first one must define reality… if by reality you mean being alive and interacting with the world, then beliefs, even if going against fact, affect reality.

don’t worry about it. in internal elections the far-right is gaining ground.

trust is very expensive these days. that applies to accounts of incidents of antisemitism as well. considering this is a hot subject you do well to be skeptic about what you don’t witness.

i have no idea.

it means you’ll have to be a registered member to have access after it goes private.

germany is doing the same. so i guess confidence isn’t being destroyed between those two. but is was talking about the american isolationist trump.

the worse political export the us has is the bi-party system. it does way more damage to any political system than the liberal capitalism. lobbying comes a close second.

it matters. one is an accelerationist the other is a conservative of the status quo. neither are going to improve anything but one will try his most to destroy any confidence.

unless you are a cockroach.

no serious psychiatrist would risk their patient trust pulling something like that. but there is a considerable percentage of non-serious psychiatrists out there.

but lets face it, a truly anonymous creator would be a career making case study.

no. additional psychiatrists is not a bad thing, and when studying an interesting case more psychiatrists is better. but the fact that anon was “ambushed” means either the story is fake or anon goes to a career oriented psychiatrist and not a patient oriented one.

lets not forget, psychiatrists are human too.

sure. why the hell not? lets go nuts on these data points.

sure

in three dimensions you have three axis. all of those measure distance traveled from 0.

are you 100% sure that elevators don’t travel any distance? or are we going to argue semantics over what distance is or isn’t.

the problem isn’t gmo. the problem is the profit motivation that will invite disaster.

signed

isn’t that apu not pepe? still a frog, tho.

the dense tropical forest made backpacks way better for transportation of goods.

just because someone doesn’t have a mental divergence from perceived norm doesn’t mean they aren’t broken.