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Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by padjo »

makeitdouble wrote: post #88

> Long before smartphones or even the printing press, our cognitive architecture was shaped by a single problem: stay alive long enough to reproduce. Our ancestors whose attention drifted past the rustle in the grass left fewer descendants than those who froze, looked and listened. We're having too much of these look back to hunter-gatherer state of affairs to explain modern phenomenons. It feels like they didn't rea…

Indeed, they have all the intellectual rigour of Kipling's Just So Stories, and should be treated with as much seriousness.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by pepperoni_pizza »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #240
retired wrote: post #104

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Only if you limit your work and social life to that particular city. Not something most people want to do.

I don't. Long distance trains exist too, and I can watch a movie or eat at a restaurant car there rather than focus on the road.

My favorite is having beer with friends in a restaurant car. It's like going to a pub but with awesome view!

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by 8note »

retired wrote: post #153
lukan wrote: post #121

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Are you claiming owning a cargo bike is a bigger privilege than owning a car? Problem with cargo bikes are, if you are living in a flat where you cannot "park" them, you mean this?

The lifestyle I refer to is living in a bike friendly city, being able to afford a multi-thousand euro cargo bike and having secure storage for it. OP also appears to live in a house with a yard on top of that. That lifestyle is reserved for very high earners. Edit, reply to Lukan as I am rate limited with my comments: I’m sure that those people you saw in Leipzig and Berlin are global 5% earners, maybe even 1%-ers.…

im a bit confused.

in poorer places people use more bikes, or just walk.

the car based spots are from wealth, and many had bicycle friendly infrastructure that was torn down to build super highways for cars

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by 8note »

kstenerud wrote: post #118
spking wrote: post #3

Neil Postman called this the “Peekaboo World”. “What steps do you plan to take to reduce the conflict in the Middle East? Or the rates of inflation, crime and unemployment? What are your plans for preserving the environment or reducing the risk of nuclear war? What do you plan to do about NATO, OPEC, the CIA, affirmative action, and the monstrous treatment of the Baha’is in Iran? I shall take the liberty of answering…

It's not that you plan to do nothing; rather, it's because you can do nothing about them. The only people who have any sway are the various foreign offices and the country leaders. But even their power is incredibly limited, because humanity moves like the tide. Sure, Trump can continue chastising Netanyahu for continuing Israel's attacks into Gaza and Lebanon (which will sabotage the already comical agreement betwee…

> they can't allow Iran to be the only nuclear power in the region - not with an isolationist USA

isnt that leaving out the current only nuclear power in the region?

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by 8note »

appplication wrote: post #22
metabagel wrote: post #12

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This is close to correct. We should be aware of current events but not become too emotionally involved with them. They are mostly outside of our control, and we need to reserve most of our focus and emotional energy on what is front of us and our loved ones. However, we should still act on behalf of greater causes with the means at our disposal. Some examples... world in crisis - I donate to World Central Kitchen the…

I was recently massively downvoted on Reddit because I mentioned I didn’t really care about candidates stances either way on Israel/Palestine as it regards to a city-level election. I certainly have opinions and understand why folks have principles either way, but we can’t make every issue the issue we spend our energy on, and this doesn’t meet the bar for me for a city official. Sometimes online and election media d…

theres some reason to care - non-federal entities still make and enforce anti-bds laws, and put support for israel into contracts for working with them.

if you want to be able to have say, cheaper government, you need to be elect local officials on the palestine side, so that folks other than just the pro-israel ones can bid

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by 8note »

pjc50 wrote: post #70
watwut wrote: post #56

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Frankly, bullshit. Harris did not seemed more pro war or aggressive, unless you live in deep conservative bubble.

The slight problem here is that the war was started by Netenyahu, whom US voters are unable to remove. But yes, I doubt Harris would have gone for the decapitation strike that destabilized everything.

netenyahu may have convinced trump tp go to war, but its the US that started the war.

it would be a different case, and very likely a different iranian response if israel had started the war, and the US did its more typical "is nearby and shoots down missiles flying overhead"

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Post by cholantesh »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #252
inigyou wrote: post #182

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As opposed to treating fact-free rehashings of Israeli state propaganda as 'non-flattering statements' and decorating such treatments with thought-terminating epithets.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by TFNA »

inglor_cz wrote: post #166
kstenerud wrote: post #142

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I Netanyahu retires, Eisenkot or Bennett take up the mantle, which is arguably worse. But he's got no reason to retire, given how he's polling now. Iran isn't going to drop their nuclear program. They know full well that IF this deal actually works out (it won't, but just for the sake of argument...), they can go back to their clandestine enrichment program and nobody will actually look very hard (just like before).…

If you are right about Russia losing the war of attrition (I am not certain, though I certainly hope so), this will result in some internal unrest. The Muslim part of the Caucasus may well secede, places like Dagestan have negligible ethnic Russian population anyway. The next leader will have a lot of work on his hands just to keep the federation intact and Russian politics at least a bit independent on China. Ultima…

Russia has extended a surveillance pantopticon over the North Caucasus with Chinese tech and disarmed its population. Local ethnic elites and their families have grown rich through relationships with Moscow and only stand to lose all those luxuries through separatism. I don't believe that those republics breaking away is as likely as one would have thought in the early millennium.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by unparagoned »

cineticdaffodil wrote: post #168
spking wrote: post #3

Neil Postman called this the “Peekaboo World”. “What steps do you plan to take to reduce the conflict in the Middle East? Or the rates of inflation, crime and unemployment? What are your plans for preserving the environment or reducing the risk of nuclear war? What do you plan to do about NATO, OPEC, the CIA, affirmative action, and the monstrous treatment of the Baha’is in Iran? I shall take the liberty of answering…

I plan to be informed about causality and effect - and im voting accordingly to put an end to causes that affect me negatively. So understanding something, not mythologizing or idealizing anything, is a absolutly necessary pre-requisit to voting.

For many it probably has a negative effect on their life and their single vote is unlikely to ever make a difference.

Plus people watching the media don’t consume in some objective fashion. Almost everyone just gets stuck in an echo chamber which reinforces reinforces their view rather than making them more informed. They might actually be less informed.

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