I don’t know how any of this works. What’s stopping Google from doing the same thing to old phones?

Same. Even adjusting for inflation, if I went back and told myself 10 years ago what I’d be earning in 2025, past me would think it’s “buy-whatever-I-want-money.” I can buy everything I need, but I never seem to have much left over.

I agree, and to the comment above you, it’s not because it’s guaranteed to reduce symptoms. There are many ways that talking with another person is good for us.

CBT is one treatment for depression - and you should stick with whatever’s helpful for you - but it’s not THE treatment. In the last couple decades there’s been a trend towards more flexible and integrative models like ACT and IFS. These models suggest that our efforts to avoid “bad” thoughts and feelings actually causes more suffering and keeps us stuck. Integrative models focus on allowing those things to exist, or even welcoming them in.

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I feel like “willful” implies that everyone is equally capable of distinguishing between facts and lies, and that people aren’t easily swayed by propaganda. If the latter were true, the advertising industry wouldn’t exist. Republicans have been working to dismantle public education for decades. How many people have been psychologically manipulated like this since before they could speak? They might be “old enough to know better” but did they ever have an opportunity to learn critical thinking skills? Look at what they’re teaching kids in Oklahoma. What chance do they have?

Thank you for articulating all my thoughts better and faster than I ever could.

Right. They don’t say what THEY believe, they say what they want YOU to believe.

To be clear, the mandate specifically bans the consideration of race in the admission process.

I would argue they also want the government to collect money from taxpayers and distribute it to the rich in the form of subsidies and contracts.

I wonder if it was inspired by Alvin Lucier’s “I am Sitting in a Room”

There are a few users who post articles like this constantly. I’m on the other side of the world, so I have no idea if it’s propaganda, just something I’ve noticed.

To clarify my use of the word, I’ll quote Adam Johnson: “The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies - it’s emphasis.”

I would love to know how many people actually refused to vote for Kamala for the reasons you stated. Obviously it’s not zero, but I have seen some variation of the “are you happy now?” comment hundreds of times, and I’ve never spoken to such a protest voter in real life. Or maybe they’re everywhere and they’re too embarrassed to admit it.

Instead of pointing to gerrymandering, voter suppression and potential massive election fraud, the mass of comments like yours is starting to feel like straw manning.

This happens in a smaller way with access to prenatal testing and abortions. Parents with access to those things are at least able to detect and avoid the more debilitating birth defect, while parents without access are more likely to have a child with a severe birth defect. If they’re already struggling materially, that can sometimes guarantee that both the parents and child will have no upward mobility.

Those are paraphrases of Kirk’s words. It might be more accurate to say those are his positions.

The country has tens of millions of idiots, yes, but please acknowledge that Republicans have only won elections by cheating, for decades.

Small detail - it was a metal two-wheeled dolly. Much heavier than a chair, and a much higher likelihood of killing someone.

Also not the person you replied to, but your comment is exactly the language they’re cautioning against. If I saw your comment attributed to a far-right nationalist, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Personally I think using dehumanizing language to describe fascists is letting them off the hook. I might want to believe we don’t share any DNA, but they’re humans who arrived at a certain worldview the same way I did. It’s just that their worldview is violent and disgusting.

Less than half the *voters, assuming the last election was not fucked with.

Oof, wig city. I love David Michod but I don’t think I can stomach that many bad wigs in one movie.