Pelicanen @ Pelicanen @sopuli.xyz

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One of my favorite comments I've seen was last time one of these surveys were posted and a Finn responded "It's not that we're happier than everyone else, it's just that the world is going to hell and we were already used to it".

Local minimum, not a global minimum. Evolution is one long autoregressive process.

Life gave me lemons, I don't make lemonade, I'm mad like Cave Johnson, I got lemon grenades (@1:18)

Thing is, it's not about being "the main character". Some people had a really rough time in school and for them it can feel that they're being judged by others even if most people aren't. Childhood trauma and psychological conditions are really complex and even if you can "logically" reason something to be true, your anxiety and your emotions are really really good at convincing you that your fears aren't unfounded.

What makes you think they took offense? If they responded another way that they don't do it, you'd believe them? I think you're just coming up with excuses to claim that you're right.

In Finland they're just called French. Plural.

It goes in the fuel tank inlet: The in-hole, not the out-hole.

Cause if both partners are the same gender, the basis for conflict can't be gender differences.

and there is less crime

I wouldn't necessarily bet on this, authoritarian states are breeding grounds for corruption and that in turn fuels crime. I wouldn't be surprised if China has a problem with criminality that the government, at least on a local level, not only turns a blind eye to but is complicit in.

I read the comment I was replying to as being sarcastic but I might have been incorrect to do so, in that case you're entirely right.

What are the "far greater social costs" of cannabis compared to tobacco?

The document states that the dictatorship in the USSR was a group that Stalin/Khruschev was the head of rather than just ruling entirely alone as a sole leader. Which is, y'know, usually how dictatorships work.

Someone bought the Soviet propaganda wholesale.

Whoever is in charge of Alpine's social media should get a raise. For the stress of it if nothing else.

You mean attacking Darth Vader who was actively trying to kill him? While telling him that he'd turn his sister to the dark side? After the emperor was gloating over his friends getting ambushed and slaughtered? That's the situation you're referring to?

Also, I don't think that just because Anakin, who Luke never met while growing up, killed tuskens and younglings, Luke would act entirely differently than in the original trilogy. That's just weird.

It's possible to ruin the planet enough that the things supporting life, the ozone layer and the atmosphere for example, are wrecked beyond repair and that the planet becomes permanently lifeless. Sure, technically the planet will still exist, but so will every other dead rock in space.

Not if we nuke it all into an irradiated wasteland in desperation.

The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist's original post doesn't mention anything else.

I'm not sure you know how much a million dollars actually is or how effective drugs are on your mental well-being. They're not magic, it's still probably going to be years of problems and while a million dollars is enough to make you live very comfortably, it's not enough to actually make you rich rich.

I personally don't think you can put a price on your health, mental or physical, and being immobile for 48 hours in a wooden box is going to be very hard on your physical health as well.

While I would otherwise probably reiterate that it's pretty easy to type in words on a keyboard compared to actually having to go through with actual actions, I see the real world and how it functions might not be interesting enough for you so I'll pass. Have a nice day.