If the universe is infinite in size, then statistically there are an infinite number of empires in far away galaxies. Not sure about the FTL drives though.

The only straight women I’ve ever seen express an honest, self-derived interested in penises broadly have been “OMG I love penises so much and eat like, 30 dicks before lunch” marketed personas on reddit and the like who have Onlyfans links in their bios. These are the commercial entities that are skewing people’s ideas how the genders feel about the issue.

Most straight female partners who perform the act regularly are mostly doing it for the emotional/intimacy connection, like watching their partner or doing it because they know their partner likes it but otherwise would be pretty ambivalent.

This is all fine, but men broadly have a very hard time reconciling and processing that their female partners aren’t as into the visceral, genital-focused attractions as they are, and that’s why this is always such a huge issue. Nobody wants to patronized or placated, they want to feel actually desired and men and women, for whatever reason, be it biological or social or whatever else, have different kinds of attractions.

In the old days we made this work by talking to each other and adapting to each other, nowadays people read all the discourse online even before meeting someone to be partner with and get too insecure or hyper-fixated on these differences before having a chance to learn how relationships even work. We were not really meant to read the insecurities and honest truths from so many millions of people we don’t know, it fucks with our psyche in ways we will be studying for centuries.

Honestly, the ridiculous prices of fast food has been the best thing for my health. I never ate it a lot, but I would sometimes grab something if I didn’t have time to cook or make something at home, now that’s totally off the table, if I wanted to spend $45 for burgers for two people I would go to an actual local restaurant and get higher quality food that supports a local economy.

I’ve been screaming it for years because I was raised in the back-country by apocalypse preppers surrounded by ruraloid hicks preparing for the great coming race war/battle with China and the homosexuals.

Somehow media has been right all along with its stereotypes and we broadly kind of ignored the warnings, I guess because the message that movies and shows aren’t real? Like a generation of parents telling kids whatever they see on TV or on the internet isn’t real and can’t harm us.

Well, it was all very real and it’s all harming us.

Lets also not forget that since we’ve allowed capital to infiltrate the very foundations of intelligence and military, we now have several thousand competing companies and contractors each with their own agendas, their own secret testing programs, their own proprietary tech they won’t dare let other companies get wind of, and so on. The US’s relationship with secret tech didn’t start and end with Skunkworks, that’s just what got the most attention back in the day. So when the US government says “We saw a thing we can’t explain” and are 100% honest when they say it, that still doesn’t mean it’s not a US government product being tested, it’s just that they don’t know about it yet.

I also fully believe as our sensory extensions expand, as we send up more satellites, install more cameras all over the place, create more observation systems, we’re absolutely going to see more and more things we can’t explain, and likely will never be able to explain, because the universe is fucking crazy.

Our fixation that things we can’t explain must be ghosts or aliens from other planets says more about our limited capacities and biases than anything.

you’re really not paying attention to what’s actually going on.

Nice contention-bait opener, but I am one of the few people who have actually read exit polling. You’re not wrong on any of that, but the reality is definitely not plain and simple, there were more factors at work, but yeah the overall gist is people vote based on what they’re feeling at the moment.

The wild-card is how the populations feelings have been tampered with systemically by capital for decades.

And a vast number of the people who voted for Trump voted for Obama and are Bernie supporters, so if we’re trying to figure out some kind of through-line narrative that makes sense, we’re not going to find it.

He did a short video about sex and gender a few years ago, it was a tad performative but that’s how he does a lot of his work. Broadly though it made a LOT of people angry because even people who ostensibly pretend they’re progressive and care about science, freak the fuck out when thinking about genitals.

Angry chuds all the way.

Not to mention that this assessment only applies to the universe we can see, we’re missing a LOT so it’s really hard to say even the actual age of the universe (roughly) or if there’s a whole other angle to the universe we can’t observe like we’re seeing hints of with observations of dark matter and dark energy, plus the fact that every time we send up more powerful instruments we detect a whole lot more “stuff” broadly than we ever thought, and of course the bubble of observation we’re stuck in and have no way to know if our observable sphere of the universe is unique or odd in some way, or if there’s even a point in scale where the universe becomes homogeneous, for all we know it’s infinite and varied beyond description at the highest scales.

The things we don’t know outweigh the things we know by orders of magnitude, so it’s very, very hard to say if we even have the right foundational ideas when we ponder life in the universe besides us.

Growing up and forming adult political views usually just means realizing that everyone is fucking evil as fuck.

There’s no actual rules like that, nor is “martial law” like a bell you ring to cancel elections, but enough people believe it works this way that it’s very likely they will attempt to use this card.

Yah, but it’s also statistically more likely that we have missed crossing paths with them or even seeing their signs by millions of light years, as well as millions of years of history.

