The “other people don’t speak how I prefer” regardless of the context is such a lame complaint.

Corporate blandness has infected us all; from my reference frame you’re just some bland text on a corporate website that silences spicy discourse.

Are others lame or is that all you feel given hypernormalized routines?

Look at the rebels willing to risk going against this thread by eating McDonalds; highway to the danger zone.

How bold

"privileged commies" is a fascinating oxymoron. Is that really how you think of the people that disagrees with you?

I say it with humor, because it sounds like an oxymoron. But it does describe a certain wealthy, anti-capitalist clade here in Portland. (And I'll happily point that out to my friends, whether or not we agree on things).

I was just thinking of the last time I was waiting in my car at the McDonald's drive-thru with the rest of the proles, and a friend called. When I told him where I was, he had let out an involuntary "ugh" sound, and expressed that he can't believe I eat that garbage, let alone support that corporation. This particular friend owns a business that serves billion-dollar corporations, lives in a $1.2M house, drops $200 on bottles of wine at fine restaurants (where he's known for showing up in Transformers pajama bottoms) and grows almost all his own vegetables. Bernie stickers all over his (multiple) Subarus.

I guess "privileged commie" was a bit of wry shorthand, but it's not that much of a stretch.

It’s funny since pricing is set based upon social behavior (do we spend that or not and/or should we charge that or not?) capitalism is socialism with obligation to carry around a mind virus that preserves the figurative identity of Bezos and the like; they’re “better” capitalists.

Also hi from Portland

I mean, socialism is capitalism with a mind virus that encourages displays of self-sacrifice, without really eradicating greed. Personally I think hypocrisy is more corrosive than ambition, and bitterness is more corrosive than misplaced hopefulness. (I also don't compare my worth to others based on money, and I don't envy the likes of Bezos. I do enjoy being paid and occasionally buying things that make my life more enjoyable, but certainly not because other people can't afford them; holding a grudge upward or holding a superiority complex downward would be the kind of "mind virus" you describe, but it's totally unnecessary if all you want is to have an enjoyable and productive life in a capitalist society full of fun shit and chances to build things that people in communist societies couldn't have dreamed of).

The thing I love most about Portland is that you can have these intellectual debates almost everywhere you go, really get to hear other people's thought processes based on their personal situations, and understand where they're coming from. I'm by no means a hard-liner; but I spend half my time out in Newberg which has an entirely different set of baked-in assumptions and priorities. I'm as likely to get into deep debates with people there as I am here, but far less likely to get into interesting theoretical territory. At least this place still has the ferment, the ideological exploration and experimentation of one of the 1920s capitals of Europe, as opposed to the stochastic but rigid normie-core preference structure of everywhere else in America. I appreciate that.

So yeah, greetings from inner southeast ;)

Yeah because all the other things are innate; visual/spatial awareness, touch, smell, vocalization…

Humanoids went millions of years literally learning to navigate 3D space and sense “enough heat, food, water” etc

Nomadic tribes had built shared resource depots millennia before language.

I can see the color gradients of the trees and feel muscles relax without words.

Human language beyond some utilitarian labels just instills mind viruses that bloom into delusions of grandeur.

90% of human communication is unspoken. Neuroscience shows our brains sync behavior patterns with touch and just being in a room.

Reality is full of unseen state change every moment that we have no colloquial language for; human language is hardly the source of truth and the “North star” of human society in reality.

> 90% of human communication is unspoken.

This is as scientific as the idea of humans just using 10% of our brains.

Of course it is; it’s just a comment on a social media forum.

There’s just as little science language motivates me to work. Most of the language society relies on is hallucinations; fiat currency, nation states, constructs like “Senate” and Congress, corporatism, brands, copy-paste of historical terminology, not evidence they’re immutable features of reality.

What we recite has nothing to do with what we are. I find the appeals to non-existent political truisms primate gibberish.

It seems perfectly clear to me many facts of society are just memorized and recited prompt hacks. Language is the goto tool for propagandists, to obscure sensory connection to reality.

There is over 100 years of propaganda research available, too much for me to sort through, but scientific measure of such is not new; new to anyone unaware of it but not to humanity.

Are you a large language model?

Nonetheless, it's the primary reason people are called to back to office, the in person face time is valued much more than remote chat/email. It's not a coincidence all leaders favor face time, hiring is done via the process of "interview", literally asking the "view". Need more proof?

Yeah, definitely needs more proof.

Just because it intuitively makes sense doesn’t make it correct or the 90% figure accurate.

“They” as in the people taking these actions now, were not in the same position to do so when your complaint was allowed.

So tiring dealing with low effort notions the government is just a vague amorphous concept when it’s actually people colluding against the public, at which the public throws up their hands in a “we’ve tried nothing but compliance and we’re all out of ideas!” way.