the British yoke last I checked, I was very briefly confused as to why the US was suddenly really hot for India, then I realized the issue was the modi is a fascist, and if there is one thing the US establishment loves, it's a pro-capital fascist like modi.
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  108. Well, there was actually a lot of lying, and it was his making light of the sex crimes of one of his appointees that did him in the end, the parties were a problem (like the sex with a severed pig head), but it wasn't a deal breaker nationally.
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  109. That's not petty Tien, you should stand tall that you shouldn't be inconvenienced by the fact that assholes love having dogs and not taking care of them. At least cats bury their business, dogs are dumb galoots. IMHO just set up one of those glitter traps and live your bin out with a cam watching it, catch Anna in the act!
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  110. It's gotta get frustrating as they grow to realize reality has a liberal bias for a reason. Liberals like facts, conservatives like opinions.
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  111. I'm sorry, but I skipped the succession stuff, thanks for demarcating it so it's easy for me to do so! So happy to see Sam Bee! I've always wanted to build a Samantha Be'lakor Vorthos deck for Commander, Grixis even has lots of comedy references due to the fun loving Rakdos guild! Still miss Sam's show!
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  112. Poverty is such a fear for the rich for two reasons, the only punishment that exists for the truly rich is the slim possibility of poverty, either for them or their descendants, and the other reason is that the rich known how rigged the system is, and that they will likely not be able to get out of poverty if they got stuck in it. Poverty represents society not valuing you, and that is in all aspects of life/society, people are hardwired to derive enjoyment from crapping on those beneath them, and the US has leaned incredibly hard on that idea to build an entire (deeply fucked up) culture. Poor people can expect to be treated like shit by literally everyone, that's the 'deal', and if they 'don't like it', they can 'work harder'. All the talk about 'the american dream' is nothing but propaganda to convince more suckers to come in, that's all it's ever been, aspirational bullshit to coerce the poor to work harder than is healthy, and get nothing for it.
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  113. It's very hard to intervene meaningfully against actions you personally support... this happened to Canada when we had the truck rioters blockading stuff, the police here are also extremely right wing and thus weren't willing to enforce the law against lawbreakers, they supported them too much to do their jobs. The US had issues with this on Jan 6 as well, with the incredibly tepid response that almost certainly got more people killed. Contrast this with how police handle leftwing protests, which is usually brutal violence if the public will tolerate it, in Canada during my lifetime police opened fire on Native Americans protesting, on explicit orders from the province's Premier. The US has zero intention of intervening in this, and the US establishment is quite happy to give israel all the weapons it could ever want in exchange for them keeping the Muslims distracted, so that israel soaks up terrorism that would otherwise end up hitting US targets. The US has never made a secret of the fact that it will happily support truly abominable regimes as long as they are right leaning and friendly to big business, bibi is exactly that, so no matter how many Gazans he murders he'll still have complete US support at the top, disturbing as it I think that is. It's not a secret that after modi (a violent bigot and wanna-be dictator) got really entrenched in india the US started getting extremely friendly with them, while they had governments that leaned left the US had essentially nothing to do with them, it was an economic pariah to US investors, who were way, way more keen on the (arguably right wing by most metrics) authoritarians in china, and it's not like india was great about workers' rights. Anyways, as long as the US is unwilling to actively intervene nothing will change, their just aren't consequences for israel if the US throws their weight behind them. Hopefully the israeli left is aghast enough by all this to hopefully rise up in some fashion, I've heard some 4k Palestinian children have been killed, a number so insanely high that it's hard to understand how you could ever justify it, yet israel keeps stepping things up. How many dead children will be enough to finally rouse the majority of israelis to throw out their corrupt/power hungry leader?
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  114. Having a fancy suitcase to me is mostly about proving you've got too much money, it's like having a gambling habit, you do it because you are too rich and can't think of constructive things to do. How can it be aspirational btw? It's just a bag that you paid too much for, designer stuff isn't usually especially durable, often they make stuff too dainty in my experience, so you're aspiring to pay extra for shoddy things? At least buy a good bottle of wine or some good steaks if you have too much money, have some actual enjoyment, maybe buy a good pair of boots, something that'll last a long time with proper care, and will keep you safer and more comfortable. I think pretty much everyone needs a hobby, but I think you also need to do things you don't especially like doing or you'll become soft and weak. Yeah, men's football is really, really 'drama' driven, the refs are notoriously dramatic too, the game would be better if people both took it more seriously (and didn't dive/cheat all the time) and took it less seriously (so people don't beat their wives to death because their country's football team lost). Also, maybe if they did it all on ice, so they could move faster and it wouldn't feel like I'm watching slow motion sports most of the time (I mostly watch ice hockey if I watch sports, so football is incredibly slow and tedious in comparison, but it can also be way more relaxing because of this)! I'm not sure how you'd kick a ball while in a skate without popping it though.
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  115.  @Shawn-gr5ww  Huh? People in the US shit and piss on the streets, not even talking homeless. People have been shitting in weird places for a VERY long time. Seriously, in some cities you have to watch where you walk because of the poop, in other cities you just have to watch out for rats, and most people act like the US is 'doing it right'. Poverty in developing countries was systemically created by the West in order to enshrine it's power/influence for centuries. This is also why when you colonize an area you torture any survivors until they're so traumatized they can't fight back effectively, it's a way to lock them into poverty and suffering. No amount of hard work is going to help you if an outside power has ensured that your neighbors are all starving and desperate, if you get ahead people will take your stuff. Africa is poor because the West spent huge amounts of time and energy to make it and keep it that way, most of the world's gold was mined in Africa, most of the world's wealth either came from Africa, was created by slaves taken from Africa, or is in Africa and awaiting Western exploiters to get access, Europe has historically been a poor backwater, even during it's heyday of the Roman empire it was dependent on endless caravans and shipments from the East for it's standard of living, resource poor Europe impoverished itself so rich Romans could gorge themselves on spices and delicacies from India and China (and even further afield), that poverty affected the continent a great deal during the period after the Romans, when Europe was an afterthought that produced almost nothing anyone else wanted (and would continue to do so for about a thousand years).
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  116. It's actually not just China, he's starting them with lots of major trading partners, and they each are a blow to the world's economy, and ironically, each one actually weakens the US's position. If the Republicans were smarter, they would have done that over 2 or more terms. Taking on everyone at once, even if the whole world largely is cooperative is going to leave you with long term problems, and this strengthens China and the EU mostly, even with the insanity of the English, forcing the UK to leave the EU. The US has lost global esteem, and it will be a challenge to rebuild, because how can other countries trust that the US won't just elect another Trump-like President? Trump is a bad economic President IMHO, and I'm not unusual in thinking this. Propping things up by reducing interest rates is a very dangerous strategy, leaving very few options when things inevitably take a turn for the worse. If the next President isn't extremely competent, the US and probably the world will be facing a huge recession, if not a depression because of these policies.
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  117. Seeing all the diaper babies on here crying is just glorious! Keep up the good work ladies, you hit them right in their cowardly underbelly.
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  118. The worst part, in some cases, there could be long term effects on the brain due to the considerable inflammation, which would make them functionally dumber. The republicans always make the discussion about 'death or life', as if there are no long term effects on those not killed. Very unethical!
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  119. My garden is doing fairly well this spring, though it'd have been nice to have opened up my larger outdoor fig a couple weeks back, but like you're saying, depending on where you live you can get late frosts, iirc in this part of Ontario they can technically hit in June, but by then you're way more worried about hail! Fingers crossed that this is the year I get a pawpaw fruit, but I'm not going to bet on it with so few flowers (and only 3 small trees). I think I need to do some more seeding, and it's definitely time to get the onions and potatoes in! Yeah, computers are 'better' at Chess and Go, but iirc the first Go program that they made proved easy enough to solve because it had no ability to adapt/had no actual understanding of the game's actual strategies, it was like a kid who knows one combo in a fighting game and just practices that. Anyways, Chess isn't even close to as complex as Magic the Gathering can get, especially since every game has huge amounts of randomness backed in. MtG's Elder Dragon Highlander format in particular (I'm talking at least 3 players per game) is much, much harder than Chess, especially when you throw in the political aspect that decides an awful lot of games. Checkes to Chess is like Chess to MtG, and 1v1 MtG is child's play compared to EDH. I suspect it will be a VERY long time before we have computers that are reliably better than the best Magic players, and I've seen what AI thinks is deckbuilding, it's adorable and makes the kind of mistakes that even a newbie wouldn't, because even a newbie understands the game on an infinitely high level than any AI we have. Heck, people try to make deck rating tools, they're almost completely worthless because it's impossible to code in all the synergies for the mindbogglingly large number of cards that exist, and rating decks is MUCH easier than actually piloting them even close to optimally.
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  120. People obsess way too much over being skinny when they should spend more time worrying about eating healthy and being active. You're 100% better to be 10-20 lbs over weight and very physically active vs ideal weight range and sedentary. I also enjoyed hating on the idol, it seemed like the original premise might have had value, but then they abandoned the actual director and hired a lazy moronic provocateur instead of a replacement director. The jackass they put in charge certainly seems to have kept the original ending, an ending that no longer makes any sense in context and comes off as a complete ass-pull. It was super gratifying to both know the show objectively sucked and was very dead in the water (and was mercy-killed apparently before even being aired). I might have watched it just to see Jenny in it, but I can't stand the weekend (and I agree he seems super into that persona, it was like some kind of wish fulfillment experience for one of the most privileged shits out their), also the director is trash and makes bad shows, anyone who thinks it's cool to watch 'young people' pretend to do drugs desperately needs to go touch grass, because their is a vibrant world out there to explore! maybe try a drug yourself, find out what 'fun' feels like! Don't let it go to waste by watching garbage TV until we render the Earth uninhabitable. I also hated elno this year, but I was VERY confident he was just a jackass when he interfered in that cave rescue way back. I think people should call it xitter, it's a total xithole. It's been glorious seeing his children's doodle 'cybertruck' be an absolute turd on wheels. Witnessing his level of stupidity makes it clear how unearned most people's wealth is.
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  121. Once she moved into a city house from their farm, my Oma liked to do canning as a continuous task, she'd do a jar or two at a time and do the whole thing outside. She'd can hundreds of jars a year, for her and my Opa, until he passed. She kept on canning after, I'm not sure if she still can at the moment, but we'll see if her health improves (she's apparently got a good prognosis). I myself have canned an awful lot at this point, my challenge is finding good lids (the ones made now are essentially defective, possibly regardless of brand as I haven't found a proper one), but when I can tomatoes it's always as a sauce, and I since I shred the tomatoes I don't worry about the skins (and I don't care about the seeds), but I also freeze some roasted tomatoes that would probably require a pressure canner (it's thick and a bit oily, with onions, garlic and peppers). My crowning achievement so far is probably my variation on pepper relish, I use purple tomatillo instead of green tomatoes and substituted various 'fancy' red peppers for the bell (note if you use really tasty ones like Jimmy Nordello you'll be cleaning and chopping forever, but it's worth it), the results are wildly different, but taste much better IMO, much fruitier tasting. I love apricots, but I've never gotten any from my tree yet. :( It's a beautiful tree, so I'm not too mad at it, but a fruit or two would be nice! At least the flat peach is trying, even if it's results have been uniformly disappointing. More impressive, I have some pawpaw trees, and I finally have a little fruit! So exciting! I LOVE a sweet booze drink, a good bottle of sweet port is my happy place. I'm trying to make some manner of relatively high alcohol fruit wine that'll fill the niche of port, so I can be more self sufficient (I grow my own potatoes too, can my own produce, and grow most of my own berries). I'm trying to figure out how much residual sugar will be left in my present batch, when it finished primary it was achingly dry (it's more acidic than most wine, hence needing sugar to balance it out), but I chaptalized it, so finger's crossed I guess? I can still sweeten before bottling, but I'd have to let it sit for awhile again to ensure it won't restart fermenting. It's been brewing for quite awhile now, so I figure it's going to have some kick to it, but it turns out that sucrose is relatively hard for yeast to eat, they much prefer dextrose if you want to fortify you wine, but I think you'd want to back sweeten with sucrose, honey, or something else with sugar after if you wanted something sweet. Anyways, good for you for going with dry martinis, they are a very classy (and tasty) drink. I like a good arrangement, but I feel like it's something you're either very good at or very bad at. I think I'm pretty good at it, but I grow some nice flowers to use, as well as stuff like a eucalyptus tree (I've never seen a plant use water this way, it's vigor is unreal, I VERY MUCH believe this thing would take over places that don't have frost, but especially dry ones).
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  122.  @franklyqueso  Pre-agrarian societies tend to lose in competition not because it's populations were less happy or healthy (they tended to be a lot healthier than most agrarian societies, and much happier), but because if you have agriculture you can build larger communities, and that means more people who can compete with the hunter/gatherers, and more people proved an insurmountable advantage. Also, many hunter/gatherers are pretty careful about how they manage their environment, they might not plant plants or herd animals, but they're practicing environment husbandry, I'm not sure where the line is between carefully managing harvests of naturally occurring stuff vs just planting it, if you hunt/gather without a plan you'll quickly degrade your local environment.
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  123. Sucked to hear how the vote went, it's really hard to get people to change, especially when it comes to racism.
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  124. I also took some offense at the premise that only Kwanza was 'fake', they're all pretty much fake in various ways, no serious theologian thinks Jesus was born on Dec 25 (or if he was somehow it would be coincidence). Christmas has almost no ties to Christianity in the US at this point, just like evangelicals don't have anything to do with Christianity. Just to add, 'the church' as a unified thing happened during the Roman Empire, it was even the official religion eventually, and that's when most of the calendar was set up. Whenever you have a state religion the state always fiddles, and most of the 'convenience' things (like the timing for many Christian festivals) happened because a huge portion of the population was already going to be drunk that day, so everyone else might as well celebrate at the same time. It's not some Christian conspiracy to trick people, it was done because it was MUCH easier AND Christianity didn't make a point of setting dates in the Bible very often, IIRC the date of the first Christmas isn't known because the exact date is meaningless theologically. Same with Easter and spring festivals (and All Saints Day and the fall harvest festivals), no need to have several spring festivals. Heck, April 1 used to be New Years at one point, and it makes a LOT more sense than arguing the year 'starts' in January, at least spring is a season of regeneration and new growth, January is definitely not the time for new beginnings!
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  125. ​ @lasagnajohn  IQ is literally a test of how educated/well read you are. It doesn't test specific facts because the school's testing already covers that, IQ tests were used to test 'relative progress', nothing more or less. High doesn't mean smarter, lower doesn't mean stupider, it reflects mostly how wealthy your parents were, and how well they educated you before school. This is also why kids that test high or low while young often regress or progress towards the mean as everyone's education level increases.
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  126. The funniest is when he's holding the podium sometimes, his arms try to flap, but he doesn't let go of the podium, and they are just flapping like a flightless bird.
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  127. Aluminum combustion engines actually seem pretty nifty if you wanted to build a lunar rover that could refuel while working. Lots of Al, probably some water here and there, as you point out you don't actually need a huge amount if the rover is pretty efficient. I sometimes work at aluminum foundries in the refractory, and you aren't allowed to bring water around for that reason, it's reactive.
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  128. Offspring has a great song from their later years, 'You're Gonna Go Far Kid', the chorus of which could very easily be turned into "Now couch fucker vance, he never stood a chance", and I feel like someone should know this? Beyond my hivemind?
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  129. Biden: Hmm... a VP pick that'll fight my battles for me, and win? Okay, I'll be in the corner relaxing! I feel like this was a very good choice, and it'll rub some serious salt in trump that Biden can overlook someone that eviscerated him in a debate and make the (possibly) best choice. Good God am I looking forward to any kind of VP debate, because Pence is way, way over his pay grade here!
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  130. Or, you might prefer 'camels, not being complete idiots, are mean to people they perceive as mean', and just call it at that? I've heard they can be pretty nasty in some cases, but one wonders if said camel was mistreated previously, resulting in said temperament.
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  131. I don't think trans people are crazy, but I think people who think what other people do to their body is in any way their business are obviously nuts.
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  132. You might be even more irritated to know that by and large we do actually know how to run things in an effective, efficient and sustainable manner, but people can be suckered into thinking we don't already know what to do, as they don't have time to research and learn. The average person doesn't actually learn very much about very many issues, they are just told what to believe, so they never find out how solvable so many things are. Their is no need for extreme poverty in a developed country, yet it persists. Prohibition of drugs and sex work only creates more problems, yet countries resist accepting it and regulating it. Quality education is a primary determinant of success, yet people with children have no qualms voting for parties that will gut the public education system. Climate change isn't itself debatable for example, it's happening, yet their are people who lie to voters and say it isn't happening, refusing to work towards solutions. Most global issues have solutions as well, but again, countries are very comfortable lying/cheating to gain advantage, even if it will kill us all one day.
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  133. "It was a rough six years Seth, what can I say?"
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  134. It's actually not that hard to figure out that plants have to be making decisions, and then it's a short leap to realize that if something can make decisions, it has to have at least heuristics to make them. I like that point, that a very important facet of intelligence is the ability to adapt to novel experiences, as well as react better to similar ones. A dumb creature can eventually become incredibly good at a difficult task, but it will struggle if you adjust the task. This makes me think of my cat that was bad at making new pathways, if you took away the way it got up on something it wouldn't be able to find a new way down, at least not quickly, it was almost sad to witness the contrast with other cats, but the this cat was actually incredibly kind to kittens, and was actually a source of affection on par with a mother for kittens (it wasn't fixed, but I don't think it competed for mates), societies have weird roles, and individuals just get assigned to things. Re: plants using us, plants needed oxygen breathers to get rid of all the pesky oxygen they make... if the oxygen levels get too high, you don't even need a spark. This was actually an issue at one point, as messed up as it sounds. Re: oats, I REALLY doubt anyone was going to mistake oats for wheat, oats come up in the spring and are annual, wheat we grow is biennial and requires a winter before making seed heads. Also, oat seed heads look absolutely nothing like wheat, and oats have a RIDICULOUS hull on them that you'd have to deal with, it's as bad as rice. I think the theory that people ended up growing non-wheat grains in wheat fields is reasonable, but nobody thought oats were wheat IMHO, but rye makes a lot more sense. That said, I think potatoes and corn are more interesting than wheat, wheat was already pretty near edible (Gluten issues aside), but corn seed used to be inedible (think popcorn, switch the ratio of that hard skin to the starch, and the whole seed is much smaller), and potatoes were literally poisonous, so much so that people apparently used to stomp them to leech out the toxins. The natives of North America had to work harder to create their food sources, but because they were so good at making good food sources (and managing wild ones, because they didn't start that way fwiw) that they didn't have the same pressures that Eurasia and Africa had, food was always plentiful in the New World, even as the old world regularly starved the Inca had almost a decade's worth of food stored up and ready to use. The unfortunate irony is that the skill that natives had with food production meant they weren't competitive, and thus were easily out competed for resources until it started to become and issue, at which point the whites controlled the Midwest and the Natives were so behind in resource production that they'd never be able to compete again, what followed was just traumatization for the sake of it. Around 26:40 he's making me wonder when social insects will start thinking we're intelligent, instead of just incredibly dexterous and inventive. Re: High altitude/weird conditions, roses and junipers in Utah, the wild ones, actually grow seeds that are WAY larger than in wetter, lower altitude areas, the plants are adapted to those conditions, where water will be scarce for it's offspring, and that it might need a lot more dormant time than is ordinary, or need to stay dormant immediately after germination. I feel like the real challenge with trying to banzai plants is in part the fact that certain plants get depressed in confinement, it's a complex art getting good results with such projects, by default a plant is very unhappy in a cramped pot!
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  135.  @abedied1  It's interesting that they can so readily forget what he previously said, because he flip-flops an awful lot.
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  136. I was pretty much the biggest/fattest kid in my middle school, and in grade 8 I made a point of doing flips on the bounce board, a thing most of the other kids couldn't do. Holy crap was I on the heavy side for those mats/board! Fitness is for all sizes, learn to throw your weight around if you have more of it!
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  137. I think you're undervaluing the effects of the literal wave after wave of men the Soviets sent vs the best the Germans had to offer. +18 million dead, but they ground up the German elites with attrition, and kept forcing them back.
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  138.  @Molteniceee  I just can't see Mulaney with a cigar though, it seems too out of character.
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  139. Ah, the old 'go on a hunger strike because you raised your son to be an entitled shit and you don't want to deal with your mistakes' technique! All the best people are doing it! If your mom has to go on a hunger strike because you couldn't figure out that you don't forcibly kiss random people without even asking, maybe it's time to reevaluate your positions? How would this jagoff feel is an actual large man decided that he was excited enough to just take a kiss, and he'd be literally powerless to stop it before it happens? There are many man large and strong enough to do it, and I am confident he wouldn't be happy about it being done publicly, yet for some reason women are supposed to put up with it. BRIC was never an alliance in any sense of the word, BRICS isn't either, and making it even bigger is just going to result in an even less cohesive non-group. Most of them are pretty right wing and hoping to establish a different power center than the US, but again, there is no unity/cohesion between these countries, and many of them have an active history of hating one another (china has historically had terrible relations with both russia and india), that's not a recipe for a strong alliance, and that's not changing just because putin and xi are both desperate for allies, and india has fallen into the right wing populism trap. All three of those big countries want to be in charge of the group, the only one that's actually an international power is china, russia hasn't been a world power since putin came back into power, and india hasn't been a major power since the british bribed their way to victory over a WILDLY richer empire (this is what happens when you have extreme wealth inequality and lack of unity/solidarity because you treat most of the population like it's made a clumped together turds that will perpetually be beneath you *purely because of the caste they were born in*, it leads to your army being for sale, and they'll take very little if they are used to you paying them nothing). None of them is trusted by the other countries that are in BRICS, and the expanded BRICS isn't going to be much better about trusting 'me first' countries like china and russia (and now india under modi), the only country that's stable enough to be a natural choice for leadership is Brazil, and Brazil is the country that's probably the least likely, as it's never been outward-looking and is now run by a relative lefty. France and Quebec are both using their secular tradition as a way to institute fascist laws against minorities (that are explicitly unconstitutional). It's worth noting that even the hijab is not a Muslim garb per se, it's not in their holy text, it's a pre-existing tradition unrelated to Islam, such that you can't argue in good faith that any of that stuff is 'Muslim religious garb'. Ultimately they're fighting to make a law that says 'you can't wear clothes from certain cultures', something we'd openly be horrified by if they worded it that way. France treats it's non-whites poorly, not sure if you were aware of that, but it's bad enough that there are always thousands of people who are very eager to repay the French public for year after year of shitty treatment with a nice riot. France is in many way a very progressive country, but it's not a fan of anyone who's not a native French speaker, and it's not a fan of non-whites (tbh most white countries are pretty racist, even the nicer ones are just more subtle about it), so non-whites who speak bad (or too foreign sounding) French can expect to be publicly mistreated. Please don't present the Palestine conflict as one with 'violence on both sides' without having the decency to point out that the israeli reply to a palestinian throwing burning garbage is to shoot them, it's like saying a person with both hands tied behind their back being beaten up is in a fight because he could maybe bite the guy, it's not a 'both sides' issue, the palestinians are being brutally murdered with almost complete impunity while the world watches, cheering israel on. I'm also not sure why we call them 'settlers' and not 'genocidal terrorists', they're extrajudicially murdering people to influence a political situation and are non-state actors, that's a terrorist by the dictionary definition last I checked. I'm not actually sure if there is any difference between what the people of israel did/are doing and how the Europeans dealt with North America/Australia, the natives weren't willing/able to be enslaved (this is why African slaves had to be imported, the locals in the Americas were 'less amenable', in large part because they knew the country better than the Europeans, Africans that escaped could be easily recaptured given a modicum of effort because they had no where to go, hence the Underground Railroad being necessary) so they were deemed worthless and all but exterminated. The main reason I honestly wonder if putin didn't actually murder him is because of how he's handling it, normally he wants it to be less subtle when he kills someone extrajudicially (I got to use the word twice!), it's not in the same vein as poisoning someone who's irritated you with polonium that cannot be found in nature (other than maybe in one of those naturally occurring reactors? idk), or having someone murdered via umbrella, an old KGB technique that was so overused that it's it's own trope. Blowing up a plane is a bit different, but it's possible he wanted to decapitate the wagner group? If he really felt he needed the whole lot of them dealt with, then this would make sense, it just seems to feel fundamentally different from how putin normally kills 'problem' people. I think it's safe to declare the Ukraine invasion to be an almost complete shitshow, and we all know how well it went for stalin when he wholesale cleared out the best and brightest from the soviet military, the USSR lost some 18 million in WW2 because of stalin's personal incompetence/fundamental inability to work with others, putin seems to have just crippled his most potent military asset, not sure how this doesn't make russia's position even worse. The russians have huge supply problems (mostly they have nothing left to go around), while the Ukrainians have regular supply drops. If putin plays his hand poorly enough I could see him not only losing this war, but losing territory to Ukraine, to say nothing of russia's loss of standing in the region. It's like russia had it's small success in Georgia and decided to just stop spending money on it's military 'because it's good enough', they still had supplies from a decade before that foray iirc. I loved how confused trump looked while trying to remember what to say about panama, did he have a few goes at it even and this was the best? He was almost vulnerable, because he was literally seeking approval, like a kid doing a presentation for a teacher.
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  140. I liked astrology growing up, and it'll always be fascinating to me, in part because I don't really think humans are independent in the way that they think they are, so the premise that hundreds of millions of people all sharing aspects isn't as big of an issue, especially when you learn how much granularity their is in a full birth analysis.
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  141. I was that weird kid that literally went to the library every day to get new history books. Eventually I was allowed to take an extra book! Hooray!
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  142. I don't gamble, but I think it's a winning bet that trump was given the book to read by his father while he was pretty young, and it might be one of the very, very few books trump has ever read. Also, the phrase is pretty nearly gibberish in English, so the only way he could come upon it is by reading a German translation, or by having speech writers that lifted it from hitler, it's just not a phrase we use.
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  143. Personally, I didn't really notice that you guys never had males on (have watched for a few months now, glad you have a new channel, you're the first channel I had to put notifications on for, your vids get shoved to the bottom of the algorithm for some reason, surely not the feminist angle, never that, youtube LOVES progressives! lol), but I don't think us males really add much to the discussion that a woman couldn't do at least as well, so probably don't make a habit out of it, even if this was fine. I don't think there are enough women only channels, especially ones that have such quality discussions.
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  144. In Canada we have Remembrance Day, which is very much not a holiday and is mostly observed by children, children that generally have no idea what war actually entails, or that most of the soldiers that died died for mindbogglingly stupid reasons, with a shocking number of dead soldiers killed over the pride of their ruler. I still have a lot of respect for soldiers (because someone has to do that job ultimately), but most wars are extremely stupid and unnecessary. At least we don't let the rich buy positions in the army (officially) anymore, in those days the average grunt knew more about tactics than the average general, yet the generals got to make all the (disastrous) decisions, most of which were blind charges against fortified positions. It got so bad that when the Light Brigade was given an openly suicidal mission (by mistake) during the Crimean War they assumed that it was just another stupid plan and actually charged. I guess some guy wrote a poem about it or something? Anyways, their is a reason a disproportionate number of soldiers throughout history did not serve willingly.
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  145. We have an irrigation box (one of those durable plastic 'boxes' with a lid that's buried so it's level with the ground), and it has a whole bunch of snakes in it. It's amazing, and it also deters pests! We get some decently big snakes out here sometimes, but you have to go to the freaky swamp to find rattlesnakes iirc. Also, I think snakes make a ball when they mate? isn't that where 'tie the knot' comes from (that was for the Jackals)?
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  146. I'm still waiting for Americans to realize that they're the bad guys, but I'm not really expecting it to click anytime soon. Capitalism is 100% built on exploitation, but the problem isn't just exploitation it's that the system is designed to reward the cruel and powerful for being as cruel and authoritarian as possible. There is no reason to make quality products when the system will reward you more if you instead scam as hard as possible. When the workers share got smaller over time and the economy started to collapse, the solution of the capitalists in the West was that workers should not only have to spend everything they earn to survive, it needs to not be enough to get by (meaning massive household debt), they need to be truly desperate or they won't put up with the poor treatment that is the true goal, human oppression in capitalism is the goal, not a side effect or drawback, it's the reason capitalists do what they do, it's about the power, not the money. If they just wanted money, they'd be like the rest of us that all want money, the difference is that they want power to mistreat others according to their whims. Corporations are not required to be ethical or moral, they are required to make money, and if they make more money by being less ethical, expect them to be less ethical. Capitalism is also why we have such pronounced generational competition, if the older generations all think they worked hard and struggled, they not only think the younger generations should similarly have to struggle, they incorrectly think (as is human nature) that their own struggles were worse, when they in fact had easier economic situations to grow up in by and large, economic mobility is much worse now than it was. People overtime exaggerate their own challenges/difficulties to make themselves feel more impressive, it's not intentional and it's hard to notice, but we all do it to an extent, and we're also very bad at realizing that we're doing it. Capitalism wants us to feel that everyone else is a crook that's out to get us, while paradoxically presenting 'hard work', a thing that statistically speaking never pays well, as what will save the poor.
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  147. It's a hell of a lot smarter than trying to overpower a gator, even a small one can be dangerous as heck.
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  148. Also walnuts, we have 1 Black Walnut in our immediate area, and thus we have walnut saplings come up all over the garden/yard, the squirrels place them all over the place and forget them (or don't need them, keep in mind they might store a lot more food than they end up needing, meaning if there is a very good year squirrels will plant lots of extra trees! it's fascinating). Animals that aren't naturally prone to hard work tend to fair very poorly over time, so most squirrels don't mind storing up nuts like winter will be as bad as their racial memory has an example of (which could be something like a +12 month winter due to volcanoes or something), this is why even if a huge number of nuts are falling you don't have very long to pick them up. Somewhat related, apparently pine nuts are so helpful to rodents that some US communities had disease outbreaks whenever the local pine trees would have bumper crops. IIRC it had a time delay, because the mice would multiply heavily for many generations until their was a population collapse (the pine nuts were a great fat source I guess), during the spike diseases spread by rodents went up a ton as desperate rodents moved into human territory. Because of the delay it took people a longer time to figure out.
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  149. I was yelling at some clouds the other day about how the need to make everything ready for sequels has resulted in everything having shitty endings and stuff that will 'pay off later' (but is basically nonsense now plot-wise). The early Marvel movies had an arch, but they were VERY MUCH meant to be 'stand alone' in the sense that if you'd seen them out of order it made almost no difference until The Avengers itself, and even that was probably not the end of the world, but if you watched Age of Ultron before Avengers you'd not only not want to watch more Marvel movies, you'd also experience the whole thing in a very different (and much less satisfying) way. I think this is also why Jurassic Park (the first movie) was great, same with The Matrix, neither was meant to have a sequel so both had tight and coherent plots/endings, because they didn't need several more movies to tell the story, they just fit the whole thing in one movie! And it was better that way! TLDR our movies suck more and more because of the staggering greed of the people financing Hollywood, they're so addicted to sequels that they've abandoned making proper stand alone movies.
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  150. The key to peterson IMHO is that he makes a point of telling people primarily things they already believe, he primarily reinforces existing norms, and thus not only isn't threatening, he's appealing to a less sophisticated audience that likes 'experts' that sound suspiciously like conmen. As such, he's very big on acting confident and waving around credentials rather than actually dealing with complex or advanced topics, let alone stuff from his area of expertise, he mostly blathers about stuff he's not even well informed about, because again, he only needs to tell the dumbest 25% what they already believe/wish was true to get rich and famous, he doesn't need to have academic integrity. There is no end to the irony of a bloody psychologist complaining that other academic fields are corrupt/unscientific, his field is notoriously bad at reproducing experimental results since people are products of their environments. This is why racists have invested so much energy in making sure that non-whites tend to cluster together, and that those clusters are the shittiest places to live for a variety of (business decision related mostly, but also government based fuckeries abound) reasons. If you don't have the same people, you likely won't have the exact same outcomes, calling the entire field into question. If you have the same people, but some or all have had traumatic experiences, you might get very different results still. Psychiatry is what you get when you add science to psychology, but as is psychology struggles (other than teaching abusers how to manipulate better) to add true knowledge to humanity, even compared to he humanities that offer little concrete. Yeah, we have a COMPETENCE hierarchy going on, that's why zuckerberg is one of the richest people in the world, because he's so competent that he wouldn't try to release VR that would have been clowned on hard *10 years ago*, obviously as peterson points out, all hierarchies are decided 100% by competence! Nobody could be that stupid, right? They would know that releasing a slightly better VR that still involves clunky gear (meaning it's not a shared experience with others in the room, which as the Wii should have pointed out is a key part of gaming/media, and it's why people watch other people game, we crave that experience of watching/gaming with friends) and looks like it runs on a Gamecube's graphics card. I cannot get over how bad the VR looks, I mean, the world 'reality' is right there, this looks several generations removed from modern tech, and it's less realistic than most Disney art, even the creepy early 90s girls that were wwwaaayyy too skinny. What I'm getting at if it isn't clear is that we are ruled by the most competent among us, and that there is no systemic problems in our reality, everything is exactly as it should be, and all hierarchies are just or people would have already overthrown them silly boots! Yessir, all hierarchies (even ones based on personal taste) are based purely on competence!
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  151. While I feel like Olivia tried to get more buzz for her movie via scandals, I also feel like male directors get away with some effed up shit, there is definitely some degree of double standard. I don't think I've ever seen anything she's been in, so I really don't have an opinion on her as an actress/director, but I think I'd rather wrestle an alligator than watch this movie (maybe just a baby alligator? they're cute when small) or watch another interview with her, I watched the Late Show one, she had less charisma than a moldy turnip IMHO, but I also think a ton of male actors that are very famous are abominably bad actors. I find it very possible to both dislike her as an actress/director/interviewee while also thinking she's being treated extremely unfairly. It's shocking how much people dislike Amber Heard, especially with depp being such a trash person for so long. I really liked his work when he was younger, but eventually he became more substance abuser than actual human being and he lost most of his charisma/looks, at this point I suspect most people supported him out of a mix of misogyny and sympathy for how far he'd fallen from grace. The whole trial coverage reminded me of when Taylor Swift had that stupid exchange with kk, when kk very much lied/mislead the public about their conversation, I still couldn't believe how quick people were to glomp onto that fakeass ass and not read between the fucking lines. In regards to Amber, I suspect her problem is the whole princess vs harlot dichotomy, where a woman can only be a chaste princess or a wanton slut, and society only values the former while heaping abuse on the later. Amber wasn't a perfect enough victim because she sometimes fought back, and the public did not forgive this despite it being self defense. Ultimately, I liked Heard in Aquaman, and I didn't think depp did anything useful for Pirates towards the end, and the first few of those were really charming movies, in part because he still 'had it'. He looks like he's had his soul drained and replaced with a mix of cocaine, meth and cheap liquor (actually, he looks like he drinks aftershave, not even cheap liquor). He's the Elvis of our generation that way, he was once the king of the world, now he's a depressing sack of crap. Markle gets the dumbest shit written about her, no idea how people fall for it other than just bitterness about her marrying into the royal family as a mixed race woman. I honestly wonder how the public would handle it if Charlotte were to marry a big scary black man? Probably badly, but I suspect there would be less abuse hurled at a more imposing figure, Markle isn't seen as threatening in the physical sense, just in the 'racism' sense. Honestly, every time I see a headline that drags Markle for the most absurd shit while not dragging the pedo prince makes me want to find the writer and... convince them they are wrong, we'll leave it at that.
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  152. I feel like if the strike ends and we haven't all died of old age/mass starvation because we restricted how much light hits earth instead of reducing emissions then I wonder if you could trick John Oliver into hosting Corrections for one week? Maybe a bonus episode? I hear he's really good at getting Emmy's (or whatever they call them? I don't follow stuff like that and happily forget it all immediately after it's done), a thing some people may or may not care about. He might ruin everyone's night though!
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  153. All arguments about modern situations aside, I found it interesting that the Chinese scholar was much more interested in the West than the Western scholar was in China,, especially with China having always been so inward-looking. The Romans inherited some of the Greek arrogance and disdain for anyone not 'like them', but they were generally willing to enable full citizenship for foreigners, with all the relevant rights. Being Roman was less about race than citizenship, while I think China had a dimmer view of non-Chinese (but this is based in part on views of China over time, not knowledge of the period in my case). Roman law is hardly the only influence on Western law, and in most cases it was replaced by other legal systems long before what we consider modern laws came into being, so Roman law didn't lead directly to modern Western law in general. When Rome fell, the laws of the various tribes became the law, and Roman law was history.
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  154. It's usually retired farmers, or nearly retired ones that go in for coffee and conversation in the early morning, but active farmers might meet later on, when they're ready to take a break and talk. Also, Seth, do you want me to build you an Elder Dragon Highlander deck around Jackals? The type isn't supported, but if you tell people it's a 4 they'll get the idea. Games are more fun with bad cards anyways! As much say? I would like to think I have a little more pull around there...
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  155. It was a great show, and while I'm openly horrified that they're going to try to make more seasons, I have no idea how it'll actually work. I think Shogun was the only thing I've seen Anna Sawai in, but she really stole the show, it's hard to argue that anyone else is the main character by the time you're finished, the others are pieces in her story.
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  156. Technically it was God letting the Devil play The Sims, God just sat back and watched while the Devil epically messed with Job's life, and Job never wavered much.
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  157. I like to pretend that nobody likes drake, excepting the suits that made him famous. When he got taken down nobody had much sympathy, in part because drake is such a creepy person.
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  158. As a dude who's not old (but is no longer young) ED as used is purely a recreational drug, it's only legal because it's the drug of choice of old impotent men of means, if viagra only helped young men it'd be illegal.
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  159. I actually ordered a flat of Alpine strawberries this year, they're everbearing iirc, but they're very low yielders of incredibly strong tasting strawberries. We had one plant and I called it a 'faerie' strawberry, because it looked like a strawberry that a faerie would grow! I'm thinking of making jam with them, just freeze them as they ripen and make a couple tiny jars after I have enough? I could also make wine with them, but I don't know how long it'd take 12 plants (assuming they all live) to make 1lb of fruit, which is what I need for a small batch of wine, and strawberry wine is pretty hard to 'get right', you need a fair bit of residual sugar to manage the intense bitterness of the fruit (perhaps I macerate too long?), strawberries are so tasty I suspect because of the mixture of intense bitterness with a relatively high sugar content for a fruit. I had good luck with a mixed berry wine rather than straight strawberry. Also, you can grow strawberries in a greenhouse (I don't think they need winter per se), but the plants get old quickly and you need to keep replacing them, you get 2 or 3 years outdoors in this area, and even then you need to manage runners, I wouldn't be surprised if you have to replace the indoor ones yearly, or twice a year if you want good yeilds. I have some strawberries in my small greenhouse, they did pretty well over the winter, but they don't like to get warm roots (I kept them in an area where they always had cool nights, and they loved that, but now that it's spring that part of the greenhouse can easily top 120 degrees, so they're outside for now.
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  160. Erin, just saying, air might 'grow on trees', but air compressors do not! Not paying for air is weird in a way, but we ultimately do, it's just in the form of more expensive gas. Also, the number of times I make jokes and people just take it as straight talk is insane... I am genuinely funny, and the things I say when when I'm joking are objectively ridiculous, it's unbelievable. It's gotten to the point where I'm pretty sure people are pulling my leg a bit, but as you note, when you make a good absurd joke and it just goes 'woosh!', it's a bit disheartening. I think it started when I was in college, when I was younger people always got my jokes (but they weren't in great taste because I wasn't particularly funny as a younger man, I was too selfish to be funny). I blame all the laughing orgasms! Re: built in misogyny and the baked in assumptions that follow, I was very surprised to realize (after reading a number of books) that I felt women were generally better authors, this despite having mostly read male authors and at the time viscerally hating feminism (or what I thought it was). Things happened in books written by male authors, women writers had character development in ways that men struggled with (because men don't grow much as people unfortunately, society babies them too much). I'm not surprised that people assume women aren't funny, but I am shocked when that assumption survives into ones 30s and 40s, if not mid 20s. Women literally were selected by evolution to be funny because they had to be (see 'why women prefer to run into bears than strange men in the woods'), patriarchal men hate comedy because they know how bad they are at it, and that most of the comedians will happily mock their foibles. This is also why their is a whole patriarchal apparatus to promote terrible right wing comedy, it's not made because it's funny, right wing 'comedy' exists to normalize our society's bad traits, right wing comics just aren't funny (and never were), you need empathy to be truly funny.
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  161. I have several pairs of footwear, I have work boots, general outdoors shoes, work boots for 'really dirty stuff', Wellington boots, and dress shoes. They each have their use. The issue isn't having 20 pairs of shoes, it's having 20 pairs of shoes that all do the same thing. Also, women need different shoes for different outfits, I'm a man so I don't need many pairs, but a woman can easily have a dozen pairs because they need several different colours/styles of dress shoes for different kinds of events. It's not fair but that's patriarchy!
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  162. I think disco is the best go-to music for karaoke, it's inherently very fun and that fun is contagious. It's hard to go too wrong with Abba if you're white, most people like Waterloo and Dancing Queen (and most of there other hits are also well received), I feel like most Rock music is less exciting unless you're going for an oldie.
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  163.  @satori-in-life  Populism has always been here, just like the US has always had a hard-on for fascism.
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  164.  @scriptguru4669  She was technically beaten by the lettuce, wasn't she? She's sub-lettuce.
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  165. BAD TAKE ALERT! Just saying, this is probably a bad take, but I feel like saying it anyways because apparently I'm a messy contrarian bitch, at least on some level. I don't think it's karma for most of the people affected by this fire, unless you think it's bad karma to live in a place that shouldn't be inhabited, and in huge numbers? I think it's bad karma to be cruel to nature, and LA is contrary to nature's will. Also isn't it going to fall into the ocean or something? I feel for the average Joe's who lost everything (and couldn't get insurance anymore and are thus up the creek), but it's not the same thing to lose one of many houses as it is to lose your HOME. When something bad happens to rich people it's usually an inconvenience; when something bad happens to poor people they suffer more, because they don't have any ability to absorb shock because they live in a planned economy that's designed to impoverish them in perpetuity.
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  166. He's so narcissistic that he's fully psychotic, nobody who has heard him speak thinks he's tethered to reality, last time I checked that's the definition of psychotic, 'to be broken from reality'. I doubt his chronic abuse of stimulants helped (those will make you develop psychosis over time, especially in large doses).
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  167. When I was younger (and very naïve), a guy I worked for told me in complete seriousness that most of those really conservative people are weirdly kinky and just don't want to admit it publicly, and he made clear it was the religious ones that were the most extreme. It made me think of some people I knew, they were 'conspicuously' religious, they divorced because he was having affairs with anyone who would (he met people through his church work!), and the straw that ended the marriage was him trying to argue that he was entitled to having these affairs because, get this, a bunch of kings in the old testament used to have lots of wives! What most people aren't aware of is that these are usually symbolic marriages, meaning the king, for obvious reasons, wasn't banging these women, this was why their was the ever-famous trope of the harem 'not being adequately satisfied'. In the West women used to be able to sue for divorce if their husband 'wasn't satisfying them', and during the middle ages the reason people got angry about being cuckolded was entirely because it was assumed that if your wife was screwing someone else you were either hopeless in bed or impotent, and both were obviously humiliating to any man. Religious people aren't always pervy, but the odds are better the more extreme their beliefs are, repressed people eventually go nuts and start going to key parties (or worse). The 'bisexual conservatives still publicly hating gays' thing, it's a bit funny, because AFAIK lesbians aren't mentioned in the bible, and the bible is EXTREMELY EXPLICIT in the old testament about what constitutes banned sex, mostly man penetrating man, but also any kind of penetrative sex with an animal, because it was enough of a problem that they needed the proscription! You don't make a rule like 'nobody can shit in the blender!' until someone has shit in the blender!! How dare these conservatives act like we're more sinful now than people were in the dog-humping days of yore (I feel like there's a Yaakov Smirnov joke here), we're the same garbage, but we're more civilized garbage (well, some of us are)! I vote we find a team of paramedics to follow Mel Brooks everywhere he goes, I'm not entirely sure what dark magic he used, but afaik he still seems to have it, History of the World: Part 2 stood up to two watches (without a big gap!), I have so much access to content now that I tend not to re-watch stuff (we're doomed as a species!), but I wanted to see it again. The jackasses that complain about 'the woke' could stand to watch some of his comedy, most of which came out in more conservative times, and it tended to be pretty progressive on the whole. Progress isn't some new thing that was invented so that assholes couldn't call things 'gay' because they didn't like them, progress is the natural pathway we're supposed to be trodding along as a species, and get this, *all of the funniest people throughout history have been progressives*, their is a reason we don't have conservative satire (of liberals/progressives/anyone they don't like) as a genre. It's not just because the concept couldn't be funny, it's because anyone who actually thinks being bigoted is funny is inherently not funny, and thus the people who have these bad ideas tend to fuck off fairly quickly because they suck at their jobs. The comedians who 'red pill' are all terrible at their jobs, I never thought chapelle would sink so low as to try to make elno look cool, but I'm so glad he bombed hard! For the record, I'd also add Lewis Black to make it a list, maybe moments before they die aliens will abduct them, put their brain into advanced machines, and send them back to give us more comedy, we don't have enough angry progressives in this world, and that might be our actual biggest problem (I'm obviously the problem since I just live my life and scream into the void now and then) as a society.
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  168. Let's not forget that if a big chunk of the new generation of men are radicalized as children towards the right a lot of rich people would be delighted: far right people want to reward their idols and punish people who disagree with them, and they idolize rich a-holes. Ultimately it's not just the algo organically directing people towards far right stuff, it's been weighted to send them there, it looks for excuses to do so.
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  169.  @tammystockley-loughlin7680  I think it normalized ignorance, people used to be ashamed to disagree with an expert publicly.
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  170. I'd prefer it even.
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  171. I hate carpets personally, if I want a carpet I'll get a nice rug which is easier to replace. Hardwood is great, tile is great, I don't know why people think carpets are luxurious, they mostly stink because nobody shampoos them. Also, can't believe that's the best the overpriced air freshener company could find, I guess when your product is a fancy-looking scam a lot of respectable people will turn their nose up at you, and you're left with Ol Scoots!
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  172.  @damonroberts7372  I have a rule, never tan skin that's hard to check for cancer... I proudly rock the farmer's tan.
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  173. I'm more of a paper pusher type myself, but I wouldn't say you're hitting a non-valid target if you target a propagandist, they are usually working very hard to make situations worse, making them often more of a problem than a thousand soldiers, and capable of causing more deaths than those troops as well. It was eventually decided that if you weren't personally shoving people into gas chambers you could still be held personally responsible for those actions if you made the scenario possible in some meaningful way, a propagandist is the same thing IMHO. If you're that big a part of the problem, you're a reasonable target. I would go so far as to say that functionally no conservatives actually have sufficient empathy to actually care about the Iranian people, they just hold the inexplicably bitter grudge over the overthrow of the Shah. It makes very little sense, but Americans lost a fair bit of money/clout when that happened, so they care about regime change and use the guise of caring about the human rights situation while they give literally no shits about the US's human rights disasters. I cannot believe that Biden made nice with the saudis, he had literally everything to gain by acting tough with them and making a pivot toward non-saudi oil, a thing the US can just do on a whim, the US depends on Canada much more iirc, and Canada has massive untapped reserves that probably could be made similarly green to the saudi fields (and have less risks from shipping it, since you're not using tankers you'd just use pipelines), all while allowing the US to buy oil from a country that has a much milder human rights record (as long as you don't ask the Natives I suppose). The US depends on the saudis for reasons that are ironically not very clear, they want the saudis to dump oil on the global market, but there is actually no incentive to keep depending on oil period from a national perspective, let alone pretend that only the saudis can dump oil. Anyways, mbs chose putin's hairy butt over Biden's, they very much picked a side and should face consequences for that. Throw a fucking embargo on the saudis for awhile maybe instead of just russia? If you think we'll suffer from a lack of trade with them, they'll literally just die, saying 'we have more leverage' is WILDLY understating the real situation. Let them import russian foodstuff, maybe they can trade them, you know, oil that russia already is desperately dumping on the global market because they can produce probably a magnitude more oil than they actually need/use, that'll be great, maybe mbs can trade some saudi oil to the russians for some of the weapons they are already so short of that they're buying from anyone that will sell to them, including Iran and north korea. I laughed my ass off when I found out that even pretty conservative economists were openly disgusted by the new British PM's batshit plan to cut taxes on the rich (an action that mostly inflates the stock market we now know, based on what happened in the US, the relative wealth of the rich skyrocketed in large part because of the stock market being vigorously fluffed by money that it's possessors literally had no other use for, and the rich own all the stocks), that was not a good plan and she should be pretty embarrassed by it's reception, even if she honestly doesn't understand why giving the rich more money when the poor are desperate is, technically speaking, the dumbest solution to the problem of wealth inequality. It's having a math problem of adding together two handfuls of peanuts and somehow ending up with a grapefruit, I'm not sure how a human brain manages to get that result to a simple question. It's fundamentally inexplicable, the kind of stupid you'd expect from an American animated comedy show. I feel that she needs to have already resigned somehow, or maybe have just not put her name in the hat?
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  174. Dang, I had a rough time with tomatoes this year, we planted them pretty late due to a hectic year, but we got enough that we have some canned, some dried, and some roasted in the freezer (makes a HECK of a red sauce, even if you add nothing but ripe tomatoes and olive oil, but I've also added onions, garlic, peppers, black pepper, salt, and it's all roasted on a big pan (I did two pans at once last time! Thank goodness for convection!), I bake them until the skins start to blacken on the few I leave skin up. After they cool I use an immersion blender to puree the lot and it's ready to go! SO MUCH EASIER than frying/boiling down tomatoes to make a sauce, and you get a much deeper flavor to boot! Apparently Bubonic Plague was transmitted by parasites carried by the rats, the real issue wasn't rats, it was that people weren't being responsible and this was the consequence of growing too numerous and not managing pollution (of their era), so rats thrived in great numbers and traveled with people all over. You know, I don't think I've heard someone argue that The Black Death was an example of human caused environment-related catastrophe, and I've heard some weird ones before! It does check out though. There are other ones, the Middle East used to be quite hospitable before humans destroyed huge swathes of it with ignorant farming practices (so far back ago that most people just assume that was always just desert). It's fascinating that there are people who DON'T believe in human caused environmental catastrophes when we've been causing them over and over, ranging from the ongoing mass extinciton that stared when we learned to make hunting tools to our obsession with making money SPECIFICALLY from fossil fuels (why does it HAVE to be fossil fuels unless you're actively trying to destroy the world?? It's too proven at this point for it not to be a deliberate choice, to slowly render our only home worthless, so some dipshits in suits and pretend to have more money. Yay capitalism!
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  175. I still say the 'people' are just voices in his head.
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  176. I feel a bit bad for bezos because he's got all this money and all he wants is to be a real boy, it's like when trump was pretending to operate a big truck, as a 70 year old man. Ooh, maybe we can get bezos, elon, branson and zucky to do a Royal Rumble? I'd actually pay to watch them throw each other out of a ring. This is hyper-embarrassing for Vogue, this reeks of paid for vanity spot, like when the lad magazines would have some up and coming star they were trying to make famous, only that's the last time you see them? It's like that, only we'll get to keep seeing big jeffy play as a tough guy in what is essentially a drag outfit. If you think you're bad, we had a period of listening to Milli Vanilli in gigantic wood panel station wagon, and we did it years after it was found out about the lip sinking, my dad just liked their music. I still sing along sometimes, and if those two didn't 'look the part' (people said they were too big/manly to sing that way) I'm sure a semi-huge white guy is even less believable, but isn't that what everyone wanted in the 90s? A big white guy that could sing like Michael Jackson, hence that Simpson's episode?
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  177. I spend the freezing Canadian winters layering sweaters (and wearing lined jeans with wool socks), but I usually wear button up shirts of some sort. I used to be fine wearing a tee-shirt and vest for most of the winter in a colder part of Canada when growing up, but slightly skinnier me doesn't like the freezing temperatures as much. I also had more hair on my head back then, that probably helped insulate things a bit too I suppose, but yeah, -10 is cold AF, don't talk to me about -20 or worse if we're in a high humidity/wind area.
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  178. I hate to say it, but Trump isn't just a narcissist, he's also quite openly delusional, and his senility means he has been growing progressively worse at concealing that he's schizophrenic. If you've ever been around a person who is suffering from that disorder that won't take medication, it isn't fun.
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  179. Where once I got lottery ads, now I'm getting literal scam ads that are borderline gibberish. Great work youtube, I'll totally fall for these scams because I think rich people should be taxed!
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  180. When little Johnny takes out the trash and leaves a trail: "Johnny, you dripped farage all over the bloody floor! Get in here and clean it up!"
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  181. Great episode!
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  182. My Opa grew the old type of Red Delicious apples, they lacked much of that very distinct bitterness that Red Delicious in the supermarket were known for. IIRC he would have gotten those trees in the very late 60s or in the 70s. They also didn't seem to be particularly dwarf, so they produced a ton of apples. I grow a few varieties myself, but I like most apples.
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  183. Surely an important federal judge has to know what 'retain' means in legalese???? I'm not a lawyer and I know what the term means, and it has nothing to do with previous employment, or having already had them around (that's a colloquial definition, and not the technical term). Anyone who's had to use a lawyer should be familiar with retainer (which also is not the dental device, I'm surprised she didn't reach for that, maybe she'll try that next?).
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  184. Ah yes, the thing is SO superior that you desperately need to protect it from any kind of competition, lest it be humiliated and destroyed, this despite it's incredible superiority of course. So superior!
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  185. When the poor bastard is reading the 'betterhelp' bit he really seems like they kidnapped him, or someone near and dear to him, and are making him do these, the hatred is so palpable. It's also great seeing all the comments pointing out the same thing, apparently you're done reading for them? Good for you, they sound awful, it's like they're trying to discredit the very concept of therapy by doing their job so badly.
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  186. I feel like anyone who's old money (ie their line hasn't worked a real job in more than a generation) ends up out of their tree, each generation is lazier and more entitled, a little less attached to reality. If you don't work you go crazy eventually, maybe it's just me?
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  187. I've always looked at homelessness as a societal failing (mostly), and have given them money now and then despite not being a very charitable person, my justification was always that I should treat others roughly how I expect to be treated, I would hope for some compassion if I was desperate (but I'm not sure I'd expect it tbh, we're awful to homeless people).
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  188. The irony of capitalism is that it only works if you have a viable, well remunerated consumer class, yet the system of capitalism actively fights against letting wealth trickle down, meaning the consumers gradually get fleeced for more and more over time, in order to support a growing class of non-contributing overlords, most of whom are untreated psychopaths with less empathy than a fruit fly grub. If you let capitalism 'do whatever it wants', you very quickly develop a brutally oppressed underclass and a wildly rewarded class of capitalists, this is because money doesn't come from nowhere, you can't ACTUALLY just make money, it's a representation of work, and as such if society makes too much fake money (crypto, fluffing the stock market so the rich can take bigger loans out on their assets to cover living expenses, the list goes on, any instance where money 'appears' in the economy when no work has been done to generate it), you get bad inflation, which is why we had a massive pile of inflation after trump childishly refused to raise interest rates (a thing that was needed at the time to keep the stock market from having a fluff-fest, where everyone wanks each other), though the crypto BS didn't help either (and no, crypto is not made via 'work', it's value is entirely arbitrary, it's not backed by either a colossal government that's 'too-big-to-fail' or made of something intrinsically valuable, there is no reason for it to be worth anything, it has less real value than my various collectables, which I can at least look at or play with). So, if they can't just make endless pretend money, where does it come from? billionaires are rich off of the share of poor people, which they are legally entitled to under a broken system. Having about 30% of the population absolutely destitute and forced to both live hand to mouth, as well as take any offered job is the preferred outcome for capitalism, and if that desperate and easily exploited underclass doesn't exist the capitalists will do things like, oh, say, buy up real estate when it makes no real sense, like has been happening for awhile now. First they went after farmers, 'consolidating' the smaller and less efficient farms, but also just scamming them without consequence as well, now the rich are trying to set up a new form of thralldom, where the bottom are serfs again, only with the trappings of tech. They wil own all the houses, and all the farms, and the poor will have to pay most of their income just to cover rent, which is happening now obviously. Meanwhile there are still jackass 'conservatives' out there who think the capitalists won't keep expanding that foundation over time, but the problem is that if they don't expand the upper reaches continuously, people will realize that they have no chance of ever moving up, and will refuse to be exploited. As such, they need to both create more poor people, and make the existing poor people more poor in order to funnel more wealth upwards.
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  189. I had a good, hard laugh knowing how much time you had to spend with this movie for this.
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  190. It's fascinating that the OG post just completely ignores that Ukraine is/was an independent nation, while the Palestinians are refugees in their own country that essentially live in big concentration camps. If you don't let people build power plants then you lose the right to turn off the power in ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. If you don't let people grow food, you now have to feed them. So on, so forth. It's not hard.
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  191. When I took a school trip in high school to the big city (well, Toronto is a VERY big city if your school is in a town of maybe 3k people and literally has cows next door) my classmates abandoned me when I bought a CD (I guess they didn't like Queens of the Stone Age? I mean, it was Songs for the Deaf, a true classic album), so I had to, on the spot, figure out the subway system well enough to get to the correct stop... luckily I got it right! You'd think people would notice it when the loud 6'2 guy is suddenly not there, but nope, everyone just goes about their business. I think there is a lesson there, something about not being as well liked as I thought?
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  192. The habit forming nature of these foods is part of how they work, if you've never had access to good vegetables you don't know how enjoyable it can be to eat them, and similarly, if you haven't trained your body to eat raw vegetables it will take time to get used to them, this is part of why children need to have access to real food, if a kid doesn't think good raisins (like flame or lexia) are sweet, they need to work on their palate, they're eating too much non-sugar sweeteners, because a lexia raisin is generally more than half sugar by weight. Because I eat primarily actual food, and even did as a kid, I've never been overly fond of fast food, I've always preferred actual home cooked food when I have the option. I remember being a kid and hearing other kids talk about how much they loved mcdonalds food, especially the fries! I couldn't believe it, we didn't eat it very often, but I had tried it, and while it was better than a 'bad' meal at home, we had almost no such meals, so mcdonalds tasted cheap and artificial. At this point I literally grow my own potatoes, garlic, onions, leeks, tomatoes, peppers, etc many of which get processed. As a side effect I eat better than most people period, regardless of their wealth, it doesn't hurt that I'm also an excellent cook, but growing a lot of my own food really changes things. I've even raised and processed some chickens, it's unreal how different the meat tasted and smelled, it turns out chicken has plenty of flavor if you don't butcher it when it's a tiny baby bird that's still putting on weight, we had dressed chickens that were well over 10lb, one breast could feed 3 or 4 people on a regular night, our food is a nightmare. The issue with peanut butter isn't actually taste, it's texture, pure peanut butter (made with nothing but peanuts) tastes quite good, but it is also relatively stiff, and it's prone to separation the more finely you grind it (and if you remove those thin skins, that's another big thing! the shell can go, but afaik the skins help with digesting peanuts). I know about this because we lived near a store that sold peanut butter that was ground on demand, from their own roasted peanuts. It was very nifty.
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  193. IIRC that's because lead causes neurological damage, anything that causes neurological harm makes you more aggressive afaik, unless it's excessive damage, but most people who can recover from brain trauma have more aggression issues than before, and support is kind of non-existent in some areas. CTE is associated with aggression for the same reason, it's a form of brain damage.
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  194. Polly is the worst, not sure how our conservative party can lose election after election primarily for being too right wing and react by constantly choosing further right leaders.
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  195. I'm pretty sure you're being disingenuous here, because the Hysteria hosts were VERY CLEAR that these 'cheap' goods are essentially a trap to keep poor people from moving up, they end up costing more than decent quality goods. It's like how poor people often spend a great deal of money on prepared food (especially fast food and pre-made stuff from the grocery store), and in doing so can spend an exorbitant amount of money compared to wealthier people, but those poor people have so little free time (because they need 2 or more really bad jobs) so they still buy the expensive trash food that wealthy people can comfortably laugh at (because it's a scam for poor people), the rich just have enough time to eat well. If you were actually asking in good faith I think you need to pay more attention to what you're watching before commenting in particular, but I'm VERY SURE you're just being a bad faith a-hole.
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  196. I love how this is sometimes framed as a 'security' issues, when black people are regularly being killed for no reason beyond racism. Why aren't POC worthy of security???? Only whites get security??
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  197. The basis is actually paranoia, and it defines their every thought. It's also why they fall into fascism pretty readily, because fearful people are desperate for any 'strong authority', even if that authority figure is arbitrary/manufactured by them, such as an incompetent dictator (read: trump, for example). Monarchs are also an authority figure, and unlike their puppet dictator, they at least have tradition to appeal to.
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  198. "Hip Hop is dead, long live Hip Hop" comes to mind. My problems with drake are mostly summed up by his seeming hatred of black women/unhealthy interest in underage girls (pretty sure he just hates women period, and it manifests differently based on how much he wants to bang them), but also that he's not at heart an artist, he's a businessman who makes art because he couldn't think of another way a man with his skillset could amass this much money and power, the whole thing is a business transaction. Also, did he have ghostwriters or what? Like what's going on now if not? I mean I clown on ye, but I also didn't love his older stuff (I encountered golddigger after I got into feminism, so that landed with a dull, damp thud and did not bounce, and his other stuff felt brutally overproduced and inauthentic, which is funny because we found out he liked hitler all along), from what I understand it's not entirely awful, if you dig the nazi stuff then it's the best music you've had since wagner, out nazis tend not to be very good at making art that isn't heavy-handed propaganda (but then we have golddigger, so yeah, the premise that it's a-okay for men to be only into women for their looks (with the understanding that they're out as soon as someone better comes along) but women being into men for money is SHALLOW...). Kendrick is more of an artist than a businessman, he's good at both but he seems to love the craft in a fairly old school way (just my views from hearing him rap on a few tracks, but also talk in public), and while Kendrick has baggage too, he's got less. It seems insane that drake actively took on Kendrick, but I agree with F.D's take that it was expected that Kendrick would crap all over drake, but it was NOT expected that Kendrick would make it the song of the summer; it wasn't just an all time epic roast, it was a roast and EVERYONE'S invited, and it's going on all summer, like an old Roman Triumph.
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  199. It really was an embarrassment to the country having trump get this much support.
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  200. I knew the Onion had cameras on me...
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  201. The pasta mom should have replied '...are you sure you iguana know?', and you should have been pelted with food that's too old to eat for saying it.
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  202. Somewhere Tupac and DMX are battling, but they both win because everyone wins when diamonds polish diamonds
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  203. If the average Joe tried to use the tricks big business and banks used, they'd be crucified.
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  204. Possible explanation for that seemingly inexplicable steel strength figure, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_drawing The process isn't relevant for bars or other products, as they are too hard to draw, coupled with the fact that getting to the strongest strengths possible means numerous careful annealing treatments, so this is not really a cheap process to take to the extremes. Nobody quotes the numbers they can achieve as the strength of 'steel', because that is referring generally to structural steel sections, not extremely thin wires. These would also be quite hard, though not proportionate the way hardened steel's strength and hardness correlate. All that said, it's still not as good as the more modern options.
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  205. Tapes will always bring me back to the various Sony Walkmen we had, each of my siblings had a good one (and two different models), but I had to win mine in a draw. Poverty is weird when you're the underperforming kid I guess? ...the image of widdle baby twump trying to claw his fat arse up an iceberg as a pod of whales come for him is glorious. I mean, there could be a plane crash I guess?
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  206. I think this was worth the wait in Canada. Also, love the outfits, the writers look great!
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  207. Made golf what it is today?? You mean owned by the saudis??? I am not here for this, but kev really needed to stress that that dude PAID for that sex, an actual 17 year old wouldn't have sex with him, they had to be trafficked.
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  208. This is a decent topic, and while the guest has views that are absolutely batshit to me scattered throughout they remained interesting and suspiciously sane for someone who willingly watches old 'reality TV'. I mean, I could see watching it to 'solve' it, understand how the show's creators handled the participants in such a way that they got the show that they wanted, and then could pretend was 'real', but yikes. I have a huge soft spot for old comedies, I think most cinema ages poorly (lots of exceptions I'm sure, but I don't love old drama generally), but good comedy is by definition timeless. In 1000 years people will still watch Charlie Chaplin, and very little of what is being made now will be watched, he just did the slapstick stuff really well. I'm sure lots of bad comedy was made that aged terribly, but the best stuff ages well and will continue to age well.
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  209. Since bieber is called 'the beibs' maybe we could start calling Bublé 'the Bubs' (pronounced 'the boobs' naturally, I feel like I need to spell this out for people)? Surely Seth could use his platform to make an important thing like this happen?
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  210. The way I put Hu vs Xi is that Hu believed in the power of a committee to reach a useful (and probably better on a consistent enough basis to be statistically significant) conclusion/solution to a problem, while Xi is more interested in centralizing power. I'm pretty sure that Hu was a more successful leader, even if you ignore Covid, Xi just keep centralizing power more so he's more and more free of consequence, but the big reason Hu was a better leader for China was that Hu was better at trade and improving China's standing, Xi is increasingly coming across as a bully and interventionist/supporter of interventions like Ukraine. I think Xi is much more likely to get into a war with India and/or Pakistan, also Taiwan or Japan or Russia (because maybe China doesn't want to keep paying for resources, this would happen very swiftly if the West felt the need to 'intervene' in Ukraine and institute regime change in Russia (which would seem reasonable if Russia got more nuke-happy). Xi just seems so, so much more insecure than Hu, Hu didn't need to posture constantly. It's openly horrifying how soft even Biden has been with the saudis, they are 100% willing to tank the US economy for their amusement/benefit, as we're witnessing *again*, and once again the response is to kiss butt, not kick butt. There are other sources of energy, boycott saudi oil maybe, like the US does with iran? The US doesn't buy from them directly very much, but they affect the global supply which affects global price. I still say the solution to saudi arabia is a combination of developing Canadian oil as cleanly as possible (...yeah) and use that to develop green infrastructure to truncate future CO2 emissions. If the US used it's clout to discourage allies (the US still has a few that matter) from buying it as well. Yeah, bolsanaro IIRC also supports just removing (however) any Natives living in that forest they want to replace with soybeans/corn, in addition to the horrors he is all but demanding of his supporters to feed the industrialist overlords that hold his leash. I'm honestly at a loss at this point how someone can look at someone like thatcher and see that as a big success story, economic or otherwise, it seems rightwing leaders merely have to not kill everyone off to have been 'a pretty great leader', I have no idea how people just unconsciously lower their standards for them, but they certainly do. It makes me think of reagan, who was essentially incompetent (legally speaking, not just colloquially, that standard he likely met when he was first elected) by the time he left office, gets huge passes despite staggering levels of corruption and even war crimes/supporting the commission of war crimes, which should probably be treated similarly, he also didn't have a thriving economy compared to some famous (relatively) leftwing presidents, who get zero credit for their success. Yeah, I just read a smidgen of a summary, it suggests that thatcher was fairly indifferent in regards to the economy, while also keeping suffering high due to things like unemployment, which apparently was high (during a period of high inflation, meaning most workers were making less all the time). I wish we'd all stop huffing chemicals and wake up to the fact that we seem to have a pre-programmed bias to be conservative, it's like becoming a liberal, or god forbid, a progressive, is a process of change and growth, this would obviously explain why conservatives want to tank the education system (and make university 'just for the elites'), as long as their is a heavy conservative leaning propaganda that is most mainstream media in the US the masses will just gravitate towards their doom.
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  211.  @timmarshall7292  Native American Reservations were historically just concentration camps, put in deliberately worthless land. That isn't socialism by any definition.
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  212. Looking back now, it's clear that Grimace is a larva of Thanos' species, sent to Earth to live in peace and plenty. I kinda think Brexit is going to put a new perspective on things
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  213. It's really, really dumb to barf in the tub? I know they're students, but can't they explain to people during the orientation 'puke outside on dirt/grass, or in a toilet, or if you're incredibly desperate the garbage, do NOT puke in a sink or bathtub!', they know they're going to drink stupidly because our society doesn't believe in educating people about how to manage alcohol use (until it's mostly too late). I did some old timey lumberjack workouts in our tiny forest, we had lots of dead white ash trees, so there was tons to do. Not many things are as badass as chopping down a huge hardwood with a sword that looks like it's from an anime!
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  214. Nothing like conservatives... "I am struggling to feed my family, so the only possible solution is to give even more money and power to corporations, and I'll KILL TO DO IT!" Way to do the opposite of what makes sense fascists, and way to lack the intelligence needed to question why it 'feels good' when the rich assholes shit on you.
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  215. I'm a fan of Disney, but it's a weird relationship, where they used to be very different but insist that the new them is here to stay. We'll see I guess, but as an adult I don't mind having a subscription to Disney+. Also, 100% culture has replaced religion, this is part of why the Soviets and similar govs met with such disaster (in part), they neglected entertainment/happiness of the people and just used brute force to try to maintain 'peace', which massively hinders productivity of workers, where the US has workers nicely brainwashed to slave away while essentially donating the overwhelming majority of the proceeds of their labour to their corporate overlords... Feudal peasants had a bad deal but our present deal is actually worse, and we willing participate it our economic subjugation.
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  216. Why stop at congress, when they can just ignore it? It needs to be seen by nearly everyone in the world, in their relevant language.
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  217. I generally consider myself a brave man, and I literally covered the screen when the sex doll was on screen. Just a big ol' NOPE! This is the creepiest stuff ever. I was going to dislike this vid until he promised to burn these in fire. Then I forgave him.
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  218. I'd be fine if zuck and musk put on a bunch of winter coats and had a 'baseball bat wrapped in pillows' fight, I look forward to neither of them having the upper body strength to make an effective attack! Seriously, it looked like musk hurt his back trying to carry that stupid sink, I can't imagine a hardball bat would be very wieldable. I guess that's an asset for the sword, it's much lighter/more balanced, even fancyboys like them could hold a sword and flail a bit.
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  219. Such a crazy guest to have on, I remember getting a ton of enjoyment out of Sapiens, it managed to present a variety of ideas in an interesting and absorbable manner.
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  220. You did leave out how hard the media works, both left and right, to normalize this massive rightward shift. Right wing nuttery is presented as the equivalent of the reasoned positions of experts.
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  221. I could see Mozart being brilliant enough to have foreseen drake, and that'd he'd turn out to be a ginormous (yet weirdly thin) tool, and written a dis track in preparation.
