>>58158
Wow does she not sound like a keeper.

Also I think your main thing is spending too much time on the internet especially around fatposters. There's not that much of that meme irl im spite of what 4kanker retards like telling you, and where it does exist is pretty much nothing more than cultural Americanism turning everything into cancer that it touches. Religion, politics, video game industry, food, pretty much everything about that meme is only cancerous solely because of crass lowbrow commercialism infecting literally everything else here.

I once saw someone here talking about how turbo Capitalism looks in a country where Communism already utterly destroyed its cultural legacy. I think ours is what that looks like when you didn't have much of one to begin with, the result of which is turning everything into some faggoty identity and every faggoty identity merely being an extension of brand name affiliation. Case in point, you are clearly talking about a very specific type of annoying normalfag redditor spouting Rick and Morty memes, which is funny because then the person is so toxic and annoying some people end up hating the show even though nothing is wrong with it, in similar manner to them hating Christianity even though there's nothing wrong with it because how cancerous and vile many non-Catholic American Christians are.

Your assertion about science being akin to a religion or identity group however is beyond utterly idiotic, if that was you in previous discussions I've seen.

I think the easiest heuristic for identifying which freedoms the powers that be is what gets the most violent and direct reaction from them.

Exercising your individual freedom isn't one of them. It's exactly through the dilution of the weight of the individual voter that democracy can be easily manipulated. So they allow it.
It's not protests or demonstrations (at least in countries where the rulers are smart enough), because any partisan activity can be spun to someone's benefit.
It's not ideologies or arguments or debates. Those basically do not do anything in today's polluted info sphere.

I think what governments hate the most is separatism of any kind. Disengaging from government authority outright, defining yourself as a separate society, etc. I have no sympathy for fundies, but just look at Waco. They saw someone building their own commune, and fucking burned the place down.
The next step in ensuring freedom should be the establishment of independent communes, entities large enough to participate in the external political process, but small enough where each individual holds a bigger share of the voting power.

I think the most regressive current ideology is "end-of-historyism". The idea that the political mechanism for further societal change has already been implemented, and all that's left is to use those mechanics to nudge "progress" forward.
There can be no change without turmoil. Power is never granted, only taken.

>>57971

>I'm really curious what, exactly, you think a more ideal government would be?

What country are you asking about?
Also I wasn't bitching, current situation seems fine to me. Facebook cattle have their compound feed, Zuck has his billions, marketers and web monkeys have their bananas, Ernsts have their niche platforms. Everyone seems satisfied except reallifemag.com columnist and German poster who posted the link to him.
I haven't even mentioned Socialism and scientists

>>57957

>Your argument would be the same for a dictatorship, turns out people like it as they accept to live in it.

I would argue that it's harder to emigrate to foreign country than to do three clicks and create account in FSBgram or any other non-shitty platform (you don't even have to delete old one!). Not mentioning that some of dictators don't allow their serfs to leave countries freely.
And you really think that smallhedas who are physically unable to use something which is not preinstalled on their phones don't like Facebook? No, it's made exactly for them.

> But I would imagine Facebook caters to all kinds of data it gathers ongoingly more than to those marketing methods.

I mentioned it as A/B testing. It's done like that. You show 99% of your users old 90IQ interface, and random 1% of your users -- new 80IQ interface. Then you statistically compare which one gets better response. Wow, users who see the second interface start to spend more time on website on average, and new users who see it are 5% more likely to create an account. Great, it's approved. Now let's show it to everyone instead of random sample. (if results are bad, you start to show 100% of users old interface again)
Same as focus groups, basically, but sample is 100% representative instead of biased "only those users who agreed to be part of focus group".

>>57858

> is more of a meme than an actual band

Moreover, rage comics tier meme. Everyone forgot about it and if someone accidentally remembers it, he dies from cringe.
I just posted the pic because it's funny and related to post. By the way it also mentions "Ensemble of Christ the Savior and Mother Raw Earth". Would recommend. Many of their songs are officially considered extremist so you can be bottled for publishing them. Also youtube deletes all their best clips:
https://vk.com/video19512598_162231938
https://vk.com/video-20694646_158600364
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuSNjmEcVjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccfA2DDcX-M

> What do you think of true kings of Russian thrash metal — Kuvalda?

You wanted to say Bredor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyz77oJ2HJ0

>>57859
Wow, you actually responded seriously to my shitpost. That's RAC Murica for ya.

Anyway, I didn't listen to most of these bands, but I gotta admit a couple of them are actually pretty good.

>Ария

Favorite band of my best buddy in high school. I never was much of a fan, but I do like some of their songs. Also, Kipelov > Berkut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT2ZezTUjLo
This one's about a terrorist. Pretty fun song: "heroin at night, hexogen in the morning", heh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8B2m9pnac0
Somewhat Christian (but not really) song about heavens. I like the chorus for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3aCpHylyLQ
Possibly their prettiest song. It's about monarchy or somesuch, but whatever, it's nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcJNYwo6K24
This one gives fantasy vibes. If this one was performed by Dio with Rainbow, it would totally kick ass, but it's still pretty good as it is.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Txh_ezGmE

Basically, Maiden's Aces High, but about Soviet bomber crew instead of Brit Spitfire wankers. Not a bad song. I also was surprised to hear it in one of the Flash porn "games" of 00's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdsqx-djRH0
This one got covered by fucking Rammstein of all people. Really dark lyrics about cannibalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPAP67ywwM4
A power ballad. Maybe it's not Beyond the Realms of Death or Cemetery Gates, but it's still good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYfSYNgFkfI
Another ballad. This version is with a symphonic orchestra, "we wanna be Metallica", yeah. It was spammed incessantly on Russian music TV channels in the 00's, and if it was just a little bit shittier, I would probably hate it as much as Nickelback's "How You Remind Me". It barely avoided that fate.

