[–] 2 points 22 hours ago

There's a certain amount of self reflection and questioning that's worthwhile and sometimes it definitely is the lesser of two evils when voting. I wouldn't say any political party or system is perfect, therefore there's still valid and worthwhile criticisms to be made. It would be nice to see choice ranked voting and to officially end gerrymandering.

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  • [–] 2 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

    This is like Two Distant Strangers but IRL. I'll never understand the latent hatred and bigotry people have. Is it so difficult to accept that we don't know anything about the character of a person just based on their race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and so on. Like until one is shown proof or has a personal experience with an individual there's no need to assume someone is amazing or awful.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    Do you believe the political party you prefer has made no errors or questionable decisions whatsoever aka all policies and actions have been infallibly correct?

    I've found personally that a small amount of humility in talking to people I highly disagree with politically transforms the discussion from a tribalistic us vs them into a mutual exploration of what is best for us both aka a mutual walk towards Truth.

    I'm not saying to switch sides, just that not treating people like mindless ghouls helps in bridging gaps and ending this ultimately disastrous division that has been festering not just locally but internationally.

    The absolute worst outcome for the most powerful is the vast majority who have the vast majority in common with one another working together.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    A free and open market of well informed sellers and buyers will naturally find rh cost of items and services. That is it'll bounce around like this. If sales tanked from day one the same hardware would likely be on a discount.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago*

    For sure. Both sides have some self discovery to do unless one truly believes 100% of policies and actions taken by their chosen political party are unquestionably correct. There's a lot of common ground to be found between people if they were to relax and not go full bore tribalism with politics. Unfortunately people really like tribalism and owning or dunking on whoever their opposition is. That is people usually prefer being right to such a degree they are willing to disregard the wellbeing of everyone for it. Obviously you see this behavior in your opposition, but maybe it's a little harder to see in the tribes you identify with.

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    That is all policies and political structures are testable and tested to see their effect on those three (or other suggested) factors. If a policy doesn't reasonably work then it's simply not continually employed. I'm curious to see what factors others think ought to be used.

    It seems most political systems now were built without science in mind and utilize it as an afterthought to help develop legitimacy for policies individuals want. Generally politics across countries seems deeply emotionally driven and not fact driven. That is people have a feeling that an idea is a good idea and then they cobble together whatever they can to support that point without any unified measure of good or better. Ideally it ought to be the other way around, fact or evidence informed policy generation.

     

    The stardust is a given. As for sunlight, all the energy including somewhat arguably geothermal (using the suns gravity to help form the earth and I guess radioactive material being formed by other stars) comes from the sun and gets converted into chemical energy you eat so you're stardust animated by sunlight (mainly).

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