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  222. It's great how the right has found all the doughy momma's boys to explain to us how to be more manly! When you see how bad they are at this stuff a couple things click, 1) they target children with propaganda because they're way more vulnerable to it 2) they want to sabotage the education system to make adults more vulnerable to this lazy propaganda. Also, just saying, but if an utterly absurd charlatan like tucker carlson can preach to an actual base about how to be manly we're unironically in a lot of trouble, if THAT seems like a man you've met, seen, or even heard of an actual man. If we're in a world where young men see andrew taint and think 'man' we've got a lot of work to do, and if we don't do it the world will collapse into chaos. It'd be nice once in awhile to see a white supremacist that wasn't an absolute dumb-as-hammers goober, but anyone who's not quite that stupid realizes that you don't need to brag or loudly evangelize something this likely to bite you in the ass.
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  223. "Do it again, this time in stilts!"
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  224. "When Barr came out..." WHA? Oh, duh, not what I'm thinking. lol
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  225. I actually worked out a lot of this stuff on my own (not quite all of it, but I also had other thoughts not brought up) doing some independent research. You can figure out a fair bit from the raw data we already have on the Moon, as is pointed out, and if you have any background in engineering, manufacturing, chemistry, almost any applied field that produces things, and you can start to see 'how it could be done'. I wonder about using some of those existing oxides to make stone structures, which can be reinforced with local metals, all of which can be done by robots, which also did all of the mining, as well as the manufacture of the robots/machinery that builds the ever-larger structures. I figure you can also go fairly deep. As you've got an endless supply of reasonable stone precursors, you can make these walls fairly thick, which would also provide not insubstantial insulation (or at least a good barrier to then insulate, you also can make endless fiberglass or ceramic fiber to line the structure. Metal structures seem more of a problem, but could certainly be done. it's pretty cool stuff to think about either way, especially since it will be happening at some point. I guess everyone needs a hobby, right?
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  226. I would like to point out that the Soviet Union did not start out as an industrial power, it became one surprisingly quickly. Quality control/assurance was indeed non-existent, as it was literally better to ship a completely defective product than not ship it if you needed to meet quota for some reason. This quality issue eventually doomed the state I think, because it's demoralizing to your public to have to 'game' it's government, because they are being run by power-mad toddlers. The Soviets did fine until morale fell, then it was doomed. I honestly think a massively underlooked issue of the Soviet (and similar) economies is the lack of entertainment/discretionary spending. People require a certain amount of fun to be satisfied, and the Soviet citizens likely did not love their bad propaganda movies, and longed for the better American propaganda, and by watching that stuff the eventually came to the conclusion that communism was dumb and they needed to stop doing it. Communist governments are horrible at everything involving entertaining the public, something that does get quite out of hand in the free market.
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  227. It's great how the right has devolved into accusing biden of doing everything we're witnessing trump do. It's like scapegoating, only much, much dumber, it's like if you take the 'don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining' chestnut and threw in 'it's not me peeing on your leg, it's biden, he's just pretending to stand over there to look less suspicious!' and it turns out 20% of voters will reliably fall for it, because they just want to hate biden without rhyme or reason. When you've radicalized your base, you can make up anything and a significant number of them will believe it, and many more will be happy to pretend it's true if it furthers racism/sexism/societal oppression of sexual minorities. We're in the stupid era because the billionaires sabotaged our education system and used the illusion of choice in our media diet to brainwash us instead.
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  228. You do know that the people who are 'huge successes' on youtube aren't exactly organic... mrbeast serves an explicit purpose in a completely hopeless world (for the poor anyways), he offers us a comforting delusion, that 'if we work hard and play be the rules that poor people have to play by' we'll be rewarded by the rich philanthropists. The truth of course is that the rich don't share, that's why they ended up rich, our system is built on the premise that 'evil people are smarter', and so it actively selects for evil people. The same demographic that wouldn't buy a 1/3 lb hamburger because it was 'smaller than a 1/4 lb but costs more' gets off on nothing but witnessing humiliation and degradation, these people want to watch other people be debased symbolically, both to create the possibility (illusory as they are) of a 'better future' (for the 'winners') but also because it gives them someone to look down on. It's not a coincidence that our celebrity culture selects for toxic/messed up/damaged people, dumb people like to look down on people, and they aren't picky about who it is they look down on, they derive a special thrill from shitting on those they once worshipped. Our entire Western mono-culture exists for two reasons, to keep us from revolting as increasingly large percentages of new wealth are diverted from the general populace and into the coffers of the already wealthy, and to keep us working hard despite that shrinking share.
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  229. That wood looks like it was either chopped by a very good wood chopper (which would exclude peterson), or a machine splitter (which would also exclude peterson, despite his robotic personality afaik he's still human), I say this because you don't see a lot of failed chops. I have years of experience and consider myself pretty good at chopping wood (I tend to excel at tasks that have remarkably low utility, like Magic cards), and even I end up with some pieces where you can see a split that didn't quite do the job, and the next hit wasn't QUITE on top. When I sucked at it every piece would have tons of them, now you see relatively few, but not quite none in a pile that large. TBH one of the better drugs you can get in some places is the thrill of a nice chunk of wood flying apart under your brutal force, I'd say you should try it but it looks like you've got weenie noodle arms that would fall off if you swung an ax too hard (I kid of course, I sucked when I started).
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  230. I sometimes make a big omelet for a meal, I'm a fairly big guy so it's generally a 5 egg affair, and let me tell you, that feels like a lot of egg! When I was doing construction work I'd often bring 3 hard boiled eggs to eat (and a bunch of fruit/veggies), even that really fills you up decently. It's crazy because I couldn't stand eggs as a kid, so when I had access to deviled eggs I didn't eat them. FWIW eggs are pretty good for you unless you have terrible cholesterol, and even if you do it's rarely caused by diet.
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  231. The chaos the cia created in Central America (for profit) is why there is waves of desperate migrants trying to find some semblance of stability (because they've watched too much american TV and have bought into the propaganda themselves), of course those desperate people are extremely valuable to the capitalist overlords in the us when they manage to sneak in, as we've all heard many times. I've pointed it out many times, the US military has accomplished almost none of it's goals when it's working outside a board coalition (and sometimes when in one it still cannot achieve them), while the cia costs a fraction of the money and is very good at creating enough chaos to overthrow governments. It's like when you play Civ 1 on Emperor, you can't win by force other than at the very start, it very quickly is better to use trade and espionage to buy your way to power with a 'democratic' government (it's a fascist state with a puppet democracy obviously) to make enough money to pay for it all. You keep the people entertained and firmly under control and they pay taxes one way or another. The biggest use for your army is holding back Barbarians, because those guys are BRUTAL.
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  232. Bob-tailed cats are amazing, is Sam's cat a natural, or was it just unlucky? I'm trying to make a pretty big batch of fruit wine, and I'm probably going to try to make some wine jelly out of a bit, not everyone wants the alcohol! I have found edibles to be a really reasonable solution, they're great when you've been working really hard. I use pre-made ones for situations when I want a very manageable high, but I make my own when I want more oomph. My one grandpa started having the odd edible as he got older, he even gave some to his wife without her knowing, probably not too much I guess? Interestingly enough it seemed to have a positive effect on her mental state, even if she didn't notice. I've always loved how great a night's sleep you can have on an edible, CBN in particular makes you sleepy.
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  233. It's worth keeping in mind that even an asteroid that's mostly iron could be quite valuable in practice, since it's technically off earth already, and if you can build something off earth with it, it's value is quite high. If you are bringing everything back to Earth, that's when lots of them aren't worth bothering with, but getting any iron off earth is shockingly expensive, so a ready supply off earth could enable relatively massive space structures or a significant moon base at surprisingly low cost. I feel like the start up would be staggeringly expensive (and take many, many years to bear fruit), but the long term pay out would be beyond our present day understanding of monetary value.
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  234. I feel like an important facet of this disastrous invasion attempt was massacring your military leadership less than a decade before it, stalin was pretty paranoid by this point (his brain was literally turning to a sponge while he lived, it's how he died apparently) and did so to ensure the military's loyalty. Having nobody with actual experience left resulted in a LOT of defeats in those days for the soviets, but it is worth remembering that the Fins did have to actually win the damn thing, the soviets could (if they felt it was worth it) throw more soldiers than there were Fins, so no shade meant to the Finnish accomplishment!
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  235. I found it hilarious how the network hacked apart that trump clip to make it look like he didn't come incredibly close to faceplanting, and then claims he 'jumped into a garbage truck' when he nearly died in front of us, on camera.
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  236. Is Candy Jesus the guy who can turn water into Kool-Aid, he just needs a little packet to do it? He's pretty popular.
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  237. How did this 100% tax fear ever make sense to anyone?? In india the lower casts got to clean up poop by hand, let me assure you that's WELL BELOW 100% tax rate. The real question is why does conservative propaganda 'hit harder' than progressive? I know as a kid all the progressive propaganda was awful preachy BS, maybe that's still the issue? You could perhaps double the wages of most bottom wage Americans and the system wouldn't actually collapse (the % that's going up to the ultra wealthy is obscene), but the weird inflation would result in the reduction in wealth held by the already wealthy, so it'll never happen. Capitalism works because the system has been set up to exploit the worker class, and once you have it in place all of the establishment types immediately act like you're aborting their first born if you want to tax them or change the system, let alone help the poor!
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  238. Disturbingly prescient?
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  239. I feel like most geo-engineering ideas are insanely stupid, especially with our deeply imperfect knowledge base. Reducing the sunlight hitting earth is a pretty huge deal to plants for example, so mass starvation due to yields going down as population continues to rise are the likely outcome of fiddling with that, I really hope we're smarter than this and can just cut back on emissions like a sane species. Trying to find a 'magical solution' rather than adjust our lifestyle is more human though, and might explain why you don't see lots of evidence of life out in space.
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  240. This van would smell like absolute death IMHO, all day bear carcass that's been hit by a car sounds like a bad recipe, especially if it wasn't a cold winter day. Also, like van like driver, he also would smell like bird crap, bear guts, and serious BO, this seemed like how you'd present yourself to a fancy restaurant??
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  241. I have to say, jack johnson is pretty close to a porn name as is? maybe throw an 'n' in the middle and you've got a winner? Also, parents and kids should both be able to pretend the other almost never has any kind of sexual experience. Also also mike johnson is 100% a closeted pervert (not the good kind!) and it's going to be both horrifying to gratifying to find out just what his weird 'thing' is (their are much, much worse kinks than a 'P in V' porn addiction, stop demonizing porn for the wrong reasons conservatives, the problem with porn is that it's misogynistic and unrealistic, not that people are getting off), hopefully it will involve only adults (who are alive and aren't locked in mike johnson's basement dungeon).
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  242. For the record, anyone who's had both experiences would 1000% prefer to be embarrassed in front of their friends vs their enemies, friends at least are on your side and don't want to hurt you for it's own sake. My Mum took pictures of me running around naked as a 2 year old, mildly awkward when you're 8, but when you're 40 it's probably not only not embarrassing anymore, you're glad they let you have that kind of freedom. It's insane that the legal system can understand that child porn is bad, yet when confronted with AI child porn (which is basically collages of actual child porn, and the AI art generators people like are often fed stuff like that, hence the weirdness of the output) it loses it's collective shit and does nothing... the same genius' that couldn't figure out that a service you contact by phone could in fact be a taxi service and have to follow relevant laws... Nope, the system does what will help the rich, without fail. Your phone almost certainly has a microphone on it, and it uses this to listen in on conversations you have, so even if you don't search for pregnancy stuff, this is why it's really, really hard to disable that microphone on most machines (if you even can).
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  243. Just a thought, maybe that knob at the bottom with the weird recurve bit is actually so you can hold the gun by the knob and then fire it with your index finger with that recurve bit as the trigger? It'd be good for shooting around a corner I guess, which seems bad? Might explain why people don't bother, but it's worth noting someone could also carry a mirror and use it to site their gun? It'd be risky for the mirror, but that'd be a risk a soldier would take I'd wager?
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  244. I'm 6 minutes in, I'm pretty sure the private equity guys are the tapeworms of capitalism? Why is this kind of thing tolerated? It's literally nothing but the enshitification of the world, an example of a small group of people profiting from making life shittier for almost everyone.
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  245. Uh, there does need to be some kind of consequence for anti-social behavior in a society I think, though I think it is kinda clear that there are some really dumb applications of social censorship, which is not remotely a new thing. Canceling people isn't new, and it isn't inherently bad. I like a lot of those people, but I'm not sure if it they are in the right entirely. A bit different but related, say a person at a dinner party starts to argue in favor of things like racism (or that racism doesn't exist, which is supportive of all existing forms of racism note), it is important that people address it, and it should kinda be the same way online. Perhaps it might be less hostile and more instructive, but many are given opportunities to learn and admit their position was objectively wrong, refuse to do so, and are shocked when people 'cancel' them. Nobody is obliged to buy beans from an asshole in a fucking capitalist society, you are free to pay extra even to buy beans from a nicer person. In cases when it isn't about objective incorrectness, I feel a bit differently, but a business trying to drum up business pretty unethically and actively supporting a president that is openly racist and classist? Yeah, I think you are gonna get your company canceled, and you pretty much deserve it. This isn't a new thing, yet I think it is a better application than the old 'social stigma' system that made life hell for single mothers and others that 'fail to meet society's expectations'.
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  246. I'd be shocked if belarus joined this war, the morale for those troops would be painfully low, even russian troops would rather do anything else, I feel like we're not far from mass surrenders if they keep sending troops in without guns, training or supplies, they'll just surrender because Ukraine isn't run by psychopathic monsters that will torture them for the heck of it. I feel like there might be a difference between 'offensive vs defensive' weapons in this war, but if russia is going to freely target civilians, we have to let the Ukrainians defend themselves better, and part of that defense is probably longer range strikes to russia to further cripple it's war effort. We're at the point where the US is going to have to make clear to russia that use of nukes will result in a military disaster for russia, there would be no impunity for putin, especially with huge swathes of the nukes being outdated if not completely defective, the biggest hassle would be knowing which nukes you need to address from their arsenal, with most likely not working. The putin regime hasn't actually been funding the military in the lead up to this, that's how incompetent the russians are in this conflict, they went into a war of aggression hopelessly unprepared and are being trounced, with the only remaining tools at their disposal when this troop surge does nothing is the nukes that will result in putin being removed from office by force. It's such a shit show, and I can't really see it getting better, you can't really negotiate with a lunatic that murders Ukrainian families to try to boost his bitterly unhappy troops' morale, things are really dark for the russians, they were bad when they were winning, they're horrible now that they're in retreat. I wonder if russia would have dared invade a Ukraine that still had it's nuclear arsenal, I bet Ukraine got some great concessions when they gave those up! Whats that, just some BS? Wow, bad deal! It was like they found the one person who was actually more incompetent and out of touch than old boris in liz, it is glorious watching the party that chose her because of her big tax cut plans now desperately arguing that these are terrible ideas, it's like a train wreck in slow motion full of people I won't really miss, these ghouls thought it was a good time to cut taxes on the rich when the government was badly strapped for cash, taking even less of the money from people who don't actually notice taxes in terms of lifestyle. It's just astounding the levels of hypocrisy coming out of these conservatives. As to risking offending the saudis, wake up, they did 9/11, why are you worried about offending your enemy? They literally sided with russia in this conflict, when russia not only invaded a peaceful neighbor, it has committed atrocities while doing it... I suppose the saudis are fine with both of those things, they have no qualms about intervening in their neighbor's business. Also, that moron needs to read some history books, the map of the middle east was pretty much made by Europeans for their own convenience, they put who they wanted in power wherever it was convenient. Much as I hate to say it, trump was a jackass but he didn't launch two unprovoked invasions of countries that are thousands of miles away (and filled with a very hostile populace), those were blunders that were arguably even worse than anything trump did (either of those is worse than anything he did arguably). The kicker is that bush probably pushed the button on those invasions because of his advisors, in contrast with trump who didn't invade anywhere because people were able to confuse/distract/lie to him until he forgot what he was talking/thinking about, trump would have been much worse but for his advisors (who were also very bad, just not as bad/stupid as trump). I do remember posting on a shithole online forum, arguing with a right winger and she brought up shells of mustard gas as proof that Iraq did in fact have WMDs. Even then they were not arguing in good faith.
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  247. If the republicans win big in the next couple elections, it will go very badly for Taiwan I expect, China is merely looking for a US that will lead the way in turning the other cheek when someone else is punched, a very noble act obviously, and a profitable one for those leading the turning. Note how eager the republicans are to be milquetoast about fighting russia, if not actively supporting it, it's super weird to see Americans actively supporting russia invading an Eastern European pseudo ally of the US. The trump admin made clear that the republicans did not consider Ukraine a 'worthy' country, and were eager to throw them under the russian bus, which again feels deeply weird when you remember that most of these republicans also publicly hate communism/the soviet union, yet love putin, who longs to restore the ussr. This is what happens when you let fascists take control of a political party!
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  248. Rest in Power
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  249. ...I also have a broken thermometer that signals that it's time for this song by settling on 200 F. It's a finicky thing otherwise actually, quite uncanny.
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  250. Nothing like old creeps being anti-IVF and being really pro-viagra (they always are). If I was a pharmacist I wouldn't fill out the prescriptions of republican politicians, especially for viagra, it's against my religion for those assholes to get off.
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  251. FOR THE SLITHERING ONE
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  252. I've never formally studied epidemics, but the Great Barrington thing sounds a lot like 'we're okay with quite possibly millions of other people, probably not us personally dying if it means we'll keep living as normal'. I have long heard about medical professionals having notoriously poor statistics backgrounds, but this seems like an example of that in practice, because I have studied some stats, and attaining herd immunity via normal infection (which doesn't prevent reinfection in all cases) would cost a not insignificant portion of the population their lives, and trading other people's lives for money seems really, really ghoulish.
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  253. The core nugget keeping peace from coming to pass between the Palestinians and israel is that israel has the upper hand and only makes efforts to gain impunity, and to achieve 'peace' through that impunity (which means giving up nothing, that the Palestinians capitulate further). The israelis listen to the right wing too much, and the only peace a right winger can understand is a terrorized opposition or a dead one, and that doesn't actually work as a strategy in the real world, so it keeps failing. The israelis keep having these 'freak-out' moments when the Palestinians inform them they don't have complete impunity, and can still lose citizens (that said, this conflict is so asymmetrical that wildly more Palestinians will be dying). Their are elements of 2 children who are fighting and each wants to get the last hit in, but one of the kids is 17 and 6 ft tall, and the other is a 4'6 12 year old, it's not a fair fight, and the near-adult party that you'd expect would know better than to keep going just keeps going full steam. This new mess has huge 'Oh no, now we have to step up the oppression of the Palestinians!' energy, and it honestly makes me extremely suspicious of who exactly was getting anything out of this? It seems to be impossible for israel to have missed this entire operation (seems is a strong word, I'd say it is impossible period), but it does seem really interesting that this happens when the deeply corrupt leader of israel is dealing with bad press/an angry populace, not unlike how bush Jr was only a 2 term president because of 9/11 (he'd have been laughed out of office after one term without the two stupid wars he started to keep power) I suspect this wasn't entirely a surprise to bibi, just like 9/11 wasn't entirely a surprise to the bush admin, and I suspect both were quite willing to let them happen (if they didn't actively contribute) because they would be politically radioactive for the left paradoxically (when you create chaos, it helps right wing parties, meaning right wing parties have immense incentives to cause chaos). Too many brackets, and too many conspiracy theories, but this attack has incredibly bad juju and I worry that 10-20 years later the other shoe will drop. Still, I think the person who had the biggest smile after this attack was bibi himself, he now has carte blanche to react as he sees fit. I have to say it's a weird angle to say that israel has no responsibility for this, self defense is a thing, if you hit me I have a right to swing back with even more force (assuming I am able), within reason. I think an adult should be able to say that what hamas did was awful, but what israel has been doing for decades was much, much worse. This is very much a 'kick a hornet's nest, get stung' territory at a certain point, they've been inhumanely brutal towards the Palestinians and the US has done everything it can to enable them. Can somebody give biden a history book about the American Revolution??? You guys were terrorists overthrowing a legitimate government by the standards of the time, you don't get to say 'we weren't terrorists because we won'. Terrorism is bad, but saying it's never okay is pro-establishment horseshit, and it's staggering hypocrisy from a country that funded countless terrorists through the world to overthrow democracies and anything resembling socialism to have it's president say shit like this. Stuff like this is why I argue the US is, in truth, a fascist state that relies on an staggeringly thorough propaganda network that enables the US to commit atrocities as it sees fit, both on it's own citizens (see the police brutality when people tried to argue that Black Lives Matter, apparently the police vociferously disagreed). I'm really glad you brought up that 1000:1 ratio for a prisoner exchange, the israeli right doesn't really recognize the right of Palestinians to exist, as such they would embrace such an opportunity to insult the Palestinians by publicly showing that hundreds of them aren't worth 1 israeli. This same philosophy plays into the extreme reactions from israeli, as any israeli hurt, killed or even inconvenienced deserves to have Palestinian blood drawn on their behalf, so a response is always needed, and it's always bloody. This is also why they seek out some sort of magical impunity (be it the dome, or a so thoroughly oppressed Palestinian state that it won't keep fighting, or something else), the right promises it over and over because it appeals to the dull among the populace who don't understand how reality works, but those promises only have appeal if the bogeyman can still qualify as a danger.
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  254. I think it'd be pretty cool if you had Nathan Lane on Day Drinking, just make sure he doesn't hit it too hard! Also, maybe later have Nathan Lane and Dua Lipa on together? I think everyone would enjoy that.
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  255. As soon as the BS started coming out for this incident, it became clear that some serious covering up was going on. I've heard this town also spent ~1/2 of it's budget on it's useless police force, which didn't even do the dirty work themselves. It's a shocking contrast from police having no hesitation to shred the body of a black man who was unarmed with a hail of bullets. Hopefully the police start to face consequences for incompetence at some point.
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  256. Biological intelligence has some pretty key limitations, and most importantly that is that it can't learn things quickly, meaning it can't react to different situations; plants are perfectly adapted to biological intelligence, you can put them in a tunnel, and they'll stretch towards the light. Humans have biological intelligence, they also have cultural intelligence, and they have educational intelligence. Smarter people can achieve educational intelligence both quicker and more easily. Cultural intelligence lets us care about things like 'how people see us', which is a form of empathy. Looking good in a swimsuit, or more specifically working towards it is an example of intelligence, which means you override your biological intelligence to use your cultural intelligence to inform your eating choices, aiming to slim down contrary to our biological imperative to improve your social situation via getting bulkier. All of this is mind bogglingly infantile to someone with very much educational intelligence, the kind of intelligence that engineers use to solve problems, and philosophers use to reach conclusions, educational intelligence is essentially the next step beyond cultural intelligence, the way cultural intelligence was the step beyond biological intelligence.
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  257. As a kid that was fairly fat I'm glad I was able to improve my relationship with food/activity, but it's an uphill battle. The thing that made the biggest difference (after losing almost all of my fat, I have incredibly wide hips but at my skinniest I fit in 32/36 501s, I was about 6'4 and 170lb, down from 350) has been building muscle mass. In my case I have a lot of 'space' on my frame, so even though I'm pretty close to 300lb I still wear 42/34 pants (and at the actual waist). Also, actual male sex symbols vary, but the most 'popular' archetype varies as women age I suspect, when they're younger they prefer skinny guys (and tall is a bigger asset), as women age that matters less and muscle mass is preferred, but not beyond 'well built', bulky muscles are usually seen as unattractive. The irony of course is that on the whole women care a lot less about looks than men, yet we have thousands of neurotic men who don't want to ask girls out that are angry they're still virgins. It's also a huge issue that patriarchy is very specific to both men and women about what is 'acceptable' to desire, and plenty of women (just like men) don't think for themselves, those women will prefer older men who have money, because that's what patriarchy (which is first and foremost about assigning the wealth of society, make no mistake) has gas-lit them to believe is 'attractive'. It's like how everyone had to pretend 'heroin chic' was even remotely attractive, because it meant we could have lazy people that were 'top tier' models, despite having little talent and no work ethic, it wasn't about having a healthy body and keeping it in tip top shape, it was about not eating because you do so many speedballs your bowels stop working. I've always felt that Tupac wasn't really a 'believer' in the thug life, he just knew it was an unfortunate necessity if he was going to make it big, being a badass meant millions would hear his rhymes and he could maybe change stuff. Very good point, why would anyone take dating advice from a bunch of unmarried men who give 'stuck in the closet' vibes, if you want advice ask someone who you actually admire AND has a healthy marriage as proof of concept. I couldn't believe how much effort was put in to trying to convince me to date, it's hard to explain to people that you don't really like dating as a concept, even if you're interested in getting married someday; dating isn't universal, and our culture trying to normalize it as the only way for people to be is deeply problematic. Its pretty hilarious what incels think is a hot man, I'm not into men but even I know that most women don't want a man that's even vaguely like that. The majority of women don't like bulky muscles, and way fewer women like extreme leanness (...if you're trying to date 15 year olds it'd help to be 'jacked', but much less so for adults), most find it repellent (also, people who are overly skinny often look way older, having some fat on your face is a sign of youth/virility). If you want to be more desirable, work on your personality way more than anything else, you know what MOST women find hot? A man that can make them laugh on command, way more women will hook up with a guy who makes them laugh (and thus makes them feel very comfortable) than a brooding mini-hulk. Oh, and smile more, frowny faces aren't attractive. If a woman can't have a good conversation with you the odds of her wanting to actually hook up with you are extremely low, so learn to talk to people until conversation feels intuitive. It's amazing how many guys think their habits (such as too much gaming) aren't part of the problem, if you don't have a few hobbies you can talk to people about that aren't into gaming you're more or less writing off everyone who isn't obsessed with gaming (and way fewer girls are obsessed with gaming, in part because of the incredibly toxic culture) from your life, also gaming is neither productive nor healthy as a rule, it's a thing to limit because they're very addictive to socially isolated people. Patriarchy commodified sex because it's a really powerful stick to hold over the head of people who might be refractory, 'play by our rules or nobody will marry you' is scary for many people, especially when victory is far from certain if you try to stand up for yourself. I still despise touch screens, mice are infinitely better, and a track ball has most of the utility of a mouse without needing a surface. They are convenient for a mobile perhaps, but you can't 'do' much with them IMHO. If you actually know how to type using a touch screen is like playing a piano with your nose. Touch screens are progress in the same way GUI was progress for personal computers... all it did was slow down the best to speed up the worst among us, DOS was a more efficient engine, throwing Windows on top of it actually slowed down PCs, so you couldn't run the same programs. Oh, and DOS programs were WAY more stable, because the whole thing wasn't held together with bubblegum and scotch tape. I need to start a petition to forcibly change his name to andrew taint (and you can't capitalize it). Also, is he related to trump, or is just the facts that when you're a big enough a-hole your chin just fucks off forever? I'm just asking questions. Also, there is no chance his career was remotely real, he can't take a kick to the face with a chin that dainty, let alone a hard one, let alone enough to have had a career as a kickboxer, he's a plant. For the record FD, it's actually very possible to bulk up in your 50s if your healthy, perhaps not to the degree the of the Rock, but I'm WAY more muscular now (at 40) than I was in my 20s and 30s, and I build muscle more easily, and I'm not even of Polynesian heritage (I think The Rock is?). From observing my father it seems you don't really start to decline until you're surprisingly old, provided you keep active enough and eat reasonably. Most people stop exercising and quickly start to decay as they age, but you don't necessarily have to.
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  258. The fancy autocorrect that is 'Generative AI' isn't anywhere near general AI, and marketing as such was a blatant scam, it's something that's confusing enough that gullible rich people will hand over buckets of money, and since it's so 'complicated' you don't have to follow through. Tech is so vulnerable to this because so many of the people doing investing only have a 'business' education, so most of them don't have any idea how anything in the world works, and as such they're incredibly easy to scam, and that's why tech scams keep on coming. I stopped using facebook when it started using it's algo more, I absolutely hated 'the feed', but since it makes zucky more bucks it was almost unavoidable. Also, it was very eager to shunt me off to a corner, at least Instagram has bots that like my stuff now and then. That said I wanted to throw my tablet when it started suggesting I DM people. I don't want to DM people on your platform my guys, I was well aware the 'feature' exists, and I'm well aware that 99% of the DMs I've gotten on your platform have been VERY OBVIOUS scams. I'm pretty sure instagram is going to crash in not too long (they keep pushing video content on a platform that is a worse video platform than Youtube was WHEN IT CAME OUT. It's like zucky hates making money or something, but the system keeps trying to give him more of it out of spite). VR is terrible tech, and the funny part was that people gave up on the Virtual Boy because it made people nauseous, nobody solves the actual problem yet they released the bad tech again. The metaverse was an absolute boondoggle, I can't believe how bad an idea it was, yet the implementation was actually even worse than the core idea. The whole thing looked like it ran on an OG Playstation, I will die a happier man knowing how epically that plan belly-flopped for this soulless robot. My guy, the right wing wasn't 'taking over' facebook, everyone who has power at the company was always right wing. The algo wasn't feeding people what they wanted, the truth was that it fed you *what the billionaires wanted you to see*, and it made the people that were convenient to the rich famous. Nothing about Web 2.0 was organic, I wish people would beat that zombie idea into the ground. The critical flaw for generative AI is that it's not creative on any level, all it ever does is guess what comes next based on what a plurality of the internet would do... you know, the internet, where everyone is smart and nobody ever lies! It's trash tech that only passes the smell test if you're not an expert in whatever topic is at issue. It's incredible that in 2024 people are still living out the 'Wait, PEOPLE LIE ON THE INTERNET?!" meme, and many of them are billionaires. It'd be adorable if these people hadn't been given the power of life and death over the world. All of the generative stuff I've read is actively trying to present itself as something it's not, and that's because it's been told to. AI, like most examples of 'progress' over the last few hundred years has had only one purpose, to further stratify society. We didn't automate factories to help workers, we did it so the owners of the factory would get more of the profits. AI is going to be used for the same reason, it's promise is to disempower artists, such that if they can still work their professional standing will be much lower, and you won't have to pay them much/treat them with respect. Never forget that the people a suit hates most is the creatives he has to pay, he can replace anyone else in the company very easily (and it's not a secret that most CEOs suck at their jobs), but the artists at it can be irreplaceable. it's as much about the suits wanting to have power over artists as it is about money, but we're very much at the point where money = power. When aliens find our dead planet I wonder what they'll make of our obsessive greed? We're desperate for proper satire to help mirror our madness for us, it's astounding that the same species that can be responsible for tech wonders also thought that throwing garbage in the ocean made it go away forever (and if an area didn't have a water source to pollute, humans bury their garbage so it'll pollute ground water, or burn it so it'll spread contaminants). Our society is designed to reward evil among the privileged class, and entry into that class is earned through evil acts, if you doubt this think carefully about what it means to have a huge swath of the country be against consequences for famous people, regardless of what they do. Now when you say 'I don't want to financially support rapists' people come out of the woodworks, hoping to badger you into giving your precious money to abusers, this is what happens when the capitalists get too rich, they start trying to set up fascism with all their money, turning that wealth directly into power.
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  259. I still have a good sized pile of CDs, I used to buy used ones when I was in high school, so I bought a ton (though nothing compared to my siblings who both did undergrad in music, one in performance, good lord they bought a lot of CDs (one also collects records now, so that's even more music). I think I bought ~150 music CDs, but I didn't really download very much, I always felt weird about it. I've since paid to download stuff that I can't readily get an album for, but I've had to buy the odd album on CD in the last few years... I just had to have the Cowboy Bebop Movie Soundtrack, so that meant I needed to order a CD from Japan. Not cheap, but worth the hassles.
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  260. It's only a matter of time before they bring back the old system, where the local lord just arranged marriages if people weren't doing it on their own in a reasonable time frame.
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  261. I think it's 100% going to be a huge shock when you actually have a kid, it's not the same thing as babysitting or being an aunt/uncle. People talk about how much of an issue it can be to not have much support from the father, but one real factor is the child themselves; some kids are very easy to raise and have turn out well, others are very hard to raise and seem almost destined to frustrate and disappoint. This is one reason why people love babies so much, all of that potential with so little disappointment so far. I hope this woman can get to the point where she starts to love her kid truly, because once that sets in they aren't a chore to take care of, it's a pleasure to nurture them. It's a huge burden to have to take care of people you resent, like doing a job you hate makes that job more demanding than it would be if you could enjoy it. I love cooking for my family, but if I had to cook for people I hate I don't think I'd enjoy it as much. Also, maybe it's just a figure of speech or something, but what does 'go to dinner' mean?? Does she not prepare food? I mean, I'm a man but I've been cooking food since I was a small child (my dad is a first generation (white) immigrant). Maybe I'm reading into her, but it sounds like she eats out a TON and is still feeling overburdened? Now I made myself feel petty for being so judgmental, but I think this woman is INCREDIBLY lucky she's as wealthy as she is, because I don't think she'd handle poverty especially well.
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  262. Don't Google it!
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  263. It actually does, because people with fairly high levels are super-confident and very hard to make insecure, whereas men with low levels are incredibly touchy/insecure, and feel a desperate need to be stereotypically hyper-chauvinistic/macho to deflect attention away from their obvious failings as a man.
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  264. Yeah, just saying, poly stuff needs to go the hell away? Any man who wants multiple wives is a gormless idiot by definition. One is plenty, and our planet literally has a shortage of women due to it's intense misogyny. Why are the creepiest conservative fantasies getting so much play in the media??? Looking forward to the inevitable special on how they're all really into incest, yikes, why can't cons get off without someone being victimized?
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  265. I don't take vacations anymore unless it's something incredibly important, I have a greenhouse and while it's not as time sensitive as most livestock, plants need attention on the regular. The last 2 vacations I took were a big chunk apart, and both were to babysit my nieces. Technically that's exactly the kind of vacation I actually need, forcing me to take an extended break from my bad habits AND force me to deal with other people, two things I hate doing but always need to do more of. Hilarious guest!
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  266. I appreciate that youtube didn't even spell 'laughin' wrong, like trump carefully spelled out for us. Such a stable genius thing to do! Technically unless you've been with Hairball (vance) his entire life you can't technically say with certainty that he didn't have sectional relations with one or more couches. I remember predicting that trump's political career would end with him flinging his own feces at a crowd of his supporters while ranting incoherently... I now wish I could have gotten odds for that, because that's looking like a better bet all the time! It's incredible to watch the media DESPERATELY try to spin this all to protect trump, I know they are employees and have no input as to what they say/write etc anymore (they just do what their billionaire bosses tell them), but is it too much to ask that they just report honestly on both sides?? By almost any metric trump's debate performance was much worse than Biden's, but he was on enough stims that he seemed more awake, yet the media couldn't shut up about Biden's performance when the other guy lied the entire time, and wasn't especially coherent while lying. Who cares if Biden had a hoarse throat, trump gave non-answer after non-answer and the media just presents it's underbelly.
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  267. DISCLAIMER: very long and written while more irate than is necessary, I actually thought it was an interesting guest and topic, I just have a visceral hatred of how most people handle this topic and it takes time for me to get past that reflex. Anyways, keep that in mind if you keep reading! While I feel like it's not really a thing, I also think experientially that it's a thing. I don't relate to 20 year olds because I'm ~twice their age, not because of 'generational differences' I'd argue, yet part of why I'm different is that I was raised in a different environment. I'd still say that there isn't 'cohorts' of people like society likes to describe, it was just something that sounded clever (and seemed obviously true because it appealed to 'kids these days are weird/useless' tropes). Your socio-economic background will likely have more to do with your beliefs/behaviors than 'your generation', but it's worth noting that those annoying celebs that make a big effort to mug at 'being normal', stuff like 'liking hotdogs', it's all to build false connection with a bunch of people they despise, not because of any real generational similarities, they're exploiting dumb people's monkey brain. Grouping people is usually stupid when you apply those 'group' characteristics to any individual, it's like how BMI is a useable tool (if not perfect or especially good by itself) when studying large populations but becomes completely useless when looking at individual cases. Normal people have almost no need for generalizations (it's a thing people dealing with large populations need to track), yet every moron thinks their generalizations are especially brilliant and truthful, generalizations are infamous for seemingly offering you a useful tool while actually offering you nothing but pathological preconceptions because you won't judge individual cases based on their merits. ...Yeah, mental health was way better in the past, when lynching was just another form of the judicial system, there couldn't be any way we could look at the historical record and see people engaged in openly insane stuff (and society was fine with it), clearly it was because they were more sane and well adjusted than us! Those witch burnings? Because of excess sanity, if we were more sane, we'd also be burning witches! Seriously, you have NO IDEA how underreported mental health problems were, and how socially acceptable it was to 'treat' your own mental health problems by traumatizing other people (it's fucked up, but it actually does make you feel better to ruin someone else's life for most humans, our default is to be selfish sadists, look at children), and that ignores that until very recently we didn't have any ways to treat mental health that were better than rest at home, specialists were usually dangerously wrong. The Left loves to yammer about how 'hurt people hurt people' without making the connection that people used to hurt others a lot more, and there is no way that didn't create countless complex (and crippling) traumas. Society values people who traumatize others in certain ways, it's mostly about who they target. It's not a coincidence that CEOs are selected for being amoral and free of empathy (aka psychopathic narcissists), the patriarchy likes certain types of the mentally ill a great deal because they are very, very useful, the other useful type is the 'big dumb jock' archetype, dumb but athletic men were easily corrupted by 'the system', and those big idiots then prop up the establishment that gives them tiny privileges they can lord over 'the lessers' (who they are intensely jealous of because they are smarter and otherwise much happier than the idiots). The big idiot trope isn't new, and that's because that's exactly how patriarchy took over generally, men who had wealth of some kind bought the services (as men they knew the dreams of stupid men, and could easily win them over) of naïve but strong men who felt great loyalty to the system that has given them more than their neighbor, and together the wealthy/influential and the strong oppressed everyone else. Our whole system was founded on making sure that big strong stupid people have lots of sex, and that they be indoctrinated to support the establishment with violence, and it hasn't really changed other than superficially. The establishment mostly laughs at us lefties, we're not organized (or even organizing in any appreciable way) while the right has literally trillions of dollars at their disposal, meaning they can bribe any judge, doctor, politician, etc. The war is long over, we've been in the clean-up stages since modern capitalism came about a few hundred years ago, the 'big strong idiot' trope has been expanded to include 'idiot with a gun', because they don't actually need to be strong, just dumb and loyal to the patriarchy. There might be more lefties, and we might be the smart people, but the evil people don't really care about mass starvation/technological collapse due to the mass-killing of the intelligentsia, that's the end game of the death cult that is the fascist right, killing off everyone smarter than them, and bribing those they need to sustain their lucrative oppression. Anyways, if it sounds like I'm saying people aren't suffering lots of mental health issues now, my point is that we've always had tons of 'crazies' in our societies, the ways we handled them has varied, and part of why we at present find 'more issues' is a mix of higher stress levels compared to post WW2 Western World standards and technology exacerbating our tendency to avoid social interaction. Also, we talk about how stressful modern life is, but boy are people in for a surprise if we have a big climate related famine, if you think having a shitty job sucks, not being able to afford food is a lot more stressful. Very few people have 'life and death' moments in their daily life, people used to have them often enough to get jaded, powerful nobles could die because their horse sits on them and they drown in mud, anyone could die of septic shock from a nasty splinter, life was VERY stressful in the past. Video games were fine when I was a kid, but they aren't really fun anymore, in part because people hack my games and in part because I just don't enjoy computer games inherently, I can make actual stuff, I can grow actual plants, why would I play minecraft unless I think reality is stupid? I get it that I have 'rural privilege', but people are way too eager to spend time in front of a screen when they could spend time actually doing stuff. I'd rather smell a beautiful smelling flower than spend time playing games that appeal to only 2 senses in a meaningful manner. Also, other than Nintendo I think gaming has been stultifying in sameness for decades, the West hasn't made an actual new game since the Xbox was new (I could be wrong here, I don't play as noted, but I haven't heard of much outside Indie games). Honestly, it probably helps that I've just done too much work now and can't play any games dependent on speed or coordination (I work with my hands mostly), so if all you could really play is strategy games you'd also get tired of them eventually. I mostly play skill based stuff that has tons of room for personal expression (in Civilization 1 I could name my cities and stuff and that was about it, but in Magic the Gathering's EDH format I can build my own 100 card singleton deck from 10s of thousands of cards and express my own unique feelings/experiences in a meaningful, collaborative manner), the higher the difficulty the better. I learned stuff from some of the games I played, but it's dangerous that they give you a feeling of accomplishment for doing literally nothing. I don't think any honest medical expert would support people recreationally using video games more than an hour a day, if not even less tbh, people shouldn't be binging for hours, you're just setting yourself up to fail. Americans pretend to value individualism, but their society historically had absolutely zero tolerance for any thinking other than what the establishment supported, remember those communism kangaroo courts you guys had? Remember when various weirdly far right positions are held up despite having zero legal basis, and how this stuff happens over and over? When are Americans going to realize that almost all of the things it's propaganda says about itself is said not because it's true, but because it gives it's establishment carte blanche to do whatever they want, here and overseas. You're not the good guys, and you very much never were, your country wasn't founded on freedom, it was founded on having slaves and not paying taxes, two of the most right wing ideas the world has ever known, other than 'if you don't do ______, then I'll do [something horrible] to you until you do.' Right wing societies do not like individualism, they actively try to stomp it out.
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  268. I know it's way too white and nerdy, but the Spaghetti-Os supporting Pearl Harbor absolutely screams Spaghetti-Zeros for the gag, am I taking crazy pills here?
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  269. If they deregulate a food product, it's usually so companies can considerably slash costs by using much cheaper (and almost always much worse) ingredients. It's like environmental regulations that way, and it's the same people who dislike both, and for the same reason, they cost them money.
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  270. Good news! It's just a convoy of loaded gravel trucks!
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  271. This is kinda like murder? Is this some kind of eugenics project to kill off people who don't believe in science?
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  272. Nothing quite like a Psychology prof claiming someone else's work has issues. Also, peterson debating (almost everything) is beyond his qualifications, why would any expert debate any issue with a dimwitted demagogue? Edit: Sure enough, peterson did nothing but quote back American mainstream 'thought' (propaganda), none of his statements are academically defensible, it's utter rubbish.
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  273. Re: ordering Panda Express, I don't eat out (or order in), but I also have zero responsibilities by the standards of most adults my age, so I have time to put effort into cooking numerous meals. My bugbear has become asking why isn't there any stammpot places? It's a hassle to make at home (like really good poutine, another food that can scratch similar itches, but this is MUCH better for you as it's got veggies), but you could very easily make huge batches of it; it's fried up meat, onions, maybe garlic, maybe some carrots, maybe some celeriac if you're really lucky, a huge amount of cabbage or kale (or both mixed), and various herbs if you're incredibly lucky, and after all of that is fried to perfection (I first fry the meat, then add onions/garlic/celery once the meat is starting to brown, most other ingredients can be added, but you add so much cabbage/kale that I usually add them last, but keep in mind cabbage cooks MUCH slower than kale, so cook the cabbage and add the kale), the final step is you add mashed potatoes to the pan (which should be turned WAY down at this point, so the potatoes don't stick), plenty of them, and mix it all up. It's SO GOOD, and if you use plenty of cabbage/kale it's also the perfect meal if you've got an upset stomach, especially with some herbs! It's a 'Dutch' dish, but similar dishes are made in many other areas, like Scotland and Portugal, with some variations naturally. I usually use sausage for the meat, but you can use almost any kind of meat you want, but whatever you use it needs to be broken up/chopped up reasonably small to make it 'my way', this is a meal you shouldn't need a knife to eat, it's very suitable to bowl and spoon, perfect for late night eating if you're so out of it you don't trust a fork!
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  274. The closer we get to the election the more trump reminds me of a walrus; he's loud, dumb, non-skin coloured, waves his arms around as the sole proof of his positions and he's a proven rapist who thinks that means he's 'tough and manly', all core traits of walri (is it walri? I dunno, I don't want to say 'walruses' because it sounds stupid). If trump starts growing whiskers I'm putting money on him changing to grey paint over orange....
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  275. The problems that big tech has run into innovation-wise stem from the fact that the jobs managing tech research are considered 'high status', so rich parents aim their dumb failsons that way with no applicable knowledge of the field they'll be (mis)managing. If you keep promoting idiots because they're the most right wing you end up with a lack of creativity and innovation, conservatives have a visceral hatred of change that limits their ability to progress a field of knowledge, but businesses hate promoting lefties because they're lefties and might do the right thing instead of what the business ghouls would.
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  276. It's purely for convenience that we (completely arbitrarily) set adulthood at 18. Most people aren't an adult at 18, some people are adults much younger. It's not consistent or predictable, this is why societies tended to not base adulthood on a number and instead on achieving something, usually independence.
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  277. Not going to lie, but I'm excited that Karen was in the thumbnail, she always has such great jokes! Welp, we got there, must say, that isn't the most Karen of jokes, but it did have a wallaby so idk, probably fine? It suffers from 'must be explained', this is clearly an issue of Karen being too smart for the audience. Maybe if she said 'it's how Welsh people say...'? Welsh people have a weird language going on, lots of letters that don't go together traditionally are common pairings, short of going to a small British island you're not going to find a thicker accent in the UK afaik.
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  278. The way ozempic 'works' on stuff like drugs, alcohol, etc, is that it messes with your body's ability to reward itself for 'desirable' behaviors. That can result in life being dull and meaningless for people, and the 'slowing' of the movement of food can be a lot worse than you're suggesting on here. Also, if you've got issues that lead to you developing an eating disorder and just take a drug that prevents you from feeling good (and have done nothing to address the pre-existing issues), it should be obvious that it's like patching a balloon with a stapler. I used to have a huge problem with mindless eating (because it felt good to eat), solving that wasn't just about exercising more or 'eating fewer calories', it was about changing my fundamental relationship with food. Part of the problem with bariatric surgery is that people often have no ability to improve the quality of their diet (because they can't eat enough food after bypass or something), you're better off being 10-20% overweight if you're eating a much healthier diet than the skinnier person that got surgery now has a tiny stomach. My heaviest was around 350, my lightest was 170 (in clothes), my waist went from well over 50 inches to fitting properly into 32/36 501s, I was probably a bit healthier at 170, but if I'm honest it was obvious to me and everyone who saw me that I wasn't at the correct weight for my body, even though 170lb at my height was in the 'medically ideal' range. I fit in size 42 pants now (these are more vanity sized than those 501s would have been), so while I have gained weight it's not like I 'gained it all back', and I lose that weight in my early/mid 20s, and I did it almost entirely through diet and exercise, the key is to change your lifestyle, you can't live the same way and have an improving outcome, that's not how life works. Haha, yeah, if you're losing weight and not actively exercising you lose a LOT of muscle, that's how weight loss works, and that's why those with weight that doesn't fluctuate much tend to have more muscle mass overall. It's also why doctors get people coming to them complaining that 'they can't keep the weight off', because each time they crash diet they lose more lean mass. In truth our society would probably benefit more from people taking up resistance training vs taking hormone therapy to lose weight, building new muscle not only helps burn tons more calories, it is itself hormonally active in a beneficial way. Failure to engage in resistance training as a senior has incredibly bad outcomes, much worse than being a bit overweight (and ironically people who have done weight lifting for years will end up heavier due to having more muscle mass/denser bones, yet they will always be healthier by almost every imaginable metric). Taking ozempic will not have any of the benefits for seniors that taking up resistance training will provide, and any doctor worth their salt should be telling patients to lift heavy (for the individual). The biggest problem with talking about 'weight' is that it's not really 'weight' (as in the number itself) that is a problem, it's the things that are associated with it: people who are heavier tend to eat less healthy, exercise less, drink more alcohol (which is relatively fattening), their are still doctors who don't understand that BMI has zero relevance when treating an individual. The issue isn't having too much lean mass (in almost all cases), the issue is people who weigh more are more likely to be fat than strong. People who weigh more can be less healthy, but it's almost never the fact that they consume too many calories, it's that they consume junk food/alcohol and don't exercise enough that results in worse outcomes. Same calories with a more active lifestyle and you have no problems! Some people at my height look obese when they're around 230lb, others are designed to carry more weight and look fine in the 300 range. As some experts say, as a doctor you can get much more useful data from using a tape measure than using a scale (which tells you literally nothing without more data), the ratio between your waist and height, as well as your waist to hip ratio are more illuminating than your weight, if you have a big waist it doesn't matter if your weight isn't 'high', you're still probably too fat/carrying weight poorly, and will have all the associated problems of obesity, and if your BMI is too high but you have a relatively small waist you're unlikely to have symptoms of obesity.
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  279. I can only assume that this trump plan is a combination of him having heard that NFTs were an exposed scam that only idiots still fall for, and that the leading customizable card game was being grumped at by Bank of America or somebody for overprinting their cards (which they aren't doing, but that's besides the point), trump's ideas are always a combination of several things that are already proven to be bad ideas, and he Dr. Frankenstein's them together into a new, even worse idea. Just look at all of his businesses, and they're all built on this principle, and it's very clear why he's often calld a dim-witted failure.
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  280. I prefer to stick to work that requires you to wear sensible footwear, but I can't imagine it would be good for my sanity to have to hear execuspeak more than I already have to. I hate buzzwords, which is great because everyone uses buzzwords all the time. The whole dystopia genre is vaguely insane btw as a premise, I have zero patience for anyone who acts like people being evil is new (or that we're getting more evil), we used to pillory people for really, really trivial shit, look that shit up if you don't know what it is, because good lord was it fucked up. Oh, and back in the day when you were considered irredeemable (mostly because you were too rebellious against the inbred hegemon) they just walled you in an oubliette to be forgotten. How do adult people look at how fucked up we definitely were and say 'yep, it's clearly getting actively worse!' and write about how the future is going to suck really bad? Smart people can be shockingly stupid sometimes.
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  281. ...a US politician literally badgered a Singaporean about being a supporter of the chinese communist party?? I feel like that is sufficient grounds to be institutionalized. Holy crap that is dumb. Also, you couldn't mention it, but when biden nudged israel about the genocide thing, they edged back immediately (but not much, and they had just systemically murdered a bunch of civilians that had just delivered FOOD to Palestinians, so things were incredibly awkward). I really hope people hear this stuff and want to see more progress, because our world is deeply fucked, and if we sit back they will obliterate us. Their is definitely a Smashmouth song about this stuff.
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  282. I remember when I actually lost a lot of weight, how awkward it would be when someone wanted to talk about it. I didn't mind giving advice, stuff that had helped me, but when you actually lose a lot of weight you realize that it's not what it's made out to be. It's not really hard to be very skinny (even if you're biologically meant to be quite large), it just eats up a lot of your time, meaning poor people can't do it, but rich people can easily spend hours a day improving their body composition. It's hilarious that trump would brag openly about losing such a paltry amount of weight, especially on a body so corpulent (he could easily lose that much in a week or two with dietary restriction, but he has no self control and can't do that), it'd be nice if he'd just say 'I'm on all of the ozempic they could fit in my fat ass' and be done with it, but then he'd be telling the truth and his tiny head would explode (ever consider that he has that stupid hair to make it look like he doesn't have a tiny head?). It wasn't just the dumb electoral college, it was pretty much a perfect storm for a dumb populist to win 2016, the US was coming off 2 Dem terms, the Dems put forth perhaps their least electable candidate, the repubs had a huge field of entirely dead wood in it's primary, the media gave trump endless free air time and normalized him to the ends of the earth, and finally the FBI showed it's true colours and publicly announced a sham investigation into 'hillary's emails' almost immediately before the election. Some similar efforts have been made for this election (biden isn't a very strong candidate, in part because the media treats him terribly, similar mostly terrible candidates competing in the primary for example), but I don't think trump will be able to overcome how incredibly unpopular he is with the majority of Americans, and while people don't want to vote for biden, it seems likely that they will hold their nose out of disgust for what trump represents and vote against trump in record numbers once again. The thing here is that trump can't afford to lose anyone since most people still hate him.
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  283. I think it's very easy to overlook the actual cost of having an exploited worker base, specifically that the workers who have no money can't spend money to grow the economy. They need to spend all their money on food and housing to survive, neither is good for the economy. All the money is being funneled to the top our out of the country, and this is a huge economic depressant. I think the solution to the middle income trap (because this is what developed countries did) is to create economically productive ways for workers to spend their new wealth, and actually grow the economy in a healthy manner. Note, better paid workers encourage more capital expenditures, which can have upsides as well, since the sudden increase in service industries will need lots of new workers.
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  284. It's astounding that the repubs opted to glomp onto trump this hard, I'm not sure if any of you ever read old D&D books, but trump is the perfect example of how monsterous humans (goblinoids, kobolds, orcs, trolls) had to have 2 charisma scores in some editions, one for interactions with their twisted kind (could be quite high), and one for interactions with a civilized and non-psychopathic species like humans and elves (which was usually astoundingly low). I think the repub love of trump is a weird karmic parody of Obama, they treat trump the way they accused dems of treating Obama, obviously it wasn't true but they kept at their BS until the bitter end and stole his Supreme Court pick out of spite at having been twice humiliated by a Black man. At the time I suspected (and still suspect) that choosing an open idiot like trump was meant to devalue the office, and his criminal antics only added to this, but I think they've more or less cursed their own party by gluing their lips to trump's flabby sphincter. He was already unfit for office when he won in 2016, shudder to think of him trying to debate any opponent that he can't just win via misogyny by standing behind them.
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  285. Good convo, I slightly disagree that AI really 'does things', that's an exaggeration. What I've seen of it is that it can be made good at a niche area, which isn't a new thing by any means, we've had great chess bots for awhile, and some games had AI that was actually worth playing against, others didn't. I suspect that until we understand how it actually works (and can thus streamline it better) AI will continue to suck and mostly be a blight on the world. It's not lost on me that there was an immediate big push to take away artist's livelihoods and suddenly people are very loud about tech taking away human labor opportunities, how many asshole coders told people who lost blue collar work 'go code chump'? Lots, and I hope they all get shitcanned because THEIR jobs are even easier for AI to do than what I do. It's easier for AI to make bad/completely unoriginal art/code than it is for it to put in a good weld that it hasn't been shown how to do by a human *that has to know how to weld*. AI will eventually take away ALL of our jobs, that's why we need to be communists or we're all going to end up as chattel whose only potential contribution is suffering for the amusement of an asshole who's parents scammed a lot of people and got rich.
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  286. Would you use egg whites to try to make a hot chocolate mousse? Honest question from a guy who's fried an egg once.
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  287. It's been covered here and there, but the Luddites weren't anti-progress, they were 'anti-exploit every drop of blood, sweat, and tears from your barely-better-off-than-slaves workers', and they correctly recognized that the new machines not only produced shitty work that ruined the reputation of all cloth workers (including traditional workers obviously), they made the market unwilling to pay a fair price for cloth because the uninitiated couldn't tell proper cloth from the machine made trash (until it was too late), and that's how they out-competed workers that were both more skilled and better for the economy on the whole. It turns out capitalists are basically running a scam, and they're just passing the consequences on to the next guy, until eventually the next guy will just have an unlivable world well-stocked with trillionaires that have no life skills.
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  288. Must say, dumb, ugly podiums that are oddly sturdy seems pretty apropos for a huckabee, seeing as they are all those things as well. Pretty much have no interest in marky after I heard he's kinda a racist psychopath (beat the shit out of a guy over his race), he seems really terrible, and his wife is exactly the kind of person you'd expect him to be with if he was a racist monster (deep down). It's unfortunate that he is so ensconced in hollywood, there are better actors that could take his place IMHO, but that's true for almost everyone in hollywood, it's the land of connections. I'm fascinated by people who talk about dogs like they're clearly better than people, dogs are awful creatures that are 100% driven by who's in their dumb clique, dogs are probably the only species that's even dumber about tribalism than humans. That said, I had one fairly hard to train dog (which was functionally useless), and one that was amenable to training that another person I lived with sabotaged for fun, I don't have tons of experience with dogs, but their psychology is very simple, so if you're unnecessarily cruel to them (a species that has been bred to be a slave for humanity) you're a bad person. I find dogs messy and dumb compared to cats, but I like friendly/well trained ones, they certainly have their appeal.
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  289. Everyone has known for a very long time that 'trickle down' doesn't work, we don't do it because we think it will make us wealthier, we do it so that the king ruling over us won't become wroth and take it out on us peasants. Heck, the trickle down theory was what a lot of chieftains use as their mandate, it's older than writing I'd argue, and it's pretty much the default as a society over time, that bad actors reliably take over and institute patriarchal power structures. The poor don't really want to admit it, but for a the poor a recession is when the rich get annoyed and raise all the prices, for the rich it's when their the government stops giving them money. The reason the west has a crisis about the population decrease is entirely caused by poverty, not by a shortage of workers, it's because society doesn't want to pay any workers a fair wage and those poor workers are too much of the tax base, most of the wealth generated by our economy is tax free because it goes to already rich people. The solution in the US is apparently to raise prices so much that nobody can afford to retire; everyone has to rent because the rich have bought so many houses (even at a loss, it doesn't matter if you lose money on every house you buy if you end up owning an entire neighborhood), and the poor's only options financially are to be exploited by entities that proport to offer a route out of poverty.
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  290. You don't become a billionaire by making money for other people so much as exploiting other people and getting away with it (I'm saying they get special treatment from their peers/future peers which enable them to become billionaires, if you tried to exploit people the way a tech billionaire does, you'd be in jail). Late stage capitalism is about pulling the ladder up further than ever before, and then installing a really good safety net so none of the rich assholes who were chosen's dumb offspring won't end up poor, no matter how much of a dumb failure they are (cough cough trump cough).
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  291. I'm not surprised to hear that israel is pretty willing to commit more war crimes, but it is unfortunate. If I was israel, I'd be concerned about the flanks, because when you murder a bunch of Arab civilians, you are going to agitate your Arab neighbors. I think I agree that israel needed to have some manner of reaction to this, but it's hard to see how this served anything. If you ask me the solution (if they wanted good results) was to root out hamas with their vaunted intelligence forced over a decade or so. It isn't a secret that the US military has had remarkably little luck in achieving foreign policy goals, but the cia has an embarrassingly good one for efficiency and effectiveness. Treating hamas like a state's army is insane in the context of what it truly is, you don't tackle a fly with a bazooka, even if it's a malaria mosquito that could ruin your life, it's just not how you deal with the problem for a variety of reasons. The only good thing about kissinger is the Monty Python song about him. Worth a listen iirc, but I haven't heard it for awhile. I think I have their song book kicking around, it was in there I think. I wouldn't be shocked if there was an interest in getting iran as irate as possible, hence the double dealing. The deep state still harbors fantasies of violently confronting iran, so it's something that has to be watched out for with republicans somehow remaining (somewhat) electable party, the political arm of the conservative deep state, if they gain power you can expect them to antagonize iran further.
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  292. Don't Beatles have 8 days a week??
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  293. I usually have a pretty reliable memory, but I still remember (ha) one night I had been drinking before I went to bed. When I went to bed I (for no reason) got out of bed and listened to a song I didn't know, and then went right back to bed. It took me quite a few months before I remembered getting up to listen to the song, until then it was just a mystery about who had listened to it! Substances really can mess with your ability to form new memories, it's unfortunate that the legal system's only interest in this fact is to try to absolve men of consequences 'because they were drunk'.
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  294. Did you ever bother looking up what 'virtue' means? Signaling that you are virtuous would only be a bad thing if you're evil enough to be paranoid, maybe you should watch that clip about the (obviously) evil soldiers that's realizing that he's one of the bad guys? "Maybe we're the baddies" should get you somewhere in a search, even here on youtube! It might be personally relevant if you find your soul ever, and want to be on the side that isn't embarrassed to do a good deed in public.
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  295. I'm gonna sound crazy, but... general strike? Maybe for awhile? Maybe everyone goes out and buys a big bag of beans and a big bag of rice, maybe some cans of tomatoes? The 1% need to learn that they are nothing without the 99%, they can't even support themselves, they're bloated viruses harrowing humanity.
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  296. It wasn't lost on me that as soon as trump was officially going broke again people started pretending truth social wasn't a humiliating failure and wanted to buy it for billions... it's almost like their is a conspiracy to keep his worthless, corpulent corpus afloat.
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  297. I thought it was interesting, because it was a narrative in which you really had to limit your sympathy, it was hard to find valid recipients for it, everyone is so unlikable/openly evil.
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  298. I agree with the editor, pepsi is clearly better and has better marketing (that's why it tastes better, all the delicious marketing), coke is still leaning on it's ancient santa and polar bear ads and residual cool from having cocaine in their shit that one time.
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  299. So, the money being given to the commoners is a problem, and everyone who isn't going back to work already is 100% only doing it for the free money, and they aren't concerned with actually, you know, DYING FROM THE FUCKING PANDEMIC IF THEY GO BACK TO WORK. Meanwhile, the gallons of money given to large business already rolling in excess cash (...they just got epic level tax cuts during a boom time, a hilariously stupid thing to do) should have 0 oversight/transparency? How the hell can anyone support these ghouls at this point is beyond mortal understanding.
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  300. I liked Karen's whale joke, it's beauty is it's simplicity (or something?).
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  301. This does seem more practical than most of the gun-knives I've seen, but I still wonder how often a shot will ricochet off the blade. Seems like the perfect tool for a fiction writer, lots of silly things you can do with gun hybrids.
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  302. It's a really fascinating coincidence, when a society moves further right it finds it harder to have willing reproduction from women... any wonder why they are also huge rape apologists? Also, have you considered calling him 'andrew taint' instead? I'd enjoy it.
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  303. ...you know what, it just dawned on me, but it's insane that the nazis could create a bogeyman out of a cabal of rich/powerful people try to institute a wildly more equal society. It's like their bogeyman is an actual good person or something, no wonder so many right wingers still love the nazis, they still believe the same thing, that equalizing society is a bad thing.
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  304. It's pretty suspicious that fast food places have these contracts for employees that have neither training nor skills, it's just another tool we gave corporations to hurt the little guy.
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  305. Someone needs to equip zucky and elno with lightsabers before they fight it out in a volcano. The crazy plot twist is when they BOTH have the low ground and both lose all of their remaining limbs and get their nuts baked off before their asshole boss shows up to put them in a deliberately shitty robot suit that keeps them in constant agony.
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  306. Just saying, but if you leave men in charge of the entertainment, you eventually end up with chariot races and gladiatorial games, things designed to cultivate cruelty and violence in society. The Romans already knew (as most people do) that watching (and thus in a sense participating in) sadistic violence would make more sadists, and embraced this as a cultural good, in contrast with hollywood's strange urge to BS about this exact concept. The World Wars have nothing to do with cinemas urge to be cruel, it's baked into the men who chose what films would be made, and how those films that were made would be presented. That said, it's entirely possible that until WW2 there just wasn't as many working class men bothering to watch movies, but that beggars the imagination a bit. Also, modern cinematic actors aren't real actors, and treating what +90% of them do as a 'craft' is an insult to real actors. Are their exceptions? Sure, but nobody confuses actual actors with hollywood play-actors. It's worth noting that if Method Acting was invented by said russian, it seems the americans were bastardizing it early on, and it was again bastardized into the whole 'damage your flesh and pretend it's art so people will give you praise/money', which was then rebastardized AGAIN into 'don't just be hard on yourself, be an asshole to those around you too!'. Being an asshole isn't remotely a part of being an actor, but it's the entire constituency of being an asshole. Ironically, these bad actors are also bad actors, and many should have faced legal repercussions for their abusive behavior (and the guy starving himself should have been institutionalized obviously. The movie was neat though I guess, maybe? Mostly creepy if we're totally honest, I doubt I'll rewatch The Machinist). It's like these psychopaths forgot how to be psychopaths, and are just doing the self-aggrandizing asshole part, not the superficial charm angle.
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  307. It never ceases to amaze me how conservatives will bend over backwards to falsely claim some manner of victimhood, and it's always so that they can justify something awful they are doing or want to do. To them, being a victim is a 'good' thing because you can 'get away with stuff', the US' early settlers btw felt they were victims of an overly secular society in the Old World (many early immigrants were overly orthodox by their own era's standards). This meant it was okay to massacre any natives that got in the way of the whites, the whites were the REAL victims because they couldn't force their neighbors to embrace puritanism (which is why that used to be a thing). I'm starting to suspect that if you get conservative enough you start to think being told not to do evil is an oppression of your civil rights, rather than an example of what we consider common sense/universal rights (don't steal shit, don't attack people etc), because conservatives don't believe in equality, if you disagree with a conservative most of them would pitch you into a woodchipper and be done with you. You don't get to be the 'stupid' party by listening when people disagree with you!
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  308. I share a great many of these positions, and I'm happy to hear someone saying them out loud. A key point in the 'you can always find a different job' is that you're assuming there isn't collusion between employers to work together to cheat the workers out of their share... Who cares if you can find a different job if all you're doing anywhere is making some rich old man richer, and getting only a pittance, because all of the corporations agreed collectively to only pay workers a pittance, even though they could easily pay them considerably more. Look at the higher wages for fast food workers in Scandinavia, they have good conditions and the companies keep making money, it's almost like Capitalism is rigged against the poor because the rich are all free to work together. Not only that, they also exert efforts to limit the ability of the workers to unite. Anti-union propaganda is everywhere, and companies have the freedom to fire workers that try to speak up, let alone unionize their workplace, so there is a huge imbalance that is rapidly getting worse.
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  309. I totally agree, the overwhelming majority of conservatives are actively miserable with their philosophy, the issue is that their solution to that is to force people they don't like to also hold to 100% arbitrary conservative values (the fact that we've done something in the past is not a good justification for continuing to do them), so they'll also be miserable. It's telling that the people they 'like' (the rich) are not expected to hold remotely conservative values, and they are even encouraged to flagrantly flaunt their disdain for actual conservatism, they're rewarded for being the biggest hypocrite. They're unhappy people who think nobody else should be allowed to be happy, couple that with the fact that most of them have some serious kink issues due to embracing their weird unnatural sexuality, which is part of why we get to hear about all the super-creepy right wingers doing horrifying shit all the time, if you don't want to have normal people sex like a normal person you'll be stuck having weird people sex instead (hence the overwhelmingly popular cuck fantasy among conservatives).
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  310. That's part of why some people like high up cars/big scary cars, people treat you differently on the road. When we drove in our gigantic station wagon when I was a kid, we had more space around us than a transport truck, especially if we had a kid or two in the rear-facing back seat, because no driver wants to have to stare at someone else's kids, what if they start making faces and cause an accident? But seriously, we also had space in front, so it was just a terrifyingly large/heavy vehicle. Also, right of way is fine and good if you get flattened, someone joked about that when I was a kid and it very much stuck. if you're not the big scary vehicle, you're the one that'll get flattened. I like to think I'm a pretty good cook, for example I can make a pretty mean potato salad, but I'm also celiac, so I don't know if I'd love to go to a potluck with randoms anyways, and if I did I'd probably bring enough for me to eat plus a dish for the crowd.
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  311. Great vid, always nice to hear from Paul Krugman
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  312. Just saying, but all of the impressions were pretty good today, as was the bit where Seth puts on his teachin' cap and helps a writer learn how to be funnier, makes me think of teachers that pick on the duller kids, but in a feels-good way.
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  313. Yeah, and it's extra-great how those poultry workers, who are doing that already decidedly horrific job, have to pay for diapers from their disappointingly low wage. Just fucking swell. Why is it even remotely legal for an employer to have a bathroom policy, let alone a draconian one? In trade work, our rule is we go when we fucking need to, and the boss and go fuck a drill-press if he thinks we're not going to, and they, realizing they won't have workers otherwise, accept it. In some shops the bathroom is pretty gross, but it's there, and if there isn't, the boss can expect a well pissed on car. What I'm getting at is that the average worker in the US has less rights than a low-skill trades worker in other countries, and the US has judge's that decree that workers have an obligation (a *fucking obligation*, not the ability to choose to be an idiot) to die on their companies behalf. Edit: Yeah, about those fixed fines? Those were designed that way because it was a given that they'd become hopelessly obsolete, and the corporations were well aware that the US political system is so fucking dysfunctional that no real updates would be forthcoming. While ~4k was once a not insignificant amount of money, even to a fairly large corporation, it is now less than nothing to one. This is also why I hate using fixed fines in the legal system, all fines need to be based on the party involveds ability to pay. If a multi-billion dollar corporation has an fuck up that was preventable and shows an astounding lack of empathy to have allowed, the actual management involved in the decision making process, as well as the company, need to face consequences, and since they won't be sent to actual prison ever (they'll at best be sent to the prison where you get to meditate all day, not actual prison). If a trillion dollar corporation has a million dollar fine, they are literally going to be laughing about it, make that fine in the billions and they might notice.
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  314. Childcare is incredibly important, and it sure was convenient, I wonder why women had to stop caring for their own kids and start going into the workplace? The reason that women had to go out into the work force in the first place was to significantly reduce the wage pressure on companies by flooding the job market with relatively low skill workers (and if women got skilled, they weren't paid accordingly, and still aren't) who will tolerate poor treatment because society has forcibly raised women to be meek. This was how the big corps fought back vs unions without people even realizing, the US went from being able to afford a home and family on one relatively average income to not being able to afford a family with two average incomes, all because the work force became immense (and all the good paying manufacturing jobs were moved overseas, where unions could still be violently busted). Since people can't afford families they are trying to have less kids, this was undesirable to corps who needed a constantly flooded market to depress wages, so the fight moved on to the 'take away abortion/birth control' so the poor will have to have lots of children or have weird and unsatisfying sex lives (ymmv obviously). None of the shit that happens is an accident, our trends are curated carefully to manipulate the populace, the establishment is willing to use any means available to achieve it's ends. The irony of all this is you can have a constant flood of eager workers if you just let people in (this is why the repubs don't actually want to solve this problem, corps use a lot of illegal labour, but they also can't be honest about it because their base is REALLY RACIST), immigration solves a great many issues. Our society has tolerated racism for so long we are all being punished for it by repubs that are rolling back rights and entitlements, and are running on doing more of the same.
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  315. Maybe try laying on the horn??
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  316. I varied from a complete joy to the worst student imaginable, I was usually a good student when young but I stopped putting effort in as I got older, I really hated school by the time I was a teenager, I really would have been better off as a kid if I would have embraced trade work at a younger age, so I wouldn't keep forcing myself to go to school. I did learn stuff at school, but I still consume news in this age and day, so I'd have been learning either way. I will say, at least I can do critical theory to art now, the irony being I was the worst critical theory student most of my profs ever taught, so yeah, who knows how you'll turn out. I think that vegetarian hotdog you're describing tastes exactly like a hotdog? They taste and smell bad, and you shouldn't miss them, but as they say 'nobody chooses what tastes good'. I can see missing bacon or fried ground beef, or good sausage, but hotdogs just seem so weird to miss. I can't eat gluten, and I mostly miss things like phyllo dough, which are pretty hard to make gluten free. I'm disappointed that hill turned out to be a pos, but I'm not exactly surprised. As you guys note, he went out of his way to find someone who didn't like his expectations and then bullied her into adopting them anyways. It's about the abuse for this kind of manchild, throwing in a 'or else I'm leaving you' is textbook abusive behavior that men complain about from women, why is it suddenly great when a manbaby does it? So glad this all came out, and hopefully he won't be in anything I want to watch otherwise (I've watched just about nothing of his, I could never stand the guy, but he at least seemed to be 'trying', at least half-assed, at being decent). But yeah, textbook creep turns out to be a textbook creep.
