Not for long.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxje8n/researchers-use-ai-to-generate-images-based-on-peoples-brain-activity

In what situation would it be appropriate, legal, and approvable to burn down civilian houses in an occupied area?

I can’t think of one.

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Regressives the world over are not creative. They do what they do because they believe others will do it. They’re bullies because they were bullied, and they don’t want to be the victim, so they erroneously believe that means they have to strike first.

They never stop to think, “What if the world weren’t shit? What can I do to make it better?” They accept as a fact that it is shit, and they believe the only way to come out ahead is to step on someone else.

When you get several of these people/groups pointing at each other, it becomes an infinite cycle.

Employers are limited in paying into 401ks for highly compensated employees, and are required to have a certain percentage of their normal employees putting money in if they want to go hog for their execs. That’s why many give matches, to incentivize folks to contribute so that they can then funnel more to the C-suite.

Your coworker is right that the lack of match makes the 401k less appealing. That said, it’s still the stock market, but you may have severely limited options.

You’ll want to do what you’re required to do, but then you should look into a ROTH IRA, which will give you a lot more control over that extra 5%.

I’ve heard of people growing kombucha scoby in rectangular containers and then drying it to use in place of leather.

Hello from kbin. It’s nice over here.

My understanding is that he isn’t running for office yet. He’s running for a party’s nomination for president.

If he wins that, then he’s running for president and states will have to decide whether he can be on the ballot.

I know it’s a fine distinction, but if they ruled otherwise, it would get overturned.

They know. That’s why they hate theatre.

Again, what good would this do if you are in a war torn country that cannot secure its elections?

So they amend their constitution. During a war. To force people into the streets to vote.

How does the government make sure the election is fair? Some people won’t be able to vote due to danger. Some will be attacked. Some areas are occupied, and the occupation lines may change during the election.

If they tried to run an election now, Russia would publish their own results showing that the occupied areas voted for Putin. Trying to run elections is hard enough in normal times, doing so with Russia literally holding a large swath of your country is impossible.

This. Pretty much every company that does business with the US or a US state has clauses in their contract about “boycotting” Israel, poorly defined on purpose.

100%. Most business is just advanced sophistry at this point. Marketing and advertising serves a useful purpose for new products, when the market isn’t aware that it exists.

But by quantity and cost, most advertising is just social manipulation and is effectively an extra drain on the economy.

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I saw one program that Rick rolled Bluetooth device lists.

This seems to mean they blame the government for lack of “security” before the attack, which could mean they just want more apartheid.

And “must resign after the war” is way different than “must resign.” Any leader, but especially an authoritarian, would read this and say “Guess I should never end the war, then.”

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The research doesn’t indicate this. Everyone is prone to echo chambers, but left leaning folks tend to have more diversified news sources, which is the balance to negate echo chambers.

The first book I read about this was Killing the Black Body, which detailed how slave bodies were handled (physically and by society) and then how that progressed into the eugenics movement that is still alive and well today.

From there it was just noticing it in the news whenever it comes up. Which is why I was hinging my statements on the frequency. I haven’t done any analysis, it just hits the news often enough that I’m disgusted.

Thanks to Thallamanond and Nathaniel for providing specific sources.

They want to be authoritarians, whatever flavor they have to be to have power.

They don’t want anyone else to have power over them.

So when they’re in the out group, they’ll ramp up the persecution narrative, and when they’re in power, they’ll ruthlessly repress everyone else.

All makes internal sense, if you’re an asshole.