There’s an absolutely ancient meme of someone selling a mirror or TV or something. Circa 2000 ish.

WTF is with the asinine left/right meter at the bottom of the article?

Not true, they also ran on supporting genocide and deporting immigrants.

Facts

5-HT2A serotonin agonists like psilocybin are known to induce neuroplastic changes - this is most evident to users in the form of rapid cognitive schema formation (since we actually experience that happening), but it stands to reason that it happens throughout the nervous system.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45695149_The_Neurobiology_of_Psychedelic_Drugs_Implications_for_the_Treatment_of_Mood_Disorders

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.724606/full

It’s definitely unfortunate that there was such a backlash against this research in the 60s/70s.

…the candidate the population votes for. Did you need that to say “who”?

Man, Corel Linux looks like a vibe. The box looks familiar but don’t think I ever used it.

Brainwashers and brainwashees. Brainwashers are traitors.

Paul also pulled out of his ass all the insane bullshit that modern evangelical Christianity is based around. “Yeah, uh, God hates gays, and women, and also loves the Roman Empire that killed Jesus.”

Guy’s dead, no evidence either way, so asserting that’s wrong is about as baseless as asserting it’s right. Things like that are far from unheard of.

At the same time, “what the population votes for is what the population gets” ignores that we are often only presented with crappy options to start with.

It does not ignore that, rather it explicitly takes that into account.

The caveat to my statement would ONLY be “so long as we’re using this system.”

Please focus more on accurate logic.

Now this fucking guy is on .ml too?

We had Hitler under control! Everything was going according to plan!

80 million Dem voters (depicted as “crowd of NPCs” meme): “We are voting for Democrats in the near term because there is no other option”

The hard fact is that what the population votes for is what the population gets. They have completely given up their agency and just accept this impotent logic of “we’ll take whatever the most obvious/most apparently easy option is, that isn’t a Republican”. It’s a cyclical problem, the voters don’t care enough to force politicians to be good, and the politicians don’t care enough to court voters.

I would edit it to say:

The precise reason why the solution has always been total replacement of the system with direct democracy. From within or without.

I have some faith that we’d see the economic outcomes we want with direct votes for measures vs. votes for politicians, due to the amount of involvement required.

Congress has the power to impeach him and remove him from office. Of course, like the last 10 or so war criminal presidents of the U.S., they don’t. Likewise, the courts have the power to neuter his presidency - and had the power to put him in prison - but don’t, and didn’t.

The precise reason why the solution has always been total system replacement. From within or without.

I don’t think this is a well-defined term, so not much point in arguing about its definition.

Cause there’s like six other distros based on it. The point is that a package manager especially is a huge part of what differentiates the general experience of using a distro, and how a derivative distro works. And sure, lots of other details. Something like Manjaro, Artix etc. is basically cut from Arch as a template, often incorporating upstream changes or packages, with downstream changes based on differences of opinion.

“Conveniently?” I’m not making a case against Arch. I’m literally using an Arch derivative. Just not trying to sit here listing every single customization they ever made. Chill the fuck out.