Like an Alberta separatist party? Seriously?

I don’t think so. The old ideologies are dead.

I only buy mint-type candies. Junior mints until the trade war; something local now.

I need something to crush sweets cravings, but I also want to limit how much I’m actually going to eat. With the strong flavour, I find those work pretty well.

Is there as much fibre in a web as a silkworm cocoon, though?

Exactly. And the cost only goes up from there. There isn’t really an easy solution to the world’s problems unfortunately, because we made them in the first place. I try anyway.

Yeah, I do activism as well. Particularly the boring kind nobody else shows up for. It doesn’t really contradict any of this.

Although if I was in America I don’t think I’d bother. Who knows if unions will even be legal in a few years? (Well, I’d guess the MAGA ones will last, but it’s an example) Edit: Getting out would be the main priority, and maybe helping others do so.

IMHO the problem with relying on people to vote spontaneously is that it’s cooperating on a prisoner’s dilemma.

What do you mean? There’s no penalty for voting, and more or less anyone can run, so it’s not like there’s nobody to vote for. The only good reason not to is just the hassle.

Hmm. I wonder. It can’t be just humans, right? Why not spiders?

I thought it was output that was the bottleneck.

I ignore the results until they’re all in as well. The time to worry and do things is before the ballots are cast.

My alarm is across the room from my bed. It’s been a long time now, but I definitely felt better after I started doing it.

I’m not sure I’d call not getting even more funding for these programs a “sacrifice”, however nice that would be. Sacrifice implies something you had and then lost.

It’s federal employees that are really going to feel the pain under the plan. And maybe people who need them; I’m guessing not as much is unnecessary as Carney thinks.

So who do you mean by shareholders? The ETF that I buy so I don’t have to manually buy the whole market, or a pension fund? Funds are the only other thing I can think of that I’d describe that way.

(It amazes me that people can think ‘influencer’ is not a creepy ominous title)

Now that you point it out, it definitely is.

By the same token, you can save a lot not ordering rice at places where that’s the carb on the side, and making your own instead.

Hand soap. Dish soap works better and you can use it on dishes in addition to your hands.

I was always told it would fuck up your hands. Does it?

This guy frugals.

To this day, I’ve never been tempted to buy a nice display, I’m right there with you. Like, I go to electronics stores for whatever and am dazzled by the bright colours on the modern ones, but not enough to need it when I’m posting on Lemmy, let alone pay an arm and a leg for it.

How so? I’d expect two monitors showing the same thing at the same brightness would be physiologically identical.

By that criteria, 10. Like, if a Nazi wanted to seriously talk with me, I’d be fine with that. Glad, even. The thing is, they don’t usually do a whole lot of thinking or analysing, or they would have stopped being a Nazi pretty quickly.

It’s usually more about psychoanalysis - trying to figure out how their irrationality works. I spend a shit ton of time trying to get inside the head of the people who maintain the world’s problems. So, still 10.

IIRC it mentions right in the article nobody else can really cleanly replace him. There’s tons of different subfactions with different ideas and the personality cult is the main thing holding them together.

I suppose if Vance could get enough signatures to declare Trump unfit for office, he’d have a decent opening to consolidate power. If.

Yeah, how many people in his movement change their mind, how many decide it’s all fake news, and how many decide it’s just the cost of doing business is a real question.

People outside the MAGA movement have already been sidelined, of course.