WoodScientist @ WoodScientist @sh.itjust.works

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People are dumb emotional animal, and propaganda works. Bitching about this fact won't change it. We live in a system where everyone gets to vote, even the stupid. If you as a politician fail to appeal to everyone, regardless of intelligence, then you are the one to blame.

At this point, I assume anyone still harping on this is a conservative provocative looking to stir up division.

The truth is it's possible for more than one group to be at fault. Those who stayed home have a ton of blame, the centrist dipshits at the DNC have a ton of blame, and the Republicans themselves have the most blame of all.

Quit trying to sew division. We need unity now, not to rehash old grievances.

We should start a club. Get 30 people together. Select a house in town at random. Then, we all show up at their door at 2 in the morning on a random weekday. We ring the doorbell until they groggily answer. We tell them we're here to help them find themselves.

I mean if i was just chilling in the woods having a good time

That's my kind of party.

You sure? Maybe someone stole it without you knowing. :D

Not all who wander are lost.

An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.

I see you also follow the life philosophy of, "if you're not on at least one watch list, are you even really living?" :D

Maybe. Maybe not. The bystander effect is real. And they have something to lose. If I'm being disappeared off to a death camp somewhere, I literally have nothing to lose.

I'm really torn on this. As a trans person, I'm a member of one of the groups most targeted by the regime. I've wanted nothing to do with firearms in the past, because frankly, I've dealt with a lot of depression at times in my life. Never enough to have any attempts, but enough to really give me pause about owning a weapon. The only weapons I want to own are fantasy props I make in my wood shop. I'm the exact opposite of a violent person. I am an educator; my greatest joy in life is when I can see my lessons spark the light of knowledge in others. Truthfully, I want nothing to do with firearms.

But this environment really makes me wonder. I would honestly rather die than be shipped off to be raped to death in some hellhole in El Salvadore. I would not survive long in a place like that.

I am very conflicted on this. Fuck this world. These are the kinds of choices no one should ever have to make. The world has gone mad.

The point is there are only so many ICE goons out there. If every person they tried to disappear took one of the bastards with them, this would end pretty damn quick.

I still remember my first playthrough. Low level character. I save scummed until I could sneak into the tower in the heart of the Imperial City. In the council chamber was a mage with an incredibly powerful staff. I pickpocketed it off of him, again using save scumming. I then traveled to Bravil and entered the castle there. As the Count of Bravil was giving a speech, I pulled out the staff and zapped him dead on his throne, right in front the of the whole court. I then got away from the assassination through the brilliant escape plan of running out the front door, murder weapon still in hand.

Damn I loved Oblivion.

Muuuuurrddeeerrr!!!

Your wish is granted. Half of you will be mailed to Ireland, the other half to Scotland.

They're not going to be on US soil. There's a reason the Nazis built there's in foreign soil as well. If people are being rounded up into camps, they really have nothing to lose at that point. If you build them on US soil, you legitimately have to worry about crowds of heavily armed Americans showing up to liberate people from them. If you're going to get sent to a camp anyway, you have nothing to lose taking up arms against them. It's a lot more difficult to try and liberate a concentration camp in El Salvador.

Does it really boost productivity? In my experience, if a long email can be written by an AI, then you should just email the AI prompt directly to the email recipient and save everyone involved some time. AI is like reverse file compression. No new information is added, just noise.

No, he's not worried. And he has good reason not to be. He knows history. Obama didn't hold the Bush administration officials responsible for their crimes. In fact, he happily kept using many of those illegal powers himself. And Biden didn't hold the first Trump administration accountable for their crimes.

Liberal Democrats have a core character flaw. They don't like confrontation. It's the same impulse that causes them to reflexively seek out compromise with Republicans at every turn. They have this narcissistic trait that makes them think they can achieve their place in history by being a grand peacemaker. They always seek reconciliation without accountability.

I guarantee you, if another centrist Dem manages to win in 2028, their very first official act will be to come before the nation, try to be the grand peacemaker, and announce, "it is time for the nation to move on, all is forgiven!"

They can't help themselves. They're cowards to their core.

I suggest you read The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. Suffice to say, the actual history of the invention of farming was anything but this nuclear explosion type event. This model was created as a hypothetical, scholars trying to imagine how it actually happened. The real archaeological and ethnographic record paints a very, very different picture.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2022/07/13/book-review-the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity/

How long do you think it will be until he's laying hands on you?

Oh yeah, you were there too! It was a great get together. Remember all that fun stuff we did?

Whoever it was and whatever they were planning, they're innocent. They were actually hanging out with me at the time on the other side of the country. All the eye witnesses there were just high on ayahuasca and hallucinated the whole thing.

Yeah, people forget that there are some real hard limits on how far population can fall. What people fail to realize is that our level of technology is actually a function of our population. Mass production and industrial society requires a certain minimum population level and population density. If things fell so far that there were only 100 million humans on Earth, that would have profound implications on the level of technology we able to deploy and maintain. Past certain points, you by necessity start regressing technologically. At a population of 100 million, we would probably end up with a technology level more like the early to mid 19th century. You just can't maintain complex supply chains with so few people. Economies simplify, and you end up back in an agrarian state. At that point, most of the population is working on farms again. Suddenly children become an economic boon for a family farm, a source of labor as they were historically. Then the birth rate soars again. And of course at some point you can't maintain factories that turn out millions of birth control pills.

I don't think we will actually hit these kind of hard limits. I think cultural factors will cause the birth rate to recover long before we start seriously regressing technologically. But it shows that we're not at any risk of extinction here. Even if cultural factors never cause the birth rate to recover, eventually technological regression will serve as a hard limit.

I can't predict what exactly those numbers are where these limits kick in, but it's pretty intuitive they exist. If your population density falls so far that you're back at hunter-gatherer population levels, well you're going to be living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.