whotookkarl

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you demonstrate you're willing to murder civilians and kids to accomplish your political goals don't be surprised when someone does the same to you.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Taxes are the prerogative of Congress not executive. This is a continuation of decades of usurping power from the legislative to centralizing under executive that illustrates why both US political parties entail right wing politics.

4 and 5 were both fun if you ignore the in game store and goals and just play around in the open world with other players or find some stretch of road to see if you can get a top speed, perfect a drift around a sharp turn, etc.

Haha yeah, it's definitely not as bad as cocaine shark, sharks of the corn, sharknado, etc low budget shlock and had some fun visual special effects that 100m+ budget went into

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Recently watched both and I have to agree. Same for deep blue sea, pretty fun, cheesy monster shark movie followed by a series of cheaply produced movies that are hard to stay interested in for the whole run time following in the tradition of jaws.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And he's not even a professor of medicine or pathology, this talking authoritatively about things outside your field is really getting out of hand /s

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I find cultivating some creative outlet and hobbies provides a resilience against my desire to ride the hype on the latest thing/tech/game/book/etc. Also using lists, waiting for sales, and spending more money where I spend most of my time.

Looks like someone wrote a pretty recent dissertation on the subject

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=effect+of+wealth+on+greed+and+paranoia#d=gs_qabs&t=1753212816532&u=%23p%3DVAPTZ3dcNJQJ

The Downside of Wealth: Toward a Psychopathology of Money Accumulation, Noah Laracy. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2017

For a summary of a summary wealthy people have better health and quality of life, which shouldn't surprise anyone due to the food, housing, access to healthcare, etc security money buys currently, and when controlling for age (comparing like aged individuals instead of only looking at wealth) paranoia increases with wealth.

Full text https://www.proquest.com/openview/4e788e9e34bca1073784da0d0c99705e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750

Nethack is a command line classic

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

If you want to check out some classics look up project 1999 for EverQuest or the classic world of warcraft servers. RuneScape isn't a bad choice if you're into the grind.

Modern I don't think there's much I can recommend, even the subscription based games have stores attached now & few or no in game events run by GMs

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago

When she started she was a pop science channel, relaying new physics research to a general audience. Apparently that wasn't enough and she dove head first down the conspiracy theory and pseudoscience slide to ad revenue and clicks, abandoning all reason and peer review standards.

Are they still considered professional doctors if they are willing to do harm to their patients by ignoring the latest scientific research on patient care because it makes them feel icky?

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