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The Hellen Keller of animals. And just like Hellen Keller, super obvious in hindsight to be fake. Obviously a gorilla doesn't understand what a climate change is, or the concept of human emotions like sadness or greed. Obviously the trainer is being extremely generous with interpreting Koko's sign language. Gorillas don't even have the finger dexterity to entirely do human sign language. It's pretty damning too that the lab who had Koko never let anyone outside near to do controlled studies. A good example of business incentives corrupting science. Koko turned into a feel-good mascot, just like Hellen Keller, and earned them millions. It might not even be entirely intentional. These animals trainers get roped up in their own excitement of thinking they taught their beloved pet to speak, not noticing their own influence. Eventually It's just becomes the path of least resistance when it makes your career. Hooks you up with celebrities and shit. Bad science. Bad.

Hit em right in the ego. They are used to feeling untouchable, which is why it feels surreal when a mass terrorist attack happens in one of their major cities. American exceptionalism and all that. Worse things have happened since in other countries. I really believe it is national ego.

I contemplate my parents death at times. It's sad but realistically not that far off. I try to cherish my time with them but it's easy to take your day to day for granted. You'll thank yourself later if you go out your way to make some memories with them. Time flies.

Whole ass of question begging. I gave you a reasonable common sense standard. I'm not repeating myself again.

It's expensive to work in Europe. Between transport costs, high taxes and various other costs and more taxes. Often almost half your paycheck is gone before you get to pay rent. Someone gotta finance the welfare system. In some countries like Belgium where welfare is overly generous, many people prefer being on welfare to working as the effective income ends up being quiet close for them.

With a high enough bar for evidence you should be able to determine guilt for capital. There's no doubt about Breiviks guilt, or the Columbine shooters, or Shoko Ashara (who did get capital) or various other murderers. Why do you act like there's any doubt that they didn't kill/injure 100s? You keep going in circles, bro.

I didn't say any of these things. I just think this softness on serious crime is unserious and pathetic. Giving murderers a slap on the wrist because anything harsher would hurt your own feelings. You don't even want to see how that's unfair. It's simply cowardice.

Didn't watch, but Lindsay case is really similair to the OJ case in that supporters focus on what it represents politically to them at the near exclusion of the actual case. For OJ it was revenge for some different police brutality case, and here its about support for post-partum depression as far as I understood. It's either way dumb how a case gets coopted by culture war like that. It does a disservice to justice.

The most popular songs are about break ups and sex. Mainstream stuff is going to be shallow most of the time. Almost everyone gives the advice to focus your creativity on a particular niche that you excell in. Don't try to appeal to everyone. Necesarilly that will cost you your soul.

We don't have the same monoculture anymore because everyone is on they phones. Appealing to a specific niche is what works now.

Your just begging the question at this point. I'm just repeating myself at this point. Your argument is that it's acceptable to kill, mass murder and rape as long as you behave yourself afterwards. It's like you care more about murderers than the victims. You'd rather give people a slap on the wrist because you dislike perpetrating any kind of violence. It's so unserious. We're talking about monstrous acts here. Like killing your children. Not small time robbery. That just not how it works in reality. People hate light sentencing for serious crime. It makes the courts look weak. It's technocratic hubris to act like courts don't serve an emotional function. People want fairness. Safety should be a given. In your version, it's acceptable to do the worst things imaginable as you long as your sorry. No hard line. That just makes it easier to get away with monstrous acts. They where about to aqcuit Lindsay Clancy for killing her children.

That's a big justification for why ceos get so much money. To buy their loyalty. I also think that government leaders should be payed more, though it's an unpopular sentiment. They have a much greater responsibility and are personally affected to a greater degree and face a lot of hate.

Insane paychecks have probably more to do with leverage than anything else. An average person do not have the resources, connections or sheer power to manipulate and negotiate/demand like a rich ceo.

A small salary of a 100 million dollars.

Specialized work = protected titles/requires certification (lawyer, doctor, skilled tradesmen) Non-specialized = non-regulated work. Credential requirements are primarily just a filter. A high-schooler could do it with a little training. Typically required less credentials in the past. It's the job market and general culture that is elitist. Credentialism is socially accepted elitism. It's because there's shortage of high paying jobs and an oversupply of workers. All the office politics is people trying to justify their position by coming off as important. If there was a shortage of workers you'd see the office politics and credentialism much less, like when IT was fledgling as an industry and starving for workers. Lot of people got in without any formal training, figuring it out as they went. Now IT is much more saturated and its much harder to get in. Degree filtering becomes useful again.