Ghost jobs should be illegal. Any org found posting a ghost job should be required to pay a year’s salary to every applicant, and everyone involved in authorizing the post should be barred from working in HR for life.

People have foolish reasons for voting the way they do

“I would be disappointed if it comes in at 225 House seats,” Carville told host Bill Kristol. “I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats to win by five, because, if that happens, they’re hostage to the DSA.”

This person is a shithead.

“common sense” is an extremely weak appeal. Many things that are today are considered unacceptable were considered “common sense” by many people for many years. Racism, patriarchy, absolute monarchy…

There are far too many people who would enthusiastically go along with that.

There’s something wrong with a lot of people where they just really want to submit to the group and its authority figure.

It’s the poor empathy thing again. They can’t really imagine someone else as different than themselves.

I actually never played much XCOM, but I did play a lot of final fantasy tactics. And the original fallout.

I think Baldur’s gate 3 cheats though, since with karmic dice off I rolled four natural 1s in a row, twice.

I’ve played a lot of games with random factors. Sometimes you miss that 99% shot three times in a row. People kind of assume anything above 80% is 100%, which is silly.

“He’s not as good at this as he thinks he is,” said Christopher Preble, senior fellow and director of the Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, an international security think tank.

Yeah. He’s an idiot.

I didn’t hear anything about these protests. Not even on Lemmy. But I don’t use Facebook products nor reddit, so my information sources are a little spotty.

A friend of mine’s dad lives in a nice suburb of DC. He heard on the “news” that “there was a drug deal” in the city, so he went and bought a gun “to protect his daughter”. He didn’t take any classes on gun safety, and I would be surprised if he stored it safely.

This is the level many people operate at. Emotional flailing.

Capitalism has always sounded great in theory,

I dunno, “People who don’t do the work get rich” sounds kind of shitty.

People use the word “capitalism” to mean different things.

If you ask someone “Should someone who doesn’t do any work get money from people who do?”, a lot of people would say no. And they’d probably think you’re talking about welfare or communism. But that’s capitalism. The guy who “owns” the company can sit at home and watch netflix while all his office workers make stuff, and he keeps the profits. If you frame it right, you can get people to agree with you or suffer some cognitive dissonance.

But none of that is what some people are thinking of when they think capitalism. They think “free markets” and “competition”. They often don’t really think about how that trends towards monopolies or cartels. Either because of magic, or “the government will prevent monopolies.” But not too much regulation. There’s got to be a few decades of suffering before an intervention, typically.

There’s also a lot of binary thinking. Either capitalism, or total state ownership and oppression.

I bring it up a lot but the book “dying of whiteness” was a horrifying look into this. A significant amount of people don’t want national health care, even if it means they themselves get sick and die, because then those people would get it.

The money facts don’t matter. It’s just emotional sludge.

Aside from the possibility of me being unclear, your extremely aggressive response is uncalled for. Furthermore, “everyone” is not evident given there’s a total of 3 votes on the post.

My intended point was it would be nice if people were better, and could admit fault. They can’t. That’s a common human behavior that’s infuriating. They’d rather double down. I was agreeing with you.

I’m not sure how you inferred from me lamenting that it’s impossible for people to simply grow up and admit fault, that I think that it is possible. You seem to have read my post… not even backwards, but just wrong.

I feel like my religious liberty isn’t respected. My religion considers capitalism to be a sin in line with theft. When you don’t give to the poor, you sin. Go on, Alito. Rule for my liberty.

It’s just rubs MAGA’s noses in the fact that they were wrong, which anyone who’s ever met knows will just make them double down.

This is true but man is it an infuriating property of humans. It’s a stupid emotional response because that’s easier. Just be mature enough to grow and change. It’s okay. Impossible request, I know.

When I was on unemployment I asked them what the state expected me to do if I still didn’t have a job despite my best efforts, and the unemployed benefits ended. They just awkwardly laughed.

We live in the bad place because we let people be rich, and then let them make the rules.

This one maybe ? https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/