I still think the problem is a lot of people value in-group membership too much. Like, we all want to fit in with our friends and loved ones. But some people really will jump off a bridge and die because their friends are doing. It’s like, I don’t know, a hit of cocaine every time they do their in-group rituals or go to a rally or whatever. I don’t know how to fix that. It seems like it might be deeply baked into human brains.

But if we even wanted to start, we’d have to give these maga-hats a better group to belong to. If these people channeled their weird in-group masturbation energy into, like, cleaning up litter or knitting or whatever, we’d all be so much better off.

We probably need to get rid of a bunch of billionaires who are pumping out horrible content 24/7, too.

Feel like this is just asking for someone whose loved one died of cancer to invoke Saint Luigi on some of Bayer’s leadership. I wouldn’t be mad.

I file that under cruelty, but yes that’s also a factor.

Most people who issue a RTO mandate should be put up against the wall and shot.

It’s bad for labor. It’s bad for the environment. It also bad for productivity.

The only reason to push for it is stupidity and cruelty.

Right. You can’t pick the lesser evil in the election today, then go do nothing, and expect good outcomes.

Harm reduction has a place but it’s not the whole solution

We used to have web forums for that, and they worked pretty okay without the costs of LLMs

This is a little off topic but we really should, as a species, invest more heavily in public education. People should know how to read and follow instructions, like the docs that come with Google sheets.

I feel like it’s an unpopular take but people are like “I used chat gpt to write this email!” and I’m like you should be able to write email.

I think a lot of people are too excited to neglect core skills and let them atrophy. You should know how to communicate. It’s a skill that needs practice.

Any modern robin hood would be vilified and most people would believe it.

Monogamy often allows some less healthy facets of people flourish. Sometimes people will be like “oh I’m just so jealous I can’t help it. I don’t like when he plays soccer on that co-ed community team, so I don’t let him”. Like, what. That’s so immature and untrusting.

This is an interesting thought. It’s worrisome if they’d look like allies but don’t have any actual convictions, but I guess those people will always be with us.

Oh good I was remembering that video but couldn’t find it.

Bit of a tactical blunder, that.

Yeah that capitalism curve needs to start at 0 and stay there for a bit

It’s going to be a pretty dramatic change for anyone depending on services that are cut.

States don’t have unlimited money.

Every time I see this I think about opportunity costs. What got skipped in favor of this dubious effort?

Usually a brief “I just read/played/watched such-and-such”

If they know it, we can chat about it. If they don’t, and they’re interested, we can chat about it. Otherwise, the conversation moves on and the social rite is concluded successfully.

Fuck this guy. I say we guillotine him as an example to the others.

i’m waiting for someone to fight instead of run, and I don’t know what the fallout there will be. Hopefully a lot of dead ICE goons.

It’s because they’re the kind of stupid that follows in-group beliefs more than verifiable reality. We’re all susceptible to overly weighing what our in-group says, but some people take it to dangerous levels.

And also there are grifters taking advantage of them.

Shoot doge agents for trespassing