There are money people?

Not all the tials were crewde.

That took seconds, listening to everything Jordan Peterson puts out takes hours and hours.

I know one woman who, from her 60s to her 80s, lived in a building that she co-owned with two good friends. Each one had her own full apartment. But, they were able to support each-other. I also know plenty of younger women who have roommates.

I don’t think being single necessarily means being alone. Although, it’s true that modern western society makes the coupling up option much more low-friction than other ones.

You don’t need to stay with a devil at all.

Some women are apparently terrified of being single. I’ve known some who have never been single for more than a few days since they turned 15 or something. I know it can sometimes be more complicated than that, but it’s a contributing factor.

That’s also bad. You regularly hate-watch him? Don’t you have anything better to do with your time?

It should only take you about 15 minutes of watching him to understand his gimmick. He used undefined and undefinable terms like “cultural marxism”. He cherry picks out of context sciencey stuff to back up his point of view. He acts super serial all the time to make people think he’s a serious person. That’s it. You don’t need to watch any more.

Imagine how Dunning Krugerey you have to be to think that 10 years off an on in the military, plus a lot of time as a talking head on TV is the appropriate background to be Secretary of Defence.

I’m sure that the average Secretary of Defence probably has to face imposter syndrome all the time. But this guy, nope, he’s so confident that he belongs that there isn’t even a nagging voice saying “hey, maybe you shouldn’t be sending this confidential information to your relatives and friends”.

“A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency

It doesn’t meet the requirements to be a currency. It’s a commodity.

Gold isn’t a currency, it’s a commodity.

It’s not necessarily your opponent who has to have a conscience. Sometimes it can be people they depend on.

Like, with Gandhi, the British Empire didn’t really have a conscience. But, there were reporters present, and they reported on what happened. The story got out to regular people in Britain, to regular people in India, and to people worldwide. The British empire knew that if they let Gandhi die, India would erupt, other countries would boycott them, etc.

And, part of the reason for that is section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

If a TV station or radio station has a call-in show and the caller swears, it’s the station that gets fined. If the station runs a late night informercial where someone is defamed, the station is liable. But, do it online and you’re fine. The YouTube algorithm can pick out the juiciest, most controversial, most slanderous content and shove it into everyone’s recommendations and only the person who posted that content is responsible.

Section 230 makes sense in some situations. If you’re running a bulletin board without any kind of algorithm promoting posts, then it makes sense that you shouldn’t be held accountable for what someone says in that bulletin board. But, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. have all taken it too far. They don’t personally create the content, but they have algorithms that analyze the content and decide who to show it to. They get the protections of a bulletin board, while curating the content to make it even more engaging than a segment on Newsmax or MSNBC.

Luckily, they probably won’t have any.

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

Or, if you prefer a clip from The Wire, juking the stats.

Until Andor, Star Wars had paper-thin worldbuilding that let right-wingers see themselves as the Rebels.

Luke is a rural white boy who learns the true religion, which is being suppressed by the government. He uses his religious beliefs and skills honed as a farmboy to fight back. Han Solo is a businessman who just wants to make money moving goods from A to B, but the government keeps interfering, trying to destroy his business (and his personal property).

What are the rebels fighting for? Basically it seems to be about personal liberty and the right to practice their religion. If there’s any ideology beyond that, the movies don’t really get into it.

In most of the series, the empire is literally faceless. The storm troopers have full body armour that covers everything up. The Tie Fighter pilots have full helmets that cover their faces. The only people with faces you see on the empire’s side are the generals and the emperor. That makes it really easy to have the empire represent anything you want.

Part of what makes Andor such a great series is that it puts faces to a lot of the mid-level people in the empire. You see their backstabbing, their jockeying for position, striving for promotion. It really shows what kinds of people work for the empire, and what the values of the normal people are, and why they might want to join the rebels instead.

Decentralized currencies were in place

Uh huh… like when?

I actually considered a non-governmental, community regulated currency as a pretty good idea.

That goes against the entire history of currencies. Every successful currency in history has been controlled by either the state or a religion (which was effectively state-like).