The expanse, altered carbon, billions, mr robot.

Jup, something is missing in this story.

Given the rise of the far right in Germany, I tend to agree. This would bundle EU resources and take control from single States in case the far right takes over.

I'd very much like that the right not take control of the strongest EU army right after we build it.

Jup. My kids play that daily. Great fun

Am German. Love French wine and your culture of setting things on fire when you protest. The people though....

Also turns out bouncing your leg and similar activities are surprisingly good at burning calories.

Art lies in the eye of the observer.

Gosh. Normal people get an education and learn how these things work. And now you don't have to trust the government or anybody for that matter because it makes sense and it works.

You don't have to be a car specialist to know that is you put gasoline in it, it goes if you need it.

This is actually a very promising thing that is currently in phase 2 trials for celiac disease. The main problem with it is that you have to give the patient what triggers his disease to unlearn the thing from the system. Meaning if you are deadly allergic, this would still kill you. Recent research suggests that really small doses can still help to reduce the immune response over time (study about peanut allergy if i remember correctly).

My son was recently diagnosed with celiac. And although living with it is no big thing, and I'm not looking forward to him puking his guts out a few times, I'm hoping this will heal him permanently as celiac often is a cause for cancer later in life due to regular micro exposure. And celiac does not go away by itself right for that reason.

I'm excited for my friends with multiple sclerosis. The medication helps keeping the disease in check, but they still have to go through some of the attacks. One of those inflammation attacks could be their last ever with this treatment.

So: very hopeful, I have an alert on the study results, they are due any day now. The bookmark is on my desktop though, so might add that later if there is wider interest.

While I don't necessarly agree with your opinion, I actually enjoy your perspective a lot. Thanks for that :)

Afaik elon likes to say he is autistic, but there is yet to surface any proof to that.

I distinctly remember a story of elon being bullied. I also think elitist schools have an even worse bullying problem. As much as you might not believe it, billionaires are human. Dehumanizing someone to make it easier to feel good about hurting them is what the right do and is a trap we should not be falling into.

This is the OG "mods are asleep" meme.

My take as a loser in school: being treated like losers get treated in school leaves scars that are very hard to get rid off. It makes you driven beyond any reason. I would argue treating someone like shit because of circumstances beyond their control is not only creating quite capable assholes but also not better than treating someone worse because of the color of his skin. So maybe everybody who piles the upvotes onto this post: take a long look into the mirror and find some love and understanding for the people around you. Takes alot of reflection and therapy to see the damage and it usually does not help healing it completely.

Luigi had a brief stay, for 14 hours.

I would agree and add that companies are no option either. Can't have the state handle that though, look at the German rail and telecommunications companies. Utterly broken.

Best thing I have found working sometimes is housing cooperatives. "Wohnungsbau Genossenschaft". Which are incorporated as a non profit. But even those work only sometimes and only if most of the shares are owned by people actually living in the networks housing.

Same boat buddy. Same boat.

Let's some to simplify every person gets to buy only one home and this is only for them and their families to enjoy.

Now they still have more money than you. They just won't invest in a house but somewhere else instead. Now nobody can rent, great all the banks now get a ton of revenue for all that money they lend out because everybody needs to buy. (Making them insanely rich)...

Inequality is the problem, just peddling a simple solution like getting rid of one symptom is not gonna fix this. Also changing the system has historically done nothing in that way either.

Taxing the rich would. ;)

Landlords are easy to hate, but they are necessary. Having them paying high taxes and having strong protections for renters will keep them honest and contributing and the market balanced.

Let's start with some constructive work instead of hate flaming memes.

An interesting addendum to your question: this is not a exclusively US based phenomenon. In Germany there are the Reichsbürgers they have similar ideas.

They think legally the state has no claim to rule and most people just don't know they still live in the German Reich still.

So they have their own king selling them passports and they have pretty aggressive group think to try and enforce their claims.

My wife's dad is one of them. The main thing I recognize comes from a pathological need to know better than everybody else. It's very tightly coupled to their sense of worth and identity. They are better than everybody else because they have seen the light.

Pretty culty behavior and just enough pseudo truth to keep simple minds saying "yeah there might be something there". Like "vaccination causes autism, they just don't want you to know".

Makes a loser in societies eyes, but a superhuman in their eyes. And yes, they still run into a wall and just keep trying to adjust their angle to hit that sacred sweet spot. Because now they need to prove how they are better and as they already have sacrificed so much they can't be wrong to continue. (Just like a gambler who already lost a lot.)

So it's a few psychological dynamics that grip into each other like gears and that ratchet them ever so tightly to their belief until there is no turning back.

Write them a letter, make sure they get it. Tell them you wait until they are ready and old enough to meet you without their mother's approval. Also talk to the mom, offer to watch the kids sometimes, in my experience moms love "time off".

I have that exact scenario looming over me at the moment. I'm very scared of losing my bio children (3) over my mentally unstable partner choosing the alcoholic best friend over living with me. She has already refused any touch for more than a year. the only one hugging me are the little ones and I don't know who i am without taking care of them anymore. Had a bad panic attack for the first time in my live.

I wish you all the best.