2026:
Tabs the whole bloody way round…
This seems like a FOSS bait and switch. Yall gotta start getting the message: The profit is the problem.
It’s propaganda meant to string you along and give the sense that Biden is “doing something” or that there is some daylight between the parties on this thing.
Polanyi had observed that, in the 1930s, wealthy Germans who saw the Nazi party as a “battering ram” against trade unions and socialists were persuaded to overlook Hitler’s antisemitism because it allowed the market system to flourish, Dale said. “In the same way that a lot of Americans who find Trump distasteful today will still vote for him, a lot of German elites said to themselves: we’re quite happy funding Hitler because his street fighters will help crush the trade unions, so that we can make more profits.”
They got the metaphor wrong. Billionaires see Trump as a battering ram to break what remains of the US social support system and claim victory over the ashes.
Fine? Arrest and jail.
Trumps social messaging is very balkanized. Like, what is Biden gonna buy on Truth.social?
This race is shaping up to be one of the dumbest of all time.
Also, the first time the price of something rises in the 5 minutes it takes for me to get my shopping done and get to the checkout, I’m taking a shit on the floor.
I’m with you I’m saving my dump truck load for the conveyor belt at the register.
Imagine walking down the aisle, normal day, no thoughts about the prices or any of that.
Then one day you walk down the aisle but this time you forgot your phone in the car.
Different prices. Then some one walks is coming close from the other end of the aisle. The price changes. They walk past, nonplussed. A few seconds later, it switches back.
I don’t know where the Devil’s staircase leads, but I’m taking it.
Ok. I will now seriously consider moving over to proton. I can’t trust a for-profit buisness to stay true to its mission. However, Open-AI has shown that I can’t blindly trust a non-profit to do so as well, but its ‘towards’ being able to trust.
This scene smells like a mixture of stale Budlight and PowerBait.
If they don’t individually own the property but pay for upkeep and there is no landlord… that’s a housing cooperative, no?
Squatter mansion.
There and better and worse variants, but the fundamental issue I’m identifying is the tendency to want to believe ‘good stories’. I think it’s a profoundly human flaw, related to our evolution and history as a species that tells stories to transmit information. We believe a good story. It’s pleasurable to lose yourself in story. You remember good stories. But a story being ‘good’ has little and less to do with it being true.
While we’re discussing this issue in the light of conspiracy theories with no basis, I think the flaw extends to all domains of human life where communication and evaluation are necessary.
Because its pleasurable to believe in “secret knowledge”, that you are in the knowing group, and everyone else is the “out group”.
GME, and its associated cult.
Christians and Zionists.
Qanon.
Its all basically the same at its roots, which is that humans take pleasure in a good story, and rather than believe what we think is most likely, we more often choose to believe that which makes us feel special.
Bruh, in Idiocracy, they at least wanted to do the right thing, even if they were too dumb to do so.
Scientists in the room who have to base their experiments off other peoples data and results:
Tongue in cheek but this is actually giving me particular headache because of some results (not mine) that should have never been published.
Fascists really really don’t want socialism.