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However, they also result in the country slowly trending towards irrelevancy

In today's economies, everything is about high skill labour. It really is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Toxic Yuri energy

It's uncanny how relevant this is

And what do you want non-americans to do.. exactly?

Thanks to you all I'm sitting here in my non-american country worrying about a potential world war. Though at least I'm trying towards increasing support for Americans refugees fleeing the fascist regime

I remember looking ay the fees a few years ago when developing an application thing

..it's absurdly expensive. They demand ridiculous amounts of money for even basic things like search suggestions. I don't get how any service using Google maps can afford doing so

Mrooow

Why wouldn't it be okay?

Yes indeed. Mirror neurons are directly related to empathy I believe

Jerma

I don't know about you, but I am very reluctant to insult others, even in private conversations, even if they might deserve it

I always try to approach things constructively, because in the end, those patterns and thoughts bleed out into the world and your behaviour

And do keep in mind, even from the poster's side of the story, it sounds pretty darn bad, and people have a tendency to downplay their side's wrongdoings and elevate the other side's. Chances are, it was probably quite bad

If there's people in my life that go around talking badly about other like that, even in private.. yeah, I'd want to stay the hell away from them too. It's just a massive warming sign, and you're going to be the target sooner or later. And you don't want a coordinated group acting in bad faith against you

Like being mean to an NPC in a video game

I know rationally they are just a bunch of pixels and code, but as soon as they have plausible human dialogue, and I say something mean, and they act hurt.. something triggers in my brain and I feel that hurt. And I immediately want to stop

I literally struggle to be mean to a bunch of pixels, just because they mimick a living creature. It's also interesting because often it promotes a sort of dissonance, "I know this isn't real.. and yet I cannot help but feel what they feel.. Even though they feel nothing"