Basman

I like to read viking shit for fun when I'm not reading self-help.

The problem is more fundamental than just a bunch of bad actors in politics. Remember, people are voting them in. Fundamentally we have an issue of distrust in government. In order to reel in bad actors you need stronger checks on power, IE. stronger institutions, but that's hard with popular support going the opposite direction. Trump leaving politics won't necesarilly change the fact that we are in a global wash against technocratic democracy currently.

Experience > no experience You won't desire to have less experience on your death bed.

Do you think Iran was some sort of master plan in disguise? Project 2025 was concocted by the Heritage Foundation anyway. Not Trump. Trump's too impulsive and narcissistic to follow someone else's plan. And there's still a world of difference between recognizing genuine strategy to undermine institutions and conspiratorial thinking, IE. making shit up, which is what most of these Trump rationalizers are doing. It's like being in denial of the chaotic state of our current reality.

Dream on. It's funny how people find it more intuitive to think that Trump has some 5 year master plan to take over the world than him just being impulsive with no real plan. It has to be a conspiracy. It can't just be chaos. Maga is addicted to a sense of greater agency over politics. They feel that the dude should have gotten executed years ago if anything. Normal technocratic liberal politics makes no sense to them. If anything this might be a boost to them overall. you guys might be projecting your moral outrage and assuming too much.

The left are like screaming hungry kittens when its outraged. The left cannot help itself. Politics as personal expression is their thing for most of them as opposed to politics as a means to an end. There won't be any strategy.

I've heard a bunch about being chemically depressed and shit. I'm not sure if I entirely buy it. Or maybe its just relatively rare. I believe it to be mostly a skill issue myself. Just stop being depressed bro.

I know your not being entirely literal, but that's literally how it functions right now. It is likely a spur of the moment decision by Trump to approve the move for narcissistic supply. It hasn't been done since WW2 I think. In of itself, I don't really thinks its that big of a deal to execute someone via firing squad if your going to execute anyone at all. It's got a better track record than lethal injection. Just now recently that girl got two doses and survived. Now they are throwing her in court a second time after they failed to kill her the first time. How do you fail to kill someone strapped down? Talk about overcomplicating the world oldest sport. weaksauce.

Hitler rant when you leave socks on the floor and don't help out with the dishes.

Depression is a fixation on how life happens to you in a negative way that you can't control. Its pessimistic and sad. Its your mind which is depressing you. That's why being active helps, because it puts your mind elsewhere.

It's a military execution. Dude was a soldier and shot up a fort.

Trump runs his politics like the host of a reality TV show. It's all about generating buzz and drama and engrandize his image. Firing squad is probably more humane than lethal injection though. Just more brutal looking.

I feel like girl Hitler would complain a lot, if you know what I mean.

Brat Hitler is crazy 🥵

Humans are continously discovering new resources to exploit and becoming better at exploiting what we have. Like Oil and nuclear, which are relatively recent developments. We'll likely find more ways to extract energy and resources in the future. We are not doomed to deplete the earth and shit.

Trucks are a great example of a technological barrier. Electric trucks are heavier, carry less, have long charging times and have less reach than diesel. And any cost incurred by green regulation will be passed unto the customer. Its not viable at all to run a green economy with current technology. When tradesmen have to pay for permits or have to replace their old vans to ride inner city they will bill clients the differences. I'd be careful with green policy if people start associating it with increased costs. People might start calling you elitist.

We in general have an issue with differing political views due to being more atomized now, both left and right. Everyone's a snowflake and Americans are the worst right now.

Don't let winning an argument ruin your relationships. It doesn't matter all that much at the end of the day. Thanks giving is once a year. You are adult enough to not give a shit what old crones say.

If alcohol was invented today it would probably be illegal. It's one of the few drug where addiction is physically dangerous to oneself. It's literally poison.

This sounds like bs, sorry. You clearly have an ideological view of humanity.

With AI you have to generate a bunch and then choose the best output. Literally throwing shit at a wall till something sticks. Its probably gotten better at throwing shit but fundamentally you don't have fine particular control over the process. There's little point in it if you have a particular vision, which is why I tend to suspect that AI bros aren't all that artistic in the first place. If you want to make art, why outsource?

They should make makeup that turns blue when your drugged. That way everone can tell something's wrong. Because your blue in the face.

There are pros and cons to government run stuff. It can be decent though.

I like this idea because the incentives are more aligned. Commercial dating services have to be run like gambling services when user growth plateaus, where the anticipation of reward keeps you going for a low chance of actual reward. If they actually where effective at hooking you up they would lose customers. Government run services don't have to be profitable. They can be run for the public good alone. It goes to show that certain kinds of service are incompatible with business, which matchmaking is in my opinion. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqzjzr893yv4o

I mean tribals did invent all of that. They are the predecessors of every empire and idustrial complex. Tribals only have issues with these things when it threatens their survival. They don't personally have issues with genocide, slavery, racism, rape, infanticide, conquest, torture, etc. This notion of the "noble savage" is a utopian fantasy by urban people who feel estranged by the modern world. Its only tribes too isolated to societally evolve which remain as stage purple hunter-gathers. The rest of humanity turned into what we have today.