Gradually_Adjusting

Gradually_Adjusting, 1 month ago

I am a lover of both words and deeds. This issue needs a lot of bad laws rolled back, but it also needs to have this kind of thing being said at every level of society.

Gradually_Adjusting, 22 days ago

I feel like I’ve said this before, but maybe letting right wing billionaires own all the major media outlets was a bit of an oopsie.

Gradually_Adjusting, 22 days ago

“Trump’s as bad as people are afraid he is, but I could never compromise my values so much that I’d vote for a centre right neoliberal.”

Anyone who feels this way is an actual nazi

Gradually_Adjusting, 3 months ago

That’s how you can tell it’s performative and carefully chosen

Gradually_Adjusting, 4 months ago

We really do have to get through the Black Mirror sci-fi before we can have the Star Trek stuff, huh.

Gradually_Adjusting, 3 months ago

Maybe it’s more fun being a secret society that runs the world if the only people who can figure it out are the stupidest fuckers in the world

Gradually_Adjusting, 21 days ago

“What are you gonna do about it”

Ugh. Computer, translate.

“Please feed my persecution complex”

Gradually_Adjusting, 22 days ago

It’s not a new observation that the GOP and Russia are on the same page about a lot of things; what isn’t settled is what will be done about it

Gradually_Adjusting, 3 months ago

Dark money out of politics would alleviate a lot of the issues we’ve been seeing. The voting system is still the game we have to play if we want democracy, and badly designed games are only fun for the winners. An approval vote would get us more broad consensus in leadership, and a return to government based on a shared vision of society, rather than a Congress perpetually locked in a darkly comedic reimagining of the French National Assembly.

Gradually_Adjusting, 3 months ago

Any democracy based on FPTP voting will trend rightward. It’s a fundamental flaw in the voting system from a game theory perspective. The dynamics of a two party system will always support a good cop/bad cop dominant strategy (think of spoiler candidates, and how we always are faced with the prospect of voting against a bad candidate rather than for a preferable one). Good candidates exist, but our preferences are not a priority inherent to the design of the system.

We would do better with approval voting or Concorcet, but the only way to change the voting system is to get buy-in from the parties to whom it would be certainly fatal.

Gradually_Adjusting, 3 months ago

Imagine giving this company $120 per year to rent music

Gradually_Adjusting, 16 days ago

Remember when closer economic ties with China was going to make them into a liberal democracy? That was awesome.

Gradually_Adjusting, 2 months ago

Corporate media and fascist tendencies make cozy bedfellows? The Boys, satire? The devil you say

Gradually_Adjusting, 6 days ago

The medium is the mess

Gradually_Adjusting, 14 days ago

More detail from Pravda:

Shuliak told Ukrainska Pravda that the following will not be eligible to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine: those who have committed premeditated murder, rapists and paedophiles, corrupt officials, those who have committed crimes against the foundations of Ukraine’s national security, and those who have held a particularly responsible position, including MPs and ministers. Persons convicted of the illegal production, acquisition, distribution or possession of drugs will also not be permitted to serve in the Armed Forces. Shuliak added that all other prisoners who could potentially be mobilised would be subject to the same condition: they must have no more than three years of their sentence left to serve. “Prisoners who have a longer period left to serve in prison – and those sentenced to life imprisonment all the more so – will be immediately rejected without the right of reconsideration,” she said. Should a person released on parole to serve in the Armed Forces reoffend while serving, the unspent part of their previous sentence will be added to the new sentence.

Gradually_Adjusting, 16 days ago

🔥👖🔥

Gradually_Adjusting, 14 days ago

The real joke is how annoying it is to clean plastic waste before recycling it, only for it to end up not getting recycled at all

We have been played for actual fools

Gradually_Adjusting, 3 months ago

Yes! I love seeing more talk about that. I loved my psychometrics work at uni, and it was such an eye opener. Would say at most big 5 model, maybe just Eysenck’s really

Gradually_Adjusting, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

That feels contrived. Are we expected to form international policy based on social media buzz?

Edit to add: is not that the Biden administration is losing interest in supporting Ukraine, it’s just that half of Congress is taking orders from someone who wants Putin to win.

Gradually_Adjusting, 3 months ago

Oh look, the only good comments are at the bottom.

Gradually_Adjusting, 4 months ago

Yeah it’s like all her ugliness moved to the inside

Gradually_Adjusting, 2 months ago

They’ve become monstrous, but don’t forget who fed the beast and always looked the other way when it bit a neighbour. So much American money has been given to them over the decades that AIPAC spends a lot of money making sure it doesn’t stop. Meanwhile Netanyahu has indirectly enabled and supported Hamas so his casus belli stays in play perpetually

Gradually_Adjusting, 3 months ago

Funny how America’s always in charge of gas prices, the stock market, and other countries when a Democrat is in charge, isn’t it?