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  • When there is a strong power dynamic, where one person has power over another, it can obliterate the idea of consent.

    I think that Musk's desire to have a large number of children is evidence of a mental illness.

  • You say you have mental illness. That might be so, I don't know. But I will say that everybody, even people without mental illness, make mistakes like you described, especially at your age.

    Everybody has dark and light inside of them. Being aware of this and being concerned when you make mistakes is usually a good sign that you're not a bad person. Try not to compare yourself to other people. Compare yourself to your past self. Keep improving and try to make fewer mistakes. But don't punish yourself too severely for making mistakes. Just keep trying to do better.

  • Are there any downsides to this scenario? We would all freeze and die. (RIP Humans)

    Sounds like somebody hasn't been watching the news lately. But it would be sad that all of the other life on Earth would also die.

  • I don't have context, but you might have been baited into that conversation by somebody whose goal was to get participants banned. The reason I say this is that it's such a strange topic to start with. The two options don't seem to have anything to do with each other, and both options are violent.

  • I would also like an answer.

    The only one I've thought of is to change to a constitutional monarchy like the UK and put me in charge. (Obviously, it would be me because I am the one waving the wand.) The king would have absolute power to resolve constitutional crises, and would otherwise just have a ceremonial role.

  • There's a Wikipedia article about the proverb.

    Speech is silver, silence is golden

    Beyond what it says in the article, silence is a popular tactic in negotiations to this day. If you're negotiating a price, it's more difficult for the party who mentions a price first. Also, the need to speak during silence often puts the speaker at a disadvantage in negotiations.

  • Nobody with a shred of a conscience wants to work for a boss who does Nazi salutes in public.

    That's why Musk loves H1B visas, because you can treat them like slaves and it's very hard for them to take an ethical stand.

  • But he and Johnson are also facing blunt political reality: They need Trump and MAGA-aligned lawmakers to get the GOP’s legislative agenda through their chambers, and there are few advantages to breaking with him.

    That's a strange way of saying that they are weak sycophants who, despite being ineffective at their leadership positions, would still rather cling to their worthless jobs rather than defend the Constitution, as they swore to do.

  • I know you said 2020, which was the year Brexit occurred, but I think many people thinking of 2020 would think of the pandemic. The thing is, though, that Brexit is the example from 2020, because just like our current situation, the conservative politicians lied that they were going to help the average person. Then, they convinced the UK to leave the EU, which tanked the British economy.

    The average person suffered. Small businesses went bankrupt. Meanwhile, the ultra wealthy used the time to purchase whatever they wanted at cheap prices, predicting that eventually the economy would recover. They were fine because of their vast resources, so this gives them the chance to steal all of the future profits from people of lower classes.

    Ultra wealthy people become ultra wealthy by stealing money from other people. Their employees bring much, much more value than they are compensated. They receive government subsidies which are largely funded by average people. And this is just one more example. They intentionally tank the economy so that they can steal from people who get into short term binds. They steal all of their future profits.

  • The language used is super interesting. "Defying Elon Musk"

    Defying. A terrifying word, yet appropriate.

    Musk has no position in the Wisconsin state government. He's not a constituent. You shouldn't be able to "defy" him because he has no position of authority.

    Yet they used the word "defying" and it's terrifyingly the correct word.

  • When asked about Musk and Huffman’s correspondence, Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini sent the following statement: “We take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously, whether on Reddit directly or through other public or private means. We will evaluate content reported to us and take action if violating.”

    There was a famous reddit user called Unidan who I think was a scientist that studied animals. His account was eventually banned for Terms of Service violations due to his having an account that posted comments, and several other accounts that were just used for voting. He used the other accounts to give his comments an initial voting boost, which was a policy violation, and was therefore permanently banned.

    Anyways, I occasionally noticed a strange voting pattern on Reddit. I'd have one comment that had not gotten any votes or replies for hours after I wrote it, and then all of a sudden, somebody would reply to argue, and their reply would more-or-less instantly have several upvotes, and simultaneously, my comment would have a similar number of downvotes.

    This person was obviously using multiple accounts, violating the Terms of Service just like Unidan, so I went to report them, only to find out that there was literally no way for me to report them. The report button didn't have any fitting option, nor was it guaranteed to go to a reddit admin who could actually look at who voted for what. Mods can't see comment votes. There was a separate webpage you could go to to contact the admins, but again, there was no category for it, and no way to make a report that didn't fit those categories.

    From that experience, it didn't feel like they would "take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously." How could they take the report seriously when they wouldn't even take the report in the first place? Now I see I was supposed to directly contact Reddit CEO Steve Huffman through private messaging.

  • So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.

    I never said what you're accusing me of saying. When Y corrects X, it is possible to say that Y is wrong without saying that X is right.

    Even when I referred to it once as "blobfish", that was to state its binomial name, not to state that "blobfish" was correct. OP used the term "blobfish" in exactly the same way. It's logically impossible for OP's post to be "more accurate" than mine.

  • The name information is incorrect.

    Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.

    Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. [...] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus

    The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, "binomial name" is not always the same as "proper name". There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that's the Family) above. "Fatheads" sounds insulting, and "Toadfishes" aren't toads.

    I wouldn't have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the "proper name" so poorly that I first read it as "Psychrd Lutes". And the second reading, I misread as "Psychiro Lutes", due to the weird "R" that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you're trying to emphasize how it is spelled.

  • Here is her quick political overview from this article.

    Love, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, made history in 2014 when she became the nation’s first Republican Black woman elected to Congress as the U.S. representative for Utah’s 4th Congressional District. She served for two terms between 2015 and 2019. While in Congress, Love championed sexual assault prevention and immigration reform. In 2018, Love notably clashed with Donald Trump, then the 45th president of the United States, by joining Democrats in condemning the Trump administration’s child separation policy at the U.S. border.

    Love was one of the few Republicans not to endorse Trump in the 2016 presidential election. She announced just before Election Day that she would not vote for Trump following the release of the infamous Access Hollywood video of him bragging about touching women sexually without their consent. “His behavior and bravado have reached a new low,” she said at the time.

    After she lost re-election in 2018, Love became a political contributor for CNN and made several appearances as a guest co-host for “The View.”