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  317. Here's a nice tip for you: If someone criticizes a problematic group (such as racists or bigots, which are problematic because they harass and kill people), and you take it personally, then you're the problem. Not directed at anyone in particular, this is just a general comment, people will judge you if you take 'racists are bad' as an insult. They didn't name you, the Star Wars twitter didn't say 'all Star Wars fans are racists!', they said 'Don't be a racist', and guess what? It's not only okay to say 'don't be a racist' to anyone at any time, it's also a good thing to say in a context in which people are being racist. ...It's not about Kenobi? Wtf are you talking about, he's on screen almost the entire time, and we have a real taste of how shitty life became for Obi-wan immediately after the Jedi were outlawed. He lost almost everyone he knew/was friends with, had no resources and was an outlaw from right then until New Hope. We also get an idea of why Leia would be so damn eager to go find Obi-Wan after Rogue One, even risking her life to do it, I do agree it was a huge asspull to put Luke in the trailer so prominently and then not really see him, but this is normal Star Wars behaviour, it's not like Attack of the Clones wasn't named to make people expect a clone army to, you know, attack the Republic and start the Clone Wars of the old EU, right? It's not like they reacted to our complaints that Anakin was an overly emotional crybaby in the prequels by making Kylo be so emotional that he is probably suffering from a self-induced mental health problem. It's not like they 'listened' to the complains of the people who hated Last Jedi and made Rise of Skywalker (and named it Rise of Skywalker knowing people would hope it's about some 'next step' for Luke, and not that Rey will inexplicably declare herself a Skywalker) to annoy everyone, both those already irritaited and those still on board. Star Wars has always loved annoying people, I suspect it's also why it's not really considered Science Fiction in the classical sense, it's Fantasy set in a very soft high tech universe, this will appeal to kids and later annoy them as adults when they learn more about how physics works, and how absurd Star Wars is. Also, in what fucking world is a story 'about' an antagonist? Kenobi is the protagonist, Reva is the antagonist, it's not complicated stuff. You want both in a good story, and they both need serious screen time or they will feel empty. Vader is not the antagonist at this point, he may be later (and that'd be cheap/shit IMHO, since he seems a bit childish in this, he's over 30 ffs), but if Reva is going to be it, she needs lots of time to be an actual character people will care about/potentially sympathize with. Not to be rude, but it's normal behaviour in a mainstream American movie for male characters to break rules/procedure as needed and never face consequences, it's extremely rare exceptions that are usually used for story purposes anyways. It doesn't stop being normal if a minority does it, it just stretches the immagination a bit, since minorities tend to face more consequences. Is it wrong to try to piss off racists and bigots? Nope, it's actually the right choice, and any self-respecting artist is going to be eager to pander to the much larger less racist demographics that aren't okay with people shooting people because they aren't white.
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  318. Good vid, the court has generally been a pile of dog crap, with brief glimpses of decency/sanity. It's clearly in dog crap mode atm. AFAIK, The Supreme Court, like the Senate, was created as a way to make sure the common people wouldn't actually have power, but still would feel like they live in a 'democracy' where they have input. They get to vote, but their votes don't matter fundamentally, both parties are right wing in a number of overwhelmingly important ways, and neither is trying to do anything to help the average American and instead bends over backwards to dump money into the coffers of big business and the rich. The US is really, really stretching the definition of democracy at this point, it beggars the imagination to hear that grown men are arguing that the us constitution is not only not horribly dated, it should be used without amendments and interpreted only by illiterate farmers/primary industry workers, because that was what the average American was back than, this wasn't well-read Europe, this was the land that prized ignorance and despised experts.
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  319. The US has NEVER had good intentions for the locals in any of the regime changes caused by it's military or intelligence forces.
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  320. It'd be nice if the media didn't completely ignore trump's myriad flaws, faults, and defects, choosing instead to glomp onto even dubious criticisms of biden by bad-faith participants as if they're widespread consensus, I cannot believe how many journalists are outright conservatives in the US, it's almost like they won't hire you if you're not. If you want to fix your politics, stop letting billionaires own all of your media, that's literally step one, nothing is more serious than letting those selected for being the least moral among us dictate what we see and hear from the media. As long as you don't have a free press (and you definitely don't, your press is enslaved by the wealthy quite openly) you'll never have a hope of having a free country (a thing you've never been close to having yet btw). Having only for-profit press that is owned by billionaires means you never see anything the rich don't want you to see (ever wonder why media keeps going under? It gets bought by rightwing assholes who then make the media more rightwing and are shocked that the interest wanes sharply, only for said media to be bought by even worse people who further mess up the product. The problem here is billionaires don't need their news empire to make a cent, they have billions remember, so they can afford to print stories that only the billionaire class want to see printed, and the dumbest amongst us have a weird attraction to that propaganda). I feel like nobody serious can suggest Kamala take over for biden at this point, and even if Biden died/was rendered incompetent I don't think she'd make much sense to run, unless you're trying to get the orange diaper baby back in (which I still say is why they put up both hilary and biden, two extremely weak candidates to make sure trump wouldn't just get dumpstered, like he would have vs Obama (which was why he didn't run vs him, and Obama knew about this and publicly mocked trump over being a cowardly old turd)). That said, a LOT of high up dems seem to do a lot to empower republicans and conservatives in general, so I don't think we can expect to see a real candidate from the dems anytime soon, in order to let the repubs run moronic clown-babies and still win sometimes. I think the dems are going to continue to be a non-competitive party as long as they keep in their center-right lane at the top, the country doesn't want a far right party and a center right party anymore, it is desperate for actual progress, and as stupid as it sounds, the far right is the group that's talking the most about making 'progress' (which to them is making life worse), and they really do steal voters by telling the unwashed masses that Diaper Don is going to help the little guy. Maybe educate people more so they won't make decisions based on the same heuristics that causes us to install monarchies in most of the world, for most of recorded history, even though they didn't work well anywhere, ever? But no, the establishment dems hate funding education almost as much as the repubs, they are just quiet about it. Also, someone tell Dark Brandon to only ever refer to him as Diaper Don... it's the perfect insult for him because he so badly wants to be seen as dapper, but with his huge fat diaper butt nobody can respect him.
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  321. I feel like pointing out that there are places where hate speech of various sorts is restricted by law, the US isn't the grand arbiter of anything incase you weren't aware, countries get to make different (and better) laws as they see fit.
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  322. While I support the strikers, those poor trees! A Ficus can handle a heavy pruning, but those seem very excessive, especially on the upper portion where you aren't as likely to have a problems for traffic (and that provide plenty of shade I'd figure). IMHO this is just corporate ghouls doin' their ghoulin', such as it is.
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  323. It's worth noting that humanity is in a situation that is already untenable, we are going to need more arable land, while also needing to reforest significant amount of arable land (both to deal with CO2, but more importantly to restore the water cycle we've been disrupting by clearing forests), as well as somehow find a solution to massive and widespread soil degradation, which is rampant and means our existing land is almost universally getting worse, some considerably. Just food is going to be a huge issue unless people eat dramatically differently, yet people are instead cutting down more forest, including some of the remaining virgin forests, and doing so to grow oil palms and soybeans/maize to feed the population bubble. What people don't realize is that we're heavily leveraged in terms of the environment atm, we are using wildly more water than replacement brings back while the glaciers feeding the rivers disappear through the world, which also raises the sea levels, affecting most of the world's population (and again, arable land/fresh water supplies) with flooding. Then we have the massive desertification occurring in several places in the world, while almost none of the opposite is occurring. The US's food basket is pretty much all going to turn droughty, with the present crown jewel, California, losing all viability as an agricultural center as it simply runs out of water, and the Great Plains AFAIK are likewise expected to dry out, while the Midwest is expected to be impractically wet/hot, and making agriculture there more complicated as well. There is no land that I know of in the US other than Alaska that will improve (look up how much food the US exports if this doesn't seem important), and Alaska is still going to have short seasons that are hyper-sensitive for planting timing, if you think it's touchy elsewhere, if you only have a short blob of eternally sunny Summer, you can't plant at all late, so any bad weather or late frosts would be disastrous, so you can't really move things that far north without serious headaches. We're lying to ourselves when we say the Earth could handle more people, of course you could physically put more on it, but we're already beyond sustainable, such that we're actively worsening our planet's long-term carrying capacity by maintaining 7 billion, even with many of them kept in abject poverty. It is a fallacy to think that literally having more people will result in better solutions magically forming, we're not missing great swathes of potential ideas, and advancements are steadily occuring already (and not likely to be sped up short of just having more researchers and labs, which is more an issue atm of funding than available workers), so how exactly would adding more stress to an already desperately overburdened ecosystem improve our odds? If just having more people resulted in better solutions, the world would look quite different. Many of the more successful countries are that way specifically because they don't have an especially large population to maintain, and can trade a great deal because everyone has actual wealth/purchasing power, countries where purchasing power is too thin are at a gargantuan disadvantage economically, people who are dirt poor can't spend as much as they need, while people who are overly rich can't spend as much as they need to not be an economic burden. People in the middle class tend to consume a great deal and effectively drive the economy, being both more skilled on average than poorer workers while actually spending most of what they bring in, not hoarding resources like a billionaire does by definition. Having too many poor people AND too many rich people limits our planet's carrying capacity more than anything.
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  324. As a guy who had to dig shrubs up to 1.5m tall in a former gravel pit (for a nursery), watching these guys struggle to dig is amazing.
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  325. The whole windmill thing actually came from someone joking 'it must be the windmill that's blowing your hair around' and he, being stupid, took it literally.
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  326. I'm pretty sure that if you run out of Triple Sec, you can use tangerine juice and it won't be terrible. I've used orange juice as part of margaritas before, desperate times call for this sacrifice.
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  327. Work is hard, but if you're lucky your job is satisfying, as in you feel like you've accomplished something when you've done you're job. I sometimes do demolition, sometimes construction, sometimes fabrication, all would be harsh by many people's standards, but my other jobs were even harder, so this is nice. I split wood for fun though, and made my own axe/maul.
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  328. You get issues like 'political violence' when the police don't enforce the laws vs their preferred clique, which is right wing assholes at this point. Their aren't a bunch of left wingers assaulting spouses of republicans with hammers for example. I won't forget watching the capital police in DC holding one another back, carefully doing nothing significant to impede the rioters that sacked your most sacred institutions. Here in Canada we had long, obnoxious, and obviously illegal 'protests' and the police literally did nothing for weeks, the same organizations that have no hesitations when it comes to Natives doing actual legal protests, lethal force is pretty much expected in those situations. Those protests not only embarrassed our country by making us look like a bunch of brain damaged hicks, they cost billions of dollars. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. The police did literally nothing (many police were openly supportive of the 'protests'), and now corrupt judges are trying to pretend that open harassment of random citizens is a valid and protected form of protest, and that you can endanger locals freely if you're right wing enough. This country is rapidly turning into a shithole because it's legal system protects the wrong people, and we still have jackasses campaigning for 'better treatment' for ex-cons... Oh, you have no empathy and everyone knows it because you committed a horrible crime, and now you can't find a job? I honestly don't give the least of a fuck. The system does absolutely nothing for victims, and instead enables the worst among us to do whatever they want. Of course if their is any kind of 'crackdown', it won't target the actual problem individuals, it'll target minorities, for some reason we never crackdown on rich assholes breaking the law with abandon. The problem here is that our society has been actively selecting for assholes for thousands of years, and putting the more awful among us in charge, you can trace just about every systemic problem to this. This is how capitalism works, you reward the people with the least scruples and punish those who refuse to exploit, so it's not even like this wasn't an intentional thing. On the plus side, at least we look like we'll die out pretty soon as a species due to our staggering hubris/stupidity of our leaders, maybe choosing people who despise us to be in charge was secretly a bad idea??
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  329. My issue with saying emu correctly is that 'ee-moo' sounds more ridiculous, but we always call them emus here in Canada. Lots of Canadian households actually use Fahrenheit for indoor temperatures for no discernable reason, a whole degree in Celsius is really a big difference, indoors you want more precision.
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  330. There is no way in the world in which it makes sense to tie your future to russia, russia is in the process of complete economic collapse, and literally the only thing it has going for it is a small number of still functional nuclear weapons (if you believe the russias they still are capable, others disagree) and oil money, oil is itself a dying industry, and the russias are struggling to make enough profit off of it's oil. The russians can't give money and they can't provide supplies anymore, these are more examples of sabotage of non-white countries, not of anything rational or reasonable. Acting like these coups 'joining' russia makes sense is like arguing that there were good reasons for brexit, there weren't and it has been an unmitigated disaster.
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  331. Americans sometimes forget that their is a huge incentive to understate your economic power in certain situations, if a country was to gain enough of an economic advantage over the US the US would probably consider that country explicitly an enemy, and become quite hostile. While xi is loose many screws as a leader, it's not likely he wants even more hostility with the West (well, the US, the only country in the West that could actually hassle china militarily), so like Japan, I suspect their government is all too willing to lowball stuff for a few decades. it's not like Japan has been getting poorer in any measurable way, it's just razzamatazz, just like the US economic growth that's often nothing but ephemeral bubbles.
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  332. Curious looking at your list of 'traits for domesticated grain', but it does make me think of how much corn in particular was changed by human selective breeding, taken from an inedible kernel to a highly starchy grain, but it has so many advantages over other competing grains. it's going to be scary when the already warm areas of the world get even hotter, and cannot grow corn anymore in those pervious key areas, and must switch to other grains like sorghum, which as I understand do not yield anywhere near as heavily. The list also makes me think about amaranth, it certainly lacks several of those traits, but the domesticated versions are quite different from the wild ones, including in seed size and quality, as well as plant size and consistency. A thought did occur to me as I watched this, if someone wanted to breed maize back then, in an environment where maize is native, they'd have had to weed it out locally, wouldn't they? This might explain why you don't really find wild maize anywhere, if it was exterminated to prevent contamination of their superior mutant maize? That sounds like an astounding undertaking, but I can't see how else it would disappear without the domesticated also dying out. I was always interested in how many different 'grains' were grown in the New World, with many of them being healthier to eat, but it's also interesting that maize can be prepared in such a way that it is healthier to eat. The New World may not have invented the wheel, but it did invent a hell of a lot we still depend on.
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  333. I've heard the 'French and Indian War' called the first 'world war', I think it's obviously more global in scope than the Crimean War, and happened sooner, were you guys buzzed or smthg?
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  334. Aren't those stalactites if they're hanging down? Honestly curious, it's been awhile since Grade 5, but iirc we were supposed to remember it because 'stalactite sounds more like height', and it kinda does I guess? No part of me is less amused at how effective mnemonic devices proved to be at lodging ideas into my head... if only advertisers didn't also figure this out! I'll never forget that pesky gas law, but on the plus side I think it's saved my life a time or two.
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  335. I find Ben Shapiro pretty embarrassing to witness, but Jordan Peterson is pretty annoying too sometimes. I really hate people who think that a 'gotcha' moment means you won a debate, and that seems to be a very common attitude at present, both right and left. At the moment though, being Canadian, it's probably Rex Murphy, just so annoying (and consistently misleading/wrong).
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  336. Old church art is actually pretty weird, things like perspective and scale all had special meanings/implications, so Jesus being huge was probably normal for the time, much like we all used to like rockabilly.
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  337. Seeing the sublimely beautiful images of galaxies as a 4 year old was enough to spark a life long interest for me. I read the sci-fi as a I got older.
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  338. Men and women often cultivate a sense of humor for the same reasons, to disarm threats. The thing is, women aren't given many other tools to work with by society, so while small or weak men have to lean into being funny, most women need to learn to make men laugh in order to avoid potential violence, this is why women tend to be funnier and have better social skills. I remember playing RPG type video games a lot, but I was still shocked to find out people tried to do 'pacifist' runs, turns out most women have been required to do that, dating back pretty damn far. Society's millennia of oppression against women has resulted in them being smarter and being more empathic, meanwhile the tiny male chromosome is in the process of dying out. If you believe in karma, men's combination of strength and stupidity has resulted in them breeding their own species out of existence by allowing old or otherwise unfit men to breed, regardless of natural pressures. Now we make drugs to give impotent men (men chosen by God to never again have sex hint hint, unless it's up the butt) erections, just in case they can use money/power/social pressure to force a fertile woman to bear his low grade seed, yet people act like glasses are affecting natural selection.
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  339. If you keep workers busy and distracted, they won't notice how little you're paying them, and if you pay them little enough, they'll be too desperate to quit, no matter how horrifying you make the work. Wow, it's like capitalism is actively bad and we're being told we have to help in the process of enslaving the workers, because if you pay workers a small enough share, they start to become slaves, and that's the end goal of the capitalists, fascist paradise (freedom from consequence even) for the elites while the poor are worked to death. Capitalism glorifies waste/destruction for it's own sake, are we going to wait until our planet is uninhabitable before we stop wanking to the lie of perpetual growth, and that it'll someday 'trickle down' to the losers on the bottom.
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  340. Historically it was in part, the Yakuza are not the mafia, just like the ninja clans were in part helping the majority vs an incredibly oppressive social order.
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  341. I had a what I assume is a hot flash once (I'm a dude so who the fuck knows?), I was so hot that I had to get out of bed and park myself (naked) over an air conditioner vent while I was just drenched in sweat... not a fun way to spend time, but huge sympathy for you getting one at a bad time! Places probably stopped asking if people knew how to type because so few people know how to type, it's still incredibly valuable if you have to do anything involving a computer, it's faster to do almost anything with a keyboard vs a mouse, so more advanced users will often do more with a keyboard (hotkeys are a thing, learn them if you're going to use a program a lot). It's not hard to learn typing, and once you learn it it's like bike riding, but on the downside it's pretty hard to find a good ergonomic keyboard now, and if you're a trained typist you don't want to use a tiny cramped one that was made for 'hen-peck' typing.
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  342. There will be no jobs that can't be better performed by AI/robots, it's just a question of whether the poor will realize that we're all going to be obsolete soon enough, and use knowledge to enforce equality, but the reality is that people don't want to do that hard work, they'd rather just be progressively more cruelly exploited and abused if we keep getting bad music and movies to entertain us. The 'rulers' are actually going to be just as obsolete as the workers, but people stupidly look at rich people and see someone smarter/better, not someone who's really good at exploiting people, so we're probably headed towards the bad outcome. AI isn't going to be like bad sci-fi, where it's 'uncreative' or 'dumb', it'll be faster, smarter, stronger and tireless, if we're honest AI generated art isn't really worse than actual art already, look at how much NFTs were briefly worth, the world of pricey art is a huge scam, and has been since modern taxes came to be. Thinking that robots will be slow or dumb is like looking at an 80s PC and declaring that computers will never be adopted by the masses due to being too expensive and hard to use, because the machines then were expensive and very hard to use, but the thing is machines/computers keep getting better, and will keep getting better in various ways. Our brain isn't magic, it's a gloppy mass that runs on electricity and calories, the difference between us and a machine is 100% in our head, the sooner we 'wake up' to this fact the better off we'll all be I think, there is no 'artificial' or 'natural' in a meaningful sense when it comes to intelligence. There is also a 3rd option, that the world 'goes fascist' and abandons tech by and large because fascists are shockingly incompetent and don't like having an educated populace, so only the elite would get educations, workers would be trained instead, over time the workers lives would become less and less technically advanced even though it's cheaper and easier to better educate and equip them, they are more useful tools if they're kept dumb and desperate. Fascists would very much support big business, but only if those businesses support the fascist cause, but as we all know very well, fascists have no qualms about shooting themselves in the foot if your foot is under theirs. Why would the fascists keep the workers around at that point? For one, you need people to look down on, and keep in mind fascists aren't actually big on making sense, it's why their propaganda is always emotion based, they are incapable of proper logic because their positions are always illogical. It's like how the world is in the process of dying, and Brazil nearly elected an openly corrupt lunatic that was running on the platform of stealing more land from natives, clear cutting it and then planting even more cash crops, all while Brazil slowly turns into a desert (the average temperature goes up several degrees when you clear rainforest, and the land cannot hold anywhere near as much moisture/is actively drained, meaning there is going to be considerably less rain over time, and far more evaporation), it boggles the mind how eager fascist are to kill the entire world out of mindbogglingly arbitrary spite.
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  343. Dogs do have an intense sense of territory, so you're not quite correct to say that they don't have a concept of personal property, dogs are competitive AF because they're so badly designed they'd die in a generation if they weren't that way. Cats are ironically a lot less catty if you have a group of them. I felt really, really weird about Oppenheimer, mostly because it has the 'blatant American propaganda' thing going on, and it completely ignores any and all context. If you point this out you get morons coming out of the woodwork arguing 'it's about Oppenheimer, not consequences', an argument that ignores the fact that we didn't need such a movie, and that consequences and context are at least as important as 'the thing'. Going on ad nauseum about the atomic bomb and then glossing over the fact that it was only ever used vs civilians (and lots of historians aren't sold on why it was done, their is a TON of evidence that the bombing of civilian targets was done 'as revenge', because it served no military objective, it was just about 'teaching the Japanese a lesson', that they were 'lesser' people that could be wiped out by the whites if they became an issue. It is peak privilege to look at the history of the atomic bomb and think the movie we needed as a pro-America propaganda fluff piece that's about as deep/substantive as a shallow puddle. Oppenheimer feels like the movie equivalent of making the world's best hammer, but you insisted on making it so small it can't actually be used by a human hand, the movie has lots of great actors and the director can do good work, but they're hamstrung because the medium they are forced to work in is 'bad American propaganda movie'.
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  344. I am compromised, but she seems quite delightful!
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  345. I look forward to the gop reacting to losing due to being too far right by moving even further right. It's like having a party that is obsessed with obsequiously serving billionaires is bad for everyone not a useless money-sponge.
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  346. No word better describes the zeitgeist
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  347. I think I understand Seth, everyone wants Horse Pudding to be available, but nobody should be looking inside the Horse Pudding Factory. It's like sausage, only they use even more of the horse!
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  348. I find it very, very hard to not sing along with the amendment parody song every time I hear it.
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  349. I think my favorite part about the worm is that it's a TAPE WORM... it's standards are so low that it can thrive eating it's host's poop. And that worm went into his brain (presumably by mistake) and starved to death. And then he ran for president because steve bannon said he should! Anyways, just here saying that eating RFK jr's brain is more toxic than eating shit, he's that stupid.
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  350. It's nice seeing two people have this great of a time, especially when they're making us laugh!
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  351. It's been fascinating watching the US not just drop the ball in regards to African development opportunities, they keep throwing the balls at people, only the balls are bricks. It's insane that any country in Africa would look at the ongoing disaster that is the russians and say 'that's the side we want to be on!', it's giving me serious 'how did the brits ever conquer India if India had more money, soldiers, and was relatively advanced?'. The answer IMHO is that the Indians were too oppressive of their own people, India was so wealthy that if it paid it's poor fairly there would have been zero chance of the British making inroads via bribes and promises, the misery the powerful created resulted in the downfall of their nation (and you could morbidly argue that the oppressed's willingness to be oppressed resulted in them being oppressed truly horrifying ways by the british, if they had fought for better treatment from their native overlords they wouldn't have fallen to the brits). Anyways, the US had the money, power and endless time to make progress in Africa and they instead invaded random countries, and both ended in disaster. Are the coup leaders also asking china for resources? I know they used to dump relatively large amounts of resources (compared to what other countries were spending anyways, not large compared to the needs of the people) in Africa, maybe I missed it? In terms of disposable income, you can't compare russia and china in any sane way, one is a sprawling yet sparsely populated country that depends almost entirely on primary industry, the other has 1/6th of the world's pop roughly, with a huge diaspora, and is either the number one or number economy in the world, the chinese might fluff their numbers, but I'm confident the americans do too. Seriously, I wish more people would have pointed out that the 'duterte method' was just murder whomever is inconvenient and then make up some shit about drugs. When you have extra-judicial killings that also have no follow up there are going to be endless abuses. The especially messed up part is that the country then elects the son of it's most corrupt leader, not really sure how you fix the effects of colonization's deliberate infantilization of the populace, but I sure hope we do, because we're turning the poor into something closer to colonial subjects, people who have no political power or influence, and who's labor does not benefit them very much, who are deliberately infantilized to make them easier to manipulate. The education system is literally being turned into a right wing indoctrination process by more than half US states, while even in blue states there is staggering corruption in the education system, look at schools in poor areas vs in wealthy ones, neither party seems to want the general public to be able to think critically, and those reasons are certainly not good.
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  352. I'm going to make this concept a bit different to explain why I don't think they qualify as life forms. Say an implant was developed that could more or less hijack parts of your brain and influence your behavior, such that you now mostly want to make more identical high tech implants and implant them in other people. Is this machine alive? No, the human being is though. That's what a virus does to a cell, it's not a whole lot more complicated I think. Virus' are completely inert pieces of information that happen to fit into our cells and as prions show, just fitting in can cause immense problems, the data itself is almost meaningless (just like the pile of viral genetic info we each carry). I think you could also compare a virus to a book, a book can convert someone to another viewpoint, even make them spread the same information, but the book isn't alive, and nobody sane would say it is, even if it's author was alive. Data/information (IE a virus) isn't alive, but it can have huge ramifications anyways, and I don't see what other discipline you could use to study virus' than biology. I think it's worth noting we mostly study the affects of a virus, not so much it's physical shell, it being far too small, and usually hard to damage while in a host. I think the fact that they have limited/no biological process' also leads me to question whether they qualify as alive, no metabolism of any kind is a deal breaker for me, let alone having individual cell division. It doesn't eat, or change/age, it only will literally decay away/be destroyed, and you could remove all but the genetic information and likely allow it to function fully as a virus, most of the material is there to protect it/get it into a cell. But seriously, if you consider virus' alive, I think you have to accept that machines can be an artificial form of life and adjust your world view accordingly. I actually think a machine could be much closer to life, despite having no biological processes, at least it'd have processes.
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  353. ...He actually thinks he beat Obama? Does he do nothing but smoke crack while not rambling and gesticulating wildly in front of crowds? How is he deteriorating this fast? How much worse is he than reagan's was when he ran again (and won, because the US likes a dumb showman above all things)? All important questions that nobody will find out the answer to!
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  354. I suspect you're underestimating how cheap melons were/are in North America, but I could be wrong, I haven't exactly looked up yours either.
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  355. Ugh, you know those $$$ 'charity' things that rich people do (you know, all of them) are scams, right? They don't actually donate anything to charity, they just move money to accounts that are called 'charity' that are invested normally, and then the profits are funneled into the hands of the rich people via dumb/obviously crooked contracts.
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  356. Family leave should be mandatory for all employees, acting like companies can't afford that is VERY insulting to my basic economics knowledge. These companies are extremely profitable, and none of that profit is being shared with the workers anymore, all because someone told the CEOs that they could convince the shareholders to give them more money as long as the CEOs just fuck over the employees and consumers at every opportunity, and guess what? Every CEO got the same shit-pile of a memo.
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  357. It's the 'new thing' that all the major powers do, they have PMCs that arbitrarily don't count as state actors, and thus are 'exempt' from any manner of legal consequence. This is the same type of logic that was used to justify not treating uber as a taxi service (and thus exempting it from all taxi-related responsibilities, despite objectively and obviously taxiing people around, meaning it was wildly more profitable than taxis that had to pay taxes and register), it's legalese BS over the weakest sort, very much circumventing the meaning and intent of the rule by adhering to an especially (arguably implausibly so) stupid/short-sighted interpretation of legal codes that is extraordinarily self-serving. You can't do this kind of thing as an engineer or architect, and even as a doctor you'd be hit with malpractice suits for interpreting things in such a cognitively bankrupt fashion.
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  358. I feel like their was a story about Biden and some rough customer (Cornpop?) at a pool? Surely as a security guard at a pool he knew how to swim decently?
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  359. Walz reminds people of their sane male relatives, Hairball reminds people of that sketchy guy who still owes them $20, the one that you wouldn't leave alone with your couch (or daughters tbh).
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  360. Yeah, he 'issued' a statement, by which you mean someone else wrote some stupid shit for him. The fact that he had to pay someone to write something that bad is just so very trump. Edit: Are you fucking serious? Voter suppression by the republicans is 'trumpian'??? Have you no context??? This is 100% normal behavior for that party, it has long worked to suppress voters that disagree with them. This isn't new, and it certainly wasn't a 'trump' idea, the man hasn't had a functional idea in his entire life.
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  361. Yeah, Oliver did not lean hard enough into the 'corporate greed' aspect of this period of inflation, it's not like biden can tell corporations they can't try to wheedle out every last dime from the poor, how is raising the interest rate going to make corporations tolerate lower profit margins than they could theoretically have? The system is even somewhat self-perpetuating, with corporate leadership getting rewarded more depending on how good they are at fleecing the poor, why would they choose sanity and lower their prices when they could just choose greed and raise them far beyond what the supply issues would dictate? If they don't keep raising them and lying about it, they'll be replaced by someone with less scruples who will do what the shareholders want. Our glorious capitalistic cult/pyramid scheme is in the process of dying a very painful death as people wake up to the fact that the rich will do anything that makes money, even kill off our species in the near term to profit in the immediate future. I think we're also finding out why we don't see signs of civilizations that are a lot more advanced, presumably they die out around now in their development cycle.
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  362. It never ceases to amaze me when people take ben's side in what is clearly a case of him not delivering anything to the marriage. He's been best known for being in and out of rehab at this point, but I should add I never liked his movies very much, and he comes across as a huge a-hole, and I'd bet money if I gambled that this is his fault. Also, doesn't 'let him live' mean 'watch him drink himself to death'? I feel like either people don't like J-lo for reasons they don't want to say out loud, or she personally pushed a LOT of kids into mudpuddles back in the day (like full time job).
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  363. Cool show!
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  364. I also like vintage Beck, I had 3 albums of his that I listened to a ton, I'm pretty sure Odelay was the one I listened to the least, I don't think it's a consistent album like Vultures (where every track is incredible), or Gold for that matter (Nightmare Hippie Girl is such a jam). I think in this age and day there shouldn't be space for people who can't be around young women, yet we enable abusers instead of punishing them in a great many cases.
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  365. Food that's too old? ha. I once had some cheese that I bought while in university (and was shockingly stingy), and each time I ate it, it gave me a horrible stomach ache/loose bowels. Anyways, I think it took me eating it 3 times, with 1 of them when I was already pretty sure it was the cheese, for me to just throw the cheese away. It was not a good day, because it was tasty cheese, but my god, that was unpleasant. BACK TO YOU! But seriously, iirc, I roasted some squash in a slow cooker, filled it with rice, probably added some water and spices, then topped it with the cheese. It was utterly fantastic, it was probably baby orange Hubbard, damn it was good, and back then I adored meat, so this was a weird meal. I don't remember adding much water, but I can't see how the recipe would work without it (though the squash would give a bunch, and the cheese would help keep it in).
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  366. Just saying, but checking isn't entirely decorative, it helps with grip.
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  367. A merciless evisceration of an oh so worthy target.
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  368. Oh my fucking goodness, cruz, you can't say 'wages are being driven down' when your party is desperately fighting to keep the minimum wage well below the poverty line.
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  369. Gluten is Fascism!
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  370. Not sure why this is hard for some people, tipping as a concept needs to gtfo, it's just a way for society to reward assholes, they get cheaper service because they don't care that their server is going to go to bed hungry. Capitalism is 100% the problem here, it's not a coincidence that you give a tip after service, meaning it's very easy for an asshole to get great service and have a laugh when they stiff the worker who went the extra mile. How is it I can figure this out having never worked in service AND having almost never eaten out?? Oh, right, because in construction if you treat people that badly you risk having a load of bricks 'accidentally' dropped on your head, when you stiff a service worker you just have a laugh and leave. Most countries don't like the idea of tips, and pay workers living wages accordingly, if fast food in Scandinavia can pay workers living wages then actual restaurants here definitely can. Also, the entire purpose of the 'gig' economy was to allow large companies to have workers that they can treat even worse than is normally legal because of a variety of stupid loopholes that were built into the system. Nobody who has more than 2 brain cells thought the rules should have been different for uber than for cab drivers, yet they were despite the two DOING EXACTLY THE SAME THING. It's incredibly evil, and it's how capitalism works... John jokes about finance bros trying to 'capitalize' (read: enshitify) orphanages, we joke about it but they'd do it in a heart beat if they could, they enshitified prison and care homes, to say nothing of schools, it's not like they'd feel bad about ruining the lives of orphans. The suits don't lose sleep over children being coerced into working in meat packing plants late into the night, society has no consequences for business people who do objectively awful things in the name of raising their own wage. Ever since reagan their has been a huge push to lionize the rich in the US, it's a combination of the poor needing to pretend we live in a meritocracy (and thus their shitty position is ultimately justified, and the lofty ones of the rich assholes is as well), and the rich literally investing billions of dollars collectively to gaslight us into worshipping them. If we don't wake up as a society we're going back to feudalism (and the fascism needed to maintain it). Also, unless you're physiologically unable to, LEARN TO COOK. I'm not even saying you need to learn how to grow your own food, just learn how to cook, do not be dependent on restaurants (fast or otherwise) for most meals, prepare your own food from raw ingredients. If a company knows that you don't know how to cook, they know they can raise their prices and you will still have to pay (or find elsewhere to eat), the rich want the masses to have as few real skills as possible, as little spare time as possible, and as poor as possible. The rich don't want you to know how to cook, just learning how to boil rice and fry an egg is STICKING IT TO THE MAN! DO it people! Then, start learning some other skill that the rich don't want you to have, like making art that doesn't support our corporate overlords, or learn to build stuff! The less you are dependent on corporations for the better of you will inevitably be, and the less dependent our collective society is, the better off the majority of us will be. Ever wonder why all of our mainstream TV and movies present communes as being hippy-dippy bullshit? it's because corporate America was losing it's precious WORKERS to those communes, and it needed to demonize them, having skills is cool, being an asshole is not; it took me until the 3rd grade before I figured out that most of what made a kid 'cool' was essentially sucking on corporate ass, at which point I stopped trying to be cool, I wore hand me down track pants to middle school, and they had repairs! Being what corporations tell us is cool fucking sucks, joining together with your fellow workers? Now that shit is COOL!
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  371. I feel like age difference horror is mostly a function of how young the younger person is, if they're under 30 you're a garbage person if you've got a big gap, and if they aren't even in their 20s you're literally a predator who should be publicly castigated if you're over 22. I don't like big age gaps more as I age and realize how big of a deal age really is, it's very much a thing that matters, and if a person pretends it doesn't they're either an idiot being exploited or are an exploiter, neither is a good role to fill. By the time both parties are 40, I really don't care anymore, a 40 year old knows that they're getting old and that it sucks, a 20 or 30 year old truly doesn't, and I say this as someone who was always older than their age. I feel very, very confident that no 40 year old can have a healthy sexual relationship with a 20 year old, it's always exploitation in my eyes, and it's gas lighting to argue otherwise IMHO. I've heard that until you're in your 20s 3 years is a huge gap and should be the max (IE 15 and 18 yo is skeezy but acceptable, 14 and 18 is actively creepy and should be frowned upon), if you're in your 20s it's probably 5 years, and if you're in your 30s it's about 10, anywhere beyond that who cares. I don't care if a 40 year old is marrying a 90 year old unless the 90 year old is senile, because that's exploitation again. These aren't quite 'hard and fast rules', but the thing people should keep in mind IMHO is that those are the limits, IE where you're already creepy but aren't doing anything so bad as to face real consequences. Glad folks immediately mentioned gender in the age gap discussion, I feel way skeevier about the inevitable men in their 30s that feel okay dating teens, if you've got a big gap you won't have as healthy of a relationship. By the time I was 25 the idea of actually dating a teen was openly horrifying to me, and I will admit I was surprised when people seemed to expect me to try when I was older than that when I went back to college, it didn't help that I'd gotten into good shape and worked on myself, so people were really invested in me trying to have bad relationships for whatever (probably illegal if we're honest) reasons, but if you're in your late 20s, you're looking to get married, not laid, and a teen or early 20s girl isn't interested in that, 'they want to have fun', and by my late 20s I was about as fun as a stick in the mud. I suspect you could more healthily switch the two, having a younger man and older woman is less of a problem by virtue of at least having someone who's mature in the relationship, girls don't seek out mature men when they're young, they seek out toxic morons. I'm one of those weirdos who's actually nauseated by big age gaps, they literally make me feel sick sometimes, it's like people obsessed with their partner having no body hair/looking youthful, if you're trying to get your partner to shave off all of their body hair maybe you need therapy to get over the fact that you're not aroused by adult bodies that have hair/wrinkles? I mean seriously, why do we let media normalize this kind of stuff, it used to be super-embarrassing to have to annul your marriage because your wife had hair down there (Lewis Carroll did this so he could try to 'seduce' a child instead, until the parents got skeeved out by him wanting to see their daughter naked). People need to stop letting media dictate what is normal, it's driving us to our doom. I will point out that I have zero relationship experience, but I'm also pretty content with that most of the time, I am very much not a promiscuous person and do not admire the trait in other people, so the idea of marrying someone because they're 'young, hot, and moldable' is pretty revolting, you should be marrying for love or not at all (no shade to people being coerced into marriages, it's not your fault, but I hope those forcing young people into marriages should fall into a wood chipper while vinegar and iodine are being dumped in, feet first btw, I want to hear them scream). People don't fall in love with people with a problematic age gap, they might get sexually infatuated but they can't love someone that is that contradictory, your interests will be too different/your natures too opposed over meaningless things. People who are mentally unstable often like to have liaisons with bad partners 'because the sex is better', but part of being an adult is understanding that it only feels good because it's going to feel bad later, proportionately so. Edit: Don't you use bourbon for proper vanilla extract? Probably don't use cheapo stuff, good bourbon is very nice, bad just gives me bouts of rage (I'm a scotch person I admit). Edit Again: Around the holidays, wine is a good pick, I feel like the key is knowing in at least the coarsest terms what a person is into, if they like sweet, acidic, or dry, and whether they care about aging in wood. It's hard to go wrong with decent port, comes in white or red (with some variations beyond) and it's enjoyable and accessible as long as you like at least somewhat sweet wine, it's often quite sweet, strong, and thick, even the white I've had. If that's not sweet enough, I'd go with either an Ice Wine or Sauternes, both are fairly similar in price in my area, with the ice wine being local so it may vary elsewhere. If they like dry, I just had a bottle of Amarone, which was delightfully dry while still having remarkable body and thickness. I also think people underappreciate mead and fruit wines, so I've been making my own fruit wines (some with honey, though that batch is taking an ungodly amount of time to finish fermenting, thank god it's 17% yeast and can handle the extra time no trouble), which seem quite delightful. The raspberry wine I made was particularly pleasant, but they've all be fantastic so far. I'm hoping to make a bigger batch of 5 gallons this winter, I saved up a whole bunch of different berries, just have to decide which I'll use, though I've also ordered in some wine making raisins, so I might use a bunch of those as well the ~3lb of grapes I picked from my one plant, I think if you make decent wine (if it's from a kit, try for one that isn't from concentrate, but some kits taste fine) that's also a nice gift, but make sure other people who know about wine (at least somewhat) agree that the wine is good before you gift it! I can't wait to bottle up my latest batch, which will be ready pretty soon I hope, it's a mix of 5 parts blueberries, 7 part blackberries and 12 parts strawberries, I was able to bottle the pair of smaller jars which were slightly more diluted and only sweetened with sugar. These taste strongly of strawberry and made an excellent wine, I almost worry the main batch will be too thick and potent, but then I remember that I like port and I worry less, it's very hard for a wine to be too thick, rich, sweet or potent for my tastes. The main batch was sweetened after primary fermentation with honey, my first mead product I've brewed up, so I'm extra curious if it'll be good.
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  372. It's interesting more an issue that they have a wildly overactive fear center, that their own brain is just so paranoid that it hamstrings their ability to reason, and they embrace stupid shit like racism and are super-supportive of the status quo, because they can't imagine anything be remotely different. So yeah, they are 'stupid', but some might test as having a reasonable IQ (some, not most, IQ also is associated with being liberal and educated), but the actual processing of information is so biased by fear that it's faulty.
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  373.  @sturmgewehr4471  The Romans were very oppressive to any population that was restive after being conquered. They didn't have much patience for those that refused to assimilate, and I strongly suspect the increasingly refractory populations they were conquering in their later periods is why they simply stopped bothering; the remaining areas would probably have required horrific massacres, and possible re-population from outside, something that was just not very practical back then, or not seen as practical. The Romans were not kind by any means, but that was more rule than exception. I can only think of the Persians as having a relatively respectable history of treating conquered people decently, and even that is debatable. I don't think I'd say the actual Romans had anything to do with the Enlightenment, it was the Renaissance people that pick and chose aspects to glorify, making them a caricature of what they really were, so that they could be admired. Their were some pretty enlightened Roman writers, but most were not remotely so. The influences from the East is where Western Science came from for example, as well as most related fields, and the art of the Renaissance was not always very similar (at all) to that of the antiquities.
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  374. Seth, I think we'll take what we can get, jackals can't be choosers, right? The only hand you can bite is the one that's feeding you, that's why we're jackals.
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  375. Schizo people have a higher likelihood to believe in right wing ideas, especially the bonkers stuff that doesn't make sense, like racism and misogyny, it's unfortunate but it's because of their dopamine system (they get 'high' off of conspiracy BS), it's the same reason that anyone using hard drugs for too long is essentially the same paranoid (and violent) person, their dopamine system gets out of wack because they're getting chemical rewards yet are technically not very happy, eventually driving them insane. It's worth remembering that people with mental illnesses are more likely to be victimized than to victimize others, meaning the knee-jerk to blame violence on mental illness is actually misleading from a purely statistical perspective, let alone from a logical one. That the murderer was schizo had nothing to do with what he did, it was entirely because he was a radicalized misogynist who thought he was owed a woman by society (society used to do this btw, most women didn't get to choose who they married historically, just like rich people didn't get to choose, women were considered property). Lots of people are schizophrenic and won't hurt a fly, but most misogynists are willing to use violence to 'punish' society because women aren't being 'assigned' to them. The problem is the misogyny, not his illness, his illness likely made him worse at doing what he did, in addition to making it less likely.
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  376. It's gradually become clear to me that it's actually in the interests of the already wealthy to make everyone else more desperate/stressed out, it's very hard to organize a rebellion if you're too stressed to sleep at night, it's very hard to organize if you're struggling to feed your family. Eventually it loops around and people get so miserable that they'll lash out, but that can take a depressingly long time. Workers who are stupidly competing with their fellow workers rather than trying to change the system are the bread and butter of capitalists, they live on our willingness to step on one another at the bottom rather than working together.
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  377. Not just sleeping with, paying to sleep with and crossing state lines with them. It's almost impossible to believe, but gaetz is actually even dumber than he looks! Also, who brags about needing ED meds to bang hookers while they're in their 30s?? I ask in all honesty, does gaetz not understand the concept of shame? Does he have a humiliation kink that he hasn't discovered yet, so keeps making himself look terrible in public? Also possible, he's gay and the only way he can physically have sex with girls is to use lots of ED meds and stimulants, but unfortunately for him he can't psychologically deal with the facts so he kept doing that until he got unhappily married (because he was embarrassing himself and his dad).
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  378. It's not lost on me that the establishment is very careful to present to us what an 'acceptable' lefty is, and that is someone who is victimized without complaining, which is to say someone who will not be successful at their plan because they're too busy getting beaten by police officers to actually achieve anything.
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  379. No, the robber barons did not help the US industrialize faster, because we know that the communist countries as a rule industrialized considerably faster, and with no significant outside trade. Take a look at growth numbers instead of just repeating what your profs told you, the numbers are unfortunately solidly on the side of the communists. I will say though that communists did not do a very good job of entertaining the population, which is a serious long term flaw, but short (and by that I mean over 30 years) term growth was incredible for those countries. The Soviet Union went from an international joke to a world power in 15 years, and in another 15 years it was the leading science power in the world.
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  380. The Idol was famously so unsexy that people openly speculated that none of the people had ever had sex. It had nerdy virgin energy, and not the 'cool nerd' stuff we have now, the awkward rapey nerds of Revenge of the Nerds kinda nerdy virgin energy.
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  381. Why the fuck is it a 'thing' to ask random rich people what they think of major economics issues?? Being generous, they are businessmen, not fucking economists. This is like asking your doctor for landscaping advice; while it might work out, there are usually much more qualified people to get advice from.
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  382. And we all know how well it went when argentina didn't play nice with the West, it's still an economic pariah and is now run by a gooney bird masquerading as a jackass. The issue here is that the wealthy collectively are more powerful than any one country, and they run most of them (and can install new leaders in many of the others at a whim), so how is a single country supposed to fight back against them?
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  383. I honestly can't believe we live in a time when there are not only still endless MLM scams, online casinos that are obviously scams, and two simultaneous tech bubbles going on. AI and crypto are both essentially bullshit, crypto doesn't actually do anything new (other than make it easier to launder money), and AI is bad at everything it does, it's not at all creative it's literally doing shitty collages, the issue is that so many of us have terrible educations and thus are very easy to manipulate/can't tell good from bad on a fundamental level. I feel like if you trained the AI on the internet's shitposts you're going to have a ton of output that is just going to be bullshit, garbage in garbage out they say. I'm not sure (other than obvious scamminess) why people call these predictive models AI, it's not really AI as anyone else would have described it in the past, yet here we are, saying a program that guesses the next word (based on looking at a lot of writing, much of it riddled with inaccuracies and lies if it's online) is 'intelligent'. I don't 'guess the next word' when I write, not sure if everyone else became really stupid when I wasn't paying attention? You say these AIs aren't as smart as a dog, they're probably not as intelligent as a nematode yet, saying they are dumb does the stupidest person you've ever heard of a great disservice, it's exactly like saying a calculator is 'good at math', to say it requires a fundamental misunderstanding of how it works/what it does.
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  384. Did you ever watch the Futurama episode about Bender being a wrestler? Eventually he's being demoted, so they have him dressed in a tutu, fighting a gigantic robot. Also, they reference the most unpopular wrester in history, 'sergeant feces processor'... I thought of this both when vince's BS came up, as well as when the beloved black wrestler was written out so brutally vs the mma guy.
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  385. Ugh, the nazis were terrible and all, but they weren't unique in history in their horrors, just that they had access to modern tech while doing it. The West completely depopulated North America and Australia for example, and for centuries was enslaving wave after wave of African slaves through extreme brutality, in order to feed their backwards economy. Racism is associated with psychopathy for some reason, but racialized nationalism has been a thing since the Renaissance iirc, when we invented the modern concept of racism pretty much whole cloth. I think it's a very important thing to note that the right makes a habit out of defanging the word nazi, in part by accusing progressives of being 'the real nazis', if you can pretend that the opposite of something is that thing then you've made that word mean nothing IMHO, and the modern right wing really wants to bring back nazism in a huge way.
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  386. I like a good wine, but bad wine is pretty terrible. At the same time, I feel like you don't need to spend $1000 on a bottle of wine to get a good one, I've had very good ones that were pretty cheap, it helps if you look into regions that are relatively neglected by wine culture. That said, I have the odd bottle that isn't cheap, but the idea of spending $1000 on a single bottle is mindboggling... I'm guessing it wasn't even cloudberry wine, or may apple wine, something a witch might brew? Also, I don't here earthy very often in wine descriptions, the closest I remember is oaky, which isn't earthy, and gamey, like the character the Franc grape can impart, which is also not really earthy, so I feel like this is a bit lazy for a lazy bit. I'd honestly be surprised if any of the conservative SC members could appreciate a good bottle, so it seems doubly wasteful, like putting out a $200 of champagne for the kid table, just give them sprite or they'll start putting the sugar that's out for the coffee into the champagne.
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  387. Also very good episode, supreme court corruption is a huge problem that shows little sign of improving.
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  388. I know that the more evil you get, the weirder your kinks get, but seriously, could tucker only wank to the Green M+M??
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  389. I don't think I'd agree trump is funny because he's not. He's not witty, he's not erudite, and he's not clever, so no, he's not funny. I hate to be mean, but none of his 'quiet parts' speak to anyone with a conscience, he essentially has appeal to people who enjoy cruelty for it's own sake. All of his jokes are clumsy/dumb personal attacks, and the only times they work is when it's just so juvenile that it sneaks past your defenses, specifically 'Meatball Ron' worked, but only because desantis has the mental acuity of an actual meatball (and also looks like a meatball made from pork belly), so it has 'kid speaking an awkward truth' energy, which is very much the best trump can do (and he probably has writers giving him these 'jokes). But seriously, right wing comedy isn't funny, it's just mean and appeals to patriarchy at best, and politics at worst (right wing politics are deeply unfunny if you're poor), the patriarchy stuff is popular because a large percentage of men (and a not insubstantial portion of women) are misogynists. Is misogyny funny? No, but your inner idiot will like it because it's part of the problem in society, and we all have a part of ourselves that has been put there by those in power, which is why Americans just knee-jerked to support afghanistan (which any armchair strategist could have told them was an insane goal, even with numerous allies) and then the iraq invasion (which literally made no sense in context at the time, iraqi leadership despised Islamism openly). I hope that's not too confusing, I am a lunatic after all!
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  390. 'The brain is resilient...' actually means 'We don't really understand how some people recover from some injuries, or how some people can continue to function at all', because the brain, like most of our systems, is designed to have fail-safes for when things go awry. In the brain's case, it's other parts of the brain that try to do work that another part is designed to do, with varying levels of success. My grandfather had a farm accident that put a metal spike through the side of his head, an event he arguably completely recovered from, though he couldn't handle cold very well after, due to the metal plates presumably. I guess it's like how if you lose your favoured hand, you'd eventually get quite good at using your other one, until you became about as good with it. That's also rewiring your brain, and it's probably part of why athletes and musicians have cognitive advantages, they are usually much more ambidextrous than an average person. More wiring in the brain is a function of more areas being used to seeing use, and your brain using itself in a way that isn't intuitive, like using your 'off' hand in precise tasks. More complex is better than bigger, when it comes to brains, but you usually enlarge the parts you use, while the neglected portions will tend to atrophy, just like muscles (only considerably worse for you!). In regards to the premise, I assumed this would mostly be about physical force, and the high likelihood of concussions (almost guaranteed if you are knocked out), which are often bad things to have long term, more so if you have multiple ones. Using drugs to knock yourself out is usually not without side effects either, especially if it happens very often. Using something highly addictive acutely to aide surgery is very different than using it chronically to get a buzz... I would expect any lesser opiate would be almost unnoticed for an experienced fentanyl user for example, though if a drug worked completely differently (ignored that part of the brain) it could still knock you out fine. Having read about the difficulties people had with early analgesics, I think I'd prefer to have not numbed too much of my brain to too many substances.
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  391. His Eddie is uncanny....
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  392. Probably Hasbro, since they own Wizards of the Coast? I'm also a pretty big Disney fan, still shocked they didn't just buy WotC when they wanted to make a card game.
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  393. I went to a rural school, so people hated Pinkerton, but I loved it anyways, it had lots of great tracks. I liked Guster, which had some pretty emo vibes on the only album I had of theirs, Lost and Gone Forever (even the name sounds a bit emo now that I think about it).
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  394. I can't see how the Chinese gov thinks escalation is the right solution here. In my unprofessional opinion, the ultimate outcome of the Square incident was not an increase in central control at all, so trying to double down on this again seems very much like shooting yourself in the foot.
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  395.  @notpublic8961  Yeah, look at the daily bloodbaths committed by the violent fascist socialists that sweep through Europe and Canada! Why doesn't the news cover that I wonder! They present those countries like they're paradises, with objectively less problems and less inequality, and better odds of ending up wealthy to boot, why won't the lamestream media just play 80s Action/Propaganda Movies?!
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  396. Didn't October get it's name from the French base 10 calendar that nobody liked? That's what we learned in French class in school, it was proof that 'France mattered', which was a necessary step because nobody learns history anymore and nobody thus knew that French had been a world power for hundreds of years, and you can't exactly just say 'France used to matter a lot, so it's still important' and not get laughed at by school kids.
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  397. I more or less reached the conclusion that we don't really have free will as we understand it from a scientific perspective in my early teens, when I concluded that we make decisions based on data, experiences, heuristics and biology, and thus, we are essentially a complex machine. This isn't really 'bad', its just what we are. I established for myself that regrets were literally insane, because you could never have done other than what you have done, disturbing and horrible as that may seem. Does this mean people who do evil shouldn't be punished? Fuck no, because the existence of actual, enforced deterrents will have an impact on people's choices, we know this, even as we also have learned that infinite deterrent is not effective, such as the brutal anti-drug campaigns. There need to be reasonable consequences for people who do wrong, and there need to be incentives in life to do good, and interestingly, our own biology (in most people) works this way, to encourage us to do and be good, kind people, especially to those we consider 'on our side'. Unfortunately, we also get the same enjoyment from doing evil to those we consider 'on the other side', as ghastly as this seems to a species that is probably the least genetically diverse species to have taken over the planet's systems. We're very much same, each human, and yet we divide each other up, because we're programed to do so. As a religious person, I more or less accept the existence of some manner of soul, but even that has issues, as my religion dictates that all humans are fallen and corrupt by nature, again denying us free will. I like the idea of God ultimately granting us true freedom, and I think freedom is what Jesus was teaching in a way (certainly from sin and death!), how we can live more liberated lives, by denying our worse nature, and embracing God. It is interesting how few evangelicals these days embrace one of the key facets of the Old Testament, that God desperately wants his faithful to be happy, even to be joyful. A key teaching in the Bible is that God will tend to reward not just the faithful, but also the happy... he'll give more to those who have plenty, for example, is a strange teaching, but makes some sense this way. Joy is so paramount that his son's first miracle was to create wine, because the party ran out of booze. I'm pretty sure God didn't create us to be assholes to each other, and both Testaments agree on that I'd argue. TLDR: Science can prove free will is mechanically impossible, but it can't prove that all things are mechanical by definition, because if it cannot interact with something, it cannot prove or disprove it's existence, and it is thus not a relevant topic to science.
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  398. Way to go Coco! It's both inspiring and deeply frustrating to hear this interview, but I am incredibly confident that if it was the dead Queen herself suffering up-skirt shots they'd have a bit more to say about it, isn't privilege fucked? Imagine being an alien and coming hear and being told that we have created an impressive democracy, and then having to explain to them that while everyone is equal under the law, some people are more equal than others. Wouldn't they just bomb us into oblivion out of sheer disgust? Why won't we think of the aliens? According to people who (conveniently) have (zero) evidence they're out there and they're visiting us, don't we want them to look on us as 'brilliant in our own way' rather than as 'another garbage world we can wipe out and build something useful from'?
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  399. Also, have Jasmine Crocket on again soon, such a great guest!
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  400. I used to make light of anxiety (I sometimes see spiders that aren't there when I'm too stressed, so yeah, I don't think you'd enjoy that?), but after hearing one of the symptoms is that it makes you hug cows, now I'm impressed, because I DO NOT want to have the urge to go hug a cow (though I am fond enough of them, I don't want to hug a huge farm animal that could step on me).
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  401. I'm always amused that there are people who think the algorithm has no motive programmed in other than 'show person X what they will keep watching', not only is left-leaning media much harder to find on most platforms compared to right wing, you get different ads on left leaning things, ads that are extremely obnoxious/odious like scammy online gambling ad (or a lottery ad, which is about as dumb as gambling online, you have similar odds), on politically neutral channels I get normal ads, go figure. At least I'm no longer as inundated with alcohol advertisements, but I expect I'll have plenty during Lent. I consistently get vids suggested that are similar to other videos that I've hit with 'don't show', the algorithm isn't listening because we're the sheep, and sheep don't get to choose what they look at, they just get to watch what is shown. Actually, that's a terrible analogy, but it's funny to imagine farmers caring about keeping their livestock entertained, I guess we can at least feel like we're pampered livestock? Our output btw is productivity/money, one way or another some capitalist shill is going to be getting your money, and the less your put back into the economy, the more frustrated they become. Too much saving going on? Time for some inflation, which mostly hurts the poor because stocks more or less rise faster than inflation, as does real estate that is in demand (be it farm, industrial, commercial or just houses being bought up after the previous homeowner was scammed out it, because since every poor person needs a house, the solution is to make them all tenants that can easily be forced to work as they'll never have the cushion of a house or generational wealth). Arguably the only things that go down in value with inflation are the things poor people have, stuff like cash or savings, both tank hard. It's pretty obviously fucked up, but that's by design, and that's why the algorithm is designed to shape us much more than we shape it, it's about telling us what to watch while giving us the illusion of choice.
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  402. Yeah, I'm not surprised the US isn't big on holding anyone responsible from positions of authority like the police, if you can hold them to account, they can't do things like kill unarmed civilians of certain skin tone without facing serious consequence (most of the time anyways). In Canada, I've heard that there is actually a legal responsibility to report certain types of crime you have knowledge about (IE child abuse), and you can be prosecuted for not reporting.
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  403. I'm sure it's covered by someone, but you wouldn't use an X-ray machine to do brain scans because they are best for studying dense tissue underneath flesh, not so much for low density flesh underneath some of your densest bone. You can probably tell 'something' would be in there, but you'd use an MRI or CATSCAN if you wanted to get a good look at a brain.
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  404. I'd be more interested in reality TV if it featured more feats of brute strength, like having to split wood with a giant axe. I welded up a 3.x great axe that I use to split firewood (I also chopped a tree down with it, though not a big one), it's 5ft long and in total weighs 20lbs. I think many people would injure themselves if they tried to use it, but it's not THAT heavy, it's just more than twice as awkward as a standard 12lb sledge (which is already laughably awkward to most grown men).
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  405. That was one HELL of a Freudian slip... trump really is constantly trying to deflect from his cognitive impairments, especially as they've gotten even worse with age. I think you could have argued that watching trump try to finish a sentence is like watching a 3 legged dog try to walk across a balance beam, or perhaps one of those dogs with the wheels for the back legs, a regular dog could do the job far too well. I really hope trump takes after capone, especially the happy ending for everyone! Who knew syphilis could be the good guy, right?
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  406. Let me get this straight: would Seth turn down lasagna made with pot? because I'm celiac, and I might not, as long as it's good lasagna.
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  407. I think the previous US regime left a considerable vacuum in global power structures when trump convinced the americans to shove their head up their collective ass for 4 years, and it was inevitable that China would use the opportunity to improve it's position in it's fast growing sphere of influence. For the record, it's not a question of if China will be a super power, it already is. By some metrics it surpassed the US economy many years ago, but it should be noted, they have some very weird projects that probably approach the cost difference between the Chinese and US militaries, so both countries are decidedly fluffing their economic numbers with empty spending (rather than just giving people better lives). The Chinese seem to have realized that they aren't going to have much success just conquering territory (though the world let them have Tibet to avoid a bigger war), and instead have leaned hard on using trade to create political leverage. At this point, China is a major supplier of most things to most countries, and they have the worker capacity to more than double production, even without using higher cost technology that the US uses by default, so they aren't likely to be going anywhere. Most of Africa and Asia has a serious beef with the US at this point, so China actually scores some points in these countries just by not being the US. It remains to be seen if China will squander the goodwill they have, as the US squandered so much. China's biggest weakness at this point, if you ask me (and you didn't!), is the overwhelming machismo and misogyny that is present in the culture. There is at least 100 million extra men in China alone, and if you think that isn't going to create some problems, then I'll worry about it for two, because that is a scary demographic. China also has a desperate need to save face internationally, not unlike how a cat hates it when you notice it stumble, being aware of it's own imperfections, yet desiring that others ignorantly see only their best aspects. Things like women's rights struggle to progress for many reasons, but the pervasive culture is a big reason. This limits the value a country can derive from it's women workers, and countries that do not effectively utilize as much of their population are eventually reliably outcompeted. China also has tons of extreme poverty, and although the US seems to be trying impoverish more of it's own middle class, the Chinese do seem interested in decreasing poverty over-all. Persistently it still remains a big issue, and as poor people can't be consumers, and China wants to have it's own consumer culture, those poor people need more money, while the US seems to think 'give all the money to the billionaires, because they're all great people and will solve our problems because they are nice' is a good plan. I hate to say it but I'm pretty sure China has the better plan on this, because giving more money to the rich just means more money gets squirreled away, or the stock market gets more bloated (IE shows growth despite having gained no real strength, a huge problem under the previous US regime). Poor people like to spend money, and that is a good thing for an economy.
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  408. Not lying, a part of me wondered if the US wanted him dealt with for fucking around in Africa, the chaos he's been creating has probably cost some money/resources, as well as lives. It'd be a nice pat way to deal with him, and everyone would be quick to blame putin (for obvious reasons), but if it was putin shouldn't he have died of eating too much polonium or something else staggeringly obvious? He doesn't want people to doubt that he had the hit done.
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  409. This is one of, if not the most bizarre weapons I have ever seen, but it is certainly marvelous in it's own way. On the upside, if you get hit by 10 small bullets at this grouping you're probably staggeringly dead. In all serious though, how stoned was the guy who designed this thing?
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  410. Using a stroller for your pet is insane if it's a dog. If it's a cat I think that's fair game, assuming you're not somehow forcing it to ride in there (the reason it's more okay for cats is because they're WAY less likely to cooperate while suffering than any dog). Cats aren't great for long walks, it's not how they get around, I have had cats that followed me on short walks, I usually have to carry them as they get winded and can't keep up (I don't encourage them, they just liked to come along once in awhile). If you've ever seen a cat pant from trying to go on a walk with you, it's adorable. ...Anyone comparing PLOWING A FIELD to posting on social media needed to do more farm work as a kid IMHO, that's one of the worst comparisons I've ever heard, specifically because plowing fields was an important necessity for survival (and in some areas is still done today, though rarely with horses), posting on social media does not produce VALUE, even if it can make you or other people more wealthy, it can never create value. You're not making things, and you're not providing people with actionable (and thus valuable) information, so you're not generating value for your or anyone else. Value generation is a very different thing than wealth generation, if you can't understand this I hope you never have any influence! If you want to compare using pets to something from the past, maybe compare it to how we actually used animals. Dogs weren't always pets; plenty of dogs (and cats) were only kept around as long as they could earn their keep, meaning those animals were LITERALLY slaves that existed purely to add value to their master's assets. Using our pets as surrogate children is much more humane (except the horrifying forced breeding programs), but primarily because we don't require our pets to add value the way historical dogs/cats had to. Also, there are literally endless stories of how much humans used to love their service animals of choice (be they pet dogs, hunting hounds, or a fancy horse, or whatever), so the whole surrogate child thing isn't entirely new, to the point where it's a trope to show how awful someone is when they care more about their animal(s) than a human of lower status. You can't have a chimp as a 'pet' it's 100% a slave, just like elephant training, once they're adults they are too strong so they break them when they're very young. It should be illegal. Their is double value in portraying hated humans as animals, it also devalues animals in a sense (because you already hate those scapegoats), meaning it's ALSO an anti-environment message snuggled up to the racism, so you can be evil while you're being evil.
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  411. Dude, modi is an open monster, don't carry water for garbage people. It's a BIG SIGN of a problem when 1) John Oliver has to do an episode about the fuckeries of your gov 2) You ban said episode because it makes you 'look bad' because it accurate depicts your misrule.
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  412. I really wish more people would present gambling as what it is; a scam on people who are stupid. It's legal because the people running things know that gambling helps keep people dreaming and working, even though gambling will never pay out anything (unless you like to walk away early with pretty small amounts, I know of people who can get away with $50-200 if they go monthly, it's part of what convinced me that it really is an open scam, they let you win just enough to (hopefully for them) get hooked.
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  413.  @Sp1n1985  While we're asking probing (and obviously inappropriate) questions, I've got two for you: How many times did your mother drop you on your head, and when did you stop beating your spouse? I mean, I'm just asking questions!
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  414. I dunno, I always felt like Star Wars: Attack of the Clones was the biggest troll among things I was a fan of. The name fit with the old EU concept of what the Clone Wars were, where as in the actual movie, the clones are actually saving the day. I mean, sure, they are attacking the droids, but when we see a movie called 'Attack of the' whatever, we expect to see people being attacked by those things. It was a pretty big change from what some people were expecting (which was clones to rise up and go berserk or something of the sort, creating a massive war), but it was largely ignored because the Clone Wars were not remotely fleshed out, just referenced. Still, calling a movie Attack of the Clones, and having the clones save the day and be the good guys? Epic troll at the time. You can see a long, proud history of trolling in Star Wars, and it's like everyone only noticed it for the sequel trilogy, which everyone hated? I mean, how is it not trolling to make Phantom Menace blatantly a kids movie, and then throw in a soggy political/economics theme to 'spice things up', because that is like trying to 'spice up' a meal by adding boiled potatoes. Even earlier, Return of the Jedi makes Leia hang out in a metal bikini, utterly gratuitous skin, in the same movie that also had the bloody Ewoks, which are appealing to what, 8 year olds at the oldest? Those utterly inappropriate things are trolling the audience just like pulling out a bazooka is. Heck, you could easily argue that Vader not detecting through the force his 2 children, only to be completely certain in the 2nd movie that Luke was totally his son, along with having been explicitly told Vader wasn't Luke's father. To top it all off, tons of people adore the space battles in Star Wars, so do we get big, flashy space battles? Nope, we get nothing that felt like Endor since then, the closest feeling like in Rogue One, which was again a bit of a troll, killing off literally the entirety of the characters just to make sure nobody could complain that we don't see them after the movie.
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  415. ​ @kumbaya69421 all your points are both wrong and stupid, the complaint about biden jokes was that they are generic 'old person' jokes, trump jokes are always about incredibly stupid (and embarrassingly childish) things he actually does, or are jabs about his appearance because of how vain/insecure trump is. I hope some day you grow wise enough to understand that trump wouldn't piss on a fire to save an orphanage, and that he hates all his supporters.
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  416. I find it way more acceptable to laugh at cokeheads than I do people who are addicted to poverty drugs... it's almost like there's a double standard, where if you're a horrible person who exploits others AND bogarts all the coke then I hate you? In contrast poor people's addictions are brutally criminalized despite cokeheads causing way more problems for society (because they have so much money and power), so laughing at crack users when the issue is systemic oppression seems pretty shitty.
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  417. Fairs can vary from summer to early fall, but by the time it's getting cold people were either hunkering down (because they were done everything), or pulling hard to get their winter harvest done, so that's why rural areas are usually done before late October. I assume the 'carnivals are scary' thing is just racism/fear of foreigners.
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  418. I thought most children knew what the 'A' was for? I mean it's one thing to not read enough books, it's another to be blind to mainstream culture because you're so invested in accruing power at any cost.
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  419. I used to drink Colt 45 when I was in university... I then became gluten intolerant, surely that's a coincidence?
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  420. I would be Kristen Stewart's best friend fwiw, she seems so cool!
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  421. I was briefly into the VS stuff, but I was also literally certifiable at the time and was not in good shape by and large (but like all things, 'a broken clock is right twice a day', so my weird obsession with pop culture that lead to nothing wasn't completely free of insight), at the time the pageantry and 'fun' appealed to me, but even then I didn't think their under-roos were especially practical because they looked good on lingerie models (and I have no idea who did, but many clearly did). By the time I was watching it it was quickly collapsing, I think it shut down after a couple more years all together. It definitely felt brutally exploitative, the pay is openly bad for a job that is that particular/controlling, but at least you also get to be treated like trash by world class assholes, because once you work with VS you get to deal with more acute sexism, since you're now an achievement for the various privileged men who feel entitled to your body. If you think average girls in the aughts had pressure to slut it up, the modeling world is so much worse. By the time I stopped following it I felt pretty bad for the women/girls involved, so I was glad to see it go if it couldn't change things up. I could never really tell if the actual top models from VS even liked the job, many of the bigger names did really well financially, but if you weren't one of the top 10 names you were lucky to bring in rent money in a big city, so I'm sure most of the lower tier names hated it but needed he work/hoped to get more buzz from it. The pressure on girls and women to be skanky to be 'popular' was deeply fucked up, I think my generation (I'm early/mid 80s) fell very hard for that stuff. That said it's never been okay to be a male prude, even if women could gain some points for being 'hard to get', men are just losers if they aren't sluts, and that hasn't changed at any time in my life. Apparently I felt like whining for a bit, because life is harder for women and it always has been, as long as a loser isn't actively anti-patriarchy he generally got married like everyone else, those who don't kowtow to the oppressors get zilch, but women who don't kowtow are treated considerably worse.
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  422. Oh, and I remembered later, their was a great moment when Elsa Hosk swatted ariana grande with her massive wing... I was really irate they had her on as a performer, and was a fan of Elsa so it was pretty cool to see happen, especially since nobody got hurt.
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  423. What the fuck are you talking about? By that logic we all need to be super anti-white racist everywhere in the world until they gtfo of Australia, North America, South America, South Africa and various other smaller countries, all places literally stolen from the natives. China for the record hates all non-Han, so that includes most other Asians, as well as blacks and whites. Among those non-Han peoples they are famous for hating are the Uyghurs, who are actively being 'genocided' there as we post meaningless junk. Black rights in China is an issue, but Uyghurs are dying in numbers.
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  424. ...what in the actual hell is 'MLK on steroids' supposed to mean even??? Does he think MLK was a famous power lifter or something? Oh, right, he's just so racist that all black men are reduced to just their physicality, no matter how intelligent or articulate they are.
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  425. I will say, drinking more than 1 or 2 shots at a time is usually a good way to have a bad time, especially if the shot is more than 1 drink. Also, if people don't want to drink alcohol have them eat a huge edible an hour before they come on, problem solved! An edible is safer/easier on the liver than a bunch of shots!
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  426. Self-driving cars also like to pull over when someone gets stuck underneath the car, rather than just, you know, stop the car. You might want to actually research how shitty ALL self-driving stuff is atm, and how the technology for it to get better openly doesn't exist yet (the tech we have now requires everything to be labled because the 'ai' has no intelligence and cannot interpret things for itself). We're not meaningfully closer to self-driving cars than we were when I was in school learning about robotics, but a lot of assholes make a LOT of money off of lying about ai.
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  427. I read some books as a teen that I thoroughly enjoyed at the time that I would not enjoy now, and I suspect I'd consider them a waste of time. There are sound reasons the corporate world targets teens so vigorously, at least from the 'making all the money' standpoint, so I wouldn't judge someone too much about what they liked a as a teen.
