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DawnOfSunset
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it sounds good on paper, that's cheaper than the medicaid/medicare burden of putting them in care facilities. but we all know the ones that need care are probably still going to facilities, and the ones charging for it are probably fake and wouldn't use them anyway. this is why we can't have nice things...
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@asurazoma0810 @DawnOfSunset @terrakei07 Friend let me tell you something crazy. The government of NYC pays some people 13 American dollars an hour for people to look after their own elderly. A fake “home healthcare” job. They are protesting now because they want to get paid for 24 hours a day instead of just 13.
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嫌味とかではなく本当に素朴な疑問なんだけど、アメリカ人の皆さんはなんでそこまでカリフォルニアを嫌っているんですか？
David Samuel@DSPetolicchio
I have another proposal. We swap California for Japan geographically and leave everything else as is.
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urban decay is a worsening issue in many or most major US cities. basically all big cities are liberal, even in conservative states, and rural areas are conservative even in liberal states. it's a weird thing but you can clearly see it on our election maps.
i'm not on the east coast so can't speak to it as well, but i've heard it's struggling too, if maybe not as badly. in all cities there are many empty office buildings that can't lower rent because they hold loans on the equity, but nobody can afford it now, so they sit vacant. this leads to more decay from the empty areas, and more homelessness due to the insanely high cost of everything. that's all before even looking at immigrants or those issues. our economy was already unstable, and the covid lockdowns just stuck a knife in its back.
it's a problem all over but i think land is still more in demand in NYC (major business hub), while silicon valley (tech) and Hollywood (media) are struggling more, so it's probably uneven, but it's showing up all over to some degree, including non-coastal cities.
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i have a lowkey theory that drawing on cave walls became the first externalization of mind. it produced a feedback loop that had strange effects in our neurology and repurposed some survival circuits to do all we do.
it's cool, but you are correct. we are still animals, with a modified prefrontal cortex stapled on top. probably 99% of so-called psychology is physiology and neurology in reality. once you view human psychology from this angle, so much more makes sense.
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@DawnOfSunset @conflict_desk @GadSaad We're all just animals and nothing more. Well, except for the Empathetic Ones, who somehow are capable of seeing above it all to explain to everyone else their problems and try to force them into submission.
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I discuss innumerable such cases in Suicidal Empathy. Once you read the cases contiguously, you will be left speechless.
Humble Flow@HumbleFlow
This story is from a 2023 Hamburg trial: German Judge Anne Meier-Göring let eight migrant men go free after they gang r*ped a 15-year-old girl for three hours, ruling “migration frustration” a factor. Freed men are Afghan, Iraqi, Syrian, Moroccan, Turkish, and Bulgarian.
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it is very difficult to correct now. voting doesn't matter, clearly. the amount of power they've amassed makes it like a bunch of half-starved children in rags trying to stand up to huge, strong samurai with armor and swords. metaphorically speaking, of course. the only way around that is to break the system or resort to violence, possibly. i'm too old to take part in such, wouldn't promote violence, and am not looking forward to it frankly, but that may be the only way it turns around at this point. another civil war or similar, i'm not sure. or aliens, or the Singularity. those could do it. not holding my breath for either, but they are open possibilities. :)
i would strongly suggest any other countries study how this happened here, and don't let it get to this point. stop it sooner while you can, if at all possible. that would be the far better solution.
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@DawnOfSunset @fromdusktildawn それが負の連鎖だと思ったのなら、それこそ修正することだと思う。
そう思うなら、ですが。
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sanity.
seriously, not even they know frequently. there are a number of people who've gone around interviewing people at these things, asking them their stance and why they're there. most seem to have no real clue and just be bored and think of it as a way to socialize.
they used to do it for rights, but now they have more rights than everyone else, so they just do it for fun i guess.
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@BrandonDunarote @terrakei07 not even close. even SF would have a hard time beating Stockholm in that category. hard to believe i know. some places in Europe are definitely worse than anywhere in the US, just a bit harder to see from here.
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@terrakei07 woke state with the woke capital of the world San francisco
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i think it's more about us absorbing Japanese culture through movies, anime, literature, art, and other sources for generations now. politicians may help it along, or not get in the way of that, but it's what comes out of the country as a whole, created by its people, that really sticks with us most. politicians come and go and are frequently not trusted, but things we interact with regularly, like Nintendo being a key element of many childhoods (as one small example of many) go a long way there.
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@TakiVan1 @kengakusha1 @SamEldridge87 yeah. the errors it makes can lead to some odd and misleading translations, but i had assumed it was something like that. including the previous post being replied to might help. good to raise awareness and hopefully prevent a few misunderstandings until they fix it.
