Iran controls ~12% of the world's oil reserves. Controlling Venezuela gives him access to 17% of the world's oil reserves. The US has 4.74%. With all three, "he" controls over 1/3rd the oil reserves in the world and could use that to pressure countries to obey. He wants to do to every country what he is doing here.
Most of what we consider "culture" is just the classist traditionalists holding over and glorifying pop culture of yesteryear.
Shakespeare is a great example. Quoting him makes people look "cultured," but his plays are filled with cross dressing and dick jokes.
Culture is just a shared means of communication and experience amongst a group based on a similar history.
People are people. It's not that anyone is any more cultured than another. It's that the vast majority anywhere only consume.
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See, this is yet further proof that capitalism has fucked us. If it didn't cost $100 to lick someone's boots, more people could afford it and not be forced into voting right wing to taste polished leather.
This. It's why learning and singing songs in a foreign language helps a ton with picking up the accent and cleaning up the diction. We process music and singing differently than speaking.
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Now go! Be flowy and twirly!
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The problem with the disease is that we get blinders that keep us from seeing the connections we do have. And I say that as someone who has had plans fall through more than once and still has times that I have to leave the house because I don't trust myself to be alone.
We feel more alone than we really are.
A few resources.
https://adaa.org/find-help/support
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https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/free-online-resources-for-mental-illness
https://www.cdc.gov/mental-health/caring/index.html
Reminder, it's not "suffer in silence and live in misery because losing you would hurt the people who love you."
It's "be open, get help, and build a support network to make the living bearable because losing you would hurt the people who love you."
Don't suffer for the sake of others. Fight for them. Even if it's just against the voices in your own head.
Her number's not gonna write itself on the wall.
#9 I did something similar one of the first dining out in the early post covid. Not the clever trick bit, but the handful of ketchup. I got so used to the giant bottles of hand sanitizer next to the cashier at the gas station and grocery that I just stepped to the side after paying and auto pumped. Massive handful of ketchup in public and in front of the cashier.
That is one data point, and I used the national average. Whether or not they include subsidized housing in their calculations, I do not know.
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3. www.businessinsider.com/rich-list-musk-bezos-zuckerberg-ellison-wealth-billionaires-ai-stocks-2025-1?op=1
4. www.businessinsider.com/26-billionaires-paid-fraction-in-taxes-average-american-owes-2022-5
5. taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-income-tax-data-2025/
A bit under 800k unhoused people in the USA as of 2024 (1).
Avg price for a studio apt with utilities is ~1250/month or 15k a year (2).
That is 12B a year. Let's be generous and 4x that for overhead to 48B.
That would only equate to a ~10% tax on billionaires (3).
They just 10% increase on their taxes. And they would still be paying less taxes than the rest of us (4,5).
Citations in next comment.
This, by second grade, kids have begun developing a solid theory of mind and are starting to understand that others have their own thoughts, motivations, and unique life and perspective.
Toddlers, on the other hand, pitch fits if they don't get their way and say they hate whoever tells them no because they are incapable of conceiving of anything outside of their own limited experiences and desires.
I would say it's a conspiracy, but he is out in the open about it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-energy-dominance-oil-iran-venezuela-2026-2?op=1
Iran controls ~12% of the world's oil reserves. Controlling Venezuela gives him access to 17% of the world's oil reserves. The US has 4.74%. With all three, "he" controls over 1/3rd the oil reserves in the world and could use that to pressure countries to obey. He wants to do to every country what he is doing here.
My guess is they are referring to the Russian invasion of Crimea and the relative lack of international backlash empowering Putin. But I could also be woefully uninformed about other goings on in that time period, I am not well versed in international events.
And keep insisting there was never one in the first place.
I would much rather be in my mid 20's again than a teenager again. Being a teenager sucked. I would not want to repeat it without having access to proper therapy and meds.
Found it!
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3801174/
Holifuck, that took way too long to find.
Here are three papers that also link to additional research and researchers concerning the neurophysiogy of racial perception. I am still digging through citations looking for the relevant ones on gender/sex.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nn0801_845 : race and fusiform activation
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(10)00515-4 : race and reduction of sensory empathy
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-03380-005 : impact of self categorization on racial perception
*** apparently I accidentally deleted a very important clarifier. This should say "sexist men," but it reads like all men. That is my bad. Pertinent studies to fusiform activation based on gender and race will be replied to this comment. ***
Nope, I apparently deleted a very important word in the description, "sexist." This applies specifically to sexist men.
I will see if I can find the study, but I remember reading something about the part of the brain that recognizes someone as "human" doesn't light up as much when they look at a woman. The effect increased the more skin she showed, so they quite literally see her as sub-human when she shows more skin.
There is a similar effect with racists and race. The part of their brain associated with human faces doesn't light up. That's why "they all look the same."
At least they do not matter to them.
This is when I knew they were lost. I was outright told they wanted misinformation to be uncensored. They even called it misinformation.
They know it is lies, and they believe it anyway. We're not even arguing whether or not facts exist. They know they do.
We are aguing whether or not facts matter, and they do not.
Music for me. But it can't be anything I am too into. Otherwise, I will stop and get lost stimming to a song I haven't met up with in a while.
Thank you very much. That looks rather in my wheelhouse.
Animal, specifically collective behavior, so swarms, schools, flocks, and the like.
"Collective Animal Behavior" by Sumpter is a pretty great book on the subject and uses studies involving humans as well to show how the tendencies and math hold true. If you want more strictly human, "Behave" by Robert Sapolsky is also amazing. Sapolsky also has some great lectures on youtube on the topic.
Nope, but I do have a degree in behavioral biology, which does have some overlaps.
TL:DR - It's "oh shit" signal propagation.
It's named after a system used by the brits at Trafalgar. It was first used to describe signal propagation in ocean skaters or water striders, but the principles hold true in everything from thorn bug nymphs alerting their mother to danger to the wave at sporting events and even to neuronal excitation to some degree. And if you're curious, look into collective animal behavior. There used to be a free pdf by Sumpter.