honestly at this point, why even use real numbers? Just ask for a bazillion rubles, it’s about as likely as 2 undecillion.

It was a lie from the start, it only ever applied to a few wealthy old white men who didn’t want any cuts to their profit margins after the British fought a costly war to defend them from French and Native retaliation.

Nah it’s fine, see I don’t live in a swing-state, so nobody cares about my vote at all!

There’s a replication crisis in a handful of more recent fields that use human subjects and didn’t have hard rules and restrictions on how to treat human subjects in the early 20th century. Psychology is the field that has had the biggest issue, with many old studies having what we now see as serious methodology issues. It doesn’t inherently mean all of those studies are wrong, just that they need to be revised with updated methodology to confirm if their results are accurate.

There’s also about 1500 years of scientific study aside from that which doesn’t relate to human subjects at all, and by this point has been replicated numerous times, so I would not doubt the claim that most research is replicable and valid. I would expect about 80-90% of our collective scientific knowledge to be accurate.

I mean the clear and obvious answer is that the Democratic Party didn’t plan for shit. Their plan was running Biden again with their only platform being “We’re Not Trump.” In the years since January 6th, they’ve done nothing to safeguard our democracy, while Republicans have fervently planned for a coup.

I mean, the massive number of racists who are currently trying to elect a fascist would disagree, and I think many minority groups would disagree that there haven’t been problems in the very recent past.

Certainly, the fault lies in the racists, but we can’t pretend that is not a problem directly caused by having an ethnically diverse country. It’s one that we’ll need to find a solution for, because otherwise we’ll always have a group who is willing to burn democracy to the ground because they hate people who have a different skin color.

I mean, I don’t want to be too rude but look at the European democracies who are typically praised in contrast to the U.S. Their populations have been significantly more ethnically homogenous, and only recently have they begun to deal with significant immigrant populations of differently colored peoples. How have they done? Immediate rise of far-right groups and tons of anti-immigrant propoganda.

I’m not claiming the Greeks were right, I think they had a small-minded view of what diversity could bring them, but it is an interesting observation.

Of course they look them in the eyes! It helps them aim for the head!

Cool, now I can try and remember to get fully migrated to Linux before October next year.

Of course, where else would you shoot someone after you’ve already captured them and made sure they weren’t a threat? Honestly it’s almost wholesome that they’re offering the children a clean death, I’m sure many of the Israeli soldiers would prefer to do much worse. The war crimes they’ve gleefully filmed themselves committing have shown me that the IDF is made entirely of fucking animals.

I have to know, how was sanitation handled? did you each student have an individual sample, or were you all licking a communal rock?

because 30% is an impossible amount to spend on housing anyway. If rent costs 50% of your income, then “only” spending 40% of your income on a mortgage payment is a massive step up. You’re also quite a bit less likely to have your mortgage payment suddenly increase year after year in the way that rent hikes, so getting into a slightly expensive mortgage early can pay dividends later if your wages increase annually.

I don’t work with patients, and my area of research doesn’t have much overlap with psychopathy or schizotypal behavior thankfully. My research subjects are screened to try and exclude people with those traits beforehand. I’ve known colleagues that have spent some time working for prison populations though, so if your question is whether I think this particular girl is beyond saving, not even close. Some of the stories my colleagues have told me about patients they had at prison, patients that scared them even when an armed guard was present, those patients don’t typically feel remorseful for what they’ve done or even acknowledge it was wrong. It seems like in this case, the girl got wrapped up in a fantasy that was encouraged when she was young by her friend, and nobody was there to intervene and push her back to reality. It’s just a sad tragedy. If anything, I’d be more worried about her succumbing to depression due to guilt.

Psychologist here, depends on what you mean by treated. Most mental illnesses aren’t like a cold where you’re able to take some medication and get rid of it, they’re more like a chronic back injury that you learn to manage. For most people, some combination of therapy and chemical treatment is sufficient to allow them to live a life where their mental health is managed. There are people whom chemical treatment doesn’t work on, sometimes because of unhealthy brain chemistry, and who are unwilling or unable to participate in therapy. Unfortunately for these people, there’s not much that can be done for them short of a miracle.

Yeah, let’s go live to Duterte now, how’d that plan go for him? Oh, it seems like there were a ton of extrajudicial killings that they couldn’t ever confirm to human rights groups if the people being murdered were actually drug dealers, or just political dissidents.

Aw shucks, unfortunately it seems like empowering vigilante groups to murder anyone they perceived as a drug dealer without requiring investigations was a bad idea after all.

No, the same group will praise Russia for being strong and their citizens being in line, and will say something incredibly racist about China. These people aren’t informed enough to have opinions about the police-states of other countries, and the talking heads at Fox News don’t vomit one into their mouths.

Orwell’s writings were inspired by what he had experienced in Burma and Spain. The issue isn’t that he was particularly prescient, it’s that nothing has changed.

Besides, of the two dystopian novels, we’re much closer to Brave New World.

Goddamn Demiurge!

Yeah, they think it’s a sign that “too many gays” are now in Florida, and God has to punish the sodomites.

Trying to get Florida Republicans to do any amount of introspection would be like trying to teach an ant to play basketball.

It would be a tremendous victory for Hungary if they could finally excise the authoritarian cancer that has corrupted their country. Orbán must fall!