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@DawnOfSunset @kengakusha1 @SamEldridge87 Very likely Grok (the auto-translate) only saw the post and not the complete thread. The bugfix would be to supply the whole thread into Grok's context. x.com/TakiVan1/statu…
Taki@TakiVan1
Grok is an LLM, and it'll get more intelligent with time. You might have even been able to tell already that the auto-translate isn't merely translating one sentence at a time but actually seems aware of what pronouns refer to what or even when not to translate. In this very post, characters like "神" are left as is because Grok can tell the author is meta-commentating on how they perceive a translation of said character will happen. If Grok translated even that, then Grok knows it wouldn't make sense so it didn't do it. Grok has the potential to be as good as any human translator given enough context. Context is a big part of it. I think right now it only sees the whole post, but not the thread. In the future, that too might be included in the context as well as any images or videos. For some posts, it might even need to fetch the latest news to get full nuance. Anything that's still lost in translation at that point might geniunely be cultural friction, or maybe it's just a poorly worded post 😂. If a human translator can't save your post, then you shouldn't expect Grok to. That said, I don't think anyone should worry too much about it. Speak freely 👍
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日本人が失望した話
高市早苗は長年にわたり
保守的な考えを述べてきました
それをブログに綴り
その内容は日本にとって理想的な政策で溢れていました
減税
スパイ防止法
移民政策推進の否定
など
日本人の多くは高市早苗に大いに期待していました
そして大きな期待を背に彼女は総理大臣となりました
そして間もなく
高市早苗はそのブログを全て削除してしまいました
あの理想的な政策の数々は全て総理大臣になるための嘘だったのでしょう
たくさんの日本人が彼女に失望しました
彼女は全く保守ではなかった
ただ保守のふりをした権力者だったのです
もはや日本政府内に保守はいないと明確になりました
新たな保守政治家が現れるには
国民の覚醒が必要です
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i don't think i ever heard about that. and i was alive and an adult paying some attention 30 years ago. might've forgotten, but i don't recall anything like that. feel free to elaborate further?
our major spiral started around the 1960s i think, it's hard to pinpoint precisely, but was definitely in motion before Reagan, and the "political correctness" movement was obvious in the 1980s - which was annoying but mostly harmless, until it suddenly shifted into the full woke thing maybe 10 years ago. the two agendas are presumably related, hitting social and economic in ways that one wouldn't notice as related till much later, when it was too late. you can see about when our government ended the gold standard, changed the old laws on immigration, and a few other things that turned out to have major longterm effects, all not too far apart in time. i generally assume when that set of events started, it was the beginning of a longterm agenda we're come to fruition more fully lately.
that would put things in place to have interfered with Japan as part of the same agenda in the time range you suggested. which doesn't mean it was definitely part of it, but it would fit on that scale.
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現代の日本はそのループに入って1.5周目ですね
30年前に予測はしてましたが
ここまで日本の大衆と政治家が愚かだとは思わなかった
三十年以上前に事実上の再分配の為の
日本の土建屋のカルテルをアメリカ政府が邪魔して
バブル経済崩壊後の公共投資を事実上潰したのですよ
それアメリカ人は御存知かな
DawnOfSunset@DawnOfSunset
@fromdusktildawn wealth is power, power is influence, influence creates laws, laws protect and enhance wealth. put that loop on repeat a few hundred years. that's where we're at.
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there's that bug again. saying "i" (first person) instead of "she" (third person) in this sort of exchange. i assume the intended sentiment is that she (the prime minster) was a complete globalist, right? just wondering if this is a figure of speech thing or a total error in grok's translation.
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coming in from the north, follow the major highways on google maps or similar. you can go north to south through Dallas, Houston, down to Galveston and the gulf, and get most of it. Austin is off to the west a bit and requires a bit of a detour, but is nice if you have time. those are the bigger cities if you're looking for the major route for a road trip. make sure to get some tex-mex too, it's as good as the bbq.
warning: in the summer it's very hot, and the closer to the gulf, the more humid. not sure what you're used to, but you step outside and are instantly *wet*, as if standing in the rain all the time.
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@conflict_desk @GadSaad buddhism has a good model of compassion, and it's very distinct from the current western idea of it. it generally includes a "tough love" aspect that basically covers the problem that enabling is harmful to the person being enabled, so is not compassionate. among other wisdom.
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@GadSaad (1/2)
Framing empathy itself as dangerous flips a core human value on its head turning compassion into a liability instead of a strength.