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  428. The reason the two are associated is because you usually go left wing explicitly because you witness how fucked up our society is, either facing consequences first hand of misogyny/patriarchy/racism or witnessing it happening to people you care about is what 'wakes us up', you don't wake up because nothing unusual happened! People stay right wing because they are still naïve enough to believe the propaganda. I sometimes eat chips and salsa as a snack, but I make my own salsa. I think you shouldn't eat too much empty carbs as a meal though, you need enough protein or you'll have noodle arms.
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  429. Yeah, being critical of modi is clearly proof of hyper-partisanship, it couldn't be that he's a corrupt and incompetent racist who's desperate for scapegoats (and ways to put down protest movements, of which their have been plenty during his regime).
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  430. Just going to say, I think if "tucks and bucks" is something you pay extra for? It sounds like it's an act that would be kinky to 60s trad-wives (how is that traditional btw?? It was one brief period that they're pretending was 'normal' and that all other history was 'weird'), but be really routine to their gigolo. Also, he is easily the least serious person in the US, nothing is more ridiculous than him pretending to have encountered difficulties or challenges. I think I'd have killed myself out of frustration/shame if my life was so easy, undeserved success/accolades feels awful in my experience. I'd rather get an honest thank you for digging a hole in mud than be a trust fund sponge. I find it hilarious that anyone thinks he has anything authentic about him, and lol'd when he, in his ridiculous costume, accused papa bear of being insincere. Why didn't he just go all out and wear a clown nose back then?
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  431. It'd be nice if there was any media at all that actually supported progress, it's actively tiresome seeing once respected journals of opinion become degraded into right wing mouth pieces... remember when the NYT wasn't interchangeable with the Post? Also, I second getting enough sleep, I have no qualms about going to bed early when I'm tired, if you're sleepy it's sleepy time!
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  432. The weird irony about the 'delicious oil' is of course Indonesia, where people are still wiping out rainforest to plant more oil palms, almost entirely for export. It's weird, I suspect they think they'll end up with soft power, but they're destroying perhaps the most valuable ecosystem in the world to grow date palms, for edible oil product and for soaps/creams that use palm oil. It's a staggeringly large industry because that land has ungodly agricultural potentialy, and they're growing OIL PALM... Poverty due to colonialism is horrifying.
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  433. I can think of a lot of words for putting a dumb looking fake bandage on your head to emulate a dumb looking (and almost certainly unnecessary) bandage the Dear Leader has, but clever is not on that list? Nor are any synonyms, but lots of antonyms are? It's the kind of stupid that makes me honestly wonder whether if trump jumped off a bridge the whole faithful would line up and take their own turn. The entire edifice that is the modern republican party was flimsily built on an anti-education foundation, only actual morons would vote red, but republicans figured that out more than a generation ago, and have been sabotaging it ever since. Bots are incredibly samey, often have errors/gibberish somewhere, will have pictures that look like they were taken 20 years ago (because they were), likely have other significant quality issues, often feature people who's photos were selected because they seem 'plausibly attractive' to the human monkey brain (too hot turns lots of people off), and often are hypersexual in nature (because sex attracts attention). On social media they're usually incredibly obvious, but it's quite possible to have bots on a message board that are much harder to spot now, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of content on facebook, twitter, and instagram was computer generated stuff, it's just done with a lot more care and competence so it's much harder to notice (it might not be clear what it's trying to sell us, or even that it's trying to sell something, lots of bots are used for disinformation campaigns, twitter was always bad for this). Lots of online news is bot/AI stuff, it's almost like that was an actual goal of the internet's a-hole finance types, to kill off proper journalism so the billionaire class can do whatever they want.
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  434. This is another example of republican projection... their reaction to the dems attempt to help families was to put their foot down and declare that only rich people deserve to have money/hope. They don't support families at all, and this is their way of dealing with their cognitive dissonance, to blame the other side for the shit they do. Absolutely fucked up.
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  435. Great vid, I don't think any of these people know their ass from a hole in the ground. They yammer 'we're not a democracy!' when all they really mean is 'we're really racist, and want racist to be a protected class'.
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  436. I learned in (Canadian I might add) high school how many big anti-democracy things the US did to protect slavery, including making sure lots of newly added states would be slave states, regardless of how far north they went. It's a weird look to brag about bringing freedom to the world when your country is founded on oppression explicitly (and entirely on stolen land). All of your weird laws that go against democarcy, the electoral college, the senate, all of that was, at the time, done to protect slavery.
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  437. What were the people doing? I'm gonna guess the Charleston
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  438. Um actually, most pre-historic societies were likely both more egalitarian and less centralized in terms of power, apparently it wasn't until you could store (and thus horde) grain that centralized power became a thing. Patriarchy evolves immediately out of that, because you need to bribe the dumb men with privileges like beating their wives/committing rape, and you can't do that if women are considered people as well. Hunter gatherer societies are never authoritarian because it doesn't make sense in context, and you can't coerce everyone in a community if you don't have a secure place to sleep (and weapons to make up for the difference in numbers). I don't know why we present autocracy as the norm when most of our ancestors wouldn't have put up with this BS. I think you could make a solid argument that the US' system is less about freedom for all and much more about talking about that freedom a lot and then threatening the worker class with abject poverty if they don't work harder for a smaller share of the profits of their labor.
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  439. I could literally sit crosslegged on pool water when I was in grade 9. It was absurd. Fortunately nobody tried to burn me at the stake (or burn my steak!).
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  440. I heard Disney didn't have drinking at the parks because when they visited parks in countries where it was legal they'd be going along with it and then someone would puke on them and they'd be all 'nope!'.
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  441. The very premise that you can't hold a president legally responsible is both insane and completely American. Other democracies have no issues with holding presidents/PMs accountable, why is the idea of letting him get away with breaking the law even being discussed without riots happening in the streets?
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  442. Here's a little 'heads up' for you, HR isn't BS unless it's serving corporate interests over employee. True HR is incredibly important to the betterment of workplaces. For the record, most work today is openly BS work, even manufacture and construction is designed to only make things that will wear our/fail relatively quickly, because then you need to buy again. Most major appliances seem to last way less time than previous versions (though there are fallacies at work there, I'm mostly counting the 'extra reliable' old models, not the ones that were absolute shit because they didn't last and I never saw them, but I remember when Saskatchewan had a fridge 'turn-in' thing, where you exchange your old fridge for a rebate, and the oldest fridge turned into gets a free fridge, well guess how old the oldest one was? It was apparently an original commercial model (first generation!), extremely old obviously, but apparently still functional enough that they actually used it), at least cars seem more reliable than they used to be. But seriously, look at modern infrastructure, it's designed to be replaced multiple times within a given human lifetime, that's absurd if you have any goals other than 'make-work projects' designed to keep the poor under the ever-growing thumb of the rich. The Romans could build structures out of concrete thousands of years ago that can still be standing today, and they could do it to a level of precision that would be impressive today for some projects. Our roads are unsafe after a decade, there are still standing (and safe to cross) Roman bridges extent. Just saying, we could be doing better but for some reason the powers that be won't let us live better, they want those on the bottom to be tormented (if not tortured) for not 'choosing' to become an exploiter like they did, for not selling out. Then again, nothing threatens a world view like having someone else live very contrary to it and be much happier, that tends to discredit it pretty well, if another one just works better. I think the most productive work I've ever done was probably growing and preparing my own food, and I wasn't even self-sufficient. I wouldn't be able to grow my own food if I hadn't been 'encouraged' to work at a tree farm while a teen, replacing a migrant labourer (I still ache haha) for the summer at a job grown men generally won't do. it was better than the minimum wage most people were getting, and I got to work more hours than I wanted, so the pay ended up being 'reasonable', just not per hour or 'per suffering unit'. Still, the work was enjoyable as I like being outside and getting dirty (as well as being physically active), and it taught me useful life skills like how to dig a hole, or how to not get heat stroke and die (I did get heat stroke, but fortunately didn't die, so at least now I know what to look for, and to maybe look for a new job if the boss requires you back the next day for a full day when you're out with what can be a life threatening condition).
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  443. This really is a bit 'on the nose' these days, and I think we can confidently say that a crazy male candidate gets wwwaaayyy less crap than a crazy female one in the US. Maybe you Americans can try running some non-crazy candidates? You guys know it's not required that all your candidates be nutters, right?
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  444. Not to imply you're not worldy, but he's a pretty boy that married into an extremely rich family last I checked, a humiliation kink is essentially required (don't date rich people unless you're also a rich person, they don't see you as human).
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  445.  @BD-zn7nr  For what? He's broke unless the oil barons give him another billion (it's funny hearing him beg), and even if they do he's so stupid he'll be broke again in a year or two, the man burns through money like a main battle tank burns fuel, there isn't enough money to give him to make him rich enough that he won't go broke again. He was literally so stupid that he couldn't make money with a money laundering casino (he was laundering money for the mob btw). That casino went broke when his daddy would regularly go there and buy millions in chips (which would never be cashed in, meaning he'd just give his failson more money to lose), he's such an inveterate failure that you can't give him enough money to keep him afloat, he just has to spunk it up the wall.
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  446. Hunger brings drive?? I'll let the millions (billions over the years? could be) that have died in famines that they were just lazy, and should have gotten *hungrier*, so that they'd have enough drive to stop being so fucking hungry. It's... interesting that a bunch of parasites that do not contribute in any way shape or form feel they have the right to dictate what social supports the actual workers should get, and that these privileged shits, in what can only be described as a crazy plot twist, side with the rich that give them relatively large amounts of money.
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  447. Not sure what you're going on about, depp literally had a mountain of openly psychotic texts that were just ignored, he also publicly admitted guilt and had already lost his trial in the UK (where the legal system is less of a circus), there is no sane way you can 'both sides' this shit. I know that much and did not follow that trial at all, maybe read some analysis next time in addition to watching the trial?
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  448. The weird thing about Canada's conservative party is that it's run by people who are pretty far right, only to perennially struggle to market leaders that would be right of many presidential candidates in the US, even with your pretty far right window atm. Canada's present conservative loon is actively parroting American conservative talking points, this despite the fact that most conservatives lose elections for being too socially conservative (because we also have the 'cult of the right', where all economic problems are caused by leftists, and all solutions come from right wing 'free thinkers' who are unbound by pesky morality and ethics. It's stupid but it works unfortunately, even a further left country like Canada). I'm not sure if Trudeau wins the next election, but if the conservatives wanted to win they sure didn't show it by putting up a guy who looks like he's a scrawnier nerd cosplaying meatball ron, more noodle than meatball, I think when poilievre has to stand next to Trudeau the staggering charisma deficit of the conservative makes it hard to take him seriously as a candidate, why didn't the conservatives just paint a face on a mop and run that instead? At least it wouldn't put both feet in it's mouth almost daily. I could be wrong but I don't normally see a bunch of indian people on here? Clearly some real 'roots' on that grass, just out of this world! Everyone who has more than 2 brain cells to rub together can see modi is a fascist and hindu nationalist, neither of those things are good or remotely defensible. If it was left up to him he would be allowed to exterminate all minorities in india, and it's probably only a matter of time before he tries (there are genocides going on in india right now). I read modi for shit when he kept fucking over the farmers, nice to know that I was very right. Also, 'no proof'??? Are you guys on crack? Nobody is going to tell their proof to the public, only a disingenuous turd would make such a bad faith argument.
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  449. THANK YOU! Tolerating abuse will not save you from further abuse. People who are being trod upon need to learn this somehow, or they'll keep voting for trump.
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  450. I hate to judge the trump base, but there is something cognitively not right with supporting a party running on 'the system is corrupt!' when they are the incumbent. I suppose hence the BS about the Deep State being anti-trump, rather than actively pro-trump. Pretty insane, but that seems to be a big part of fascism, having a huge portion of the population publicly and vehemently disagree with factual reality, and being willing to ruin things for everyone else to further their collective delusions.
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  451. Does Seth Mayer play Magic cards? If so I bet he's really cool.
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  452. Also literally everyone loves ice-cream, even the soft stuff isn't exactly bad, even if it's not fancy rock-solid scooped ice-cream, the kind with chunks of delicious stuff in it! Even so-so ice-cream is still ICE-CREAM, a thing WE ALL SCREAM FOR. Wtf is wrong with fox??
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  453. Reminds me thematically of A Hero of Our Time, in that the world itself is corrupt/corrupts everything, and there isn't really a good guy, but I haven't read Brave New World ever. I find that Christian theology can have application to such texts, because it is a key tenet that human nature is corrupted by evil, and without God, it is essentially impossible to do real good (not saying you need to believe in it, merely that it's an interesting facet of such literature that the authors almost certainly would be familiar with). It sounds like the 'savage' guy wanted love, but had no clue what love really was, and thus was doomed utterly to fail, even spurning the thing that could have lead to love eventually, and instead lashing out and making sure it'd never happen. This reminds me of all those incel guys, who profess to be looking for (or maybe just want? but to want something and not work for it is insanity??) something that I don't think they are trying very hard to actually find. Edit: Using drugs for contentment is a bit scary (this doesn't seem analogous to psychiatric drugs, which correct imbalance), but we already do this to an extent, with our growing obesity problem, as well as higher than advised levels of recreational substance use, and people certainly seem to use hook up aps a lot, maybe we're getting closer to this than we realize? Yikes.
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  454. It's mindblowing the people think trump 'appears' less old than biden when he can barely form coherent sentences and is quite fat for his age. By any metric you can look for biden is more youthful and has more vitality, trump looks like death warmed over, that's why he paints himself orange. It's deeply embarrassing to be the same species as the morons that support trump when he used his first term to do nothing but shit on the poor and suck up to dictators. It would be one thing if this wasn't a clear cut thing, trump was literally the worst president of the modern era, an unprecedented disaster that holds great personal responsibility for the insanity that is the market. The stock market never made sense technically, the problem is that the rich have learned how to exploit the inherent flaws in the stock market to not only rake in exorbitant returns on investment without any actual growth in the economy (they use the market to generate fake money for rich people), they then pay no taxes on any of that money, and neither does the corporation they own. This generation of fake money is part of what lead to inflation, all investors wanted to see returns like the rich were getting so they whined until the smaller corporations raised prices on everything. The 'market' did 'well' under trump as long as you don't actually look at real growth, and also if you ignore long term stability, because the choices trump made (especially interest rates being kept artificialy low) overheated an already boiled pressure cooker. In contrast biden has been a fairly middle of the road president who has been hamstrung by a party that doesn't want to do anything remotely progressive. The party will just designate a fall person as needed to hold up legislation, this is why elections have to be REALLY close, if it's a solid majority you have shit-shows like when the dems wouldn't let Obama do anything despite having complete control of the US government (which looked ridiculous), I feel like we'll never have another blowout and both parties want it that way.
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  455. Trump's court art looks like The Scream had ketchup thrown on it and it melted... which is to say it has captured trump's sleazy BS completely, complete with the waving of the arms, like some idiot flightless bird.
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  456. Is it just me, or does trump have the memory of a goldfish that smokes wwwaaayyyy too much pot?
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  457. I honestly don't want to be mean, but seedless watermelons make me sad, they tend to have bad to no taste compared to an old fashioned melon. Try growing your own someday, the difference is amazing! Also, it's incredibly hard to tell when watermelons are ripe, so try not to overwater them when they're getting ripe. Grapes have been seedless (in some cases) for thousands of years, and I think we got really lucky that some mutants make really tiny seeds. If you're curious, the way you get more seedless grape plants is that you clone them, we've been cloning grapes for eons! The oldest known example of us cloning a plant (because we had to) was the fig. Watermelons are expensive in Asia in part because you have to remember that land is harder to come by, and melons use a ton of ground per plant, and they're finicky plants (especially compared to cash crops, they need plenty of rice/barley in Japan), so you might end up with a poor yield through no fault of your own. IIRC in Japan they even grow some melons in forms, so that the melons are square. Grading must be a nightmare! I grow a bunch of melons, even a few musk melons (can't let one bad musk ruin musks in general, right? well actually, it's like a whole Adam's Family of creeps, but yeah, do an episode about elon's creepy Adam's Family family, they're all so bloody weird!), but I'm a big fan of kajiri melons, which are really fancy looking melons from India IIRC. They are orange with stripes on the outside, and bright green inside, and a great size for 2 (I happily eat a whole one on my own though).
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  458. So, I guess that lady in the car is saying 'because I don't think I'll get sick, a bunch of other people should have to die, so I'm not even slightly inconvenienced'? That is either redefining stupid, or is very evil.
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  459. I had a shitty experience on a plane the last time I flew, we were on the return flight and always my mom wanted the window seat, I still wanted to sit together so I was stuck in the middle seat. Guess what, the plane was full, so even the seat next to me was taken, and this shit-weasel thought it was fine to try to *force me off my half of the middle armrest*. I didn't go over the line even, and I'm a pretty big guy, I was a 280lb construction worker at the time, so he could wedge both arms together and try to push, I wasn't going anywhere. He gave up, and when he did he just deflated like the bitter old man he was. Guess what the turd-saraus wanted to watch while he was flying? It was fox news, but even he hated it and couldn't keep it on for more than 15 minutes. He vacated the plane EXTREMELY quickly after landing, which was great, because said incarnate hemorrhoid also didn't wear a mask (I wore one obviously, because I was flying and it was cold/flu season on top of everything an Covid was definitely around). I think the guy literally couldn't tell how big I was, I don't really look very big when I'm sitting down, I have long enough legs that a plane is already brutal to go more than 4 hours, so I probably looked like an average joe when seated. I did have my farmer's cap on, so I'm guessing he wasn't from a farming area, city people are puff people. I hate flying and agree that people shouldn't try to stink, I had people put on perfume while on a long bus ride (it was about 8 hours I think?). On the plus side we saw a black bear while driving, it was just hanging out, but yeah I felt vaguely nauseous the whole time. If you're going to put on perfume in an enclosed space it had better be very expensive stuff!
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  460. It's always cute when people pretend the justice system in the West has rules other than protect the rich. If you're a poc in the US none of this would sound remotely unusual, if you think the Japanese sound rough look up the daily horrors of the US prison system, if you're not rich you get tortured. It's like when the West brags it has "negligible corruption", because we've defined corruption as "what they do over there".
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  461. It's nice that the Catholics have come out in favor of us not going extinct, but I'm pretty sure we're already officially screwed, it's like deciding that you don't actually want to hook up with a girl after she gives birth. We're in a new world because we've disrupted the existing climate systems that perpetuated our existence, meaning that even if we stop emitting carbon it won't matter because nature is already disrupted sufficiently that it cannot correct back to 'what was', we're going to lose most if not all glaciers and most if not all deserts will grow larger and hotter, and we will lose species that are adapted to having winters (which tend to be in very dense biomes btw, the Grand Banks used to be some of the best fishing in the world because of the arctic, while the west coast of Canada features perhaps the densest terrestrial biome in the BC rainforests, which are fertilized by salmon pooped out by bears, good thing we've depleted the salmon and hunted down most of the bears!). Also, the whole 'climate denial' thing has two facets IMHO, people who lie because they care about money (and are making money via fossil fuel subsidies because those business models no longer make financial sense), and people who lie because they think it'll hurt the global south way more than Europe/NA (and they're wrong, all continental climates are going to become hellish in the near future). Nobody with a modicum of sense disagrees with the science, which has been settled for many decades (around 50 years I think? maybe more?), it's either unfettered greed or racism.
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  462. I wonder why gaetz phrases it 'I dated women...' when the issue was that he paid them for sex and trafficked them while they were legally children. Weird he's not more hung up on the technicalities! 'We have an embarrassment...'' he should have just stopped there, they don't have anyone fit to manage to a broom closet, let alone work on a committee.
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  463. As a person who tests well but is barely employable, I'm not sure why people think testing is remotely useful beyond testing things like basic literacy/math skills. Knowing a lot of facts relevant to a field doesn't mean you'd be good at it, it just means you're well read on the subject, it also doesn't mean you've stored in the information in a USEFUL manner, most memorized stuff is just junk information. It's like how AI can recite all of the instructions to a task without knowing what the parts mean, it's the interconnections between data points that make data into useful information.
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  464. ...pretty sure the FOUR DOGS (and a wife that despises you) explain this really well.
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  465. Yay capitalism, solving all our problems in the best way, not just the most profitable! Invisible hand and all that.
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  466. I mean if they call an owl superb it really must be something, right? And look at it's egg!
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  467. I think you're at least partly right, something has to change about these people before they can recognize that they are being duped. It's obvious to everyone else, but to them, everyone else is being duped. It's more than a little depressing how bad the education system has served these people, since a good basic education is good protection from things like conspiracy thinking. A good education helps teach an individual where they fit in the scheme of things, which helps with narcissism, so it's not a coincidence that these supporters have inadequate educations and tend to be extremely entitled.
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  468. I'd watch a 'The Philosophy of the OG Mario Movie', surely you've already done one? It seems like really low hanging fruit, also it was a terrible movie and I want you to have to watch it a ton to properly analyze it.
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  469. Never been to a resort or on a cruise, I have zero interest in taking a vacation, even if I could, who has time?
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  470. I love Amy's outfit! So pretty!
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  471. Also, this is the only night I'm not eating chips I feel like...
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  472. Texas should really highlight quite a few issues, but I think the general state of US infrastructure is the biggest (and that if push comes to shove, there is 0 hesitation in getting power to certain groups, like wealthy whites, while others suffer and die in frigid darkness), along with the climate change that is going to make that infrastructure a really big problem. Meanwhile, assholes whine that Biden's dog is shaggy (it really isn't, it's just a bad pic ffs, and I don't even have a dog) and that windmills are the problem when the 'traditional' energy infrastructure failed utterly, and the authorities chose to help certain groups of people preferentially (perhaps because only these people would actually be able to overpay for their electricity, and the poors would just laugh if they tried to collect a $10k bill).
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  473. I honestly expected MTG to ask for Biden's manager, that outfit is objectively hilarious.
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  474. The residential schools existed past the 80s in Canada AFAIK, it ended in the 90s. This was genocide, plain and simple, not sure how else you could see it. This wasn't an attempt at assimilation so much as an attempt at annihilating many cultures that were deemed 'inferior' by the conquerors. It's shocking when a story can present 'living on reservations' as the better outcome, when most of these were far from their territory of their ancestors, and were often on extremely poor land, such that the locals, who may have few skills to survive in the new terrain, also cannot use traditional agriculture as their crops are no longer suitable. The treatment of the Native Americans has essentially no equal in history, and the horrors continue today.
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  475. The reason you struggle to see examples of decent men on dating shows/on TV/movies in general is because patriarchy has a huge vested interest in keeping the standards low for men, if women were remotely choosey (women are expected to 'give a man a chance' for some incredibly arbitrary reasons, and women initiating relationships is considered gauche, again for arbitrary reasons) most men would be considered unfit for mating and die virgins (unless they are rapists). Most men suck and having even the shittiest man produce several kids that go on to have more kids has resulted in the Y chromosome being in truly awful shape, our willingness to oppress women systemically has resulted in men have ruined their genetics, it's like karma or something. It's not a coincidence that patriarchy also protects rapists, because again, if women are threatened with rape if they're 'too choosey' then less women will be choosey. It's deeply fucked up and it's not an accident, but it's also unfair to men because it encourages men to go through life with minimal emotional development, while women are expected to be responsible from a young age (Western society is VERY willing to 'punish' 12 year old girls for 'dressing too slutty', or 'leading men on', keeping in mind that a surprisingly large number of men are essentially pedos and need no leading on). You say you don't think 'the caliber of women is much higher' on these shows, but the average woman is way more responsible and has far more life skills than the average man of similar age, a shocking number of men not only have no traditional 'manly' skills (because their is less demand for them obviously, so not the biggest deal), but they also have no other skills to make up for the lacking. This is a much bigger deal, being the generation that probably has the most free time since we were hunter/gatherers, we seem content to use our time for nothing but garbage news (which is a term I use to define 'news' that is so trivial that it literally doesn't matter if it's true or not, at least actual fake news can matter, this is the celebrity stuff about celebs that have no following, or stories that are smuggled into 'world news' and they are just a really weird bit of local news used to fill airtime) and video games... I'm not surprised that people mostly use the internet for porn and trolling one another, but it would be nice if SOME people used humanity's greatest educational tool to actually progress as people.
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  476. How fucking stupid do you have to be to think that because their have been no deaths/infections yet from a disease that is extremely contagious that their never was going to be?? It's like his brain fell out, and nobody told him. It's not a secret that contagious diseases spread quickly, and that is why other countries were much quicker to take steps to prevent covid infections, because they didn't elect an idiot that thinks he's a genius.
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  477. I hate facebook, and this just reinforces it.
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  478. Poverty exists exclusively to better exploit workers, homelessness exists as a way to punish people who have offended the ruling elite. Most of human history didn't have poverty because inequality was understood to be a bad thing, modern men are idiots for putting up with this BS.
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  479. I often fantasize that this song is about a man with 200 degrees... as in, the most educated man alive, one of my earliest childhood dreams. I was a strange child.
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  480. You should have done clomping coconut sounds for when Kelly was walking out, and then just not address it. I stopped chewing my nails as a kid because I decided I didn't want to do it anymore. It's not like it's a real addiction, like nose picking. I think Seth could quit chewing if he wanted to.
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  481. Oh, I just remembered, I should mention that I told my mom about that old Boom Box song this week, and how part of the song had to be cut because it complained that old people smelled bad (particularly old business people btw, it wasn't generic old people, the old folks home did not cause any complaints about smell, and they were straight fucking, so it's just money obsessed scum that stink, and to me that should is true and should be fine?), and low, here is Sandberg himself! Did I summon him with my witchy ways?
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  482. What if it's a sweet potato? Is that a potato? For that matter, is it even all that sweet?
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  483. Maturity isn't 'the doldrums', stop spreading this stupid ageist propaganda! Saying youth is 'good' is completely failing to remember how astoundingly shitty it was to be young and stupid, I for one am pretty grateful that I almost never stub my toes now, I did it constantly as a kid and it fucking sucked. I also had no social skills and none of the other kids did either, so we all treated each other like shit. The only 'good' thing in childhood is that you usually have very few responsibilities, but if you have an ounce of gumption you WANT responsibility because you want to have input into your life. Old people talking fondly about youth gives me huge 'rich people in the 1800s pretending to be shepherds' vibes, they don't want a pastoral life they just want to play at the very few good aspects, none of them would trade places for obvious reasons, and the only grown ass adult who wants to be a kid again is an idiot. 'Hey, you know what would make my life way better? If I was weaker, dumber and more vulnerable!' said no one ever.
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  484. Holy shit, hearing a bunch of rich old suits complain about the poor being paid a fair wage makes me want to find a shovel for... reasons.
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  485. Isn't the 'no tasks of any kind' thing part of the Jewish Law, it's in the 10 Commandments, but it's Saturday iirc. Anyways, if you believe the New Testament is a thing, you can work on Sunday if you want, or even Saturday! You just have to repent at some point, presumably when you're retired, but even then, feel free to define 'work' for me... is it work to fiddle with your hobby?
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  486. I feel like most problem solvers use a form of this as the basis to their problem solving, doctor, mechanic or engineer, you look for the least complicated solution to the various issues to try to solve it as easily as possible. It's not always true, especially because our knowledge base is limited, but it's usually a good starting point for further research if needed. Huh, so Aristotle was a believer in evolution? Weird.
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  487. I like using gravy based sauces for stir fries, that's my big sauce sin, but these tend to be pretty tasty, I use some decent ingredients like fresh herbs and wine as appropriate for the sauce. I do not use Tiktok, but I also don't look for cooking advice on Instagram very often. Also, maybe a bit of a hot take (you know, if you're a bad person or something it'd be 'edgy'), but maybe cannes film festival is run by a bunch of whiney skidmarks who only have any power/strength when it's time to be patriarchal and thus showcase their staggering neuroses and insecurities? I feel like their fragile masculinity couldn't handle one non-black jacket, it's hard to lose more respect for a group like that, but seeing as they're complete a-holes in so many other ways I feel fine calling them out as whiney turds on this. I have truly ugly feet in many ways, so I'm pretty sure I don't have an onlyfeet thing? I'm not checking, because yeah, I don't want to know.
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  488. History has been wiped out previously. There are also tons of incidents of attempts to manipulate what people believe happened, which is very much possible to do. People are fairly dumb, and most don't want to read about history, so they tend to be completely uninformed about it. You could make up ridiculous things, and they wouldn't know you're lying, because how could they? They just don't know. This is why it's dangerous to have an 'establishment view' that is over-represented in academia, provided it's a biased one. People that pretend you need to have statues of historically infamous people (slavers, racists in general) or there is suddenly no history are disingenuous turds, and should be treated accordingly. I will say our present day world makes it harder to cover things up, but it was hilariously easy for those with power to dictate what was written down in the overwhelming majority of books, AKA writing history, in the past. The US is in a state of 'cultural upheaval' in part because right wingers are trying to 'reframe' history, associating nazis with progressives (using idiotic arguments to do it) and pretending that racism is long gone, despite the stupendously apparent evidence to the contrary. They are actively fighting the teaching of history in schools, because kids will find out about how real racism really is, and how we should all be fighting against it.
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  489. I'm not actually sure most people are actually willing to change their principles, especially evil people who have embraced personal profit/pleasure so highly, it takes something pretty profound to change them. An absence of consequence is not going to do it I'm quite confident, but I'm also confident that corporal punishment by itself isn't remotely beneficial. The goal has to be decreasing the rate at which society produces victims period, and part of that is holding people to account for their actions, it's just very hard to set laws that are universally relevant, IE some people will happily murder a person they hate enough and go to prison for it more or less happily, others will not, so just having a consequence like 'life in prison' if you're a poor person that murders someone isn't going to reduce victimhood, society needs to stop rewarding perpetrators and punishing those who are victimized, and that includes the legal system that is very good at protecting those it doesn't want to 'trouble', not unlike how life used to be, when the nobility did whatever they pleased until a revolt happened, then they either wiped out the revolt with brutality or were beaten and things changed in a miniscule way for the better. The rich haven't been this rich compared to the poor since the feudal era I suspect, when massive swathes of wealth were held entirely by the local lord, and people lived at their sufferance. The average person has so little money compared to those in the top 1% it's actually laughable. Since they can pay the admission fee, the world is their playground, and we're the entertainment. Anyways, I enjoyed your video, and I think if the world would embrace even just the concept of universal victimhood to any wrong we'd be happier by far... I appreciate the concept that 'any wrong done to one is done to all', humans are not individualists as a species, and we need to stand by those who are wronged, not make them pariahs for it.
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  490. As a person who's benefited from therapy I find it pretty horrifying that someone who already feels like it's a bad idea (because of the huge stigma around getting help) could consume her nutty content. While I think the definition of therapy has been stretched by bad actors it's unavoidable that it's helped millions of people over the years. Also, psychotherapeutic diagnosis might be new (and thus seem to be 'going up' alarmingly if you don't know how stats work), but it doesn't mean people didn't have those problems before... nobody was diagnosed with cancer 30k years ago, people still died of it all the same, same with dysentery and every other medical problem you can imagine, they existed but weren't understood. The village hermit wasn't diagnosed with schizophrenia because nobody knew what schizophrenia was, people could still tell that they were crazy if you catch my drift.
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  491. Many US companies, and in particular restaurants pay terrible wages to lower rung workers, and the work is unpleasant in the extreme potentially. It's one thing to wear out your back doing hard work, but to do that kind of work, for that kind of money, DURING A PANDEMIC*, just seems like a big ol' nope. Things haven't been 'good' that long in the US, and there has even been findings that vaccines do not grant full immunity, meaning people are worried things aren't quite over yet, even if they are clearly headed that way. Economically speaking, if you work 12 hours at minimum wage in most of the US, it is worse than a struggle to support children, one of human beings great drives/needs, and that is if you magically don't need to pay for childcare, healthcare, etc. That isn't a living wage, and if 12 hour work days at an adult job (one that is probably more stressful/unpleasant than business jobs at, contrary to popular belief, as being coddled all the time and *REWARDED FOR FAILURE REPEATEDLY is not stressful, yet dealing with violent anti-mask nuts is) can't support a family, the pay is too low for that job. It shouldn't even be legal to pay that little is the idea, because what recourse do we really have if all the companies just decide to (and they have already, years ago) stagnate wages for the lower class, then shrink them even? None, because we need money/work, and if nobody will pay you fairly, you *still need the money*, and have to work for *unfair pay*. Wake the hell up.
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  492. It seems rather ghoulish to try to coerce 'free' people to work at jobs that will take away a tiny share of the profits with a pandemic raging on. Toss in a for profit health care system, and it looks like a system to designed to make a whole lot of people very broke/desperate, desperate enough to risk their life to give the lion's share of the profits to already rich people who are safely ensconced.
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  493.  @carpo719  They mean actual hate most likely, because capitalists don't like it when poor people want their fair share. It only struggles in the US because the rich paid politicians to lie to the public for centuries, so the poor are either progressives desperate for something to hope for, or brainwashed morons who hate-watch lefty vids to troll.
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  494. Now I want an AI meme of present day Jimmy Carter going berserk and pile driving brad pitt into a manhole cover... I blame you Seth!
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  495. ​ @stephaniecuzner8147  they already painted him orange, put a bird's nest on his head, forced him to constantly pucker his mouth that looks like a butthole, and made him flap his arms like an idiot whenever he publicly speaks.
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  496. These were always cool to see while weeding tbh. That reminds me, (as always!) it's time to weed I think, at least I've mulched.
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  497. Did nobody tell these people that bamboo is pretty invasive? It is present on US soil last I heard.
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  498. Not only does he want an unsafe thing, the schools reopening 'normally', he openly says he wants it because 'mother's can't go to work'. Woah, they're just ourrightly saying their evil shit, not even disguising it. trump only cares about money, not other people's lives, so he wants all the worker bees to risk their lives so the rich won't lose a pittance. Meanwhile, they take away the lifeline's people are reliant on, so they have no choice but to immediately go back to an unsafe workplace, and the rotten skidmark republicans are trying to protect employers from lawsuits over having an unsafe workplace! If you aren't staggeringly rich and you vote republican, you are a fucking moron, because your own team has decided all of you 'poors' are expendable if it can make them a few bucks.
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  499. I'd prefer to say it like this, ticketmaster did an awful thing (it enshittified one of the more sacred aspects of human expression), and because it did that awful thing it was rewarded with a monopoly on that thing, because it was so evil! It's nice to know that capitalism is literally selecting for evil, there was a time I doubted it even, hard to believe.
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  500.  @peterthegreat996  Yeah, George Floyd was kneeling on his own neck! /s
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  501. How did they find a guy who is a cross of sean penn and mel gibson?? and he's a big elno fanboy? Why do we give money and power to people like this again? The most horrifying part of this is that this isn't necessary or likely especially profitable, it's probably easier to just search in space if you're mining that deep but the guy is too stupid to understand the myriad reasons his idea is more useless than a wet bag of oats.
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  502. Fwiw a tennis ball is usually fluorescent yellow, which looks pretty green, but fluorescent green is VERY green and once you see it it's hard to confuse the two. Also, depending on how old you are, merely eating heated food fills you with joy.
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  503. Also, how long is Seth's trump hair now? Honestly curious.
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  504. Kinda odd that they're not all up in arms over how the trump regime is mistreating children at the border... It's almost like they don't actually give a fuck about children? Edit: Did he ask the reporter to prove that Tom Hanks isn't a satanist pedophile? What exactly what constitute proof, and how the hell do they get to assign the burden of proof to the other side, demanding they prove a negative? Do these people huff chemicals or something?
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  505. Dude, literally nobody who listens to the podcast has even the slightest fondness for vivek, and most people who listen to this would walk right by him if he was on fire and their bladder was bursting.
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  506. By 15, and very sober (I'd tasted wine, but that was about it, I also hadn't yet orgasmed), I had already realized 'free will' as a concept was fundamentally absurd because of the thought experiment 'in the same precise scenario (identical variables) you would always take the same action', meaning that you didn't really choose that action, the situation chose what you did, it's just what you do because of your nature. You very much don't choose your nature, it is what is regardless of your choices and decisions. This doesn't contradict the legal system because having consequences does help reduce crime, but it's well proven that excessive penalties do not deter poverty related crime. ...we're DEFINITELY not the only species that understands that it's going to die, elephants have graveyards, and ants clean up dead ants, all manner of species have awareness of their being, rats groom a spot in a mirror and all that, pigs have surprisingly interchangeable organs and can get out of almost any pen, the truth is we're not that much smarter than animals in many ways, animals are IMMENSELY limited by their biology, humans have the least limitations on what they can do with their biology I would argue, combining strength with precision to a degree that no other species has (their are much stronger and much more precise, but the combination of both is unprecedented, and it's how we use tools). Self-awareness is a weird thing, in practice it mostly means you make sub-optimal choices, but the truth is that over time those sub-optimal choices becomes better than the situationally optimal choice; plants love situationally optimal choices, and they store immense amounts of incredibly precise data, such that they can predict the weather better than any machine we've developed, the lowliest weed is literally better at predicting spring than our computers today... hint hint, calendars were developed to allow the powerful to bypass the truly wise, those that could read the signs and just tell everyone when to prepare for planting better than any calendar, but a calendar is easy to control! ...part of why you choose to do an evil act is because you've weighted the risk vs the reward. If society has very minor risks/consequences, the reward weighs heavily on the scale, because many instances of being evil are very rewarding to an evil person. Rich people eagerly abuse the poor because their are no consequences for doing so, and at this point our society is so askew that it rewards rich people for being corrupt and evil, and it punishes poor people for the precise same behavior, and the reason we do that is because doing those behaviors feel good, and our messed up society wants rich people to feel *more good*. It's a bit nuts, to say the least. ...It's not your genes that generally determine when you get mad, that's your environment. If you've had a very low stress life, it takes very little to aggravate you, if you've had a high stress life, it takes an awful lot to meaningfully move the needle. People should remember that plants are incredibly capable of diverty, even with identical genetics, why is it so hard for people to see they both didn't truly choose their choices, yet need to be responsible for choosing choices let they choose worse choices over time? The secret to obesity is that obese people were supposed to be doing extremely brutal work for the tribe, they were the heavy lifters, the people who grappled with the big game while the smaller tribesmen stabbed it with spears. This applies to people who have large frames mostly, which is generally obvious. Today obese people should be doing weight bearing exercise to build up muscle, because their body is trying to build muscle and is going nuts because of not being able to build muscle. This doesn't apply to all obese people, but people who struggle to maintain a 'normal body weight' probably should be building muscle, because their body will be content with pounds of muscle, and if it doesn't get it it'll keep pumping on fat. My understanding of 'free will' is that we have a sub-routine running that is our 'consciousness', and that is a separate process that is capable of using knowledge to bypass biological feedback. This what allows humans to progress technology (assuming your biology is capable of helping you along, ** you dolphins I guess?) is our ability to use our memory instead out our biological feedback, lots of animals can do that same but lack either childhood or our dexterity/power combination.
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  507. Re: Slavery, their are two key truths to slavery, that is that the worst you will do to a human you will do to any human (meaning those on the bottom promoting slavery are insanely stupid), and any indignity that a human will tolerate to another human is another indignity that they will tolerate to other humans ultimately. In short, if you lower the bar it is just lowered period.
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  508. I once helped an elderly lady with her groceries, and after I had brought them in she mentioned that she was disabled and only had one arm! She could have brought the groceries in, but it would have been hard, I was very glad that I had, on a lark, offered to help her out! The irony was that this was in an area where my grandpa had lived, and she had lived there at the time (from what she said), so they might even have met. I had university classes in the same building my grandpa had grade school classes, at least I could walk in the front door!
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  509. A corporation, in America, DOING EVIL!? STOP THE PRESSES! Seriously folks, there are no companies that ever want to help you in a capitalist society, you're just a machine that makes money for them, most of them hate their consumers actively at this point (this is why elon bought twitter in part, he wanted to ruin twitter for 'the left', but all he did was lose billions of dollars).
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  510. Psst, the US doesn't want people to feed the poor either anymore, helping the poor will 'just make them more lazy'. That's why the repubs are fighting hard to take away any and all entitlements, poor people without any recourse other than doing literally any job they can get/keep is the wet dream of the business ghouls we put in charge of society.
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  511. Re: Britain being early to stop enslaving people, a very big reason was slavery had already made the Brits wealthy enough to pay for fucking industrialization, at which point you just use wage-slaves because you can't entrust the operation of complex and easily destroyed machines to literal slaves, they'll sabotage. They more or less got rich off of slavery and then tried to make sure nobody else could do the same, much like the USA, which benefitted enormously from slavery before getting rid of it after it no longer made sense anyways, and immediately tried to argue it was for moral reasons and not because they could afford to build factories.
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  512. It is a truth that when the market goes down, the poor tend to be punished the most, with people living hand to mouth losing income, and this stick, rather than the carrot of a fair share is what motivates the American people. They know they lose when the economy goes down, so they hate when it goes down, but they don't really win when it goes up is the problem here, since they are kept so poor/indebted that they can't invest effectively, hence the overwhelming bludgeoning of ads we deal with today, getting us to spend more than our income. The reason the poor are punished is the complex system that has been set up to 'protect' businesses during 'hard times', which make sure the rich never actually lose over all, unless they are atrocious with money.
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  513. You might have missed the obvious a bit when you point out that 'oil and gas are very profitable', it's worth noting that oil can be price fixed very easily, but solar is much, much harder to do that with. You don't gain power over others by selling them solar equipment, you do gain a perpetual dependent if they need your dirty oil. Also, oil dumps unheard of millions in bribes, that also plays a very big role in people lying about green energy.
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  514. How did people ever get tricked into thinking fast food is cheap??? Because it's cheaper than actual restaurants? Make your own food, you'll eat better and spend 10th the money. Fast food is one of the worst traps out there.
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  515. I was going to use oubliette in a joke, but I felt like it was too bougie of a word, so I just went with dungeon. It was in the context of where mike johnson has people locked away, in his basement, but I think you handled it pretty well, it was a real corker, a joke to remember if you will. ...maybe we need to start docking the jackals' tails? Nah, just oubliette about that.
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  516. I personally find I don't feel as much empathy for people who I find unethical, who behave consistently unethically. This isn't a positive trait I think, but I think it's an important one for humans to have, because some people, like trump, will find ways to abuse empathy (well, his handlers will, he's not bright enough). I also find I have less empathy for someone who has been warned repeatedly (and in clear terms even they can understand for certain) that what they are doing is both stupid and dangerous, and something bad happens inevitably. trump had plenty of access to good advice, he knowingly chose wrong, and in light of the fact that's he's pretty much responsible for +200k deaths in the US alone (who knows how many worldwide, because many dumb leaders followed his lead), I really don't feel bad for him. I want him to live to lose the election though.
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  517. I got an ad by people whining about the Capital Gains Tax on this vid. Make it make sense ut00b, make it make sense.
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  518. Can someone tell the Democrats that senility should be a disqualifier for office? Also, mention that they don't actually have to pick the least inspiring candidate for President for every election, because this is getting old. Biden is about the biggest wet blanket they could find, it's like they want Trump to have every advantage they can give that orange turd. Nothing personal against Biden, but he's a really horrible candidate, and claiming an ancient, senile, molesty and gaff-prone closet Republican is 'electable' is inane.
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  519. "Fortune favours the brave..." Or as I prefer, "Nature can and does punish the ever-loving shit out of stupid, to the point of extinction."
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  520. Yeah, it's not like meatball ron has dozens of skeletons buried in crawlspaces, or that he has several people chained up in his basement he's planning to eat. Nope! Nothing like that! He's human and normal! I repeat, definitely not a human-eating lizard person! While I think his wife has the patience of a saint, that's the only thing saintly about her since she's supporting this scumbag. I don't think my eyes are my best feature (I think a combination of sunglasses and a big mask is a good happy medium for me?), so I'd be down with goggles. I'm always amazed at physics' ability to get around my safety glasses! That said, I think roads being black is less of an issue than having tar roofs everywhere, those thinks are soaking up heat that we then try to offset with ACs, which are a huge problem. Everyone should be using white metal or ceramic roof I suspect, and office buildings can't have giant walls of windows anymore. Speaking of which, did you guys hear about the bad architect that kept designing buildings with a concave reflective surface? He made a whole bunch of sorta dangerous heat zones, not quite a death ray but apparently they can pretty much boil a swimming pool! People underestimate Sol's power at their peril!
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  521. People who won't snitch are just shitty bitches who are afraid of consequences and would rather let evil shit happen. This doesn't count for crimes where you're the victim, like drugs, but it should count stuff like drunk driving or spousal abuse. I feel like homeopathy is one of the few things so stupid that it bothers me. It's up there with flat earth, it's hard to believe a human being can grow up to be that stupid in this age and day, did they never move away from something really tall and watch it, you know, disappear behind the horizon, and not just shrink away? When simple observation disproves a theory it's usually a bad theory. Lefties aren't soft, we've committed the odd atrocity too (supposedly, I think those were just right wing leaders claiming to be left wing to succeed as populists, it's very hard to find an authoritarian who isn't better described as right wing if you judge their behavior, regardless of how left wing they say they are)!
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  522. Yeah, I don't think the author knows all the uses of the expression 'death by a thousand cuts', because most people don't want to die via torture, let alone particularly heinous forms of it?
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  523. "No, I don't base things on what I see, why on earth would I when trump will reward me for instead spouting insane delusions?"
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  524. Aww man, you're bouncing on us?!
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  525. DC Statehood is a funny thing... on the one hand, you have the Dems, who are trying to enfranchise a population of US citizens who are not represented properly atm. Meanwhile, the republicans can only talk about how this will give the Dems an advantage... and oddly have zero interest in giving full representation to American citizens on the US mainland if it might hurt them later in an election. If the republicans could get away with it, they wouldn't hesitate to jerrymander the entire country to benefit themselves. How can you have a 2 party system in a democracy where *one of the parties does not support democracy*???
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  526. Just saying, but always grateful when it's someone you don't like as much that wrote the real stinkers, especially the 'they're secretly written in cuneiform before being translated into Ojibwa, at which point Google Translate is employed to put it into English' level stuff. I had to pause during the bit where Seth was ranting about some of his writers not understanding how English works, it was too funny, and I couldn't take it.
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  527. I love how instead of even starting to address the massive backlog of infrastructure spending the US has, trump cut taxes and tried to get a literally useless wall built, while the military continues to be laughably over-funded. Now, the US economy is looking seriously at locking down again, when the countries run by sane leaders are all reopening to varying degrees.
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  528. ​ @sherinameless1618 yeah long before it reached the goal. I guess that's why he uses ivf, he's not a real man
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  529. I know it was just the weird 90s, but back then chicken was seen as a less than masculine food. People could like it, but 'men' were supposed to obsess over beef and pork. Weird that they're acting like ice-cream isn't one of the most beloved food items in the world (I occasionally buy Asian ice-cream, usually 1 tub of red bean and 1 tub of ginger, both are very good), and that chicken is suddenly 'manly'?? This is what happens when society is expected to pretend that trump isn't an open moron that has weird thoughts and feelings about women, such as having to ask multiple friends of his if they thought melania was 'hot'... they're not marrying her my guy, shouldn't you be finding her hot or not?? At this point he's just so damn weird that they can't make him seem normal, them trying to normalize his lunacy just emphasizes it. It's so hilarious that they're chained to this human anchor, but it's glorious watching the conservative 'movement' try to keep him from sinking. Of course they're all drowning because it's impossible for people swimming in the ocean to hold up a big useless anchor, even if you've got millions of them and they have endless money (literally because the rich just print money via the stock market, Seth himself pointed it out!), it's just not a task humans can achieve, it's no longer possible to make trump seem sane, normal or relatable, he's so alien/weird and so stupid that empathy just can't work. Him going out and buying chicken to show up biden should have been unthinkable, and in what world is it weird to be seen eating ice-cream?? Was OG Bush the last real republican leader the US will ever know? His son invaded two countries at random and both were incredibly expensive disasters that tanked a booming US economy (but made a lot of a-holes even more wealthy, so you know, that's a good deed in the US I think?), so he doesn't count, and trump is the definition of a RINO (he believes none of the tenets of his party other than the ones about giving more money to rich people), and I think trump is in the process of killing his party, like you guys will need a new conservative party to displace the republicans because they'll have devolved into nothing but capitalist BS and conspiracy loons (we're more than halfway there), and nobody sane will ever vote for them again after they wake up from their pro-trump delusion.
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  530. How the US ever convinced the poor that they should be punished for daring to be poor, and that the rich ought to be rewarded, I'll never know, but I bet it helps that the rich can pay for all the propaganda they want, and can pay politicians to sabotage the education system to keep the workers as ignorant of how the system actually works as possible. Poor, desperate workers in the US actually fight against unionization, a thing that is consistently proven to improve job quality/pay, and improve the economy along the way. Paying workers subsistence wages is a huge economic problem, ironically quite similar to how slavery is a strong economic depressant, and for the same reason, people can't consume if they aren't allowed to, and this will always hurt the economy more than anything else you can do. You can't run an economy around pleasuring the rich, but you can run one around keeping the average worker content with progressively worse conditions, possibly until they no longer have the ability to functionally resist because their situation has been made so dire.
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  531. Did they not give out the memo in the US that the nazis were objectively the bad guys in WW2, even worse than the Soviets? trump made clear during a Europe trip that he didn't know who the 'bad guys' were. Kinda disturbing just doesn't cut it here.
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  532. WELL ACTUALLY Erin, marky suckerberg didn't even HAVE the idea for Facebook, he stole the idea. He's a brainless incarnate fart that looks more and more like Beaker. He thinks he's getting manly and he has a big easy to grab perm going on?? I'm supposed to believe he's doing actual mma training and he looks like he's on ozempic? Something is fishy, I want to see him and leon rassle!
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  533. I would love to watch him try to split a good solid cord of oak with my biggest homemade splitting ax. I'm 6'2 and pretty solidly built and it took me years to get good with it, I'm guessing he'd break his fingers on his first swing? To work up to this thing I would split wood with the heaviest splitting maul widely available, 8lb, this is 16lb and has a 5ft handle that weighs another 4lb, so it's like a 3rd ed D&D Great Axe, and if you can actually split wood with it it's incredibly efficient, but most people would hurt themselves if they tried. I tried to run some numbers, it'd torque someone about as much as a 26lb sledge hammer with a 3ft handle. As for who that 'him' is, I guess it'd be any of them?
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  534. I do use non-THC strains of marijuana, they can definitely give you a buzz, even if there is 20% CBD and almost no THC, I am assuming that the seed I bought was the right strain, and other seeds I bought at the same time definitely weren't (I got what I assume is NYC Diesel in place of NY Diesel, NYC is an autoflower and I definitely got autoflower, but the CB Diesel does give you a very clear/cool headed buzz. You know, I think if she'd have just settled for 'Be Good' as a slogan, it would more or less work, it's the whole singular nature of anything that is 'the best' that throws things off. There is just something... definitive about being 'best' at something. That's exactly what A Flock of Seagulls sounds like. Well played!
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  535. Will the dems ever realize that there are more progressives than reactionaries, and that by pandering to rightwingers that will never vote the dems they're alienating one of the largest voter bases? The dems are a lot like men who have options, but instead obsess over that one person who's objectively not into them, sometimes low-hanging fruit is just fine, and climbing past that fruit to get the weird sunburnt ones leads to falling and breaking one's neck. Stop chasing away progressives dems, stop sending right-of-center candidates, maybe start playing nice with the labour side instead of the ghoulish capitalists. Let the freak flag fly dems! Edit: The economy is not very important if you're a serf at the bottom, but it helps prop the establishment up to repeat over and over how important it is to fluff the stock market, eventually the serfs start to believe, contrary to their interests/experiences.
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  536. It's been fascinating watching the republicans devolve from being 'The Leopard Party for Eating Faces' into 'The Leopard Party for Eating YOUR Face'.
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  537. Seth, it's a low-key secret, but Maga, Traitor to Mortals is an old card. Just ffs.
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  538. It's profoundly disingenuous to compare endangering yourself personally with a silly but perhaps fun habit like cliff diving (wtf?), and not wearing a mask, which endangers everyone around you potentially, even if you're vaccinated, and tons of people aren't even vaccinated. The whole point of this charade is to set things up so everyone either is smart and is vaccinated, or is gullible, isn't and lies about it to not wear a mask either. Vanishingly few people truly enjoy wearing a mask, the point is there is a nasty pandemic, and if we don't control it, it will keep controlling our lives.
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  539. IMHO people who argue that truth doesn't exist (as in it's an impossibility) are either intellectually dishonest or they're a fool. To me it's an extension of the belief that lying is inevitable, but the truth (ha) is that it's simply harder to tell the truth all the time, it's hardly impossible. Dumb people can lie all the time and they'll get away with it often enough that it feels like a good strategy, if you're actually smart you can tell the truth in a manner that it's well received and will always extract more advantage over time by being scrupulously honest. That said it's really funny to me when people think 'tell the truth' means 'put yourself in the worst light possible', all you're doing is telling on yourself because you've done something you're embarrassed about. I have no idea what this jubilee horseshit it, but I am in no way surprised that it's just a front to put incredibly toxic opinions out as 'alternative facts', it's not about generating clicks it's about getting the dumbasses to vote for the leopards to eat everyone poor's face. Merely presenting batshit misinformation in contrast with flawed/imperfect defenders of basic decency/reasoning will tend to make people equate those two things, literally everyone knows this and has said 'don't compare _____ to ______', it's an ACTUAL universal belief, in contrast with those two outright psychopath philosophies you presented. Seriously if anyone tries to argue 'but if we do this objectively immoral thing DEMOCRATICALLY it becomes a good thing!' I'm going to start a new political party around them personally eating shit, because if EVERYONE thinks they should eat shit I guess they should just eat shit and die? It's such a non-serious position, yet this site is presenting like facts, I wish it was shocking. Democracy is just a form of government, it's not even inherently better, it's actually inherently worse than dictatorship, but the problem is the only people who want to be dictators are terrible at it, the people who would be qualified would rather grow their own cabbage and potatoes, and it's always been this way because only an idiot lets someone else grow their food!
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  540. As a blue collar sort of person, I'm not offended by progressive ideas, and most people that have them explained (in a digestible manner) are similarly open to them. If a person says something like 'I can't say ______ without being called a ______!', it's like they fundamentally don't understand how words work, if you say something racist for example, people will say 'you're a racist' to you. It doesn't matter that people didn't care about you saying that 25-50 years ago, there are lots of things that change over time, people generally don't put lead in the gasoline anymore (I expect that to come back soon though, brain damage leads most people to be more paranoid, and thus more likely to swallow right wing propaganda that almost exclusively plays into paranoia) for example. There is a weird right wing fetish that I've noticed, they're all wanna be Thrasymachus', they all want both the power to do evil at will and to be free from the consequences of their actions, corporations are prime examples of this fetish, and business people almost exclusively get off to it (well, the ones that aren't getting spanked by hired porn stars that insult their wang after). It's not a coincidence that fascism is ultra right wing, and pacifism is far left, one of those is almost inherently evil, and the other is self-destructively good (obviously both are bad for different reasons, but if everyone is a pacfist at least there is peace, if everyone is a fascist we all die).
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  541. SAM BEE! Hooray! They should really give her a late night show, and then not take it away after deliberately tanking her efforts. Also, BAN VIAGRA. Just ban it, it's WAY too dangerous for those old men that are oh so important to the running of our society... them never having another orgasm (because God himself decreed such) is just a sacrifice they should be required to make.
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  542. The real irony is that bear meat can have brain worms, that's why the Native Americans didn't generally eat bear, they fed the bear to theit dogs!
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  543. Also, Kamala's husband has grounds to beat up trump because he's creeping on his wife!
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  544. I worked a bunch as a farm labourer, it was fun/satisfying work, but it paid abysmally and literally ruins your body. Most of what I did was Nursery work (trees/shrubs), but I did farm work on the family farm since I was pretty young (you don't need to be very old to hoe beans). My area isn't as hot as the US gets, but it's more humid than most of it in the summer, so it was quite brutal. I only got bad heat stroke once (I could barely lift my feet by the time I got into the work van to be driven to wait in the shade until I could get a ride home at the end of the day), but agricultural work is not suitable for most children, and even those it 'works' for will face long term issues because of it. I will say this, my jobs were hard, but at least my bosses treated me with enough respect to allow breaks as needed, including being allowed to take a water break whenever I felt like it (within reason obviously), the migrant labourers I worked with had horror stories of other bosses, where we worked there were tons of racist whites, but at least the farm's boss wasn't racist, so they were treated like humans, but that isn't universal. It's even worse in the US I guess, where racism is more institutionalized. I feel like it's not a coincidence that the repubs are fighting to get children stuck in wage slavery that will interfere with their education/development while also fighting to seal up the southern border... they know the corporate exploiters will need a new workforce if they close that border up, and no adult wants to do this work (at the insulting wages being offered), so their plan is to just create a new underclass of brutally exploited workers, where the adults will be free to either starve or keep doing the borderline slave labour work, neo-feudalism sounds like such a great time, because centuries of economic stagnation (you need to have consumers to make an economy work, serfs are too poor to be good consumers) and regular famines/plagues worked out great last time!
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  545.  @dodojesus4529  It's a classic example of someone who knows nothing about a topic thinking that because they have lots of money their ideas must be good. Capitalism isn't efficient and it never was, we've all been lied to for hundreds of years, soon our planet's constantly diminishing carrying capacity will intersect with our ridiculously fast growing population, yay capitalism!
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  546. Why is it that sadists like trump are always huge cowards?
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  547. Seriously, when I need to raise my testosterone levels (don't ask), I either split firewood with axes/mauls that I personally made (with handles from trees I cut down), or I screw around with my huge 1/4in thick 4ft long chopper, this thing could perhaps cut a person in half the long way with a hard swing, it's a horror, I've chopped down so many trees (and then delimbed them) that I've broken it (and rewelded) multiple times. Sometimes I carry a log, which feels really boss, but what I don't do is expose myself to unnecessary radiation, because that's obviously stupid! You have reminded me that Seinfeld is not Shakespear, which is a good thing to remind me of. The right wing orgs love to find pervs like tucky, they make it very easy to blackmail them, which makes me wonder what exactly went down.
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  548. She's exactly as triggering as Obama, and for exactly the same reasons (she's mixed race and is pretty good at her job).
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  549. Oh goodness, her life savings were tied up in one of the most hit or miss industries known to man?? Okay, even ignoring that, exactly how many lives is she willing to end to not lose her bar? Is 5 people dying cool with her? What about 10 more? Even bigger question, how fucking stupid do you have to be think your two choices are 'other people must die for minor advantage' and 'other people live but I end up literally destitute', because the government apparently can do nothing?? I dunno, but maybe unrestricted capitalism is a fucking death trap for everyone but the very richest and should go away now? ...aaand now the attorney, who is arguing that by acknowledging that especially unsafe businesses need to be treated differently, the gov is 'picking winners'?? This is beyond words at a certain point, where you can't verbalize how little sense this makes, because it's so profoundly stupid/inconsistent. Edit: Oh wow, it got even better near the end, when she admits that she thinks experts don't know what they're talking about! You know, people with MDs, PhDs, they don't know what they're talking about, but random bar owner in Texas, who thinks its a good idea to invest one's entire life savings in a bar knows how shit works.
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  550. You think weddings are a scam? I literally got an ad for 'direct pay' lottery before this... this way you can lose money without even thinking about it, you just decide how much money you want to spunk up the wall each month, and then it does that for you. Describing this stuff as stupid is painfully understating things, but it's great knowing that their will for sure be people who are totally into the idea, and they generally will be very poor.
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  551. Got to say, hannity's pro-trump delirium makes me think of a person saying 'they aren't allowed to defend themselves' in a UFC ring because nobody will let them bring pocket salt. Is their actually anyone stupid enough to think you're supposed to 'defend yourself' in a criminal case by whining to the public?
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  552. You might want to try CBN, it's main effect is that it makes you sleepy, and it uses different receptors than THC so tolerance doesn't transfer. When I really need to sleep, even a few ml of not especially concentrated stuff makes me nice and drowsy.
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  553. You act like 'being your authentic self' is inherently a good thing, I'd much rather a whole lot of people not 'be themselves' because they're objectively terrible. As a universal rule, people's 'true nature' isn't to be a nice person, not sure how you can reach adulthood and not have figured that out. People are hardwired to be selfish as a baby, we're all like that when we start out, it takes training/effort to change that useless nature into one that has potential. Also, people who believe that people only do good when being watched have zero empathy and I wouldn't trust them to babysit a pet rock, they're literally telling you that they personally have never done an actual good deed in their life. Some people grow up and embrace being a good person, most don't but lack the ability to act out their evil desires.
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  554. If only you were INTP you'd understand personality tests... now, where's my horoscope so I can decide if it's a good idea to spend all my savings on lottery tickets!
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  555. In seriousness, individually answered personality tests are inherently flawed because very few humans have insight into themselves, their nature, and why they do anything instead of something else (or nothing at all), most humans are the least qualified evaluators of themselves you could ever find. It doen't matter if the try to lie, or if they're cooperative, humans are HARDWIRED to lie to themselves constantly.
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  556. While I'm not surprised that conservative shit-for-brains have been whining some incoherent shit about 'women's soccer is too woke!', from everything I've heard all of the women's teams are pretty 'woke', and arguably the US team was less diverse than some teams (I've heard). To be frank, if conservatives don't want to watch women's sports they can shut the hell up about them, there is no way trump watched, yet the media can't resist, they have to tell us at length what a moron who didn't see the game thought about the game (also the moron knows literally nothing about sports and is notoriously fat, lazy and in terrible shape, such that he thinks riding a golf cart is exercise, because it's enough to make his flabby body pant).
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  557. I'm sure someone else has already pointed this out, but the increasing IQ scores over time might be (in part) a function of lower lead levels, lead noticeably lowers IQ, especially when you are exposed while your brain is still developing. It's also why people are getting somewhat less violent, lead exposure also increases people's violent impulses, totally a coincidence that the US gov was really blasé about lead levels in impoverished communities, aka people they intended to funnel into the prison system to better exploit. This trend would latter drop off as the baseline IQ returned to normal (the drop off from when lead saw heavy use in gasoline to 20 years after banning it was very measurable). IQ is funny, but a big part of it is having to struggle in life, if your life features very few challenges, you're going to be way dumber than if your life was a tougher nut to crack, rich people understand this very quickly and work to ensure that their progeny, who are generally vapid, can use 'connections' to find jobs rather than using tangible skills. We have countless millions-per-annum jobs that are literally make work projects for rich kids, where there are actually multiple people employed at making them feel useful, so that they won't develop pesky mental health problems when they figure out their job is literally less important than any low wage employee, even the biggest slackers on the janitorial staff at a union factory work harder than these kids. I say kids, but plenty of them are much older than me, this has been going on for thousands of years, it's part of why civilizations that avoided heritable rule tend to perform a lot better. Put simply, it's really easy to find one smart person, but even if they have 20 'suitable' heirs, it's quite possible that none of them will have an appropriate skillset or temperament, it's rare to have more than a few good kings before you have a truly horrible one. Rome arguably had less than a handful before it started having Emperors that were dangerously/dysfunctional despotic (and possibly insane, see the lead thing above, Romans sweetened wine with lead apparently), I think the first official Imperial dynasty of China gained power mostly be having a series of competent rulers, something none of it's competitors could claim (as I said above, getting one or 2 good ones isn't too bad, getting 5 in a row was a huge deal). The whole heritability of IQ thing I understand is actually pretty tenuous, we known for certain there isn't a 'smart gene', there are many genes that impact the brain and thus intelligence. From what I read, all children have a tendency to be more normal/typical than their parents (in terms of intelligence), be it smarter or dumber, most exceptional people are the product of a great deal of randomness, and your actual upbringing/mental development opportunities make a huge difference how most testers would rate you. If you read a lot of books, you will tend to come across a lot more ideas, even if you're just reading novels, they always have more going on than just the core story, so reading a lot is usually associated with higher intelligence when tested, but it's hard to know if someone is getting useful knowledge or just turning pages without absorbing anything until you do testing, a thing people are very leery of. I think watching actors in action rather than reading is wildly less mentally stimulating, it requires a lot of mental effort to 'get into' a book compared to just watching a TV show, but some videos can be informative to an extent, it's just incredibly slow to communicate by speech vs how much info you can dump in a book that's hundreds of pages.
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  558. I googled 'blown coat' only to confirm what I already thought was the answer, based purely on conjecture. This is also how I figured out most words/phrases while reading as I was growing up, I'd more or less guess based on the context/previous knowledge and I was usually correct enough (pronunciation is a different story, but English doesn't have rational pronunciation rules so who cares) to get by. I think it's the jackal's curse in action, your small meaningless victories make you overconfident, and before you know it you think your an expert on everything and some think tank comes looking for you.
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  559. The only things I know of that actually help your brain work better are things that make it more healthy, so having enough protein, healthy fats, and plenty of stuff that improves circulation, such as turmeric, if your brain is healthy it'll work better. Another thing that can improve mental performance (and things like measured intelligence, such as it is) are anti-psychotics, but those only improve you if you're too psychotic afaik, but this does mean some people will perform better with CBD in their system (and potentially worse with THC in their system, ditto for cocaine and other dopamine boosting drugs btw). BTW, big upside for both genders is that most things that improve your brain health also improve sexual function because good circulation helps sex for both genders. Your kidneys' job is to filter blood to remove piss from your blood stream, not filter piss fwiw. That's why if you have kidney failure they filter your blood with dialysis, and they don't filter your piss (because that'd be incredibly stupid).
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  560. Oh, and exercise helps your brain, if you want to be smarter do a ton of cardio on the regular. Couch potatoes aren't just fatter and softer, they're provably dumber.
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  561. Hilarious! It's like you're asking for 'things-to-happen-to-potential-guests-such-that-we-need-to-keep-having-Amy-on', maybe it's just you?
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  562. You have to give credit to the cons for having figured out that nobody anywhere near 18 is going to vote for them, so they might as well embrace this fact and openly screw over young people to win the vote of the elderly. Also, this idea is literally bringing back the PREVIOUS system of 'paying your taxes', which was generally in goods or services rendered, this is supposedly one of the reasons old rulers used to build lots of monuments/megaprojects, it was hard to find enough stuff for your citizens to do when it wasn't time to farm, and if you didn't keep them REALLY busy they'd revolt and murder you horribly... So yeah, I guess this does seem very apropos for sunak, to bring back ancient pyramid era ideas to avoid making the rich pay taxes (it's just a scam to get free labor because they keep trying to push their stupid austerity). It is pretty rich irony though, the elderly are draining more resources than the system can tolerate (without taxing the rich anyways), and the 'solution' to conservatives is to make the young pay for the difference because young people don't usually vote.
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  563. ...Imma just make a list. 1. Who the fuck is going to go to your hotels/casinos even if you open up your state?? They are laughably more capacity than you need for your own population, so they can't support it alone, that'll just be huge losses for these businesses. 2. So the plan is to get lots of people to go to Nevada from all over, and somehow nothing will go wrong??? With a hugely infectious pandemic disease that is simmering away, barely under control in your country specifically? 3. I love she basically laughs when Cooper accuses her of being obviously corrupt. Nobody is accusing you of being a private owner of a casino you moron, they're accusing you of being a corrupt toady. 4. HAHAHA. Yeah, making sense is not a question of opinion, it's a 'thing'. If you're talking out of your ass, even if you're a mayor, you're still not going to be making sense. 5. Touting personal fucking responsiblity when the lives of other people are on the line, not just your own, is a fucking shitty position to take. 6. Oookay, so when the government lied to the people and said nuclear tests were safe (when they really weren't), that was bad, but when she lies about the safety of reopening (she is lying because she has no factual basis for this position, and is presenting it as fact, which it is not), that's good? 7. The state needs to help people, so the only obvious solution isn't to give them money to get by on (which the state can afford, since it fairly taxes the hilariously profitable casinos/hotels during the ever-present boom years, and doesn't just let them keep all the profits), allowing them to stay safe and survive, instead it is to force everyone else to go back to work, when no experts are saying this is a good idea. 8. Okay, so she's saying quarantines are bad, because Typhoid Mary being quarantined, uh, saved lives? What the ever loving fuck?? Someone can be asymptomatic and still infectious. 9. What the hell does West Nile, a disease that has an easily controllable vector in mosquitoes, have to do with COVID 19, which is readily transmitted between people who don't even touch? Oh, right, West Nile was largely a non-issue after mosquito control was used, while COVID will go away with quarantining, so we shouldn't quarantine? 10. It is very clear she neither understands how legionnaire's disease occurs (which is mostly neglect), vs this disease. This is so painfully ignorant it makes me sad that people voted her into office. 11. So, your office is pristine and people wear masks... Does it use air conditioning by any chance? I shake my head. 12. I don't think it's a good plan to go into detail about how much the casino owners are hurting and then in the next breath claim you are talking about not disease, but 'life'... when people will be literally dying due to her stupid ideas, if they are allowed to come to pass. Of course she fucking talks to the casino owners every damn day, they own her, and have to give her orders it would seem. Ghastly corruption. 13. Again, she's talking about the suffering of the people releasing workers, who are usually, you know, kinda rich, and who the banks tend to protect more than 'high risk' poor people. Good god, it's like someone turned off her ability to lie here and their. 14. Uh, what the fuck does the flu have to do with this? Also, if people did previously get infected, it would be easy to, you know, verify this with testing before reopening. But lets not do that, that'd be sane! 15. Just a general observation in the trump era, but politicians that try to talk over their interviewer to try to change the subject or bullshit need to get their mic turned off so they can shut the fuck up already. This is stupid. 16. All those dead family members? Yeah, that's your tragedy, the real tragedy is apparently that her rich casino owning friends aren't profiting atm, even if it could cost tens of thousands of deaths easily. 17. Uh, you can't use science to defend reopening, arguing that your state's poor are the 'control group' because they is what is called 'very, very fucking unethical', and would thus not qualify according to our modern definition of 'doing science'. Please actually try to learn about science before talking about it again. The fact that she's laughing about this, that she's trying to condemn thousands, so rich people can make money now, rather than just make it later. 18. It's not her job to talk about testing, it's her job to talk about how everyone was magically already infected and is now immune and everyone can go back to work without any testing?? This is so bat-shit it hurts my head. This is just a few things that stood out. The US needs to start electing people based on them having an actual, funcitonal knowledge of how science works, because this kinda shit is getting a lot of people killed. The US has a pretty crazy disease load for it's population, it's almost like not closing earlier was a huge mistake that cost tens of thousands of lives already, and likely will cost many more, even without reopening, with the new case count hovering around 'pretty fucking high for a country that's mostly locked down', so talking about reopening at this point is proof that these people are unfit for office.
