as i’ve come to realize from trying to troubleshoot why my speakers sometimes give me a headache, it turns out none of this makes the slightest fucking difference if people can’t master their audio for shit.

So many youtubers are putting out borderline unlistenable videos, and then i find the one person who doesn’t fuck it up and holy fuck i can actually hear what they’re saying

i think they forgot the subject and just started talking about dietary preferences

relatedly there are people whose whole role in the military is using quadbikes to transport messages in times of war, because it’s basically impossible to intercept such messages.

they have it of course, but so does literally every country and so has every country since time immemorial.

But yeah to my knowledge at least on a local level china is weirdly good at being democratic, even.

ah yes “i just see thing as they are”, i think that’s bingo!

i find swedish healthcare really is the precise opposite of american healthcare, because the american standard seems to be having a dedicated personal doctor whom you can just go to with whatever minor ailment and regular checkups.

But here it costs like 20€ for a visit to the clinic where you meet whatever worker has time at the moment… Even if all you’re doing is getting a super simple hearing test, which literally consists of listening to a pair of headphones and pressing a button when you hear the tone…

so like, how do they expect to get paid?

no true, you might get a token bill of like 100€ which the bog standard insurance probably covers if you just ask about it.

methink the lady doth project too much

And even if we imagine that the “research” wasn’t just torture for the sake of torture, how much value could the results possibly have?

Yeah great we know precisely what happens when you do horrible gruesome things to someone who is awake and fully aware of it, this will be of great use in our quest to decrease suffering in the world! I sure am glad we didn’t waste our time doing research on how to cure depression!

I’d say everyone here needs to watch the last 15 minutes, because our mental health really benefits from hearing someone like him rant about how shit the world is.

We’re constantly surrounded with propaganda bots trying to get us to lose hope and stop believing what our eyes and ears see of reality, so having someone “normal” and in a place of some authority go “no, shit’s obviously fucked and anyone who says otherwise is either insane or evil” does wonders.

also visually distinct if you look at the lips: V has the upper front teeth against the lower lip, W has the lips shaped like a tight o

men’s suits are literally devolved, like they’re objectively dysfunctional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcJfTGbjuo

this is why i’m a big fan of (real) viking style clothing, i think it just somehow works with modern aesthetics without anyone thinking you’re super weird for wearing it.
You just have to go with mostly dull colours and probably skip the cloak (sadly), but aside from that you just end up looking like an enthusiastic camper.

you should probably stop using the internet