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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally in English they’d usually be called “A Patsy” or “Strawman” - someone disposable to do the unpleasant work, whom nobody will particularly miss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I more or less stopped paying attention to NYT in 2002-2003 when they so gleefully cheerlead the Iraq2 campaign. And I feel dumb it took me that long. They don’t exist to do anything except manufacture consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone could look at the evidence and come to a different conclusion, honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hoped nobody would come to the conclusion that was the core argument, but it is a consideration.

  And I would like to draw attention to the totalitarian nature of our attitudes towards suicide. It’s been enforced heartlessly for a very long time - if you commit suicide, you’ll go someplace worse. It’s this, it’s that. All ultimately to remove the last escape for people who are in some form of extreme physical, mental, emotional or existential pain to the point where they don’t believe there’s another solution.

  I’d sooner discuss why we have those attitudes - maybe it’s so we get a free pass to be extractive and shitty whilst simultaneously denying the people we abuse even the dignity of leaving on their own terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Suicide is not assisted, leaves a mess for those that discover a corpse, EMT’s and others to clean up. Someone’s suffering might end when they jump in front of a train but the train driver’s suffering only just begins at that point.

  Suicide is often an unmanaged, chaotic process which causes trauma. It also often fails whilst leaving those that attempt it in bad physical shape. A law like this reduces the necessity of discussing, normalizing or enabling suicide because there is a safe and properly counseled path out of a no-win situation for those that truly need it. A policy on containment when there are probably household cleaners that could do the job effectively with a small amount of chemistry knowledge is absolutely insane - and if someone truly is in that much pain, they’ll find a way. Families and loved ones also have time to work through grief and loss rather than getting the wind knocked out of them when they hear the news.

  The fact that we’ve hit a point where we can even have a discussion about this is probably something that should be celebrated, rather than being so totalitarian and controlling that we effectively force people to live even when they’re in enormous pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's just lucky I guess⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Save Him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uncovers something big⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know absolutely nothing beyond the lego-brick level of building and watercooling machines. No EE chops whatsoever… but this stuff is so interesting to me and maybe one day, cost and space no object, having a palatial garage or workshop to muck around in… Just knowing it’s possible really is the half of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uncovers something big⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it IS possible to make IC’s at home, obviously nothing approaching 5nm transistor gates and therefore the equivalent of lego blocks to precision machined parts… but anyways:

  (apologies for the YT link… I’d much rather link a service that isn’t totally enshittified) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEC2LGGXn0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same thing that is powering most other political figures, all of which can be termed “Populists”

  People are angry about a number of things. The wealth gap is very large, they are constantly told that the reason they aren’t doing well in life is because of their own failings, whilst they watch elites with political access get away with things they can only dream of. They’re being told immigrants and/or AI’s are coming for their jobs. They’re being told they can’t have what their parents or the wealthy had because Climate Change, or because inflation.

  This generates a great deal of friction, which in turn pushes people to radicalize their beliefs. You can’t continue to sell a liberal, centrist viewpoint of the world when it simply isn’t working for them. They might cotton on to “dumb” ideas, but this does not mean that they are stupid. It means that they are angry. This is is demonstrative of a deeper problem that is being very deliberately ignored or papered over, because those in power have a vested interest in keeping the gravy train running for as long as possible. The sheer scale of the problems we now have to deal with are exceeding the kinds of moves and actions most Western politicians have learned over the years, so we aren’t getting appropriate results out of our political apparatus.

  In times such as these, many people will look to the past for ideas on how to deal with their current situation. They sometimes come back with bad ones, sometimes they come back with good ones, and the pre-existing power structure will do everything it can to resist both of them, because to change is tantamount to completely losing grip on power for many of the people invested in the way things are. They cannot adapt, and once gone they will never get it back.

  So we have a kind of a worst-case situation with a maladaptive leadership, extreme public resentment and actual natural/physical catastrophes forming a kind of crucible that this civilization needs to endure.

  The trumps/erdogans/farages/orbans/lukashenkos/putins/meleis of this world are symptoms of these issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like reddit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  discord requires a phone number to create an account. hard pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is stuck in a rut⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it gets much worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't find a good match⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Often times, you don’t need to ask. You can just tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why has the world gone to shit?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, most people would not.

  Most people would share, or hit a point and think “OK, that’s enough for anything I really want personally… I’m gonna try and help out now…”

  Nobody in their right mind should want a world where they are privately wealthy, but publically impoverished.
  Because then, you have no security.
  Someone will always be gunning for you.
  You can stave it off by layering brute force, and laws, but there is no such thing as 100% secure. Eventually something will make it through, and wreak havoc. And because all you now care about, over everything, is whatever paltry “wealth” you’ve managed to secure, the catastrophe is magnified orders of magnitude. You have no real friends or community to turn to, nobody who would support you if you didn’t have the most, and the rules didn’t make you “king” because of it.

  It’s a sickness.