Ioper
2mo ago
Also the manga section keeps growing. I'm not surprised that American comics seem less popular than ever, but I am a little surprised at the manga growth.
What makes you surprised?
Ioper
2mo ago
With the caveat that i don't think that movie stars really exist in the same way anymore, I think Robert Pattinson is a cut above most prominent actors his age, is decent at choosing prjoects and is consistently starring in commercial and critical successes.
Ioper
2mo ago
Perhaps I'm just in some kind of anti-astrology bubble or what did you mean was the same in Finland? That astrology is or isn't rising among women?
I have seen nothing of that here in Sweden so perhaps you should restrict yourself to American women rather than western women?
That said, of the people reading horoscopes and pursuing things like alternative medicine it seems like the overwhelming majority is female. I would imagine this has to do with agreeableness. Agreeable is a short distance from impressionable and some % of people will be conned into astrology. Then, when you reach critical mass of followers then others will simply engage in the activity because others are doing it, especially those vulnerable to social contagion.
Men have other gender specific failure modes, like chronic contrarianism and overconfidence, leading to things like falling for crypto-scams.
That may be so but it's also true that whites are taller and stronger, only those things do not matter as much (on their own anyway) for many popular sports.
What should be said is that fast twitch muscles are very important and west Africans have more fast twitch muscles.
I feel like a lot of it comes down to something both being a good line and being memeable like
I don't even know who you are? In Avengers end game
or
You get what you fucking deserve! From Joker
or
Lisan Al-Gaib! From Dune.
People will not only learn the line from the movie but from the memes as well.
Ioper
2mo ago
You don't have to do that. You can say that truth isn't a good safeguard against deception, with the biggest deceivers being the ones telling you the "truth".
Lying isn't good but at the end of the day deception is worse. Its kind of like how betrayal is worse than opposition. You don't even have to play defense at all.
Can't you just say that Trump lies, the democrats deceive, if that's what you mean?
Would fit well with general rightwing memeplex of casting the democrats as the great deceiver(s). It would also be an opportunity to own the fact that Trump lies. Truth or lies isn't the primary issue, it's deception that's the issue (in politics, in news, in science, etc).
I think you underestimate the degree to which plenty of people completely stop working when "working from home". You might think they were low productivity before but now they're producing practically nothing.
I'm under the assumption that we will move towards a situation where pretty much all jobs for which it isn't trivial to measure productivity for, isn't commission based or where the the organisation is sufficiently small that people share ownership, will move back to almost 100% office.
This means all larger companies, governmental agencies, etc. When it isn't it will often be with a tacit understanding that the job is in fact part time.
Also, correct me if in wrong but was it really resistance to the Nazis/Soviets that caused the deaths or that they ended up being a battleground between the soviets and Nazis as well as having a disproportionate number of Jews? Their disproportionate suffering was due to geography and demographics, not diplomacy.
It seems to me that much of the destruction would have happened either way, but there being a small outside chance that the soviets/Nazis would leave them alone and route around them if they got deterred by the British security guarantees.
Ioper
2mo ago
Define unacceptable. I'd say that most younger people who aren't shut-ins or teetotalers have at least tried weed at some point. Habitual use among respectable adults is very rare and you most certainly wouldn't smoke with colleagues even if you might get drunk with them.
I'd say it was really unacceptable in the 90s, somewhat unacceptable and naughty in the 00s and almost whatever from the mid 10s and on, among younger people anyway.
I think Sweden might be at the late 00s level of American acceptance?
Ioper
2mo ago
it's going to be an adjustment to waking up in the dark and stumbling home when it's dark at 4. I can only imagine it's even worse in Sweden!
Seeing as Stockholm is north of Kirkwall, I'd say so. But then again we're used to walking to school/work in the dark and walking home in the dark as well.
I have some family living up north though and they note that most of the people who move there move away again and it's never due to the cold. People just don't understand how oppressive it can be that the sun barely comes up above the horizon for months at a time (or at all). People think they know but they don't.
Ioper
2mo ago
Moving to a small town can be tough if you don't know anyone, even if you're a native. I know plenty of people that did their residencies and law clerk service out in the sticks in Sweden and they sounded about as miserable as you.
Keep your chin up, It'll get better once you get to a city!
Also, get season appropriate clothing if you haven't already. I've seen so many Indian tech workers over here that are underdressed come winter and I know how miserable it can be, even if it's just walking to and from the bus. Just go to a goodwill if you don't want to buy something new.
Ioper
2mo ago
When I went to look I found that drug use among Swedish youth is down, especially among boys, but only alcohol use is really down.
Perhaps it's different in other places and only alcohol use is down everywhere. I might have conflated English language articles about decreased alcohol use with Swedish articles about general decline.
(3) an increase in safe and quality products
From my very distant PoV (weed isn't legal here and neither me nor any of my friends smoke), it seems like this isn't an entirely good thing. When I listen to some podcasts, life long smokers talk about how it used to be that you couldn't really overdose because the weed was kind of shit but now with capitalism fueled breeding operations and distilled specialised products, this is now a real concern, especially for new users.
I guess it's mostly a thing where culture and regulation needs to catch up to the new reality but the process isn't entirely painless.
Ioper
2mo ago
Isn't consumption of all drugs, including alcohol, way down for young people? The only thing that's really up is public opioid use, but not use in general.
People stay at home and consume digital media instead of getting intoxicated.
I may be wrong but I feel like I've read a lot of articles talking about this.
I used to believe that the green parties and their members wanted to save the environment and stop climate change. I've now come to believe that isn't really true and that their championed policies are at best counter-productive in relation to their stated goals, and they're uninterested in improvement. They don't want society to work well, decrease suffering or the environment to be saved. What they really want is for their aesthetic preferences adhered to, consequences be damned.
Furthermore, like all parties outside of the mainstream they seem to be magnets for the worst members of society.
All of this is commonplace things on both the right and leftwing extremes, but it isn't recognized as much for the greens, which is an issue. They get legitimacy from championing the cause of the day while having just the same skull generating disregard for reality and/or the consequences of their actions as the commies or Nazis.
Ioper
2mo ago
The site just ate my fairly long response and I can't be bothered to retype it.
I disagree and think you vastly overestimate the broad fame of athletes. People do not know the names and faces of athletes in sports they're not actively interested in unless they're written about a lot individually, over a long time. Many people won't know even a single current athlete in many sports.
Ioper
2mo ago
If you're following football then sure, but if not i don't think a new transfer from out or town is notable enough for one expect the non-interested to be even aware that they exist.
That may hold true for America but not Europe. The issue isn't internal battles but internal indecision or naive hope. The governments have in general not been split and it has been 100% up to the current rulers which investments to make. They have chosen not to invest.
For America, I agree that polarisation seems fairly directly decrease effective state capacity because of how the government functions, but even then I think it's important to delineate between lack of action due to political deadlock and an actual material lack of capacity.
Why are we not sending more military aid to Ukraine? Is it because we can't or because we don't want to? Its because we don't/didn't want to.
155mm artillery rounds (especially in Europe)
This has nothing to do with state capacity and everything to do with states not placing longterm orders for 155 shells. Expansions in capacity won't magically appear unless customers place orders. The industry has communicated that it stands ready to expand and that the states only have to say the word, the states aren't and not because they lack the financial capacity.
The problem isn't state capacity, it's political will.
Its been a while but:
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