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  564. While I'll never not find it funny when someone goes through all the myriad hoops to get famous only to realize that being famous secretly sucks (unless you're an actively evil person who wants to have freedom from consequences, celebrity offers that in spades), it would really suck to have people feeling that entitled to you. It'll also never not be funny when people want all the upsides of fame, and expect there to be no downsides to having good things, it's the same entitled BS you hear from rich people 'I want good things and no drawbacks because I'm a special snowflake!!'. Someone below pointed out that they feel different depending on whether a celebrity has 'talent', well guess what? Being good at being famous for being famous (aka being evil) is a skill all it's own, paris hilton had a skill, contrary to what everyone believed (that might be the only non-negative thing I'll say about her, ever). You can cultivate a craft or skill and not seek fame, those are unrelated things, and as soon as someone tries to capitalize on their hobby (instead of working a 'normal job') they're choosing to chase fame, whether they like it or not. Feeling bad for these people is like feeling bad for people who refuse to practice any kind of self control in their self-destructive tendencies, because seeking out fame while not wanting any of the baggage of that thing is STAGGERINGLY juvenile. I'm pretty sure I have a better voice than almost anyone who's famous-famous for singing, the difference is that I don't want to be famous so I don't try to capitalize on it, being good at singing has very little to do with being a famous singer. I'd argue it's been a long time since we've had someone who's truly famous for their singing, the way the great singers used to be, this is because 'the business' wants people who aren't especially talented to be celebrities, the whole point is them being relatable; just about nobody can relate to singing like Julie Andrews, so that level of talent isn't actually marketable anymore, if you can sing like that you just go into Opera or something similar wildly lower profile (and that doesn't pay all that well), the suits want young dumb marketable stars that are relatable because they're not especially talented, if Elvis was born today he'd probably never make it because he was too good at what he did. Heck, people CHOOSE to listen to auto-tuner BS when Sinatra exists (he was an a-hole but he could), I blame people getting 'into' grunge (most of which was bland and awful music from a purely technical perspective, it was bad music for bad music's sake) in the 90s, listening to too much grunge/nu-metal/rap-metal stuff from the 90s/00s does to your ears what smoking does to your tongue... if the only 'art' you'd ever seen was Bored Apes, what would you call the best piece of art you've ever seen?
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  565. If you think cannabis is addictive you've never tried anything remotely addictive. There is a reason I have zero qualms about using weed but will never shoot up, snort, or gamble with actual money, all of those destroy lives (or require serious interventions to not), the only people being 'destroyed' by weed were victims of society already, and society wants to blame the weed for this. Also, there is no narrative that weed is harmless, if you use too much everyone knows it can make you temporarily psychotic, and psychotic people are known to be extremely paranoid, similarly if you smoke it it's definitely bad for your lungs and circulatory system, but if you use edibles and use them moderately their are no health concerns. Most issues are easily mitigated by simply not being high all day every day, tolerance to weed also plummets incredibly quickly (skip a couple days of edibles and you may be QUITE surprised the next time with the 'normal' dose). Obviously it should go without saying that young people/kids shouldn't use, but most have easy access to alcohol and that's 1000% worse for kids than weed, anyone who got hooked on booze while young has a nightmarish time quitting (most just die very young), even a heavy pot user can just quit cold turkey if they're kept reasonably busy.
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  566. ...Most people don't have a reaction to boredom, and most potheads I've known use it because it makes boring things interesting, meaning they can tolerate tedious, hard, or painful jobs. It's adorable how you act like people only get bored when they don't have a fucking job, that nobody's job is so shitty that they need escapes to avoid having a psychotic breakdown... must be nice in the ivory tower!
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  567. Also, wait until your 30s if you can for the OBVIOUS reason your brain isn't remotely done in your early 20s, and you will affect your brain's development (just like any powerful experience will). By the time you're 30 your brain is more in the 'sharpening' stage rather than forming, the brain's architecture is finished, and if you avoided things like video games, drugs/alcohol, sex/pornography, and been very physically (and mentally) challenged on a regular basis you're in an ideal position to get the maximum benefit. I think for me it wasn't until after my 30s when I was at the right biological age to partake (based on how being high feels, and how it affects my daily life, during and after), but I'm sure plenty of people are ready in their mid to late 20s.
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  568. I suspect it was more of a strategy, to just lie to pollsters to breed complacency. That, or there were some shenanigans that helped republicans, but that needs proof before I'll give that credence, since I don't like just believing crazy theories without evidence. The problem though, is that the trump strategy, of being awful and just lying continuously (and counting on your own followers to even ignore contradictory recordings of you) wasn't discredited, so I think we can expect the republicans to get worse, not better, after this defeat.
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  569. It's rather important that the nazis were extremely close cooperators with corporations, they loved capitalism, even worshipped it, and in return the corporations loved the nazis. People seem to like to ignore this and how popular the nazis were among Western populations, including white NA. The nazis were the corporate darlings, and were treated very differently compared to the USSR, which was a pariah. You may disagree with that definition of Socialism, that anything of substance the government does is an example of it, but this is actually true enough in a sense, you could in theory privatize a great deal of these things, if not all of them, and just have a government that's only role is assigning tasks to private entities that then perform them for profit. it's absurd, but this is actually what some (very capitalist) people dream of as a future for humanity, where society is essentially run by oligarchs and corporations, with a figurehead leader of a vestigial government that has no power.
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  570. I think laziness kinda is real, but it's a rare person who actively doesn't like contributing/taking care of themselves. The way the idea of laziness is used is pretty fucked up obviously, and the way poverty is used to threaten/control us is quite horrifying.
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  571. They need to turn off trump's mic whenever it's not his turn to speak. Also, he didn't just not condemn white supremacists, he actually double-spoke, and was hinting at them to be 'ready'. For what, we can pretend 'who knows', but considering he was also telling supporters to stake out the polling stations, I think it's clear what he's hoping for. Edit: Anyone saying trump didn't screw up Covid hasn't looked at how it affected other developed countries. That's all. trump's handling has been a disaster through and through, and all his supporters can do is talk about him restricting access to China. The concept of a 'global' pandemic is clearly beyond trump's understanding. The stupidest argument of all though? That trump reduced suffering?! He's cut off assistance to force people back to work during a pandemic that he refused to manage like a modern nation, and that has run rampant in the US because of it. There is literally nothing positive about trump's handling of covid.
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  572. Uh, if you think it's hot for people just doing house-stuff, take a guess how much fun it is to haul 80lb bags of concrete in the midday sun... you guys are very lucky there isn't a night crew, construction should start at sun rise imho, just like most field work on a farm. Note: I try to go to bed between 8 and 9 pm, I'm usually on my 2nd coffee at 7am
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  573. I knew a driver that was driving a big station wagon, and while they were backing into a spot, a tiny compact stole it. Well, the driver saw this but played dumb, backed up until be was touching the compact, then hit the gas to point out "don't be human garbage and expect no consequences", I very strongly suspect that the compact driver did not pull that BS again. It was bumper on bumper so not even a scratch though.
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  574. This is one of the more interesting vids I've watched in a long time... I'm glad somebody took the time to explain to the lay-people how the greenhouse effect actually works, rather than using strange, misleading explanations that can be ignored/discredited. This is pretty simple I'd say, and should be clear to anyone who's done even high school level science even.
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  575. I bet trump was so alpha that he shat himself when obama made fun of him in public that one time, after trump had antagonized him for absolutely no reason. I felt like this section could be a 4 weasel, but 3 is way too low, 5 is way more reasonable.
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  576. There is nothing quite like a bunch of white men arguing 'our countries didn't write a law saying we couldn't loot your countries, so it's legally ours', why do they even bother?
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  577. ...Am I on some serious crazy pills or something, why is nobody dragging the ever loving shit out of this loesch person for not understanding how bird reproduction works? How fucking stupid do you have to be to think a bird will ever need an abortion? They lay eggs. Egg laying is, for most birds, such a nothing experience that they can lay more than one at once or will lay another one quite quickly after the first if necessary, birds as a result don't have pregnancy complications that would require an abortion. After being laid, the egg then develops from a yolk (which is not a bird) into a chick (which is a very small, very simple bird). If a bird doesn't want another bird, it just doesn't sit on the fucking egg and hatch it. Good lord she's stupid, who the hell lets her handle firearms, loaded or not?
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  578. Stupidity in this has a remarkable facet of delusional thinking, and creating more stupid people likely requires that they embrace delusions rather than reason, IE believe things rather than learning.
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  579. Your bit about the vampire/onion misunderstanding leads me to a very bad joke inspired by my russian lit phase, ironically the onion wasn't worth a garlic! ...That's it, that's the whole joke, and to 'get it' you need to have read russian literature. Well, that or I'll sound like some kind of village idiot!
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  580. Wait, *just Rudy*?? Also, about bloody time.
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  581. I love how manchin is so incredibly unpopular in his own state that he has to live on a boat. Don't be a manchin kids!
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  582. I think you could argue that class struggle is very pre-historic, though I'd say it's pretty unique to humans. It is found in every civilization to some degree, and depending on how you define capitalism, it's also pre-historic.
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  583. Really Karen? This was like trying to bunt (in the Majors!) when the bases are loaded...
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  584. Yeah, I could tell some (most) of those were scams on first sight, even when I was younger and dumber. The reason they persist (and succeed in the first place) is that they are a way for a large corporation to treat it's employees way worse than is even legal, because they use loopholes and the laissez faire attitude of government towards corporate abuses. The government wanted this scams to work, so they worked, and the big reason was screwing over the workers by turning the consumers against them, making the paradigm consumers look at is them vs the workers, not them vs uber or whatever scam. If these businesses want to be something other than a burden on society, they need to start paying their workers a living wage. Doing taxi work and not having the follow the laws of taxi services for no clear reason is not a contribution to society, it literally is a worsening of society on the whole, because it's blatant exploitation to dump money in the pockets of the already rich.
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  585. It's deeply weird having one member of congress accuse a man of not having balls when another congressperson literally showed naked pictures of him (also, why no legal consequence for that? Pretty sure that's illegal).
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  586. Seth looked like he pooped himself at that awards show, and was trying to fake like nothing weird happened.
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  587. According to Civ 1 the solution to global warming is to use things like mass transit, cleaner energy, recycling and large numbers of citizens that are employed as 'maintenance' for infrastructure/to clean up pollution. If you let pollution get carried away you get global warming, which destroys coastal infrastructure and even turns dry, arable land into various wetlands, leading to huge starvation problems. The wetlands can be drained, but again, you need a colossal workforce to do it. Fortunately for us we have a large number of people already doing meaningless 'keep-them-busy' jobs, but most of them would balk at doing lots of fairly physical/dirty labor, but if that's what needs to be done, then what else is there to do but train 1/8th or so of the population to be construction workers that work to mitigate the effects of climate change, while everyone else finally starts doing their part instead of 'what-about' BS that everyone pulls now. Finally, we need to limit further population growth, we're already way over the earth's long term carrying capacity (especially if we all lived as people live in the West), meaning we actually should look at reducing global population over the next centuries, until we're back around a few billion. Part of this could be people moving off earth, but who knows if that will ever be practical, let alone scalable? If we let the capitalists be in charge those places will be hell for the majority, but the world is moving towards fascism atm, meaning it's more interested in pushing the concept of 'superior people', you can't have fascism without 'supermen'. Fascism is obsessed with the semiotics of what they have arbitrarily determined to be the 'ideal', to the point where it's a source of cognitive dissonance when the world doesn't support their beliefs (as in their 'ideal men' aren't actually superior to others). I think this dissonance is a source of the madness all fascists eventually manifest when they have too much power, they fantasize about controlling reality but are merely mortal men, and thus their power is mostly a façade compared to their fantasies (this is also why fascists are often magical thinkers, they fantasize about power of all sorts).
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  588. Dipshit has long been my Dad's way of showing he has absolutely no respect for someone, that they are worthy of complete disdain due to a peculiar mix of stupidity, ignorance, and overconfidence. It's a special insult that isn't really delivered with any particular hatred, it's just a weary observation usually, along the lines of 'well, because dipshit did ______, now we've have a problem to fix'.
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  589. Well, it's hard for a government to crack down on the people who give them huge bribes I guess? A LOT of politicians even trade stock ffs, many of them likely benefited from their own tax cuts under trump, I'd say your government is a racket, but so it Canada's (and people's knee-jerk is to vote for ol' Skimmed desantis himself, weenie poilievre). ...it's very easy to land on your feet when people keep giving you new billions to spunk up the wall on idiotic business ideas. It takes a very special kind of idiot to try to sell vodka when he's publicly a teetotaler, their are reasons workers ABSOLUTELY hate it when engineers who've never worked in the field design 'solutions'. Throughout most of recorded history, the people who managed the workers made a point of being among them (modern race-based slavery was actually what caused this to change fwiw, the workers were supposed to be their own 'caste' in the 'new world' the capitalists were building), to actually see what the problems were that needed solving. trump is exactly one of those engineers who's never been in the trench who designs a tank that gets stuck if it tries to cross one... this was a huge problem in WW1, look up some of those tank designs, they'd be adorable if they weren't designed to kill and maim, everything is tin-plated and full of shot traps, people could shoot through tanks with especially big rifles, and many tanks had so many crew that people risked dying of heat stroke to serve in one. He doesn't understand anything because he's never actually worked in any field, yet he thinks because his daddy inherited a bunch of money he only has good ideas.
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  590. This Ripley show sounds like everything I hate, I only want to see shows were bad people suffer without nuance... I just want to see villains stepping on rakes (also racist cops). Important point, hitler literally lost a war the the global establishment wanted him to win (and they dumped unholy amounts of money/rigged things for the nazis by keeping the us out until he'd basically lost it through meth addiction and sheer stupidity). That's why all the shitty billionaires are weirdly pro-nazi.
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  591. It's really horrifying seeing your country just sit there and take this kind of abuse from it's SC. People should be rioting in the streets over this, demanding the courts be reformed immediately. The SC thinks it's a bunch of old testament judges who get to make up law, not merely read it, and as such they're literally making shit up now, whole cloth.
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  592. Thank you for making this so I don't have to, I'm very sick of hearing that these morons either A) have skills/talents B) are intelligent objectively speaking when both are obviously false. They are all incompetent, it's just that each is amoral in just the right way to profit enormously, and there are enough people obsessed with the premise that money makes you a 'superior person', IE that it's proof of competence/intelligence/moral integrity, yet we all fall for it to some degree because we're hard-wired that way. Most of these jackasses either are straight up conmen (sbf, musk, and most to some extent if we're honest) or stole one or more great ideas and marketed them really well (most that are considered 'geniuses' tend to fall into this category, they just take their idea from someone else much smarter but importantly too saddled with a conscience to utilize said 'great ideas' like facebook or DOS and ran with them to the end of the race). These aren't great people, they're literally our modern equivalent to the scum of the olden times, the asshole aristocrats, these are people we should all despise. It's a weird coincidence that these folks all seem to be pretty far right on the spectrum, I guess it makes a lot of sense that people that got ahead by not being ethical prove eager to put their own interests ahead of others, which is what right wing ethos are all about, the right to hurt or inconvenience others because you are higher status for whatever reason. I still try to use Instagram, but good god is it ever a hive for bots and the reels seem universally despised, they are videos with none of the critical functions of a video, you can't readily pause/stop them, you can't fast forward, it's super-easy to miss how long the stupid things are, and the quality is almost universally pretty bad. The only ones I honestly enjoy are the cat ones, unless it's one where the cat isn't moving and it's either dead or drugged or something, maybe I'm just paranoid idk, but reels are horribly implemented. Crypto was obviously a scam, but yeah, I do feel at a certain point you got hosed because you're incredibly stupid, and that is what the world is designed to do, screw over stupid people in favor of smarter people, and unethical behviour is only a bad idea what there is legal enforcement, but our government is often very eager to pretend that they can't tell how Uber is identical to a cab service (and should have had to follow the same bloody laws), or that crypto, which literally couldn't do anything you can't do better with an existing bank account/credit card other than launder money, was a scam. Our government is designed to allow new idiots to move up now and then, and they will just ignore the laws with the stupidest pretexts imaginable because they choose winners like Tesla/Space X all the time. NFTs are actually so stupid it made my head hurt, they are literally a link, which you likely don't have direct control over, meaning someone else can just post a new pic, IE one of you straining hard while on the shitter, taken via your phone's cam which you didn't disable well enough. People dumb enough to buy NFTs might not deserve to have money, but I will admit I am totally addicted to Magic cards, which is also a scam (but a better run one, and one you can play a really sweet game with), so I really should shut up at some point! The new 'meta' stuff looks very much like the art from a Gamecube's renderer, I have no idea how they managed to make it look so bad and yet run so poorly at the same time, it's absolute shit, Nintendo had better stuff with the Wii than what meta is peddling. Unless he's literally using this VR BS as a way to embezzle a staggering fortune that even putin would notice he's actively the stupidest of the lot. Facebook was a money making dream, one that people in many places continued to join, but he had to push his stupid rightwing politics on us all, even at cost to his platform. He aided and abetted trump until trump went cuckoo bananas, and he's offered a free platform for rightwing governments and causes, including feeding into various genocides attempted and realized. If meta's VR stuff is intended to be a competitive product I think most of the upper management needs to be fired on principle alone, anybody who agreed to an idea this expensive and stupid should be fired, if not sued by the shareholders.
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  593. You can have red bubbly wine, it's not necessarily technical champagne, but it can be authentic sparkling wine and the difference can be purely geographical.
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  594. Did nobody tell the US gov about that genocide caused by facebook, the company they are banning tiktok (a successful and thriving company) to protect? I think they banned the obviously wrong company as satire, it makes more sense than whatever the hell the official story is. The audacity of acting like the tiktok algo was somehow bad when all the us platforms bend over backwards to sneak far right propaganda into your feed (and will make it part of your autoplay if you're stupid enough to leave autoplay on), while all the tiktok algo does is feed you stuff you actually want to see (there is literally a video being pushed high up in my youtube feed by a channel called 'nonpartisan red pill men's group', was 'totally neutral nazi cause supporters' group' taken?? I don't hate watch right wing content because it's such a waste of time, the algo knows this, yet it shoves content like this regularly)! Also, nobody gave a shit when they found out snapchat wasn't deleting a thing, and that it was all to be used for AI, which was the REAL reason the platform was founded, that and making a huge stockpile of 'legally harvested' child porn. The existing platforms were offering such bad services that a foreigner easily outperformed them, so the solution was to ban the more successful company to protect the losers? While it doesn't really sound very capitalist, it does sound both fascist and VERY american.
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  595. I'm not American, but I wouldn't be surprised if trump failed a drug test for meth after watching some of this. I don't like Biden all that much (I don't hate him though), but I give him mad props for daring to debate with a moron that will literally make up things whole cloth, and devote a significant part of his time to not just personal attacks, but second hand personal attacks, accusing the son (who is not running for any office at the moment) of crimes when there hasn't even been charges is ludicrous. Over all in this, trump comes out looking like what he is, a moron. An actual child could follow debate rules better than trump did, and his only hope is to convince his followers that Wallace was 'attacking' him, when he was enforcing the rules, and not even strictly.
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  596. I love how nobody can believe biden is actually trying to eat that stiff-ass pizza, himself included.
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  597. Don't forget the US stealing their fertilizer reserves, so the country would never be able to be food self-sufficient with it's badly damaged soil (due to the heavy clearing of land to pay to french). Haiti was literally sabotaged over and over to punish it for refusing to embrace the role the whites who had power had assigned it.
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  598. ...did a business shithead just try to argue that 'loans are supposed to be repaid'? WTF about all the staggering levels of corporate malfeasance, let alone the colossal subsidies the government hands out to the already rich who don't need the help, dude can get fucked with a shovel. I do spend a lot of my money on healthy things, but a decent chunk goes towards various addictions/crutches, but saying 'people shouldn't use crutches' fundamentally misunderstands that crutches have purposes, and that's why people use them. If I had to admit to my most embarrassing expenditure it's probably Magic cards, I derive immense joy from fiddling with cardboard, and I think I can see why people call it cardboard crack. I'm almost completely certain that debts predate currency, the Egyptians had to pay their taxes via labour (or if they were rich sending a bunch of slaves to labour on their behalf, but most skilled workers paid with said skills), because there wasn't money yet. This is part of why they Egyptians made so many stupid monuments (most of which seem to have been built by very healthy/cared for people from the remains we've found, suggesting that these monuments weren't being made by brutalized slaves), there was only so much infrastructure that needed building/maintenance, and Egypt was relatively wealthy so it had lots of workers. Having to pay taxes was in those days (like today I guess) very symbolic, so even if nobody needed your abilities, make-work projects like pyramids would be needed. Modern American Christianity is closer to worshipping the Biblical devil than the Trinity, that's how far it's moved from God's teachings. Most of the bugbears of the evangelicals in particular aren't Biblical, or they're taking some throwaway passage and ignoring the countless parts that contradict that idea elsewhere in the Bible. AFAIK there is nearly no mention of abortion in the Bible (it was a thing in the past too, look it up, it wasn't as good but it's not like prostitutes could barely work because they were always knocked up, people had solutions thousands of years ago because having an unwanted kid sucked SO FUCKING HARD), other than men being told they are supposed to pray for a spontaneous abortion if they think their wife cheated on them, and if she did miscarry she was a guilty harlot or something. I guess we can be grateful that there are even weirder parts of the Bible that the weirdest among us haven't studied up on yet. Not just trillions spent on the military, it's trillions spent on a military that pretty much sucks in actual practice, it's almost like it's designed to fail and get stuck in drawn out conflicts. Never has a country had such a big advantage in so many conflicts and consistently had it's ass handed to it. Apparently in the Middle Ages knights and other nobles would take loans out from Jewish bankers (because no Christian could give a loan in those days, it was forbidden) and when it came time to pay they'd accuse the bankers of being money lenders. Apparently anti-Semitism was already that strong that this was generally looked at as being a clever solution.
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  599. Just pointing out the obvious here, but modern agricultural crops are all dependent on chemical support, be it fertilizer or pesticides, and most of them will do much worse than a 100 year old variety if you take away those crutches. You'd have to raid an old seed bank or something. Also, most people today have zero usable skills if they live in a city, they can't reverse engineer a spoon, let alone a complex machine. People that work in service industries would only coincidentally have technical skills necessary for rebuilding from a serious catastrophe, nothing in their job skillset will prepare them for anything but chatting people up unfortunately, and that's a huge number of people. Then you have people who only have computer related skills, which will also become largely irrelevant if society collapsed. You don't see as many gardens out in the country these days, maybe it's just my area, but I hear that researchers in England found that bees had to travel further to find nectar in the countryside vs in heavily developed London. I'm not sure if they accounted for their being a likely much higher number of hives out in the country, but the point is that most agriculture today is not especially helpful to bees, and there wasn't enough gardens in the country to make up for the difference. I garden a lot and even I don't think I'd do especially well if society collapsed, so much of my garden requires external inputs, you just can't have a high yielding organic farm overnight, and that brings me to the final point, most commercial farmers don't know anything about organic farming, and plenty of organic farmers aren't successful because it's so hard to pull off, so I really think you're giving us way, way too much credit. Most of our jobs are make-work projects, just like the primary purpose of public education is presently babysitting so parents can work, specifically both parents. If we suddenly had to reverse engineer an EV we're going to be very boned I suspect. The big exception I suspect is people who have actual technical know how, and actually can fix or make things, but that's a tiny portion of the population. I'm not looking forward to the US invading Canada over water supplies, but it's going to happen, Canada is a big ol' bowl full of water, and the US is turning into a giant desert in the areas where they love to farm. At least I didn't support any of the other US invasions during my lifetime, Afghanistan and Iraq were both complete scams. Environmental collapse is scary.
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  600. I'm a little curious if the general/complete lack of respect the US showed Canada (including blaming 9/11 on our border security, without evidence, remember that?) immediately before, during, and after 9/11 played a role in us sitting out iraq? We had no hesitation about invading afghanistan without cause, but iraq, the much easier to invade country, was too big of an ask apparently. It always seemed a bit odd, especially since the US didn't need large troop commitments, they were VERY happy to trumpet tiny contingents as the 'coalition of the willing', everyone knew the overwhelming majority of troops/equipment was American, and that everyone else was there for the symbolic enabling.
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  601. The 'head blown off by a cannon' makes me think of Berserk, the manga and the anime. Fond memories of some of the weirdest stuff imaginable!
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  602. Great vid, it never ceases to amaze me that so many poor people seem to think with the borrowed brain of a more comfy rich person, and thus vote according to the comfy rich person's needs. It's a weird thought but I don't know how else to explain their assiduously voting against their needs, not even wants at this point.
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  603. It starts to really make sense why the powerful don't give a shit about this, or any other downturn, because they won't lose, the poor lose. The poor die. They profit off setting up the market to blow up, ride out the low (getting huge bailouts), and then get to continue profiting off the ridiculously low taxes. At what point did anything go poorly for them? It's almost like the system is designed to fleece the poor regularly, for all they can stand.
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  604. I liked it more when they just called it 'late stage capitalism', when their is officially better incentives to scam than their is to do actual business. We got their before in the 19th/early 20th century, when slavery went away because that meant the owners didn't have to actually worry if you had your necessities met, they could just fire you if you were too hungry to work and hire someone who wasn't able to work yet and thus hasn't used up their visceral fat, if your slave starved to death you actually had to buy a new slave, I wish people would realize that our capitalist overlords main complaint about slavery is that *the slaves have to be treated too well*. If you want to have some nightmares you could read up about how the enforcers of capitalism were given freedom to do stuff like committing rapes, both for fun and punishment, as well as just open brutality, to keep workers in line (and morale high among the enforcers). Their was a good long period when workhouses preferred to hire women because they were easier to bully then men, so you'd hire men to be foremen and then they'd hire women they wanted to take advantage of, their was a huge issue with VD spreading because of this. The poor either need to grow a spine and actually fight back... or else our planet is finished, our species with it. With all the information available to the poor at this point I have a LOT less sympathy for our modern poor than I do for the poor of old, but we're being set up for even worse conditions than people used to have, so I think I'll have to save some sympathy up for the future, because it's going to keep getting worse.
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  605.  @stevesharpe3370  Didn't Europeans bring rats over? Yep, just looked, it appears that the widespread rats of North America were indeed brought over by Europeans.
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  606. Ironically there is literally no bigger ham than trump, I can see him getting stuck with that nickname.
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  607. ...the guy who's only had kids via IVF is calling someone ELSE a wanker?? Are they selecting the privileged caste based on their vapidity?
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  608. I'd use my own recipe of pepper relish (notably it's fairly acidic and fairly sweet), but I do not eat hot dogs generally. I used to prefer ketchup because it was sweet and acidic, but I think I'd rather have the sauerkraut and mustard at this point, maybe a bit of aioli. I do eat plenty of other sausages, but most is from artisanal butchers (we do buy some mass produced sausage, but it's from a relatively small company so it shouldn't count againist). I feel like the Josh character is 100% trying to appeal to the not insubstantial demographic that considers itself Christian and actually tries to follow Christ's teachings somewhat, these people need to constantly be reminded that regardless of how awful their church seems, it's fundamentally a good thing and they shouldn't abandon it. American churches can be very alienating places, they are very much populated by 'traditional' people, but the odd progressive can coexist if they don't expect others to care. Most people don't really believe that go to church afaik.
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  609. I think it's unfair to salespeople to call trump a salesman, since he is more accurately a bullshitter.
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  610. Dumb bad faith post is dumb and in bad faith!
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  611. Normally mugging for gambling trash is a huge no-no, but in our capitalist patriarchy I suspect it's pretty hard to get anyone to put money up for a topic like this, so yeah, I'll leave the pitchfork alone. In my extremely limited experience strip clubs are revolting places frequented by less than stellar clients, but a lot of those problems come from the strippers being dehumanized, and their workplace tolerating/encouraging it, so I think a union is probably a good idea. Heck, I've been at places where there was no employee watching the strippers work (they faced the wall), it's like they were using the fact that the strippers didn't want to have the security ogle them to make them vulnerable to harassment. Haha, young people are often terrible communicators, most of what improves that is work that involves social skills, you learn to talk to people by having to talk to people, and talking to other kids is very different than talking to another adult, talking to kids doesn't actually prepare you for it I'd argue. Better social skills is an interesting perk to being a stripper. Very funny to me to hear the argument (in so many words) that strippers are mostly being paid for the package of 'womanly support', where the sex is just a small piece of the interaction, and the emotional stuff is the more important part. It's depressing that in this age and day most men are still completely dependent on women for their emotional development, but at least some women are getting something out of the deal, rather than just getting trapped in a loveless marriage. It's fascinating that purely because they had an advantage in terms of physical strength that men took over our society, and that now when physical strength means less than ever it's still being put on a pedestal, since those who have gained power historically have no interest in giving that power up. Good for you guys for picketing for better conditions, it's really messed up that capital can be shitty with abandon, but if you call people not honouring the strike scabs you're crossing the line, that's just unreal, but it's impressive that you could find way to get past it and start winning!
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  612. When I think of people who can't adapt to a changing scenario, I think 'presidential material'.
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  613. It's a very valid point that some manner of midwifery had to exist long before we had almost any other tech (otherwise we wouldn't have survived), but it is also true that humans ancestors were EXTREMELY precarious until we got serious tools, we had an incredibly small population and individual groups probably died out regularly. It's always been weird to me that people think people used to be dumber (I mean, our ancestors weren't quite as smart as a well fed person born today, but they had MUCH HIGHER stress levels than any modern human, so their brains had to be very 'sharp', mistakes were deadly then), they had very similar brains, and a similar brain is not altogether different than a similar computer, each will have peculiarities but they can run similar programs and give similar output, so people would have figured out very quickly that birthing was risky for both mother and child. HA! I wasn't sure if it'd come up, but yep, men have way more genetic vulnerability (Y-chromosome has very little information on it, the X defines the man much more, even if I almost certainly inherited my balding pattern from my dad and his father), and it's long been known that not only do women live longer than men, eunuchs live longer than 'intact' men. Male hormones aren't good for you for a variety of reasons, high levels of testosterone make for shorter men who get in more fights (and are thus much more likely to be killed, either in a fight with someone bigger and stronger or because the tribe is sick of dealing with a violent asshole), they are more likely to handle stress poorly (more prone to addiction), carry excess weight very poorly (concentrated in the gut, the worst place, unless they are physically active enough to build muscle), and on top of all of this other men are more likely to murder other men for fun and profit. Men have higher rates of mortality almost regardless of what cause you look at, I have a theory that more patriarchal countries like to see women die in childbirth/at the hands of angry husbands out of jealousy at their longer life spans, the US would have no trouble halving it's maternal mortality rate, it's mind-boggling that the conservatives solution is to make up some shit about God and then more or less define 'God's will' for him as being natural selection, make up your mind christo-fascists, is it natural selection and improving our genetics that is your end goal with not providing women basic medical care, or is it 'God's will' that we be gifted with the intelligence to medically intervene and save lives, yet shouldn't because (apparently) God giving us this capability was a mistake??? Anyways, if the US didn't hate women a lot less would die before, during and after giving birth.
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  614. I think the worst is they dissolve you alive?
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  615. Like, slowly?
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  616. Generational trauma is a real thing, and I think it colours all of israel's actions in it's various wars, ever since the Jews were sent to colonize palestine, as a sop for the Holocaust (though if you think about it, zionists would be really into both the Holocaust happening, to 'toughen up' the Jews, and so that they could be sent to colonize the already occupied palestine. I really as into Full Metal Alchemist, as you can no doubt tell!).
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  617. Pretty sure the whole thing is just a scam to distract us from the world dying around us. The US makes up shit about 'other counties aren't going to do their part!' while the US is the richest country and has produced an ungodly amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (and is still dumping more than other countries by leaps and bounds, especially per capita), the US could have solved climate change by itself in the 90s, instead we get the same lines. The US isn't unique on this, most of the world is deeply full of shit when it comes to environment protection, and the more money and power you have the more full of shit you end up being, in part because the people who end up with stupid amounts of money are the greediest and most selfish pieces of shit you can imagine, meaning the people who have the power to change things would rather just condemn our world to uninhabitability 'because someone will solve it later'. Well, it's later and we're no closer to solutions, and the world is past the point of being able to manage climate change due to the great northern bogs and forests finally thawing out and rotting away, even if we literally released no more CO2 as a species the balance has already shifted. There will never be progress until stuff like COP stops letting oil money in, this includes not letting OPEC and allied countries host. What we have now is a counterproductive game of charades that only keeps us distracted from solving actual problems. Literally doing nothing would actually be better, because then people would know that literally nothing is being done, this misleads people into thinking the issue is being dealt with. There is no reason to believe that carbon capture via machinery will ever be meaningful, it's another of those distractions from actually solving the problem of releasing too much greenhouse gas. AFAIK all of the attempts to make this into a tech have been unmitigated disasters, wasting both money and usually producing more CO2 than they got rid of, because the idea is fundamentally a bad one. Heads up, if you have a non-binding commitment from an entity, you have absolutely nothing. Any and all climate 'commitments' mean less than the fart of an single ant, they are ephemeral as wet tissue paper. Complaining about chinese coal plants when the US is still subsidizing dirty energy as a policy (and actively hindering the adoption of clean energy) is a very bad look, it's like a kid arguing they can't clean their room because their sibling's room is a mess. The US is the world's paramount wasters of resources, the next biggest polluter (or worse, it really depends who you ask, it's like how the US doesn't have a corruption problem if you ask American politicians and media, but it clearly does), china, is more open to green energy than the US. Interestingly enough both the US and china can be the problem together, and both use each other as an excuse to do less (or nothing at all in most cases). I know Kerry is clearly trying, but for the love of God, the answer isn't 'more capitalism!', it's turning our backs on the entire philosophy the US embraced when it rose up against the brits (when they didn't want to pay their taxes). Selfishness is a terrible tool when you're trying to solve complex problems, and people keep insisting that it's through our selfishness alone that we'll find the Magic Bullet to solve all our climate problems. It's magical thinking, but our species is notorious for this when it runs out of solutions, it just assumes God will solve the problems/they'll just go away. If we don't stop being capitalist our species is doomed, be it now or tomorrow. Anyone looking to the youth for a solution (to anything other than issues that solely impact youths, ) should be, and I think this is how the youngs say it, 'yeeted' directly into the sun, hopefully while screaming. Don't ask the powerless to solve the problems the powerful are making for their own profit, our masses need to find their pride again (if you doubt people have lost it then you don't know why fascism is resurging everywhere). You're lucky if your kid is remotely useful, I was almost completely useless until I was into my 30s, I played a lot of video games and I managed to be REALLY BAD at them still, I shudder to think what kind of worker I'd have been. Counting on 'the kids' is insane enough that people saying it out loud should be asked if they're off their meds again. It's 100% the people who have power that need to use it to make things better, not just for their own pleasure.
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  618. I laughed a bit when he said the bit about video games, because that's what young people like doing ofc, but expecting much more than that from kids isn't fair to them. I still can't believe that people voted for bush (again, after he'd proven a complete idiot and deeply corrupt) over Kerry, even though I know exactly why it happened (and did even at the time, it was the intense misogyny because Kerry's wife wasn't a brainless robot).
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  619. Seth, All Star is famously from the Mystery Men sound track, it's referenced heavily in the video even... I know this as a fan of the movie back in the day, and as a guy who had to buy a second copy of Astro Lounge because he lost his Mom's copy. Associating it with any other sound track is blasphemous.
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  620. Can you guys please stop taking money from people who shame people for their biology?? Balding is natural, and it's fine. Find other sources of income that don't involve causing mental health problems in otherwise healthy people? It's not right when it happens to women, and it's not any less wrong when it's happening to men.
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  621. The best thing about the Clinton Pokemon Go thing is the delivery, it feels so clear she has no idea what she's referencing. Tell your own jokes folks! They won't be funny to anyone else, but at least you can deliver them properly.
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  622. It's suspiciously like 'capitalism as a concept doesn't actually work, because literally doing nothing but maximize immediate short term profits will inevitable be unsustainable', and this is just a facet of it. The US is doing the same thing to every industry present in the US, and has fought wars/overthrown governments to force more countries to embrace immediate short term gains. Journalism failed because it was treated like a business, rather than a service, for-profit businesses have only one purpose, and that is to make money. If they can make more money scamming you than actually offering a real service then that's exactly what they'll do. Most media is owned by very rich people despite most struggling to make money, yet despite the fact that chasing ratings still results in struggles for most new media, the companies all do the same thing that has been proven not to work. It makes you think of musk buying twitter for 3 reasons, fragile ego, to provide an actually popular platform for far right talking points, and to 'own the libs', none of his reasons are personal profit, it's about the power, just like it is to all the news/media owners.
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  623. Machinists often use mills or lathes, but have a huge range of allied tools like drill presses and threadmills. Their job is to remove stock in a very precise manner, resulting in a good finish within tolerance. In a really modern shop most of the equipment is quite safe, but older stuff can be pretty dangerous. Long hair is a huge no-no though, but you can always braid it/put it up under a hat/down your back. Machinists do sometimes lose stuff, but I think getting caught in the spinning stuff is more of a fear, a big mill can turn your arm into putty very quickly and painfully, they churn through solid steel at an incredible rate due to large powerful motors. I think farmers tend to have more dangerous work, (PTOs have maimed and killed a lot of people) but farmers usually have less direct supervision and can set their pace better, machinists often have a foreman that might have too high expectations. You know the 'firefighter' program in Cali is deeply, deeply fucked when you find out that those convict firefighters couldn't be hired as actual firefighters of any sort once freed, they were allowed to do a job while actively incarcerated (and having not satisfied society's lust for punishment/debt to society/whatever) but once freed were now 'tainted' and couldn't do the well paid version of the same gig (and I am also confident that they sent them on shittier jobs). Personally I think it might be fun to do that kind of work to an extent, but you know they are going to have brutal hours and the worst conditions because they're getting the jobs the high paid firefighters don't want, the real grunt work (which is probably digging small ditches and clearing brush, which involves hand tools and is soul-crushing labor that sparks joy in my heart but is horrible to most). While I think unions are a good thing, I feel like there should be some manner of oversight, but the problem with that is that corporations are very good at buying politicians. We need to make Unions into a religion and have inquisitors! Worked great for the Catholics, right? (I kid, but Unions need to be relatively transparent to function properly) Solidarity is everything for Unions, if Unions don't support one another the rich will divide us up and easily conquer us.
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  624. As is joked, reality has a liberal bias, meaning any unbiased source will quickly be declared 'liberal', since it will be more liberal than conservative, and this is indeed a problem in the US, where 'liberal' is akin to 'communist', because propaganda and people are stupid. Note, the news isn't creating a single uniform public at all, it's definitely very fractured at this point, with news of different 'tribes' presenting very slanted facts, or even facts designed to mislead people. As noted, their is a problem with right wing news sources not being based on reality, so they are the worse offender with slanted stories, or careful management of facts, or use of headlines designed to prime people to absorb a story in a certain way, and burying (if they even include) anything that would contradict the priming. Left wing stuff is largely ineffectual at this point, since the regime in power is using the 'throw so much shit at them that they can't be pissed off about any one piece of shit' strategy, which I don't feel is working well at this point.
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  625. I watched the same non-significant episode of Murdoch Mysteries a whole bunch of times, it was almost always the one that was on when I was able to catch an episode. I stopped trying.
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  626. Regarding "slowth" to "slow", it isn't rhyming, it's alliteration, which is way cooler. They used it in Beowulf, which is obviously cooler than modern Hip Hop/Rap.
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  627. I'm sorry to ask, but what precisely is the gender of someone who is not chromosomally normal? Are they not human according to greene, because they don't meet either criteria? I am aghast at such primitive people having power in this world.
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  628. I'm pretty sure you guys chose to lose the American Revolution, the Brits could have raised an army that would have outnumbered the colony's total population, they didn't because the 13 colonies were almost completely worthless at the time, they were bumpkin country that couldn't grow sugar. The goods it had could be traded for at a considerable advantage because they weren't high demand or high quality. The Canadas were seen as more valuable because of the fur trade fwiw, the US has been enabled from day 1 Nish, the US has won a shockingly small number of wars without foreign assistance (read basically none? I mean, Spain after it was already done in by massive corruption maybe?), and lost an embarrassingly large number of them even WITH that assistance. It's been noted that trump is the poster child of American entitlement, but you could also argue that no president has better represented how that country actually works, where those born rich rule, and it doesn't matter how dumb or useless the rich moron is, he's still celebrated. Conservatives indeed want the situation to get worse almost everywhere, that's because people who are stressed become more paranoid, and paranoid people vote for conservative populists. Screwing up the country is an easy button for the far right.
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  629. We had a thing in Canada where we'd shove cream pies in the face of important people (like our PM), I think you guys might need to look into it if starmer wins, holy crap does he sound like a dud.
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  630. Well, of course nobody likes trump? like isn't the word you'd use to describe his seemingly fanatical followers, and everyone who isn't all-in on him realizes he's kinda responsible for at least 100k deaths, all easily preventable if he'd has toed the line on pandemic safety. He had endless potential to go down in history as a great president, one remembered long after his time fondly, but he ignored the crumbling infrastructure, doubled down on screwing over the environment, tried to take away health care, verbally assaulted countless people publicly (in the pettiest ways imaginable), stoked the flames of racial discord, bungled hopelessly all international relationships worth keeping, and utterly flubbed the pandemic response so badly that the US is either looking at considerably more deaths, or locking down again, probably for longer. People don't like assholes, unless they are 'on the same team' as the asshole (and are assholes themselves, so they don't mind the asshole being an asshole as long as it doesn't harm them).
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  631. We could equally call this new breed of republican 'anti-social', not in the lone wolf sense, but in the clinical sense of 'consistently destructive to the social fabric'. Weird works too, and is getting a rise out of them so keep at it I guess? Had to lol a bit at 'welding hat', you use a face-shield in most welding tasks, but I've started my hair on fire enough times to consider some kind of head covering also wise (I'm pretty bald at this point so now it's a sunburn issue I guess). We don't see trump glad-handing/interacting with the public very much because he has no social skills, also he smells terrible so if you get physically close to him you might not vote for him because of the reek. If Kamala makes "Say it to my face!" her moto I think trump would actually cry, which would be awesome to see? I mean, if he's too tough to laugh at himself, we can at least make him cry a bunch? Could you imagine his caked on orange slop running down his face?? just lol. He's such a coward when he's confronted by a black woman, he just folds immediately. There is no situation where a debate would ever go well for trump, he's slow-witted and mean-spirited, neither fairs well vs an opponent who's actually trying to win the debate. He can't just stand behind Kamala like he did Hilary, and he knows it, and unlike Biden Kamala can fight back just fine. Oh, and Kamala might have more experience trying to sway a hostile audience from her previous work, trump is a nepo baby who's still learning what the word 'no' means, and he's damn near 80.
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  632. Seriously, when that douchenozzle from BBC was doing that interview all I could hear was a loud stupid british man whining 'But I want you to give me a sound bite, I've even brought this burger to offend you! WhY wOnT yOu GiVe Me ThE sOuNd BiTe!?!' That might be the actual dumbest attempt at 'gotcha journalism' I've ever seen.
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  633. Fear was put into us for a reason I suppose, to keep us alive. Animals that are fearless fared extremely badly vs humans, which is why almost all the big animals (especially the herbivores) were hunted to extinction quite easily, because humans seemed too small to be dangerous. Lack of fear killed off megafauna on several continents, with the only real exceptions I can think of being the big bears, grizzlies and polar bears, and neither of those was sane to hunt (I don't think either was consumed for food, but could be hunted for fur still) in large numbers until we had guns. That said, fear can get out of hand very easily, and this is part of why we developed things like myths, to have less things unknown to fear. This matters because fear can be a crippling thing. It takes strength to act in the face of fear, but doing so causes us to grow I think, meaning if you don't feel much fear, you might not grow as much as a person, as any life that is too sheltered ends up stifling.
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  634. How long until this POS gets sued for wrongful death and other civil abuses of others' rights? I'm guessing if he managed to find some money, he'd be an easy target, and the right wingers just love him for murdering for their cause so they'll probably prop him up. Hope he gets sued hard!
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  635. It's like you never heard of the Beothuk or something? Those were the people the Norse likely met in Vineland. They were more widespread, and they were displaced very quickly by the Inuit, and were exterminated by the whites. Apparently they were quite tall and very good tempered, an unfortunate combination.
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  636. I think the real problem here is the wild over-use of the term 'genius', because that term is now so watered down to refer to people who 'make art I really like', the most pitiful misuse of the word.
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  637. ...they are pre-emptively criticizing Biden for using a teleprompter? trump literally walked out with notes written in the world's thickest marker because he refused to admit he requires glasses to read, and Biden is the one with a problem? trump had to have the kind of instructions you can count on a 5 year old to keep track of written down, and was further humiliated when the entire world caught sight of his 'cheat sheet'. When you have to be told to show empathy to survivors of a school shooting, you are part of the problem.
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  638. I was blessed by not being a fan of kanye (ever, really, I did try to listen to a few of his songs, but even at the start he was a misogynistic a-hole, and I was past the phase in my life where I was willing to blindly tolerate that for a mediocre talent). I also can't stand drake's music (and think he's an even bigger a-hole in a few ways, but at least isn't actually a nazi afaik?), so again, funny you'd point out the similarities in two artists I didn't want to hear. I just had a thought, I figure starting out with money is a bit like having access to food back in the day, if you have too much food you can't run around or work very hard, because you'll be too fat, but if you're malnourished you're also useless, it's people who have a bit extra, but not too much extra, that tend to excel in competitive environs. Most big success stories can be traced back to 'their parents had more money than average', even if they may have had periods of poverty as well, they had access to wealth that had an impact that many others didn't have (they were too skinny to run the race). I'll say kanye had great beats... he was never a great rapper.
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  639. Reflective particles floating up there makes more sense to me, and is probably less likely to be a problem. Still, it's insane that there are still wide swaths of the population that think climate change isn't real.
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  640. "ARE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT IT STRONGLY?" Uh, no sir, they're talking about how you talk like an addled caveman?
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  641. I don't think you can compare calling Hairball (vance) a paper pusher to lying about Walz's record. That's what Hairball was, if he wasn't going to be proud of doing that he shouldn't have done that job (but it's not like they'd let him get his prissy hands dirty, he's been carefully sheltered his whole life in preparation for this kind of opportunity to serve the wealthy), Walz served honourably and saying he didn't is a lie. I'm not saying the military doesn't need paper pushers, but I thought it was understood that if you were the football team's water boy you didn't get to say 'you were on the football team', you got to say 'you were a water boy *for the football team*'. Similarly I thought it was understood that water boys don't make critiques of the opposition's players their role? Why is Hairball posturing so much, it's like he's begging for the Dems to do some actual research on his past, if he did all that to an American couch, just imagine what he did overseas!
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  642. I'm pretty sure I prefer the hermit crab.
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  643.  @R0CKDRIG0  Right right, because it's not like there was a period of HUNDREDS OF YEARS in which the West just stole pretty much everything of value from everywhere they could, leaving those areas still impoverished and with lasting trauma that was deliberately caused by whites in order to hinder development, that'd be such a convenient explanation if something like that happened! As is we must all go with the obvious interpretation, that other country's suck because they have less white people in them, it's really the only thing that makes sense, especially after you read up on the endless research that finds people of different backgrounds are nearly interchangeable. Also, most of the world doesn't live in the West and doesn't want to, to say nothing of how many people wouldn't move to the US if you paid them: for most European it'd be a reduction in standard of living to move to the US, they'd be expected to pay similar taxes as a middle class worker and they'd get WILDLY less services, this on top of rampant gun crimes being committed by white men who are angry that women aren't begging to be their sex toy... I at least take joy in knowing that the entire incel community has probably asked out a total of 10 women, and none of them were appropriate.
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  644. 8 to 11, when the ratio of blacks to whites is like 1 to 5 or so? Yeah, I think you've got a problem there Sherlock.
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  645. ...So it was the booze from Kentucky (and not the French!) that was involved in this war??? Who knew!
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  646. If you can fill a diaper, you are more useful than bill maher IMHO, there is a special hell for conservatives that lie about being 'left curious' so they can have a show that is inexplicably called 'left-wing' despite it not only doing nothing to further/help left-leaning causes, it openly tries to tear them down in term shockingly close to right-wing talking points. He's also close friends with actual lizard ann coulter, who is not a person that anyone progressive would be willing to be friends with, regardless of "what she's 'actually' like", her persona wobbles between 'depraved, soulless monster' and 'clueless idiot who is a conservative because that means nobody will ever fact check you if they are a fan'.
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  647. Is there more interview somewhere else maybe? Also, thank you for pointing out the painfully obvious, prices don't 'go up because of inflation', they go up because a business raises it's prices, end of discussion.
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  648. So, just curious, but is israel going to, you know, steal a country and give it to these people being driven out of their ancestral homeland, by a bunch of white people (mostly from Europe I understand, because they tend to be pretty nasty to non-white Jews) who were 'given' Palestine a few decades ago? It's just so weird, it's like the genocide is the point? In English we'd be much less poetic than this wolf's head thing, we'd just say 'the conservative establishment made a public example of the protestors'. Example is considered polite, because our society is very polite to evil people. I think it's safe to say it's a side effect of the Americans being more anti-christian than christian, I'm pretty sure most of that country is so theologically backwards that they'd openly prefer trump's word salad to Jesus' gospel (Jesus has great teachings that are a challenge to our fallen nature, trump panders directly to that fallen state), to the point where they're going to have to have some folks write a new (and incredibly racist/dumb) testament, one that will supersede the other two and celebrate US irredentism.
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  649. The chair thing is especially awkward because of how trump lies about his height, if he was tall this wouldn't be an issue.
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  650. Not just the SC, that was also the purpose of your senate, to make sure the congressmen/president didn't do anything that hurt entrenched wealth/power. The point of the constitution was to create a new aristocracy for the US, one that like the one in the old world wouldn't pay taxes and would receive the lion's share of public services (which is exactly what happens now... people talk about 'we can't afford socialism!!!!!' while the world dumps trillions into bombs in an era where war literally doesn't make sense anymore, the weapons are too effective, and many require too little training in order to be effective, this means insurgents are WILDLY more effective than they have ever been historically, guess how scary a rebellion of 10000 peasants in sackcloth armed with pitchforks is when you've got 500 armed and mounted knights, along with a thousand archers and various footman? When firearms became available, it became VERY costly to fight vs any locals that had them, making firearms better AND much easier to use has made the problem worse. Also, your country was exclusively founded on the rich not having to pay taxes, and only the relatively wealthy were empowered by the OG constitution, there is a reason you have a mess of amendments to cover everything other than 'everyone has to help the rich get richer'. I think one of the very few things your founding fathers did that wasn't openly self-interested was to fight against theocracy, yet the far right keeps yammering about 'the christian heritage' while they're talking about a state founded on secularism.  @LuxLucidOfficial  You really can't see how entrenching capital's power over more than 200 years has resulted in a huge systemic power imbalance after the same SC ruled that 'money has free speech', aka 'poor people don't have free speech'? I wish poor repubs would read between the damn lines, the purges don't stop once they start until you change who's in charge, for example if this 2025 BS goes through eventually the Irish and Italians won't be considered white enough, same with anyone Slavic (well, any Eastern European really). Unless you're nordic in background I wouldn't vote far right, if they don't liquidate you quickly, it'll be your descendants after you're not the perfect enough.
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  651. The real question re-bojo, how many of those women knew he'd been blown by a dead pig before they porked? Honestly curious if they found out later, would be unpleasant knowing how tainted that peen was.
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  652. As a long-time Neanderthal fan (who would like to note that it's not pronounced that way. It's funny, because I only know that from having taken a single class in Anthro, which I'm guessing they didn't), I'd like to tell the gop to fuck off, because I really think there are bigger issues to be addressing, like pro-trump riots/unrest and the pandemic. Instead, they try to make this non-issue a central concern, because they would prefer to not deal with the heaps of problems their party has created/continues to create.
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  653. When I was a kid I twice got a bad cold and used non-drowsy decongestant, both times I passed out in class, once while writing a math test.
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  654. Just thought I'd point out that trump was LITERALLY hysterical, as in his vag was migrating around (and was by his neck for the debate).
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  655. I think it was a big selling point for me when I grasped that a mask isn't a magical solution, it just is a small, easy preventative measure that can, if done on a large scale, make a real difference in a life and death matter for people. I'm not entirely clear why people think slightly lower numbers suggest its time to reopen... It's the exact same mind-set as people who stop taking anti-biotics because they feel a bit better, and don't finish the proper cycle, creating resistant bacteria, making their small problem everyone else's very big problem. The fact that a solution is working doesn't mean you stop doing it, it means you keep doing it until your problem has fully gone away, and if necessary, you might need to keep doing the solution. People should be more proactive about disease transmission in the West, and businesses are part of the problem allowing (even requiring!) sick workers to keep working.
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  656. Yeah, there are a lot of lids out there, but how many washers are there in a container that has a few lids? Often thousands if it's big, and I'm sure billions of steel washers are made every year, with all of those being able to be made into a pair of wheels if you add an axel to two of them, these should count as much as any purpose made bike wheel that isn't on a bike, it's not great at rolling and will fall over almost immediately, but if you add the axel or rider, you get better results. I couldn't find a figure on how many steel washers are made a year, but judging by how many every farmer has kicking around, and every workshop, and every factory, and many homeowners, to say nothing of the fact that the majority of the surviving ones that are in use still could be repurposed into a wheel still. You could get creative with any screw or nail that has a round head that stick out a fair bit, just weld two together point to point and you've got a roller, does that count? I dunno, it just seems like washers alone should end this discussion. Also, do we count logs, because I'm sure we used to use them to roll big stuff around back in the day.
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  657. I didn't see anyone making the obvious joke, one hanging so low it's probably a potato (which isn't a fruit, but has plenty of vitamin C), but aren't you supposed to say 'Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!' if you see a badger? Did the internet lie to me when I was a wee lad (...in my early 20s)?
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  658. Ah yes, now that trump has called someone ELSE stupid I find it completely impossible to notice how staggeringly stupid Von SchitzInPantz is, it's like magic! Seriously, he's so bad at insulting people that it's actively embarrassing, remember when we all had a chuckle about meatball ron? When is the last time you could even force a chuckle to what used to be his strong suit? He's lost the tiny spark that used to make him special (if shitty).
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  659. Yeah, a lot of these were used to train AI algos, lots of data on what people are interested in/topics many people are vulnerable to misinformation on. It didn't matter if the video was actually a video, it was just a test to see if people would click on them I suspect.
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  660. What we have is what happens when the general populace isn't trained in debating, but does watch lots of WWE (statistically speaking). We're living the proof of the old argument against Democracy, that people are too stupid to have that much power in aggregate, even if some people are very equipped to make decisions. Still, I prefer democracy to most options, I even beat Civ 1 on Emperor with a high tax high luxury democracy, it was glorious, I bought my way through empires, seeded uprisings, it was like I was playing CIA: The Shit We Do, it was a lot of fun and you get to pretend you're the good guy because you have this insanely large pop with a crazy good infrastructure set up and most of the people are pampered happy people, yet I still had a huge number of people 'employed' as settlers, which I think eventually is a metaphor for enslaving a portion of your pop (assuming you never intend to build a city with them, meaning they just work and work and their kids just work), that still feels very American though, and the kind of state the CIA would set up as it's new base if the USA started to go south. I even got pollution down to nothing! Money solves all problems, even uniting the world under democracy!
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  661. It can also be caused by chemical exposure.
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  662. My pet interpretation of Beowulf is that it is an allegory about the death of the old ways, and the displacement for new, in particular the loss of the berserker culture (Grendel), and overly pagan magical thinking (his Mother), and overly powerful/greedy chiefs that make war on one another over trifling matters (the dragon). Christianity was on the rise, and the Romans, the old existential threat of the Germanic peoples, was largely dead and gone, so the real bogeyman was the Old Ways, so to speak, that were now seen as barbarous and destructive, and contrary to civilization. It was now the era of great kings, not war hungry and overly proud chiefs. Beowulf himself represents the new ideal, a strong king willing to lay his life down for the good of his people if need be. It's a favorite text of mine, but I never watched the big movie of it, just enjoyed the 13th Warrior and was satisfied. I thought his name translated better to 'good wolf'? Huh. Now I'm reading stuff about bees too, and possibly bears. Learning is fun, but also weird.
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  663. I for one drink coffee in large part because I actually like how good coffee tastes, coffee is a truly wonderful, complex flavor, and it doesn't need to be paired with milk or sugar to be appealing, it's delicious on it's own!
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  664. Madam, good for you for voting against the man who is literally doing nothing to stop a lethal pandemic that preys on the elderly in particular.
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  665. These right wingers are doing some real Streisand Effect business, because if they keep attacking her she will definitely endorse Biden, even if just as a *&$% you.
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  666. I WANT TO HEAR WHAT WIDDLE VIVEK DID TO START IT. You just know he called the kid an n-word first, I was targeted a lot, and people don't shove people down the stairs as a prank.
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  667. Yeah, we're all being infantilized by capitalism because it makes a lot more money if we're all stupid and gullible enough to consistently spend more money than we have. Children don't understand much, but they love to buy shit, so it should be obvious that all the corporations are eager to have us be 'adult babies'. The leading source 'babification' in our society is probably social media, but tech in general is designed to make us dumber and easier to exploit. While getting old mostly sucks, it's better than being immature forever, I hated being young, at least I'm not quite as stupid as I used to be, as long as you're improving age isn't a thing to be feared/hated. Very good point that guy had, if you don't have 'normal' fantasies/dreams, people will abhor you as a freak, part of why I hated being young is that young people in particular seem obsessed with 'fitting in' and policing whether other people have swallowed all the crap and also try to 'fit in', they work to make other people miserable because they made themselves miserable first by abandoning their true self, and our society is completely fine with it because corporations want people to be interchangeable/unidentifiable in any meaningful manner, because interchangeable people are really easy/cheap to market to. This is also why we have our stupid 'culture war' bullshit when both US parties are solidly right of center, there is no war but if you embrace 'culture war' you become really, really easy to market to (especially if you're right wing, but both groups are really easy to target compared to more neutral people). It never ceases to amaze me that there are still broke idiots that support right wing causes, but if they conform to that bullshit feel like they can 'look down on the libs', despite the actual liberals generally being wealthier, happier and healthier than maga chuds.
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  668. Toronto has some great rappers, we just don't share them with the US because we know what you guys do to our artists, but we'll send the ones we don't want, like drake.
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  669. Maxim magazine had an article about hooking up with women at church, and my brother (who was at seminary becoming a pastor, a job he still does) had a good laugh at the art they had for the article, which was some busty women who were kneeling to receive the sacrament, and as any pastor knows, the angle makes it hard to not stare! There are even truly mortifying stories of pastor dropping things down overly open-chested tops! So yeah, this is ONE reason pastors often promote dressing chaste for church.
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  670. Bad news John, you only sterilized some of the outside of that lettuce, actually sterilizing the entire quantity of lettuce would be quite difficult!
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  671. Re-labeled slavery is pretty solid proof that the US is a deeply messed up country. It's been said before but it ought to be repeated, 'the capitalists won't be happy until the poor are all slaves', conservatives literally don't believe in equality, be it before the law or just in general, to a conservative if you're poor you need to be punished for not having worked hard enough to be rich: this is done not because poor people working harder will ever alleviate their poverty, the poor are to be punished for their poverty *because to not do so would lead them to question how rich people got rich*. We've been made painfully aware that they aren't smarter or more competent (hooray for modern media, it turns out the right can own ALL the media yet be so idiotic that they can't manage it for shit), yet we still keep propping them up.
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  672. I can't believe how long we've talked about Haitian migrants and NOBODY has a Fugees joke!?
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  673. It's not that they're above morality/ethics, it's that they're selecting new entrants based on them explicitly having that desired psychopathic characteristic. If you're not an amoral monster there is no chance of you ever becoming a billionaire in the US, they don't let good people join the evil club. Nobody ends up a billionaire that wasn't chosen explicitly, there are no accidents in a system this strict; we live in a caste system, only there are 2 classes. We have one class that is almost entirely ignorant of the system, while the informed caste lies about it and accuse progressives of being 'the elite' to help get away with more and more evil shit. It's almost Biblical how the lies of the powerful enable them to create scapegoats who then soak up all the blame for their horrifying misdeeds, the fallen nature of man means he will always default towards the wrong answer (this is why education is important, our instincts are absolute trash without education), all they need to do is present the wrong answer with confidence (hence the utility of bloviating morons like trump).
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  674. This is a very hostile interview, and I'm not sure it would be reasonable to expect someone to, in a short interview, enumerate all the many things wrong with the 'offered' stimulus. It's not like trump has been remotely straight-forward about making a deal, so don't act like he hasn't waffled around this like a Belgian making breakfast on a Saturday. He is free to dance around the issue, flip flopping repeatedly, and you guys take his side in this, act like he's a 'good faith' actor? Really? It's not exactly a fair question when you ask "Why won't you just let trump give us all the money he wants? WHY DO YOU HATE THE POOR PELOSI!?", that kinda is designed to lead the viewers a bit. It's fox-news bullshit. Also? Fuck you wolf for asking questions and then not letting the poor woman answer them. Don't repeatedly interrupt your fucking guests your overrated shit.
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  675. I've noticed that most algos are not here to feed me what I'm going to like over the long arc, but instead to influence what I see, and most have a weird right wing vibe over time that nobody will question for reasons.
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  676. We had a huge hummingbird that set up shop when we grew a patch of wild dagga, a South African variety of motherwort that produces staggering amounts of nectar, and is quite massive (2m is nothing). It was quite the sight to behold!
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  677. Yeah, his supporters believe everyone hates them in part because they've noticed a lot of people actually do kinda hate them, because they support an open bigot and nazi-sympathizer. The fact that most of trump's supporters don't consider themselves bigots doesn't make them magically not bigots, they still are, because it is a part of their being. It's not nice to label, but it's unproductive to not label at a certain point, because it allows people to keep on being racists, as long as they do it in a certain way. The thing is, these poor white people have noticed that the system is rigged against them, but they've managed to be brainwashed into blaming the wrong people for it, they blame minorities, when they should be blaming the rich. Not only do they not blame the rich, they declare that the rich aren't even the 'real' elites.
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  678. If you think this is bad, you might take a look into how much land is now owned by billionaires, specifically farmland. You might own your house, but unless you've got a few arable acres and several otherwise unemployed people you can't hope to feed yourselves for a whole year. Capitalism gives those with money the option to let our food rot if they want, keep that in mind. Also, I understand that the landlord/feudal system that the Russian Empire used was a big part of what lead to it's collapse, it wasn't just the staggering incompetence/corruption at the top, it was also the brutal and consistent abuse from those with financial power. Pre-Soviet Russia I learned in uni used to export a lot of grain, while struggling to hit a 4:1 yield to planted grain on average, if you think a nation with that ratio can export grain, I have a bridge you might be interested in!
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  679. No jacket, but very jack-ed! Hahaha... Okay, not that funny, but it's not like anyone is challenging Seth to pushup competitions!
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  680. Their is never a situation in which he should not be called andrew taint. Run over by a gravel truck? andrew taint. Eaten by a bear? andrew taint. Stuck on top of a freezing mountain with limited supplies? Yep, andrew taint. That man-child is a taint on the world, and needs to be addressed as such.
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  681. I'm pretty confident that this polling stuff is manufactured to help normalize an objectively terrible candidate, simply hearing other people think he's a reasonable candidate will make some people much more willing to vote for him, I don't think his polling is actually improving, nobody neutral is looking at this and siding with trump. It's more that his control of the republican party (which has very poor odds for the next election, barring some big change) strengthens because the party has actively courted 'single issue voters' (aka people who will sell-out their own family if you let them be mean to unwed mothers and minorities), and trump is one of those single issues. If they don't give exactly what those single issue voters want, they lose those voters, which is why the party has endless paradoxes, such as having to cling to profoundly unpopular anti-choice arguments because a solid 20-25% of the US is violently opposed to allowing women to make their own choices, but even in pretty red states, outlawing abortion is intensely unpopular, again, media coverage is designed to normalize the anti-choice cause, so we get more anti-choice people radicalized. The whole thing is going to explode in a disastrous nova eventually, but until it does the republicans have a base of ~35% of the population (not all of whom will vote obviously) that will vote for them because it is their new religion. It's not a coincidence that trump is both very popular with this base, and has rallies in which he is mostly an incoherent old man trying to repeat buzz-phrases to his base of morons, they want a bumbling idiot who will be a tool for the fascists behind the curtain. The base isn't really listening to what he's saying in a literal sense, they are listening to 'vibes' he's pushing, which are racism and oppression for everyone who isn't a billionaire, as well as general fascism, everyone has to be like them or 'suffer consequences'. It doesn't matter that he literally told his followers to drink bleach, and that he helped make COVID 19 as bad as it could be for the US and the world, him doing a bad job is fine as long as he also targets the groups his racist base hates (mostly minorities and people who have sex but aren't rich, apparently conservatives think poor people are only allowed to have sex to reproduce or something, but if you're rich you're allowed to have sex whenever? Their aren't words for how stupid conservatism is, it's what happen when you raise humans to adulthood but don't educated them in a meaningful manner so all of their beliefs are either programmed in or are superstitions, most people are barely capable of critical thought). I also strongly suspect trump is illiterate, the way he signs his name really, really suggests it, but we also not only never saw him read anything above a 4th grade level as president, he insisted on having pictures/graphs to transmit all his briefing info, presumably because if he can read at all, it's very rudimentary and embarssingly slow. He also needs glasses and doesn't want to wear them because he thinks they make him look like a dork, yet he's too clumsy/impatient to put in contact lenses (you really have to steel yourself the first few times you put them in, you get used to them quickly but he's not strong enough as a person to touch his own eye), so he's got terrible eye sight, hence his constant squinting that makes his already small eyes look even more piggish. He's a shockingly stupid man who is lauded and praised exclusively because his psychopathic racist father was really rich and really evil. That's why conservatives like rich people btw, you don't get to be a billionaire by having ethics, scruples, or morals, you get there by being very, very evil but having just enough self control that you're able to understand who you're allowed to fuck over and who you're not allowed to. This is why trump wouldn't pay contractors, but will grovel like the most pitiful of bitches (an actual dog with no self respect in this context) before anyone who has more money. He only ran for president because he had to, pretty sure that was a condition on his various billions in loans (to cover up his ineptitude/support his expensive lifestyle of conspicuous consumption). I will always be a bit horrified at how happy the poor are to not only support a wildly out of touch billionaire, but to decide that, against overwhelming evidence, this rich POS who was raised in one of the richest households in the US, and who was given billions of dollars after he kept failing at everything he tried (he's incredibly, almost implausibly stupid and shockingly bad at managing things), is 'one of us poor oppressed masses'. I've heard that governing people is hard because so many of them are so incomprehensibly stupid that 'idiot-proofing' barely covers things. Did you know that if you make roads too easy/safe to drive on people have more accidents than if you have some touchy stuff? People get lax and don't respect the road on freeways because they are too easy to drive on, and a significant portion of the population is dumb enough to think that they can put on mascara or watch a porno while driving on a highway at 100km/h. How do you plan around that kind of stupidity, that if you make things to easy for them they screw up *more*? Apparently if you're a republican you take advantage of it to get money out of the rich. I do find a bit of dark humor in the fact that the people who are funding the republican party with petty cash (the money they spend on politics is nothing to them, our politicians are bought for stupidly low amounts of money, they're corrupt for the equivalent of money you'd find digging in your couch/have sitting on your nightstand in change) made a lot of their money off of making that exact republican voter base so miserable, the base literally turns to the people who have made them miserable in their (manufactured) time of need, it's insane but also 'funny'. I guess there will be decades for 'I told you so you dumb bags of shit', but I'd really prefer it doesn't come to that.
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  682. I think I've figured out why everyone hates ted cruz... it's the fact that he obviously knows right from wrong, and then proceeds to completely ignore his own morality to do whatever is convenient. Not even evil people respect a good person who is a sell out.
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  683. I certainly waste an inordinate amount of resources on Magic cards, a thing I was not allowed to spend money on as a kid, which I was not pleased about at the time. It's vaguely thrilling to see how much better you can play the game with an adult's brain, and how much it's changed (and how shockingly complex it can be). Is it 'good' for me? I don't know, but it usually reduces stress unless I have abysmal luck, then it probably doesn't help much. TBH, most of the stuff I wasted my (limited) money on has actually kept some value, like my human body weight of Dungeons and Dragons books. Of course, selling them would be horrifying, but it's nice to know that they aren't worthless if I ever needed the cash. I feel like the challenge is invested enough energy into progressing, while retaining enough to cultivate other interests to make you more well rounded/happy. I try to spend time in a variety of different ways each day, in doors and out, and that helps keep me from getting too stressed out when things are rough.
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  684. As a guy who did metal fabrication for a summer and had a boss who got off a bit on finding fault, I honestly cannot believe a company this large can be this grotesquely incompetent while still economically thriving. It's Kafkaesque for lack of a better word, their ability to manipulate various bureaucrats has resulted in them being reworded immensely for terrible output. Last time I tried I could inflate a regular balloon as big as a grown man's head in one breath... what's wrong with you John? Not enough cardio? I had been smoking for at least a decade by then btw. I feel like you should have had Usain make a quip about having had a huge edible before his shift? Am I wrong?
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  685. It's pretty rich hearing a dumb clod/oaf try to brag that he's ambidextrous. I did piano as a kid, long enough that I have uncommon dexterity with both of my hands, and my mother's father was ambidextrous because he was left handed but had to use his right hand while he was growing up or the nuns would beat him. I feel like trump wasn't beaten by nuns (even though he actually deserved it), and he never worked hard at anything long enough to have developed ambidexterity. I'd love to see him do ANYTHING with is left hand that is remotely challenging, what a clownbaby.
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  686. It is probably relevant to note two key things: Voter enthusiasm for Clinton was hilariously low, and Clinton is a woman that was married to a pretty dodgy character. Biden is also not a woman, which will also help. Nobody really wanted to vote for Clinton, so this hurt her turnout.
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  687. You can't argue that a change could make thing more political or more partisan when it comes to judges, the republicans have stopped acting in good faith many years ago, the dems not being political has actually meant that their is only one party that is actually being represented by the judiciary. It'll never happen, but term limits are an obvious good and I think your cons are pretty unconvincing. IMHO this is the worst vid you've made that I've seen, and I'm honestly a bit confused how you can argue some of these points.
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  688. You might want to mention that Earth had a 'little' hiccup when we collided with another planet, that's how we ended up with an epic moon, the smaller planet was apparently annihilated (and matter reformed from both to make the Moon), but Earth would have been almost completely inhospitable for awhile after that, meaning it's quite possible we got started quite late compared to what might have happened, so complex life could easily have been around for a billion years. Also it's pretty much impossible for life to have survived that collusion, so any life on Earth probably had to come after that.
