A stretch, yes. But it’s an interesting model for understanding what communication is. By telling you this, I am manipulating you into understanding my point of view and hopefully getting you to agree with me.

It’s important to note that not all manipulation is negative. I should hope parents manipulate their children into being aware of safety.

Even chit-chat could be seen as manipulating each other into “being social” but even I would say that’s a long shot.

The Dutch system does have fractional representation and multi-party coalition governments, and still the far-right is on the rise.

This is a complex situation, not simply fixed with a magic bullet of voting reform.

You’d think that euronews, a European news org, would know the difference.

Nothing about Lapland in this article 🤷

I believe some websites say “fuck it, fuck them” and block European IPs rather than put in the work to become GDPR compliant

I wish I remembered which episode it was… went looking for it but I couldn’t find much. Sorry :(

You’re not going crazy. He did this intentionally in order to get new views from the YouTube algorithm. He described how and why in a Cortex episode a while back.

Even if you limit it by range, like only recolouring things within 1 meter of where you touch… It’d still be a great power! Imagine the money you’d make, flawlessly painting whole rooms in seconds.

DM: “How do you want to do this?” Player: “ I slice the dragon’s cockles with my long and shiny blade” DM: changes song, plays even more intense battle music Player: “What the-“ DM: “Now it’s time to fight the horde! Roll initiative”

What’s a treasure horde? A tribal society based on loot? I think you mean hoard