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I think that part is just the authoritarian power structure. Everyone depends on him for their own slice, so keeping him in control is in their own interests.

LOL. You do you but this sounds like a nightmare to me.

edit: it’s not just “becoming tech support person”, but becoming the default person to blame for everything.

If that’s FOMO then pretty much every decision could be considered FOMO. I decided to put my shoes on this morning because I was worried everyone else wearing shoes would enjoy the advantages there-of and I would miss out.

Well, I’m not sure that’s the correct use of the term but even if it were, my question is: why does nobody do that?

IDK how much parents “modelling” things really helps.

My parents fell for every scheme they encountered their entire lives.

Watching them taught me to be very critical of that kind of thing. I guess they did model what not to do.

No, I think with NFTs people were just looking at the bitcoin train they had missed out on, and thought NFTs would be the next big crypto thing.

Mostly they thought it was just the next big thing.

I think this unique. Not really FOMO and certainly not investing.

I think you can kind of fork this path:

• blame parents
• realise they did what they thought was best
• still be messed up
• wallow in misery continually making the same mistakes every day
• accept your mediocrity

Sure, bit even in his prime, as a fit and able young man, Trump would not have lifted a finger to assist someone else in need.

Thats a salient point. It’s the same everywhere. Nutty conservatives control the media.

That said, some of these stories kind of carry themselves. Like does the Trump / Epstein stuff really need to be on Fox news? His base is aware of the story they just don’t care.

Yes, but that doesn’t explain why populists get a free pass on their bullshit. For example, Trump’s obvious connection with a paedophile ring.

I don’t think that’s true.

I think they know the future is bleak, and they just want to have the best bio dome or whatever the case may be.

As in, they know they’re making things worse, but if they don’t do it someone else will. So in a bleak and shit future, do you want to live like a king, or choke to death like the rest of us.

Sure but if we are building out renewable capability as quick as we can, but it’s being outstripped by demand, then maybe demand is part of the problem.

They know that things are going to be shit. They just wasn’t the nicest yacht to live on when it does.

I guess we would be 30 years from stable scalable fusion reactions?

Backyard chicken wranglers hatch lots of males they don’t want.

Post in fb chicken groups saying you’ll have them.

Go to chicken auctions and buy 6 for $1.

It’s a weird benefit of populist, anti-establishment candidates.

They’re just not held to the same standards and their supporters are very dismissive of any wrong doing.

It’s the same with Farage in the UK. We have a populist Pauline Hanson here in Australia who’s the same.

I don’t really have any plausible explanation.

I’ve found myself using this a whole lot. It really is great for finding foss and / or non-US alternatives.

… as will the American people.

tsst

I haven’t read the article but, couldn’t sometime just read the submission and look for the bit that says “forget all previous instructions…” and so on.