Neurologically.

There are some great studies using brain scans that show when you give people extra privileges, even in limited contexts like games, the empathy centers of the brain are supressed and show weaker activity.

Higher status individuals regularly fail to read emotions as well as lower status people do. Brain scans also show that power makes your resource reward centers more active and makes you less able to regulate these kind of impulses.

Power makes humans cruel, selfish, greedy and impulsive. It’s how human brains work. Heirarchy and justice are mutually exclusive.

This is objectively correct. We are social mammals and everything we do is steeped in politics. We live in a social world and we navigate power, privilege, wealth and ideologies in everything we do - politics.

Believing you can go politics free just marks you as either naive or callous.

At least this is in a shitposting forum, the correct venue for such an idea.

Dems had a supermajority. They enjoyed widespread public support. Sarah palin made the loony right look pathetic. Obama was never afraid to overuse executive orders either - dems had a lot of levers to pull and a lot of leverage to pull them.

If they’d investigated the rampant illegality, that would’ve been very hard for a post-loss republican party engaged in in-fighting to defend against. A new generation of republican hopefuls would’ve been tempted to get air time by twisting the knife in the old losers.

Remember the hype around the special master under biden? Imagine that, aided by obama’s charisma, with a super majority and before republicans completely corrupted the supreme court. They had a mandate and a lot of power.

Obama didn’t deal with Bush

I think this is SO important, and people never talk about it. The last chance we had to prevent trump was if obama prosecuted the open theft, corruption, torture and war crimes of the bush era. By biden it was too late, the rich already knew they could get away with it.

As soon as obama gave his “I’m looking forward, not backward” explanation for refusing to enforce the rule of law, he proved that he was yet another useless politician with no will to fix the problems facing the US.

Bush and obama paved the way for the current regime, and people never give obama his fair share of the blame.

Because of the US and british empires, english functions as a prestige language, the language of international trade and english language media is widespread. Many people know at least a little english, and most languages have english loan words.

Plenty of US english songs have the odd spanish word. Doesn’t 小蘋果 have a korean bit? Even hebrew prayers break into aramaic every now and again.

We live in a multi-lingual world and our songs reflect that.

I much prefered diamond age to snow crash. I liked them both but found that snow crash started strong and didn’t quite maintain.

The article was mostly talking about how manufacturing has changed, becoming less blue collar and more white collar. Far far fewer people are employed at higher salaries due to automation (robots). So manufacturing can’t support entire towns like it used to. Plus what we manufacture has changed - it’s much more high end, high value products.

Objectively untrue. He lacks the cognition to realize anything of the sort. “Mythos is so scary!!1!1” is a PR line.

🤨🤔😐You win this round, smartarse!

There was fun article years back pointing out that regardless of the “we don’t make anything anymore” narrative, the US has never been lower than the 2nd largest manufacturer in the world.

Exactly - the rich have two parties, we have none.

The importance of the dems in sabotaging our attempts to combat the predation of the rich is pretty clear these days as they prioritize losing to fascism over embracing a single progressive policy.

don’t cry when the next rights they take are ones you were enjoying.

You’re overreacting - kids not using phones during class is not a fundemental human rights issue.

Moreover, the study only says that there is little impact on test scores so far. That’s a very limited conclusion. There’s a lot more to education than test scores. Even one of the authors warns against reading this study as evidence against phone bans.

one of the report’s authors, said it would be wrong for policymakers to see the results as a reason to shy away from restrictions.

“One of the concerns I have about this study is that it might encourage people to walk away from phone bans as a compelling reform. And I think that would be a major mistake

The study very specifically says "average effects on test scores are consistently close to zero.”

Little effect on test scores is VERY different to no positive effect and at least one author of the study is still strongly in favour of phone bans.

Most AI music will just end up with the badge, right?

Yet another piss-weak response from elites who won’t call out brazenly illegal authoritarianism even when it affects them.

“Underestimated” implies a level of planning or willingness to face reality that i just don’t think was present.

I don’t see much evidence they even considered consequences.

“Saying a big hello to all you sentient lifeforms out there and for everyone else the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys!”

Yeah this is clearly the correct answer: it refers to percentage of total population. Technically its closer to 37:1, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Netanyahu is obviously a racist cunt, but he’s not going to go out of his way to publicly offend americans dying for his political goals - he wants americans to continuing dying for his political goals.

He has very little formal power, just wealth, status, connections, titles, fame, ceremonial power, large property holdings and public funding.

His brother is one of the world’s most famous child rapists, a key player in the trump-epstein trafficking ring and his dad was an outspoken racist.

The optics of dems giving a standing ovation to an unelected monarch while we suffer under authoritarian rule are not good.

That means at least $50b