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Clash of clans players and other mobile game whales.

Ah, dang. Yeah I was there before 2013 and it was so noticably delicious. The friend I was visiting said it was the first thing her mother had said when visiting as well, how good the tap water was.

Bummer to hear that’s changed!

The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I’ve tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I’ve sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Also the US is not a third world nation, it’s a developing nation. Or under-developed would be more accurate, but that’s not a popular term. The US is a first world nation by definition, since first world just means the US global empire and it’s allies.

I don’t think they need to make the enforcement of rules ultimately arbitrary to prevent explosives. You already can’t bring explosives. The molecules involved are not relevant.

Ah yes, the “rules only apply when I say they do” rule. Much legitimate.

I could definitely believe that he’s wearing platforms and a girdle, and that those contribute most to his weird posture.

But I don’t think you can listen to him speak without realizing he’s in cognitive decline. He’s noticably less coherent than he was in previous campaigns.

Trump’s tie, posture and hair are all too normal. His tie should be longer because, yes, he’s that insecure, his posture has that Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s lean to it and then there’s his “hair” …

He looks so weird that drawing him as he actually is would look like over-exagerating how weird he looks.

No, that’s too shitpost.

Mostly the stink lines. Also, everything.

Public protest and unrest is a symptom, your society telling you something is wrong

This is something that the Chinese government actually pays very close attention to. Specific issues - food safety and pollution for example - they allow some protest so they can gauge how strong public sentiment is on the matter. Even when they arrest protest leaders, they’ll often make policy changes in the relevant areas. I’ve heard china scholars talk about how interested the chinese government is in public opinion and the roundabout ways they assess it in a system where it can’t be regularly expressed in open elections.

the appearance of a peaceful society without conflict is not the same thing as a peaceful society without conflict

For sure. I feel like as far as an authoritarian government is concerned though, they are functionally the same. Until suddenly they are not, of course. But again, the resilience of the CCP is due in part to working out what is up for public comment and what is most definitely not.

public unrest is a feature

Again, super agree. But I don’t think of public unrest as political chaos, at least not in the US context. The inability of the government to perform it’s most basic functions without brutally pointless culture wars, the myriad ways to gum up the works and prevent action, the increasing politicization of the public service, the willingness of so many to act contrary to the government’s own interests - that’s the sort of stuff I think of as All American political chaos.

no better than the people spreading lies about Hillary or Obama

I don’t think that people with different skin color, or sexuality should be made to suffer for it, so I would suggest I’m better than most of them in that regard.

I also don’t have any problem with people ridiculing obama or hillary. That’s obviously fine. All politicians deserve ridicule and our society is improved when the powerful are regularly insulted.

As long as it isn’t being used to reinforce dangerous hatreds like racism, sexism, homophobia etc. - which increases the danger to the already marginalized - why would anyone care?

Making the powerful and evil into objects of ridicule is a non-violent way to rob them of some of their power. The less social capital this noted cushion enthusiast can command, the better.

Since our democracy lacks a formal process of ostracism to deal with people like this, saying “pfft, whatever you useless couchfucker” is the next best thing.

I could definitely believe that some weibo users are very interested in Biden’s stepping down. Xi’s decision to stay on passed the original term limit was quite controversial even among some of his supporters. Stepping aside when the moment requires it is the hallmark of that paragon of Confucian virtue, the Duke of Zhou.

But no one in the world “envies” our political chaos. We’ve done real damage to the global reputation of democracy and given example after example for the world’s autocrats to point to when they argue that democracy is self defeating.

I’m personally grateful to see this comment repeated and reposted a lot and hope the mods understand that spreading things like this is one of the most important reason to have an interwebs.

Keep up the great work @dohpaz42@lemmy.world !

Future archaeologists will be left to ponder the ritual significance of this object. Why were so many people buried with this grave good?

Belief in the divine likely comes from our brains’ hyperactive agency detection system: our brains err on the side of seeing agency where there is none in order to keep us alive.

If a branch snaps behind you and you react as if someone did it but it was really nothing, you’re fine. But if it was a human or other animal and you react as if it was nothing, you might be food.

Property crime is largely a factor of poverty, but also social inequality. If you lack a need you will try to fulfill that need. If you feel like you’re unfairly “less-than”, you’re much more likely to engage in prohibited behavior to correct that. But also if you have power or wealth, your brain becomes less capable of empathy making it much easier for you to criminally hurt others - the rich do most crimes.

Religion is just using this evolutionarily beneficial flaw in our brains to justify the unjust social hierarchies which drive crime. So in a roundabout way, religion puts upward pressure on crime.

That’s one of the cleverest pronunciation guides I’ve ever seen.

Not engaging and instead just letting readers see your other response would’ve been the classier move.

This is called parsing - your brain processing the speech sounds into meaning. That feeling of suddenly realizing what was said is your brain needing a little extra time to parse.

This can happen for lots of reasons. One time my sister in law was so grumpy that my brain struggled to parse what she was saying because the tone and words were so mismatched.

It would be nice to have a decent prez option.

It would also be nice not to live on a burning planet controlled by decrepit rich psychopaths but I don’t think either of us will be getting what we want.

I’ll still vote for whatever the democrats decide to run, of course, since minimizing or maximizing fascists’ access to government is the only question on the ballot this election.