"• Try to make purchase with a card, vendor says price is X. Tells you to put card into card machine and pay, tries to cover card machine but you can still see the screen. Has put in price six times as much as quoted. Say to him “this isn’t the price you told us, why have you made it more expensive?” “Oh sorry sorry accident sorry”

"• Casual dropping of litter, waste. Spitting, honking constantly, noise, smell everywhere often. Cars swerving around the road, people lying in street etc. - very diminished conception of the public space. In many places going outside is a Live Action Player VS Player experience where you always need to be on guard. Can be exhausting, draining

"Your first exposure to these kinds of behaviours, if you’re a basically well-meaning and polite person, you will tend to take them in good faith and respond politely, give people the benefit of the doubt. You take people at face value, maybe even try to help them in a modest way if you can. It can get a little tiresome but you afford people basic ‘human dignity’ and aren’t unduly rude to them. But then it happens again. And again. And again. And again and again and again. The people are rude to you, they don’t reciprocate, they don’t say thank you, they lie to your face, they push and shove and grab you, they try to scam you and then have the temerity to become angry with you when you tell them they are behaving badly.

"As well-meaning as you might have originally been, you have so many of these low quality interactions that very quickly you start to frequently lose your patience - everybody you encounter annoys you. The relentlessness makes you start to just want to tell people to fuck off. Sometimes you do tell people to fuck off. You go into each encounter with your guard up, expecting a fight. Your mental priors start to adapt to the environment out of necessity - but as a learnt disposition, it starts to drag on you, tire you out. The environment is exhausting, you’ve come to expect everybody around you is trying to scam you in some way. Very occasionally, you might encounter someone who is actually sincere but your expectations are so low that you are pre-emptively rude to them. You yourself are now a part of the problem because you’re perpetuating the low trust environment. “Why so rude, what’s your problem?” “I’ve been made into this, the environment did this to me, I don’t have the energy to meet everyone in good faith. Statistically, I would be stupid if I did.”

"I assume if you spend long enough in this kind of environment it ‘does a number’ on you mentally. You become permanently wired to expect people to exhibit low trust ‘third worldist’ behaviours towards you and often you in turn exhibit it towards others. Not even necessarily out of malice, just because you have to act similarly to not in turn be exploited yourself. Countries that have a reputation for being ‘scammers’ will often by disposition be like that because of the low trust environment in their country, those attitudes emerge out of it.

"It has been said that high trust environments are quite rare historically. For a high trust environment to transition to a low trust environment all it often requires is for a relatively small group of people to begin behaving in a low trust manner and then for their low trust behaviour to not be policed. Eventually the rest of the society must mentally adapt to that low trust behaviour - ie become itself low trust - in order to not become victims of it.

"ADDENDUM: Already received my first death wish from an Indian X User for this post on the grounds that ‘some of these behaviours are made up and don’t happen’ (reprehensibly delusional denialism and very conceited - this is all my own experience) but this post is not intended as an attack, just a respectfully denoscriptive personal anecdote. Probably there will be more such attacks on similar grounds. Lots of unpleasant and spiteful people and factions online, exhausting to be in shared social environments with them but their behaviour does go some way towards demonstrating how these ‘low trust’ environments are created. QED"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1898121554904404115.html

"I relate very much to this on my own terms of course, since my book The Face On Mars, whose central topic was essentially plagiarised by Graham Hancock (who definitely made a LOT more money of his erroneous version than I ever did) has also been used by others and yet they keep getting the facts wrong, even when they steal them outright from the originator. Hancock admitted his theft by the way in front of my then girlfriend too, so it cannot be said he did this “by error”, though he said “ghost writers” did most of the work, so apparently he doesn’t even write his own plagiarism, but he certainly read my book before writing his as it is listed in the notes and I personally had sent it to him when he called me to ask for it."
https://kurganfiction.substack.com/p/the-true-innovators-rarely-get-the#:~:text=I%20relate%20very,ask%20for%20it.

The rightward edge of conservatism is firmly where the alt right was in 2017. This is an unmitigated win, and anyone who thinks otherwise just has no serious praxis.

https://fxtwitter.com/loganclarkhall/status/1896680940388417856

"You might ask why anyone would want to do something this autistic, and that is a very good question, to which there are a few answers. The first, and most personally compelling, is that it I found it amusing. The second, which may be more compelling to the reader, is that it struck me that the D&D system is actually an excellent way to present a relatively holistic exploration of HBD."
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/hbd-and-d#:~:text=You%20might%20ask,exploration%20of%20HBD.

Semi truck after semi truck TIP OVER as extreme winds reach up to 83 mph in Amarillo, Texas

#Texas

@MTodayNews

‼️Mega storm heading for 17 US states tomorrow.
What else?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/galleries/article-14495243/Mega-storm-heading-17-US-states-tomorrow.html

Keeping an eye on the weather across the South this morning. https://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/2025-03-12-severe-storm-outbreak-midwest-south-tornado-wind-damage-hail?cm_ven=hp-slot-1

Tracking three possible tornados in the area. This is a great app for keeping an eye on weather: https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap

The area currently under a Tornado Watch... https://www.alabamawx.com/?p=276310

Never forget what they have taken from us. RETVRN!

La Roque-Gageac - a small village with its own amazing charm sandwiched between a rock and a river, reflected in its waters, France.

Expulsion and flight of Germans after WW2
https://redd.it/1j5hbfq
@r_mapporn

Great Greece map claimed by Venizelos at Paris Peace Conference, 1919
https://redd.it/1j6a6pd
@r_mapporn