Basman

It is correct that Trump and Putin are ideologically allies.

I doubt very much that the goal is to physically split Europe. They can't realistically do that. More likely, they seek to promulgate governments in Europe that are ideologically aligned with the Kremlin, IE. authoritarian. More AFDs, Trumps, Nigel Farages, etc. Undermine the EU and NATO as much as possible. Soviet nostalgia is being used as propaganda to justify the war, but it is really about political control for the sake of regime security. Putin isn't actually a communist. He's only interested in the part where Russia was "once great". Putin personally is in "self-defense" mode and sees Ukrainian sovereignty as a threat. The goal is political control, which is why it is not necessarily necessary to be physically at war with Ukraine if it sufficiently undermines Ukraine's sovereignty (Russia would agree to a peace deal if the outcome is worse for Ukraine politically than continued war for example). You see this with the hybrid warfare against Europe. The goal is to promulgate governments that are conducive to Russian influence.

Right, because I'm sychophant who constantly just makes up shit and can't be trusted to tell the truth. It must be mirroring my undiagnosed schizophrenia.

Apparently, your more likely to get hired if you use AI to help write your resume. Probably because all the HR monkeys themselves use AI to sort through applications.

Having a small penis was idealized in Ancient Greece. They where seen as more civilized. Alexander the Great had a small penis.

They are both dead so I'm not sure how they would accomplish that.

Pig head liberalism is completely scrapping a framework because it didn't work for a fraction of the population and replacing it with something that doesn't work for anyone. Rejecting healthy conservatism because you hate your boomer parents. Like how they want to completely get rid of capitalism somehow because certain aspects work poorly, as opposed to just improving those aspects. The "alternatives" that progressives come up with are damaging and dangerous. You can see it with all this incels that shoot up schools and vote AFD because they can't get a girlfriend. It's a societal failure. Likewise with the US risking losing it's democracy to goons like Trump. Progressives need to take responsibility for how they contribute to societal degradation due to how they prioritize ideological purity over reality.

Male disenfranchisement is one of factors that lead to democratic decline and authoritarianism. Historically, societies used to provide a different frameworks for developing men. Such as largely fallen to the way side. I had a phase where I looked up a lot to older men as a young adult, an instinctual way of looking to grow myself. Past societies would've had some frameworks ingrained into the culture for developing men since they appreciated the need to turn boys into men. You get minimal if any guidance growing up from our culture. It's a shame and an example of a lack of healthy conservatism. I don't think girls receive much guidance either, which also isn't good.

The site is designed from the ground up for conformity. It's impossible to stray too far from the ideological center point without being censored. It varies how sever an echo-chamber each subreddit is though.

Sure, but we're talking about people who use AI for everything. It be like driving everywhere without any work-outs to compensate. Young people tend to be way more active before they start working full time.

Social media is too integrated with people's technology use to quit outright. But maybe we'll see more awareness of how hollow and addicting short-form content is specifically.

Except that it is true if you are overall less active due to driving. It's common for people to gain weight once they start working after graduating and begin driving everywhere. If you are outsourcing your thinking all the time than obviously your going to become more dull.

AI is yet to make any serious profit. All this investment is pure speculation and hedging against a looming recession. Can't wait for the bubble to pop like a bloated whale. If nothing else than to see all that stupid hype to finally die.

If you are on the lower end of average for a western male than you're on the higher end of average for an Asian male.

Reddit is malicious conformity.

Readability is how well you can understand something clearly and intuitively without user error. The better the readability, the harder it is to stray from the intended design.

That wasn't obvious. Here you could for example use two different colors to make the distinction more clear.

I had the idea once of "convergent inventions", where different human groups completely detached from each other geographically and culturally invent the exact same things, like the spear, the bow, fires, etc. as well as concepts like slavery, war, money, kingship, etc. Things that are so common sense that you don't need cross pollination to spread the idea. I don't think it is particularly groundbreaking or that original, but I've never heard of something like this before from anyone else.

Something as complex as politics is necessarily going to lose some of it's nuance when you try to illustrate it as a simple diagram. You can minimize that by making a more complex diagram but at the cost of readability, but the beauty of simplistic political diagrams is that you can instantly understand the message (whether or not it is accurate is a different discussion). Your diagram lacks readability. That there are two lefts and rights is confusing. You could experiment with colors to enhance readability. I'd also consider experimenting more with different kinds of graphs, like perhaps a circle or a branching tree better illustrates political compasses, etc.

I used to fantasize that I was a kind of predator when eating meat as a kid. I would try eat it with just my mouth but my mom wouldn't let me (she's conformist). My mind still sometimes go there when I eat my chicken wings.

It's essentially true that the planet is finite, but with technological development we keep discovering new resources. The earth today has a lot more resources than the earth of the middle ages. Oil used to be worthless crude untill we discovered a use for it. Aluminium used to be more rare and valuable than gold. We figured out how to synthesize diamonds. If we figure out how to harvest meteorites from space then our resources become a hundredfold.

There has essentially been two kinds of value exchange throughout human history, trade and pillaging. The latter has largely completely fallen out in favor of trade due to its superior long-term value and being antithetical to one another (cooperative vs coercive). Trade favors complex societies whereas pillaging undermines the trust and stability needed for expansive trade. Society flourished with modern capitalism in terms of living standards. We developed the complexity to support surplus trade coupled with technological advancements via science and an underlying belief in progress (which was a relatively recent development). Capitalism requires immense societal evolution to work and has enabled cooperation on a global scale. It's a huge reason for why we live in one of the most peaceful eras in human history. Capitalism has its excesses which needs to be worked on in earnest, but people who see capitalism as a dirty word tend to be out of touch with survival and spoiled, ironically via capitalism. They can only see the bad and completely take for granted all its done for them. The solution to the excesses of capitalism is to keep refining how we do trade, like we've already done for ages. Nobody really cares that there exist billionaires. They just get mad when there exist billionaires and they can't afford groceries.

There's nothing inherently immoral about trade. Nobody has an alternative to trade. Collectivism is just trade with differenent rules, which is exactly what I'm talking about.

There has been found remains of old cro magnon settlements in areas which couldn't naturally support human life. They surmize that the people in this settlements survived off trading sea shells. The first written languages where partial languages who's purpose was first and foremost to record ledgers. The oldest human texts are ledgers, bill of ownership, reciets, etc. IE. Business. The concept of money is just a refinement of less universal currencies that have been used in the past, like grain or shells, which are itself a refinement of bartering goods directly with items, which has the issue of being a temperamental affair as both parties need to have something the other wants, whuch isn't always the case. Business is something we've been developing and refining since pre-history. Capitalism is just a highly refined form of trade, which comes natural to us as we are a cooperative species with the ability to provide different kinds of value to each other that allow us to more effectively survive. By trading value, strangers can cooperate bit like a family unit. It allows us to specialize. What is unique to capitalism is the degree to which you have to specialize in order to provide value. In the past, you had do more of everything in order to survive, like growing your own food and making your own entertainment.

Update your Spotify, or the dog gets it.