>Кpyиз

The first time I heard these guys was on a Soviet vinyl I found in my aunt's collection (dunno why she had it, probably just grabbed any music she could get). The audio quality was atrocious due to vinyl's wear (audiophools who say that vinyls are better should go fuck themselves), the twelve years old me still loved it. Also, their guitarist Valery Gaina had everything to become the Soviet Steve Vai, but something went wrong, and he's largely forgotten now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKMReCA0ju4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11kjtHNbDZw

Also, you should create a new threda. Might post about some music I liked recently.

>>56187

>Why don't you do a trade and end the bs? The too old argument, but does that really apply in the trade you want to do?

Because if you closely read my post, you will notice that I have been involved in university stuff for over ten years now and I most certainly will not start an apprenticeship when I have a PhD. It's not like I don't like my line of work or don't earn any money, but with respect to what amount of work I had to put in, it wasn't worth it, but the major point is simply that university is not like it was decades ago. Having a (rather worthless) bachelor's degree is like having Abitur twenty years ago.
With the need for more university degrees they didn't do anything to have better education, they just lowered the standards. Trades are not glamorous, and every half-brained monkey needs to go to university.
That leads to people - born and grown up in Germany - not being able to form a straight sentence. I don't even look for orthography and punctuation anymore. You get people who would probably be overchallenged pushing a button in a factory. I mean, we were already pretty dumb, but those people I had the misfortune of having to supervise are really not fit for anything beyond the very simplest tasks. Once I had to show one of them how to use a sponge to clean something (practical lab course). And that is only one factor; the other is uni politics in general, especially over the last year we could perfectly see how everyone wants to cover their ass and not take any responsibility whatsoever, so all the institutes were left on their own. I could also never be a professor because that means having to play by those politics and kissing asses and attending all those bullshit meetings and events. Of course you have those cases were someone is built from the ground up, doing their Diploma, their PhD and then they get fast-tracked to Junior Professor. Or when a woman is being passed around as an example of women in science just because she's a woman. I mean, she's smart enough to grab all the goodies that come with it, but she also damn well knows why she's being presented everywhere.
Then you of course have the anglo-invented principle of "publish or perish". I have exactly two first author publications. Of course, I am co-author on like 15 or 20 more, but that doesn't matter. People will fabricate results to get more funds or to just not get their funds cut. There is a culture of competition among scientists and I don't like that. In my opinion knowledge is there to be shared and university research should be a collaborative effort of everyone. I get that a pharma company will keep hush-hush and not tell anyone and do their thing because naturally they need to sell that shit after all that R&D, but that's industry, and uni is not industry and I hate how everyone is forced to go forth. Science is not always positive results. You can conduct research for years and still land at a dead end without any fault of yours. But in my opinion this should be as valid as a positive results because you can say "we tried this and that and nothing came out of it, so we can say that all this stuff doesn't work" - provided your methodology was sound, of course.

Sorry you had to read my unstructured ramblings, I probably forgot a lot of things I wanted to say. I am tired and angry.

>>57378

>but still is underdeveloped

Way to miss the point entirely, i.e. depending what metrics used especially how qualitative and specious the resulted ratings you can try to make a complete corrupt shithole look good because it has a few different oligarchs and their lackeys changing position. You can have terrible infrastructure and still get called "first world" then.

>>57383
That is also part of the point.

>>57387
Like here for example we see how such a qualitative argument can readily be made pointing out to Flint or many other places outside Michigan water, failing bridges, lack of high speed internet and overground telephone poles, people in Texas freezing to death from their independent power grid failing, brownouts, random exploding gas lines etc. as proofs that America is "an underdeveloped third world shithole" even when clearly the maker of that map intended us to be considered height of development. Until we see the data actually used we have no way of knowing and is precisely why hard data always should trump retarded qualitative arguments about being "first world" or not. China being filled with abject retards and superstitious bydlo does not change those facts that in last couple of decades it's largely become a developed country, and no rural areas being impoverished backward shitholes does not count my country and many others on that list is filled with the same.

I think that if anything, being truly developed and democratic or "first world" isn't something that can be quantified but rather a type of mindset, some of which clearly is not good. I think easiest to boil it down is is your attitude "I can fix it this" and "we can use sound reason and logic to make the world a better place for ourselves and those around us and everybody else hopefully eventually" or crab bucket "don't bother it's shit, always it will be shit, always it should be shit" medieval peasant tier type of thinking. When brick describes his frustration with Kazakhs and why he sees his country as remaining shit he seems more describing the mindset holding them back than anything else. Basically, whether your national mindset is to remaim bydlo or not.