Your source link doesn’t work and I’m extremely skeptical of whatever data is being used in that graph. A simple Google search will show numerous studies have shown an extreme increase in wealth inequality in the US has gotten much worse over time. Every other graph I can find reflects this reality.

So unless you can provide an actual source that can be scrutinized, I’d recommend everyone reading this to take it with a massive grain of salt.

Yeah, there isn’t much originality in Christianity. Besides the point, really.

How many billions of people in 2026 are Hellenistic? Like actually, earnestly, believe in Greek mythology?

What percent of politicians in the US worship Greek gods and use their teachings to inform policy?

Fighting it is a new thing for me. It’s not really even fighting it, I’ve just chosen a “default” song that, as soon as I notice I’m starting to repeat an unwanted melody or lyric in my head, I’ll start thinking intently on my “default” song and it basically forces the other song out.

Then I have the intro to “Good Times, Bad Times” by Led Zeppelin (my “default” song) in my head for a few min before it fades away. I’m not sure how I came up with it, but it’s something I only thought about doing in the last few years. It kind of works usually.

I will often swap lyrics with other songs, or just make up my own which sometimes makes me giggle.

Have you ever done psychedelics? Is the experience for people like this purely visual and tactile? Or do wires cross and you get a glimpse into what people mean by internal visualization?

It’s not all sunshine and roses. My brain is like a broken jukebox that’s permanently on and set to random. I’ll start singing a song that I literally haven’t heard in 15 years, and next thing I know it’s stuck in my head.

It can be maddening, though I have developed some coping mechanisms to “reset” if I can’t get a song out of my head.

I can’t imagine what it’s like;

I think the Buddha called it “enlightenment” lol

He’s like the definition of smarmy rich liberal.

And yeah, he’s anti-trans. Which needs to become a nonstarter for Democrats

I don’t care whether you do or don’t,

We can fucking tell. Go away.

Good

I’m gonna guess no, by the way Russia, of all countries, is handling it.

Every single day this sentence is valid. I’m tired boss.

Cold reading. That’s how it works.

They’re also just inert balls of gas that are way too far away to have any effect on our planet

some people like astrology, some people like drugs, god, the universal conciousness, whatever. pick your passion.

Now hold on… One of these things is actually real though, and has very direct effects on your consciousness. It’s insane to include drugs in there.

And you can’t see how stupid this is?

You forgot the part about how it’s determined by giant balls of gas millions of light years away that aren’t actually arranged in neat patterns, but are actually incredibly far from one another and only look like patterns from our specific position in the universe

You suddenly want to play games for babies?

Oh that’s way better, never mind.

If your therapist doesn’t “allow” you to talk about the systemic problems with capitalism, then you should find a new therapist asap

Yeah no, that’s not how regulation works. These aren’t babies or dogs, we don’t bribe them with “positive reinforcement.” That does not work.