You’ve got it reversed - click bait slop were the egg that hatched the first chicken

Nah, I pick my words carefully, and usually have a mountain of science behind them

For example, I said 4/5 of RFK’s opinions are actually pretty good, but the 5th is so insane it puts the last 4 into doubt.

Someone calls me out on “they want to put AuDHD people into camps”. I say I’m one of them, and being able to voluntary get out of the modern world for as long as you need is a safety net that would save so many lives

They asked if I had a PhD, so I hit them with the science - behavioral activation, getting away from your stressors, and getting away from modern life (because we’re not crazy, the modern human world is what’s crazy) is the most effective treatment for most mental illness. And I went on to list my concerns about implementation, and how this great idea could easily become a work camp if it’s not as voluntary as advertised

They hit me with “that’s some pull yourself up by your bootstraps shit”

That’s what lemmy has been like. It’s not “um actually”, it’s “if I totally breeze through what you said in the most uncharitable way, I can interpret this as you said something horrible”

Interestingly, evolution doesn’t seem like it’s actually random. There’s mechanisms to it we’re only beginning to understand

It seems to only improve in a single area (genetically) so much before switching, it doesn’t optimize, it is focused, and the rate of evolution is driven by stress.

My theory is that too much success would cause a population boom and bust, and so it’s encoded into terrestrial life very early on - the studies come from bacteria genetically edited to break respiration pathways, and all the evolution was focused there before the evolution moved to a different area - but they didn’t even recover their original efficiency, possibly because they just reached a comfortable point without competition

So in this case, I think the female hyenas were probably being killed opportunistically, which led to evolutions related to size and dominance. Bigger females that fuck the males in dominance rituals are enough to relieve the evolutionary stress, and so evolution slowed and they reached “good enough”

Aren’t they scavengers and opportunistic hunters though? They tend to be much easier to convince to fuck off, there’s a lot of weaker bite forces that wouldn’t let go

I got it instantly, and I cracked a smile

Honestly, people are just scared and looking for a fight. And I mean…shit is fucked. Still sucks that people on lemmy seem to have stopped trying to understand though, things have not been the same here in the last few months

Anyways, /s kills any humor in the joke, I appreciated a little reminder of the absurdity of this timeline. Humor is how we keep it together when everything is on fire

I used to think this. I mean if you have 3 main competitors and one of them does something controversial, like raising prices or adding subscriptions, it’s a great cover so the anger isn’t all on you. It doesn’t take a genius to keep eyes on your industry, especially when it’s usually an oligopoly

Plus, these guys have each other’s numbers, they meet up at events… It’s not crazy for them to exchange ideas, especially because billionaires exist to one up each other, money has no other meaning at that point

But a lot of these things hurt the companies, and they come out fast - faster than most companies can move

Then I stumbled upon McKinsey. Consulting companies that advise entire industries, governments, and most importantly investors. Theoretically they “firewall” conflicts of interest to avoid collusion, except they seem to act in coordination an awful lot

And the investors matter because they advise them where to invest, meaning ignoring their ass backwards advice has consequences

Some of their top hits - Enron, the 2008 financial crisis, the opioid crisis, using mass layoffs as a way to bump up stock price, green washing fraud, return to office, and a lot more. That section on their Wikipedia is a long read

What we know, we mostly know because it was exposed in open court because they got caught… No one knows their client list or the full scale of what they’ve done (though they’ve been implicated and fined for quite a lot of fraud, among other crimes)

It’s a seemingly endless rabbit hole

Ironically, the executive order goes on to acknowledge the difference between sex and gender

He thumped his chest and did it emphatically. Then he turned around and did it again. The only way it could’ve been more nazilike is if he stomped while he did it

Because they’re just teaching their understanding of the world, it’s not like they’re lying. Propaganda works

And it’s not like it comes up often. And even if it does, very few people are able to explain why that’s wrong on the spot

We call both localization, because what you’re doing is branching out controls, formats, and such to a locale, which is not necessarily a location or a region. You could have en-us, en-ca, en-us, en-uk, en-au, en-sp, or you just have en to translate it to English and call it a day

How about legal bribery lobbying

Okay, but like… How does it work?

Trump: I declare the department of DOGE

Now what happens? Elon starts introducing himself as the head of DOGE? Congress sets the budgets, so they’re not going to get public funding. They’re not public officials, and they have no authority, so Musk is just going to show up at the department of education and order them all to go home?

No one is going to go after Elon or Trump about it, but if they start printing up their own badges, do you think random people will be immune to the law? Especially after Trump repeatedly showed how he doesn’t hand out those promised pardons most of the time

It’s basically just a think tank at that point, and Trump could act on everything they recommend… But Trump would have to do it. It would probably get in the way of golfing and watching fox while live tweeting

I will say, lately lemmy has been in uncharacteristically confrontational. It’s been a rough year so far, hopefully things chill out

I think everyone should read the gospels, themselves with no commentary. They’re not very long, and the takeaway is very different when you don’t have someone going “Jesus was saying you should pay your taxes here, definitely not proposing dropping out of the Roman economy as a means of resistance”

No, make the story even more ridiculous. Tell them how you mistook lube for body wash at the store, and while cleaning your ass in the shower your finger accidentally slid inside, surprising you and causing you to slip on the lube, kicking the shampoo bottle into the center of the shower. And in desperately acting to remove your fingers, your stretched your butt cheeks right as you came down on the bottle

Yes, they know what happened. But the least you can do is give them an absurd story, really play it up. Bonus points for giving them all relevant information as another unlikely accident leading up to the event

They’ll eat it up, they’ve seen enough of this to not really care. But a great story will give them joy for years to come

Um… I think Gaza is already that

Well that’s a whole lot of things I didn’t say

Elementary school through high school, and they taught socialism to basically be when the government runs services or really does anything someone else could be making money off it

I think healthcare was a big sticking point for the label, but they basically described any social safety net as socialist.

It not have been in your curriculum, but teachers watch mainstream media too…

I don’t think that’s true. At least in the US, we’ve gotten so used to compromise and small wins that we celebrate things like the growth of renewables, but most people rarely ever talk about how emissions have only risen higher. They don’t want to hear how we crossed a major tipping point this year, or that our models are starting to look overly optimistic… They want to go about their lives and not worry about it too much

There’s no compromising with climate change, we’re still driving off the cliff. It’s okay to celebrate turning the wheel a bit, but sometimes we do need a reminder to look up and see the big picture

Half power, double time