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As a poor American who had to move back in with family out to a rural nowhere town and then had their car break down yet can't afford to get it running again, it absolutely fucking sucks.

I literally cannot go anywhere. I'm surrounded by fields. The closest store of any kind would be an hour's walk just to get there traveling on 55+mph highways for 80% of the trip with no sidewalk, just a 1ft gravel shoulder between the road and 4ft deep ditches filled with god knows what.

I haven't had social interaction that isn't the two family members I live with, and I don't even want to get started on how they are absolute drains on my already failing mental state.

Plus, now that I don't have a car, even if I do finally get a bite on my job search, which has been going for more than 6 months now, I have no transportation to get to work. I can't work from home due to the country bumpkin internet either.

It seriously just feels like waiting to die out here.

Every human has the capacity to learn and change. You just have to understand their perspective and find the fallacy in their internal logic. It requires monumental amounts of patience and creative thinking to find where their misunderstanding is, present them with an argument that they can conceptualize which forces them to confront the contradictions of their position, help ease them through the difficult process of overcoming the cognitive dissonance, and then begin the long process of educating them.

The problem comes from the fact most people cannot differentiate between the science side of and the industry side of pharmaceuticals. Same thing with college. The people who think "college is a scam" do not differentiate between the academics and the administrative aspects.

It all boils down to people not understanding the problem isn't the thing itself; it is the system that dictates the distribution of it and allows people of ill intent to exploit their control over its distribution for profit.

Their logic is backwards. They see "Bad People™ tell me that I need Thing© so they can exploit me for money, so Thing© must have been created by Bad People™ to exploit me, thus the thing must be a Bad Thing©" instead of seeing it as "this beneficial thing is being controlled by bad people who are exploiting people's desire for its benefits for proft."

Wanna know a fun fact?

The people who made this, Broderbund, made the original Prince of Persia games, the 2D ones.

Always much love for Ursula K. Le Guin. The Dispossessed is a masterpiece.

The prison and police institution it is part of needs to be abolished.

We need a system of Rehabilitative justice. Not Punitive.

Lol if you think poor people don't also work for the very rich. How do you think they got rich if not by exploiting poor people?

They can be the nicest people you know, yet, still bastards because their fortunes are stolen from the backs of those who labored due to how our economic system is structured to distribute ownership of resources. It is based on the diametrically oppositional interests of workers versus the interests of owners/shareholders. What is good for one is intrinsically bad for the other.

Owning class makes their money from the profit of companies they have share in or are the executives of. Profits are Revenue minus Expenses. Worker wages, benefits, upgrading/fixing equipment and working conditions, etc... are all Expenses. This means that there is always the dichotomy between money going to Profit, thus the pocket of the owning class, or to Expenses, thus going to workers in the form of wages, benefits, or improved working conditions.

Same thing with "ACAB". Police are pigs not because they are assholes (though most are, that's a different topic), but because of their systemic function in society.

That's the point of the second half of my comment.

Clickbait popsci sites are called "secondary sources".

It is very shortsighted phrasing that only serves to tell people that we shouldn't engage in violence for the sake of self defense because "it just makes more violence".

When in reality, it is just a way to tell people to sit down and accept the violence being committed against them by the system as normal and that rising up against it is somehow an immoral act.

Apples and Oranges mate. Such a shortsighted view to boil down all of the nuances behind the systemic reasons that people engage in political violence down to just "violence begets violence".

The right-wing assassin is a direct result of the Republican's brand of vitriolic, jingoist rhetoric that tries to convince its cult that the country is "being invaded by evil foreigners". Not because of the death of one CEO. His murder wasn't anything special other than it got an exaggerated amount of media coverage because he was rich.

Either way, America has been on this course for far, far longer then Luigi has even been alive. His alleged actions did not cause this. This story isn't "just beginning", it began almost a century ago and is now reaching its climax.

And, just for the record, I still proudly cheer for the death of scum like that insurance CEO. He deserved so much worse than the quick death he was given. Who did commit the act is a hero for the people.

Bud, literally all of society is political.

Politics is just "group decision making". If it involves a group of people acting collectively to make decisions about something, then it's political.

There is only so much "dumbing down" you can do to scientific research about topics until you lose all contextual nuance or become too long winded for a layperson to understand without being overloaded with information.

Then there is the issue with secondary and tertiary sources using simple language that causes confusion because it lacks the contextual nuance necessary to convey the correct interpretation.

Eh, mostly not the scientists' fault but the media sensationalizing the data in secondary and tertiary sources.

And, as you said, general ignorance of how science works internally. That is a problem with education though, again not the fault of the scientists.

Why is it always a jump to "Overly Paranoid to the point of seeing everything moving as a spook" instead of just "reasonably cautious but otherwise still level headed"?

If the GM's decision really was to fold that character into the group by just having them stroll up to a smuggler's ship like "Yo, I'm the jedi, let me in," that was an incredibly fucking stupid way to handle that character introduction.

Do you forget that this is almost literally what Obi Wan and Luke did to recruit Han and Chewie? Ya know, the famous Smuggler pair? They just walked up to the pair in a bar and had a polite discussion about requesting some discreet passage aboard Han's ship.

Last I checked, no one bitches about that part of A New Hope.

This right here is what makes it roleplaying.

You as the player know what to do to move the story forward. Just need to figure out how the character you built would go from Point A to Point B, then roleplay doing it, even if it means they bumble their way through it like a clown.

Let the DM worry about what skills you need, if you even need them at all; the only thing the player has to do is describe their actions and their intentions.

A good DM will make sure you fail forward.

AI is going to change a lot of industries forever and there is almost nothing workers and unions can do currently to actually stop the progress. [...] I think workers should protest workers conditions and wages, rather than protesting technology.

That's not an opinion, that's a claim of fact followed by a recommendation to drop the issue altogether based on the previous claim. They are just disguising that claim as an opinion by using casual rhetoric. It's a bullshit post meant to detract against workplace unionizing and worker activism for control over the industry in which they labor.

Protesting the technology used in the workplace and the company is protesting workplace conditions, dingus.

That's a completely societal issue that is separate from AI. It just so happens AI has the potential to be one of the many reasons people are at risk of losing their job.

The real issue there is that "losing your job" will equate with "losing access to necessities".