Alright, good luck with that!

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“Polite hitler” doesn’t encourage his groupies to go kill minorities with judicial impunity, shut up with that, it’s like you have nothing to lose, but you have a lot left to lose. There is an objective difference, even if they were the same underneath, by setting an example of abhorrence and dogwhistles for their minions to follow in his country and abroad.

choices are between polite Hitler and rude Hitler[🙈 ok, everyone is hitler now, real mature] , you don’t know enough about American politics to even understand how fucked we are.

Oh, I understand more than I’d like to have to, the far right all over the world follows the US circus as their script, with complete liberal complacency.

If I had a vote, I’d be voting for the guy stopping trump from killing you, what else do you want me to do, if even you won’t help yourselves in the simplest way possible?

Fair enough, trump’s guys aren’t coming for me first, they are coming for the Gaza protesters, they are coming for abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, they are coming exactly for the rights of people refusing to vote for Biden…it’s sort of ironic. You can read what you are enabling here: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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“Those mexicans…they crazy!!”

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Backdoors are bad, 'mkay?

Wait, the rates of incarceration in Louisiana are because of pot? Yeah, that’s fucked up.

why?

Meh…the felon population is not supposed to be large enough to influence elections…looks up incarcerated numbers…Louisiana/Oklahoma/Mississipi: nearly 1%…ok…new voting group: the incarcerated…but…who wants to fight for that vote?

Happy cake day! (and lock him up day)

I’m comparing Malthus’ overpopulation to a white supremacist who supposedly invented the tragedy of commons. Sounds similar. Overpopulation can happen in some societies e.g. Easter Island, but is not everywhere the cause of most ills.

It can be a reductive approach if you look at the world exclusively through those glasses, but the effect the expression alludes to exists in very specific circumstances e.g. street cleaning, overfishing, pollution. It’s like saying overpopulation is not a thing because that social darwinist Malthus was the first to refer to it.

genuine c/programmerhumor

Looks like a fig tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig

PS: I use the PlantNet app when I go on walks. Fun stuff, the other day I identified valerian growing all over. Great time of the year for plantIDing.

Y’er a fungus, harry! 💮

I guess a hard determinist would say that humans have as much “free will” as a rock. There is nothing useful to saying these systems are similar in that regard.

This is because there is such a thing as “causal inertia”: there is a difference in agency where a human system bases its decisions on a large spatial, time range of experiences (moments to life-long experiences and multi-generation planning, tiny tools all the way to architecture planning, a large number of connections by multiple means to other humans’ experiences) to make “decisions”. What do you call that?

Because it exists and if it’s not called free will, that’s probably the closest thing that scientifically can be measured and associated with “free will”.

We may just be “transistors” responding to the environment, but we are complex enough to introduce chaos by connecting lots of unrelated things to the point of being as close to being unpredictable as any random system in the universe.