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So I haven't been able to figure out where I fit because the classifications are too broad and don't fit a modern society anyway. I mean half the shit we argue about (capitalism, socialism, communism) seems to my uneducated eye to be economic systems, not political systems, so i get severely confused when people talk about them like political systems. Why can't we have democratic communism for example?

Again, I haven't taken a political science course, but I don't see an inherent contradiction in calling myself a democratic libertarian communist. People should be free to do as they please with some perhaps common good exceptions, but the means of production should be controlled by the people by way of voting. That doesn't seem contradictory.

But you tell that to someone who studies this more seriously and they look like I've grown three heads. I don't get it TBH.

That sucks. Yet somehow it seems like one of the better outcomes in America. I feel like now they'd just find some reason to fire the person or lay them off and thus not cover the medical bills to begin with. Hell, my wife was fired during the maternity leave the company offered because she actually took it rather than I guess just being so grateful that she worked through it.

I'd like to believe there would be some carve out here for willful ignorance. Like if the truth is easily accessible and you choose to believe contrary to that because of some other thing, maybe you don't get grace on that.

That probably is true for most Nazis too. So the comparison remains on point.

Vacations are so much less enjoyable now. Like it shouldn't ruin my whole experience, but it kinda does.

I have a plan: we pass a law that any contract intended for the public (ToS, various other terms and conditions, privacy policies, etc) must be at the average reading level of the American public. We'll either incentivize better education or better contracts. Maybe both!

Steven Universe was the first show that came to my mind too. And my issue isn't, "They should have murdered the diamonds." No one said that in this post or thread.

However, the fact that they just get forgiven with basically no consequence is a problem. Consequences don't have to be murder. But they kind of just agree to do the right thing from then on, while still staying in charge. We all know none of it works that way in the real world. There's no combination of words that someone could say to, for example, turn Trump into a good person.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one seeing this. "Technology" wasn't the problem, the problem was "learning platforms" that don't actually teach anything useful, and the fact that teachers weren't the time or resources to actually integrate it meaningfully. Just throwing kids at Blooket or whatever nonsense software the district paid for is not "integrating computers into the classroom."

I mean they're just some number in a database Elon owns. Would anyone be surprised if we find out he inflates his numbers?

Interesting but I'm going to predict this goes nowhere. It doesn't look like the US has excessively high Alzheimers rates compared to countries that use less cars. The Netherlands still has plenty of Alzheimers diagnoses. I feel like you'd expect to see more regional variation if we could tie it to something like tires.

Also other than a few outliers (gaming) IT and development jobs have been pretty good in recent history. There hasn't been much push for change until the circumstances shifted.

On the other hand, wheels aren't just on cars. Shopping carts, toys, luggage, some step ladders, and more. I'm going with wheels.