Hegar

There was a study from Princeton showing that no major policy has aligned with public opinion since the civil rights era.

There is no measurable way that our government has reflected the will of the majority in over 50 years.

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Lol, this is my first time hearing about this game. On gog.com it has 1.8/5 score, or 4.8 from verified owners.

That would suggest that most people who’ve played it liked it well enough.

I would call this qualia chauvinism, when people need to feel their subjective experience is universal.

It’s possible to spend your own money unethically. I don’t think your argument is sound.

Grifters trying to stymie competing grifts is the ideal use of our throughly corrupt court system. Just the perfect venue for that. It’s like an inception of lies and money.

US military recruitment is so bad they spent ~$10M advertising with the Rock’s football league, only to lose recruits AND viewers for the football league.

The national guard spent ~100M on nascar recruiting, which generated 25K recruits. Only 20 of those were qualified (99.92% unqualified). Of those 20, all declined to join.

There are no good or bad people, that’s not how being a biological organism works.

Everyone has a spectrum of different risk/reward tolerances and the perceived risks and rewards of an action determine individual behavior.

Ratcheting up the risks by imposing punishments lowers the amount of individuals who determine the action to be beneficial to them. Other factors can have more influence though - raising shoplifting penalties does little to influence the behavior of a starving population, for example.

When asked about the aid levels, Miller acknowledged Israel has “failed” to meet US requests so far but said there was still time until the 30-day deadline and that the US wouldn’t give a “grade” to Israel just yet. “It’s not the end of the semester. You don’t give out – you don’t hand out grades in the middle,” he said while laughing.

Calling that a joke seems… generous.

If someone reads my comment, and they’our not sure if I’m serious our not, that’s ok with me.

Yeah, I’ve never seen or heard that either. I’m sure there our plenty of dialects where those two words sounds similar or identical.

Why would you peel a carrot?

It’s not a question of “look[ing] like distancing or lack of empathy”, or just “bitching about people in power”.

Scientific studies that look at your brain itself - not your behavior - show that as people get more power the brain’s empathy centers become suppressed and you are chemically less capable of being a good person.

The fact that power results in antisocial behavior has been understood for millenia.

Lots of societies have had cultural infrastructure of equality that attempts to mitigate this weakness in our biology and prevent harmful levels of power accumulation. The basque village layouts that Davids Graeber & Wengrove talk about, or the practise of ‘insulting the meat’ of successful hunters.

Neuroscience shows that rulers will always become evil.

Getting more power actually changes your brain, suppressing your ability to use empathy. The very powerful will always struggle to remember that others are human and don’t want to be hurt.

Humane behavior and hierarchy are mutually exclusive. Heirarchical organization encourages humans to hurt each other.

Oh, % of year 2000 values, ok I get now.

I just find it hard to believe that more films have drugs than profanity.

It’s a jeebus said so thing. Babies need to be baptized and sinners need to be sent to hell.

If your fantasy were remotely possible, mine wouldn’t be so appealing. Alas the rich are beyond justice of any kind.

China, CN is the two letter country code.