Not sure what you mean?

something something technically correct something

IS DAKKA

Going on my 3rd or 4th year now (this isn’t my only account), and frankly I’m not sure why I bother

If we allow people with significant dark tetrad personality traits (narcissism, machiavellianism, psychopathy, everyday sadism) or social dominance oriented people to have any meaningful amount of power over others, including the ability to run for office or vote, they will eventually turn societies into… well, what we see now.

Unsurprisingly conservatism overlaps with those traits.

So, ironically, to be able to run a functioning democracy, you’d have to exclude a fairly sizeable chunk of the population from participating in it

Edit: and this includes directorial or managerial positions in any kind of organisation, because corporate psychopaths are common scarily common and very harmful

Considering that it’s a Finnish company, the pronunciation is probably meant to be “yol-la” (approx)

edit: /ˈjolːɑ/ for you IPA perverts

But all the “gain of function” stuff I’ve seen sounds like bullshit.

But that happens to viruses all the time? How do you think we get flu pandemics?

MORE DAKKA

Why are you like this?

“yes”

Uh, what did you think the rotary barrels were for?

Oh huh, they’re more like Audis here in Finland

Hmm, I doubt the “fuck off” people would get added to “don’t know”, at least not by competent pollsters and this was by Ipsos who aren’t total failures at least.

But even if I spent 90% of my days touching grass, if someone called me and said “hello, yes, your country has just attacked Iran, are you cool with this?”, even if I hadn’t heard about it I wouldn’t be OK with it. Then again those people might not really know jack-fucking-shit about the world outside their immediate experience and couldn’t really form an opinion on whether attacking another country is bad or not, so there’s that

And, like, how can they not fucking know if they approve of bombing another country or not? It’s a simple fucking question.

Yeah, 7% is still a lot

No no, you’re the wetware

And of course it’s 55% of Republicans, with only 13% of them disapproving.

Conservatism is a death cult.

Would be a real crying shame if some of them caught a stray SAM

My point exactly

Not once we get fusion reactors up and running

Yeah, about that…