lemmy_outta_here

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on Don't think so MF · c/politicalmemes · 14 pts · 5d

This bullshit isn't even on the dotard anymore. He is clearly unwell. This is on all Americans: do something about your demented asshole. Call your fucking senator, call your fucking congressman: demand the 25th amendment be invoked.

on ✨🙄✨ · c/politicalmemes · 3 pts · 8d

Well, MAGA has always had a figurative (and, apparently, literal) boner for Spartans.

I did not read the article. However, a statement like "there is no precedent" is value-neutral. Maybe they are saying it is a good thing?

I am.

To answer your question, though: no. Some people are doing GREAT. It may not be a majority of people, but anyone who was rich in 2015 is now super rich. The super rich are now obscenely rich. Even a majority of the moderately well-off - e.g. people who own their houses outright or people with >3 times their annual income in investments - are doing pretty damn well. That is part of the reason that Trump, no matter how vile or incompetent, never dips below 30% approval. People will overlook all kinds of evil when their bottom line is improving.

Why would this deserve an Ig Nobel prize? The implications of this study are important and highly relevant to the social predicament that western societies face. This is science getting directly to the root of the problem with humanity. If we want to hand out prizes ridiculing useless science, maybe consider baldness treatments etc. (hats already exist).

It's ok if you like drip coffee. It's ok if you hate drip coffee. The important thing is to know what you like: I once had a friend who was regularly buying fancy machines, always dissatisfied. One time he mentioned that he really liked the coffee at my house - I was serving regular drip coffee from an old-fashioned cuisinart. Don't buy into coffee snobbery.