It’s all larping until it isn’t. The tavern discussions were much like this when our great great grandfathers were talking.

Granted there is no path forward right now, to improvement. But when there is, many will think of what was said here, or elsewhere, and it will influence some. Just like yesteryear.

There is no way from here in the USA now to Scandinavian balance, using any path of democracy.

The title is click bait but the article is decent

This made me tear up; as a semi fictional person myself, I can see me accidentally being on the receiving end of something like that.

I should be more real

Slightly amusing because most of the active users are perhaps AI powered bots now, run by Reddit.

If that is the case, then it seems to me that this is a repeat of the locking out of third parties, similar to the api change two years ago, but now for those that use bots?

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I read some books by Alice Miller that discussed some childhoods of authoritarian rulers and they were all of unloved. They had not one adult stick up for them, be their advocate or helper, during their childhood years.

Many of us as children have been unwanted or unloved by our caregivers. Most of us had at least one adult: an uncle, grandmother, teacher etc, who truly tried to help at least once.

What the monsters in history had in common is an absence of evidence of even that happening for them. And their revenge as adults was terrible.

I have to stay with jetbrains because my particular poison is not really supported that well by vscode and eclipse intimidates me more than I am inconvenienced out by my current editors.

But I would jump ship and try new editors

Having used/fought/loved and cursed the products for years, I am quite familiar with how amazingly complex and wonky these things are.

And they just rammed the AI on in a fundamental level. And did it after loosing a lot of talent. And being effectively a Russian company, had to deal with that earthquake, moving and losing people.

Honestly grateful still works as code editors

I’m just a lurker in these things, but it seems to me that what you need is a way to find YouTubers who don’t want to be paid, who think their message is important and who don’t rely on video revenue. Who seek new communities to grow their audience.

Religion of all types fit this bill. Especially the aggressive sects of Christianity, Islam and Hindu . Especially the nationalist sects

Cool theory. But should not work if the universe is much larger than what can be seen though? Unless it’s just our visible part of the universe is rotating in a mind boggling large structure? And why not? All matter clumps, and a huge universe should have countless structures that are the size of all we know

The chants of the audience were heartening.

But who wants to bash Sanders? If he is on the naughty list, then who can rise to lead the mildly leftist masses?

I have thoughts this is an excellent sample of those who watch Fox News

Our Omnibus draws samples entirely from the SSRS Opinion Panel, which has a probability-based recruitment methodology. No one can volunteer or sign up for the SSRS Opinion Panel; members are randomly selected and invited to participate. The panel recruits randomly selected panelists using a nationally-representative address-based sample (ABS) design with a randomly dialed prepaid cell phone supplement (RDD). This reduces the risk of bias and ensures that bots or fraudulent panelists are not recruited.

So, people who answer strange phone numbers. I think 15 years ago that would have been fine. But now, not so much, and I really don’t think this filter is talked about as much as much as I would like.

Try looking for “ssrs scams”, and mixed into that are actual experiences with the survey, by people asking about what they experienced. Also mixed into are the various actual scams that pretend to be legitimate.

A huge percentage of mentally healthy USA adults would not participate

It’s too early to say it, and I hope it never comes to pass, but I hope somebody made future contingency plans to transfer this to another country.

This moment will be long forgotten by next week, nobody will remember he said that. Including him

It reminds me of the spate of articles 8 years ago about this; how headlines made mountains out of molehill changes in stats.

The fact is, about of a third of Americans would be pleased with orange-face no matter what he did or who got hurt.

All these leopard-eating-faces articles are just modern day morality plays ( the performance of drama about how the wicked or sinners get their justice, or tearfully beg for forgiveness). People been enjoying this even before the printing press

Coal.

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I still collect money from selling out my travel companions? Right…?