Don’t ever forget:

They want people to boycott national parks to claim they’re not profitable and sell the land off to private corps to exploit the natural resources.

Trump’s a petty little bitch, don’t let that give him an excuse to fuck even more shit up by boycotting national parks because of this. You don’t even need to look at that side when you hand it over.

I mean, there’s a shit ton of variables…

You need to look specifically for people going from your current country, and the destination will change a lot of things.

Sometimes it’s very easy, other impossibly difficult.

You’ve edited this comment at least 3 times since I’ve replied, each time with more random shit that doesn’t make any sense. You just keep thumbing thru a thesaurus and replacing words with bigger words you clearly don’t understad.

This is probably why your posts/comments don’t make sense. Stop trying to sound intelligent and focus on communicating your point. But I don’t have the patience to ever try and explain anything to you again.

Best of luck.

Literally the opposite of a turning test… Which it’s pretty clear you don’t understand those to begin with…

And has nothing to do with your post

Why are people upvoting that gibberish? Do they just don’t understand it and are blindly up voting?

That doesn’t make any logical sense because even very young children are adept at pretending not to be human…

Like, I know what you’re trying to say, I’m just struggling to understand how you think it’s sensical

RFK jr swam in sewer runoff, and so do lots of other Americans… Most without knowing, but more than you think don’t care.

If you think there are people who won’t admit to not washing their hands after pooping…

You’re overestimating Americans.

Facebook especially forgot that old people who feel confused by something just ignore it…

It’s a normal part of aging, we try to hide the mental decline from ourselves, so if we’re not able to do something we enjoy, we just stop doing it without even really realizing it.

Some will conciously quit like this old lady, but loads more will just stop checking the app/website without even really noticing they stopped. When they think about using it, their subconscious will convince them not to just to avoid the frustration.

Especially for this age group who were almost 60 when they started using the Internet. They never really had a firm grasp on it, and everyday more and more won’t be able to keep up with it

That was why Faux News was so successful. It required zero effort. People would turn it on when they woke up and let it play all day.

Modern internet propaganda hinges on the target being addicted and incapable of stopping themselves for that level of coverage. But they’re gonna lose their oldest and most reliable voting demographic

See, your son would learn to deal with scenarios like this if he followed my advice.

With your plan he’s going to end up like you and be completely incapable of interacting with people who don’t treat him with kids gloves for being the owner’s kid…

You still can’t even comprehend that people would treat the owners son differently.

You are wildly out of touch, and if you cared for your son you’d make sure he wasn’t. You’re setting him up for failure but you don’t give a fuck unless the person warning you treats you like the owners wife.

Right, because your family owns the company, you’re not used to it and no matter how long your kid works at your company, he won’t understand it either.

The way for him to understand it, is to get a stereotypical job for his age group where he doesn’t have the same last name as the fucking owner.

Working for your dad is not the same as work experience…

I started going with my dad on weekend masonry jobs as soon as I could wipe my own butt, and was “working” as soon as I was able.

It was real work, and hard. But at the end of the day I was still working with my dad and that’s not the same.

Even if you own a large business with 100 people, everyone knows your son is the owners kid and the experience they gain won’t translate well.

Let your son get a normal job for a kid his age, unless the plan is full nepotism and you’re going to give him the company eventually.

Instead send it to a fund, when trump pulls shit like this, use the fund to make up the difference.

Those blue state citizens are what funds the red states…

I’ve been saying it for almost a year now, it won’t be easy but blue states need to stop having employees federal taxes sent off every check. Instead send it to a fund, when trump pulls shit like this, use the fund to make up the difference.

It’s gonna come to that point eventually and it’s a complicated process, so we should have it set up and ready to pull the trigger.

It’s crazy how many people try to be smug about this.

All you’re doing is telling everyone it took shit this blatant and obvious for you to notice if you think this is a new problem.

I understand being ignorant of another country’s system of government, but how do you not know all the fucked up shit that’s been happening before this to think it’s new?

The “big 3” have been doing this shit for centuries, and before that it was just different countries.

Shuffling the countries around like you want to won’t solve shit. It just perpetuates the system itself…

Have you put any thought into this?

I think this study simply looked for generalizations of who would be most susceptible to CTs and wasn’t trying to focus on proving who is a ‘believer’.

The foundation of the study was flawed because “conspiratorial belief” isn’t always a bad thing, because real life conspiracies are a thing.

If they were looking for problematic conspiratorial beliefs, they should have used questions that correctly isolated those.

This research is completely worthless, which is so rare it’s almost impressive.

I’ll admit that I don’t really know how that works, or how it’s enforced, or whatever

They almost always mean “economic sanctions”.

Cutting them off from “western banking”…

Essentially not letting them buy/sell any stocks in the western market.

Which unfortunately is headquartered in NYC, explaining why it’s the NY Stock Exchange.

There are others, Europe has 5 worth over a trillion each and some others, Asia has the NICA index. But the American NYSE is worth over 25 trillion. It’s the big one.

But trump personally would be very hard to sanction in other markets, because he’s so shady banking institutions usually won’t deal with him. It’s why he pivoted to crypto.

He does have some money in NYSE, but that’s overseen by the SEC, and trump won’t sanction himself.

Ironically what we’d see is tarrifs. America doesn’t make shit, and can’t afford to buy a lot of stuff now. So other big buyers can pressure the “producer countries” into marking up anything that goes in/out of America.

To reach their conclusions, the study authors focused on the idea of cover-ups, the belief that organizations and governments deliberately hide the truth from the public. They surveyed 253 people from several countries, asking them to rate statements such as “politicians usually do not tell us the true motives for their decisions” and “government agencies closely monitor all citizens.”

Uh…

Someone should let the researchers out of the lab occasionally…

If anyone disagreed with:

“politicians usually do not tell us the true motives for their decisions” and “government agencies closely monitor all citizens.”

Then they either live in some random Nordic utopia, or they’re the crazy ones.

Like, an international child rape ring involving multiple world leaders is the biggest news story of the decade, but only two people went to prison over it and one is about to get pardoned.

It’s 2026 and you’re crazy if you don’t believe in at least one conspiracy.

Yeah, but if we’re making a Venn diagram of that and trumpets, we end up with a circle…

There’s zero reason for capitalism to be involved in blood donation.

People give for free, but if you need it back it’s like a grand a pint.

I understand there are storage costs and stuff, but at least have it run by local hospitals into a common fund or by local governments.

There’s just zero benefit to it being privatized

I don’t understand why they’re doing this, though

The old account claimed to be an entire organization that shared one lemmy account, for some reasons they’d never explain and kept asking “why does it matter?”

I don’t know if I blocked that account or they stopped using it tho.

But it’s almost certainly a single person who does this across a wide random social media, not just here, for a personal grudge against the website.

If I had to guess, they tried to be an editor and got overwritten and banned.

Always have…

If you’re over 145 (where a normal test stops), it’s only like 1 in 750, but it means you’re over 30 points above around 80% of the population.

30 points is the line where communication is noticably difficult.

Being smart is like being tall. A little over average is great, but once you’re statistically insignificant you’re still jammed in the same hole as everyone else even tho you clearly don’t fit.

Like, that was the whole point of the movie. It wasn’t a warning about the future it’s how an intelligent person has always viewed the world.

The drug abuse correlation with high IQ isn’t just “novelty seeking”, it’s actively and intentionally getting on everyone else’s level, at least for a little bit.