Right wing popularity is fueled by anxiety and wealth inequality.

The idea that the right gains popularity after the left institutes left wing policies is a right wing talking point, not fact. Left leaning policies enjoy popular support across almost all policy domains because they benefit many, whereas right leaning policies benefit few.

Blaming left leaning policies in the US is especially laughable because there are none. Not since the end of the civil rights era. Gay marriage, that’s it. And that really affects nothing compared to the impact of right wing policies like obamacare’s empowering of insurance corps, forgiving corporate crimes as “too big to fail”, forgiving US war criminals by not punishing them, etc. And that’s just obama.

When people are scared, a slightly greater percentage will agree that taking resources from the disadvantaged is the easiest solution.

And when the rich command far far greater resources they can use them to overcome the popular resistance to policies that benefit them and disadvantage people in general.

Fear and rising wealth concentration.

Exactly. Anthropic are notorious for pretending to be terrified of claude to hype up how powerful their product is. This unsourced rumor smells like marketing.

You do realize they’re exctinct?

Yeah i’m an early millenial and i got in trouble as a kid at a trading card game convention because i was playing the x files card game, which involved asking the other player yes/no questions and the guy demoing the game mistook my no buzzer noise for a yes buzzer noise and lost because of it.

All nation states are vermin and all heirarchy is violence.

For me kittens are like passing through the other side of cuteness. Cats are very cute, kittens are just too much.

You know in futurama when bender orders a statue of “ridiculous proportions” built, then when it’s done he’s like, "no, that’s too big, try again and this time don’t embarrass yourselves.’

That’s how i feel about kittens. No, that’s too cute. Try again and this time don’t embarrass yourself.

I have done both and while the former was very stressful, it was still better than the latter.

Dating someone you’re not super into who really likes you felt like having a chainsaw hand. It sounds cool as long as you don’t think about any of the details, but in practice you just spend the entire time worrying how to avoid causing any harm.

The rich will never feel save while we, their victims, have privacy.

They know better than even we do how much reason we have to be plotting against them.

My nokia windows phone was the best. Stylish, great battery, great camera.

Windows phone with the tiles remains the best phone interface by far. Since then i’ve had to make my own custom interface because i can’t go back to ugly ass icons.

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Zhuangzi, easily one of the top 5 authors anywhere, ever.

The Taiping civil war ended a bit before the US civil war, lasted 3x as long and almost ended with china unified under a homegrown christian theocracy.

It’s a pretty common welsh name, so australia and the UK have plenty of bryns.

That ‘y’ is a dead giveaway that it’s welsh. Llewellyn is another one. The welsh for wales is cymru - “kimree”.

Nah it’s pronounced brin

In high school there was this one guy, Bryn, who i didn’t like but he hung out with us and prevented other bullies from targeting our goth weirdo circle. I’ve always described jupiter as earth’s bryn.

My mother: My best friend Ruthy was the sort of person who thought a best friend was someone who gives you their last tab of speed during exams. My best friend in highschool, hearing this: So you had speed in highschool? My mother: oh ugh um ahh well.

My mother also advised us that if we thought a bar was watering down drinks we should order black russians because vodka is more alcoholic but kahlua is more expensive. Also never buy white rum because you might as be drinking vodka - this was meant as an insult to both vodka and white rum.

Power. Men are more privileged than women. The more power somehow has, the more they are shielded from the consequences of their actions and the worse their behaviour.

I do suspect that overall men are alsi more likely to engage in violence than women, but i haven’t checked data to see if i’m wrong.

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Tabletop rpgs are the only artform that merges artist and audience. Telling a story is probably the oldest human artform. With a well-designed RPG and a good group you can tell a story and thrill yourself at the surprising outcome. It’s a unique and timeless hobby.

This is such an elegant observation.

Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.

It’s just not though. F uses a wider range of numbers to describe common outside air temperature, but more numbers =/= better.

I’ve lived in both F and C countries and farenheit is not easier, more intuitive, more sensible or better in any way. A number is a number. The extra precision of F is not super useful - no one can really feel a 1F difference. The freezing point of water does make a huge difference, so knowing above/below zero C is useful, but above/below 32F is no harder.

This argument that F is somehow more suitable for human temperatures is something you see online, but as someone comfortable with both i can say there is functionally no difference, except that metric is compatible with the rest of the world.