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I read some books by Alice Miller that discussed some childhoods of authoritarian rulers and they were all of unloved. They had not one adult stick up for them, be their advocate or helper, during their childhood years.

Many of us as children have been unwanted or unloved by our caregivers. Most of us had at least one adult: an uncle, grandmother, teacher etc, who truly tried to help at least once.

What the monsters in history had in common is an absence of evidence of even that happening for them. And their revenge as adults was terrible.

Cool theory. But should not work if the universe is much larger than what can be seen though? Unless it’s just our visible part of the universe is rotating in a mind boggling large structure? And why not? All matter clumps, and a huge universe should have countless structures that are the size of all we know

I have thoughts this is an excellent sample of those who watch Fox News

Our Omnibus draws samples entirely from the SSRS Opinion Panel, which has a probability-based recruitment methodology. No one can volunteer or sign up for the SSRS Opinion Panel; members are randomly selected and invited to participate. The panel recruits randomly selected panelists using a nationally-representative address-based sample (ABS) design with a randomly dialed prepaid cell phone supplement (RDD). This reduces the risk of bias and ensures that bots or fraudulent panelists are not recruited.

So, people who answer strange phone numbers. I think 15 years ago that would have been fine. But now, not so much, and I really don’t think this filter is talked about as much as much as I would like.

Try looking for “ssrs scams”, and mixed into that are actual experiences with the survey, by people asking about what they experienced. Also mixed into are the various actual scams that pretend to be legitimate.

A huge percentage of mentally healthy USA adults would not participate

It reminds me of the spate of articles 8 years ago about this; how headlines made mountains out of molehill changes in stats.

The fact is, about of a third of Americans would be pleased with orange-face no matter what he did or who got hurt.

All these leopard-eating-faces articles are just modern day morality plays ( the performance of drama about how the wicked or sinners get their justice, or tearfully beg for forgiveness). People been enjoying this even before the printing press

Coal.

I still collect money from selling out my travel companions? Right…?

Destroyed 800 tanks

I think conditions have improved, but look worse because things have improved. I know that makes no sense.

Many jails have horrible things done to people. But due to the various reforms and court actions, many but not all places have more transparent reporting while having small improvement.

Wow, just doing the bare minimum for a legislature is enough to let one grab national headlines.

One arm hair in the hand is better than two in the bush

Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.

It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.

Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!

I think nobody understands exactly how anything works, but enough of us understand our own little corner of tech to make new things and keep the older things going. I’ve been coding for decades, and proudly state I understand about 1% of what I do. This is higher than most

AI will make these little gardens of knowledge smaller for most, and yet again we, as the human species, will forever rely on another layer of tech.

So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.

I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now

Except they will probably not regulate natural dyes, or even force listing of the replacements. Some of the replacements will not be healthy.

So like usual, it looks good at first sight but will sicken and poison many children and adults instead.

food allergies too!

It’s a sneaky way to shut down social security. Everyone in Doge knows it will break the system. Really break it. And that is bad, of course ( there is a but here)

But I think it’s brilliant to do it this way because 95% of the people reading the news do not see the ramifications. And will not see it later, they will know it’s gone but how? Why? It’s so complicated!

The American public is really gullible, and this gives enough political cover to avoid the oft stated “gone too far” mantra about disabling social security.

Bad people can have good plans to do wicked stuff

Yea, I seriously tried to think of one merger, big enough to be noticed, and not willing to even break laws to show their appreciation.