The amounts described aren’t that small in Japan, 1000 yen will get you 5 tuna rolls or 5x2 yellowtail at a cheaper sushi stand.

You just limbo it.

People get used to assuming other people are dumber than them, especially online. So they see an obvious joke and instead if thinking “well obviously they didn’t mean the thing they are pointing out, so they are pointing it out to mock that perspective”, they just accept it face value, and then when called out on it go “poe’s law” or argue that the fact that they didn’t understand says a lot about society instead of doing any introspection.

Right, we like Griffith because we want to obliterate that twink.

The consequences of doing the thing your voters want and disregarding your enemies telling you you’re not being civil is that you get reelected.

The consequences of listening to the people who are opposed to your voters is that your voters see that you are useless and check out of politics.

In China, a lot of the urinal signs say “For you, 1 small step forward, for society, 1 big step forward”.

The urinals still have a depressing amount of piss under them.

Like Britain, they would have almost certainly supported the nazis if Hitler invaded the USSR first. But that didn’t happen and instead the US dedicated its entire existence to doing something good for one brief moment.

There are hundreds of representatives each with their own motivation on every different vote.

And there’s a party whip and the power to take representatives off committees or remove their access to party infrastructure. The whole point of a party is that it can force its members to work together, without that ability you don’t have a party.

Even Trump hasn’t been willing to fire the parliamentarian and blow up that system. It has a purpose.

It hasn’t been useful for him because he appointed a parliamentarian who does what he wants. When Bush’s parliamentarian wouldn’t, he fired him and replaced him with one who would.

You want to throw out the whole Constitution and start over? Fine. How many dead are worth it to you? There Conservatives are sure as hell not going to give up power without a fight and they are willing to kill to keep it.

The literal only use any government institution is to enact the will of the entity that controls it. The conservatives understand this, the left understand this, only the liberals who don’t understand why they keep losing at calvinball have yet to figure it out.

Lets not do anything good because Trump might undo it.

Weird how the republicans never seem to let the parliamentarian or 1 vote or the SCOTUS or whatever stop them.

Oh, you think carrying out the will of your voters is good? Well have you considered that goes against the design of a system made by slave-owning rapists to maintain their class’s power?

-ChonkyOwlBear, probably.

Are they? The fact that we aren’t seeing more completed projects on github tells me its not useful for coding beyond peer-review and generating boilerplate. I’ve met 2 non-tech people who managed to get a MVP they have no way to maintain. Who is realizing significant benefits?

Actual living with nature or romantic?

In the 18-early 20th century, there was a fundamental conflict between academic art, where art was seen as a tool to make the masses more moral (better conform to the ideals of the ruling class; you could have nudity and sexuality in the academie, but only if explicitly about scary foreign cultures), and modern realism, where the art was describing the world as the artists saw it.

They have communicators and iPads.

Polymarket is a betting website, clearly someone made a bet that Zoran Mamdani would mandate teaching arabic numerals knowing that idiots would bet against it.

New trees haven’t been able to grow there for centuries. You’d have to spend a century giving the new tree progressively deeper irrigation until the roots reach the current water table, 40+m deep.

Is this slop?

An innocent person in a civil case wants to clear their name.

That’s pig logic.

Innocent people get found guilty all the time, and even if you’re not, a long trial is expensive and never going to convince haters he’s innocent.