Ah so they’re bad at economics too. The donated money will have a higher growth rate than invested money, so it’s more rational to donate early. Being poor is expensive!

Although I love it when they subtitle the inaudible-but-foreshadowing news anchor in the background.

Informative!

The last time he weighed in on the nature of money:

Man he really telegraphed that Nazi thing from a million miles away.

I thought effective altruists were all about buying people’s mosquito nets in Africa because it’s more bang for your buck than buying people’s groceries in North America?

Stores: If anybody shoplifts, I’m gonna make everyone wait.

Stores, years later: Hey everyone is buying everything online these days.

Has there ever been any research as to whether animals have mental traits similar to humans with ADHD?

It seems super weird to me that a successful species of hunters was able to pivot to repetitive and boring farm work. Repetitive stress should make a mentally healthy animal freak out! Sitting for years will kill you! Locking in to something that doesn’t deserve your attention seems like it should’ve been a less fit adaptation.

And they weren’t getting paid less than dirt after 10 years.

There’s a lot to unpack here.

• how many capitalist societies do you think there are?
• is there some issue with the term indigenous people?
• do you think that if one (or multiple?) societies have capitalism, that growing and evolving will always result in capitalism?

I saw one good suggestion here to just write down your duress pin and leave it in your wallet.

“The problem is people” is eco-fascist rhetoric. It’s not indigenous people’s fault that it’s 100 degrees in the arctic.

They just said human history. Work on your reading comprehension, bro.

From now on, I’m going to blame everything bad that happens to Lemmy on the departure of AdmiralPatrick.

Nah I just thought of the oddest character I keep seeing around here.

If his point was that we loved spectacles, then he’d be correct.

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Ironically, I’ve only heard “DARVO” from people doing it.

Streisand Effect of cool people

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