Entire empires could have risen to galactic power and ruled vast portions of the galaxy and finally splintered, evolved or gone extinct in just the million years before humans invented stone tools. Or some thousands of years during the Devonian period or something. Or the nearest planet with life is still just boneless fish and will need a hundred million more years to develop radio.

We’re not only a microscopic dot in space, we’re also a microscopic dot in time. And our ability to even look out into space and detect anything is a tiny shaving of time off that dot.

I don’t know about aliens or whatnot, but I don’t believe for a moment that people with actual secrets and important information, along with years or decades of intelligence experience and training, would look at Donald Fucking Trump and say “Damn, it’s too bad I have to share this highly-secret information with this guy, but I guess I have to.”

Hell no, this is still the liberal mindset that there are “rules” that governments need to follow. We should know well by now that there are no rules, that the government of the US is built largely on lies and image, and that nobody with actual power suffers consequences for breaking whatever rules they were supposed to have.

That fat fuck could not keep his mouth shut if he knew about aliens.

We’re assuming that if the conspiracy has any truth to it, that it’s something that the government broadly has a unified front on and are willing to share and report data with each other and report it upwards.

I think the last several years should have taught us that it’s more than plausible with the size, scale and complexity of the US government, intelligence agencies, the thousands of huge subcontractors and other “grey” organizations, that some agencies or entities could have knowledge of things that the rest do not.

I don’t have an opinion on “aliens” or if there’s a crashed saucer cover-up, there’s been too much disinformation and BS for me to have a take one way or another, but I firmly believe they are hiding shit that no sane person would share with the president if they wanted to keep it secret, not everyone is like the average American and most people with years of training and professionalism would look at Trump and know at first glance he’s an impotent clown and a con-man, most people in highest levels of defense and government broadly are just waiting for him to pass.

Like a lot of Simone’s videos have a bit of language

So do most 12-year-olds

Geddouddahere with that shit, Nye has been based and solid his entire professional career as a science communicator, if you didn’t like him talking about gender and sex, that’s a skill issue.

If that’s not what you’re talking about, then you deserve equal condemnation for cowardly vagueposting.

It just took a handful of connected conspiracists with no principles and some forward thinking about how to sow the worst seeds.

Names like Bannon, Epstein and others who funded them worked in the dark and with great amounts of support from a variety of institutions, worked to simultaneously make fascism cool and make average Americans too distracted to care. Eroded attention spans, people fighting online until nobody knows how to relate to each other anymore, dissolving communities and amplifying the most ridiculous or rage-baiting takes on both sides of ever issue.

That’s all it took for people to stop caring as cartoonishly iconic fascists and nazis took power in the US, and the whole time we were thinking that cartoonishly stereotypical “bad guys” belong only in hollywood and can’t possibly be real.

We all said that to some degree as the cartoonishly iconic and stereotypical villains rose in power and people were too burnt-out or distracted to give it any deeper thought.

The only people Newsom appeals to are neo-liberals ashamed that Trump won’t keep up appearances and isn’t keeping his criminal imperialism masked in the liberal pageantry that we’ve done for decades or centuries in the US.

He is courting the right, he made a day to celebrate Ronald Fucking Reagan, jesus christ how loud of a dog-whistle do you all need.

Tankies are just roleplay kids, they hate everyone who isn’t roleplaying also. Newsom is an actual threat to democracy wrapped in a too-wide smile and promises of a “return to normal.” He would be more dangerous than Trump and he would do his damage behind a facade of national cooperation and stability while empowering the lunatics like Thiel and Musk.

Worst thing is those in power in the US think they’re actually winning

No they do not, they don’t even give two flying shits about America other than the nutcases that think they can reshape it into a white-techno-fascist-oligarchy and that they know what’s best for the population as they practice super-villain speeches in the mirror. But enough Stephen Miller specifically. The rest are just trying to get their bag and run.

Those in power in the US are deliberately hiding the advancements of other countries to keep the middle-class and blue-collar workers here deluded into thinking that their 10-hour workdays with no benefits is still the best in the world because you have the “freedom” to go buy mass-produced goods at Walmart or pay $7000 to walk into the ER of your choice when you suffer a critical illness or injury.

And it works wonders. You don’t need to censor the whole world or make militarized walls like North Korea (But it helps, hint hint: the “wall” they wanted to make was not to keep people out.) you just need to keep the bulk of people busy and distracted and out of touch with the rest of the world, and most people don’t care about anything outside of their daily life anyway.

If you want evidence of how deliberate this campaign of mass-delusion is, just fire up your favorite media website in another country, and look how radically different the news stories are, how radically different the tone is, how huge the outside world is and what the bulk of humanity actually care about. (Usually it’s everyone worried America is going to fuck everything up for everyone else.)