I’d vote for him. Back when Biden was dropping out, I posted the question of peoples preferred democratic candidate, and Kelly was suggested by several people.

I think he could have won the '24 election had he been the candidate, and I think he could win the next election also.

The fact that (as he said in the video) he “Doesn’t consider himself a politician” is a huge plus.

It’s a bit sad that he’s starting to get old though. 60 seemed perfectly okay, 65 is a bit on the high end.

they also have to provide the additional labour of keeping hate speech off the platform in perpetuity.

The developers can choose to lock down and effectively disable discussions entirely if they want.

Steam simply provides devs a service, easy access to host a forum for their game w/o having to manage that separately. Using it is completely optional.

How do you mean?

Chiming in from Sweden, the situation here was getting very bad (relatively to how it used to be here, and how it is in the rest of the Nordics). When my dad was a kid, shootings would be national news, when I was a kid, bombings would be national news. Nowadays they are both so frequent that it barely makes the dailies.

Things have slowly started getting better again however, even if it’s slow going.

Here’s a link to a visualization tool from our national broadcaster. Keep in mind, all of Sweden is just some 10 million people.

https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/skjutningar-i-sverige-ar-for-ar/

Yup, still rocking my oneplus 5t from 2018 and will keep using that bad boy until it literally breaks.

Best of luck in getting healthier!

共 - here meaning “together”, “joint” or “common”

和 - here meaning peace or harmony.

The connection here is a peace/harmony/order (because peace/harmony stems from order) that comes from “together” or “joint” (rule). Hence, republicanism (as in the ruling system).

It is the literal translation of the names of the parties.

Democracy party

Republicanism party

Most collecting achievements are just game filler really. The ones I find interesting are ones that, in a more free-form game, create an interesting goal to work towards.

For some of my favourites I’ve on occasion gone through the list and been like ‘Yeah that sounds like an interesting objective.’

The key for decent ones is usually that they are an achievable goal for one playthrough that act as a ‘guiding star’.

My first full Factorio playthrough was a Lazy Bastard run. The game is a lot more chill when turning off biter expansions & turning up trees slightly in the map gen.

Granted I think I racked up like 200hrs in that run, largely because I could leave the game running in the background whilst going off to study or do other stuff. Once you’re past the intial stage & have a mall set up, hand-crafting really doesn’t matter much.

There is no spoon was alright as a goal, but it also ends up being a definitive end to that playthrough (which, arguably, can be both good and bad).

Yes, particularly people with chronic physical health issues are significantly overrepresented in both depression and suicide.

Yeah, I will admit that there is a strange satisfaction to brushing off snow.

Thick frost however? That’s just torture.

You posted this in /c/[email protected] a few months ago. Here’s my wrinkle that I posted back then too.

Money (and hence profit motive) is an analogue for being able to acquire and do things we need and want.

There’s two kinds of miserable people in relation to profit motive - those who can’t acquire enough money for the basic things they need to be happy, and those who took the analogue so far that they think money = happiness.

There is generally very little issue getting people to do things they want to do (things that feel meaningful) as long as they manage to cover their basic needs somehow, but there are definitely issues getting people to do things that they don’t want to do - which is where profit motive shines.

There is much more garbage to collect than there are people who want to collect garbage, more deliveries to make than people who want to make them, more places to clean than people who want to clean them.

Luckily, there is someone who wants the garbage collected, someone who wants the toilets cleaned, someone who wants their trinkets delivered. Hence, we get people to pay for that, and thus we can use profit motive to incentivize someone to do those things, at least until we manage to automate it.

I’ll also add the following. I think a key problem in modern economics is that the arbitrary creation of money/capital (need) via debt (promises) has become far too easy. It allows entities and individuals that already have large balance sheets (control a large amount of capital) to get incredible leverage in a way that is very difficult for any working individual to compete with. This skews the entire productivity of society away from outputting what regular people need/want to acquire through their work (that they trade for money).

Oh for sure! It’s a well known problem that’s been subject to increasingly strict regulation (for good reason), and modern cars are a significantly less pollutant. Ending the addiction to fossil fuels would be a huge win, but also a much larger undertaking than preventing the effects of SHS.

So where would smokers go?

On their own private property or designated smoking spots (which should be away from people and high-traffic pedestrian areas).

may be trying to escape but are tied by addicted

There should definitely be publicly funded measures to help people get rid of these addictions (ideally to no or very little charge). In the long run it’d save the public (and former smokers) a lot of health and money.

It takes a bit of effort to shake an addiction but especially with the right tools it’s very doable.

Loud-ass exhausts, booming subwoofers…

These can indeed have negative health effects and are banned in many places, the latter at least after certain hours (noise complaints!). MOT inspection fails vehicles with excessively loud exhausts and in many places you can get a “rolling inspection” from a traffic officer on the road resulting in a fine or “fix-it” ticket.

Strong colognes and perfumes…also banned in public.

Don’t have negative health effects on most people, though you can be asked to leave from many health care institutions if using too strong scents. Not really comparable to smoking but the argument could certainly be made.

Ugly sweaters, poor fashion choices, and shitty cars with anime girls painted on the side?

Only causes death by second-hand embarrassment. Maybe not excessively scantily clad anime girls at a… kindergarten? but apart from that only emotions will be hurt.