Lauchs

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Lauchs , to Ask Lemmy in What is something that was pretty influential but is often forgotten or even undermined despite it's importance?

What? Wait... So when parents were burying most of their children back in the day and now don't, that is somehow despite capitalism giving us the goods, services, hospitals, nurses, doctors, ample nutritional supplements etc?

Lauchs , to Ask Lemmy in What is something that was pretty influential but is often forgotten or even undermined despite it's importance?

What services do you think people had for free earlier?

And you misunderstanding how capitalism works doesn't mean a carbon tax is against a free market any more than rules againat pouring nuclear waste into rivers goes against a free market. A free market had all sorts of rules to protect us from the excesses of capitalism, that's literally the entire point of anti-trust law, because the correct capitalist move for a company is to become a monopoly, which would be bad for consumers. Thus, we tame the excesses of capitalism.

Lauchs , to Ask Lemmy in What is something that was pretty influential but is often forgotten or even undermined despite it's importance?

Capitalism. For all the awfulness goodness gracious, quality of life has skyrocketed as we've figured it out. Parents almost never bury their children anymore, disabled folks who aren't royalty have better lives than almost ever before, if you break a bone you can get it taken care of rather than have it heal poorly and cause pain for the rest of your life, almost no one gets literally crucified and most have access to clean drinking water _in their house!!!_

Yeah, we maybe don't have it as good as our parents generation but goddamn we have it so much better than their parents and grandparents etc.

(I'd argue climate change is more a political problem than capitalism. A sane society would've put a carbon tax in place decades ago and let the free market sort it out. But we get into stupid political fights and the youth, who are most affected, don't vote in primaries when it really matters.)

Lauchs , to politics in Biden’s populist budget marks the overdue end of trickle-down economics

Can't wait for the Republicans to hold the Senate, block every part of this budget and have everyone blame Biden because politics are too complicated.

Lauchs , to Movies in Dune Two Little – How can a movie be so big and, at the same time, so small?

My cynical answer is that much of the public doesn't want a multi hour intellectual exercise. Same reason books don't sell particularly well.

Lauchs , to Books in Can you recommend a book for me please?

Came to make sure someone had posted Pratchett.

I think it particularly suits OP as the prose is astoundingly good. I'd never been impressed by sentence structure until reading Pratchett.

Also, for someone into non-fiction, there's so much real world brilliance that it crosses over pretty well. (Sociology, science, politics, religion, damnit, everything. The whole human experience can be found in Pratchett's writing.)

Lauchs , to politics in If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves

I've read they've been dropped, haven't seen a response from Silver. Is this a social media thing?

Edit: Though if your trying to argue that polling is inaccurate because Nate Silver has an issue with what his former outfit is doing, ooooooooh boy.

That'd be as dumb as saying rockets don't actually wor because, most of the scientists who did the pioneering work were working for the literal Nazis!

Lauchs , to politics in If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves

You should try stomping around the room and yelling at the screen.

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Polls are shit. Only one poll counts.

If Clinton had paid attention to them, trump might not have won.

Even the article you posted has a self-inserted bias.

With what part do you disagree? They post all the methodology and results. Or are you just "this person works in polling so I can't trust them despite them laying out everything for me to see!"

You haven't presented a logical thought just "I DISLIKE POLLS" which is pretty silly.

You may not like what the polls say but that doesn't mean they aren't valid kiddo. As you grow up, you'll realize that lots of things that are unpleasant are still true no matter how much we wish otherwise. Throwing a tantrum doesn't change the validity of polling.

Lauchs , to politics in If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves

This sounds like a you problem.

If you got your news from non social media and looked at polls, not punditry, you'd have known the most likely outcome was pretty much what happened, the Republicans won a narrow majority.

Don't blame polling for your ignorance.

Edit: If you want an interesting (okay, interesting to nerds like me) recounting of the polling in 2022:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/2022-election-polling-accuracy/

Lauchs , to politics in If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves

This is like when conservatives deny climate change because it is unpleasant.

Why do you think the polls were pretty much dead on for the 2022 midterms? Just blind luck?

Lauchs , to politics in If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves

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Lauchs , to Asklemmy in What's something you wish would "come back" but you feel like you're the only one that cares?

I'm not young but I still missed out!

Lauchs , to politics in If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves

For all I care, they're being manipulated by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

This is the silliest MAGA style conspiracy nonsense...

You not understanding polling doesn't mean they are disinformation, that's a ridiculous thing to say. Or, maybe just like now, you dismissed information that you disliked and as such had another misinformed understanding of things.

Polling aggregators like 538 said that trump had a 1/3 chance of winning and the thing about 1/3 chances is that they happen about 1/3 times!

And then trump damn near won 2020 and lost by under 12,000 votes in one state. You can't get much closer than that!

What a goof.

Lauchs , to politics in If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves

If you read the article, how were you possibly confused as to what OP was talking about?

Anyway, like OP said, people have said they were going to leave if W won, if trump won in 2016 etc. Guess what? No real surge in migration either of those times. But sure maybe THIS time they mean it.

Lauchs , to politics in If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves

As long as almost every pollster is wrong, sure you've got a point.

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