Biden is stuck with what life was like 70 years ago. Russia was the bad guys then so he treats them as the bad guys now at least.

But he’s gone on record saying his support of Israel is due to a promise he made his dad when he was six years old.

He’s just flat out not looking at things logically, it’s a joke that we’re still pretending he’s capable of running the country when he’s obviously not

They’re not going to stop land grabbing…

As long as they think America has their back. They’ll keep going.

And Biden has spent over 50 years saying he’ll always support them no matter what.

That geriatric old fuck needs out of office now. We can’t wait for January and he’s clearly lost all his marbles or he’d be the candidate.

There is real life shit going on and Biden has shown time and time again. He’s just not capable of handling it

And the damage he did would drastically reduce the price and likely cost a lot in lawyers.

That’s what I mean, he’ll always do the worst thing possible.

Hell piss away millions after billions and won’t stop till he has negative wealth.

You assume he’d act rationally and invest in even more ridiculous wasted of money…

He’s not smart enough to keep a backup, because even if it’s just a million, he’ll think he can turn it into a billion.

As rich as he is, he’ll live another 40 years. More than enough time to burn all his money. Don’t forget everything is leveraged against each other, his money is built on stock prices, and he’s picking a fight with Brazil while using a shit ton of drugs

If Space X loses it’s governments contracts, literally everything would go up in smoke and he’d desperately try to make what he lost back.

A deat spiral isn’t implausible

Why won’t you respect their privacy?

https://youtu.be/lCqvJW1kIv8?si=M3lt9JHqaNSyD-Qp&t=47

Really good study, but it looks like the only things with a stronger correlation than attention control score and resting pupil size was caffeine and nicotine.

And it’s concerning so many participants couldn’t verify nicotine/caffeine consumption when those are the biggest connections when they disclose their sample was “moderate”.

We’d also have to get into how nicotine/caffeine would be “performance enhancing” for these kinds of tests, yet would make the pupils contract. They should have tossed the participants who couldn’t report nicotine/caffeine instead of including them.

But ideally it would have just been participants who had abstained from either for 24 hours. Good luck with that tho.

Yeah, it just seems like its measuring engagement during the testing.

Would have been better to take measurements at “rest” as well, then compare them.

It’d be a lot easier to believe there’s a larger increase in pupil size when concentrating than permenantly.

That being said both my parents had blue eyes, and looking at my DNA I should have blue eyes. But they’re green, which can be explained by pupil dilation causing an increase in pigment density. Like how David Bowie has one eye that’s permanently dilated so looking at a picture it looks like he has heterochromia when he doesnt.

https://slate.com/culture/2016/01/the-story-behind-david-bowie-s-unusual-eyes.html

Shits interesting, but there’s going to need to be a lot of follow up studies to rule out confounding variables.

Interesting, but I think it has more to do with focus and/or adrenal response…

That being said, I’ve taken the Wechsler IQ test, and scored higher than can be measured reliably.

I’m super light sensitive, had some optometrists refuse contact prescriptions because my pupils “dilated too much”, and had to pay like a $200 licensing fee when I got LASIK because they had to use some special attachment because it had to be done wide than normal Lasik due to pupil size.

So maybe there is something to this? I still think there’s a middle step in there and not direct correlation though

What’s really freaky is one of the theories we can’t see other life, is to our perspective (due to expansion of the universe) their rate of expansion is faster than the speed of light, and we won’t know till they’re pretty much at our doorstep.

There might be a bunch of them all over, jumping around the universe and claiming everything they see like old school European countries.

If that happens the best result is they make us a “colony” but honestly a civilization that scale doesn’t need resources or anything. The most likely explanation for that behavior would be just to eliminate any future competition if we advance unchecked.

Rather than colonize, they might just want to wipe out our planet, which would be practically effortless for a civilization that advanced. If something crashed into Earth at those speeds, the planet itself would be gone, no way for us to survive or even stop it.

The only defense is to spread out from Earth, which makes the hypothetical advanced space race afraid of our expansion kind of right

Any civilization in a universe like that needs to constantly expand just to ensure it’s survival. Because the only reason we’d be preserved was if they cared about the novelty of life.

If they’ve spent millions of years expanding their space, alien life probably isn’t that novel to them anymore. So really, our only bet is we’re entertaining, like a zoo.

