"It's exactly your point — I was fully conscious and "at home" the whole time, yet something was processing and acting on the language independently."

It's unclear what you're referring to here. You were conscious, & you wanted to think the thought "this is dumb, it will never work." & you thought that. What was the independent process?

The hypnotism worked. There was an unconscious process at work whose relationship to the words was completely different from my conscious reaction.

This has been the case in Canada for 20 years

Families aren't going to move because their teens can't use social media.

I am not sure I understand how it is relevant to my comment.

Money too often decides who we get to vote for. It definitely does in the USA.

Again, money buys you a stage. You'll need a stage to run for office. But if your message stinks, people won't vote for you.

Kamala bought a big stage (she outspent Trump by a wide margin). But she lost. If money buys elections, she would have won.

Sooo...Harris' failure to win proves that money doesn't win elections...you do realize that her opponent also had to spend dozens of millions to even be able to compete, right?

Really hard to imagine how you aren't being willfully ignorant on this. Money doesn't win elections. It just puts you in the only possible position where one can win. Those are your own words, yet you somehow conclude that money doesn't win elections? Money literally decides what choice WE HAVE in an election. You cannot vote for someone who doesn't have the extreme wealth required to compete. & someone who isn't competing, isn't a choice given to voters.

Electricity doesn't make computers run, pushing the on button does!

Illuminating point but quite a lot of people live in 1st world countries where you still dont need to lock your door. Even in a major city.

It’s very time and place dependent. Burglaries are less common these days because the valuable stuff is iPhones now, rather than televisions.

What percentage of Factorio & Pymod users are not autistic but simply overcompensating for their insecurities with a productive fantasy life?

'Heartless" cause CNN told them it was.

It becomes a problem when the population of the developing nations outnumber the developed 100 to one. And im not talking about those inside the USA, im talking about worldwide. Id love to let them all in. Ive been to third world countries and I can't fault any individual for doing what they can to leave. But the current system can't support a borderless world.

So you want talented individuals to come in to prop up the economy for decades with their output, but forbid them trying to establish a normal family life in the country?

Just see the language they use, "third world" countries. .. As if the lead pipe laden cities of USA, the Fentanyl Zombie camps, the disfunctional and predatory healthcare system, the incessant and consistent child deaths to guns in schools isn't somehow "third world".

Notice that your comment doesn't deal at all with the topic at hand or anything I said. Like, what's your point? The USA isn't any better to live in than a country like Nepal? Cause that is just...so ignorant and insulting to people that can't get out of those countries...its really hard to describe how insensitive you are being by saying something like that.

Im fully aware of the 3rd world conditions in the USA. Its why I choose to remain in Canada (which has its own 3rd world conditions if you look for them), and have voted for the far left party each election ive been able to vote in!

Yes. The 'heartless' people in this equation are the corporate ghouls, like usual!

Lol no. How do you get that from my comment. There's a huge difference between 0 immigration and uncontrolled immigration and you guys aren't helping anyone by jumping to these ridiculous conclusions.

> when the population of the developing nations outnumber the developed 100 to one

Well it's only 7:1 right now. It's never going to be 100:1. Don't worry about it.

Stalin didn't need to claim any ethnicity. He was the man of Iron, not a silly human like you or me.