DFHippie

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by DFHippie 10mo ago
And the unchecked corporate/oligarchic power is often just government power funneled through disposable, if rich, patsies.
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by DFHippie 10mo ago
A lot of things will be harder for the US to do if everyone in the world hates us. Letting people come here and see that most Americans aren't monsters pays dividends beyond the dollars they spend. The Trump Administrations actions rea
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by DFHippie 11mo ago
I think it's pretty obviously me pontificating from personal observations. Did you see the "hakuna matata"? We're allowed to do that here. And yes, sure, it's more complicated than that. It's always more compli
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by DFHippie 11mo ago
To elaborate a bit: your parenting is much more likely to affect how your kids parent their kids. And, for better or for worse, mostly what they'll be doing is avoiding the mistakes you made. Your mom was distant and judgmental? You&#x
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by DFHippie 11mo ago
In general your kids' friends are much more important to them in the long run than you are. You are always there, but their friends represent the society they will be sinking or swimming in. They turn away from you and your tastes and
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by DFHippie 11mo ago
So there are basalt boats floating on the not so salty Baltic.
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by DFHippie 11mo ago
Note, the article doesn't say that she threw molotov cocktails. She was put into induced comas, tied to a bed, kept in social isolation, etc. because she didn't want to live under her parents' control.
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by DFHippie 11mo ago
This. Two speakers of the same language only have approximately the same understanding of the meanings of the words they both use. Communication succeeds because we are constantly seeking and correcting misunderstandings that arise due to
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by DFHippie 11mo ago
Any problem with externalized costs or benefits is a collective action problem. You get a benefit everyone pays for or you incur a cost which everyone pays. The individual incentive is to freeload on the resources of others. It is functiona
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by DFHippie 1y ago
> The incredible successes of Trumps second term so far will encourage and empower populists everywhere. Successes? He's succeeded at consolidating power because his own party and his partisans on the Supreme Court allow it. Also, d
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by DFHippie 1y ago
> Or maybe lately, Larry Ellison's take over of Paramount/CBS (but it feels more like he is buying a toy for his son). If it were just a toy for his son these things wouldn't have happened - Stephen Colbert canned - Bari W
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by DFHippie 1y ago
That's discussion of the same event but not the same article/post.
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by DFHippie 1y ago
> Trump claims to want to bring back manufacturing. Trump claims a lot of stuff. It's all gaslighting*. * Speaking of things Trump would claim to be for. Electric lighting is effete foolishness that makes your testicles shrivel!
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by DFHippie 1y ago
Journalists are always acting as though only liberals have agency. "If we just talk about things differently, everything will be great." But if someone is hitting you over the head, not every element of the relationship is in your
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by DFHippie 1y ago
Too many never decided to start using their minds. They won't notice the transition.
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by DFHippie 1y ago
> There seems to be something in us humans that yearns for more than just calories. And we have no evidence that we are different in this from Neanderthals (arguably also humans). There is evidence of cultural variation among chimps, so
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by DFHippie 1y ago
Sure, but this is true of neanderthals as well. So we can't say we are especially creative or dynamic in our culture. We can say that our material culture, that small fragment of it that was preserved, was static.
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by DFHippie 1y ago
For most of human history cultural change was extremely slow, so slow as to be imperceptible. I'm not sure the neanderthals experienced any less dynamic a culture than the modern humans living at the same time. Perhaps expecting change
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by DFHippie 1y ago
No, they burrowed a bunch of commissars into various agencies.
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by DFHippie 1y ago
As you describe him Zuck sounds very much like the AI he's trying to sell.
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by DFHippie 1y ago
And now they're all effectively dead, killed by illegal executive actions whose lawsuits have stalled out in the Supreme Court queue. But the employees are already fired and looking for new jobs, so even if the actions are rolled back
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by DFHippie 1y ago
It looks like PFAS is a bigger problem in red states (Republican-voting states, for those outside the US). I suspect it's due to the prevalence of fossil fuel extraction and refining facilities and military bases in those states. Vermo
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by DFHippie 1y ago
The majority of what I see on Bluesky is people saying that political violence is unacceptable. There are a good number juxtaposing Kirk's saying mass school killings are an acceptable price to pay for the right to bear arms. They are
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by DFHippie 1y ago
They also grow coffee in Puerto Rico. Nevertheless, these few small islands have much less area available for coffee growing than Brazil. And coffee is grown in many other countries than Brazil, all of which are under Trump's trade ass
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by DFHippie 1y ago
When I was in Thailand, people honked at pedestrians to let them know they were passing them. Not angry honks, just toots. Different culture. It left a lot of confused tourists.
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by DFHippie 1y ago
> You can't just put up a speed sign and hope people will magically abide by it. Off topic, but one of the more maddening things I see here in the US is signs which say "End thus-and-such speed limit." I don't want to
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by DFHippie 1y ago
If this were the whole story you'd expect all of Trump and Elon's siblings to be equally terrible. Maybe they are and just haven't had the opportunity to demonstrate it? I have the impression, though, at least in Trump's
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by DFHippie 1y ago
It isn't Congress writ large, is the Republican caucus in Congress. And the Republican caucus in the SCOTUS.
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by DFHippie 1y ago
Also, there is almost no deterrent effect. The people who authorized or perpetrated the abuse are not punished if you sue and win a settlement. They don't even have to hire and pay the lawyers. The payment comes out everyone's tax
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by DFHippie 1y ago
The point of the article is not to solve deep problems but to entertain. It did that. If it were one sentence long it would not be entertaining.

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