Yep, people keep replying like it’s a choice to pay it or not…

For most Americans, that shit ain’t a choice, they just can’t.

Oh you earn the middle income? Too bad it’s 90% of your rent but don’t worry you’re still middle class! Nothing to be worried about here!

I’m not saying that’s fine, I’ve literally said multiple times it’s not, and that looking at like you are downplays the problem.

I’m sorry I couldn’t find a better way to explain it.

You have an idea in your head of a standard that is “middle class”.

That is not what I’m talking about.

If we’re splitting the classes by median income (assets could be done, but people in the middle class by median are lucky to even have a mortgage on a home) then it’s about 40k for an individual and 75k for a household.

Statistically speaking “middle class” is the median and a statistical deviation either way.

But that paints an incredibly depressing and realistic picture of what America’s “economy” is really like. So the wealthy have pushed the narrative you’re following that only a minority of people can obtain “middle class”.

Historically when shit gets organized like that, it doesn’t end well for the ones that hoarded all the wealth.

The harsh truth is that “middle class” is pretty fucking broke. It’s just what happens when you concentrate the wealth at one end of the distribution. And literally the only way to fix that, is by moving the wealth to people lower in the distribution.

So rather than that be the discussion, it benefits the wealthy if people do what you’re doing, and act like it just disappeared and can magically be made to reappear from thin air without taking wealth back from the people who have it now.

You’re talking “should” legally…

I’m talking “should” ethically, but really, they “should” have never made that wealth to begin with.

I mean, it should be median income/wealth, then a standard deviation either way.

But capitalism doesn’t care about people, it cares about money. That’s the only way the “middle class” can be defined differently.

Don’t let capitalism define words.

Middle class is paycheck to paycheck, has been for a while.

I’m lucky enough I can stack retirement and I got a house when it was (comparatively cheap).

If we’re splitting the classes by median income (assets could be done, but people in the middle class by median are lucky to even have a mortgage on a home) then it’s about 40k for an individual and 75k for a household. And I’m solidly “upper class” even though I’ll never amass more than a million in assets unless real estate inflation jumps past Ludacris and into plaid.

The fact that anyone with a million in assets, let alone cash/stocks would consider themselves “middle class” just tells you stupid people can luck out and become millionaires.

It’s a level of delusion that is actual impressive.

So the “middle class” that’s a single income, house in the burbs, two cars, vacations every year…

That shits gone. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a statistical middle class.

Idk why you guys are so obsessed about millionaires here

Because they keep denying they’re the 1% and claim to be “middle class” and need tax breaks because the 0.1% exist.

When they’re still causing problems for the rest of the 99%

It was like that since forever and it will be like this forever

At this point, it’s real hard to think you’re not trolling…

Like just statistically, very very few people would ever legitimately try to use that argument these days after sooooooooooo many people have been shooting it down for centuries.

If progress wasn’t possible, shit wouldn’t have fucking progressed.

Quick edit:

Completely unsurprised by that post history

$150 a month for her dog’s health insurance…

And she’s calling herself “middle class” like she lives in the burbs…

The wealthy always think of themselves as “middle class” because they know people wealthier.

Just because billionaires exist doesn’t mean millionaires who take annual child free vacations are suddenly “middle class”.

They just don’t want to actually admit they’re wealthy and wasting a shit ton of money that should be going to taxes.

There’s some valid reasons to criticize Kamala, but they’re all about her being too far to the right.

Every bad thing about Kamala (and there are things bad about her) trump is objectively worse with.

It creates this weird situation where Republicans can’t criticize her for anything her voters don’t like without hurting trump worse, so they have to resort to random weird shit like demanding proof of a college job 40 fucking years ago.

That being said, SSA would actually have records to prove this, and if Republicans knew anything about how government works they’d never make a claim this easily disproven. We’re insanely lucky that Paul Ryan stepped back for politics and went to think-tanks. He’s still a problem, but if he ran in 2016 we’d all be incredibly fucked right now

Sounds like we’re adding something to the list of reasons to unlock your bootloader…

Yeah. I went to duck duck go a while ago.

Their default maps is terrible, but web search works fine.

For some reason the only videos they link on the video tab is YouTube tho, which sucks and you’re better off just searching YouTube instead at that point.