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It’s not like the current group of users is perfect either. There’s a lot of circlejerk opinions going around, and I’ve seen being get majorly downvoted for posting factual info that went against the “hivemind” opinion.

I think some people sabotage relationships for the same reason they throw video games. They have fears/suspicions that it’s going to not work out, and rather than be a victim they want to have some control over the outcome. A loss or failed relationship doesn’t hurt as bad if they caused it to end the way it did.

However in your case, it sounds more like a fear of something different. It’s a lot easier to keep things like they are, when a relationship gets too serious or life impacting it can be easy to be scared of the change, and instead subconsciously decide you want to keep things like they are.

It takes a lot less money and knowledge to tear things down than it does to build them up. Especially if the members are willing to die for the cause.

That was a good investigation and explanation about a weird number of up votes. Thanks for explaining it.

Right, but any kind of “you can’t wear a mask in public” law is easily evaded if there’s a legal exception for wearing one for health reasons.

From reading the article, I get the impression that this bill is mostly about them wanting to be able to arrest protesters who wear masks to hide their identity.

Which is still really shitty, to be clear.

Yeah, my wife wanted to watch it together and we got burned out on the repeated catastrophes. At some point they move onto dramatic plot disasters that include a bunch of the hospital staff, to make it more exciting. The show went on for a ton of seasons after we dropped it, so presumably they found some way to make it even more dramatic than a disaster that kills a 3rd of the hospital every season finale.

Watching the show on netflix was also bad for emotional whiplash. They would build all season up to two doctors confessing their love in the season finale, and then immediately in the next episode (new season) they would be broken up again. I suspect it felt more natural with the delay between seasons in-between episodes, but watching them back to back like that felt jarring.

I feel like that’s less of a democracy issue, and more of an issue that people with power will use that power for their own benefit.

Pretty rough, from what I understand:

• Promised jobs in Germany
• sent to Bangkok instead
• Taken to Belarus
• Taken across border into Russia, kept at camps.

Once in Russia, they were told to join the Russian Army. To motivate them, they were:

• Offered Russian work visas, brides, and passports
• Denied food and water when they refused.
• Burned with heated wood and matchsticks, cut with knives, and other torture methods
• Threated with knives and guns
• Finally arrested for illegally entering the Russia.

I’ve heard other reports of people from India getting forced into fighting for Russia after fraudulent job offers, so it seems like this is becoming fairly widespread.

Well that’s worse than I thought it would be. And judging from the graph at the bottom, it’s not just a US only issue. Many other major countries (Germany, Denmark, England) have basically the same score.

The scores for the top countries (Japan and Finland) don’t seem that high either (US had 270, Japan had 296), but I might be underestimating how much improvement that score change represents. Edit: was re-reading the article, and the literacy score is out of 500. So 296 as a score still has a long way to go.

Man, India always has the worst news stories coming out of it.

“Nigeria has become the second deadliest Genocide-Country in the world accounting for more than 150,000 religiously motivated defenseless civilian deaths since 2009,” the report states.

It says about 100,000 Christians were among the 150,000 killed while moderate Muslims accounted for about 46,000, and members of other religions accounted for the remaining 4,000 defenseless civilian deaths.

That’s pretty awful, I’m surprised I haven’t heard more about it.

There’s a difference, in my opinion, between designing a weapon and just being a generic worker at the company.

As a generic worker, the end result isn’t any different whether it was you or someone else. For example, I don’t think a guy who works at a Tesla factory could be considered responsible if the self driving malfunctions and kills someone. He might have directly contributed to the car that got built, but if he didn’t work that job the car would have still been made and the tragedy would still have happened.

It’s ethical, the parts will be made whether you work that job or not, and you’re only responsible for the actions of the military to the extent that you’re able to change them.

Since none of your reasonable options will make an impact on the production or use of those items, it’s not a ethical issue for you to work there.

What matters much more is your ability to provide for yourself and those around you.

From reading about the GTA leaker, he was repeatedly involved in hacking/extortion attempts with multiple companies causing millions in damages, and he repeatedly said that he would immediately go back to doing it again as soon as he got Internet access again.

So basically he’s going to immediately start causing real world damages if released, and he has no intention of pretending otherwise or complying with any kind of probation/etc.

Protests generally don’t change policy, although politicians may use them as justification for something they already want to push through.

https://youtu.be/cYxIe7T8ZKA?si=AsFcLs6FVvd9BUg7

Dramatic reading.

Usually to use an amp meter like that, you also need one of these: https://a.co/d/d7qb5pj

But for $12 you can buy a plug with a screen that will record power usage, which would be even easier and cheaper. https://a.co/d/bj4U2hA

You can, but you would be better off buying something like this:

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Yeah, I was just talking about the idea of providing incentives for healthy activities as a general concept.