It’s really weird reading about such an evil place before it is functional, almost like there is an opportunity to stop it but everyone is scared to try

Many departments in bad governments are named the opposite of what they do: department of defense, the department of public safety, the department of health…

Yea, they might be incompetent while still fully implementing bad ideas

My theory is that Reddit is being run incompetently, without good strategy. The problem is it’s too big to fail so whatever it does seems mysterious only

I also think our primate brains simply cannot handle being in a group larger than some small number; and most of us have lost the ability to shrink back down to that level of interactions for sustaining ourselves .

So we have exceeded our design parameters.

I attempted to download a car once, but front wheel got stuck in my router. Was huge mess

Can verify : am frog

Got home after having fireworks go off too near me, I am absolutely drained; it was a private party with a very large box of fireworks, couldn’t leave and I liked the people there, but now needing a nice safe quiet space

I like the documentaries that show how some renegade humans are trying to save a small percentage of the remaining life from other humans.

Those are my truest heroes .

Please remember individual humans do not suck, but any large group we make is deadly

Any decent political organization cannot give equal rights to those who want to hurt others. One can be as kind and gentle about that as possible, but ultimately that rests on violence, or at least the threat of violence, to keep the peace.

Any violence, or threat of such, is by definition dehumanizing at some level.

What are the details of the book? So I can get it via library… I want to know what happens on the next page. What about the spider mites ?