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Comment Re: What's the problem? (Score 1) 256

Your comment was enlightening, but not in the way you intended I guess. So you only feel empathy towards people that you place in you in-group and are indifferent to people in your out-group.

Now, there are definitely limits on how many people anyone is able to personally relate to, so everyone has some kind of "out-group". However you have an unlimited supply of potential empathy and there is no reason to limit it to only your in-group.

Comment Re: What's the problem? (Score 1) 256

Woke is a contemporary dogwhistle used by bigots to attempt to hide their hate. When pressed on how to define "woke", they all fail to give any meaningful definition. Example, an "expert" having written a book with a chapter about wokeness fails to define woke when asked about it in an interview.

So what about you dbialac, are you able to give a meaningful definition of "woke"? Despite me asking, I would appreciate even more if you spend some time on improving your life by looking into the links below rather than jumping right on writing an answer.

The happiness lab podcast

You might think you know what it takes to lead a happier life... more money, a better job, or Instagram-worthy vacations. You're dead wrong. Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos has studied the science of happiness and found that many of us do the exact opposite of what will truly make our lives better. Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale -- the most popular class in the university's 300-year history -- The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness.

Life After Hate: Helping people exit a life of hate

No one is born hating another person. Peak of pain, repressed anger and frustration teach people to hate. But if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love also. There is only the need to offer a clear pathway out. That's the goal the violence-intervening community, Life After Hate has been working on

Comment Re:"GPT-5 found refs, which solved these problems" (Score 1) 41

What you wrote reminded me of Barnett Newman painting Who’s afraid of red, yellow, and blue which definitely is not my style, and younger me would most likely written off as more or less nonsense, but watching the video Who’s afraid of modern art: Vandalism, video games, and fascism I learned that the colours used are actually hard to reproduce and requite some skill I was unaware of.

Still not my style, but I can now appreciate that other people might have it as their.

Comment Re:Shocking, but... (Score 1) 104

Absolutely not. Even something like building roads can be performed racistly. The podcast Behind the bastards had two episodes about this:

Robert and Bridgett Todd sit down to talk about Robert Moses, a man who loved racism almost as much as he hated public transit.

Comment Re:but isn't capitalism the most efficent system? (Score 1) 238

From an excellent video by Tom Nicholas, How energy privatization is bankrupting Britain:

Even before the recent increases in the wholesale cost of gas energy suppliers have been steadily ratcheting up prices. Outside of the global oil shocks of the 1970s the average price of electricity consistently went down under nationalization. Adjusting for inflation the average Brit was paying 36 percent less to turn the lights on in 1990 than they were in 1946. Far from driving down prices attempts to introduce competition to the market have actually reversed that trend. Between 1998 and 2019 the average domestic electricity rate increased in real terms by a whopping 80 percent.

So in addition to Margaret Thatcher just "normally" fucking up prices for consumers by privatizing the electricity production in Great Britain, it now also is additionally fucked up unstable (and additionally expensive after Russia invaded Ukraine) by making it so massively dependent on gas.

Comment Re:This is the most corrupt administration (Score 2) 84

Speaking of selling your house and right-wing grifters, Ben "Aquaman" Shapiro is special kind of stupid.

And speaking of Peter Thiel, it is perhaps not possible to describe him as special kind of authoritarian due to how normal it is with such people in Trump's administration, but he is definitely not hiding it:

"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

Also worth watching is Some more news' video about him: [Peter Thiel and his dorky little goons](https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F4WfHXt1ZQhg).

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