About half were wiped out by flu, measles, and chicken pox when contact was made in the 80s.

That sounds Korean AF

If you can show supporters of a populist that everyone else is jumping ship, they will too.

Is that what he was saying in Mario 64? “So long, Gary Bowser!”

It’s seems that way from the inside, too.

Previously, Manchin and Sinema opposed ending the filibuster. Manchin opposed codifying Roe v Wade.

Is Oregon going forward with an RCV referendum? Or are we talking about the STAR voting initiative voted on recently?

“Anybody but X!”

picks y

“Anybody but Y!”

WHO-OA BLACK BETTY!

It was a really poor design decision making it look so much like the ‘other-destruct’ button

Poppycock.

Doom, one of the best games of the mid 70s?

Who else here remembers late nights slaying demons to Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge over Troubled Water?”

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/80d060a0-9f1b-4779-b458-0d28ae8a5473.jpeg

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Basically this

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Cool here’s the rest of it

“It really is, and it is real, but the fact is that if you take a look at what people have, they have the money to spend. It angers them and it angers me that you have to spend more. For example, the whole idea of this notion that you have… shrinkflation… It’s like 20% less for the same price, that is corporate greed. It is corporate greed and we’ve got to deal with it.”

Let me guess: Front trunk? Please tell me I’m wrong.

They know it’s happening. They’re responsible for it. At this point I don’t see much of a difference if they intended this or not.

Jesus Christ, it’s like they made a new RoboCop out of the girl from The Ring

Ah, fuck I miss the goons, too. I still log in every couple of years or so. It’s sort of like walking down a street you used to live on. It’s all still familiar, but nothing is really the same.

They’re not being conned, they’re in on the con. Notice how there is nothing consistently rational about the messaging. The issues they’re concerned about and what they say they want done about them all change daily. But they all point in one direction.

They’ve identified themselves as the in-group, they’ve identified the out-groups, and they want to stomp all over those out-groups and take everything they’ve got. Their money, their dignity, their lives. Whatever proves that they’re on top.

Remember the second part of that LBJ quote:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

They know the consequences and they’re willing to risk it. Calling them idiots does not prepare us to deal with the situation in which we find ourselves now.

I think we’re just kind of bad at evaluating risks of a relatively low order. In the US, E coli kills some 3000 people a year, and most of us have exposure to that risk. It might just be that people don’t see much of a difference between chances in the range of, say, 0.1% and 0.00001% of serious illness.