agent_flounder @ agent_flounder @lemmy.world

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He's more useful as an incoherent, babbling dementia patient. Even more if dead. They can just turn him into a literal puppet.

The older you get the more often you'll be able to play!

I detest slack, teams is better (but that's a low bar) lol

I don't have the impression that US civil society has too many objections.

A lot of us do have major objections! I could talk about what we should or shouldn't do but I have a far more crucial point to make.

I hope that people like you around the world will spend the time to thoroughly understand the complex story of how the US got to this point. Or you will be here sooner than you realize.

Though our culture has been inundated with cautionary tales about fascism and authoritarianism since WWII ended, those stories all occur in the end game, right before the baddies win. When it is almost certainly too late.

You see, the best time to do something about all this was thousands of times over the last half century that the Republicans have been plotting and subverting little by little. They've been slowly and methodically preparing the way for total control this whole time.

They eroded and twisted education, formed propaganda outlets (Fox "News", Rush Limbaugh), decimated corporate regulations, legalized political corruption, appointed judge after judge, gerrymandered their way to power, cut taxes for the rich, kneecapped anti-trust, allied with right wing religion, and so on. They have think-tanks and foundations to strategize and prepare right wing leaders, like Kavanaugh, and draft plans like Project 2025.

And pro-corporate Democrats probably helped this glacial takeover through action and inaction as much or more than they actively hindered it, because what's good for corporations tends to be terrible for democracy.

So beware the plodding, insidious, small, multitudinous power grabs and fight every one of them tooth and nail, if you don't want to see right wing extremism rise to power again in your own country.

Organized religion is such an effective political tool and con.

I wonder if it was ol' psycho-eyes Copeland. He did some fire and brimstone as I recall. Maybe Pat Robertson. He was big stuff back then.

It's SOP for any hot or cold war I suppose.

Systemically, thoroughly, widely fucked. Where "it" refers to the US, our democracy, society, people, etc.

And all of them to a person would act and talk like nothing was amiss. I kind of want to see this timeline, now.

Jesus that sucks so much. It looks like you have a solution for now but I bet there are some folks here and elsewhere who would be all in on reverse engineering the shit out of any part of that system.

Glad I could help! We got this!

Yes we can!

Or else the destinies were the manifests we made along the way.

Just one? I feel like there must be several. Nixon admin I am guessing. Third Reich probably...

I would say this definitely applies to specific sects of certain religions. Probably not to all. A number of sects of Christianity count. The idea that everyone is evil and deserves hell until repenting is a pretty twisted worldview. The shit they put on girls and women is deplorable. The sects share in common several techniques used by cults. So basically they are cults. Teaching kids to reject people different from them is vile.

I'm not convinced it applies to all religions, however.

We are twins.

I am genuinely glad to hear that! Because I know it is really hard (from experience; still working on it)

Try eating it for a few months and I bet you will see that people acclimate. Just like if you cut out salt suddenly processed shit tasted way too salty. Hell, I just had a peanut butter cup, first candy in weeks and it was like hyper sugar. Yuck.

A buddy of mine spends time in an easy Asian country where even desert is barely sweet and he noticed the same coming back to the states.

See, food companies figured out they could make more money selling food with cheap HFCS because it "tastes better". It's cheaper than sugar because we grow boat tons of corn + govt subsidies. It isn't banned because corruption and regulatory capture that is ubiquitous in the US.

Lucky us.

Understanding the concept is simple.

But losing it is hard and the battle to maintain a lower weight is a bitch and a half.

If it were easy, everyone would do it.

Not all of us are equipped with unassailable willpower (I think that's part of the executive function of the brain). Additionally, many people maladaptively cope with stress, trauma, boredom, lack of dopamine, etc., by eating. Others have mentioned factors that discourage cooking at home.

I think any dismissive, simplistic, judgemental take on weight loss is worth the toilet paper I just flushed. It doesn't fix anything. It doesn't help anyone who needs help.

About all it does is make the preachy people feel superior to those who they're preaching to .. while making the overweight people feel shame, usually a counterproductive emotion. If shame effectively motivated people to lose weight, few would be overweight because there's been plenty of fat shaming over the years.

People are individually responsible. But people are also responsible for finances. Telling someone they should manage their money better, get a better job, and spend less is equally tone deaf as much weight loss "advice".

Better to understand the whole picture and figure out what we can do to systemically and individually set people up for success rather than denigrating them for personal and systemic issues.

an electric bicycle is not more efficient than a non-electric bicycle.

I thought that's exactly what the graph shows, though?? The way I am reading the graph, the ebike is less efficient per mile -- requires more energy per mile -- than a non-electric bike, just as you would expect.

Fucking ew.