Politics & News LC thread - Vivek and John Candy were right

[LouisCyphre]

Old Age Wounded Denture Turtles

[DrChesspain]

Crashing Turtles

[d10]

Mitch McConnell Sat on the Mall, Mitch McConnell Had a Great Fall

[kerowo]

OW My Head!

[Hired_Goons]

I think we need to hold ourselves on this site, to a higher standard and quite frankly I am disappointed in you goofy.

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edit don’t know how to spoiler a gif

[CaffeineNeeded]

download it, upload it, spoiler it

[LouisCyphre]

NEXTA

[DrChesspain]

@Hired_Goons

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“…including non-binary people” (!?)

[Hired_Goons]

you lost me?

[MrWookie]

Kinda surprised this wasn’t already the rule in Germany.

[LouisCyphre]

This all started out with a discrimination complaint to the local ombudsperson that men are allowed to go topless but women aren’t. The ombudsperson then announced that now “men, women and non-binary persons” all have the right to go topless. Pretty basic inclusive language.

[LouisCyphre]

Unfortunately there is still a lot of historical prudery and change only comes slowly.

[MrWookie]

In a country where it’s not only legal but not uncommon to strip butt naked in a public park? Or is it news that this is the new rule in Berlin?

[LouisCyphre]

That only happens in a section of the English Garden in Munich. It’s still illegal most other places.

[LouisCyphre]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/08/money-wealth-happiness-study/

In their study, Kahneman and Killingsworth surveyed 33,391 adults aged between 18 and 65 who live in the United States, are employed and report a household income of least $10,000 a year. The authors said they lacked substantial data for those earning over $500,000.

To measure their happiness, participants were asked to report on their feelings at random intervals in the day via a smartphone app developed by Killingsworth called Track Your Happiness. Killingsworth said in an email that the data came from “repeatedly pinging people at randomly-timed moments during daily life, and asking about their happiness at that moment in real-time.” Specifically, they were asked “How do you feel right now?” on a scale ranging from “very bad” to “very good,” he said.

The study reached two big conclusions: First, that “happiness continues to rise with income even in the high range of incomes” for the majority of people, showing that for many of us, on average having more money can make us increasingly happier.

But the study also found that there was an “unhappy minority,” about 20 percent of participants, “whose unhappiness diminishes with rising income up to a threshold, then shows no further progress.”

These people tend to experience negative “miseries” that typically cannot be alleviated by earning more money; the report cites examples such as heartbreak, bereavement or clinical depression. For them, their “suffering” may diminish as their income rises to about $100,000 but “very little beyond that,” the study said.

[CaffeineNeeded]

new main character on twitter just dropped

Skoti

[TheDudeAbides]

paging henry17

[CaffeineNeeded]

oh dear

Skoti

[goofy]

I saw this via someone responding to it “sorry, but someone making that money is actively choosing to live in NYC as a consumption choice as opposed to moving farther out with a cheaper cost of living” which seems like /thread

[CaffeineNeeded]

I’m mean sure. But there’s still the absolutely wrong tax stuff listed, plus having a car and the absurd entertainment and utility numbers.