They’re idolized? I would’ve probably been an abider ☹️

Coffee. The Internet told me it’s going to get insanely expensive so I like to savor it while I can.

I like your answer too. While I strongly believe the trans talking point is being amplified almost exclusively to fuel culture wars between the working class, your point on out-group mentality is a DNA encoded reality, from what I remember reading.

I think the two compromise the bulk of the answer along with the culture war fuel dumped by foreign entities interested in destabilizing the US.

The only remedy is education. Something that is sadly on the decline.

World in Conflict is one I don’t see talked about. Squad based military RTS.

Multiplayer on that was so fun. Guessing how the enemy was moving in order to time how you call ordinance on them was my favorite part

Ty for calling out the non-sense. Somehow accusing Democrats of also being on the take is considered outlandish.

Theyve got us fighting over scraps (abortion, marriage, the right to express ourselves and love who we want) but they are in full agreement on where most of the tax dollars go (MIC, contracting companies of powerful friends, subsidies for factory farms).

Gonna have to wake up the dormant Sheeple.

In the US, unlike most other countries, medical doctors are most at risk for suicide.

The book ‘Determined’ makes a great point on how schizophrenia victims have been mistreated throughout history.

Size matters in all these cases. To your point, size matters in long distance running, which is the crux of the articles message.

If you think size doesn’t matter when you’re bow hunting, you probably haven’t taught someone with a significant size difference how to draw a bow.

I read somewhere that one of the effects is abstention from treatment. Essentially the idea that, sometimes, to do nothing is better than blasting the body with macro doses of foreign chemicals. This seems to be the case here.

Ahh yes, the freedom loving state. Texas. That’s right.

Yeah I feel you. To echo your last sentence, there’s that old study of money leading to increased happiness but only up to a certain point (I think it was like 75k USD pre-covid)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/rich-less-empathetic-than-poor-study-says.html

To add to this, there’s been evidence that as an individual accrues more wealth, their empathy response lessens over time.

My arm chair psychologist hypothesis is that: as the individual sees their quality of life increase, they look at other human beings in deplorable conditions, and their empathy response atrophies in order to avoid cognitive dissonance.

There’s a concept in the study of wealthy individuals which goes over their desire to hide impoverishment from their view.