https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

Same tactic

I don’t understand what your argument is. Obviously we can’t report on or care about every single person on the planet, regardless of how deserving they may be.

There is only room in our attention span for the occasional placeholder to care about outside our immediate social circle and family, and we are also naturally inclined to the concept of fame.

So there will always be people of a certain fame who draw the attention of the masses. May it be politicians, celebrities, fucking billionaire scum, scientists, “influencers”, and so forth.

I still don’t think it is morally appropriate to dismiss or talk bad about someone who is struggling with a potentially terminal illness, regardless of if they are famous or not.

Thinking they don’t deserve any when they have fucking cancer is probably a bit more perverse.

They haven’t done anything. They are just celebrities, which is why they are in the news. You may find celebrity culture stupid (as I do) but that’s how our society is. Are you equally upset with the news reporting on a random musician with cancer?

I deleted several thousand comments and multiple posts in niche gaming subs I wrote over the years, all of high quality. My knowledge and contributions don’t belong to spez or reddit, or the internet for that matter. Eventually those niche communities will move someplace else, and I’ll be happy to contribute there again.

Thats a bit heartless. I wouldn’t mind the royalty nonsense being abolished but I still am saddened when someone struggles with cancer, it’s such a brutal disease, especially for someone so young.

Very cool birds, that seems very smart and a unique use of tools and cooperation

Seems crazy they would do that, most animals are scared of fire. Is it a hunting technique to herd prey?

Personally I believe that large parts of this discussion and topic are simply human nature.

Any group with power, will seek to keep that power, and to increase their standing over the other people. If history had played out differently and asian or black people were the historical in-group we would have the exact same situations and issues as we have today. Only another enemy.

Obvious next question: do you believe any of that would change for the better under trump?

😳 i shop at Kaufland frequently, I’ll definitely have a thorough look next time was sure they had only the sauce in jars.

One of my most remembered quotes that just flew by but helped shock me into being political was our dear former chancellor merkel: “Wir sind eine marktkonforme Demokratie” (We are a market conforming democracy).

It unintentionally highlighted the truth to me, that we are capitalist first, democratic second.

It is time for a democracy conforming market.

For me it’s the miracoli pasta sets we could buy here when I was a kid. I have plenty fond memories of that stuff when I was little, but as it turns out they don’t make them any more because it’s more profitable to sell the Sauce alone… not to mention the other flavors like the cheese and herb farfalle pasta they used to have :(

I read a pretty brutal analysis by a financial expert on some business magazine site. My biggest takeaways were:

• new shares get 1 vote per share, existing shareholders 10 per share
• under the rules they are doing the ipo they can skip providing solid numbers for the last years, and are unbound by board opinion on how much money can go into executive compensation and golden parachute packages.

Now I’m not an investor at all but this rings so many grift alarm bells I don’t understand why anyone would buy that shit. Seems like a completely dubious investment set up to pay out spez and then collapse.

Well, if you knew that for the rest of your life you would have a home, clothing, food and water, internet and some spending money, what would you do with your time?

Many people would probably just relish doing nothing productive at all, like most animals in nature do when they have no immediate needs.

All that free time would probably inspire a renaissance of art and philosophy, probably personal education too, after all, you can do plenty of thinking on various topics if you have all day to do whatever you are in the mood for. But ultimately we would still need a real outlet for our creative and constructive urges, a way to meaningfully occupy our time.

Ultimately we would need a true common cause again that everyone can share in, like Starfleet in Trek is for mankind. A new frontier, exploration and discovery like humanity has not known since we first started sailing our oceans to seek out the unknown. And not just for elite astronauts, for everyone.

Depends on your level of introspection. A really average dude with a mediocre lifestyle and interests might very well think that a woman who checks all the boxes is either out of reach or will inevitably grow disappointed being with a very plain guy who “can’t keep up” so to say.

Good this isn’t one of them then. According to the quote they offer the bats a safe place to sleep and in turn derive nutrients from their droppings

I said it before, banning this doesn’t work. Legislation will always play catch up to the ever improving technologies, the best we can do is flood the internet with ai porn. Of everyone, as much as possible. To the point nobody even cares any more, because there is nudity of everyone. Normalize it before it ruins lives

Ugh metagamers amirite 🙄 one guy figures out a good ladder build and immediately everyone copies it 🦀