Part of keeping an open mind is realizing when you were wrong. Most recently, I have realized that liberalism, at least as practiced in the USA has no future, no possible way to defeat the rise of far right politics, and no real plan to even try. It’s an inherently unstable system that only worked because of the post-World War 2 economic boom and the ripple effects of that boom. Now that things are evening out again, American liberals are just sticking their heads in the sand imagining that it’s the 1990s and that all things can be fixed with a healthy stock market, when that wasn’t even really the case back then and it’s becoming more and more obviously false as time goes on.

We need something drastic to change and fast, or we’re just completely fucked with Trumpism. Socialists and other left-leaning groups are the only ones that realize we need to fight hard and fight now, and establish alternative centers of power to corporations and the government, instead of just hoping that the corporations will be good or that the government will stop itself from doing bad things. I don’t even think a fully socialist economy will even work at least in the short term(not opposed to it in principle, I just think we need hybrid economies short term to ease into it), but if I have to pick between that and whatever the fuck the Trumpists are trying to make, it’s an easy choice.

I was super in favor of capital punishment until we had to do an essay on a controversial topic in my senior year of high school and as I was researching for it I was like “wait a minute this actually sucks ass.” Capital punishment kind of only “works” if your underlying assumption is that the justice system gets it right every time, which is not true at all. It also isn’t even a good deterrent- it makes no difference on capital crime rates whether the death penalty is a possibility or not. So the only reason to have it is that your own sense of “justice” requires criminals to be killed, even if it doesn’t actually help anything and even if it doesn’t prevent more crimes. And again, that denies any possibility that the justice system ever gets things wrong and wrongfully convicts someone.

Yeah all the Cubans I know are incredibly conservative due to hating communism so much they’re willing to get behind any movement that opposes it. Honestly though that makes me feel less bad for them.

Did studios get a cut of game rentals? I don’t actually know how that worked

or don’t care

17% of the population not giving a shit is a problem

I’ve been to one of these! There was a hill within the house that is way steeper than it looks and it was super freaky and disorienting. Just being in that place gave me motion sickness

You need to go outside and touch grass dude.

No that makes it irrelevant dumbass

This is a discussion about literacy my dude

That is exactly what happened lol

Republicans have no balls. All of these losers bend over to accept Trump’s cock in the end like the little sluts they are. They have no respect for themselves, this country, or anything. Fuck all of these guys.

Quantum physics doesn’t make sense until you just let the math take you to the results and stop worrying about your intuition. You have to absolutely trust the math and work through the results as many times as you need to for them to make mathematical sense in spite of your intuition. Further, have some grace with yourself. It took us 7,000 years from the dawn of civilization to get to Aristotle, 2000 years to get from Aristotle to Newton, and 218 years to get from Newton to Einstein. In that time a lot of progress has been made to our understanding of physics, and a lot of the confusion about quantum physics is due to flawed understandings of the people who created it. Spin was literally thought to be rotational motion of the particle in the of

That means a majority approve or don’t care. We’re fucked

Where exactly are the Jews advocating for cutting educational resources? Jews in general perform far better on educational metrics than most other groups, and their whole religion is based on reading, study, and debate.

Or a lot of shit starts being “made in Vietnam” or Malaysia that looks suspiciously like it was made in China by new companies that popped up overnight.

If you want to see unhinged shit just make a new tik tok account and look up the word adrenochrome. The algorithm will get you real quick.

My high school in a semi rural part of the Southern US had a Chinese language class that you could choose to take for your foreign language credit back in the early 2010s. I think it’s a false premise to say that it’s not taught in the US, most kids just choose to take easier languages like German, French, or Spanish

It gets more expensive to work on a more polished product. If you’re only selling like 500 copies for $2 it doesn’t matter if the game is janky as hell and crashes sometimes, but if you’re selling more copies and want to make translations, ensure more compatibility with more hardware, improve performance, etc that takes more time, and more importantly, it usually means paying people. You also start having to worry about having to do more refunds, marketing, etc. Obviously it can be done where people just keep it small, but it’s hard to do especially if the developers quit their day jobs to develop the game. I call this the “Michael Scott Paper Company Problem” where you can end up running out of money while trying to scale up because you are trying to compete on costs at an unsustainable level. Of course, once you get to a large enough scale you can start getting more efficient and can do more to keep your price down, but in this middle range it’s kind of difficult.

Plenty of conspiracy theorists on Lemmy just mention that Luigi Mangione killed Brian Thompson or Trump falling out with Elon Musk and they come out of the woodwork

There are probably plenty of right wing instances you’re not federated with, but now that mainstream social media has been overtlu taken over by fascists there’s not as much reason for it. When I first heard of Lemmy I remember there were a shit ton of far fight instances because that’s who was getting kicked off of reddit back then. Now, though, the owner of Twitter is straight up doing seig heils in front of crowds and you can get banned on reddit if you criticize him too much. So if you’re a conservative, why would you bother using a weird open source platform like Lemmy when the big dogs are all in complete agreement with your beliefs and all your heroes are on those platforms, especially when your ideology is based on hero worship?

TL;DR if you’re a right winger you’re just on the mainstream platforms or on an explicitly right wing alternative like Truth Social