He’s taking a principled stand in favor of the rule of law. It’s important to our nation’s soul that there’s a legal memo written before we brutalize and torture people.

I wonder how much of this stuff is open-eyed lying and how much is an instinctual identity defense mechanism. There’s definitely a lot of both going on.

The cult of personality around trump makes his perceived power and competence one of the most important parts of the identity of his followers. Trump being a pathetic incompetent loser is a threat to their entire perception of reality. Believing one more gross improbability is just less stressful to a human brain than demolishing your worldview and starting again. In this way, even trump’s supporters number among his many victims.

Nope.

I know it sounds wrong when you first hear it, but power changes your brain. Sociopaths are more drawn to powerful positions, but getting power makes your brain look more like the brain of a sociopath when it didn’t before:

https://hbr.org/2015/04/becoming-powerful-makes-you-less-empathetic https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-empathy/201909/power-blocks-empathy https://www.npr.org/2013/08/10/210686255/a-sense-of-power-can-do-a-number-on-your-brain https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/how-power-erodes-empathy-and-steps-we-can-take-rebuild-it

Becoming powerful makes you less good, neurologically.

Completely unnecessary - Donald Trump can’t shit his pants without telling the whole world about it.

It’s reasonable to assume that people with more status are behaving worse than people with less.

Power - status, fame, privilege, wealth, etc. - causes neurological changes that suppress a human’s ability to excersize empathy. The kind of self-centered behaviour that the nurse describes is typical of a high status inidividual.

Also, I used to work in health insurance and this story just jives well with the little personal experience I have with medical workplaces.

Most of the climate change talk was actually talking about the importance of manufacturing jobs, Kamala was guilty of it too.

It’s unjust that someone who spends their day goofing off and looking at their phone feels entitled to earn twice what a nurse does, just because they had the privilege to get into college.

playing a private show for the obscenely rich while they’re forcing their employees to work for crumbs is way way way way more fucked up than just cheating on your spouse

Yep, it definitely is!

Don’t accept it. It’s fundamentally unjust and you’re right to be upset.

They’re just regular fuck-ups like us, but with obscene amounts of money.

They’re much worse than regular people.

Having money, fame or power causes changes in the human brain that reduces the ability to perform empathy. The rich are always at least a little more evil than normal people and if any one of us becomes rich, we’d also be a worse human.

That said, humans fuck and sanctity of marriage is made up nonsense. To paraphrase principal Skinner: No, it’s the monogamy that’s wrong.

impacts small indie artists

How?

I read the article but I don’t understand how bots making and listening to songs to generate royalties for the bot owners affects anyone but the royalty-payers?

Reminds me of a line from The Maxx: “The Crapon-in-a-hat and Jean Paul Satre team up to fight nausea? Sounds like a losing battle to me.”

Just one of the many wealthy torture enthusiasts disgusted by the state of the modern republican party that they were 100% responsible for creating.

I’ve heard so many right wingers claim that Californians aren’t real americans, and yet here they are trying to shoot their way out of the consequences of large scale systemic failures.

I’m a renter, so I’d throw a brick through each window of my property manager’s tesla.

Lynch’s business partner who was also involved in defrauding HP was killed in a hit and run while jogging 2 days before Lynch’s yacht went down.

Our electoral system is just shit.

She’s way more popular and so are her policies, but having the support of the majority of voters doesn’t guarantee victory like it would if we lived in a democracy.

Eliminating the Senate might seem like a good way to reduce the outsized influence that voters in smaller states wield, but the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

Also, the death penalty should be eliminated, not expanded.

We obviously need to address the fact that our government doesn’t represent the country, but drastically increasing the ability of larger states to ride roughshod over the interests of smaller states is not a recipe for stability.

Ryan Air: No, it’s the airports that are wrong.

Those are easy:

A grifter.

The true Roman way.

Plato’s Republic.

Increasingly complex chemical interactions around thermal vents.

Some rich guy.

Nope.