Basman

Your private life probably won't change that much if Trump becomes dictator, which is why moving to another country comes off as mostly symbolic instead of practical.

What you lose in an authoritarian society is mostly your public freedoms. If Trump becomes dictator you'll lose the right to publicly decry Trump without consequences. But you'll keep most of your private freedoms and you can live normally for the most part. It's in fact advantegous to dictators that you just live your own life and never think about politics to a certain extend. It will be harder to be poor though since Trump is targeting welfare. Democratic decline isn't unique to America however. The challenges America are facing are also happening in Europe and elsewhere. It's a global wash. Moving to another country is moving somewhere where the problem exists to a lesser degree than the US currently, but exists nonetheless, and is subject to change. Especially if the US does lose its democracy, which would accelerate the decline globally.

Only comedians need to be really creative because people will compare. In private, its fine to steal a joke or two if its funny in the context. The fact that its funny is the goal, not the art.

Australia is an isolated continent so it wasn't until seafaring technology reached a certain point that they had territorial competition. Greenland had three different cultures living on the island until the Thule people settled there. Celtic Britons used to occupy the British Isles until the Anglo-Saxons invaded and pushed them out into Wales and Scotland.

No such thing as a true native. There are only survivors. Land passing through different cultures isn't uncommon historically.

Creativity isn't that important to humor. The funny itself is what matters. Stealing jokes is fine if it does the job.

We already have less compassion towards fish compared to mammals. Insects are cooked when it comes to human ethical consideration for the most part. A lot of the emotion behind veganism is inherently centered behind a speciest bias towards mammals. I for one would pay good money if they sold witchetty grubs at the super. That's good eating. Get some sweet chilli, some finely chopped onion and complementary spices cooked on a thin blanket of oil. Holy~🔥

American territorial aggression normalizes it geopolitically. If the US gets to invade and take countries, why shouldn't Russia or China? It's a dangerous precedent which makes the world less safe overall.

Authoritarian regimes clearly care about what people think and say aloud about their regime. Or they wouldn't bother with suppressing speech, killing protesters and dissidents, etc.

But you do benefit from violence being monopolized. We've enjoyed one of the most peaceful eras in human history since WW2, in big part due to the global stewardship of the US. Monopolizing violence is a basic tenant of law and order. The alternative is normalizing geopolitical anarchy. A pluralistic world order will lead to the proliferation of nukes as a direct consequence. Americans aren't perfect but they are preferable to Russians or Chinese running the world.

Don't try to convince anyone that your not a little thief with your hand stuck in the cookie jar. At least own it. Paying for it later just means you stole it first. I pirate stuff from time to time myself, but I don't sugarcoat it. This a 🐀

Don't sane-wash insanity. This is about the size of Greenland and the spectacle.

AI bros tend to be comfortable with the notion of theft because they never create anything worth stealing themselves.

If it's something that is still being distributed for profit then it is stealing. Using the practices of AI companies as an ethical baseline is just normalizing theft.

There's not that much gain as the US already had mining rights, military bases, and Denmark was an ally. It's really more about the spectacle for Trump, the fact that it's a big ass island, than anything else.

If you as a homeless person manage to turn people against you then it's a you-issue.

This shit's funny though Live production. One take.

Those courses aren't scams though. The course I feel for had less substantive content than the LP course and cost 60 000 dollars. Scam courses use so many tricks to psychologically manipulate you into willingly making a bad deal. Success guaranteed or money back, etc. With the course I fell for I had to go through a 30 minute interview. Then the day after the guru contacted me to personally tell I was "selected" for the course, making sure that I knew that he was normally very busy and that he was taking time out of his day to congratulate me while flying in his private plane (his couch). And Brett Jones is on the lower end of scamminess. A lot of the bigger scammers manipulate you into making consecutive purchases to get the "next level", etc.

I've fallen for the exact same type of scam by Brett Jones, a course in making courses. "Old Leo" for those who remember. The worst part is that you can learn all that shit for free easily. But what I regret the most is the time I wasted. For me it was less that I was desperate financially but that I didn't know what to do after graduating what you call high-school in America and not having any interest in any specific degrees.

Of course, because it is a rationalization.

I've never seen someone who can lift nearly 200kg have so little grit.

At least your homeless in Greece. It's going to be -18 at night soon where I live. Wearing boots and thick socks merely delay the heat from leaving your toes. If you don't have solid shelter, you will die. You need to cultivate much better mental hygiene, which is to say focusing more on constructive and positive thing as opposed to negative stuff that you largely can't control anyway. One technique is counting all the things your grateful for at the end of the day, such that you end the day on a positive note.

This has nothing to do with efficiency. Trump has no plan for running Venezuela. It's pure theatrics.

The latter when you consider how they are creating a less safe, less prosperous and less wealthy society. There are issues with technocratic centrism, but that doesn't mean upending the system entirely is a viable solution. But it would probably be giving authoritarians too much credit to think it's well intended. It's about enabling narcissism.

These moves come at cost of diminishing trust and influence abroad. Even if it is just talk it throws NATO among other things into uncertainty. It makes America a less powerful and influential country ultimately. An empire in decline.