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Just wanna tag OP cause the john oliver segment linked above has some very important info.

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Elegantly worded. So many decisions of their incomprehensible decisions suddenly make sense.

The great thing is, you don’t!

You just keep finding things that seem fun for a while until either they are not or you die.

This was my first thought too.

“Have your cake and eat it too” doesn’t really make sense. Cake is not rare or expensive enough that simply possessing it feels good. If you have cake, all you want is to eat it.

The italian version, “you want a full barrel and drunk wife” illustrates the same situation much more clearly.

Uplink. I played the mac version released by the legendary Ambrosia Software.

“I am the administrator, my voice is my password, verify me”

When i was in grade 1 we had to write letters to santa, so i raised my hand and said, “I’m jewish so i know santa’s not real, do i still have to do this?” I did, and the teacher assured everyone that santa is real. I was confused and disappointed.

Oh yeah, that sounds like a classic moral panic. Instigating incidents are often fictional.

A lot of people tend to imagine that witch accusations were a constant thing, but my understanding is they follow the pattern of moral panics.

Many here may remember the satanic panic that came and went in the 80s. There was a similar panic about mods vs rockers in the uk. The red scare of mccarthyism was another. A friend of mine analyzed a 2002 flare up of anti-romany sentiment and violence in italy (maybe just rome?) which also fit. Probably pogroms against jews fit the pattern too.

Moral panics are volatile - they bloom for a time and then wither. So probably there were short term bouts where women (and rarely men) who were percieved as deviant or unwelcome were at risk of being swept up in this panic and labelled a witch. Subjects of a moral panic are believed to pose some kind of threat to society, often legitimizing them as targets of violence.

These are cultural spheres and i suspect that’s the driver. Both religion and male:female ratios are downstream of culture, so of course religion and gender ratios correlate.

Iran’s 103 is especially telling - a gulf state, as muslim a nation as any of the other overwhelming male gulf states, but with thousands of years of persian cultural heritage seperating them from their predominantly arab neighbours.

Moving to the US the general level of fear is soooo noticable.

Someone warned me not to hold my bus money in my hand, like the sight of $2 was gonna get me stabbed in Portland 😆

My parents were super against lying to kids. We’d hear parents in front of us at mcdonalds tell their kids they couldn’t have french fries because they were all out and we’d ask “is that true?” And mom and dad would assure us no, it’s not true, those parents are just afraid of telling their kids no.

I remember realizing at like 8 that “don’t swallow gum because it can’t be digested and will just accumulate in your gut” can’t be true.

put the install disk for Warcraft 2 in a cd player,

I forgot about that! My mind was blown that you could use the same disk for mac and pc.

New cars are also full of surveillance. My advice is to stick with 20 year old cars that aren’t full of bullshit and touch screens.

I visited a friend in australia who can finally afford a brand new car on a funeral assistant’s wage because of how cheap chinese EVs are. Even has in-seat massagers.

Disorderly conduct is usually written so broadly that it can be anything the police say it is.

Being charged with disorderly conduct is basicly proof you did nothing wrong. If you’d done anything actually illegal they would’ve charged you with that.

Perfect, just perfect.

Surely not proven sex trafficker matt gaetz? Guilty of sex trafficking?!

For context, Bend is a small city in eastern oregon.

Portland, Salem (the capital) and Eugene (2nd biggest city) are all in the williamette valley in the west. The eastern 2/3rds is mostly high alpine desert and very sparsely populated.

Bend is small, but the largest settlement in the east, and fairly wealthy. Eastern OR is basically Idaho, culturally, but Bend is ritzier and richer than the rest of East OR.