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Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy: In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.

I expected to experience something similar, but on reading, it's so over the top that my brain has no problem realizing it's a joke. Violent movies on the other hand I can't really enjoy much anymore.

Are laws written by mediocre people hence full of loopholes?

Guy once told me his job was to write some law in Spain, or for the EU, or somewhere in between. He submits his writings to his bosses, who tell him (paraphrased): "it's too clear, too watertight. Go back and make it more ambiguous." So he did.

I've read those explanations of 'avalanche, thunder, earthquake, stampeding animals' before, but I think those are bunk. Most of those are far too rare to cause evolutionary pressure. Wolves, on the other hand... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrU4OY6W1qE

Used for a nice effect in music too, in Ben Frost's the carpatians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qheTGTNxRVs

Try listening to that in a dark room!

I had the same problem with sekiro, but found a fov fix (for pc) that also included a slowdown option. 95% speed was already enough for me to make it enjoyable, but still a challenge.

Cultural encroachment (think monroe doctrine), nato encroachment (think Cuban missile crisis). Less important but probably considered: geopolitically Russia needs buffer states in the east because there's no natural defenses/borders. It's an easy invasion from that direction.

Good article: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220222-moldova-then-geo...

Key quote: “Russia is always anxious about foreign penetration – not only in terms of military involvement and political engagement but also in cultural terms,” Fasola told FRANCE 24. He pointed to the so-called “colour revolutions” that brought pro-Western governments to power in Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004) – and which the Kremlin perceived as “instruments of the West to drive those countries away from Russia”.

I think railing against diets like you're doing here is harmful. Research is finally going in this direction, and as you can see, there's plenty of annecdata for people where dieting was beneficial, or even let them go into full remission. Sure, there's no diet that works for everybody, and diet doesn't help everybody, but that just means it's more difficult to do studies on, not that it's a wild goose chase.

The point is that mimimum wage hasn't kept up with productivity increases and that all the added profit of the last xx years is going to the top of the company. Example https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qp769d/think_this...

And that "benefits" shouldn't be something that's held over your head as a reward or as something that can be taken away on the whim of some other people. Healthcare etc should be a right, not a bargaining chip to keep the lower class under their thumb.