Well yes, authoritarian overreach is rarely a means unto itself, it is a method by which some goal is achieved, in this case it’s him being able to use power to rewrite reality to suit his projection. That’s even more fascistic though.

Trump threatening media with treason… Can we call this fascism yet or is this still gonna get called alarmism by the same people from 2016 who usually flat-out don’t follow and/or understand news?

Red fash mask-off.

This holds as a general principle, but it’s also a principle based on research 60-40 years ago.

For instance in your example, If you bought S&P500 Jan last year in USD and then convert it to EUR in January this year, you would’ve lost money just because the dollar fell so much relative to the Euro.

You’d still be up on a longer term scale and even if you cashed out now you’d be up (though not 17%) because the dollar bounced back somewhat.

I’d say that this is a good principle but not a certainty and still needs to be considered in terms of a gamble.

I’d say every belief in the entirety of my socialization as a child was formed through bullying of some sort. You try something, people laugh, mock, beat, harass, it feels bad, your social brain says that was bad, you remember it because it feels bad, you adjust and don’t repeat to avoid feeling bad again.

That’s how human communities select for behaviour.

As an adult I’d say whether I like it or not I’ve become increasingly more tolerant of conservatives because of them shoving their shit down our throats everywhere. Things I’d consider so absurd they’re not worth the time of day are now ideas that seem almost sensible enough to warrant a rebuttal. I don’t like it, but they hold all the cards and make the rules and it works well for them, imo.

Hopefully the people mocked will adapt to social pressure and change their beliefs in order to fit in better. Bullying generally does work, even if it sucks. The only alternative is to simply murder the ones you disagree with and that sucks even more for multiple reasons, chiefly that right now numbers are against us.

I don’t think reasonable is even it for me, it’s just a helpful assumption.

If they are doing a perfect job at a Truman show type situation, there’s nothing you can do, so you might as well assume they’re not and play your role.

I didn’t even know there was comics, I only knew of the cartoon growing up. I’m the same way, only thing I do is do tarot card readings for me and my gf, we both know it’s just for fun, we also got some cool cards with the images from cyberpunk2077 so there’s that.

She is so based honestly. I’m very grateful to her taking these unfortunately controversial positions and standing up for our battered community. Greens are our only hope at this point.

Incredible article, the insight into how this all shaked out it provides is so interesting

We can only hope for riots at this point.

Thank you for replying! That’s cool to know.

It’s not about raw numbers, more like subgroups, if that makes sense?

Lemmy is a niche place, yes? Skews techie, nerdie, someone very internet heavy. At least that often seems to be an assumption I see about the place. But I don’t think it’s true, so I would just like to test that assumption, this is just an observation in that test.

I think Lemmy’s audience is actually fairly diverse, I also think it skews very young comparatively, for the latter in particular I think this is a good test.

It’s also of course possible that the techie, nerdy internet heavy crowd subgroup is big enough that even isolated to that sample, the chance of encountering someone who has seen the image before is actually that small, but nonetheless it’s a worthwhile observation.

Just use sponsorblock, uBlock, privacyBadger, Dearrow, consentomatic and that one that blocks the JS LAN scans (port authority?)

I’m really curious, has anyone here not seen this image before? Not playing internet gatekeeper, I’m curious about Lemmy demographics. This image was everywhere like 5-7 years ago.

Except this isn’t how language works, “Why do all the Asians wear black jeans?” invites both questions, unless the former is explicitly stated as a fact. It is obvious that any such thing is an unfalsifiable observation.

People aren’t robots. “you’re making everyone do extra work” - not how people work, not how reasoning works. Viewing something through a framework of even incorrect assumptions can provide unique insight. That is inviting speculation.

On the other hand - you’re continuously asserting my claim is false but have provided no proof of this.

You have only questioned the proof of my claim, which yes - is anecdotal only, pure observation, as I readily admitted, and was never intended as a fact.

I would suggest setting aside some time to cultivate your critical thinking skills.

And you reckon asking why something is true isn’t in effect the same as asking if something is true, but with an invitation for speculation, rather than pure anecdotes which I’d be limited to otherwise?

It’s an observation, not a conclusion ya nitwit.

The absence of scientifically rigorous, high sample size experimentally proven, well substantiated, documented reproducible conclusions does not render the observation wrong in and of itself because they’re just not in the same category.

Observation is the first step to formulating a theory, which leads to a hypothesis, which can be experimentally tested.

Yeah most of those people aren’t on amphetamines that they require to do basic functions, are they?

Because I have ADHD and can’t relate, it’s in my post.

My gf who also has ADHD also cannot relate. We both tried TikTok, which showed the aforementioned slop, and we found it unstimulating as fuck and got bored very quickly. I