The job description is literally to protect the powers that be and in exchange get your own authority to power-trip on too. It is fundamentally a reactionary job that should not exist, and neither should the system they protect.

The article you sent does not say that anyone can do it with 15 min. of training. It speaks of different levels of activity in different parts of the brain in an MRI scan. I myself do not have an MD, but I’m pretty sure reading an MRI to look at brain activity takes a little bit more effort.

I may have misinterpreted your previous message a bit as well, but as I understood it you implied that the way your amygdala is determines your political leanings. The article says it may be the other way around, like with London cab drivers having their brains change as they study the layout of the city. I’m sorry if I misunderstood you there.

Have a good day and thanks for sending this :)

I already started adapting my old joke repertoire!

Two federal agents are patrolling Washington DC. After a period of silence, one asks the other what he thinks of the current leadership.

After pondering what to answer for a bit, the second guy answers. “Same as you,” he says.

“Well, in that case I’m afraid I must arrest you.”

Thought crimes are very often retroactive.

During Soviet times figures drifted in and out of favour. An old joke:

Three men are sitting in a jail cell. “How did you end up here?” asks one the other. “I criticized Karl Radek,” he says. “No way!” replies the first man. “I got here for supporting Karl Radek!”

They turn over to the third guy in the corner and ask him why he got there. He sighs heavily and answers: “I’m Karl Radek.”

The family has a tendency to not have a lot of brains

One remembers the “refrigerator mothers” idea

Bizarrely, the urge to make money off scared trans people overpowered the urge to be fascist.

A few in Ireland too. They’re getting the applications denied though :(

One of my friends is a type I diabetic. He had some sort of smart thingamajig in his teenage years for measuring blood sugar, so you could monitor it over time or warn your family if you’re in some critical situation.

The jester may mean simply to prank, but they may well have blood on their hands if they fuck up medical devices such as that one.

A boycott or strike with an end date is seldom effective.

See for instance Reddit

Another day of thanking my past self for leaving

When you have an unflushable turd, you need a plumber ;)

I dunno man, they seem to hyperfixate on the death penalty and “law and order” a little too much.

They probably see it as a good thing. Another dirty crook off the face of the Earth.

Holy shit they made SCP-2875 a real thing

I cared before too. There is a difference between passively engaging in BDS and pouring your heart and soul into a movement.

Edit: I felt the need to elaborate.

For a very long time I followed the boycott and donated what I could. Genocide is atrocious, but what else could I do? I lived in the middle of bumfuck nowhere; There weren’t exactly any movements nearby I could get involved in.

I then saw a man from bumfuck nowhere drive all the way to the Israeli Embassy and burn himself alive. I realised there was a whole lot of things I could do.

I also moved to Ireland, so I got a lot more opportunities to act on my sentiments.

I remember. That shit shook me for weeks. Sometimes I still think of his burning body.

Burning yourself won’t stop Israel, sure. But it gets people involved. It got me involved.

Yes. The Americans ask this on every form for who knows what reason.

A compound in Texas run by an ultraconservative who loves guns is an American tradition