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  689. The US was always pretty fascist in case you didn't notice, it's just now open rather than 'wink wink nudge nudge' doublespeak. Fascists love doublespeak, it's very much their thing, because they fundamentally despise honesty. The other issue, beyond just 'they were always fascists' is that the mainstream media has been bending over backwards to normalize far right BS, to keep moving the window further right of what we think is normal. If all of your trusted authorities tell you something is true, you tend to embrace that as truth even if it doesn't make sense, especially if you did not get a very effective education. It's not a coincidence that the republican party loves to sabotage the education of it's voters, because they know ignorance breeds fear, and fear leads to worse decision making, resulting in ignorant people voting emotionally for the republicans. Not really saying voting Democrat is really a huge improvement, we all watched biden do everything possible to avoid being progressive, and reversed shockingly little of trump's dark sabotages of the US, only to still be declared 'a dangerous lefty' when the Dems haven't elected an actual 'lefty' in my lifetime. The Dems are there as an option that's 'less openly abusive', but it's really two sides of the same coin, one that tells you kind lies, and the other that is openly hostile to anyone that they deem an 'other', a definition hat changes constantly to supply new scapegoats. If you aren't a WASP btw, don't support this BS because they will happily kill you off eventually. It might take 50 years before you don't count (and they take away your rights too), but it'll happen. If you've got any infirmity, again, don't support this shit. If you're smart and not eagerly evil, don't embrace it because again, you'll be targeted eventually. Nothing like the stupidity of a white man refering to other white men as 'legacy Americans'. You weren't here first tucker, your and other white men's legacy is one of being eager to commit genocide and environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale, hooray us, we killed more of them than they even tried to kill of us. We could never have done it if we weren't so willing to also kill the women and children, and then destroy the bison population to starve out the remainder (we did that on purpose) that happened to survive somehow.
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  690. While it's petty as all fuck to not give the tour, I know I'd be happy to not have to spend the time around one of those monsters.
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  691. When I've accidentally stepped on my cat they always run away for awhile, but tend to quickly forgive, same with sitting on them. I think I feel worse than they do, especially since cats seem to want to be underfoot (at least if they haven't been stepped on for a bit). I find cats are more bothered by self-destructive behavior in their human, I think it's the same reason they try to stand right where you're about to step, they have a stronger connection to their person than a dog does. The only time I really worry about cats is if they are kittens (and stepping on them would be pretty bad!), but I was worried I'd kill my cat when the hammock I was on (with the small cat on my chest) flipped, fortunately I could catch myself and didn't squish the poor guy! As an adult, I would like to point out that your cat is, if healthy and strong, probably quite a bit tougher than you, I've had to remove wolf worms from kittens, and even kittens are pretty calm while you're working, and all but one recovered quite quickly and well (the first one we didn't know what was going on and caught it too late I think). Obviously be careful with your cat (they have vulnerabilities for sure, and need to be in great shape to survive), but they are tough critters in my experience. Part of why cats are so athletic is their high pain tolerance, they can exert their muscles much more severely than humans, so if your cat isn't very athletic, keep in mind it's probably not as durable. If you want to hear a crazy cat story, when my dad was very young, his family had a cat that liked him, and eventually the cat got pregnant (and somehow nobody really noticed). When the cat's time came, she had her kittens on his bed, while he was sleeping. My oma wasn't happy to have to deal with the remaining mess, but it's an awful cute story. My two siblings (and my mother) are very musical, and we lived in a townhouse in the city while growing up (so my siblings could attend a much better funded school, we moved after they were done), and after our long time next-door neighbor moved out, we kept having new neighbors move in... something about having an upright grand piano on the attached wall (with 3 people who played pretty much daily), a baritone player (almost daily), and a trombone player who probably practiced ~3 hours a day made people move out! Go figure. I suspect you could hear the trombone in the house next to our neighbor (if you think a saxophone is loud, a trombone is much, much louder). Oh, and when they weren't practicing, they would listen to loud classical music on decent stereos! Can't leave that out... It will never not bother me when we don't treat awful people openly horribly. There is a fundamental misunderstanding of humanity I think, if someone is a violent offender you are not ever going to get them to stop by just telling them not to. If there aren't really horrible consequences for actual evil people they will just 'do what feels right', which is to commit crimes. My issue is actually that the people who deserve to face consequences the most face the least (the rich who commit crimes with impunity by and large), and that increasing consequences will not cause their to be consequences for the actual bad actors; in our society consequences are for the poor/minorities, not for rich people who want to have fun abusing poor. In my experience, the only people who learn from receiving kindness are people who are kind deep down. It never ceases to amaze me when progressives argue 'their aren't evil people', because holy shit we're ALL BORN EVIL... Kids are fucking horrors, and it's consequences that cause them to grow up and stop being trump-esque (yep, I'm saying that if trump's cooler older brother had been encouraged to dump more stuff on his stupid little head he'd have grown up smarter and better, you get someone as useless as trump when they don't have consequences for wrong choices). Ultimately I don't know what the solution is, which I think means I've probably gotten a decent grasp on the problem, such that I don't think there is an easy, simple solution, and that's because society has made this into a paradox in order to protect the establishment... we need punishment/re-education/to isolate dangerous people from society, yet any attempt to use these results in all of these consequences falling on scapegoats instead of the those who deserve them, short of changing society into one that believes everyone is equal... take a look at how well having consequences for celebrities has gone, about 1/3 of the world's population is approaching 'eat their own face to 'treat' their insanity' as their conservative brains require them to defend awful people without admitting that the only reason they support those individuals is because they are abusers. It doesn't help that almost all media is owned by conservative assholes, which is why conservative politicians have their scandals ignored or quickly swept under the rug. Their was a shitty clip of that dipshit newt on Pod Save America, and in it he (hypocritically) argued that it wasn't appropriate to ask him about cheating on his wife after he made a huge circus out of the clintons (bill is awful and always was, but newt is a true bottom feeder), and when the moderator had this fae pushback to his reasonable question he just folds like a chump, the whole thing is 100% a question newt was warned about and prepared for, that's why he had a snappy (and stupid) answer ready, and that's why the mod didn't push back, because that was what his job was, set up a t-ball so newt didn't have to look bad because he's a feckless roach. Conservative controlled media is a dumpster fire, that's why I still get endless (obvious scam btw) gambling ads whenever I watch your vids, this isn't what youtube wants me to watch apparently. I cannot wait until we have some laws about these gambling ads, but that won't affect the web.
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  692. I was going to point out that you can't technically carmelize meat, but I suspect teletubbies have more sugar than protein in their tissues.
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  693. I think my eyes did the 'jumping out' thing when I tabbed back here, owoooga? Is that correct? What an outfit!
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  694. ...I know you're going to say you've heard this before, but this Busy woman needs to have her own talk show! It'll slap!
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  695. I wasn't very old before I noticed that Americans are literally inundated with propaganda from birth, unless their family is a bunch of 'off the grid' types. All the movies, all the music, the books, everything is propaganda. Some is good propaganda that isn't beating you over the head, others are not and give the game away. Patriarchy, capitalism, worship/hatred of celebrities (instead of being concerned with the people who have actual wealth and power, morons whine about the immoralities of the famous distractions), and American Fascism are all everywhere, and can be very cloying. Even the counter-culture tends to be deep down on the same side, and is just making propaganda for other types of Americans, to get them to buy into the same system (by believing they can 'change' it over time).
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  696. Whenever Trump makes up stuff like this, that reeks of insecurity, I think of how a porn star made fun of how pitiful his wiener is. Edit: If you want a more serious take, I'd like to point out that under Obama the economy grew based on actual fundamentals, while under Trump it was fluffed up via tax cuts and stock buybacks while the interest rates were already very low. Trump also derives benefit from the racists out their who will support him over Obama regardless of what he does, purely because he is 'white' (despite being very orange).
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  697. It is quite refreshing to think that the new president at least is trying to be realistic about Covid... at a similar period, the previous moron was claiming that it would magically disappear in time for Easter. Great plan, did not seem to work out very well, resulting in an extra 500 000 deaths that 100% were not necessary/did not have to happen. I don't like many aspects of Biden, but at least he's not a pathological liar trapped in the throughs of psychopathy caused by hilariously excessive sense of self worth, that just also happens to be approaching senility due to old age. Biden is many bad things, but he's also for all intents and purposes a sane person who lives in the same universe as all of us do, and unlike the previous moron, he's not 100% devoted to gratifying/enriching the already wealthy, and there is even talk of tax cuts.
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  698. I read about this when I was about 8, in a gigantic (to me at the time at least, now still quite big) book on the animal kingdom, listing a huge range of animals in order of complexity (evolutionarily speaking), very interesting reading for a super-religious Christian child. Finally, more information on this incredible historical event!
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  699. Jon at around 11:25, my view is that religion (other than the truth, which does exist IMHO) is a placeholder when it comes to people want to do something awful, their religion will make an exception for them. This isn't going to go away if you take away religion, because other placeholders will take it's place, it's the nature of fascism.
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  700. Considering most debates (if you want to call some of them that) today happen entirely online, the idea that you can't have an online debate is frankly idiotic. I found it hilarious when he admitted he was afraid they'd cut off his lunatic rants, because apparently he thinks lunatic rants are what debates are about.
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  701. Oh, and it's not exactly hard for an adult to figure out that anything a corporation does is designed to maximize profit. If we're going to consider them 'persons', they need to get their asses on anti-psychotics or something, because corporate America is batshit crazy.
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  702. Just watching this, and I've been known to enjoy caffeine, but that's an absurd amount of it. It's nice enough to have a coffee, and while I don't generally think of caffeine as a dangerous substance, this much is too much without a warning of some kind, to market it as a lemonade seems nutso. For that Dr, not everyone reacts to caffeine the same way, not everyone has sleep cycle disruption from having a large coffee literally right before bed, I know because I wore a garmin for a few years to track what actually DID help or hurt my sleep. Similarly, some people sleep a lot better if they drink a bit of alcohol, other people suffer, THC is similar, low dose (or edibles) can help you sleep, but smoking a high dose is EXTREMELY bad right before sleep. The issue here is learning what your sleep requirements are and adapting to those, when I gave up coffee for lent for example it was almost impossible to stay up past 8pm, and that was with me drinking tea all day (and I mean A LOT). Slept like an absolute babe, drinking tea seems to actively help my ability to sleep for some reason. The worst thing for my sleeping habits all told has to be working too hard, stress just tanks my ability to sleep.
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  703. I loved the gold scam ad that comes up... rule of thumb, if you're buying a COMMODITY you should check what it's actually worth before you buy it. If it wasn't for the fact that the RWNJ also want to drag everyone else down it'd be pure comedy watching them destroy themselves.
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  704. Interesting point, but Europeans long interacted with precursors to LSD in rye ergot, while in the Americas the natives had morning glory seeds, which had similar chemicals. At least Europeans were technically being consistent when they declared the new seeds 'demonic' and tried to wipe them out, Europeans had long considered ergot outbreak related temporary insanity to be demon related, despite not entirely knowing the source (but rye had long been a poverty grain, so people knew I suspect).
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  705. This man is this rich because his odious personality is what our society looks on and wishes to reward. Our society doesn't reward hard work, diligence, morality, or ethical character, it rewards selfishness and greed. I'm willing to bet I worked harder before I was 10 years old than that sack of crap ever did. Also, ffs, there is no similarity between gambling and investments made by the wealthy, look into their rate of return some time, it's not gambling when you have no chance of losing. The stock market for the rich is a money printing engine, it can only print so much money (as a % of existing money) at a time, but there are only so many rich, so they don't mind sharing it, as long as they keep the poor from gaining any of the pie. It's been the strategy since the 50s to slowly grow the wages of the middle class (and to shrink those of the poor) such that they're effectively losing ground, but due to advances in tech they'll barely notice that their quality of life hasn't been improving, they just have more dumb gadgets that will quickly break, because once they couldn't really pay workers any less (or work them any harder, downsizing had done it's job) they had to make the quality of goods go down to raise profit margins, otherwise the line wouldn't go up and capitalism would be revealed for the lie it is (and the wealth of the wealthy would be stripped from their cooling remains).
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  706. Yes, maybe it's just 'right for them' to kill and oppress Muslims/minorities, you know?
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  707. The Charlie Brown joke is worse, but I think the Whale joke still stands (swims?).
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  708. Just seeing this now, but this sam guy sounds an awful lot like desantis? these guys are making dudes with squeaky voices look bad!
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  709. Seriously, 2020 and all, but had none of Oliver's writers and John himself never heard of a toaster oven?? I stank up my dorm room with one periodically, we were allowed to cook in them, because yeah. So I cooked fish, regularly, and sometimes sausage. Rarely but not never beef patties. I'd cook rice or hulled urad beans in the microwave, inevitably having a small flooding incident I'd have to clean up, all so I didn't have to leave my room to use the real kitchen. TLDR: Toaster ovens are amazing.
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  710. Censoring this song literally changes the text, those f-bombs are TEXTUAL, they provide MEANING!
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  711. I remember when trump dared to interact with the public, it was delicious watching him squirm helpless when he was in the sights on a (justifiably) angry black woman, he just folded like tissue paper. It's a fact that he's afraid of anyone that won't 'play the game', he's a person who's position in society was assigned (not earned), and when he's confronted with people who have had to fight and scrabble for their livelihood he's terrified. I think the thing I least respect about trump is that he's an inveterate coward, he's a spineless wimp and he always has been, you'd have to look pretty hard for a WOC that won't intimidate his jiggly self, one as stalwart as Kamala would eat him alive in a debate... could you imagine if he tried to 'amble around behind her' like he did hilary?? "...and what the hell are you doing back there mr. trump??? We're all here out front, get out here and participate!" and trump would waddle forward sheepishly.
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  712. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, who gave sydney powell the Goblin Formula? I half expected her to start flying around on her Goblin Glider, cackling madly while hurling Pumpkin Bombs at Spider Man.
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  713. Hey, here's an idea, why does it matter what the profession was of the person trump had to pay off (and then lie about)? She works for a living, so do you smerky, don't be a prick about other people's lifestyles. Talk about the actual issues, and don't throw jabs at someone for having a legal job. Also, I think calling her s stripper is largely inaccurate, she was primarily a porn star at the time. Edit: another point, don't pretend trump has legal strategies, the moron can't read, let alone develop a cogent plan.
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  714. I actually loved Ep 7, it was one of the better Star Wars movies IMHO, Ep 8 tried some new things that greatly improved the Star Wars universe/made it fucking grow up a bit, it's the most mature Star Wars movie ever made I will argue, Andor was way more mature/grown up (mature being used to describe porn is objectively insane), Ep 8 finally made physics exist in important ways, ships running out of fuel for example, or visiting a casino where most of the people who are there got inhumanely rich off of the suffering of others, and that's made clear in the movie, most Star Wars movies are infantilizing. The childishness was probably a big part of why my old psychiatrist preferred Star Trek, it wasn't media directed primarily at children. Anyways, Ep 9 was about as good as KOTOR 2 was when it was first released... aka you literally couldn't play it without patching, and even after patching it still barely ran, the graphics were embarrassingly bad, and the whole last chapter was bugged beyond words, so much so that you couldn't follow the story's conclusion. Ep 9 wasn't a finished movie and they decided to release and see what would happen, especially since it was such a beloved IP, and one that people would flock to just to say they saw it on the big screen. I really wish Disney had had more respect for the fans, but Ep 9 was a symptom of why so many people in Hollywood need better contracts/general treatment, the people making Star Wars movies want to make us great movies because many of them are going to be fans. I think I rewatched Ep 9 exactly once, and it wasn't worth doing so despite plenty of interesting elements that COULD HAVE BEEN AMAZING, but ended up devolving into garbage like 'each Star Destroyer, which is literally just an upscaled model because we're that cheap in a BILLION DOLLAR FRANCHISE, has it's own superlaser, even though the Death Star had to be ginormous to do the job', the movie was a disaster and burned up so much good will for the franchise, and a large part of it was because of the backlash to Ep 8, mostly from right wing shut-ins on the internet whining that an Asian woman was 'hogging the screen', I think if I had the power I'd try to get a Rose Tico show, it wouldn't have to be high budget even because she's not a flashy character, even just a few episodes so we can learn more about the interesting character (also because Disney fucking owes her big time). Part of Star Wars' problem is that it doesn't offer a very varied menu, just 'openly for kids stuff', 'teen stuff', and 'family stuff', even Ep 7 was just a complete rehash of Ep 4, it was almost an homage, but it was done rather well so 'it worked' and most people were happy with it. The Prequels would have been epic flops if they weren't in an already established and beloved franchise, who in their right mind makes a family (and we're being generous, that was a kid movie) movie with the central plot being a trade dispute that needs to be argued by a senate?! Also the stereotypes were a bit much even then, I was not very old when it came out and even I could see the various racial groups being stereotyped. Anyways, if they had released the prequels first they wouldn't have made Ep 2 (which was, until Ep 9, easily the worst Star Wars ever conceived, and the movie literally had Natalie Portman in a ripped up outfit, this wasn't quit Slave Leia level pandering, but in this context you could argue it made even less sense) and the series would have been a disaster we all joke about. TBH though, we all clown on Star Wars now.
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  715. I will forever think of elno when I see the Far Side comic about an experiment where researchers take a random moron and make him a fake dictator of a fake country, only for the experiment to eventually end and he has to just go back to normal life.
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  716. The US system suffers I think from the key problem of capitalism, and that is that business wants to charge as much as possible, and in a mature system, competition is more expensive than cooperation, so what incentive do they have to compete? If the system actually 'worked', their would be intense interest in the US in good budget alternatives, yet these don't exist, despite it being extremely cheap in the last decade to start a new large business due to interest rates. All of the companies would prefer to cooperate and make more money, because why wouldn't they? They get rewarded for screwing people over, so in capitalism, guess what? They're gonna screw people over constantly.
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  717. I get that Animal Flubs was brutally retired (to death), but maybe that rooster could start Animal Flops? About the animal jokes that fly like a cinderblock thrown by a 90lb child?
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  718. GORGON! CHANDLER! GAH! (just my personal bugbears that jumped out and started barking like some manner of stray canid)
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  719. Nothing like an illiterate man who's confounded by cups of water and gentle ramps talking about getting a degree in animal psychology... we could just get an animatronic talking whale for trump and maybe he'll forget about the election thing?
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  720. Also, there is LITERALLY Maga, Traitor to Mortals in Kamigawa (it's a playable in some weirder decks Magic the Gathering card), I hope the Jackals expedite a thousand copies to you!
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  721. I would like to note that johnson used the exact same BS excuse as they use for cops... 'there are a few bad apples'. I swear, these people are actual idiots with no capacity for creativity.
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  722. It's truly fascinating that the far right can simultaneously call for dystopian 'genital inspections' for children while arguing that they are the party trying to protect children.
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  723. It's a real headscratcher that feminists are the problem when these guys were humiliated by the women that were serving patriarchy, and that only happened because these men were shallow assholes who went after the prettiest girl that they thought they 'deserved', regardless of how either party actually feels, none of these men is actually seeking out love, they just want the sex that men used to be supplied societally, when women could be publicly coerced. If you wrote people that stupidly evil into a novel people would laugh and say too unrealistic.
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  724. These are some pretty terrible jokes, I feel like I'd get frustrated if I was paying people to write these. Also, find more Karens for this show so you can have more Karen Jokes getting reviewed, at least I don't always feel unclean after. Also, maybe call this segment 'jokes Seth shouldn't tell!' and it'll go over better?
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  725. It's frustrating knowing that deep down he's an intelligent enough person, but he (like almost everyone in his social circle I'm sure) has fallen for his own propaganda, conservatism is all about lying so long that the lie becomes 'truth' (in a sense).
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  726. Yeah, but none of this explains why black rod is so popular in American porn movies, related or unrelated? Trying to argue that people being brutally fucked over by society is a 'lifestyle choice' is a real take? That someone said out loud and on the record? It's like rich people finally admitting they want to own poor people, we all know it's true, but if we don't actually hear it we can keep on pretending otherwise.
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  727. Good crew!
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  728. Comedians can garden or something, surely anyone truly funny had time to learn to cook when they were young and kinda ugly? We've all got skills.
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  729. There is a big difference between pretending something is true and actually believing it. The gop knows trump lost in a big way, despite a great turnout for their party. He was always a terrible candidate, and it's deeply depressing that the gop can't just rid itself of this particularly onerous mill stone.
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  730. I do feel like we can stand to contrast the utter batshittery of a two party system where one party is openly pro-nazi and the other is pro-choice (in general, not just reproduction). Also, who doesn't want to hear her pull a stunt like that? We all know tucker carlson yanked one to the same clip you included...
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  731. I did enjoy this movie, it reminded me of Wonder Woman 2 in that it tried to do something different/new with the genre. I find it impressive that people look at the success of the movie Barbie and decide 'it's because it's a toy movie, and any other toy movie has a similar chance to succeed', these people so dislike the fact that a woman-centric story was a success because it was a woman-centric story that they have to assign the credit to something else.
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  732. I'd love to see more videos complaining about how crooked gambling is, it's like most people don't fundamentally understand how odds work? Also how addiction works? Or maybe they never heard about how gambling is the worst addiction a human can have, because you're hooked on the risk taking, not the winning, so you can keep going forever, even if you never win! It's so shitty. I am also confident that I'll get an online gambling or dumb lottery ad for the vid, which would be ironic. So yeah, that Lox guy should stay away from gambling because other people will know how stupid he is when they find out he's a gambler, it's like proof of having a lower than average IQ, it'd be like always having a guy stand next to you while he's wearing an 'I'm with stupid' shirt.
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  733. So Elon is just the monorail guy from Simpsons? Seriously though, this seems like a problem to a very good solution, AKA air travel. Air travel isn't fun usually, but it's also not horrible most of the time. Faster would be nice, but even super-sonic flight seems really pricey, and these companies like profits more than they like us to be comfortable. Maybe work on greener ways to fly at slightly lower speeds? That might actually be productive, AKA it's not flashy or cool to talk about it on the internet to sound smart.
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  734. Yeah, I kinda hope that one of the perks in heaven is getting to look down into hell and see the people you most despised in life (yet had to forgive, because otherwise you won't be in heaven) burning in lakes of acid, while imps shoot pins and needles dipped in iodine at their eyeballs/eardrums. Because this level of BS is unconscionable. Incidentally, isn't lying one of the 10 commandments? How can anyone be gullible enough to think these people represent Christendom?? I miss church.
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  735. ...you think katy perry is 'sweet'?? Yikes. Between this and talking up a pageant winner from a sandbox that small I don't know what's going on, maybe have an extra coffee next time? For the record, brand is a worthless sack of turds and treated perry very poorly, but it's not like she's a great person (and I don't really read much celeb news and I knew this?), doesn't excuse him in the least obviously. I have a generally positive impression of Taylor Swift, but there has been so much toxicity/support of the ultra rich from katy perry that it seems (to me) nuts to have a very positive impression of her. This has arguably hurt her value as a performer, but I think she still has plenty of fans, even if they aren't as rabid as other fan bases, but she used to be actual top tier talent, I think in all honesty she's down a few at this point, in contrast Swift has created new tiers on top of the previous apex. The media as a collective buys into misogyny and racism because almost all media is owned by right wing assholes who are happy to lose money if it means their conservative views are foisted on the unwilling populace.
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  736. With all do respect, fucking stop spreading this bullshit about the 'class war' being between people who have more education vs those with less. The only class divide in the US is between the rich and everyone else.
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  737. Successful!? Wtf are these jackasses smoking?! Those 2 wars will go down in history as epic embarrassments, on par at least with Vietnam, and that accomplished less than nothing arguably, having been nonsensical from day one, and doomed to failure similarly from day one. It's a travesty that soldiers died for these stupid wars, that managed to achieve the admirable goal of making the middle east hate us even more. Edit: Also, guessing this is exactly why he had to get a new guy in the post, nobody with any self-respect would support this very shitty decision.
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  738. You are aware all of our infrastructure is 'make work project' stuff, right? That they can build a better bridge 2000 years ago seems a bit implausible, and if you look at relative wealth, there is no way they can afford to spend 'more' on infrastructure than we do, they just didn't want to have to build the stupid bridge/aqueduct/coliseum/circus again, so they did it right the first time and plenty still stand, with those that didn't often being torn down for parts. Our roads are deadly after 10 years usually, and a shocking number of US bridges are close to being condemned, it's almost like the 'make work project' construction system that requires continuous cash input coupled with small government/don't tax the rich republicanism is a recipe for complete economic collapse.
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  739. Did he just joke that couples in other parts of the world don't relate to the widespread trope in the US of women being profoundly unsatisfied sexually? Because huh, that makes one think.
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  740. A jar of apricot!? Yikes. My dad had a running joke when he did our family's cooking (he was briefly unemployed), if food wasn't eaten it was 'going in the soup', because he liked to make huge batches of bean soup (which tasted good enough tbh) and we always had soup on hand (including huge amounts in our freezer), a good cook will intuitively be able to guess the types of flavours that go well together, but a bad cook will 'experiment' to find out what works. You can start out as a bad cook and end up a good cook eventually, but this is why recipes exist, so people don't try to reinvent the wheel (and we end up with wheels that have corners 'so they won't roll away on us!'). I have never been on tiktok, but I'm on instagram and I get tiktok cat videos in my feed, but I don't really see a lot of food stuff, even though my instagram has a LOT of posts that are nothing but food. The most revolutionary thing I make now is pan or oven fried cabbage, it's a real treat, even if it's way easier to just grow kale I like cabbage too sometimes (cabbage fries down to a sweeter flavour than kale, unless you use kale that's had frosts at night). I found out about pomegranate syrup and I mostly liked it on potatoes, especially fried ones. I think I switched to eating mustard with my fried potatoes to save calories. I may have to try it in some other stuff, it's a decent flavor. I do like balsamic vinegar, atm I have some really sweet vinegar that contains wine must, it's very nice in some recipes where you want some fruity sweetness, like in a bitter kale salad. I garden pretty extensively, last year we didn't buy potatoes, and this year it looks like we won't have to again, though we do eat non-potato meals. I love blackcaps, but I have a TON of berry bushes of various sorts, today I should pick some blackberries, I've already picked about 4kg, and there are still more coming. I also grow a fig tree outdoors, I live on the shore of Lake Eerie in Ontario, so I need to protect it in the winter. My 'suddenly it did stuff' for this year is my Tayberry bush, which actually made quite a few (and VERY DELICIOUS!) berries, normally I get none. I got a fair bit of serviceberries, normally they are all eaten by birds (they taste good and are very nutritious, so birds love them), my Haskap crop continues to improve (they make a truly stupendous wine), and my gooseberry grove had a bonkers yield this year, more than double most years because there wasn't a mass droping of berries due to dryness. I had quite a few huge strawberries, 40g wasn't unusual for 1 fruit (that would be 11 fruit to 1 lb, which seems nuts). Oh, and I fertilzed the heck out of an already stretched out tomato plant (it had probably been given too much nitrogen at a young age, I gave it a huge dose of phosphorus and potash), it rewarded me with a shockingly early crop of tomatoes (most people barely have any yet, this plant is threatening to finish up it's year already, so I gave it more nitrogen, fingers crossed!).
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  741. Sweet son of Satan hearing a dumb goober sing about how the 'rich men of the north' are trying to exert control when the USA has been ruled by the racists since day 1 is insane... oh, and those racists? They're more common in the South, but the North finds and rewards them, mostly because of the influence of the the racist AF founding fathers that arranged things so racists would always have power. It has occurred to me that the South was 'supposed' to win the civil war, if you actually read about it they had a TON of advantages because most of the veteran soldiers were rebels, the South had prepared with some combat with Mexico, the North was arguably deliberately unprepared, in the hopes that the South could just blitzkrieg (not a term they'd use) the North into submission. A funny thing I've noticed about myself, if I'm ignorant about something I often do the most wrong thing... ever wonder why the Rs want voters ignorant AF? It's because they vote against their interests VERY reliably, they'll actually TRY to vote against their interests out of ignorance.
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  742. Just love this outfit! Also, decent talking points, but I feel like NH giving more than 30% of the vote to trump reflect incredibly badly on someone who's treated like an incumbent (despite a consistent losing record and incredibly poor job performance).
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  743. I dunno why, but I needed these laughs, thanks!
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  744. Whomever gave the repubs a copy of 'Fascism for Dummies' should get kicked in the head by a donkey... metaphorically speaking.
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  745. It is profoundly fucked up that Biden thinks it's okay to release documentation that conclusively states mbs was responsible, and then have zero consequences, and to claim that their is a 'relationship' there worth protecting, when there is very fucking much not. The Saudi gov hates the US and delights in both exploiting the US and having such control, while the US people beg their various leaders to do anything at all about one of the worst offenders on human rights that keeps significantly threatening American security (WHILE THE US SELLS THEM WEAPONS. HAHA. Not at all the dumbest thing ever).
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  746. I gotta admit, if a restaurant is surrounded by a ravenous horde of rats armed with catapults, I'm not eating there.
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  747. We almost always boil eggs by the dozen, if I'm working hard I'll often eat several for lunch. I used to boil 3 at a time when I lived alone, so I could bring them to eat, boiling one seems like going for a hair cut and only trimming 1/12th of your hair! I usually like to carry some cash, but you shouldn't carry more than a small % of your total cash assets, unless you're a pimp, they need to carry a bill roll iirc. Wait, is Coco a pimp!? It's a bit of a moot/dumb point, but I think it's worth remembering that the colonial powers did not need explicit slavery to exploit a local economy completely, the real issue was that they restricted those countries ability to invest in their own infrastructure/future, as well as restrict very heavily all trade that wasn't with the parent country. I suppose I shouldn't leave out that the colonial powers also made a point of playing the subgroups of their colonies against one another, not unlike how the modern right uses racism among the poor to further empower the wealthy, borders were deliberately set up so the locals would always have an 'other' to hate, as well as the horrific brutality designed to traumatize whole cultures for centuries. Those things resulted in brutally stunted economies that by definition cannot ever catch up to their former colonial oppressors. People seem to forget that one of the reasons we got rid of slavery was that it's an economic depressant, mostly because you have a large number of workers who aren't consumers (that you have to provide for btw, you can literally pay people sub-starvation wages under post-slavery capitalism because it's the workers problem that they're too hungry to work, the capitalist can just find newer, more desperate workers), with that extra wealth being piled into the coffers of the already wealthy, were it is never used for consumption, meaning it's economically non-existent. Ironically, as capitalism got more and more exploitative, the workers couldn't continue to consume without going into debt, hence the massive debt crisis as workers struggle to maintain their standard of living. As wealth continues to disappear into the coffers of the ultra-wealthy it is happening again, the solution the right in the US has is to move back towards slavery step by step, ignoring that doing so has been killing their economy since the 60s, when it was unthreatened in it's global hegemony. Arguably the US economy has never recovered from the incompetence of regan's 'feed the rich/starve the poor' policies, it's infrastructure is now badly outdated/crumbling and the government is simply too poor to rebuild because of tax cuts to the rich. I remember hearing about the spongey concrete issue in the UK, so I guess you guys have similar concerns, since you also don't tax your ultra-wealthy enough.
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  748. OMG Milkshake Duck is RACIST?!!?! Who could have known?
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  749. ...So 'The rent is too damn high!' guy was actually a prophet? I look forward to some unusual styles in the future if so.
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  750. It's less uphill and more 'heavily rigged by the gop'.
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  751. Did you guys ever do a really eviscerating video essay thing on gambling, so I can watch it while I get nothing but gambling ads (or if I'm really unlucky, it's lottery ads, these have much higher budgets but are even more insulting to my intelligence... I know I'm not the smartest guy around, but one of the few things I can take pride in is understanding mathematically how stupid gambling is, to say nothing of the infinitesimal odds of winning the lottery). No part of me understands why it's legal to advertise gambling and yet I can't just go to a shop and get a speedball injected for a fun afternoon. You know all those rich assholes do all the drugs they want, they just don't want to let us poors have fun! BTW those speedballs would be less addictive than gambling, their aren't words for how dumb of a practice it is. Ha, just got a Disney+ ad while writing that, a service I already pay for. I'm not sure if that's how advertising works, but who knows, maybe this is why ad guys make the big bucks, because they show me ads for things I'd already use? Apparently there was brief cooperation between white and black slaves when white people could be indentured, and it was this cooperation that lead to the outlaw of indentures for whites. It was necessary that the poor whites look down on poor blacks, if they didn't the whole system would fall apart because the poor majority would rise up. Racism is an important tool that the powerful use to maintain their control, and the worse you treat the lowest tier, the lower the bar goes for *everyone*, it's kind of ironic punishment territory how the active racism of the poorest/dumbest among us makes their own lives measurably worse.
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  752. I also miss strudel, but I only had purchased strudel, now I can't eat gluten and it's not an easy recipe to port. The biggest issue with strudel imho is buttering each layer, so much work and if you have no gluten the dough isn't stretchy.
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  753. It's really hard to make change when our society is run almost entirely by the biggest assholes among us, the most selfish and the most short-sighted. The irony of course is that the businesses that are the 'big successes' are all ones that were inexplicably allowed to not prioritize short term profit (weren't punished by shareholders for reinvesting most/all profits), and usually got millions (if not billions) from the government. Meanwhile, they think they not only shouldn't have to pay taxes on their profits, they also think they should be free to do as much damage to the earth as they can get away with (and since they own all the politicians, they can do whatever they want). As long as we let the assholes run the show, they'll continue to set up systems that reward assholes like them and we'll have no progress. The annoying thing is that if you try to take power away from assholes they get violent, so the only way we'll actually have change is if we somehow have a massive revolution which redistributes all wealth that also somehow doesn't put assholes in power again, something that universally happens after a revolution, because we're hardwired to give power to the scummiest garbage people. I'm lowkey praying for a real big comet to come and pulverize this shithole, most of our species is evil af, and the ones that aren't usually aren't because of naivete, not out of any goodness in their heart. I'd settle for The Rapture, but only if I get to leave early!
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  754. Erin, the best part about being the 'kids these days...' person is knowing that you personally were likely that kid at one point. It's just how it goes, young people have unfinished brains, and it's not until well into your 20s that your brain is actually approaching 'done' and you have adult reasoning. Heck, you could argue it'll take a few years to get used to having good reasoning on top of that, I'm honestly not sure how people justify dating wildly younger people (like that seinfeld guy who was dating a high school girl when he was like 40?? Wasn't that a thing we all memory holed for some reason?), yet I'm guessing most of that douchey neurologists collection of GFs were creepily young, I just don't care enough to look.
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  755. That tape worm should have gone in the other direction, RFK might be brainless, but he's definitely full of shit!
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  756. There are actually lots of compounds that make cannabis work, THC is just a really obvious one, but if you're an experienced user you'll have come across some strains that seem relatively potent despite not having especially high THC. CBN for example is also made, and it's a great sleep aide, still can give a bit of a buzz if you use enough, there are other compounds that we'll find that also have an noticeable impact. It's also worth noting that the terpenes can have benefits of their own, both as edibles and to smell. Marijuana is actually a pretty good source of terpenes, so there may be interest in the future in engineering the plant to produce even more terpenes, and you can already breed them to produce very specific ones, and in specific ratios. I've definitely heard of people trying to fight the use of the term marijuana, it's just that it's so used that it's hard to get people to switch. I think we now have people using extremely high purity THC, and they do so at pretty heavy rates sometimes, I'm guessing we'd find out more about side effects, but from what I understand a big one is psychosis if you're an extremely heavy user, especially if you have an otherwise sedentary/inactive lifestyle, CBD seems to act contrary to this, and if a person feels that stress is leading them towards a psychotic episode, use of CBD in moderation can help improve the body's processing of stressful things. Note, for both stress (and excessive dopamine levels due to heavy THC use), exercise is one of the best ways to improve your situation, but since THC stays in your system for a very long time 'drying out' is not quick or easy, this is probably part of why people don't have serious withdrawal, in contrast with the serious dangers of ceasing alcohol consumption after years of heavy use, cannabis cravings might make it harder to sleep for a few nights, but if you're not a problem drinker you can just have a couple beers instead to help you sleep, and if you can't have beer you can just suffer a (hopefully) brief period of insomnia before you're back to normal. I think if your insomnia lasts more than 2 weeks you should go to a doctor, but a few days without proper sleep is merely unpleasant rather than dangerous to most.
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  757. In your defense, she was an incredibly weird choice as a candidate, she'd been demonized by the right for more than 20 years by then, even people who would normally vote democrat were essentially brainwashed by all the propaganda. I honestly suspect she was chosen to run against trump to make sure he would be able to win, despite being another staggeringly bad candidate.
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  758. I'm not sure why Americans think socialism is interchangeable with communism, other than deliberate wrongheadedness. Other countries somehow don't have this problem, of letting the other side define your terms, why does the US? Also, the most of the US supports socialist policies, why are talking heads still acting like socialism isn't electable?
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  759. They're both way too hard on themselves when it comes to their looks, but I've known lots of people like that, so much of how we view ourselves is based on what society has told us about ourselves... trump has been lied to his whole life, people have pretended he was handsome, charming, even witty, when in fact other rich people thought he was a stupid boor with the sense of taste of a dog that loves to eat's it's own poop. This was done so that he'd be the unhinged confidence man-child we see before us would be 'more electable', because widdle donny was supposed to grow up to be the president and fight for the cause of the rich, the rich use him as a pawn. Ironically he wouldn't have been chosen to be a figurehead like this if he wasn't monumentally stupid, but if he knew how stupid he was he wouldn't agree to the job either. It'd all be very comedic if it was in a book, more than a little disquieting in this context.
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  760. The 'Red Menace' was not actually very scary, it was mutual propaganda to keep both country's populations thoroughly paranoid and thus easily managed. It helped the US authorities if people were paranoid about the soviets, because it meant they weren't worrying about the ghastly shit their own country was up to, and pretty much purely for it's own benefit, even if everything from 1945-1990ish was framed as 'fighting the Red Menace'. I wish people would stop taking dishonest people at their word like that.
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  761. Funny flynn's shirt doesn't say 'disgraced traitor', because he's more known for that know, and will always be remembered for that.
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  762. I feel like this is like sending troops into battle with one hand behind their back. Not a good plan on trump's part, and I'm not surprised people would just say 'fuck it' and leave. Their reputations are already suffering, and he demands they do things in an openly stupid way to fluff his fragile baby ego??
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  763. When I was more conservative, I was pretty obsessed with performative intelligence, it's a noticeable difference as I have moved further left. I think the issue with gifted kids seeming to struggle is that some kids aren't especially bright but have a substantial head start from their educated parents, and thus 'test well' at a young age, yet won't 'test well' at a later age, even by metrics like IQ, because they've essentially been prepped. Such children will eventually fall behind if they cannot maintain a higher workload than their actual gifted peers, but some can and do, while others do not.
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  764. This Kid Starver fellow seems about as charismatic as Meatball Ron, which is to say both as are charming as stepping in a dog turd. I have no idea how these robotic morons ever get elected, they seem like the product of a committee choosing the candidate and aiming for someone who doesn't contradict the party while also being inoffensive, they're electable as long as they don't have to actually speak in front of a crowd. I also think someone is a complete political baby if they say in seriousness that the media is left leaning, especially in the US.
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  765. I'm glad we have John Oliver here to point out that elon musk is dumber than a potato grown from poop by his theoretical martian slaves, nothing like a rich person joking 'we need more people' while we're in the process of a massive population collapse specifically due to massive overpopulation, because just like if you put out food for animals, you quickly end up with more of those animals, until you've got too many. Our capitalist system is very good at extracting resources, so good that we've happily been extracting wildly unsustainable amounts of all manner of resources. There is nothing like watching how eagerly the US dumps money into growing food in literal desert while far more arable land is turned into cities. It's almost fascinating how eager humans are to gravitate to mono-culture when it comes to agriculture, a practice that has a known (and very poor!) track record, such that most early humans figured out fairly quickly that you had to cultivate varied food sources because conditions vary and you never know when disease will strike. We've known for probably 10000 years that mono-culture is a terrible idea, yet we keep trying it over and over because it 'works for awhile', usually resulting in a big population bubble, followed by a nasty collapse when the food source becomes ungrowable. Humans are bad at understanding time frames beyond what they've actually lived I suspect, such that nobody grasp how stupid ideas like capitalism truly are over time.
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  766. After that microphone felatio thing I feel way worse about him 'going down' in a helicopter, cause it didn't sound like his wife was named 'Willie Brown'....
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  767. It felt like the first two Deadpool movies were trying REALLY hard to win me over, even including a bunch of my favourite characters (Juggernaut was finally done justice, but also had his butt electrocuted), how could the third one be bad? The most obvious flaw would be not having Domino and Cable back, because Domino stole the second movie. It's incredible how doing sus stuff is the norm for the US (and it regularly sucks at being half-way decent to it's own citizens), yet like a drunk frat boy it won't stop loudly proclaiming to everyone else around them about how awesome they are. It's very hard to get rid of oppression by white people when we keep elevating people because they'll be oppressive (capitalism is the processes of rewarding the most evil in our society, as long as they don't offend the already powerful class they'll be joining). IMHO the reasons the trump assassination thing was such a flop was two-fold, the first was the guy was right wing that did it (so the media has to explain it away), the second was that trump didn't actually appear to be in any danger judging by how incredibly laid back the secret service was after; I'd love to know how they knew that there could only be one shooter around, and that trump was immediately in no more danger and could stand around for a posed photo (which again seemed incredibly staged)... I'm saying it was a flop because the whole thing came across as deeply phony, and when the right makes mistakes like that the media covers for them (because they're all owned by the rich), if the left had botched something this badly we'd hear about it for months. The real question is why did the media let trump fake an assassination attempt like that, and what the hell was the secret service doing helping out with it?? Makes me think of how Biden's dog HATED the secret service....
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  768. ...It's almost like humans are encroaching further and further into nature's last refuges or something, resulting in children playing under a tree full of bats (because of deforestation). Humans have very much been beating the crap out of nature since we developed group hunting tactics and could catch large game more easily than small, resulting in numerous extinctions, including most remaining large animal species. The humans who proved most adept at living with nature generally have so little power/influence that they are easily ignored as 'whiners'. It's like humans complaining about mountain lions in California after displacing them. Seriously, if you were displaced by an alien species, how great would it feel? Complaining about nature/weather at this point is like when white people made all those Western movies that were super-racist against Native Americans, who refused to just die out like white people wanted. Edit: I actually think it was a good solution in content, I think the context is being wildly misrepresented here is all.
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  769. Very good vid with very important points. The injustice in our system is revolting, I wish people would wake up to the fact that none of these morons is special, and none of them got wealthy by playing by the rules we all play with (if they did, they'd also be poor). Being wealthier not only doesn't make you a better person, it seems to consistently make you a worse person.
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  770. Yeah, that family is deeply messed up, even by the standards of messed up rich people. Also, the irony of the people who least need to reproduce being obsessed with reproduction is not lost on me, it's like they have the same voices in their head that guide everyone else just fine, but they hear the opposite of what it says. It's hilarious that if elno would have kept quiet and a lower profile he'd be much richer AND people would (erroneously) respect him much more, his astonishing ego forces him to constantly brag/take credit for other people's accomplishments. It's been great watching everything he touches turn to shit for years now, yet it's been simultaneously frustrating that the government and other billionaires keep dumping money on him with big trucks. It doesn't matter how badly his companies fail, money just keeps being poured, it's insane (and exactly like trump, it turns out the rich don't like it when the dumb kids of rich assholes lose their money). Remember when Twitter was a thriving company and was considered one of the most prestigious social media platforms? Now it's just nazis and pedophiles and it can't stop hemorrhaging cash, but for some weird reason none of the oil scum that loaned him those many billions are worried, it's almost like the point of the investment wasn't to buy Twitter so much as tank it, to take away a platform that people used to criticize those very rich assholes. Also, didn't he mess up his body by abusing HGH/steroids? Also how can a man be this rich and have cosmetic surgery that looks this bad? He's so insecure, I'm not sure why he worries since he just uses IVF anyways (I think he's scared of women or something).
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  771. Why did minorities vote for trump sometimes? The same reason anyone did, ignorance. I don't think you can defend having voted for him in 2016, and nobody but the rich could logically vote for him in 2020, when he had revealed that he would do nothing for the masses but take, and would give only to the rich.
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  772. I don't think online dating was working well before either, but it sounds like an absolute shit-show now. The very brief time I tried to use the 'technology' it was full of bots/fake accounts, the tech bros 'move fast and break stuff' moto should be translated as 'break stuff that works and rebuild it to make assholes more money, regardless of any/all other factors, to the point where the product literally doesn't work anymore because it's been so overly capitalized (that's late stage capitalism in a nutshell, nothing actually works because it's more 'efficient' to just run grifts). I don't like breaking rules (unless they are profoundly stupid/counterproductive), so I don't like scamming stores, but I generally expect very good return policies from big corporations, their profit margins are so high they can easily afford to deal with a high rate of returns, but a small company can't handle that. I don't support buying stuff (and using it) if you intend to return it, it seems shitty, but it's definitely true that most companies exploit both their workers and suppliers as vigorously as they are able, to say nothing of screwing over consumers, so while I wouldn't personally want to do it I wouldn't likely judge someone doing that now and then. I used to be strongly anti-piracy (after having being neutral and pirating a bit of stuff in the aughts), now due to the fuckeries being done to consumers and workers in the movie/TV industry I am WAY less concerned about it as a practice, if shareholders want to put a bloodsucking ghoul incharge of every large company then they can expect consequences for their bad choice. If Disney wants to fuck over their workers by taking Willow off their streaming service they can expect some blowback, and Disney is hardly the worst for this kind of BS. Another great example, Nimona was a very good movie, and it was fairly progressive, in no way shape or form did it being progressive make it 'suck', and we almost didn't get to see it ever because Disney was worried it was too 'woke' and would scare away audiences. Just yikes, you know? In no world is netflix a progressive company, at what point did it become okay for a company to throw away money because they want to pander to a small audience of 'unsophisticated' (best euphemism I could come up with) assholes who want regressive 'art' to be forced down everyone's throat? If I was a shareholder for Disney I'd be pretty pissed at the mouse throwing away something as promising as Nimona, I hope it wins some flashy awards to really rub it in.
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  773. You could control it back then if you could record off the radio, then you'd make mix tapes of what you liked.
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  774. You forgot the bowl of port (to be used as dipping sauce) that goes with the sandwich!
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  775. Now I'm picturing zombies wandering around saying 'Kaaaale... kaaaaaaale...', I mean kale is good, but would you want to endure until your corpus crumbles into dust eating nothing BUT kale? I dunno. I feel like you want to have 'kale and potato', or 'kale, potatoes, and sausage', which is really delicious if you haven't had it, but plain raw kale is going to get tiresome, even as your taste buds rot off.
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  776. Key point, but a sort of perfection, even beyond normal proportions, is a huge part of cuteness. Things that are deformed tend to be less cute than perfect things, with the caveat that certain types of imperfections are more perfect than perfect in terms of cuteness. I tend to see cute as a subset of beauty inherently, so I find this an odd take, magnifying the horror of it, but that's the dark side I guess. Still, if something isn't intrinsically beautiful (IE note babies are beautiful, yet not of normal human proportions for beauty!), it isn't going to be terribly cute, and suffering is not beautiful, and thus I don't think it's terribly cute either, though I suppose a certain level of dejection can be contextually interesting, but this isn't so much about cute as it is about any kind of connection. I don't think breeds of dog that can't breathe are 'cute', but I do find many plants very cute that aren't really viable without human intervention, so that is a bit dark I guess!
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  777. Clearly the people that brought guns to the idiotic anti-lockdown protests have no sense of irony, or they would have noticed that they're revealing their hand: They straight up don't give a shit if someone else dies, as long as they have the freedom to go off the rails and murder people/make money, because otherwise people could treat them as poorly as they deserve. I am getting cynical!
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  778. For me one advantage of anime was you could cheaply produce something that could scratch an itch that live action TV or cinema can't yet reach, because it's too expensive or not advanced enough. I feel like the power fantasy anime are trash as a rule, unless the anime is about showing why that's a bad fantasy. Seeking power because you feel small is usually at it's core misunderstanding why you aren't received well, having power won't make you more charismatic. I like the point about 'unearned' power being a toxic story element, it's also true to life. Guts is pointedly not someone you'd want to be, which is an important part of why I enjoyed it so much. I think Fist of the North Star (same guy I think) is WAY more 'dude on the world's biggest power trip', I watched a bunch of the anime, just crazy.
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  779. But Seth, why would she use an Owen Wilson voice to say 'wow!'? I just don't get it.
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  780. Uh, I wouldn't say there is no common ground between Hitler and trump, there are concentration camps in operation in the US atm. Not entirely on trump, but he really did try to make them worse/more overcrowded.
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  781. Glad to hear from Israelis who disagree with bibi's openly corrupt lunacy.
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  782. It's worth pointing out that if the communists somehow did take over your existing money would likely be worthless immediately, a core tenet of communism is that everyone's assets get pooled and redistributed according to need, not according to how much paper money you have. Only someone who knows nothing about communism would try to argue that they'd stockpile money for that, it's like stockpiling rock salt in preparation for a drought. Even us communists know this kind of thing. Also, if you're trying to get out of the country the cash is literally worthless if there isn't a US government to guarantee it, it becomes fancy Monopoly money if their is a revolution. It'd be nice if the dems could do a public inquisition and root out the various conservatives that are ensconced in the democratic establishment. Also you guys really, REALLY need some kind of party whip mechanism, how are there no consequences completely abandoning party lines in a partisan system? Why does the party let these scumbags use the party name to get elected? Most of them would flounder immediately if they didn't have the support of their party, dipshit manchin didn't run as a republican because he knew it'd be easier to get in as a dem, which is revealed by him betraying the party over and over on key votes, he votes red and steals the state's ability to elect an actual blue senator. For the record the keel of a ship isn't actually under water for it's whole length, you generally have a keel stick out at the bow (and possibly stern depending on the ship), and that's a spot that's pretty hard to see from aboard the ship without actually climbing down (which is pretty dangerous/a huge hassle on a big ship). I see people pointing out that they probably hung out on the rudder, so it could also be that, but keel doesn't just refer to the part of the ship that's underwater, it's the spine of the ship, running from the tip of the bow the stern. The US is too eager to suck up to modi because he's a nascent fascist, and US business interests always choose fascists if they can, so I don't expect much push back. I suspect part of why dogs don't need to pee the same way involves them not sweating iirc, humans sweat constantly so our ancestors needed to be paranoid about being thirsty, our bodies run way too warm, if dogs get too warm they can just go somewhere shady, humans need shade and they need to find water ASAP or they'll die of dehydration. It's a wonder our ancestors survived at all, but until we got tools we were not a dominant species.
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  783. How long until the microphone sues him?
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  784. As an industrial construction worker, I am a fan of Amy.
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  785. Also, I'm better at cooking than most people who cook, so if I want a fancy meal and I don't want to spend $400 I just make my own risotto and steak, why do I need to hire a goombah to make my food if I can cook??? Am I wrong? I have eaten good food in restaurants, but I have eaten some incredible meals by me, including various pizzas. People can be a gremlin that over-indulges and also be the person who cooks the supper that makes it all work.
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  786. I haven't read them, but I really enjoyed season 1 of Percy Jackson, but I was also that weird kid who could only be tricked into reading by sneaking mythology books in, at least the problematic myth stuff is old as balls, it's really hard to excuse the issues in Joanne Rowling's work, it'd be nice if she'd just admit she wants to be allowed to own her own Jewish banker, she's awful for reason beyond the trans stuff, that's just the stuff she couldn't shut up about, even for a second (until it became a legal issue).
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  787. The right is controlled by the billionaires, and they are well aware that a LOT of 'Christians' (I mean I could say I'm the smartest/most handsome person to have ever lived, it doesn't make it so) will vote for anyone that will punish women for having sex. The right is nothing but a collection of single issue a-holes who hate one another, but they cooperate because their dumb niche issue (be it gun rights, being an open racist/misogynist, and tax cuts are the main ones) is more important than anything else in life. The thing is, if you have single issue voters the criteria for doing a good job ALSO goes down sharply, so there are no drawbacks to cultivating a base of the worst people in the world.
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  788.  @marshalbaek5580  Do you really think there is much of a middle ground with open fascists? People either think he's the bee's knees, or they they see him for what he is, a buffoon. The NFL is very much all about the money, so when he was just another horse's ass that inherited some money I'm not surprised they didn't take him at his (worthless) word. Still, I bet they'd bend over backwards to help trump buy a team now if they thought it'd get him elected, trump's whole platform is screwing over the poor and helping the rich. The rich aren't especially bright, but they understand that a 'politician' like trump is an investment, if he actually wins they win big, and if he loses they lost money they literally will never miss.
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  789. I feel like it's not a coincidence that ye was a corporate darling, and was also a quiet nazi from WAY back apparently, I think that played a major role in his 'success'. My problem with wrestling isn't that it's fake, it's that it's too stupid, all the subtlety has been removed and what's left is all bald tropes being shoved in our faces: my problem is that consuming wrestling is like using ketchup direct from the bottle as your spaghetti sauce, it's been processed beyond recognition and has no value left, but it's disguised by modern science to taste like food still. I lost interest as wrestlers I had been a fan of started dying off, and it seemed like they just kept dying younger and younger. Also, I noticed it didn't seem associated with good traits in people, it seems designed to bring out the worst in the masses, much like the (similarly kayfabe) gladiatorial games, or their WAY more popular competition, the chariot races of ancient Rome. I've heard from multiple sources that most pro 'combat' sports are kayfabe, and I don't think you need to watch most of those things for long to notice that they're not selecting them because they're the best, they're selecting them because they 'look believable', all that stuff seems really fake. The way it works is that if you don't play along and throw fights they put you up against the ACTUAL best and they 'have a weirdly good night' (they have no problem with taking regular loses from worse fighters to keep appearances up) and just murder you in the ring. You can't have stuff be unpredictable when so many millions are riding on individual fights, and it's WAY too easy to fake a loss, more so in MMA than boxing where a person can just take a kick to the head and go down, it's not hard to sell that kind of thing, especially if contact is made, and you do indeed see stuff like that, and you don't see the plethora of injuries you used to see when the sport first came out (part of it is better fighters, but I'm sure part of it is rigged competition so people don't risk ending careers early). Also, ye was 100% doing kayfabe the whole time, it might not have dropped by the time this was out, but apparently the nazi phase wasn't a new thing, he'd just start talking about how much he liked hitler (in weird contexts), obviously everyone told him to just play it as a babyface so he did. I have no idea (other than Get Out stuff) how they'd convert a guy like him, but I've read psychosis can lead to racist beliefs (because we're hard wired to think people of different 'races' are different, the more different looking the more different they must be, we're a dumb species but this is why people dress to fit in for example), if he's not serious about medication (and it sounded like he wasn't but I hope I'm wrong, even if I don't like the man I'm not sure he deserves the hell that is a full blown psychotic episode, not from what we've heard, he's just said appallingly ignorant things over and over (and I never loved his work). I like to wonder if there is a world where they ended up with Wyclef or Lauryn instead of ye, filling the same niche somehow in a comeback. Also, seeing as he was doing kayfabe and knew that he could face consequences for the stunt (meaning he has doesn't really have convictions, in the sense that he knows bush didn't give a shit about black victims, but the problem is he agrees with bush and doesn't want to offend that crowd, so he's worried about doing this stunt. It might not have been his idea, who knows?
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  790. Yeah, the Patriot Act is 100% the kind of thing that a 'Think Tank' thought up in advance, I don't know when they started being public entities, but they certainly existed (and had massive right wing bias issues) in various forms, including being founded/maintained by the government under the guise of 'research'. It's not like this is a one party problem, but it is specifically a right wing problem because right wing philosophy/'economics' (if you want to call that make-believe BS economics) dictates freedom for money to make more of itself, and that money has the only real vote or veto in our society. Capitalism is working hard to turn our one habitable planet into an ongoing climate disaster, all because 'derp derp! line must goes up!' economics that don't even make cursory sense to children. It feels like a sort of justice that we'll all die for their greed and stupidity, but for those of us with working brains it's fascinating to watch so many poor people vote over and over to screw themselves (and unfortunately us as well).
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  791. I feel their may be a higher state than discussed, in which one recognizes a true purpose, and works to fulfill it, becoming essentially an avatar to that purpose, rather than living according to one's one interests. Obviously one must have already grown fully accustomed to contentment before such a step is productively possible, and it is ultimately to bring enlightenment to others, rather than merely basking in it.
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  792. This makes me think of the nutters that claim that requiring masks as a public health measure (public health measures having been a 'thing' in some form since before we were humans, even monkeys groom) means we are entering a police state. This is then 'argued' in a circular manner, where no proof is offered other than the premise itself.
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  793. 'The world is fucked' is a huge understatement, and it'll be because our society selects for the greediest and most evil to give money and power to. The time to 'make big changes' was a solid 10 years ago, we're literally too late and everyone who knows it is just keeping quiet so the stupid people can enjoy their last years of relative bliss before the 'bad times' really get going.
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  794. So can possums fwiw, most animals can be eaten, and at some point likely were a part of the local diet, mono-culture is pretty rough on our diet. This is why I have a big garden full of weird produce, though tbh after I grow stuff I am usually able to find them in stores so who knows really? On the plus side I make wine at home with some extra fruit, the weirdest I've ever tried is the Goji berry wine I'm making atm, it's very much a 'we'll see' kinda thing.
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  795. I love your point, but the US has been fascist as long as I've been following politics, and definitely before that things were even worse. How anyone can look at 50s US and not say 'yeah, that's extreme fascism' boggles the mind. It even spawned a revolution of sorts, so great was the disaffection with the inane restrictions of the 'Golden Age', and we all know damn well things weren't perfect for non-whites back then. Fascism has a long, storied history in the US, and if you even scratch the surface of most libertarians, you quickly find their philosophies in practice tend to be 'freedom for me', rather than 'freedom for all', and libertarians are a relatively harmless form. Even the founding fathers were lying when they claimed to love freedom, instead embracing quite heartily all the fruits to be had of slavery. The US is a country that has long fallen for it's own propaganda (note, like all fascist leaning countries, the US has a very large, prominent propaganda wing in the media). Ever notice how preachy kids shows are these days? Well, they always were, you just didn't notice what they were preaching, IE GI Joe and all manner of war fantasy, trying to get kids to adopt a conflict based mind-set, an 'us and them' mindset to be easier to manipulate as adults. Ever notice how preachy movies used to be back in the olden days? Well guess what, they still preach, they are just subtle about it now. Pretty much every studio movie is propaganda, even if it isn't directly government created. You'd be pretty hard pressed to find a mainstream US movie that doesn't embrace conflict and violence, it is seemingly intrinsic to US art. Pacifism, communism, socialism and many other things have been extensively demonized by the US media until the people utterly embraced what they were given.
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  796. ​ @unthinkablethailboat was it stated the station would be Earth orbiting, rather than being at a lagrange point? I got up early, so it's 100% possible I missed that
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  797. Good lord, what a baby. This is the level of evasiveness you'd expect from a child, not a president. He very clearly didn't get tested.
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  798. I've talked to a bunch of people who really hate Trudeau, so I'll list off a few reasons why people complain. One reason a lot of people don't like Trudeau is his persistent need to tax not the ultra wealthy, but the mildly well off, hitting farmers with the carbon tax when most of them are producing food in one way or another seems batshit when almost all of the carbon is being produced by industrial manufacture, one way or another, and farmers do not make a great deal of profit per year, their real gains are in equity over time in most cases. Farmers should have instead been rewarded for making green choices, rather than being punished for just doing business. Now I guess they're adjusting capital gains to start pinching people at relatively low wealth levels, again missing the whole point of 'eat the rich' because 'the rich' are his personal friends and allies. That brings me to another reason he's not very popular, because Trudeau can be pretty smarmy, and is very ensconced with the wealthy elites. People know who he's personal friends with, and most of us wouldn't be willing to piss on those people if they were on fire. I think the final (and easily the biggest) reason is that Trudeau supports LGBTQ rights somewhat vocally, while Polly will definitely not, regardless of what he says (I'd be happy to be wrong, but I can see what similar conservatives do elsewhere in Canada if given a majority), and a LOT of people still hate the LGBTQ movement, and find public Pride displays to be salt in the still raw wound of merely having to tolerate these superficially different human beings. I personally don't particularly like Trudeau (and wonder if he should step down before the next election and give someone else a proper go, rather than drag the party down with him), but I don't think he was as bad for Canada as harper was in a plurality of ways. Why is it the Conservatives can't run another Joe Clark type?? While I didn't think mittens with the string through the sleeves were cool as a kid, I now understand and kinda wish I had something like that, so I think everyone's biggest complaint about his type is now done, why do we have to run creepy looking guy who's so far right? Canadians don't want far right, and they've been clear about that, but the problem here is the party is run by the far right and it's money, so they keep choosing candidates that are incredibly far right and losing to centrist Trudeau. Run a center right smart guy who's nerdy enough to wear his mittens on a string through his sleeves during the winter, I want to see sensible footwear and comfortable and decently cut (if not exactly stylish) suits, not more far right guys who look like they were adopted as a child by a far right Think Tank and raised on a steady diet of propaganda.
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  799. I think it needs to be pointed out that you can end up wealthier than you have the intelligence to use effectively, look at the stupid riches that buy metal toilets, aka what we provide to people in shitty prisons. Rich people with bad taste have awful lives because they are just too stupid to live well, if they were poor they'd just gravitate to poverty junk food and booze, but because they're rich they try to 'eat like a rich person' and end up eating lots of gross/offensive stuff marketed to rich idiots when they'd very much prefer a (possibly literally) shitty McD's burger (because they are philistines, but being tasteless isn't a sin).
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  800. Keeping in mind that step 1 in founding a cult is finding gullible people, I doubt you'll ever find any new ones that have any philosophical merit, let alone merit on par with any major religion (and even most non-major ones). Cult founders look for people the same way an online con artist does, they look for people that will ignore evidence in favor of agreeing with you, which is why those online scams are usually really, really obvious, so that the scammers won't have to waste time on people that won't ultimately fall for the scam. If you keep the original scam really, really obvious, you remove all the people who will accept contrary evidence over your word. It's sophisticated in the way that any form of predation will be, since it's designed to exploit a population that probably would prefer not to be exploited, but it's not really all that clever, and it probably hasn't changed in a very long time. Thus, cults aren't usually very complicated, and the leaders aren't usually terribly smart (though I suspect most are more intelligent than average, they don't tend to be 'exceptional' in terms of actual accomplishments), because being overly clever would be counter-productive. If they served actual doctoral thesis level philosophy, very few would be willing to sit and listen, and even less would be able to engage with the material in a meaningful manner. It wouldn't 'change their life', just like this level of philosophy doesn't change most people's. It thus came as no surprise that this cult was no exception, and I'm a little embarrassed for the people that bought into this, but maybe he's really convincing in person or something? Glad he's going to prison, hope he never gets out, because he is shockingly unethical.
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  801. I'm no expert, but wasn't hating the players a big part of why DMX was amazing? If so I think that's also a valid position. It's all fine and good to hate the game, but we're all playing the same game and we each play it differently, the difference with an asshole is that they're an asshole. Life isn't Hearts ffs!
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  802. Surely the name K-Hive was taken by some K-Pop fandom?? I mean seriously guys, did anyone perform do diligence before we claimed this long hanging fruit as our own?
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  803. I think you have to have a certain number of laughing orgasms before you count as a comedy sex god? It's not an easy thing to do, but it's not like it's impossible to pass through that step of development, right?
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  804. So tuck-tuck is on the epstein list? Also, the US is only surprised to find out that it has a big nazi problem because it lies to itself about it's past (which included being so pro-nazi as a country that in the 30s it was grounds to be declared a communist if you criticized hitler/the nazis in Germany), this is why the US has all kinds of weird 'Lend-Lease' programs with the UK, they couldn't offer official support so they just pretended they were selling old supplies to the Brits.
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  805. Reporters that ask people if systemic racism exists should be fired maybe, start asking the actual sane question of these douche-bags, and that question might be 'why are you okay with the very real and existing systemic racism in the US?'. I don't care if they are willing to lie and claim it doesn't exist, of course it exists.
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  806. I lol'd when I heard people refer to that sbf douche as a 'realist', the guy was 100% a self-serving conman and nothing more. This vivek is cut from the same turd-smeared clothe.
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  807. As a white person I have absolutely nothing meaningful to add, but I wanted to give you some engagement!
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  808. This guy doesn't come out of this looking very good. Or competent. Or smart. Is the mustache to distract people from how stupid the shit he says is?
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  809. It's almost like when the billionaires make more money via the stock market scam it has ramifications?? I thought the metaphor was something about 'if we could just print more money there would be no problems ever again, but we don't do it because we rely on the terrible-to-propagate Money-Trees to supply us with currency', right? I mean, it's not like the wealthy creating literally trillions of dollars out of thin air, which they then invest in companies to further spike their value, would have consequences for the other people who have to live in the same economy?
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  810. This is a shining example of why 'laws' like this are dumber than a bag of dicks.
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  811. I think the issue is that most public right wing figures aren't grassroots, they are astroturf paid for by billionaires, and it's been that way for all of US history, the rich have been buying good press for ages. Most sane people fantasize about the US public waking up the fact that they live in a closeted fascist state, but we all eventually get jaded enough to realize that anyone who is not complicit in the system will have no power/influence in it because 'they aren't leadership material', and thus things won't ever change. Edit: I'm saying that because this astroturf that's planted tweaks existing conspiracy theories (which often feature plenty of truth mixed in with the piles of shit) to fit the needs of the rich, and the actual menally ill now use the internet and are easily mislead by stuff that is 'truthy', because it sounds a lot like what they already believe is true. I'm pretty sure that the entirety of q-anon is projection, and that it was done not so much for trump but to protect the billionaire pedophiles by accusing everyone else who isn't them of being pedos.
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  812. I'm not sure if it's exactly the same, but the Bible does mention that you can pray for a miscarriage for your wife if you think she cheated on you, if you actually believe prayer 'works' then that's pretty much forcing your wife to get an abortion. Horrifying but it does explain why it was okay, it left the power in hands of men and God, things the patriarchy believed in. The Old Testament is deeply, deeply weird, far weirder than anyone who hasn't read it can imagine. I celebrate Christmas with cake mostly, so I made 2 batches of Christmas Cake this year: 1 batch of 3 identical cakes, all traditional recipe (raisins, candied orange, candied cherry), and the other batch had 3 unique cakes as tests, the unique ones are Candied Orange/Raisin, Dried Blueberry/Raisin, and a Dried Strawberry/Gulka (rose petal confection)/Candied Cherry cake! Hopefully I have lots of exercise opportunities or I'm going to be huge, but I love good Christmas Cake. I soaked raisins/dried fruit in dessert wine, and I'm seasoning the cake with cognac, I think one of the reasons cheap cake tastes bad is because it has cheap things in it that happen to taste bad. These are all Gluten Free even, I had to change my recipe after I'd been making them for a few years already because I couldn't eat gluten.
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  813. ...I know this is going to sound crazy, but is this guy wearing A LOT of makeup? Like twice as much as her??
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  814. I don't really agree that the US has 'isolationist' tendencies, studying it's history it was mostly expansionistic, manifest destiny BS is still believed fervently by the dullards, but there are a TON of stupid people and they each get a vote. The US's foreign policy can mostly be boiled down to the fact that it doesn't want to ever help anyone, period, that's where it has 'isolationism' down pat, but it loves to do interventions and invasions if they'll make money for the well connected (like resource extraction companies that made serious bank in iraq, and were going to in afghanistan but the US couldn't even half-ass conquer the place). It's the same reason people are 'supposed' to have guns in the US, we all watched those Westerns, which are treated by right wing nutjobs like they are documentaries about the Wild West, staring all those big name academics like John Wayne, and there was never anything wrong with solving problems with gun violence, because the good guys always win, right? Nobody, not even the police (especially not the police) have to help them if they have a gun, if they have a gun you can pretend they are 'self-sufficient'. It's the same reason you guys don't have healthcare for all, and everyone poor is just fleeced by the system (they pay very high rates for very bad treatment in a ton of cases), and the rich are pampered endlessly. The US doesn't believe in help as a concept, the dislike of helping foreigners is just an extension of this pathology. If you really think about it the US was literally founded on the rich not having to pay taxes, and the civil war was fought because southern shitheads couldn't figure out that it's wrong to enslave things, at least the region is still being punished economically for being dumbasses, much of the South is dirt fucking poor, and with the worst government services in the country. Why didn't the rich want to pay their taxes? Because it would help others by redistributing the wealth they have (and thus deserved to have, in their view), to this day many right wing Americans think progressive taxation (or anything that taxes the rich at all) is 'punishing success', and that's why they fight for lower taxes for people who don't have to work for their money. I guess what I'm getting at is that the US is more or less an evil country, and that is why trump beat clinton (narrowly, and only after the FBI director, a staunch conservative, publicly announced a BS investigation against her just before the election, one of the few really great examples of the deep state in action btw, and it's pro-repub). The US likes to vote for presidents they think are evil, because if they elect an evil person they assume this person will be 'strong' because evil people literally think evil is strength. It's like I was born into a cartoon world or something, with a literal 'evil country', and the whole country is pretty near blind to it. The right thinks if you elect someone compassionate the country will 'lose', because only evil people win (technically evil people do tend to do better in the US, because it selects for them. Did vivek-loser get hit in the head really hard before this talk?? Can anyone explain how a war the US isn't fighting is going to turn into a republican started war that the US is fighting???? I know republicans don't actually have to make sense anymore to appeal to their voters/base (it's why trump can ramble incoherently for 45 minutes and the dumb chuds all cheer), but this is too stupid even for them. ...and he closed it off by more or less saying that even if we knew the holocaust was going on (which we did, and didn't really care about by and large), we wouldn't be justified in doing something about it? Also technically by vivek's brainwormy argument you also can't defend yourself? I know he's a feckless coward (they all are, every fucking republican is a coward at heart, it's why they are conservative, their brain's fear processing is overactive), but seriously, how can anyone argue 'there is no politically correct war' and not be laughed at? Also, trump 'doesn't want to say' is code for 'I'm owned by xi, putin and the gulf dictators and will do whatever they order'. If china invaded Taiwan there is zero chance the US intervenes if a repub is in charge, and even Biden probably won't actually intervene militarily, I feel like if they wouldn't do it for Ukraine vs russia they sure as shit won't do it vs china, which is a much, much scarier opponent, we hear a lot about how incompetent the chinese military is, but the US hasn't had a proper win in awhile (not sure if the first Gulf War counts or not, it's a very sketchy war and lots of war material wasn't accounted for after the war), and has actively lost quite a few wars since WW2 (which was very much a team effort btw!), I think Biden has to say he'd intervene, but there is likely very little interest in risking American lives vs an army that is more than 10 times the size. Then again, I could see trump being incredibly cozy with modi (they both hate Muslims and can bond over both of them getting brutalized by the oil states, many of which are Muslim), but it's incredibly hard for india to invade china to support the US on this, the only country that probably could invade china to help would be russia, and they are presently pretty close to china (closer than they have ever been in history perhaps). It seems likely that the US will talk a bunch and send a bunch of carriers and subs, but I doubt much happens. I've certainly be wrong before, but seeing the world mostly say 'you're on your own' to Ukraine was scary.