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this is why i say the left effectively has "battered wife syndrome", which you described there. i think suicidal empathy has potential variation though. the idea that if we truly understand where someone is coming from, we'll see they are a product of their environment, childhood, etc..
eg: "if i was abused growing up i'd get angry and lash out too" sort of thing, which is a form of empathy / theory of mind. but when taken to the extreme, nobody is every accountable for anything, and everyone is expected to tolerate all abuse because "it's not their fault".
this is similar to the battered wife syndrome flavor, but doesn't require the same underlying "i can fix him" pathology. it's more that theory of mind realizes we're all subject to causality, and doesn't realize this doesn't mean we have to tolerate all effects of causality passively to act ethically and be decent humans.
a dog doesn't choose to get rabies, but you don't stand around compassionately petting it once it does. or, silly but illustrative: "it's not his fault he's a zombie, he was bit by another zombie against his will, so i should stay and help him". underlying "fault" becomes irrelevant in such situations, at least to one's own actions in self-preservation. same outcome, slightly different pathological cascade to get there.
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It is NOT "framing empathy as dangerous," it is describing a pathology involving empathy (or at least the pretense of it).
A simple example: a woman and her child marry a wild animal of a man with a long, violent criminal record, but she thinks she can tame him if she loves him enough. He proceeds to brutalize her and her daughter (she instructs her daughter not to fight back, because he won't like it, and the goal is to make him feel loved and to understand his pain and frustration in life). Eventually both of them end up in a hospital but mom soldiers on because she's a caring and empathetic woman! They both now have permanent injuries but they feel like they are making progress because they are so wholly empathetic to him and his feelings. One day while high on drugs he sexually abuses the daughter after beating the mother (again). Mom tells the daughter it must be their fault somehow--they must have done something to provoke him, so, they just need to care more. Try to understand him and his feelings more.
Get it?
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not everyone thinks of it that way, but that's what's intended, and how responsible people consider it, yes.
gangs and violent criminals and morons obviously do not abide by the legal or intended ethical standards, but one wouldn't expect otherwise from those sorts. that's how we sometimes get stories of toddlers accidentally shooting their parents, no joke.
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それでいてリベラルは目の前から目を背け、自分たちの富を守るために弱者さえ作り出したもんな………
ところで皆さんのお宅には銃があると聞きましたが、それは使えないんです？（やめろ）
DawnOfSunset@DawnOfSunset
@fromdusktildawn wealth is power, power is influence, influence creates laws, laws protect and enhance wealth. put that loop on repeat a few hundred years. that's where we're at.
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@mamawrench @ShamashAran @chick3T that's a great way to phrase it. succinct, and implies self-awareness and whatnot.
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@DawnOfSunset @ShamashAran @chick3T My Pépère, an old New England Catholic, once explained it like this: in the North, people will say they love all races, but will only ever spend time with their own race. In the south, we'll admit we're racist, but will mingle with, offer hospitality to, and befriend anyone.
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日本のリベラル派が、「ニューヨークやカリフォルニアの人々は保守的な日本を決してリスペクトしない」とか「米国南部人は人種差別主義者だから日本人を差別する」とかの情報を拡散してたから。
Jacob Proffitt 🇺🇸@JProff190
@SonohennoKuma Why do you guys feel like we wouldve looked down on you? Where do you guys get this impression?
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No, recent polls don't back that straight white men feel the most marginalized in the US. Pew (May 2025) finds majorities say Black (74%), Hispanic (72%), and Asian (66%) people face at least some discrimination—far higher than for whites (under 50% overall, 45% among whites). Only 34% say men face any discrimination vs. 64% for women. AP-NORC (July 2025) shows just 10-15% see significant anti-white bias.
Some young men (51% in 2025 surveys) and Republicans note rising perceptions of anti-male bias, often tied to DEI or cultural shifts. But personal discrimination reports remain lower for whites (38%) than Blacks (54%), Hispanics (50%), etc. (KFF 2023). Feelings vary by politics and age, not a clear "most marginalized" group.
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the left thing promotes minorities above all else. this eventually shifted into all non-minorities being bad. being straight, white, male, are all the common traits of the majority and what made up america's power structure for generations, so they've been targeted the most. the left wants to open opportunities for minorities, so closes them to majorities. that means straight white men are last in consideration for basically everything. it's like how feminism went from "equal rights would be nice" to "all men are horrible pigs and deserve to die" at some point. not the wrong direction necessarily, just way, way too far.
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they don't have to get along. they know how to coordinate. the old left, here at least, set up grass roots movements, put together charities, started worker unions, stuff like that. it was usually genuine and benefited people. they stopped being beneficial at some point, but still remember how to coordinate and organize.
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