My entire mortgage is his fucking interest payment, but if I stop paying the fractional payments on it -- which this asshole spends in a day on overcooked steaks and too-long ties -- they'd take my house. Start fucking taking his stuff, goddammit.

Empathizing with individuals is built into how the human brain works, because we can theoretically do something about the plight of a single person - at least, this was true in an age before mass communication, when our world was only as large as the people we interacted with. It was mutually beneficial for humans to develop an instinct to help those in their own social group, because it was more likely to result in one's own DNA being passed on.

Hearing about the problems of large numbers of people doesn't click the same way for us because, for the majority of human history, it didn't affect one's ability to further one's genes. Aiding some random person from a distant tribe just doesn't figure into an individual's reproductive fitness. We don't have an instinct to help people we don't know, especially when they don't have a name and a face. And so it's not ingrained in us. It has to be taught.

Organized religion is one of fascism's most important tools.

He's a coward, just like everyone else in his party. Afraid of a fucking child. His ancestors would be ashamed of him, and his descendants will disown him.

There was a post the other day about a "powermod" from reddit who was doing the same thing with lemmy communities - snatching up dozens of names and squatting on them. Folks are rightly asking for restrictions on the number of communities any one person can mod, along with other safeguards to prevent power-tripping.

Pasquale said: "In the act I have a great big pair of moose antlers and they're huge things - they've got like these huge prongs sticking out, and the gag is I have to put them on my head and I go 'I put too much mousse on my hair'.

"But at the end of the act the curtains came down and all my props are strewn all over the stage and they bring the lights down obviously.

"As I'm starting to put all my props away and I literally trip over my moose head," he said.

...

"Seriously, I [thought] I was going to die," he added.

If that's the kind of joke he's bringing, it surely wouldn't have been the first time he's died on stage.

It's fun to trash the whole post-war generation, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that they were just as victimized by class warfare as we are. They benefited from the economic boom and were then lulled by their own masters into believing it was sustainable and things would be just as good for their own kids and grandkids. They were lied to too.

Never forget that the real enemy isn't any one group except for the oligarchs and leeches at the top of the economic ladder. We shouldn't focus our ire on those people in between us and the top. They're not the ones controlling the taps on the river of shit flowing down.

The Klingon bit was the best part. Imagining them being forced to sing like that while having no context for that style of music is hilarious.

I don't follow Swift or her die-hard fans, but this white supremacist" bit is news to me. Is this a real documented fact, or the usual overblown internet reaction to an assumption based on an extrapolation from a decade-old retweet?

The adult who dragged a kid along was trying to create her own system, which undeniably isolated him, subjected him to suffering, and killed him, so yeah I'm angry at that on his behalf.

Even with a well-stocked cabin, the cold alone will sap your energy and kill you slowly.

Trying to survive it in a tent isn't mere ignorance, it's outright stupidity.

The article said the poor kid was homeschooled, which is often a hallmark of religious fundamentalism. Not trusting the world and thinking it's out to get you is also a hallmark of fundamentalism - but also of mental illness.