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Jännät (/ˈjænːæt/). Finnish adjective, plural: "interesting, cool, neat, exciting".

  • while we pretend the US doesn’t have any

    Implying that you're pretending the US doesn't have any biases.

  • Hoarse Weasel

  • More than one, iirc

  • The USA is just Russia with more hamburgers

  • Whether they understand it isn't relevant

  • Riiiight, yes, gotcha. Hard to disagree with that

  • Floridan "education" should be seen as subtractive, not additive

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  • Maybe a "tut tut"

  • “And if you look at searches on Google for the Epstein files, they’ve plummeted since this started. So, at least temporarily, it’s succeeding. It’s taking up Congress’ time and it’s taking up the media’s time,” he added.

    Which part of that is a lie, exactly?

  • Must be why you have universal healthcare and actually tax billionaires.

    Oh wait

  • No no, they're clearly different teams. The logo for one is a donkey, and the other uses an elephant. One uses blue, one uses red.

    See, totally different.

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  • Neurotypical people are just as capable of being evil dicks

    OK, and remind me where I said they weren't?

    Selfish people aren’t narcissists

    Right, and where did I say all of them are?

    Cruel people aren’t psyhopaths.

    Cool, and where did I say all of them are?

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  • Why not prevent people who get drunk on power from coming in power?

    Those are exactly the sort of people who get drunk on power

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  • Not sure what you mean?

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  • If we allow people with significant dark tetrad personality traits (narcissism, machiavellianism, psychopathy, everyday sadism) or social dominance oriented people to have any meaningful amount of power over others, including the ability to run for office or vote, they will eventually turn societies into… well, what we see now.

    Unsurprisingly conservatism overlaps with those traits.

    So, ironically, to be able to run a functioning democracy, you'd have to exclude a fairly sizeable chunk of the population from participating in it

    Edit: and this includes directorial or managerial positions in any kind of organisation, because corporate psychopaths are common scarily common and very harmful

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  • But all the “gain of function” stuff I’ve seen sounds like bullshit.

    But that happens to viruses all the time? How do you think we get flu pandemics?

  • No no, you're the wetware

  • Not once we get fusion reactors up and running

    Yeah, about that…

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