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  815.  @Terry-lh8cn  Fascist think that nothing has inherent meaning, mostly because that means they can apply whatever meaning they want to things... this 'works' when they have power and can dictate (in the sense that other people have to pretend the fascists aren't lunatics), but when they're just dumshits online you get real 'grassroots' gems like 'againstism', which not only isn't a word but is being used in place of actual words with the correct meaning (the word the half-wit probably wanted was contrarianism). It's a huge regression linguistically, since kennings largely went away more than a thousand years ago (because they were poetic but ultimately worse than just growing the vocabulary).
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  816. I'm shocked nobody has tried to shoot manchin back in WV... they desperately need infrastructure spending, more than almost all other states, and their supposedly Democrat senator is fighting to keep that money away from them. It's ghastly. I don't think you can give Obama credit for 'incrementalism'... it was more a case that he could only get tiny, almost insignificant stuff done as his own party stabbed him in the back over and over, while the republicans more or less just stood their shitting themselves in front of everyone, and then demanded to know why Obama shat their pants. It is very clear that if Obama would have had his own party's support he wouldn't have gone to a republican think tank for Obamacare's plan, which was a colossal compromise (if by compromise you mean one side was beaten with a 2x4, while the other got a whiffle bat), and it's the same everywhere. I'm not sure if the US has ever had a president that was stonewalled more heavily, and the republican babies whined about the fucking deep state being 'out to get' trump. Just fuck off you hypocrites.
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  817. Like all allies and servants of The Hero We Deserve, the porcine amongst us are both exceptionally tough, intelligent, and devoted to their God, Ilharg! Without intervention, sounders of mighty pigs will dominate many ecosystems, so it's probably a good idea to work to protect the embattled species of all sorts. But seriously, how many wolves would you need in a pack of them to actually harass 20 pigs?? I ask because a boar can be many, many hundreds of pounds and literally run over a wolf, and it's not like the sows are small either.
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  818. I would like to point out that misinformation is very useful to the right wing, and especially to the far right, because the more misinformation there is the more chaotic reality is observed to be by the common man, and when times seem chaotic the common man votes assiduously against his interest and leans into the far right populists of their day, no matter how buffoonish they are (in fact them looking like buffoons helps present them as 'outsiders', when they are in fact as far up the ass of the corporate world as they could ever be, and yes I'm saying right wing populists are a bunch of shit eating tapeworms). I'm actually pretty sure people are being actively paid to just churn out BS news stories, I keep getting stuff in my feed that is either wildly misleading or completely wrong/impossible. If the 'ai' bots are busy gobbling up the internet, I hope they have enough brains to avoid the rampant fake news that the algos actively push on us suckers... Also, when are people going to wake up to the fact that algos don't at all show you what you'd choose if you knew everything that was available, they suggest things that the algo wants you to watch because it serves corporate interests. It's like how I get nothing but shockingly low budget gambling videos on left leaning videos... at least it gives me something to get angry at, unhealthy emotions are healthy, right? But seriously, it's like youtube is trying to punish me for choosing correctly, it's all both very weird and very annoying, hopefully everyone who runs an online casino is (very slowly!) dissolved in acid while still alive (gambling is humanity's actual worst vice, gamblers would gamble away their children and organs if they are allowed, to say nothing of their own life, drugs are downright safe in comparison).
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  819. It is consistently stupid when experts in one field feel the need to pontificate on fields they are definitely not experts in. I also think a ton of people who are marketed as intellectuals are merely charismatic charlatans that 'seem' smart. People who are actually very smart are probably not very interested (or equipped at all with the necessary social skills) for a role like 'public intellectual', so it's mostly going to be cons that do it for the fairly easy money. While I agree the dial has been turned up, the issue of intellectuals siding with the establishment is a long standing problem, and we're talking thousands of years. If you think money is a good incentive to be unethical, imagine how good of an incentive 'death by torture if you don't agree with the king' was... Plenty of good people died for their beliefs, but history shows that lots more were fine cooperating with those who have power.
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  820. These people need a combination of anti-psychotic medication and an actual education. The mental illness portion might be helped with the meds, but if they don't, you know, read a few books, they'll be just as easy to fool the next time an amoral conman runs for office. TBH, these people are living proof that people are probably too stupid to be given the vote and not have it eventually blow up in our collective faces in a really, really colossal way. Ironically, they think people who actually have educations shouldn't have their votes counted, because they didn't vote the same way they, the uneducated morons of the US, voted. Edit: Bit of a shame more of these morons didn't take their dear leaders advice and drink bleach.
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  821. I think I worry more about art vs propaganda than whether art is 'moral' at this point. Too much of what we're told is 'popular art' is just open propaganda for the establishment. I think we do need to use morality to determine if art is 'good', but it shouldn't be the only criteria used, other stuff matters too. Art is too varied I would say to always use morality to judge it, much of art is morally neutral, and plenty of art that isn't neutral is ultimately harmless, and if it's not actively morally harmful (IE glorifying nazis), then that criteria should be considered satisfied IMHO. I love some grim-dark books, but I also watch a ton of Disney movies, I'm not sure either of those is morally perfect, I think the key is the nasty stuff I like doesn't portray the evil characters in a positive light. You can't really read the Thieves' World books and actually 'like' Tempus, or Roxanne, or even Ischade, they're just thoroughly awful beings on a fundamental level, and getting to see them turned loose on the setting is part of the 'fun' I guess, seeing how the less awful people either keep them in line or defeat them. It's very hard to write a thrilling story if the villains are less threatening than an ornery house cat, even if a cat can kill a commoner in some settings!
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  822. Blood on Fauci's hands??? wtf, did all the bleach trump was pouring for other people to drink spill and wash it off his?? The person with blood on their hands is the person who is in charge, not some rando the republicans dig up and want to blame.
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  823. A small step in a more correct direction, hopefully they choose a good new name, hopefully one that celebrates other cultures rather than denigrating them.
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  824. The 'you can't criticize if you don't have an alternative' is dangerously stupid thinking for an adult to cling to. Criticism is incredibly important, and just being tolerant of difficulty does absolutely nothing to bring about actual change. Stoicism is an important philosophy when it comes to maintaining the status quo, that's arguably it's core flaw, it teaches the adherents to be content with less rather than try to make meaningful changes, and those with power in our society are very happy to keep things on their present trajectory. IIRC the last movie I saw in the theater was Black Panther 2, which I enjoyed a fair bit. I'm now a bit annoyed that the actor for Namor has a pile of controversy going on, and that's not even the only example of a terrible casting mistake of late in Marvel (obviously they need to recast Kang asap, maybe don't cast the actor who's only 'believable' when he's beating the crap out of Ant Man??? That stuff really stands out in Quantumania). The writing is generally getting worse it seems, coupled with people getting bored of 'samey' movies over and over should be plenty to explain why those movies are 'getting worse', the execs have all the power, and since they want 'more profitable movies' and won't cut exec pay (and cannot cut star pay meaningfully), they have to cut the pay of the little guys over and over, or just never give them a meaningful raise. You don't get $100 dollars of labour by paying a worker $50, and they're doing exactly that. This is why other unions should consider solidarity strikes, because this is a national (well, global) issue.
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  825. It's been weirdly disappointing (but not really unexpected) to see india elect a right wing populist who hates farmers and any sort of minority (in a country that is better understand as a subcontinent, it, like china, is somewhat like if you had all of Europe in one country, with all the baggage that would come with), be they racial or religious, and the US just glomps right onto his fascist self, they can't resist a brutal fascist for some weird reason. On topic, xi seems to have the foreign policy of a perpetually embarrassed murder hobo, so it's not a surprise when he alienates other countries that his predecessor had better relations with. Remember xi's reaction to people pointing that out? He tried to publicly shame his predecessor, an act of such stupidity it is on par with getting one's head stuck in a honey bowl. I think china makes more sense if we think of xi as their trump, a populist with strong fascist leanings who is constantly trying to appear more capable and confident than they are. It'd be nice if he could learn actual diplomacy (china used to be good at the stuff, and was in process of gaining major clout in the world because of it) rather than just machismo and posturing. He's also not enough of a feminist, china has a serious habit of under-utilizing (a bit under... see, that's why feminism is important people!) half of it's citizens potential (and has rampant harassment it seems). Note, if women are happier they are more likely to be willing to risk having a baby, if they are miserable they only have them for reasons beyond their control (lack of choice, desperation, poverty etc), xi is very concerned with the birth rate, yet he allows women to be treated as an underclass!
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  826. Yeah, he might 'do his own stunts' but how many millions has Hollywood spent trying to make him not look elfin in stature compared to his woman costars? Also his stupid contract made it impossible for the Mummy reboot to work, wasting even more of the precious good will that Brendan Frasier gave up his youth for, making that one of the few series' that you can honestly compare to Indiana Jones and not be joking around. Was The Mummy as good as Indiana Jones? Nope, but it was even more fun sometimes, despite having wildly worse special effects than even that funky melting scene from Raiders. Indiana Jones was like going to a nice restaurant and ordering a decent meal (but the restaurant is weirdly racist in subtle (and in the one movie, not even a little subtle) ways), watching The Mummy 1 and 2 was like going to one of those mid-range places, it's better quality stuff than fast food, but it's not as pretentious as the fancy (and kinda racist) place, and you save a bundle. The Mummy was a much more 'safe' movie I'd argue, taking far fewer chances and making the villains sidekick 'look like a Jewish stereotype' was weird even at the time. Anyways, still bitter that we don't have a thriving 'monster movie' universe that we could complain was becoming 'too corporate/too safe/too woke', depending on what your bugbear issue is, and it's mostly tom cruise's fault... at least we'll always have The League of Extraordinary Gentleman to show us what could have been?
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  827. I bet desantis didn't even choose those boots, his handlers hated him enough to either not care or actively choose to give him boots that would make him look this stupid. I don't blame them, and they'd be My Little Pony boots if I'd had my way, but this is also good. I'm sure I could find some pic somewhere that is edited to make his boots into MLP kid's boots.
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  828. That streaker is probably half of trump's weight Seth, are your graphics people even trying??
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  829. My dad never cracks his joints, and he can open walnuts without a tool. His thumbs are probably twice the diameter of Seth's. As I kid I inexplicably thought giga-hands were just the norm, and was disappointed when I just had normal big hands. My joints crack all the time, and I was pretty weak as a kid (especially for my size).
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  830. Not to be rude, but the nepo babies issue isn't even mostly about famous people, it's about how *all of the well-paid jobs go to people with connections*, it's a bit of an absurd complaint because it's how it's 'always been' but it's also awful and has literally killed untold millions just in the 20th century's World Wars, most militaries in the world assigned ranks based on connections, not on competence, and this resulted in militaries that appeared to be functional forces but were more or less useless on the battlefield and cost millions of lives doing brilliant things like trying to take machine gun protected bunkers by crossing a mud-filled stretch of hell in broad daylight with plenty of warning for the ensconced opposition to be ready. Nepotism is one of our worst traits when we're outside the family unit, and most humanity has been living in larger communities for thousands of years, but we still fall for the whole 'well, he's related to someone so maybe he's 'like them'' argument over and over. Nepotism literally kills. I'm a nepo baby too, but my connections meant I got to do farm work as a young child until I managed to work my way up to construction (the hard, brutal kind). If you don't want to live long it's a decent life, but yeah, most people get their start in the work world via connections, some never have to go beyond that, the issue here is that some people are born with connections that are really useful, and others like me have connections that will put them in an early grave potentially. If you can't see a difference between getting to be a CEO because of family, or being the guy loading the cement mixer with 50kg bags, then I despair for our collective future.
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  831. FFS THAT IS NOT A VIKING HAT AT ALL!
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  832. I think most of the master artists of the Renaissance were hired to do nudes all the time because that was the porn for the wealthy (mostly clergy), not sure where I heard the theory but it does check out. Also, the common depiction of Jesus in Western art from that period looks that way because that's what a pope's illegitimate son looked like.
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  833. I commend Amber's wine joke, it actually made me, a cis-het-white-male that's over 30, unsure if it was appropriate for him to laugh at the joke. Very well played!
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  834. ...And Jenny more or less matches this by making me think of how creepy everyone was about Teegan and Sara when they first got big. We were all so very, very creepy, but they put out some amazing music.
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  835. I played trombone in school, which was a good fit. I was definitely not as good as the asian girl in my class who also played trombone, but I did play first trombone on March to the Scaffold, which was clearly above my paygrade but was lots of fun. The problem with your athlete example is that if you're a 'big deal' you can easily get as many abortions as you want without consequence. Yeah, if you're a badminton star you're not going to get medical care, but if you're a 22 year old football star that knocked up a 16 year old, yep, people will provide you an abortion. Conservatives think fun should be outlawed for the poor, who should more or less be slaves, only the rich/elite are to be allowed to have sex for fun, or do drugs/other fun stuff. This is partly why they penalize marijuana possession so much for non-whites, that qualifies as fun and non-whites should be too busy working for a white person to enjoy life. It's also why men are generally pressured to have lots of sex while women are publicly shamed for doing the same thing, men are considered 'higher status' than women by conservatives.
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  836. Have to say, 'tough love' is nothing but a really convenient excuse to crabbucket the ever-loving shit out of someone, just in case they were going to advance in some way. People are really jealous of potential, and it viscerally feels good to destroy it to evil people (which is a plurality of people, but almost all of the wealthy), they hurt people with potential because it feels better than hurting someone without potential, someone who it won't matter to ruin. I'd argue that Hill's problem is that she didn't have enough support from people who actually loved her, but it's not really something you can prove, so it's a bit moot, but all people eventually fall apart from enough suffering, you don't know how much is too much until it's too late, and some people you can't put back together.
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  837. I definitely have insomnia, and I definitely watch the youtubes of Seth's show, so I pretty sure it's not a cure. It's like trump is wrong about everything...
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  838. It never ceases to amaze me that people actively want to go on reality shows/watch them, if I wanted to watch scripted BS with bad acting I'd watch sitcoms again, watching reality TV is like choosing to eat mcdonalds when you have steak money. I think 'girl dads' are weirder/more disturbing than 'boy moms', but nobody should have such a weird pseudo-sexual dynamic with their child (why do conservatives all seem to want to inbreed?? It seems telling, like nature is trying to end their lineage or something, I figured that's why royalty did it, it was a form of divine punishment that they were mostly attracted to unsuitable mates).
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  839. Yeah, he's been really busy helping deal with the pandemic. +230k dead I think at this point, when he's been recorded saying (many months ago) that the disease was deadly, a very serious thing, yet he was going to just downplay it. Then he does this, and his base ignores what he was _recorded saying_, in favour of believing the BS he says in public. Lock downs and masks are proven to work at this point, with places that reduce restrictions too much consistently having a big surge after reopening. It's not hard, just turn the economy down a bit (bite the bullet), and reopen fully after the vaccine has been used. Full lock down is only needed to get the virus down to levels the health care system can easily handle.
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  840. While I can't see how (even if it wasn't apparently against the law already) you could sue a foreign government and win when your court doesn't have any authority over them, and can't enforce it's rulings. Regarding suing the US gov, their could be a basis for that, but the politicians have set up a system where a politician can only really be held accountable if other politician are willing to throw them under the bus, and I strongly suspect that US politicians will completely side with even the enemy party due to the 'dangerous precedent' of suing a president for a huge screw up, since the republicans have proven time and again they will abuse anything available to them. Regarding suing Fox, the various courts are stacked at this point, and no group that actively supports the republicans will be facing consequences for toeing the party line for a long time I suspect.
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  841. I think Charlotte has a good point, the right does try to present an 'alternative reality', one in which whites are being persecuted, in which children are in constant danger from 'deviants' (and not rich pedophiles, which is an actual problem as we found out from the epstein TRIALS... once didn't cut it, he was too rich for that apparently), etc. It's just all bs, but it makes the base froth at the bit, the bit that was put there by the rich of course, but if you sabotage education for long enough, the poor can even be lead to believe that they benefit from the rich getting richer. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't working so well. As for the 'freedom of speech' argument, you are free to say whatever the fuck you want, but you might end up in an institution depending on what you say, and we're all fine with this on a certain level. I don't think the right wing media should be free to say whatever as journalism (or editorial), it should be reporting the news in a way that they are communicating facts, not massaging the ever-loving crap out.
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  842. While that tree is large and insane looking, when I lived in Windsor Ontario, there was a truly stupendously bad looking tree, pretty sure it was a cherry tree, that not only grew crooked and was probably 50 years old (despite being ~5ft tall), the tree literally went sideways and was crowned by a single branch, going sideways, that didn't even point up (it wasn't even a leader), the trunk looked like it was made out of tree warts, and it had ONE BRANCH, with only a tiny number of leaves, and it seemed as if this tree had been like this for a considerable amount of time, quite likely many years. Anyways, this was the weirdest tree I ever saw.
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  843. Yeah, and they all have weird ass-breath, like they've been frenching vivek the wrong way all day and can't shut up about it.
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  844. ...why is fuchsia shirt wearing pajamas for his ted talk?
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  845. I'm shocked there was any actual chicken tissue in your chicken bullion, buy cheaper and you won't have this problem I think (not so cheap that you're buying coloured salt/wheat flour blocks). Also, tofu is way less weird than drinking milk/eating dairy, I'd feel really weird about explaining that one to an alien, maybe I'd have them drink some of the highly addictive yeast-waste I like to drink, people often love to converse while consuming yeast-waste! Surely some yeast-waste and bacteria-pooped-out-dairy would convince aliens that we're actually sane, that we're not monsters for harnessing life-forms as slaves and then treating them like they're soulless automata? Yeah, just had a thought, how do vegans feel about alcohol or leavened bread? Both obviously use a life form that's definitely not a plant, which is pretty much slave labour only we eat the slave's poop? It's a weird relationship if you think about it too much, but I'm saying maybe vegans can't philosophically drink beer or eat bread, because you're abusing yeast, which isn't a plant? I used the Mediterranean diet to lose weight, a key element of which is eating a lot less meat, and that seemed to work pretty well to manage my weight, and as I pointed out to my sister recently; all of your worst meals were so bad because of meat being in them, thus meat doesn't really make it easier to cook, meat is actually incredibly easy to screw up and tastes godawful when you do. If you disagree, I challenge you to eat 1lb of fried chicken wings, then try to eat 1lb of boiled chicken wings (like right after, so you can still taste the fried chicken). Trust me, it's way easier to screw up meat than it is to screw up a potato or rice. Anyways, lots of vegan stuff is fine to eat, but I still eat a lot of cheese, and I generally crave eggs when I'm working hard, so I'm no vegan, but if people don't go out of their way to eat less meat, it's going to continue to be a huge problem, but I feel like if you're at least doing physically demanding work, you probably need some meat or you're going to suck at your job (dairy and eggs work too), thus office jocks need to stop eating meat all the time, save it for me!
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  846.  @Tedkelvin  In the defense of African corruption, it's at least as bad here in the West, we are just really good at covering it up because our media is almost entirely owned by the same rich monsters that are plundering us. Are the rich going to let their 'news' tell us all about how the rich are stealing all the profits from every industry? No, but they're happy to badmouth Africa, so everyone hears all about everything bad there, while in the West we are lulled with endless celebrity news to distract us from our empty pockets.
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  847. My Oma and Opa loved to have buttered (well, margarined?) ham sandwiches, I always thought it was odd when I was a kid, but I was a Canadian and our diets are not impressive on average.
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  848. For me, reality TV was hate-at-first-sight, and it still is. Actually, that's not quite true, I liked 'pro' wrestling as a little kid, and that's very, very similar to a lot of 'reality' TV that is popular. I'd rather watch amateur improv than watch heavily scripted reality TV. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the proliferation of reality TV shows helped speed up the radicalization of our world, since it glorifies conflict for conflict's sake, most reality shows present conflict as potentially quite profitable, no matter how stupid. It also encourages petty bullshit, I don't think it's a coincidence that republican hivemind thinking is obsessed with gamification, this is why it's presented as a 'strategy' to 'own the libs' in and of itself, it doesn't matter if they shoot themselves in the foot if they've put their foot on top of yours, they're not trying to win in a traditional sense. The closest thing they can achieve is to make their opponent's suffer, their is no way to 'win' when your goal is to magically turn back time (this is why they don't worry about global warming, they're magical thinkers that think because trump was allowed to get away with every awful thing he's ever wanted to do he has magic powers. Fascists are very, very stupid because they never grew past their childhood development, which happens when life is set on ultra-easy mode for you) to a more fucked up period. While I do hate reality TV, I do think it sounds objectively hilarious to watch americans who suck at meeting people/have rudimentary social skills go oversees and try to get hitched, just like it'd be funny to watch people try to drive spikes with a tack hammer: none of these people are bringing the right tools, and the disaster that ensues will probably be amusing, if in a dark way. That said, there are some people who don't fit in in the US that would fit in far better elsewhere, the US has some pretty shitty standards for 'what is cool' in my experience. Not surprised to hear to say that these 'reality' shows are designed to showcase things like conspicuous consumption, hustle culture, substance abuse, racist tropes, sexist tropes, and just general right wing shitty-ness, it's like these are also propaganda or something.
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  849. I think what you're missing is that these people aren't doing things other people couldn't or wouldn't do, it was arbitrary that they were the ones that got rewarded to an absurd degree. If Gates or Bezos hadn't been born, someone else would have made a similar company, made similar products, and had similar wealth levels, and we wouldn't have been waiting long for the replacement, if at all. If these billionaires could arbitrarily only have made half as much money, or even 1/100th, they'd have still done just as much and worked just as hard. There are much harder working people then them, they just don't make much money. It wasn't hard work that made anyone a billionaire, and it generally isn't smarts (very few are especially smart), it's dumb luck that they happened upon the right thing at the perfect time, and could capitalize on it properly. Capitalism without regulation is insanity given time, I just hope people recognize this before things get too much worse. Aside, it seems to me that stories like Bezos are trumpeted so much because they give the working masses 'hope', that the 'american dream' isn't dead, when they are freakish aberrations who's rarity actually prove the dream has been long dead. The poor in the US in particular don't seem to be sharing in the good times, and still get hard in the bad times, meaning they are getting poorer. Yes, the poor in many developing countries are moving up a bit, but the developed world is now just a cow to be fattened before the slaughter.
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  850. It's perhaps the best of the lot, but it's not exactly the deepest pool to wade into. It did have flaws, but the issue is mostly that it's a bit extreme, but that's also why I watched it so how can I complain about that? The lack of dialogue was a problem, but there isn't a ton to be done about that, it's an action movie, wherein what happens is mostly action. You can't have people explaining things when the point is you're supposed to watch how stuff works, that's part of why action movies were explicitly used for American propaganda. For the record, in a hunter-gatherer society it was generally okay for a person to go off for a bit, especially provided that the individual is somewhat (or extremely) self-sufficient. People had chores, but they weren't onerous by modern standards on most days, it was very different back then. They didn't have fields to plow and weed in that area, let alone land to clear for said farming. Dude, you can't call out Prey for handing people the plot in key points for them to connect into a narrative (with plenty of payoffs for each point), this is how action movies work, it's not a drama, or did you not notice? It's not supposed to explain what will matter, it has to show you what matters. Both of them had found LOTS of what almost had to be blood from the Predator, so it made sense to say 'if I can bleed...', because they are finding blood/SHE SAW IT BLEED. Just saying. I do agree it was a problem that all of the boys from the Comanche were kinda assholes, the French being awful is more or less what the people were for the record, that was why they were massacring bison, it was to starve the natives out as much as generate wealth. As for her combat matches, she's supposed to be very skilled, and very aware of her personal limitations. She can't take big hits, so she is cautious in the movie, I don't think her being injured less than whatever you expect is a problem, though I agree that her hatchet thing is openly absurd, it's like if you were reading a comic or manga, but that is what it's supposed to be. As far as overcoming flaws, she blatantly shows how she has learned to be far more careful after first the lion, and then the bear, such that she was literally primed to face the Predator, which she beat not so much with strength or even speed as much as cunning, which is befitting of a hunter if not a warrior. Anyways, glad you liked the movie, I also enjoyed it overall. Nice to see a female protagonist in a movie like this, it's still unusual.
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  851.  @Jabid21  Yeah, it's gotten really bad about deleting lefty stuff for 'reasons'. Turns out giving huge faceless corporations ungodly amounts of money and power, and then having neither consequences or oversight doesn't work out, who could have foreseen such a thing?
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  852. I'm not sure this is truly 'secret', but it is a very big threat to US democracy, such as it is.
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  853. I am admittedly inexperienced, but don't you need to spit while giving a HJ, and not so much during a BJ? It seems redundant, if you're drooling properly it'll be plenty sloppy, but if you're giving them a dry rub they probably want you to hawk all the tuahs you can, right? Don't most guys hate dry rubs?? How can a BJ be too dry, unless you have no salivary glands? I'm so confused.
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  854. Huh, an equally valid point might be that in the absence of female control, boys revert into demon worshipping little shits that try to destroy everything around them. I mean, that's what the id actually does (it's less a protective/survival thing than an 'urge to destroy shit' thing, at least in males), but I find women have less of this urge to destroy, and more urge to create, problematic as that sounds. Men aren't nearly as naturally inclined to associate sex with procreation for example, while women have a small reminder that can end up inside them, a baby, if they forget that sex is only for procreation, biologically speaking. Another point, boys don't need to be taught to torture insects, they just do it (and many will do far worse with minimal or no prompting), but very few girls do it.
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  855. I think you've gotten psychosis confused with psychopathy, which is a common error. I don't think these two men had any all that aberrant beliefs that they hold very firmly regardless of evidence, as a person with psychosis will, but the two are very, very psychopathic, in that they cared nothing about the boy's rights. Psychosis is mostly dangerous to the person suffering from it, while psychopathy is dangerous to society as a whole. TBH, I think this kind of story should be a mandatory topic of study for anyone writing 'genius' characters. Ffs, being very good at problem solving puzzles doesn't mean you intrinsically understand how a thing like police procedure has been refined and improved over the years. Their is a big difference between intelligence and education, and lots of writers in Hollywood and elsewhere would be wise to pay attention to that. If these two would have just hung out for a few months with the police, which being smart and charming they easily could have, they'd have gotten away with their crime quite easily. Instead, they read crime novels, and thought that was actionable information.
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  856. I always enjoy your vids... I agree men have serious systemic problems like male on male violence, but the key part is that even if men are the victims more often, you fail to mention that men are wildly more likely to be the victimizer, and thus are obviously the real issue. Women's power being described as 'soft power' is very appropriate, because it hints at the lack of real leverage that women actually have, as men are as a rule physically stronger (and have much better earning potential, and apparently if not poor can mostly rape at will), and thus in scenarios where their is a conflict between the two, the men very often has a big advantage, and it's not like the cops will be teleporting to the conflict, so women are forced to use 'soft power', and use it vs ACTUAL power, and that is why wife beating is way more common than similar husband abuse. The whole thing I think boils down to that though, that women have 'theoretical' power, but men have 'actual' power, in almost every way. Men's Rights supporters tend to ignore the huge advantages that the average man has (to say nothing of ignoring the daily cruelty many women endure), and just talk about anecdotes where a woman 'wronged' a man... These men are so used to their various and many privileges that they are blind to them. The use of anecdotes is essentially forbidden by science, yet these supremely logical men cling to them, to their own detriment. Their is a problem today, because their are many men who are not only unwilling to make themselves attractive to women (due to entitlement), but they also feel injured by the women that refuse them, while they are likely not asking out women that are, well, appropriate for them. Men seem to be hardwired to marry as far up on looks as they can manage, and the easy availability of porn, movies featuring very beautiful women, and ads featuring beautiful women (and social media featuring, again, tons of beautiful women) seems to lead men to believe that beautiful women are relatively common, that they can't just find another man, but of course in reality any decent looking woman is practically tripping over the constant offerings of dick! Most men need to realize that they aren't above average, and the average man that is a social outcast needs to realize that they are not even, as far as relationships go, average, and thus they need to be seeking non-average women. I am still vaguely astounded how many incels are both worshiping beautiful women, while despising the very women they could be boning if they put even a tiny amount of effort into. Odd thought as a cis hetero man, but I felt like you should have used makeup to emphasize your jawline more in the robe scenes. I'm not an expert (or even remotely competent I'd say), but it was what seemed missing from the 'glam hottie' look I think you were largely pulling off. Obviously too much emphasis is a problem, but assuming you've already shaved your jawline down, why not do what other 'hot' women do when doing the look? If you didn't, you certainly don't have a 'man jaw', I can't see you being able to fit wisdom teeth in their for example, so you don't need to be insecure, embrace your beauty! That said, it wasn't a bad look, just a suggestion from someone who has basically never used makeup, and thus is not even vaguely qualified to criticize. You do you girl, you're killing it! Keep up the good work! You're doing God's work IMHO, illuminating reality to the masses.
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  857. This is an idea so stupid that I can't believe it's not disqualifying from office to say it aloud. Then again, the moron also suggested drinking bleach, so I shouldn't be surprised by anything he says, no matter how incredibly stupid.
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  858. Philosophically, there is little point for people who have no actual power over their situation to lose their composure. Karl understands that even if life sucks, acting out can actually lead to things getting even worse, so their isn't really any point in being anything but as happy as one can be given the situation of a life that is objectively shit (well, dog shit, since he walks them regularly). Ironically, no matter how shitty life is, if you can find a way to be kinda happy (IE be actively positive/slightly delusionally hopeful), it is a bit less shitty, and can be not-shitty enough to not need to kill yourself.
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  859. I like to think this is a reflection of the extreme psychosis of the American people/state, which simultaneously supports an army commiting horrors and a CIA that takes away democracy with publicly espousing democratic ideals/Christianity. It's also very much like how the United States does horrific things over and over and over, and the entire world overlooks it because it's more convenient to just ignore the horrors the USA does as long as it's technically better for those with actual power to do so, because the USA is very eager to let those with money/power do whatever the fuck they want.
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  860. Allred outright dog walked Cruz, that was brutal.
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  861. I'd be interested in the 'one off' for the cavalry being bought off, mainly in reference to the idea of the British being able to 'buy' the locals out, despite the locals having objectively more wealth. I'm nurturing a pet theory that the poor treatment (and complete lack of advancement opportunities) of the non-elite classes lead to the British being successful.
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  862. Ironically in an asshole factory you put hotdogs into the machine and out comes fresh assholes, it's the opposite of how hotdogs are made!
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  863. See rudy, that's why you have brandy for breakfast, it gives you energy! Wait, was that Colbert that was in The Hobbit?
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  864. I think the general inability of it's military to achieve long term goals is most of the proof we need the US isn't in great shape, but the gutting of the tax system is what resulted in tiny budgets that can't maintain what was already built (the US built a TON of stuff post WW2, but that all stopped forever with reagan), if the government loses the ability to tax the people who have over half of the wealth, and almost all of the disposable income remember, poor people have pesky things like food and clothing to buy, and rent to pay, rich people can lose 90% of their wealth overnight and their standard of living will barely be impacted, that's why the rich are supposed to be taxed heavily.
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  865. I'm pretty sure rubio is the coach that gets fired for putting up secret cameras.
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  866. Most 16 year olds are functionally useless, I was pretty much devoid of value until I was into my 30s. Every generation is going to look like an idiot when you're judging it when it's brain hasn't finished developing (that's well into your 20s btw before an average brain is finished).
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  867. In Karen's defense, if you want a TON of thin chips, you buy a bag of Leys, it's kinda their thing, so there are a bazillion chips compared to a thicker chip. TOTALLY REASONABLE JOKE.
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  868. ...I checked out officially when the guy tried to argue that 'trump brings up new policy', trump never discusses anything specific because he has no policies. Biden has policies, many bad, but he has actual policies he will discuss, trump just whines about POC a lot and everyone just read into that whatever policy they want, that's why dumb people vote for him. You've had a really mixed bag of guests for awhile here, including some truly terrible ones.
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  869. It's a bit disturbing to watch most of the world 'wake up' to the fact that climate action is necessary, and simultaneously watch a segment actively double down on the 'pollute for profit' scam, and insist there is no global warming happening.
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  870. My guy, Swiffers and Swifties have one thing in common, they clean shit up if you catch me. Very good call to try not to stomp on their toes for no good reason, as a person who listened to some Taylor Swift I wasn't offended. I feel like diagnosing children with ADHD is incredibly touchy (well, mostly medicating them weirds me out, don't @ me I've gotten 4 or 5 COVID shots and enjoy many benefits of modern medicine, but I just think messing with brain chemistry in children should be an absolute last ditch attempt), just like any other mental health issue is hard/impossible to properly diagnose until the brain is 'finished', but pretending nobody has learning disabilities is a non-serious position. We've all known people who were good with words but not math, and vice versa, does he think they're just lazy, and that's why other people learn the same material in a fraction of the time (and with a fraction of the effort)?? Humans are messy creatures, but by definition if you're marrying someone primarily because you think they're hot you're asking for trouble, this is more true if you're dating someone of a different background because your knee jerk reaction during conflict will be ugly (hence the high divorce rate one supposes). I feel like anyone who's only into a specific ethnicity/background is getting problematic, but it's a million times worse if you're into a different one, not because it's wrong inherently, but because that's not how the human brain works and you might need therapy, people are into people, we're wired with most of the same mental machinery of 'lower' life forms (most animals aren't choosey, neither are healthy humans), we've just got a whole heap more built on top of the rickety foundations.
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  871. I think the Dems really need to take the gloves off if they win this election. The republicans are openly anti-democracy, and the Dems can't just appease them like they always do, that won't work if the other side has decided to take whatever it can get by any means available. Appeasement is an objectively bad strategy that lead to WW2 happening and the US Civil War happening for example. One side fights really dirty in the US, and the other side's powerful people seem itching to talk about cooperation and 'restoring the peace', aka just accept things. I think the Democratic Party needs serious change, but the republicans aren't a party even anymore, they are a cult of pathological liars, and cooperating with such people never works. They need to get statehood for DC and Puerto Rico at the least.
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  872.  @marcromain64  I feel like the Grim Reaper heard how he treats his wives and was like 'nah, not touchin' that just in case it's catching'. Buddy divorced his wife because she got cancer, if he's still got a soul it probably smells like pig $#!7.
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  873. Yeah, this is ugly stuff. Trump is hoping and praying for a coup d'état at this point, and apparently openly asking for it isn't enough to get people to wake up to what he is... makes one suspect that perhaps the issue here is that they know fully well they are in the wrong, they just don't care, because they pretend the other side is evil, and have convinced their deeply misinformed base that's the truth.
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  874. I'm not sure we call them fjords, but I think they also exit on some northern Canadian islands that are very sparsely (if at all) inhabited. I totally checked, and there are fjords in lots of places, including Canada, but not really in the Nordic countries outside of Norway, which is a world leader in fjords (which is presumably why they got to name them).
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  875. While I was very aware that tariffs are a tax on one's own people, it hadn't occurred to me that tariffs on China would likely be very regressive, as I suspect poorer people likely buy more Chinese goods, as they often are buying what is cheap. Really cruel tax actually.
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  876. Trump apparently has the level of empathy of a young child that is uncomfortable around amputees... He can't not feel sad when he see's their disability, so he'd rather just never be around them, because then he always feels good. He doesn't care about their feelings or suffering, merely how their fate affects him. It's quite pitiful in an adult, the kind of thing a conscientious parent tries to teach their child to outgrow. The fact that these specific amputees were injured while serving their country just adds an extra level of shittiness to this.
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  877. You talking about the whole 'making things up about reproduction because they'd be convenient if true' makes me remember that conservatives fundamentally don't understand how reality works, they honestly think that it will adapt to their whims (they're all magical thinkers), and this is why they are always angry, because they're constantly being confronted with a reality that has zero interest in accommodating their stupidity. This is why they love scapegoats, conservatives fundamentally don't understand that a scapegoat doesn't actually solve the problem, hence needing to keep finding new scapegoats. Conservatives are what happens when you let your animal self run the show (usually because you haven't developed higher order thinking), if you think of them as children most of their behavior makes a lot more sense, they might have a high IQ, but they're still saddled with the emotional maturity of a toddler, and just like a toddler they love to throw tantrums because those who have power have always catered to their whims. Fascism is basically the enshittification of conservatism, all of the foibles that conservative bumpkins have their fascist masters have learned how to exploit, meaning if you have fascists in power they have this weird habit of naming their opponents as the scapegoats, like when the nazis demonized communists and socialists as soon as they had opportunities to do so. Any and all dumb beliefs that conservatives collectively develop (they're all sheep, remember me saying they let their animal do the thinking? Well, humans are herd animals that like to run away, this is why conservatives are all inveterate cowards at heart and only attack from a position of overwhelming advantage) will be exploited and magnified, because angry people are incredibly easy to manipulate, as long as your goal is to make them angrier. Also, once people are angry (for good or bad reasons), it's really hard to calm them down other than by placating them, this is why the republicans are eager to get their base as angry as possible, the angrier conservatives get the more the democratic party tends to bend their way, not necessarily on the granularity but in the general sense, which is why the Overton window keeps moving further right, everyone getting more angry = everyone leaning more towards freaking out and clinging to a populist leader, because populists lie about having all the solutions.
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  878. Yeah, people it's a real surprise that the assholes among us come out and attack the 'evil' concept of facing consequences for abhorrent actions. Some (most?) celebrities seem to feel that they should be allowed to do whatever they want, and that people should just 'deal with it', because they don't want to deal with consequences. The irony of all this is that the rich don't face consequences, almost ever, unless they 'go against' the establishment in some way, and lean left. If you are a leftist, expect to have actual consequences, while the right wing ignores anything you do as long as you'll support their anti-science positions. Even then, most of them are allowed access to the teat again, though if you're a nobody it might be permanent. Consequences are an important thing in life, and if people don't face them, they'll keep committing egregious offences until they do. If someone never faces any consequences they grow up to be like trump, and think it's appropriate to grab strange women bodily, and even lies to himself that they 'like' it, or will tolerate it for reasons other than unadulterated fear. The problem in the US is that the justice system is designed to pamper the powerful, and be sadistically cruel to the poor/lower class people. Poor pedophiles in prison have melted sugar dumped on their faces, while epstein is allowed privacy to kill himself, as long as he doesn't betray his co-abusers, and that was only because the public at large finally found out about his previous sham trial and wrist-slapping. Any position that argues 'people shouldn't face consequences because literally any consequence of any kind is too brutal' is bullshit. Victims deserve to be supported, and abusers deserve to face consequences that may not be legal in nature (yet shouldn't be illegal/vigilante in nature). Is someone who's willing to actually make amends facing consequences still? yes, but if there is nothing but words, some people (like some children) will abuse the situation further, because they won't suffer for doing so. Telling the victim to listen is DEEPLY DEEPLY FUCKED UP, and you should fuck off with that noise. All that said, I also tend to think some manner of restorative justice is important, I just don't think that can solve all problems all the time. Words are very, very cheap (free even), while actions aren't. Minorities are very familiar with BS restorative justice where a party just makes some shit up (and that's it), and that isn't what we need right now.
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  879. Honestly, you get barely any space as it is, the seats shouldn't have a recline function if we get 0 space. Definitely shouldn't if anyone is behind you ffs.
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  880. The purpose of the modern tech industry was to create a system to enrich selected individuals (and generate a cult of personality around them) rather than merely allow the most competent among us to reap the greatest rewards. None of the tech billionaires we've had have been good at tech, they've been good at getting money out of investors, and that's about it, for 'weird nebulous reasons' tech didn't want a bunch of wealthy engineers working together and self-regulating, they wanted a coven of privileged white morons to rule over those engineers, and collude against them. We have our fake tech geniuses because that's how they can assign worldly power to our dumb patriarchs (who would be nothing without the system propping them up). I'm amazed you can look at that story about the privatization of the tech of the internet (or elno altogether) and not point out that our supposedly capitalist gov is very eager to pick the winners. To look at elno and see a business success is unreal, the man was given billion after billion by the US gov, and exclusively because he was a racist son of a racist (who also has an inbreeding fetish hint hint they're trying to make up new royals and they're not picking our best). The purpose of automation wasn't to make life better, it was to create a class of wealthy overlords, and to generally centralize more and more wealth over time.
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  881. Nobody could possibly think that trump was elected on a platform other than 'create chaos', so what boehner is saying is a bit absurd; the entirety of the republican party has turned into the buffoon wing, if it wasn't always that way (arguably it has, with the possible exception of Bush Sr being the only recent republican controlled time things weren't run by self-serving republican buffoons). How far back are people expected to look for good, competent republican leadership?? Is this why they talk about Lincoln so much?
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  882. I'd like to point out, Christianity is literally the only religion I know of where you can't actually make the choice you need to to move forward in the religion, you can't choose salvation, it's an aspect of the trinity that does it for you. There might not be a less choice-driven religion than Christianity, she should have been hung out to dry.
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  883. Part of the complication here is that all right wing people are hard-wired to see 'super hero content? MUST BE RIGHT WING!', and when you make it a satire it takes them a VERY long time to figure it out, because they think most content is made for their personal enjoyment. If you mix in the fact that their misguided sense of righteousness requires them to pretend that their the 'good guys' (despite being on the same side as the nazis... when you have to start arguing 'some nazis weren't so bad' you're in a very dark place), their obliviousness makes more sense. Oh, and most right wing people aren't media literate, let alone possessed of a university level education, so they really are pretty much stuck interpreting things the same ways a child does. As a person who uses a sledge hammer from time to time, it's funny watching how Hollywood tries to handle the issue of 'these things are incredibly tiring to use, and if they're small and easy to use they aren't very effective'. For this, it was endless cuts because they wanted the swings to look 'fresh'.
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  884. Doesn't biden fly on the presidential jet? It's not like he's in coach ffs, it might not be an especially nice private jet, but it's probably a lot more comfy than first class on almost any airline you could imagine. He could easily have a bed on that plane and just have slept the whole way their, and the whole way back. Also he can bring as much luggage as he wants, and any of his helpers/handlers he wants, it'd be about as inconvenient as if your house could fly.
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  885. I feel like it's a really weird space where I feel like I can safely say hamas is a horrific organization, and yet it is also true that the IDF is objectively much worse, the scale of what they have done is incomprehensibly worse, this is nothing but genocide. Our children will not speak well of this period, and it's only just begun to unfold in the larger sphere I fear. By no means did hamas begin this 'war' (it's not a war by any logical definition, this is nothing but a genocide at this point), this began when their was a sudden influx of non-natives in the region, AKA colonization. Why the hell can't we be honest about this? The west doesn't get to give away an already populated region because the west did genocide in Europe, that's not how reason works. Also, I want to see Bernie's hands clasping trump's baby paws... the working men have bigger hands, and the working man's champion (such as it is in America) has bigger hands than the champion of the 1%.
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  886. Does Mr. Pillow smoke a bunch of rocks as fast as he can before he does interviews?? "Mr. Pillow, just how many rocks did you smoke befoer this interview?" "All of the rocks." He is living proof that money is pretty much assigned in our society.
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  887. So this is just an open scam, and was allowed because it was rich (oh, and very conservative)people who wanted to do scamming (I'm guessing they didn't take a lot of bids) and get a lot of money for nothing? Sounds very American actually. Capitalism is the only hell! TBH though this whole thing reeks of sabotaging a city's future, like what was done to Detroit over and over until it was a scarred husk hovering perpetually on the edge of complete collapse. This is what happens to a city when the establishment notices that too many people who aren't toeing the line in a city, they tank the shit out of it as punishment for being too progressive. It's the same reason corporations close down union workplaces, even if they are profitable, it's not just about profit, it's about controlling the future for the cause of evil.
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  888. I noticed pretty quickly after finding out about the concept that libertarians are almost always arguing in bad faith, they only care about their own personal freedom, it's not 'don't tread on us' last time I checked. It's just open selfishness being celebrated because Americans are culturally bankrupt and have been gaslit into worshipping wealth to the point where they think people who are wealthy deserve to be rewarded, and poor people deserve to provide that reward one way or another.
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  889. My grouping is "dangerous lefties we need to scam into poverty", I don't get many legit ads when I use the web, I get garbagey scam ads and fake news. So. Many. Gambling. Ads. It's like they know I'm not wealthy and want me to be even more poor. Oh, and 'crypto news'! Just love that horseshit, nothing like the Great Fool theory in action!
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  890. I think it's a fundamental issue with capitalism that there is zero incentive for oligarchs to compete when they can price fix instead. Greed is the problem, pretending you are 'harnessing the greed' of a billionaire is deeply stupid, they are taking from us all while offering nothing.
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  891.  @benjystrauss2524  The US has never fought for the freedom of anyone, ever, other than the freedom of the powerful to shit down on those less powerful. Even in WW2 it was almost impossible to get the American public on board with fighting the nazis. What intervention did the US do to further freedom, overthrow left leaning democracies everywhere but Western Europe?? Good lord americans love their propaganda.
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  892. Preach! Viagra is openly against God's plan, it's a sin to use viagra! Ban viagra anywhere abortions are restricted.
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  893. Technically that's exactly what's happening, I guess we should be happy that the Americans aren't technically hypocrites on this one thing, they actually are in favor of someone else doing the bad things they do/did? It'd be refreshing if it wasn't such an awful position for them to take.
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  894. It's been my view for awhile that 1) We should be very cautious about broadcasting ourselves to the universe 2) Any species more intelligent than us will likely be more compassionate 3) You can be very compassionate towards a pet while still making that pet very miserable. It is because of 3 that we must keep 1 in mind, despite 2 being essentially true. Even in our own species, it doesn't take a sociologist to figure out that people who can cooperate well with others go further individually, and collectively will go much further as well. Evil is all about shortcuts in many ways, and taking the immediate payout every time will rarely go well. You harvest fruit when it is ripe, not when it is still growing, my point being that evil tends to be shortsighted, and more evil species will tend to self-destruct quite rapidly. You can think of some maner of hivemind where they aren't competitive within but are hypercompetitive with outsiders, but even that isn't accurate for social insects, which can even end up serving a queen that is not their mother (and has no genetic tie to them), a not even unusual fate, and social insects are about the next most intelligent group of creatures you will find on Earth anyways.
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  895. I definitely agree that a big part of China's appeal is it's historically stable but strictly authoritarian government, which enables factories to be quite ruthless at maintaining productivity. Regarding diversifying factories, it should be noted that many developed countries are very eager to have new factories built in them, as they tend to be in need of that type of job in particular. Factory work can employ people who would struggle mightily in an office situation for example, or in customer service. The result is that they will make sweetheart deals with corps willing to put up anything that creates such jobs, to the point of (in the US at least, in some cases) paying more than those jobs are worth simply because it will drive down unemployment and make the government look good. Yes, putting up factories in countries like India are a nightmare I understand, but many countries will not put up barriers to factories, meaning it wouldn't be wildly more expensive to have factories in diverse countries. I think the real barrier is that China is just a bit cheaper, a bit easier, and a bit more reliable (no union issues for example), so even though it isn't the cheapest source of labor (there are much cheaper ones), it still gets disproportionately picked for building factories. China has historically suffered when it comes to skilled labor, with higher value manufactured goods being much preferred to originate in Germany for example, so they aren't immune to competition.
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  896. Yeah, there is literally no reason to even use an actual photo of an actual person these days, any company with a brain is just using AI to generate a 'person' who can then advocate for their awful causes, why risk having an actual person who can say 'hey, I didn't say that shit!' when you can just make one up? Also I hope the people doing this astroturf shit fall down an abandoned well, imagine working hard to destroy the only planet we can live on!
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  897. Yeah, it's pretty much the case that our 'international laws' exist as propaganda so we could pretend to be 'the good guys' during the cold war (when the West was installing dictators in dozens of countries, as is the good guys' wont), the laws never applied to anyone but our enemies. It's a lot like how the cops enforce the law and are largely above said law as a result, because nobody polices the police.
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  898. I know I'm over-reacting a bit, but I kinda want to drag out and bludgeon anyone who reports on duterte's massacres as a 'war on drugs'. Stop taking a liar at his word maybe, and remember that these are pretty much all extra-judicial killings, and are done simply because someone else wants a person dead. It's not a secret. Why do news agencies soft ball shit like this???
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  899. Stop asking if there is racism, ask why they are okay with racism, stop giving them softballs
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  900. I feel like the real problem is you consistently have a group of conservatives that are eager to use their power to reinforce the status quo. Liberals generally don't like censoring people, unless what they are saying is actually dangerous, whereas conservatives are oddly eager to censor anything they deem 'offensive'. Yeah, this is an over-generalization, but it's still accurate. People who believe in change are generally eager to hear other people's views, while people who dislike change on principle (IE conservatives) are both notoriously easily offended and eager for others to face consequences. They are also the group that is more eager to lie (IE the endless BS you get, ranging from black people being more dangerous to wild misinformation about the effects of drugs), and the group quickest to complain about being 'censored' when other people don't want to share their 'views', IE expecting social media to have to keep up their noxious and dishonest 'opinions', including stuff that is in legal grey areas such as threats of violence.
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  901. IMHO, the secret to happiness is to cultivate contentment. Do the little things that make you a more joyful person, and be stoic in hardship. Easy to say of course, and very hard to do! I find deep contentment in the growing and preparation of food, and in cultivating beautiful plants. I wish everyone could find what can make them feel content with life, and practice it, because we'd all be better off.
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  902. Wow, I thought you got lost or something! Welcome back!
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  903. It seems you could write a good thesis about the fact that there are arguably two main psychological types of people, those who prefer to contribute, and those who prefer to exploit systems over contributing. Contributing people get normal jobs and are productive people, while people that prefer to exploit find ways to make a living that do not involve contributing, but instead allow them to benefit from other people's contributions. Ultimately, people that contribute have a drive to do productive work, and suffer stress if they are unable to do so. Exploiters have no such issue it appears, and actively seem to enjoy benefiting from others. Ultimately, the issue seems to be for humanity that we value people who exploit much more highly than people who contribute. If you make a communist system, you will still have a heap of people who prefer to not contribute, and will find a way to get a 'job' that involves exploiting the workers, and when there is no oversight on the exploiters (such as during any authoritarian government), they get very out of hand very quickly. Modern Democracy seems more about tricking the contributing people into believing that they are valued, when they are financially not remotely, and have progressively less political voice in most countries over time, as wealth concentrates further, and brings power with it. In a modern Democracy, the exploiters have to be very cautious, and not open about using their power, though in the US, this no longer seems as true, and they are pretty open now. I'm not an anarchist, so I do believe in having a strong central government, but I think the present system of wildly rewarding 1 individual who 'founded' a company, while their workers are little better than slaves, is fucking stupid to support. The american system of letting the wealthy dictate the politics of the country is pretty much insane as well, but both parties have done a good job of convincing huge numbers of people that the status quo is serving them well, because their quality of life seems to be improving over time, because of the benefits of unprecedented technological advancements. People pay exorbitant amounts of money for tech goods that have not only been designed to wear out quickly, but also have hilarious profit margins that traditional manufacturing can only dream of. Compare the mark up on an iphone and a consumer compact car for example. People haven't been using computers long enough as consumer goods to value them correctly, so companies can still charge whatever the fuck they want, because of price fixing, a thing the government isn't even pretending to give a shit about. In the end though, all those trillions people spend on phones, TVs, consoles etc is going to be completely gone, and the obsolete tech will have to be 'phased out' for a marginally better version, because the average person refuses to look up what obsolete really means from a technical perspective, rather than their colloquial version (for the record, obsolete means it can no longer compete effectively, so your old phone isn't obsolete so much as no longer supported, which is VERY DIFFERENT). The consumer treadmill is what the exploiters use to control the workers now in capitalism, and because life seems to get better due to better tech, they don't notice that all of the actual money is going into a tiny number of pockets.
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  904. Homarids RISE UP! Lobsters shall conquer all!
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  905. A true 4th degree burn
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  906. Shouldn't you be tanked on morphine if you're dying of metastatic cancer in your 90s? I mean, breathing issues, but I think this would be a case where that is a reasonable risk.
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  907. I love how the trump card has his arms WAY higher than he actually has them when he's dancing, it's almost like he's an insecure tiny (and weird) peened loser or something?
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  908. The modern conservative has stopped making sense because their preferred policies are so unpopular/extreme that they can't be said out loud in polite society. Conservatives need immigrants to be terrified and mistreated because it makes them much more vulnerable to exploitation of all sorts, and this is a thing 'the economy' (read: rich assholes) derives benefit from. One of the sources of fecal bacteria that contaminate fresh veggies/fruit comes from the workers not being provided bathroom breaks/spaces, thus forcing them to be unsanitary and lots of customers to get food poisoning. Meat packing also has serious contamination issues at the big plants, which again use labor that is kept desperate so that they'll accept being ordered to just shit on the floor of the meat packing plant because it has drains anyways.
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  909. So, thought you should know, but I think this gluteal amnesia thing might have some legs... when I did that ballerina leg lift thing, where you get your leg up, but then use your but to lift it even higher (and it's pretty much only the butt that can do it), and the first time I tried it I couldn't really engage the glutes! So this might help explain why I'm not better at squatting heavy, it's because I do too many ballerina exercises.
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  910. Cannot believe how many brave defenders of capitalism come to post BS and get smacked down by various socialists that bothered to actually read. Stop defending your enemies! Edit: 'Artists' that are squeeking onto 'the list' do so because they are very good, conspicuous distractions from the hordes of much richer scumbags that have actual power/influence, too many are dumb enough to think that the Beys and RiRis actually matter when the 'establishment rich' control most govs. I'm not saying those distractions aren't also bad, but it's like having a really bad federal gov, so you revolt vs the mayor. We need to keep our priorities straight! It's not like mainstream pop artists have earned their place +90% of the time, they're almost all hacks with connections.
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  911. What a surprise, the black people show up, vote, whoop their ass, and the republicans try to steal their ability to vote.
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  912. It's not just MSG that uses facial recognition to ban/refuse entry, wasn't the big ticket monopoly company found to be doing it to people literally just to be mean? Like people who complain that they're an evil monopoly that try to go to concerts might get refused for 'breach of contract' when you bought the ticket... because contract law is 100% designed to protect the big fish from the small fish, not the other way around. The more messed up part than thinking it's okay to marry a teen when you're 40 is that many of them are fine right down to 12, 'because the old testament says that's fine'. The goal is lowering the bar in general so that our corporate overlords can treat us even more brutally/pay us even less... you don't have child labor because your working conditions are really good, you have them because you have a very real exploitation problem. Yeah, to be polite I am not down with huge faceless corporations trying to prude-shame women... if men don't want women to lean prudish, give them good reasons not to, being terrible in bed is a great way to make women not want to date. Weird thought, but is the real reason trump and his followers have 'the big lie' (about the election) that in the US it's usually seen as the ultimate humiliation to lose the presidency after one term, and as a rule candidate have one 'serious' chance, if they lose the election it's usually the end. Thus, the issue isn't actually that they believe that he won (very few people actually do, regardless of what they'll tell you when asked), it's that the whole apparatus knew that if they ever admitted that he lost the whole house of cards would fall apart because trump would objectively be a loser at that point, and as we all know, the US hates nothing as much as an election loser (because all American elections are popularity contests, maybe all elections everywhere? hard to say).
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  913. I agree, it's not really pertinent what men think about women's reproduction, this is like if the people who sucked at singing complained that other singers could sing higher, and because they don't like that they should be allowed to restrict their ability to crack those high notes, people who can't sing high don't get to make a 'nobody can sing high' rule for very obvious reasons. It's extremely fascinating that critics argue 'what about late term abortion of viable babies?' as if that's a clever gotcha... it's less of a slippery slope argument and more of a '1 drop' sort. This is what happens when people try to make a medical issue into a moral one, IMHO what biden actually needs to do is to ban access to any and all 'male enhancement' products, both ones that work and the quack shit, if men think they can dictate women's health issues, how about women start fighting back against viagra that no woman wants men to have??? I argue this as a man btw, and I'm no longer young. See if those old assholes start seeing things differently when cialis is contraband everywhere abortion is restricted.
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  914. As with most instances of later stage capitalism, the need for broadband companies to actually compete is nearly non-existent, which is why they all suck. As long as none of them offer a significantly better service, they can all just do a half-ass job that minimizes costs and maximizes profits, and these companies are heavily rewarded for this, while competing actively risks failure, which is punished.
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  915. My favorite right wing movie is probably Wolf Warrior, but most good martial arts movies are openly right wing conceptually, and who doesn't want to have a few beers and watch a guy annihilate some baddies? That said, I hate to break this to you guys, but almost everything that Hollywood churns out is, deep down, right leaning propaganda. Hollywood exists exclusively to keep the masses distracted and reduce the likelihood of a major revolution, and you don't prevent a revolution by making actual progressive media the norm. The more 'entertaining' a movie/show is supposed to be, the further to the right it's symbolisms and messaging will be. I noticed this first as a kid when I realized all the left wing kids shows were unwatchable preachy trash (that was actively designed to demonize progressives), and everything right wing was designed to be 'fun' (it always appeals to our worst nature; conflict is solved through force, peace is only achieved through violence, and is maintained thusly). It wasn't until later that I realized the reason it was so important we all lean right was that our social order (of rich exploiting the poor as brutally as they can, and protesting it is criminalized harshly... we live in a society run by right wing assholes that were selected by the previous members of the ruling class and then assigned as many billions as necessary to ensure their empowerment) is propped up by Hollywood's extensive propaganda network... with a huge side benefit of causing a constant influx of desperate migrants to the US who are eager to fill the bottom rung... not because others moved up, but so the social order can go deeper down, nobody is supposed to move up, just more tiers on the bottom). Those migrants are driven by the promise of Hollywood, that the US is 'the land of the free', when it's literally doing everything in it's power to reinstate feudalism. I wish an economist would compare state debt to the debt of wealthy people. I think your guest is right, state debt is nothing like household debt, and part of that is because household debt is predatory, while debt for the rich is an asset in every way... rich people can borrow money, invest that money, and then borrow more money based on the debt they have accrued, then pay it all back off of the earnings of all their debt. Meanwhile a household that has debt is positively hounded for having it, poor people are brutally punished for debt, the rich are heavily rewarded for identical behavior, and the pressures on a state are much closer to those on the rich than those on the poor. Heck, just compare state debt to corporate debt and even obtuse people should be able to recognize that the state is infinitely closer to a giant corporation than it is to the average worker. I think Krugman described some of these right wing bogeymen ideas as 'zombie ideas', things that everyone knows are dead but get up and come after us because something unpleasant is animating them, and that thing isn't logical/reasonable. People don't actually think immigrants are taking away their jobs (they create more jobs than they take because they work so hard), they just don't want to see so many brown people, paranoid people have a visceral reaction to people who they think are 'different' so it's really beneficial to a politician to demonize immigration, it's easy voters that otherwise don't care about your platform, hence it being used by the various populists funded by the right wing establishment. I still can't believe the UK didn't throw johnson out of the country after he both sexually violated a deceased pig AND trampled small children that were playing ball... also, how do you look at that hair and think 'this guy looks like a PM!', he looks like he's too cheap to buy a wig and uses an old mop, it's trumpian level bad. Oh, and seriously, he abused that dead pig, isn't that weird?? What is it with right wing people and REALLY FREAKY shit that they insist they want illegal, only they're super into it and just want nobody else to be allowed to do their fetish? Except the child marriage for girls thing, the right likes that unless it's brown people doing it, than it becomes bad.
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  916. The fact that Bush doesn't like trump doesn't change the fact that I don't think they are as fundamentally different as you are presenting. I didn't like Bush (more because he was dumb than evil, if I'm honest. Evil could be tolerated to a degree, dumb could not), but trump was both far dumber and far more open about being evil, making for a very weird mainstream republican, one that appears quite different, but is really just a repackaging of similar thoughts in more abrasive trappings. Maybe I'm too cynical, but there isn't much cause to change my position.
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  917. Yeah, fluid dynamics are not remotely intuitive to human minds.
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  918. Quality of diet is one of the more accessible ways to massively improve your life if you have an average diet. Also, that thing with the backwards pants? My conspiracy mind says it was a CIA plot to make it harder for 'urban' youth to pee, also catching any white kids that listen to that music (which was a lot). Seriously, never rocked the backwards really, but did watch those vids.
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  919. You had me at the pig bothering bit, you earned that like!
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  920. "Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good... every sperm is needed, in your neighborhood!"
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  921. Gonna have to be 'that guy', but the Greeks of old were big fans of celebrity, that was why people competed as athletes, winners got to be famous (and usually meant you didn't have to work). The Romans carried it on for sure, and of course what was the saint obsession of the old church but creating Christian celebrities? Having the most charismatic person not be the one most suited to lead was probably normal in human society, even if you ignore how wealth tends to warp things. I do agree that the whole thing is now nothing but astroturf, so it's fundamentally a bit different, but people thousands of years ago had riots over chariot races.
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  922. "It can happen!" he says? He does realize that he is that which has happened already, right? As in, he's already living proof of how fucked up the right has gotten, and he's accusing the left of being crazies?
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  923. We need to rate the economy in part on how equally the proceeds from it are shared. If 90% of the people are getting a pittance of the profits, we do not have a working, healthy system.
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  924. More proof that the two party system is idiotic
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  925. In my experience with Jamaicans, they would say 'haxe', rather than 'axe', but would say 'axe' when saying 'ask'. Linguistics always trip me out.
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  926. Generally my favorite of Mussorgsky's Pictures, but the house running around is such a wild image, and the tune is so catchy. I also have fond memories of tricking her in Quest for Glory, she was a largely optional boss IIRC, you didn't have to frogify her, but you could. Anyways, I listen to k-pop more often, but I also like old music still.
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  927. I'll start paying attention to rightwing thoughts and ideas when they stop raving like lunatics... if one side is constantly lying/sabotaging the process, then you shouldn't be listening to them. I will say there was a time when it was a hard call to decide which party is more of a problem, but it's not like that anymore, the left is at least trying (some of the time) to help, in contrast with actively trying to make lives worse for the overwhelming majority and lying to us about it. It should be noted that higher education levels correlates with leaning further left politically, so yeah, right wing 'true believers' tend to be stupid, both due to their natural capabilities but also because their education has been sabotaged/truncated. It doesn't get them on your side to point out that they're dumber than a bag of rocks, even if it's true.
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  928. It's worth pointing out that fascism is also very big on picking winners (for example, they didn't celebrate when Owens beat their white runner, it wasn't about the winning, it's about rigging things), the eventual winners are always chosen before things are decided. Also, they're all inveterate cowards that only go to battle when they have unfair advantages, the further right wing you are the more you fear centers are active, paranoia is what drives people further to the right.
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  929. One reason desantis' suits might be fitting better is because he's apparently on that weight loss drug, so he's lost some weight, but now he's saggy instead of puffy because he didn't put on any muscle/likely lost muscle.
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  930. People act shocked that fascism is as persistent as any other scam, but when you realize it IS just another scam it makes sense, fascism promises it's adherents everything they want, including freedom to do violence against 'hated groups', but all it offers is greater power and influence for the already wealthy and powerful... guess who's bankrolling this global (astroturf) fascism movement, it's the rich that'll get even richer and have less restrictions on their behavior, nothing about this movement is organic, and nobody who has real influence in it actually believes any of the precepts, they're just lies to sell the scam.
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  931. How did the mean snakes hurt you John? But seriously, I prefer cats by quite a large margin (cats are better at finding their own mice in a barn, making them far more useful than a cold-blooded predator that's got access to light from two tiny windows on the door, and just cold-ass concrete floors everywhere), but I like wild snakes being around. I always thought anacondas seemed cool too, though I did hear they can die from trying to eat an entire deer (or something else with antlers) whole, because that is the most snake way to die ever.
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  932. The content algorithms exist primarily to move the general populace further right wing, it doesn't push left-leaning stuff the way it desperately pushes right wing stuff, even to actively progressive viewers (I still get right wing shit, though atm I can more tell that they think I'm watching something progressive because it shows really scammy adds for gambling. It's almost like it's not neutral, and it's not neutral because it was designed to not to be neutral, it has a strong right wing bias, even as more and more people are more and more progressive. It's not about the money, it's about the *power*, and it's not accidental. AI is going to obsolete every job we have, and I don't think it'll take that long, guess why the rich scumbags are so desperate to get as far ahead as possible, regardless of the cost to humanity? It's almost like they all know they have now to take as much money as possible, both to live comfortably during the climate crisis, but also to accrue power while they can. It's not like elon is talking about Mars because he thinks Earth is doing great, the rich just don't want to cause chaos before they can leave, they want us workers to keep on until the bitter end, and then for us dumbshits who didn't scam our way out to inherit a rapidly dying world. ...Um, actually, the imperialism of the past and the 21st century have been pretty similar, with the 'major powers' being quite eager to invade country's with no provocation, IE Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, various parts of Palestine that keep getting 'settled' by Israel despite there being people there already, living in houses their family owned before them, etc, I actually thought this stuff would have changed more as it became dumber economically speaking, but all of these events have ulterior motives, and that is why this form of imperialism continues, it's about exerting influence over other countries/peoples, to expand a country's area of control, not so much about winning. In the US it also funnels billions into the grubby hands of weapons contractors. Yeah, go for the lowest hanging fruit, 'the Soviet Union was bad!', nobody is saying it wasn't, funny you don't seem as concerned with the atrocities and war crimes of he US and other Western powers?? This wasn't a Good vs Evil scenario, it was two sides that both lied to their populations to cover up their abuses, the russkies were bad at it, the West had less moral scrupples to get in the way, our propaganda literally plays into our greed, theirs played into their good natures by and large. We weren't the good guys in the West, even if all our dumbshit propaganda very clearly insists we were/are, millions of unnecessary Cold War deaths can be laid on our doorstep without question. Also, it's not like the US system is/was 'working', it's mostly 'working' because the poor are brainwashed by a shockingly corrupt education system to never complain/work tirelessly for nothing, and we only ever ask the rich if things are working/going well, and they only care about the stock market, so guess what, things have been steadily uphill as long as we've been using those markets, yet life for the poor has gone sharply downhill for many decades, despite increased worker productivity (ie worker pay in our capialist society has nothing in truth to do with worker productivity, it's only based on how much money it takes to find the minimum number of workers, anything beyond 'will get warm bodies in the building' is now considered to be overpaying workers by big business). Our socio-economic system in the West is a slow motion train wreck, and we mostly deserve our fate for having been awful when we had the power to be different, before we gave it to the billionaires, it's very hard to compare the West to the Soviets and say we were better/more moral/more ethical people, or that we have been less imperialistic.
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  933. Watching this after having taken classes on Roman life and history in uni, and later read the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, leaves little doubt that while the poor were generally expected to be morally upright, the elites could get away with quite a bit. We also learned in Ancient Greek Athletics 201 (more or less, it was an 8:30 class that had many shots of naked men, just ugh) that the pederasty thing is partially a misunderstanding, sometimes men would put their penis between the thighs rather than actually do anal sex, such that anal sex was 'relatively rare' according to my prof, as it was seen as demeaning (for obvious reasons I suppose), thigh sex was seen as reasonable though. Again though, wtf moron would try to have thigh sex with a relatively lean boy rather than a woman that has actual thighs??? I will admit I have a fondness for 'classical civ', but they did some odd stuff. I also read the OG Thieves' World stuff, which starts out as a very old city, and eventually becomes a later medieval one, though it's worth noting the Romans, if not interrupted, would have done shocking things scientifically in another century or two, there was the odd thing that was really advanced, even if the average Joe's life wasn't especially impressive (there was a lot of concrete that needed to be agitated, which IMHO sounds like a sadistic job, not quite salt mine, but pretty damn close). Now I want to play Civ 1 again, not sure if I'd go Roman or Greek, Greek is probably better, Alexander isn't a chump, even if he's not Genghis Khan.
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  934. Huh, I bet those gibbetings happened pretty early on?
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  935. One thing I think about a safe space to use a drug (that your body is compelling you to use) is that it shows that the world still cares about these users, still recognizes their humanity, which is a thing that will over time help some people get off said drugs. Abusing these people further is just going to cause them to use drugs in a worse way, and likely they'll use more to deal with the additional traumas heaped upon them, that's how some people cope. You can't really offer social services to addicts if society's only reaction is to criminalize them, and society isn't going to cause abusers to quit by not offering them services to help with the extremely difficult task. Who exactly is being helped by criminalizing drug users, the only people I can think of are the for-profit prison owners, they're rolling in money from this 'solution' to the drug crisis.
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  936. I think drywall would be much closer to actual cheese since it has calcium in it.
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  937. So the real estate guy doesn't actually know what an acre is then? Cool cool. Seems like the kinda moron you'd put in charge of a nuclear power, you know? Because he can't spell his own name or wipe his own arse, that's what makes you a REAL leader, signatures that look like they were done with someone's off hand while having a seizure on paper smeared with feces.
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  938. Tipping is fundamentally stupid, it's just a way for assholes to feel powerful and to keep workers desperate. It's insane that companies can not only pay workers shitty wages, they can also steal tip money. Also, how about all of these awful capitalist groups just get called 'The Money-Havers Alliance'? The only thing binding them is money, and all of those groups play together for the same team.
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  939. I'm sure someone mentions it in the comments already, but the nose picking connection stems from people who have already experienced cognitive decline being way more likely to be nose pickers, and it's one of the early warning signs because people who are mentally healthy are horrified at the idea of being caught picking their nose in public, it's a paranoia thing for normal people. In truth everyone does it at least occasionally, it's just that most people do it in private. It's a correlation doesn't equal causation thing IMHO. My dad can't really pick his nose because he has a normal sized nose and has incredibly wide hands/fingers, I have fairly bulky hands but have smaller finger tips and can. I should look up this Brothers Sun thing, I used to watch a lot of Chinese movies, doing so caused American hollywood to make so much more sense as the primary propaganda wing of the American establishment. The difference in choreography between those early Marvel movies and same era Chinese action movies was bonkers, it really highlights how complex actual fitness is, it's very hard to get a guy who looks like the bodybuilder-esque Marvel Superheroes and have them be fit enough to do real impressive action sequences. Asian action stars tended to be more functionally fit, hollywood was too obsessed with bodybuilding. I was just talking briefly about this with my Mum, remember when American Pro Wrestling featured diversity? Like, some of it was racist AF, but now all the wrestlers kinda look the same, smaller Hulk Hogans because getting that big needed too many roids, and everyone heard how messed up his body was. One key difference, wrestlers didn't use to be very skinny, getting big enough to manhandle a 250lb man in a flashy manner without access to steroids meant just bulking up naturally, it's a shame kids don't get to see natural bodies anymore, just the same cookie-cutter mini-hulks. Maybe I'm biased, I'm a pretty bulky guy, but I'm not especially lean (I have pretty normal bodyfat levels of a man my age, I'm just tall and do construction/farm work, and have done so for decades now so have a lot more muscle mass), so my body type used to be the norm in wrestling.
