Rich donors who don’t want EU like welfare states in the U.S.

“So why are you voting Republican, then?” “My family is Republican; we always do.”

Republican politicians would eat this person and their family if it ever came to it

Their comment is based on this criteria:

Countries are classified as democracies if they meet the following conditions:

Executive: The executive is directly or indirectly elected in popular elections and is responsible either directly to voters or to a legislature.

Legislature: The legislature (or the executive if elected directly) is chosen in free and fair elections.

Voting: A majority of adult men has the right to vote.

Source https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/countries-are-the-worlds-oldest-democracies/

For anyone interested: the prehistoric origin of democracy, ie before the Greeks, is also interesting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_democracy

I think people should get to do them! I don’t enjoy them, but whatever. If we could make louder noises, flashes and colors with environmentally friendly fireworks, that’d be awesome. I think the noise, flash and color of fireworks is what other people enjoy, but we all suffer the poor air quality afterwards. So I just want something that will make other people get what they want out of fireworks while not damaging the air quality

Got mine along with my first baby. Another example of blaming women for legitimate health issues?

Sorry to know that! I was only talking about hemorrhoids from forcing shitting. Didn’t know they could happen with child birth, but makes sense

I’ll take death thanks 🙏

Hemorrhoids is a preventable condition, you’re not supposed to sit there and push. Just get up and do drink water or eat fiber. Try hot coffee or warm milk or a yogurt drink. No one needs to suffer from hemorrhoids at all, I am surprised there are still people who do. Should be a unit in middle school health classes to not force shitting

Could have made a meme instead of drawing this up, looking forward to seeing the artist mature some more and bring more distinctive style

Based on this list, maybe you need a niche and cozier community instead of a link aggregator. Have you considered starting your own community? Or maybe only subbing to communities which match your hobbies?

My suggestion? Don’t filter out anything because you need to know how other people think and what’s going on.

Yes, there’s lots and lots of disinformation and shilling, but exercise critical thinking (a part of which is knowing when to believe in something and when not to), and become almost stoic (mostly observe and analyze).

Besides all that, exercise and/or volunteer in your local community. You will feel less shit about things you cannot control.

Id love for Bernie to get a real chance

More leaders like her please, looking at you US

Edit but yeah being technically capable aside, many eugenists were PhDs and philosophers. Sam Harris comes to mind as he is a racist and a sophist with lots of academic qualifications. So yeah, ethics and morals also matter greatly. Mexico seems to have lucked out, good for them!

Many research jobs are like that

You can wash your hands in someone’s pee and save water

I get where you’re coming from, but most people who talk about race based inequality aren’t racist against white people, nor do they use words like caucascity to attack all white people but only those who uphold race based power structures (which would be judges, politicians, elites etc)

Could said witch perhaps try her luck on any of the GOP usual suspects and make them less ghoulish? Where would one even start?

Death is permanent and cannot be undone. Once someone dies they take all their love, potential and beauty with them. We can only with the memory of it, but that memory doesn’t have the ability to create new things or react to life in new ways.

That said, people should be able to end their suffering in a dignified manner of their choosing without suffering more. No one asked to be alive, it’s a burden imposed on them by the will of the living. The least we can do, then, is to make living as devoid of suffering as we can for everyone.

Bandcamp is nice, they have a curated genre section that updates frequently. College radio stations as someone mentioned, then just Shazam or whatever or look at their playlist online. I hate Spotify because it just gives you pop shit and doesn’t do anything niche or indie. There’s also SoundCloud, they make curated playlists of new stuff frequently. Sound cloud also has labels on there which curate some of their newest bands. It’s super easy to find niche indie labels I think. Lastly, look at lineups of local music spots. I used to listen to Deezer for finding non-US artists, but haven’t used it in a while since Bandcamp is kinda great about covering everywhere.

Wait, copilot and ChatGPT use are skills? Isn’t that a bit like how using a phone is a skill?

Both of your comments also remind me of Coinbase’s Balaji dude