Get the fuck out of Ukraine and things will stop. It’s not hard.

She is great in the books. One of the most unique characters in fiction imho. CDProjekt did really well adapting the continuation of her story in the games.

What do you understand about the economic system? For example, how the money supply is created, and the ramifications of “interest” and “inflation”. What you’ll find if you do, is that the system is fundamentally broken if your goal is sustainability on this planet for any serious length of time.

Most of the current world order couldn’t care less, clearly or we’d have done things about climate change that weren’t just technical advancements buying us time if making any difference whatsoever.

Real austerity for the wealthy could pay for solving most of the world’s issues, several times over. And we have the resources to do it globally. It shouldn’t be a matter of “cost”.

But it’ll probably never happen, unfortunately.

We’re not disagreeing then. I’m just saying some date lines aren’t in the right place in general, but what really matters most? What are our priorities? I don’t think most light and most dark is better, even if it were possible to get every time zone just right.

I feel like having a life, and kids being able to play for longer after school without it being dark throughout the summer is pretty awesome.

It’s that or have school and work finish earlier. I’m all for that, lol.

Time of day is a human invention. We can assign the date lines wherever we like.

Like Japan was nuts. Dark at 3pm in winter. Light at 3am in summer. They’d benefit by shifting that shit two hours forward for sure.

I’ll take 7 hour workdays in summer instead.

More daylight in summer rocks. It would be equally rocking in Winter. The clocks shoud stay forward.

Neither does passivism though. If everyone around you is losing your mind, you either give up your freedom and very possibly your life, or you fight.

The only reason no other great power has needed a fully prepared military is because of US leadership. That can’t be trusted now, so here we are.

I’m going to assume you’re working class and actually reading the articles is a personal sacrifice on the tiny amount of free time you get in a day. So, thank you for your service.

I’m assuming it’s people thinking it’ll go up again so buy it while it’s cheap. Momentum has to continue against the company so those who bought in now are punished.

But you’re right, the stock market is gambling that produces nothing for the world. Trickle down transaction fees at best, tempting retirees to waste their retirement money at worse.

Always has been.

Surprised so few people are aware of this. It seems equivalent to me when you give it the same permissions Ublock Origin had.

There is a little bit of an assumption of the mad scientist here. Most scientists and engineers are very compassionate and caring people, even if many are excentric. We care about a thriving humanities department.

The psychopath cohort you’re thinking of is the executive branch, or the people who made it to sales manager.

I mean yeah the internet has proliferated stupid. But I think everyone was always stupid, but just nowhere near power.

We need a meritocratic system that is also based on modern science and social psychology, and it needs to be diverse, equitable, and inclusive too…

If it’s always been that way, how did things ever get better?

Nah, it’s all about the money. It’s literally just trolling with people lives to make money off of their inevitable fear

The only way to win, is if people who have invested money aren’t afraid of losing it. Which of course almost nobody, because when gambling the house almost always wins. Which is to say an increasingly small minority get to win the lottery of a financially free life.

People are increasingly relatively poor within their own societies particularly compared to the wealthy and ultra wealthy increasingly visible on the internet.

Charismatic autocrats have done a good job falsly directing blame for this to socialists. It’s maddening to behold people basically cheering for their own chains.

Haha, wouldn’t surprise me. Although now that ks to the supreme court the president is now infallible and above the law, so I’d be expecting Trump to have many successors waiting to stab him in the back for the chance at becoming king.

My understanding is they could work around the law if they really wanted to, but that puts the campaign at some additional risk. Kamala will probably be the candidate in the end because of this. And she’s great. Ezra Klein really helped me change my mind about her. I’d rather Taylor Swift, but I don’t think she’ll try until 2028 lol.

Sure, but that makes all the difference. You and I can believe what we want, but put us in positions of power and influence, and it matters what is corroborated before we make sweeping decisions with huge ramifications for future well being. I try to aspire to that threshold of responsibility. Otherwise, what’s the good in commenting or posting?