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    Time of the Gypsies: A masterpiece that is so many things at the same time. A truly outstanding piece of art. It's funny, sad, psychedelic, unpredictable and unusual in a very unpretentious way. Watch it if you haven't. Meeting Gorbachev: Insightful, watch it.
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    Can we please guillotine the American finance and media elite? They suckle
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    No obnoxious beerwolf -badger posts to masturbate to
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    Thanks for the friendly invitation. Don't be too surprised if I actually accept it at some point, lol ... etc., dad humour, but I'm sure that has some merit and can be retranslated the other way around.
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    Regarding education, maybe the answer is in valorising non-academic jobs. I don't think that our economies necessarily need an army of mediocre academics. Instead we need a few very good academics and a lot of - also very highly trained - blue collar workers and social/empathic workers. These jobs deserve to be paid better and be more validated. Digitalisation might on the long term make a lot of mid-range academic professions obsolete anyway. What's left will probably be social jobs, some handcraft jobs that require human dexterity (something machines can't quite achieve) and a few extremely highly qualified academic jobs. So maybe the narrative that you only can make something out of yourself if you have an academic qualification and the notion that handcraft is something for not that bright people is obsolete (and that "women's"/social jobs don't need to be paid a lot, too, notice the gender discrimination aspect here). Maybe a universal basic income can help reducing the inequality between academic and non-academic professions, too.
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    I think the main problem with climate change - in the US and everywhere else on the planet - is that the time dimension is so large that our human brains can't really grasp it. We can maybe rationally grasp it but not really feel it. It's much more dangerous than Covid-19 but happens over a longer period of time so - psychologically - it always seems as if there is still plenty of time left while it isn't. Chomsky is right when he says that climate change could in the worst case scenario mean the end of organised humanity. I hope caze is right in that Biden can save the planet with his environmental plans, which I seriously doubt, to be honest. The US American political establishment never in its history has done any decision that's against the agenda of the military-industrial complex. Another aspect is that national governments have only limited possibilities to regulate what international corporations do on the larger scale. It's why multilateralism is so important. As it looks Biden isn't opposed to multilateralism unlike Trump, so there is a shimmer of hope. From what I know the education itself - at least on average (the dispersion might be large) - is at a fairly high standard in global comparison (even ranks above Canada in the Education Index, which of course is only one perspective and not definitive [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index#2015]) but it's the access to higher education that's flawed and the student loan crisis that's a problem. But global comparison doesn't really stand when the education systems globally are bad. And yes, creationism & religion in general needs to be kept out of schools in a secular country.
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    He will save the planet.
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    Let's not forget the student loan crisis and other things. It's pretty bad, no matter what sensationalist phrasing media headlines choose (again, you should be able to see through the click bait attempts and amplification). I sort of get your point. There are worse places in the world (that's for another topic, though). Some places in the world are hellscapes as a direct result of US foreign policy, though (if you want to call wars foreign policy). The entanglement with the Saud family is pretty gross. The whole NSA affair, spying on everyone in the world including allies and foreign industries is one of the more harmless things. Don't be an apologist. A lot of the American ways are violent and idiotic. I could name a few similar things about my own country e.g. allowing the military base Ramstein to be a legal black hole, which is used by the American military to do extra-judicial drone strikes all over the middle east or to illegally supply weapons to Syria. Okay, I don't disagree, but that's manners. In the end that goes for all places or are there places that you'd say of: "I only met assholes from there."? They do have this over the top small-talk culture, which is nice when you're a tourist there and it's not entirely fair to label it as "fake" or "superficial" as you might sometimes hear, I suspect the same goes for Canada. They didn't really have a say in choosing what their military-industrial complex does, other than ticking one box or the other at the ballot, based on distorted information they got by a media landscape almost entirely owned by a few elite groups (not saying there aren't also excellent American news outlets). But even if it wasn't, a two-party system is bollocks.
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    ^It's the America thread, though, not the history of Europe thread. Marf basically said that you can't make statements about the US if you don't live there and that the things you see and hear in media is pure sensationalism and I opposed to it by referring to statistics that paint a more accurate picture than living in a certain American bubble can give you. Any media savvy person should know that you have to try and subtract out the sensationalism. If you are asking what the point of people offering opinions about America is, ask the OP. In regards of what we talked about, yes. There is a difference between bad and evil, though.
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    Americans only eat burger.
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    It should be clear that the media focuses on the interesting stuff rather than on the boring stuff and often amplifies things to an inappropriate extend out of self-interest. But the number of school shootings and other similar statistics indicate that the US indeed has a violence problem. Their foreign policy tells a similar story. You don't need to live there to make that evaluation.
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    25% is hardly fringe. I agree, though, that other things are more important right now. Very specific things can be indicative for the bigger picture, though. Induction, innit. The fact that you are in the huge place we are talking about doesn't mean you know much about it. You know what happens in your bubble.
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    I'd prefer if they became halfway reasonable and especially less violent instead of collapsing (collapsing empires tend to do weird shit). The whole world is populated by dimwits if you take a harder look. But agree, Americans are an especially weird bunch. Just look at the way they handle their pets: 25% of American house cats are declawed. No, I'm not talking about clipping the cat's claws, I'm talking about amputating the front parts of the cat's toes. A procedure that can get veterinarians into prison in most parts of Europe but is common practice in the US.
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    Dumbness can be a survival advantage. It makes you unpredictable and others are forced to deal with you. It's powerful
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    Thanks! It's a sketch. Will edit it to make it more interesting to listen to. It's a bit too samey throughout. Needs more weird drones and percussive sounds
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    c===8
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    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-let
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    I had a dream that I was in a pitch dark room with shallow water and in the water I grew a plant which ascended out of the water as three fluorescent hovering jellyfish illuminating the room and as I went out of the door I found myself on a sailing boat which I navigated between cliffs and rocks into a shopping mall where I had a heated discussion with a Turkish barber about a topic I can't recall.
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    Decided to move it into this thread instead of giving it its own thread, but kabuki music never fails to make me smile:
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    Pretty and peaceful, nice subtle ASMR like FX/percussion sounds. Very soothing and relaxing
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    A land of impostors and conmen.
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