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

  That doesn’t help you understand his supporters though. You have to wade in the shit they call news. You have to hear what they say to begin to understand them.

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

  You’re in a media bubble. It feels like there’s no way anyone could see it differently. The people who disagree with you are also in a media bubble and don’t understand how you could believe what you do.

  For everything you said they

  • don’t believe happened
  • think it was a deep state plot
  • believe it’s good actually and believing anything else means you want to kill babies or destroy the economy
  • have never heard of it

  Reality may have a leftist bias but most people don’t live in reality. Most people live in a reality constructed by corporate media. Social media is largely derivative of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pros / cons of riding a bike?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bone conducting ones make me nauseous do I got a pair of Bose open earbuds. They’re not as good in loud environments but that’s kinda the point. I ride and listen to music with them daily

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what that has to do with anything. I’m a lefty, life has never mugged me. I’m a leftist because bad things happen to everyone and the solutions isn’t to hurt people until they’re better people. Giving people time and resources just makes people and society better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s the source. I think it’s a tool of social control that enables the powerful to create a bare minimum willingness to be ruled. For a long time the doctrine of Christianity was the Divine Right of Kings. Now it’s the Prosperity Gospel. The books did not change but the people with all the money and power ensured the church leaders who served their interest had most of the money and thus followers.

  If we didn’t have religion, some other social construct would arise, and I’d argue, has arisen to fulfill it’s role. Modern economic theory justifies the current power order in an unfalsifiable way that reminds me of religion.

  Religion could be a liberatory force in society. In fact it has been. The liberation theology movement in South America and numerous heretical movements in the late medieval period are both examples of progressive Christian social movements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deleuze⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the plant. Some plants, like plum or fig trees, have a lot of suckers poking out of the ground and putting up shoots. If they get disconnected from the rest of the roots they keep on growing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s another factor here. People who are vegan, sober, poly, don’t drive, and any number of choices are breaking societal norms. Most people don’t even think about these things as choices. They do the default. Realizing that there’s a choice, and that this person decided not to do the default, puts people off. It makes them uncomfortable. They begin to question things they’ve never had to evaluate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ones that are successful at enshitification have captive markets. They’re a monopoly, monopsony, or in another kind of inelastic market. pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the easiest ways to resolve this problem is artificially increasing supply. The government can subsidize the production of food, housing, medical care, and education. It doesn’t matter if people have more money if the supply of a good is always high. Having the government be a provider of these goods in monopolistic of inelastic markets would also be a good idea.

  I don’t think UBI should be implemented tomorrow. Subsidizing things today would be a much better first step. Several years of increasing supply and then starting UBI is a better bet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are the good political songs?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Freedom is a Verb by Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird is a favorite of mine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't know how to respond⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think artificial scarcity can be effective even in a space fairing society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes bikes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An excellent bike city is a long process but there’s a lot of simple stuff that could help folks cut down on car trips. Imminent domain a few side yards and put in walking and bike paths to make neighborhoods more walkable. Knock down some houses to put in corner stores with apartments on top. If you build dedicated bus lanes, light rail, and bicycle paths you’re on a road to a safer and more connected city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes bikes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The public transit isn’t that great where I live by European standards. I use a Brompton folding bike to make up the difference. It’s great for trains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes bikes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An Ebike is extremely helpful, especially if there are hills. Wear a breathable long sleeve SPF shirt. I like hemp and some of the stuff Colombia makes. If your route is safe enough don’t wear a helmet. Shorts and sandals are also helpful. I’ve had some success with lightweight merino clothes as well but they tend to get holey in a few years of frequent use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes bikes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Biking in the cold and wet honestly isn’t that bad. Biking is my primary way of getting around all year in the PNW. When it gets real cold I put on normal snow gear. It definitely makes going outside more of a production tho.

  A lot of it has more to do with what people are used to and feel is reasonable than with the actual conditions. If people saw more folks riding and actually knew people who rode I think people would be more open to try it.

  Unmanaged ice/snow, unhealthy wet bulb temperatures, and getting run over due to car first infrastructure are the most significant barriers to more people using bikes as transportation IMO. If a society chooses to, all those things can be mitigated.

  My favorite part of riding is that I get moderate physical activity for free. I would not spend near as much time being active otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes bikes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The comfortable temp for biking is significantly higher than it is for walking, especially with the right gear. 40°C is definitely beyond reasonable tho. Planting trees and decreasing the amount of asphalt would go a long way to make it a better proposition more of the year. A societal expectation that you don’t go or do anything when weather gets that hot could bridge the difference. Unfortunately that kind of philosophy is antithetical to capitalism’s demands for productivity.