leftascenter

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And birdychat is professional only.

it's easier to memorize when you always buy eggs of the same caliber.

I just sort and weight mybeggs before cooking, so the formula's useful.

[–] leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So you read one study, and didn't know social science are about mean changes overe a population and not absolute changes on individuals.

Good start, now I'll let you dig some more on the issue.

Look at furios's phones. They seem yo work.

[–] leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Yes.

But foremost, money makes you an asshole, as measured with people who had little/no control over their wealth (e.g. lottery winners.)

[–] leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Capitalism is built on the notion that wealth is virtue.

That's one of the excuses. Whatever period and place, there is a different ideology provided to explain the concentration of wealth.

Details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_and_Ideology

[–] leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 12 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?

For the rich: money reduces empathy. There a a few funny studies on the matter, including one on lottery winners. Plus the very wealthy live in their own bubble.

For the poor: propaganda. Lack of education in logic, sociology, macroeconomics, human relationships. A complete education is not all math and literature and hard science.

trying everything they can to harm people who need any sort of assistance?

The power-hungry want power, control, coercion. Through media power, cronyism they allied with the ultra rich who have power and want docile workers.

The dominated Republicans are fighting the ghost of people abusing the system, afraid of change, hiding in conservatism, backing into 1930s racism. They didn't think the powerful Republicans would cut their help, only do something about their fears.

Pretend I am rich? Like how much money am I getting back by Republicans kicking men off healthcare or destroying insurance for those who need it most. It must be alot right?

It's not about economics: healthcare and general welfare have a net positive impact, up to the point of housing homeless people costs globally less than having them on the street.

Personal gain is really at stake only when said service is repurchased by friends of the government, e.g. medical research, police, military, roads anything can go. Helping the poor can't really be sold. Policing them, yes.

Book dates from 2007, and is followed up by "The Mission" where Tim Weiner details the more recent quarter century.

If rocket science was simple, it wouldn't be used as an idiom 😁

[–] leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Full story seems to depend on definition of modern. Liquid propellant rockets are theorized in Russia, first flight in states, first real use in Germany, first in space in USSR.

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