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  940. So you're doing The Jolly Balloon Man for your closer? Maybe It is time for me to send you a Jackal deck. People definitely watched videos in the cafeteria when I was last in college (a WHILE back at this point), I watched Those Obnoxious Aliens episodes now and then, that show would update INCREDIBLY well, imagine a gorgeous flying alien in an animal print bikini married to a dumb misogynist who wants to sleep with all of the girls (she's easily strong enough to kill him, so it's lot of wacky hijinks), everything else is ALMOST immaterial (but the fire breathing brother is also good for plenty of laughs).
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  941. I'm starting the think that republicans are the party of assholes entirely because the politicians know they can do whatever the fuck they want then, and get money from the rich to screw over the poor. The poor will still vote gop because they're uneducated and profoundly misinformed, but the incentive of courting the country's shittiest people (racists, exploitative billionaires, war-mongering (idiot) hawks etc) is clearly that there are no consequences when your party doesn't give a shit what you do, provided you actively try to make life worse for minorities.
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  942. I'm more concerned that Hollywood really wants us to watch bad art made by bad artists that are also bad people. I still can't believe that top gun got nominated for anything (yes all of Hollywood is propaganda of a sort, but most of it isn't QUITE that heavy handed), cruise is still the world's biggest supporter of a pedo cult that doesn't even do charitable work (because it teaches that if you have a bad thing happen to you, you deserved it and if something good happened to you, like being selected to star in tons of bad movies that the public will be forced to watch, you deserved that good thing, you can say a lot negative about Christianity too, but it's not a raging garbage fire from a philosophical perspective). Dude, blurred lines literally lifted it's hook (it's only redeeming quality) from another song, it's depressingly similar and has no redeeming qualities (also, it is and has never been a banger, you just had bad taste when it came out). ...seriously my dudes, do you not hear words to songs while they play??? Good lord, if a song has toxic ass words it's not a 'good song', and it sure as shit isn't a 'banger'. Also, just a rule of thumb, pop art isn't legit art and you can't use legit art metrics to judge it, nor is there any need to make the slightest accommodation for such producers of product. There is a fundamental difference between Wagner and hitler, both were awful humans who would personally be fine with shoving human beings into a furnace with very little prompting (especially if they were Jewish), but only one of them made actual art, the other was a hack that failed for patently obvious reasons (bad realist paintings are painful to art critics), and as such we can't talk about hitler 'as an artist' in a meaningful way. Pop art is like that, they are people making a product, but that product is art only in the sense that a bonbon is food (it has calories and nothing else, if you eat mostly bonbons you will quickly get sick and die). Pop art = almost poison, will kill in large doses, but it still has it's place because it's lots of fun in managable doses. Anyways, if you make pop art and are a bigot, you don't deserve even a partial pass and nobody should consume your pablum, there is a literal endless supply of talentless idiots willing to mug for crowds in your place, and they won't make me feel scummy for giving money/brain space to garbage people.
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  943. If you grow your own asparagus you wouldn't believe how tasty it is... asparagus roasted with olive oil, coarse black pepper and good salt is absolutely divine and if you don't like it you're just wrong (my Dad still prefers asparagus boiled to mush, but he tolerates it steamed because nobody wants to cook it his way).
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  944. No sane government would include an exception for a 'well-regulated militia' and then proceed to have no fucking regulations of any kind on the so-called militia. That's what a bunch of alcoholic assholes would do though, they'd forget that they needed to actually regulate guns like they had indicated they would, and not just get drunk (again!) instead.
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  945. ...my dude, google didn't invent search engines, do you think databases only came into existence post-internet??? What did libraries do, not search for things in their gargantuan catalogue? The language google used to rely on for top performance wasn't developed by them, do some research ffs. All they did was apply existing tech to the internet, and for doing that society assigned them billions in value.
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  946.  @IcelanderUSer  A very good point, 'people doing what they think is right' isn't actually a great solution to anything because a significant portion of the human population is evil, and they'll abuse any opportunities you give them because they feel like it's 'the right thing to do'. This is why we need actual education (not just constant streams of propaganda from the media, both the news and entertainment exist primarily to keep the masses docile while they are robbed over and over), and rugged laws for the wealthy/powerful that are actually enforced.
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  947. Wasn't Mr Hanky from south park? iirc he was the legendary Christmas poo?
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  948. I think I can explain the whole 'NY with axe crime!' thing, I think trump took Ambien while watching Gangs of New York, lost consciousness, and then work up during Law and Order, which was investigating a murder at a bodega, so it's an understandable misunderstanding. It could happen to anyone that old that uses that many prescription drugs to manage untreated mental health issues stemming from narcissism so bad it qualifies as psychosis. Also, to Seth's writers, I think at this point Alanis has more or less won, the word irony has lost most of it's old meanings, and now mostly means what she said it means, and in a few more generations, especially if republicans keep sabotaging education, nobody will even remember the old technical uses that academics used to lord over the commoners. Also, you're all just jealous of how great of a singer/songwriter she is, and how lucky Canada was.
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  949. Yeah, celebrity culture is a really great distraction for the masses from the fact that they live a largely hopeless life, in which they'll devote most of their precious time to making money for other people who don't work very hard, if at all. Celebrity culture promises a future for one's children, because even if you are too old, they aren't. Celebrity culture fills the same niche as the lottery I'd argue, an unwholesome parasite on society that people love anyways, because we hate data, like the stuff pointing out that we, nor our children, will likely be famous or rich. I actually suspect a lot of this celebrity media rubbish exists to distract people from the rapidly growing wealth inequality and actual problems with the existing system. If people waste time learning literally useless celebrity minutia, they aren't learning anything useful, like stuff that could make them a threat. The fact that celebrity advertising is incredibly effective probably doesn't hurt, but the money made off of just celebrities pales before that made by keeping the masses under control.
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  950. You say your life is great, but did you weld up a 16lb ax head, complete with an edge you welded up with some cast iron and other add ins to make an extremely hard edge, then carved up a 4lb 5ft handle for the ax, and then over time learn to split wood with it efficiently, can you imagine the thrill of swinging an ax as hard so hard? Can you imagine the testosterone charge of feeling that power in your meaty hands, as they absorb significant shock? I can sing good enough to go pro, but can any pro singers say they can split wood with a 20lb ax they made from scratch? Note, if you're not built like an ox you'll probably break fingers trying to split wood with an ax like this, the shock is much worse than a 12lb hammer, it's more like a 30lb hammer. So, greatest thrill? Maybe, but there are some pretty great thrills if you dig deep in any field, maybe I'll take a swing at your field some day, see if it can compete with wood splitting and just singing in my barn.
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  951. It's really fascinating that on the left we have anti-fascists, and on the right they have anti-blowjob activists, and the anti-blowjob activists have more power in our society.
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  952. The tale of the ruler who was tricked into walking out naked seems decidedly apt, though it's more spiritual nakedness than physical. And all his followers are also getting naked. Kinda gross now?
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  953. All of this is a part of why I buy beef from small producers, local butchers that source local meat. I've met some of the people who grow my beef, and I think that's a good thing.
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  954. It's also important to remember that something akin to this will happen to every industry if we let it, late stage capitalism is about nothing more than consolidation and exploitation.
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  955. I have a pretty good track record for predicting your American elections, even when I'm not following the news closely. When I'm following politics it's pretty much 100%, but that has only been 3 elections (in a row mind you). At this point (and pretty much the entire election cycle) I am pretty confident biden will end up winning due to trump being too toxic to too many voters, it's not so much biden winning as it will be trump losing, and I think in a dramatic fashion. I still suspect trump won't make it to Nov, but that's not something I would say with confidence, it's more that he appears to be deteriorating so rapidly that by then he won't be fit for office, and it will be apparent to the public.
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  956. It's fascinating that Bernie is asked to defend paying for single payer, when it uses less money over all everywhere else reliably. The people forcing to the people to pay twice as much for healthcare need to be taken to task for where that fucking money comes from.
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  957. I feel like the sheer density of buzzwords we get from the trump regime really does make it feel like things are being run like a business, just the kind of shitty business you'd quickly realize was a pyramid scheme and keep your distance from.
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  958. Yeah, at least many dems were in favor of not fucking over the US's people. Some clearly were, and one wonders why the party ever let them run under their banner.
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  959. I would describe modern capitalism as 'the system that has funneled the most resources to the smallest portion of society, based mostly on ability to exploit workers/motivate exploited workers'. Still short, but you're leaving out the actual main purpose of capitalism, which is to create an 'economic' elite, which will somehow be more 'legitimate' than our old God-Kings were (because only the best and brightest can succeed in capitalism! haha), even though we chose both for the same criteria (which is why people favour men for leadership despite terrible track records). Not to be rude, but all of the BS capitalists say about billionaires 'doing good' is complete BS, their charity is more of a scam than anything, done as a combined tax shelter and way to dole money out to friends/connections, it's not about helping anyone but their kind. Meanwhile, these useless money-sponges then bribe government officials (who are not even breaking the law in many cases while doing this, our system's corruption levels are staggering) to rig things further in the favour of billionaires, IE they use the money they steal legally from our exploitation to bribe the officials we elect to screw us over on another level. There is nothing remotely ethical about capitalism, it's inherently unethical because it's entire premise is that greed is a good motivator that somehow will bring about good ends, because we all know that famous expression about how bad means are always justified by good ends or something? Yeah, it was something like that, people all seemed to agree that it's okay to do horrible evils if you lie that you're trying to 'improve' the world, that's called the ends justifying the means, which is obviously a good thing. Saying capitalism isn't unethical is like saying that mercantilism wasn't unethical, it very much was, and it's effects continue to ruin the lives of billions worldwide. Both systems were fucked up beyond all worlds in actual practice, because there was no incentive to give a shit about anyone (or any other population) other than you and yours.
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  960. I front for The Captain. I'm not sure why, but he adds flavour, like a touch of saffron to your rice.
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  961. Also, re-Ken getting a nod: That's how misogyny has worked for thousands of years, women accomplish things and men are assigned the credit (mostly arbitrarily, but they don't give credit to people who don't push patriarchal ideas) for that accomplishment. We have no idea how many discoveries women actually achieved because almost every culture throughout the world has hated women so much that they preferred to give credit to a useless asshat rather than the woman who earned it. It wasn't even unusual for a woman to be punished for having progressed society, because patriarchy has assigned that role to men. It's deeply, deeply fucked up I hope we can all work to change things for the better! That all aside, I didn't watch the rest of the movies so like the hosts I haven't been very vocal other than being VERY surprised that Barbie somehow didn't surpass any of these myriad movies when most years (if it was directed by a man somehow) it would have been a shoo-in, if not the clear favorite to win Best Picture, among others awards. I've seen other Best Picture movies, this was of that caliber is all I'm saying.
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  962. Lots of US churches still have armed members of the parish present for services, in case they have a 'shooter situation'. This is a 'white church' thing afaik, no doubt in part because most black people are concerned about carrying a firearm in a country where the police are very eager to shoot black people on any pretext. I feel like modern US anti-gun control attitudes stem mostly from the eager consumption of american propaganda, especially the pro-war and 'wild west' stuff, both of which present the gun as a means to achieve heroic status and do good, specifically it's presented as a necessary 'tool' to kill 'bad guys' with guns. 'Bad guys' used to mean 'non-whites and whites that didn't want to conform to society', but it kinda still does I guess? It's almost like the founding fathers believed that people should have access to firearms, but only for specific purposes, including racism, hunting/sport, self defense and national defense, but I can't help but feel like 'in a well regulated militia' is a clear statement that the law should be expected to enumerate significant gun control, at the least forceful interpretation it is strongly implied by the 2nd amendment that some manner of gun control would exist, but that the specifics can't be dealt with in that document as things like technology change drastically over time. Because they weren't stupid enough to just work a page or 2 of soon to be outdated gun control laws into the amendment (which wouldn't make sense tbh), the republicans get to take the position that the key context in which people are to have unimpeded firearm access was for regulated national defense, not hunting, not sport, and not self defense, is meaningless fluff-text that should be ignored by everyone. Not sure how it's remotely defensible to argue that the 2nd amendment reads 'everyone gets a gun!', either from a moral standpoint or from a legal one, it's not even complex wording, it's like how they ignore the entire New Testament in so, so many right wing churches, and they're all internally fine with it because turning the other cheek really sucks, and giving away all your wealth that you've gained in large part due to advantages from systemic racism over the centuries is a big old 'Nope!' to them too. I feel like the 'killing 9 people and wound +20 in seconds' is part of why invasions are getting harder to do. If there is a reasonable supply of arms, the locals can hold out for a very long (and very expensive) time, which can easily make the operation cost prohibitative or impractical due to loss of lives/material. Even if you've got 50 armed soldiers, if one civilian surprises them from a roof top with an old (but functional) AK, he can mow down a few before he's shredded by the returned fire. It's not like when that disgruntled man was a peasant farmer who had a shovel that swings at a passing knight, maybe injures him (probably doesn't), at which point he's probably captured to be publicly tortured to death. It simply matters more now if people are disgruntled, and they are usually disgruntled because they are entitled, generally white male and right wing leaning.
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  963. Frankly it's because of who they want to be having those kids, they want white DINK families to have kids, and not just a few of them, they want them to 'outbreed' POC so the right can eventually do a big genocide and reinstate slavery for non-whites that surrender (and whites that are in debt naturally, except for rich people, who's debts are secretly assets to society, even though the economic growth of the West since reagan has been built on the general public going further and further into debt so more money could be squirreled into the pockets of the wealthy).
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  964. Yeah, India famously had a caste system (and still kinda does in many ways), but I'm pretty sure China doesn't?? How does someone reach such a lofty age and still have so little accurate information in their head? Most stoners would have been more qualified to be president, all he ever achieved was people giving him billions of dollars because his daddy made deals to keep him rich. A part of me suspects he was dropped on his head when he was a baby, and since it's not 'his fault' his family felt bad and decided to pretend he wasn't obviously brain damaged... the whole scheme only works as long as he's a toxic narcissist, fortunately he's psychotic and funnels that psychosis into his narcissism, which has long been entirely detached from reality, if he wasn't born rich he'd have been institutionalized as a raving lunatic years ago, but this is America, home of the 'reward-the-rich-for-being-rich' philosophy that totally doesn't make me want to start a bloody communist revolution, no sir! Maybe I should go split more firewood or something.
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  965. The endless irony to me is that we didn't buy stuff like this when I was a kid explicitly because it was too expensive, no part of me is surprised to find out they're basically poison. Why is everything marketed to poor people so expensive??
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  966. In case mangoes weren't crazy enough, I grow pawpaws, and finally have a fruit, which looks like a banana and mango had a baby! It's adorable!
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  967. I still say that if we can bring back any sub-genre of music, I would vote for disco, the funkier the better, because if their is any groove that can save us all it's a disco groove.
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  968. Blagojevich claiming to be a political prisoner is so rich that gout has now become a national crisis. Thanks, jerk! Edit: As I watch on, it's eerily clear he's a mouthpiece, and that him doing this was probably exactly why he was pardoned, to help normalize corruption more, and to give willing idiots the ability to pretend that the 'real' corruption is when Trump or Blago get punished. I really don't think letting this guy on was wise or necessary. Hey, just had a thought, anyone remember when good ol' Blago was publicly shaming himself as 'entertainment' because he was so fucking broke? He was singing at parties or something, and I remember him being pretty awful. Good times for all I bet!
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  969. Did this dumbshit just argue that becomes we can't live in our basements forever, we just have to pretend things are normal and die in droves?? Just because you don't intend to do something forever doesn't mean it isn't a good idea to do for awhile, ie locking down where the virus is rampant. It's not complicated stuff, if you're not a amoral monster that is confused by the concept of 'compassion'.
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  970. I'm sure it's been pointed out by someone already, but fear factor was pretty horrifyingly degrading to people, especially women, and it was again over (relatively for rich people) insanely small sums of money. Also, I semi-support degrading people who are inanely money hungry (most people in our society now value money for it's own sake, nobody who understands what money is fell for crypto), but I think people who have money usually aren't equipped to do that job and just make asses out of themselves. If we actually did reward great people with money (instead of rewarding our literal worst) things would be different, but that wouldn't be fun for the already rich. Also, when is that video making fun of gambling addicts coming out? I hear drake is an addict too. It's the main vice I can look down on, because it's even dumber than anything I'm into (and I am into some incredibly stupid shit).
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  971. When I played the Yugiohs in high school, I did Andy's move at ~6:44 the whole 'thumbs down and a raspberry' when I played Solemn Judgement, a card everyone else in my playgroup thought sucked so I got it for nothing. People learned incredibly quickly after watching me actually play the card, complete with gimmick, that it was in fact nuts. Good times!
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  972. I can totally believe that trump would be unable to keep his sword up, even for a big macho dance, it's just flopping limply. About those increasingly stupid tasks, that's for 'behind closed doors', their are probably benefits to owning trump, he's not big on dignity.
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  973. Yeah, a lot of social media stuff gives us a bunch of BS about how 'oh, the algo just likes to feed you right wing BS because people get really emotional when they interact with it!', but the they're all owned by assholes who directly benefit from more people being fed conservative lies/pablum so that's exactly what gets pushed. Our society only gives money to people who are right wing and then pretends to be surprised when they turn out to be fascists. I like working with metal, but I do have various pieces of wood drying out incase I feel like doing some carving, for awhile I was really hooked on carving wooden spoons. Making stuff is fun!
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  974. I've never quite figured out how Uber convinced the various govs that they aren't a taxi service. I mean, they literally get notified, send a driver who then drives you, and the driver/company get paid. It seems like the kind of loop hole that a judgement could have decide, rather than pretending Uber is some wild new invention that has nothing in common with previous tech, and that entirely new legislation needed to be made.
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  975. Nish, not sure if you're aware, but the c-word isn't polite over here in the New World... I took some Middle English classes, and apparently the c-word was always polite in England, so it's probably the fact that the puritans hated the vag that resulted in them thinking that the c-word was profane... btw it came up because quaint and the c-word are very similar because they are in fact the same word, according to my professor. Cool beans, right? I mean, we always suspected Americans didn't like vag, but I mean proof?
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  976. I wonder how many people need to die from COVID before he'll stop ranting like a crazy person about showers that can't wash his crazy-person hair? Maybe if you didn't have hair 3 feet long to swirl it around your head you wouldn't have trouble showering?
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  977. You do know that both sides of that face were edited to look more similar, right??
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  978. German food is actually pretty popular among middle aged whites (and plenty of young people), they have a lot of really delicious foods, ranging from the simple (brats and sauerkraut with a bun or potatoes) to very laborious (schnitzel with something like poppyseed roll or another pastry, Germans make lots of great pastries). Oh, and the best cooking onions that aren't shallots are German onions iirc. IMHO the reason Eminem was so much bigger of a success was because of who he appealed to, especially white young men, a demographic that was seen as 'influential', more than young black men were, so suddenly Eminem is everywhere. When I used to listen to the radio you'd still here Everlast on what is very much a 'rock' radio station, it fits in just fine, despite him having other tracks that were obviously hip hop on the same album.
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  979.  @PHlophe  I'm not quite clear on what you mean, but I'm pretty sure you think trump bullying people with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis is something to brag about?? It's an objectively terrible thing that these people can't get the drugs they actually need, while morons try to use something they might actually make worse, and not on the advice of a doctor, but that of the national idiot (he got promoted from being New York's village idiot).
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  980. Anyone see the hilarious irony that Americans laughed at Eastern Block countries for not having had bananas, something that was so every day to them?
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  981. I'm pretty sure my friend had a comic that featured the phrase 'up the wazoo', it involved Rhino, possibly the least reputable source of correct language usage.
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  982. It's especially weird when you have stuff like Judaism being matrilineal (according to tradition you can only be a Jew if your mother came from a line of Jewish women, the father means nothing in this), yet the religion is so staggering patriarchal that women are otherwise an afterthought in almost every way.
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  983. I feel like it makes sense that upstart boys like carlson are worried about 'manliness', big-deal conservatives tend to live in the closet due to lacking the manliness needed to attract their dream man. I guess it shouldn't be surprised that the soft men are worried 'everyone is getting soft', they see a very soft man everywhere they go! But seriously, the only thing I know of that has actually lowered it meaningfully is extreme laziness, if you don't do painful exercise your levels get lower over time. Do some construction work or run a marathon if you think your levels are low, people used to work, and that's what we are designed for, not pushing papers that are make-work. You just don't need much testosterone if you work a fake-ass job. Btw, it CAN be partly genetic due to epigenetics, which are obviously heritable and are a function of how your ancestors lived. If 5 generations in a row are fat lazy alcoholics for example it will affect offspring. While testosterone might have been helpful in a rough/tumble early hominid, we know that neanderthal women tended to suffer similar injuries to the men, meaning they also could safely wrestle fairly big game, higher testosterone levels stop being beneficial pretty quickly.
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  984. Dude, the establishment looked at china (when relations thawed with the West) and saw cheap labor, and they saw literally nothing else. Rich assholes saw a way to make more money by shipping jobs from here to there and then selling those goods (that won't last as long because the manufacturing workers are less skilled there) to us anyways, at a slight discount that is more than offset by the fact that the average working is making less money, meaning their actual buying power was going down without them noticing, they couldn't pull that off without a china that wanted to build factories for Western interests. It wasn't about some 'great dream' of 'making china a stakeholder', because nobody wanted an empowered china except china, even russia used to be anti-china, it was 100% about making money for the already wealthy. It's not a secret that policy in the West adheres closely to what the wealthy among us want, they didn't want another superpower that can threaten Western hegemony. The tarifs similarly were put in place to protect Western wealth (in particular that of elno himself, because he had zero hope of competing with the chinese on EVs), and it is entirely at the cost of the American public, who will have to pay more for everything they buy that COULD have been made in china, all while wages for the majority aren't really going up. Banning tiktok was done to try to convince the chinese to sell it to Western billionaires, chinese billionaires don't cooperate with those from the West the same way all Western billionaires work together to protect their own from oversight (and the consequences oversight will bring). There is no real difference between modi and trump, both are vile racists who are trying to win by appealing to the worst aspects of human nature. I assume it must feel good to just get angry and use a minority as a scapegoat (if you have thoroughly perverted your empathy, such that you derive pleasure from harming others), because the voters are shooting themselves in the foot to spite their Muslim countrymen. Again, this is just like the majority of trump voters who derived no benefit other than watching other people suffer during his reign, and many of them will still vote for him after he was objectively the worst US president in living memory (if not history in general). I also was not even remotely surprised to watch the US make a huge push to improve relations with india, apparently modi was far enough right wing that the US 'felt they could trust him', just like pinochet and his ilk.
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  985. I suspect if cuomo touched Judge Judy's stomach, she'd pull a Rosa Kleb, put on brass knuckles and sucker-punch in him in the gut as a 'test', one he will decidedly not be passing.
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  986. I'm an obviously stupid person, yet all the gambling ads in the world won't make me actually dumb enough to gamble. The cult of gambling will never take me! Most cults recruit most people they recruit by lying to them and telling the prospective cult member that they don't suck, and only because of how much they suck do they fall for it. Cults tend to pick off the weakest members of the sheep herd, they are awful and should go away so nice normal religions can fulfill our spiritual needs! Ultimately I think cults are just an offshoot of scams, and some people are pretty much destined to fall for a scam (if you push it hard enough), it's like if you fill a bucket with water, eventually evaporation will get rid of the water, if you scam hard enough you'll find people who are either naturally primed to fall for your scam, or that are dumb enough to.
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  987. Seth, I really hate to be the guy to point this out, but "I mean, we all know trump is just worried about electric cars because he think we'll run out of electricity and then the sharks can hypothetically eat him" was there on the floor, what happened? Maybe getting old, but it really was a nuts thing to brag about, and we should collectively keep making him own the insane (and inane) things he word salads constantly. Also, doesn't kid rock have his own music he can play??? the schadenfreude here is agonizing, at least he LITERALLY said trump smells like shh.... and now I'm pretty confident he's going to be fed to sharks if trump is reelected, so at least we'll have that to look forward to if trump somehow wins? I'm sorry, but whenever trump does his weird dance it looks like he's trying to wank two NBA centers that exist only in his stimulant addled mind.
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  988. Way to go mainstream media, it's clearly the 3 years older 80 year old with healthy habits that we need to worry about, not fat cow sucking down mcdonalds garbage food that struggled with the basics more than 4 years ago.
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  989. Trump's attacks against Kamala are failing because he's a ridiculous clown-like figure, while Kamala exudes competence and a relatively high degree of humanity, if you're the weirdest kid in the class it's a bad strategy to make fun of other, more popular kids, and if you dress like a buffoon, like trump, it's an even worse idea.
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  990. Apparently I'll click on a video of Sabine talking about nothing for more than 12 minutes, who knew?
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  991. For the record gals, MtG = Magic the Gathering, the #1 card game for kids ages 12 and up (save me), while MTG = batshit racist harpy. Also, 'spending a lot of time at the gym' is a REALLY polite way to say she was screwing everyone there (apparently). I feel a bit bad for her husband, but I can't see how he didn't know what she was like/into.
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  992. Well, I learned in welding engineering school that you don't want to be exposed to extra ozone generally, it's considered a hazard of welding because the radiation from arc welding makes it (unless you have an oxygen free environment).
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  993. Just doing some quick math, wouldn't that make the US rate of infection, for a disease that originated far away, roughly 7 times higher than the global rate? That is kinda scary, and suggests a colossal failure on someone's part, and I hope this gets a thorough investigation as to who should be held responsible for the COVID19 getting so out of hand. How is it that other countries with even more flow of people with China haven't had this problem? It's not magic, it's science, so why was the admin talking about a miracle showing up?
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  994. Also, she needed to reload her shotgun because she didn't kill it cleanly, this woman is nightmare fuel, and not the good kind of nightmare (like a Nightmare Hippie Girl). I've heard of farmers killing puppies and kittens that they don't want, but those stories are from 'back in the day' at this point, out in the sticks you can usually sell any unwanted puppies for more than you spent on food for them (no questions asked too), kittens are a bit harder to home but it can happen too. Killing a hunting dog because it killed a similar animal to what you were trying to get it to hunt seems to fundamentally misunderstand how nature works, this woman is incredibly stupid, and the goat thing was probably criminal animal abuse. You can't torture your animals to death because you get off on it, that's illegal in our society. If you don't know how to shoot a gun it's your responsibility to know it and have someone who knows how to shoot your unwanted animal in a humane fashion (such as it is). I had to chase away a wild racoon that was trying to sneak around our house, I don't know how to use a gun so I don't have one, instead I got a long implement and the critter got the message without me getting too close. It's not fair that racoons are such nice looking animals, they're real nuisance creatures in many areas, but the moral of the story is if she didn't know how to use a gun, she shouldn't have risked it. She's stupid and is embarrassing her state and political party. I used to love arguing and debating, eventually I got older (and much better at it), now I hate doing it over stupid or frivolous issues. I am still reasonably outspoken, but I don't care as much for the back-and-forth if it's not something I actually care about. I 100% agree that george santos would be less problematic if he was a drag performer, most of what he did would be fine in that field, right? People love messy drag queen drama, the cattier the better, and surely we can count on Kitara for that?
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  995. I'm not quite sure why universities are so desperate to price everyone out, though I am pretty confident I can figure out why the economic elites want people to neglect their education, to the point that one party devotes considerable energy in the US to damaging the education system. Who wants a worker with enough education to understand why a union is just a straight up very good idea for them personally? Sure as shit not a single large company, and they invest their money accordingly, to cripple the education system, and then dump endless propaganda on people, calling it 'entertainment'. Oh yeah, the real problem is people maybe getting free prescription meds, not the system exploitation of the working class to the point the workers can't even afford medical care.
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  996. The attitude of 'compromise at all costs, as long as it screws over the poor' is getting old. No dem should apologize for calling the party that is presently a galumphing of assholes 'fuckers', that's 100% like forcing victims to apologize for to abuser, and that's always fucking wrong.
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  997. The most likely to actually kill us is just plain old overpopulation leading to various problems... climate change is 100% a population issue for example. People in cities are mislead into thinking that they have a small impact on the world in real terms, meanwhile almost every city is built on prime arable land and are surrounded by endless acres of farmland, most of which is used in a non-sustainable manner leading to rampant soil degradation. Arguably we're already well over our planets reasonable 'carrying capacity' for humans, such that we're permanently damaging our planet to sustain too many of us, most of whom serve no purpose other than consuming resources to fuel our capitalist delusions. People seem to have remarkably poor ability to see issues from a longer term perspective, our collective understanding of the question 'how many people can live in _____' is more or less as many as you can physically house. Look at how many people live in places because they are 'sunny but not humid', and they try to find the most arable land in those deserts/almost deserts to lay down asphalt for their cities. I guess you could argue our stupidity is a bigger issue than our sheer population size, but it's also true that one person camping in a forest can just dig a hole to poop in, while a whole city doing that would be disastrous, scale matters a great deal, and people don't seem to care very much about that if they can personally be kept in relative comfort. Another thing that might well doom us is the conservatives among us that insist on trying to move backwards in time, the more we progress the less likely we are to kill ourselves off violently. A significant portion of the population is far enough right wing at this point that they see few issues with taking others rights/opportunities away, and from there it's a short step to 'voting to take your neighbor's stuff/life', left wing people's great danger to us is that they are vulnerable to deception (mostly by right leaning leaders ironically), right wing people are in contrast actively malicious, seeing it as not only reasonable to climb over others toward personal gain, but they actually think it's unethical to not screw over others to get ahead. Right wing people see no problem with doing the wrong thing if they've seen or heard of someone else doing it, you don't need to be very bright to realize why such people are an inherent danger to society, if they'll profit from pollution or racism or mass production of weapons they'll eagerly do so.
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  998. You say roads, but the US is desperate for a huge increase in high tech rail systems. The subways that exist are not sufficient, and the trains that exist are generally old and slow, making them an undesirable choice. Rails are a more advanced system IMHO, and finding a solution to commuter traffic that isn't ever wider roads that still get jammed would be nice. Regarding military spending, the saddest thing about it IMHO is that it isn't doing anything useful anyways. Many times when the US military has tried to intervene have not gone terribly well, despite apparent early success due to overwhelming air superiority. Arguably, the last effective use of the US military might (other than disaster related stuff, which could be done cheaper by people dedicated to it I suspect) has probably been in the former Yugoslavia. Afghanistan has proven pointless, Iraq perhaps disastrous, and various other interventions haven't gone well either, like Libya. It's a bit ghastly, but compared to what the CIA did with it's budget, the military is hilariously pointless for foreign policy interventions. The CIA overthrew many governments, and installed whomever they wanted, while the military managed to, with help, achieve nothing in two countries with limited standing military forces. Gah. This isn't complicated stuff, and I was a kid that was obsessed with all things army related, eventually studying weapons design of various kinds, but as cool as the military is, it's silly to spend this way on it.
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  999. It's amazing how good American mono-culture has been at selling the idea that the US is a 'free' country, despite it being literally anything but that, the US's schtick has always been 'you're free to do what the establish approves of', nothing more nothing less. It was explicitly founded on open oppression of anyone who wasn't a wealthy white male. Only rubes actually believe it's a free country for anyone that isn't among the wealthy. I'm pretty sure that jenner isn't a 'real' model, she's a celebrity model who has a wildly different experience and has incredibly low expectations put on her compared to an actual model. I haven't seen her in anything in ages, but the stuff I have seen her in wasn't very good, I don't think she'd have been a model if she wasn't a celebrity, but she might have enough 'girl next door' energy (which is the kiss of death for most top tier models, they need to be 'special') that maybe she could have acted, it's not like their isn't an endless parade of bad actors in hollywood movies, with rare gems shinning among the moldy turds. This isn't to say that I don't think she could learn to act, I'm saying she wouldn't have needed to, so it'd be a non-issue. Didn't she do that terrible, terrible pepsi ad involving the cops? The one that keeps aging worse and worse, like some kind of anti-wine? Was this an ironic question?
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  1000. Apparently that population boost might have had a lot to do with the introduction of a super-crop from the New World, one that the Old World had despised even more thoroughly than tomatoes, the mighty potato! You guys should try and do a video about the origins of the modern potato, it's incredible how much 'money' (so to speak) that the Natives invested in their agriculture, none of the European grains had to change nearly as much as corn/maize or potatoes had to to be useful staples, but because of the unsung labor of those we called savages, everywhere potatoes where introduced the population always boomed. I've been keeping potatoes for years now, but last year used primarily saved potatoes to plant, and harvested enough potatoes to eat, and this year I have even more, so it'll easily be enough for another year! Compare that to growing oats, or barley, potatoes are far better. It's quite clear that we have a massive overpopulation issue (especially as we're unwilling to adapt our lifestyles away from 'do whatever makes more money for rich assholes'), so dropping populations are usually a very good thing. The big issue of course is the high standard of living of the wealthy/wealthy nations, which aren't sustainable long term, but can be maintained via exploitation of overseas labor/environments, but since it's a closed ecosystem the destruction of nature 'over there' will affect us all. I'm not sure why you're saying 'china will lose workers' like it's a bad thing? They still have huge overpopulation issues there, they have hundreds of millions in poverty because their aren't jobs for them or their kids, if China had less people it would solve a TON of their problems and they are well aware of this. Infrastructure decline is mostly an issue because taxation of the rich has dropped dramatically, so our governments are all broke AF because they're stuck trying to get more money out of the poor schmucks. If wealth was distributed relatively equally we'd have no issues maintaining infrastructure (which ironically exists entirely to enable the already rich to exploit us better, and now they want the poor to have to pay for it!). 7:45 ...Yeah, because it's not like the West has literally done everything in it's power to ensure that the '3rd world' was kept in abject poverty and constant chaos, that'd be MEAN if we did that! /s But seriously, one of the primary mandates of the CIA in South and Central America was to create chaos so that their would be a constant stream of desperate refugees that corporate America could exploit, hollywood did it's part of course by painting the US in an utter BS rosy palette, and the European powers did the same to Africa and the Middle East.
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  1001. Yeah, the math doesn't work out for workers that buy videogames instead of unionizing, for one thing they won't be able to afford electricity, let alone videogames, if they don't form a union. I 100% despise any company that is anti-union on principle. A company openly exists at this point to make money for it's owners/shareholders, and workers are a tool in the arsenal to achieve this goal, not a partner in it like the CEO of the company is (guess why their pay isn't going down, while the workers are making 70s era wages still, despite almost universally higher level of productivity).
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  1002. It's more than a little bit disingenuous that all of these big companies are organized in their anti-Union stance, yet somehow the workers organizing is a 'bad thing'. Make no mistake, all the big companies work together to keep wages low and workers rights as non-existent as possible.
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  1003. You can't blame the rich??? WE AS A SOCIETY!? Are you serious? It's not exactly a coincidence the laws shelter them, the rich have actively arranged for those loopholes over the years. I wouldn't say that this was something society as a whole asked for/agreed to, it was done very much behind closed doors. Then again, a lot of people voted for reagan, and more voted for trump, both blatant conmen that campaigned on cutting taxes for the rich, so maybe I'm full of shit here, and American as a whole is just fucking stupid or something, and will vote for an actor over an expert. Not sure if that's stupid or gullible, but at some point people have to realize that experts are the people you want running things, not charlatans. As for taxing wealth, that's how it was historically done as I understand it. Tax collectors went around counting shit, then they'd tell you how much of that stuff you had to give to the king for 'protection' (and limited services). There were techniques employed to try to trick the taxman, because he'd actually have to know about stuff to count it, or you could bribe them potentially, but the system by and large worked. We have far more advanced systems than this now, we're beyond having guys in robes go around with a papyrus and scratching out numerals, most assets have a considerable digital trail at this point. Even bitcoin transactions can be traced apparently, I would be very surprised if certain branches of government could check quite quickly (and fairly accurately) what someone is worth, without breaking any laws to do it. It would be a big change, but I think this stunning revelation, of how painfully little the rich actually pay to reap the colossal benefits of the world class infrastructure to make their fortunes, will be the needed push. Walmart would have been much harder to start up and grow in rural Africa for example, same for Amazon, Microsoft, all those big companies benefit from the US having had a strong tax base for so long, with the most onerous burden always carried by the poorest, with the rich not even noticing the loss of their share. The poor shouldn't have to suffer to have roads and educations when there are people so rich that will live no different due to their tax share, that just doesn't seem right.
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  1004. About 6 mins in, for the love of god, they're not being philanthropic to help others, they're doing it to repair their reputation after they screwed over thousands of people to get where they got, on top of the heap of assholes. What this kind of artifice actually represents is the commodification of the provision of basic needs, if the system wasn't so monumentally broken, there would be no need for philanthropy, there wouldn't be mega-rich, and the working poor wouldn't be subject to increasing privation as we slowly return to the feudal hell our ancestors dragged themselves out of. It's like how we also commodified the destruction of the environment, by not making anyone responsible for damage done to it, meaning companies have more or less had free reign since the 1600s to do whatever they want. If you want to see how bad it's going to end up eventually, look into how the locals were treated in colonies, it wasn't pretty. There would also have been people who were just as evil but wanted to appear less so and thus would 'do charity' for 'those beneath them'. For the last time, charity is an insult to people's dignity, and is almost always a symptom of an already fucked up system that is exploiting workers rather than paying them fairly. The world should be set up so that charity isn't necessary, and the very premise actually stupid, because everyone already has a fair share.
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  1005. ...Why does trump look tiny in that suit interview??
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  1006. Sir, I believe the joke you were looking for with the 'clog a filing cabinet' flub was 'porcelain file', specifically that trump was going to 'clog the porcelain file'. It's kind of a reference joke, since people jokingly call the trash bin in an office the 'circular file', where they put the resumes that were done in crayon, or that have food stains on them. I hope to be torn to shreds by the jackals, as I deserve.
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  1007. This kind of weirdness reminds me of when I was learning about cold working of metals... apparently distortion itself can convert austenite to martensite, which is pretty bizarre, but the mere existence of 'retained austenite' might be the clue... this occurs when the material cools in such a way that there isn't enough energy left to convert the austenite to martensite, even though the metal 'should' have made martensite, as it's the lower energy state: you need to have energy for something to actually 'freeze'. It would be like if you could somehow cooled a sample so fast that some of it wouldn't have enough energy to actually freeze, even though 'in theory', the phase diagram would suggest you'd have no liquid in those conditions. Thus, I'm guessing this effect requires very specific conditions to actually be observed, suggesting that in most situations the effect isn't very big/strong. Obvious point is obvious, but you can re-use the same container for the hot and cold trials. You don't need to do all your trials at once in separate containers, we can make sure the conditions are otherwise identical in an expensive enough experiment. Also, I suspect you could, with enough expense, easily get a container to a high enough precision that there aren't especially good nucleation sites... if we could build the Large Hadron Collider, that level of precision sounds laughable. Establishing exactly how this works could be relevant for study of outer space, where extreme temperatures/conditions compared to Earth are very common.
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  1008. Obviously a key part would be that Europe had considerable power over the world, and it's colony system was incredibly exploitative, and set up the countries to fail when they left, which covers a great deal of landmass in the warmer regions. Note, in areas where white people could comfortably work and settle, like North America, the colony system looked quite different from that of the warmer, less hospitable areas. As for how they gained this advantage in the first place, it was because they happened to come into a period of scientific growth (based heavily on other culture's science, math etc, which they had themselves discontinued. Science interest seems a cyclical thing!) at exactly the right time, and gained access to key technologies, and in the case of NA they also had diseases to wipe out most of the native population for them. In Africa, by the time Europe was founding colonies, they had a hilarious tech advantage, and while much of Africa is incredibly hostile to Europeans (diseases ironically are much nastier in Africa than Europe for example, and Africa gets crazy-hot), they could control the populations, and use them to enrich the European country. The locals got limited to no education, designed to make them unable to overthrow their oppressors, and Western workers were brought in deliberately for skilled jobs to ensure that there wasn't demand for educated locals. Thus, when these colonies abruptly threw out their oppressors, they were left without the necessary skill sets to be an immediate success. Note, disease issues are still a problem for the locals in Africa, with malaria being incredibly expensive for example, so tropical disease also may play a role in the less financially successful warm areas. I also think the hassles of living in an area with harsh winters that required considerable firewood/food storage likely gave a long term advantage, at the cost of eons of hardship for the locals. Even with mechanical splitters and chainsaws, making firewood is a lot of work, doing it all with muscle power seems pretty incredible. I've tried doing some of that type of work in my free time, and you'd likely need to be very strong, and still put in nearly a month of work to ensure you have enough firewood to cook and heat with, and that isn't for a terribly large house. Anyways, once you gain access to cheap coal, you now have an extra month of time to fill, and a willingness to work incredibly hard, so couple more free time (due to less wood chopping) with more demand for workers due to manufacturing, and you have a happy situation for a big European growth spurt. Interestingly, the filthy conditions that Europeans lived in were a key reason why their disease load was so devastating to the much cleaner Pre-Columbian Americans, meaning that living in cold, dirty hovels literally gave us a massive competitive advantage over healthier, stronger, better fed people, one that enabled Westerners to take the entirety of North America, and take a lot of power in South America. It might be that the prolonged use of the common chalice also contributed, by forcing everyone in the community to share their diseases, and add in those of visitors periodically. Kinda disturbing to think about, really.
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  1009. I figure I'm blessed, but many of my hallucinations are auditory, and come in the form of encouragement, compliments, reminding of random funny memories, or even reminding me of obscure things I am forgetting. It's actually pretty nice most of the time, and can be pretty helpful at times, as I'm not always as confident as I project.
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  1010. Satire doesn't need to be funny at all, but it DOES need to be ridiculous/absurd... it wasn't funny (nor was it meant to be) when Swift suggested the rich start eating Irish babies, but it was satire. It's consistently enlightening to remember that the further to the right your political beliefs the more people seem to relate primarily to the villains in art. They love Star Wars because they fantasize about being Vader (and were INCREDIBLY offended to find out how shitty Vader's life was, including having (almost certainly) had his junk burned off after he lost his remaining limbs in a duel (that he lost entirely because of his incredible arrogance, not because his opponent was the better fighter)). Heck, people were so angry about Vader that now we have 'fast Vader' in stuff like Rogue One, where his suit is mostly an asset, not a huge liability that was forced on him by the Emperor. The Emperor knew he would lose disastrously to Obi-Wan, but he needed Vader to be extra vulnerable to Force Lightning or he'd 100% kill the Emperor and replace him, this was the Emperor's solution, and the shittiest part is that by the time he's in the suit Vader 100% KNOWS the Emperor set him up to lose this way, including for him to lose his junk. Vader in the OG trilogy is very physically strong, but he's slow and awkward because he's so mechanical, and the parts weren't top notch, Vader vs Obi-Wan in EP 4 made perfect sense when you realize that Vader knows he's not fast enough to just kill Obi-Wan, so we have the weird pecking thing (I know the swords weren't durable as well), where Vader is trying to stay out of Obi-Wan's reach, and notably Obi-Wan throws the fight to get Luke to run. In Empire Yoda trained Luke to be fast and agile because if he tried anything else Vader would just steamroll him, but even with all that speed and skill Vader didn't actually need to fight him with his lightsaber, he could just fling everything around him at Luke until Luke was beaten, he fought him to test him. Even in RotJ Vader fought like a slow and clunk mechanical man, and like Obi-Wan it's very possible he threw the fight to help Luke in the end. So yeah, not surprised that the right REALLY likes the villains in Warhammer, that's the norm for them.
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  1011. I usually have ones that look like a big, complex protein molecule. I used to pass time as a kid playing with these by moving my eye a bit to wiggle them, hours of fun!
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  1012. I mean when Elmo is THAT high I feel like he'd use different language... I mean, at this point we all know the Elmo schtick is a schtick, right?
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  1013. I refer to my farm cats as 'boo', but even when I'm talking to a cat I try not to be that patronizing, they'd probably scratch me if I was that rude. It's one thing to accidentally step on one, but to be deliberately rude is just unacceptable, they'll never forgive that. I cannot imagine a politician doing that, but his base probably thought he was being smart, like you guys say, they don't judge anger the same way, male anger is sacred and justified, female anger is 'being shrill and catty', stuff they will tolerate if the woman is good looking, and otherwise it is to be met with a nasty reaction. It's a really weird world when the older generations that are still republican, who are all brainwashed (and most of whom are aware of if to some degree), are fighting to brainwash the next generations. It's 100% 'I had it _ bad, you have to have it at least that bad!' BS and people into it need a shovel to the dome. It is pleasurable to 'bust your rage nut', just like any sort of significant emotional release. You even get a big rush of hormones, it's a big part of why serial abusers are serial abusers, it's extremely pleasurable for them to belittle others. For me, listening to metal is something that releases a lot of anger, so while you're really angry while your doing it, you're completely burning out your ability to be angry about minor shit after, so I think a lot more people should listen to metal that have actual anger issues. When it comes to losing my temper, it's usually because someone else has lost their temper with me, especially if it's not justified, I don't like attacking stuff, I'm more interested in creating things than tearing them down. I'm usually pretty good at telling someone how I feel, even if it's incredibly rude, but I don't need to be angry to push back against an asshole, I ultimately don't fear or dislike confrontation, even if I'm not particularly good at it (which is why I tend to drink in private, not only are other people more abrasive when drinking/actively looking for trouble, I'm loud and dumb when I've had too many, and I like to win arguments, so it's a bad combination).
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  1014. For the record, both koalas and kangaroos are marsupials, that's why their young are of the same type. Read a book you flub!
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  1015. I think you could make a strong argument that we're not really living in a capitalist society in the first place, we don't have free markets and the establishment loves to pick winners (I think it's safe to say that nobody becomes rich without being 'chosen'), it's only 'capitalist' in the sense that the poor have little help. It's fascinating to me that grown adults can make an argument like 'capitalism, a system of strictly enforced zero sum competition between adversaries, will clearly result in more peace in the world!' and not be laughed at by everyone hearing it, it's like the establishment says 'but capitalism!' and 75% of the population's brain turns off.
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  1016. I suspect that less educated people expect to have 'their opinions' put on a pedestal, as they are used to from mainstream conservatism infantilizing them, and when these Leftists not only don't pander to them but are openly disdainful of things they consider basic tenets. They aren't even their own opinions, the right literally teaches it's followers the opinions they are supposed to have. It's my view that the less educated a person is, the more effective/pernicious the propaganda the media spoon feeds us is, smart people can watch a dumb action movie and be aware that it's complete fantasy, but a less sophisticated audience instead learns from it, that's why actual smart people often have a leery view of truly toxic art, even if they love free expression they know how stupid ~40% of the population is. For the uneducated, the closest thing they can get to an education is to consume media. This is why dumb people all share a tightly knit culture of ignorance and actively punish anyone who doesn't conform to their mores, they aren't critical thinkers, they just take the propaganda in and make it part of their identity without questioning it. These aren't secure people who can listen to a podcast of people who literally know better than they do tell them the truth, it disagrees with their beloved propaganda so it must be lies/propaganda. This is also why they have to break stuff associated with 'traitors to the cause', which includes going out and buying stuff to destroy, ultimately meaning they give more money to the businesses they hate, you can almost taste the stupid as it flows freely from their paradoxically empty skulls.
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  1017. I'm just saying, but that 'too many gay blacks' comment might resurrect DMX so he can murder that man.
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  1018. Also, the hamburger moment makes me wonder if karma is the waiter pooping in his food, and that was his subconscious telling us? He is at a restaurant, right?
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  1019. ...You think we aren't at or above carrying capacity for our species on this planet??? 'normal' population levels for hominids is in the low millions, not in the billions, we've been wiping out species whenever we got somewhere new, this is why most of the large animals you can still find live in either Africa (where they started out with us, and were able to learn to avoid us while we were bad at hunting) or the oceans (note, we almost wiped out whales in the ocean fwiw, and that was awhile back), lots of big animals used to be found in various continents, humans dealt with them very easily because large creatures are easier targets for intelligent opponents. You talk about grey wolves, but in many environments we wiped out the keystone species long before modern technology, the Americas and Australia used to have considerably bigger animals until humans killed them off, we honestly don't know what effects those losses had, though we can make guesses at the ramifications. Apparently we're learning a lot from seeing what happens when you let a crazy drug kingpin release hippos into the wild, obviously nothing much is going to prey upon them, but they immediately began to fill a niche in the ecosystem that some experts wasn't even aware was a niche. Loss of a species will always have knock-on effects, I'm not sure how (other than bribing them/stressing them out to the point of exhaustion) the rich get people to go along with the status quo.
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  1020. The problem with capitalism is that it eventually has to enter 'late stage', when there is too much wealth at the top and not enough resources allocated to sustain the poor. This leads to economic collapse (we're in it atm, this is why scamming has replaced many business models completely, in capitalism the only reason to not scam people is the threat of consequences, if there are no consequences then you get many scams, be they AI or NFTs or something even dumber coming down the pipeline), and it's an inevitable facet of unrestricted capitalism. Modern capitalism is founded on two principles, picking winners and rewarding the picked winners, nobody becomes a multi-millionaire without connections in this day and age, if you don't quack the quack then they don't assign you wealth. It's like how there is a weird coincidence that male popstars are all seem to be rapists, it's a feature not a bug. You talk about people knowing since the 1800s about penicillin, but people have been making poultices (designed to create natural antibiotics) for as long as we've had the materials. The problem is that during industrialization the 'modern' medical system systemically eradicated natural medical knowledege wherever they could, and it was the abandoning of old ways that lead to way more suffering before people got around to rediscovering basic medical care from millennia ago. Capitalism has been QUITE BAD at advancing human quality of life, and central planning is resposnible for almost all advancements we enjoy. Capitalism is notorious for catering to the needs of the wealthy and nobody else, and the bigger the wealth gap gets the more extreme that behavior gets. Capitalism eventually turns into oligarchy, and oligarchies are not known to be efficient or competent, there is a reason most governments used to care about things like monopolies (they still do when it's not old money at issue). Capitalism didn't give us anything but bills, central planning is what keep capitalism from devolving into dog-eat-dog chaos. The reason the US developed it's big tech edge after WW2 wasn't because of for-profit corporations, but because the US government used central planning to encourage research and development of newer, more advanced tech. The Soviets in contrast had far fewer advantages and advanced their country way, way faster than the West did, same with China, same with Vietnam, arguably the same with Cuba (though it has advanced mostly in social programs because no trade because capitalism hates proof that their are better ways), all of these countries developed incredibly quickly, and part of why they could do it was because of the use of central planning by relative experts rather than relying on random uneducated rich kids to make all the decisions. Also, big ** off with your whole 'but north korea is shitty!' argument, that isn't a communist country in any meaningful way, it's a violently authoritarian pariah state that almost nobody trades with, it doesn't concern itself with the well-being of the people (a big part of actual communism is redistributing wealth, not just giving it to the autocrat's weird kid/grandkid to spend as they see fit, there is no definition of communism that that fits, other than the ones made up by right wing propagandists). That said, even with no money/resources they've ended up with sufficient weaponry to be an actual issue in their region, despite having their country bombed into dust by the West, and having almost no help rebuilding. The West has spent billions and billions making sure that lots of countries are really shitty to live in, mostly for the profit of Western business interests, AKA we have your vaunted capitalism to thank for countless authoritarian states all over the world. The worst government the world has ever known, nazi Germany, was notorious pro-capitalism, to the point that their actual greatest fear was leftists, not jews. All the mighty corporations dumped money on the nazis, and they still lost because they, like all extreme capitalists, choose people based on adherence to party ideology rather than ability, you could take any CEO from pretty much any US company in put them in charge of any other large US company and you'd notice very little change, yet these morons are paid endless millions and we act like there are no other cocaine treated psychopaths that could do the job. Part of the reason it's more profitable to fuck over the environment is because of capitalist laws that allow governments to be bribed by fossil fuel companies, and this has resulted in HUGE subsidies on fossil fuels in NA. We're being coerced into using it and they're lying to us about it being cheaper at this point, it's insane. We're well past the tipping point now, now we're finding out what Mother Nature is going to 'do' about what we've already done, it doesn't matter if we stop polluting, we have runaway climate change going on, natural cycles have been disrupted and the result is that huge amounts of CO2 are being released, us stopping now doesn't matter, the bogs of the north are thawing quickly, and the deserts of the south continue to grow while we deforest our remaining rainforests. It's fascinating that our ancestors turned the middle east/north Africa into one gargantuan desert and we've learned nothing from it.
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  1021.  @JasonLave  He borrowed 10s of billions of dollars from gulf oil magnets to buy twitter, they just aren't collecting because they don't need the money. It turns out that russian invasion was actually good for all the bad guys except russia, which is footing the bill for this humiliation, even if they win the cost of this war was so high russia will be slow to rebuild, and they've gained almost no land for hundreds of thousands of dead young men, most in their prime, to say nothing of the millions that fled the country to avoid conscription.
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  1022. That is a beautiful weapon, and I feel like you could even use firing that gun at an easy target as a test of strength, where it's not about hitting the target, but about not being smucked in the face with the gun!
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  1023. I'm pretty sure there was actual gay warriors historically, and they didn't have to hide that they were gay if you go back far enough in time, in Europe or elsewhere.
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  1024. Seth, in the UK they might well say 'lad' instead of 'boy', thus avoiding confusing it with 'buoy'. Now, how do we say 'buoyant'? Honestly asking.
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  1025. I think people might be missing the fairly obvious possibility that it was obvious to everyone that he wasn't Asian, but if he could put on a show, and give them the sense of an Asian cultural experience, then they would rather a white take their money than the real, authentic Chinese man. In the US, it was preferred that white people make money off of minstrel shows, so blackface was used. Racism is really fucked up I think?
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  1026. Presenting this stuff as solid evidence seems openly insane to me, Kyle Hill had an interesting video about the overwhelming bulk of the evidence (possibly all) being artifacts from repeatedly recording videos over and over, especially similar types of videos, such that you can end up junk data that looks like data and can be 'hard to explain'. They're actually really easy to explain if you know how computer storage works, this is also why it's hard to 'truly delete' stuff and you should just junk any hard drives that are too old to use, drill a few holes and it becomes very, very hard to get anything usable off of it compared to leaving it alone. I think as long as we let people go through life without a true education you're going to get conspiracy nutters, I think their foundation is mostly skepticism of experts, and as long as you have no idea what someone is talking about it's very tempting for low intelligence people to just decide that you're making stuff up, because if you weren't making it up they'd understand it, because they think they're not stupid due to inbuilt narcissism. The frustrating thing here is that it's not just about teaching people a series of facts. Education is achieved when the individual's mind has been *put into motion*, a state of being that is difficult to stop, and is signaled by the individual self-teaching, including applying critical thinking to novel situations/concepts but also the ability to lean and apply concepts learned primarily from practice/experience, ie get better at things they are doing because they are able to understand them better the more that they do them. Education is when you can (and to some extent will whether you want to or not) apply the process of learning independently, and that you can derive value from doing so. Once you have an education, it is technically possible to learn enough about a subject (quite possibly on your own, using books/videos/internet/whatever research) to progress, such that if it's important, you can learn enough about a complex and advanced subject that you understand what the experts are saying, and possibly even know why they are saying it, it's much harder to be skeptical of experts when you have learned why they are right.
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  1027. Taylor Swift is great, not a 100% batting average maybe, but a career of always coming in in the clinch. Even I, a naturally terrible runner, could run to Reputation, so much diesel in that album! Also, I think I disagree with almost all of the guest's takes/positions/points of taste, but they were entertaining so who give's a rat's fart? Also, I do think comedians can be insecure, but the truly great ones are the ones that are incomprehensibly secure, the ones that are willing to punch up good and hard, they aren't afraid of criticism, and that's why they have to take on the biggest kids on our grown up playground, the rich and powerful. Also chaos gremlins, worshipping the forces of the random and absurd tend to make personal weirdness an asset, not a liability, the less secure a chaos gremlin gets the stronger they become.
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  1028. Obvious problem is obvious, but in the 'real' world, where laws are followed, you can't investigate someone without having a mandate of some kind, a premise as to why they are being investigated, only a banana republic investigates a citizen without any cause.
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  1029. That would have been a pretty serious advantage, even with all the accompanying hassles, perfect when you're always out numbered... the only real drawback to guns of that era compared to competing options (such as they were) was the rate of fire, imagine if you've got a company of say 20 men, all good shots (you don't give expensive gear like this to your noobs), all armed with these? Even an angry mob will take notice when over a hundred men fall dead in the blink of an eye. These must have been pretty intimidating!
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  1030. I'm sure I'm not the first to point this out, but that filter does not resemble Lincoln. Like, at all. It's like every detail is either out rightly wrong or uncanny valley.
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  1031. IMHO what the US gets out of support for israel, other than pacifying the zionists of the world (they are weirdly influential, I think they're trying to get Jews exterminated officially via this cover, but that's conspiracy stuff!), is that israel is an incredibly annoying distraction for people who already don't like the US in that region. Why work to smuggle bombs into the US when you can just shoot rockets at israel for way less resources? It's pretty cold-blooded, but the US wonks figured out that they could trade away israeli lives for American ones, and that the right wingers in israel could use any israeli deaths to both gain popularity, so for the right wing American establishment it was a total win-win scenario, some israelis will die, and the israeli right wing (personified atm by bibi) wins more elections, and he will accommodate the US in any way he can. I think many people forget that even if the US didn't support israel their would still be PLENTY of reasons to hate them in the Middle East, their is a reason they call Americans imperialists, so while giving israel weapons might make Muslims angry, they're already angry enough that it doesn't really matter.
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  1032. I think the big flaw in the whole 'the two parties will just keep doing it over and over' slippery slope argument is that one side is blatantly cheating already, and will continue to get worse, as their voters did not punish them in the least in the last election. Dems would be delusional at this point to think that the republicans won't be abusing their power again, as soon as they have it. Putting real checks and balances in might help, but the republicans have no qualms about abusing those too, for example blocking countless reasonable attempts by Obama to pass good, centrist laws. The real problem with the Supreme Court of the US is that one of the parties has abandoned ethics, and the other party is still trying to be ethical.
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  1033. Ha, radical egalitarian you say?? Somehow not surprised the earth itself shuddered.
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  1034. Seth, deSatan only wants the tax cuts for gas stoves because it'll help those who can afford gas stoves in Florida, which is to say it won't help the poor, which is why a republican supports it.
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  1035. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THE ARM FLAP... These jackasses keep flapping like a bunch of wing-clipped albatrosses trying to lift off, thanks for highlighting how big of a pile of turds they are!
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  1036. One thing that seems obvious is that you don't want so heavy of a whip, that makes it extremely awkward compared to a bullwhip. Steel is plenty strong, you can make it thin I'd think, as long as you can keep the taper. You could try steel cable for the thin end, but that would be pretty unsafe, even by the standards of this pretty unsafe exercise. To protect yourself if you ever try something akin to this again, look into the gear people wear when using a chainsaw professionally. Chaps (if you can get both on somehow) would have protected your legs a lot better, and you could probably buy larger sizes and wear 2 pairs (possible front/back?). Super cool experiment though, and I'm guessing you got faster than my big silly copper cable whip I made as a teen.
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  1037. I'd pay $5 dollars to watch a video of desantis trying to split wood with a maul. That man has the consistency and constitution of wet toilet paper.
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  1038. ​ @kberg17  none of the billionaires I read about 'got lucky', each was handed his start, often as a fully fleshed out idea for them to buy for peanuts (or just steal) and then flip to an incredibly obvious interested party.
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  1039. I appreciate you pointing out to people that we are already living in a planned economy, it's just that all of the benefits of that planning are funneled up to the owners of the corporations.
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  1040. I feel like malls are 'the worst', so you should have 'Ya Burnt' them too. During the wreath bit I felt like in the pizza joke, it should have been something like 'an entire pizza of crusts', really stress that they had to rip crusts off of other pizzas to assemble this horror! Well now I want pizza, maybe I'll melt some cheese on some tortilla chips and dip them in salsa?
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  1041. The weird thing though, afaik it wasn't The Possessed, because I could see a person talking about that book on their death bed.
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  1042. I feel like that standup guy realized he didn't have a funny bone in his body so he just says racist stuff to get easy applause. I love how hulk hogan had to go back on the roids because people clowned on his arms at the RNC thing. Did someone think to tell dr phil what the country actually was built on??? It was built on slavery and inequality, it was founded on the lie that giving wealthy white men a say was 'freedom for all', so yeah, it sure as shit wasn't founded on inclusion, but that's why the country has so many issues today. ...can't someone tell leon how embarrassing this is for people?? What if you can actually die of schadenfreude!?!? I DON'T WANT TO FIND OUT. Huh, so they got 'stop bringing up the time trump expounded, at length, about a dead man's penis! it's not relevant' johnson to stop wanking to that tucker screed long enough to speak in public? Crazy! Thanks for saving us from having to hear tuck-tuck, I swear he wakes up every morning and huffs stupid gas for an hour, I'm pretty confident he's a complete psychopath. Research has shown, dumb people with no empathy are super dangerous, that's the core nugget of trump and every other conservative today, the lack of empathy (this is also why conservatives don't think people are equal).
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  1043. There is no way in hell leon puts in 40 hours week of actual work, in part because if he did that much ACTUAL management of his companies they'd all have gone broke. When you're rich you start to count things like a 4 hour lunch as 'work time', even though they'll have multiple drinks and basically be drunk by the end of it, but hey, they get to sit in a fancy car while someone else drives them, and guess what? That hour they spend dicking around with their phone? That's 'research'. If you're poor you get punished for eating out, if you're rich enough they actually argue that's you're job (though let's be honest, leon's actual job is sexual harassment).
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  1044. I think it's hard to understate how much of an advantage English society gained from it's collection of colonies... if you're stealing trillions from the world, it's very easy to have a peaceful and wealthy country, poverty leads to revolution over time. The reason the world seems to be 'pushing back' against progress is because the billionaire class if funding a movement to make it appear that way. This is what happens when you give dumb people too many billions, they try to dictate to the plebs. Anyways, the whole movement includes huge bot networks, most of the dictatorships in the world, most of the billionaires (if not all at this point), and almost all of the career politicians, the issue they had was that nobody else agreed with their repugnantly self-interested ideas. Now they hire people to mass produce propaganda, all of it right wing, and naturally nobody is saying that they were paid (one way or another) by a billionaire to fight for the cause of capital because who would listen to them after? Anyways, the 'backlash' isn't grass roots and isn't organic, it's what he billionaires wanted and they put MANY billions of dollars behind their desire. I remember seeing a graph about how much money people have, and how much their wants end up impacting society, and unsurprisingly the richer you are the more you desires are reflected by societal action. Tax the wealthy or this will keep getting worse, the ghouls won't change until the pitchforks start to show up. It's not knowledge workers that are well paid, it's people who have connections/are already wealthy, most smart people are wealthier than average, but it's not like billionaires are a billion times as smart as his worst janitor. We don't make people billionaires because they're smarter, we do it because they're more evil, that's our criteria. Our society rewards conmen and scammers, not hard work or intelligence, and it selects for people who are already in the 'in' crowd. That's it, it has nothing to do with the kind of work you do, it's the fact that you do work at all that means you're irrelevant to the wealthy. You're right that biden has pretty much fought tooth and nail for workers, but the workers are all so racist (on the whole) that they don't care about their actual life, they care more about 'owning the libs'. We're screwed because spite is one of our primary motivating factors as a society, and spite is not known for it's ability to reason through problems. You're also right that the singular problem for our society is capitalism, tradition and everything good falls by the wayside when it comes to an a-hole making a buck. As a collective we were all fine with the rich making money by squandering our world's resources because we all felt we were getting a share, even if it wasn't fair we were getting enough. At this point though the rich, who have 90% of the stuff, don't think they have enough of the stuff and want everyone else's 10%, they're never going to be happy because we've selected for the worst characteristics, we reward avarice and are shocked that all our leaders are greedy and corrupt. ...of course you're a fan of soulless rishi, I mean I should treat that as a given at this point, but holy crap is he ever bad at his job (he was married for his looks, not his brains, makes me think about how there is no end to the irony of trump, an openly stupid man with actively bad genes, marrying women entirely for looks, it's just like when the kings of old wanted to marry their cousins/sisters to 'keep their blood pure', resulting in progressively more inbred offspring, hitting boys especially hard with their one X... I think between trump and his sons they only have one actual chin, and that's on eric?). I couldn't believe that the reaction to the disaster that was truss (who was entirely too right wing, even for the business ghouls) was to find someone even more rich and privileged to head up the party. We talk about a 'rightward shift', but it's not really organic if it's just the parties are constantly choosing the more conservative candidate whenever they have the option. At least in Canada we have two progressive parties at the federal level, even if neither will ever have any power they still have influenced things. The US electoral college system is beyond broken, it's morally bankrupt to argue that candidates that convincingly lose the popular vote have any democratic mandate to rule. Also, people were angry in 2016 specifically because the entire system that was supposed to manage the presidency instead did everything it could to enable trump. He was given a golden opportunity to go down in history as one of the truly great presidents, but instead he did nothing but enrich himself and the scum that donated to him. His corruption was so blatant that it's almost mindboggling, in an actual democracy he'd already be in prison for what he did while in office, now the vaunted US supreme court has started to wear it's shoes on it's head and has ruled that trump has magical powers that make him immune to consequences (may they be perpetually eaten by worms in you-know-where). I think you're not quite right that the world had a 'rules based' system post WW2, it was very much not that, unless you think having exactly 1 rule (do whatever the superpower says) is a rules based system. If countries 'went too far left' (according to batshit senile old reagan btw) they were overthrown and had puppet dictators installed. The US did this so often in South/Central America that we started calling them 'banana republics' because the real power in those countries was the American corporations, and they committed numerous atrocities (and frankly continue to). The US did this for a few reasons, but one of them was (incredibly ironically) to ensure a constant stream of truly desperate illegal immigrants that could be brutally exploited by US corporations, the West literally ruined thriving countries so that the people would be miserable, and so that we could have even easier lives. The US and Britain essentially went over to Iran and poked everyone in the eyes a bunch of times and then acted offended when they were throw out of the place, the system was deeply dysfunctional post WW2 for the MAJORITY of people, and I'm not even talking about 'the communists', I'm talking about how we treated our 'allies', the system of US hegemony doesn't survive because of the efforts of the Americans, it's entirely due to the rest of the world propping it up in exchange for keeping the russians at bay, the US' currency is so important because EVERYONE ELSE uses it, not because the US uses it itself, if the rest of the world stopped helping the US it would crumble overnight. YMMV I guess, but the power/money flows into the US from the world, not the other way around (if it did obviously the US would be broke and the rest of the world rich, so it's obviously not that). Final point, I think you might want to do some more research into the history of democracy, afaik the idea was first practiced in Persia, and like most good things the Greeks had, they took it from the Persians (who they then mocked and belittled for not being Greek... at least the Romans held the Greeks in high esteem after they stripped their culture for parts). It's not really a Western idea, the West has always been a kakistocracy, and it always will be because the little people want to believe that someday them, or their descendant, will be the one shitting on everyone else, so they have to keep the hierarchy in place. It's like how capitalism works almost exclusively because the people on the bottom are so astoundingly greedy (and now have to be because they've become so impoverished), people on the bottom wholeheartedly believe that someday they'll be rich, even though the majority of people are never going to be rich, nor are their kids or their grandkids.
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  1045. This will sound a bit insulting, but you really need to read more about the history and socio-economic issues that came from the brutal European interventions in Africa. You should be asking why it is that their is always foreign money from overseas for new bloodthirsty warlords, yet (for example) womens' groups always struggle to get the assistance they warrant. Africans don't want these regional conflicts, blaming them for it is at best ignorant, and at worst intensely evil victim blaming.
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  1046. So is just lying about literally everything the new plan for republicans? This is getting ridiculous, I can understand a person being stupid and stuggling to figure out the correct course of action sometimes, but an entire party that thinks it's okay to lie with every word is a bit beyond reasonable. If this was a show, as the joke goes, it would have been canceled years ago for being too ridiculous/stupid, but in reality, conservatives prefer lies to truth, as long as they are the lies they wish were true.
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  1047. No, mbs did not view him as a threat to the kingdom, he viewed him as a threat to himself personally and the monarchy; those are very, very different things, and you are enabling them by presenting it this way.
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  1048.  @bishop253  It's very much about to whom that 'return' benefits. If it's wealthy investors with substantial stakes in arms dealers, conservatives suddenly become big fans of socialism.
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  1049. When I was a kid, I had a bike so cheap that it literally cost less than the lock I used on it. It was also an ungodly heavy bike, the whole thing was heavy duty chrome, I have no idea what the designer was thinking, other than 'maybe people will use them in the Great Plains?', so I don't know why I bothered with the lock. I think I rode the bike because I thought it burned more calories than just walking, it was load bearing exercise trying to go up even the slightest of inclines.
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  1050. Science has won before in the end, and it'll win again in the end, because the human definition of end is laughable.
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  1051. I ate a huge kiwi almost completely whole, my first bite I pulled out the hard part, and then after that it was tangy tasty business, ate that whole after step 1
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  1052. I'm suspicious of the position that people wouldn't have been able to notice this trend... people had calendars, and if frost came earlier, or they couldn't plant as soon, they VERY MUCH NOTICED. Just saying, this sort of thing was WHY we developed calendars in the first place, so we could track planting better. Such observations would be so apparent that people might not even bother to write them down, since writing was an expensive act, and you didn't write down common knowledge back then (which is why we have to infer it from texts that still exist).
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  1053. Now, I have to point out, a London Telephone Book was not the same thing in Churchill's day as it is now, if they still made telephone books I guess. Just saying, he was ripping a short novel at best, impressive, but not exactly what was implied.
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  1054. ...but seriously, does nobody else think all the 'work' made her look like a duck? That ain't normal.
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  1055. Rock music started out explicitly as dance music, but it had completely lost that element by the time The Darkness was making music.
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  1056. I'm very confident I had a dozen hornet varieties when I was (trying) to dump pear sauce leftovers... they recruited from miles around, it was such a horror show that we avoided the midden during the day.
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  1057. I find no end to the irony of fundamentalist Christians that dislike alcohol... it was literally their savior's first miracle on Earth last I checked to make more booze because the party ran out early. That doesn't sound like he was a fan of holding back to me. Also, one of the recurring themes of the Bible is that God loves happy people, and hates miserable sods, so the problem with drinking isn't having a good time, it's when you're drinking and not having a good time, when you're just growing bitter and angry, that's more or less asking God to smite you with lightning. I also think it's depressing that 'an infinitely dumber and less effective version of insurance' is people's supposed alternative to cripplingly abusive health insurance that bends over backwards to offer nothing. This is why the US needs serious health care reform, and the gop-thinktank product that is Obamacare wasn't really up to the task, though it was far better than the nothing that preceded it.
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