That’s more of a neologism, whereas “evilness” veers more toward the archaic.

With Lemmy being like half Russian bots, I think this won’t go amiss.

#The Russian state and government interfered in the 2024 United States elections through disinformation and propaganda campaigns[1] aimed at damaging Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other Democrats while boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump and other candidates who support isolationism and undercutting support for Ukraine aid and NATO.[2][3][4][5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections

“wdy mean they’re all wearing clothes and have hair on their bodies”

Yeah, but not worse than just “bad”, whereas “evilness” sounds worse compared to just “evil.”

My point is that it might not the most colloquial of English use, but MLK Jr didn’t exactly speak vernacular either.

So just because something sounds a tad off doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wrong. And in a lot of cases it’s the opposite, because languages just keep evolving.

I thought exactly that. Opened the post, upvoted this thread.

However couldn’t not Google it, and it may be on purpose.

evilness

noun

evil·​ness

: the quality of being evil : badness

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evilness

While it does sound better with just “evil”, I wonder if they wished to exactly convey that what is being created is the quality of being evil in some people. All in all, that goes under the umbrella of evil, sure. But if we replace “evilness” with “badness”, it no longer sounds worse than the alternative, just “inequality creates bad”. Ofc you can’t compare directly like that, I’m just trying to make the point that black civil activist haven’t historically been that bad at language use, so perhaps we’re just feeling the more colloquial version but that this may be prescriptively better, idk.

I’m no languinolologist.

From a kid nicknamed “Cartman”…?

Oh… no reason.

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus!

Old but fitting imo

Well it is.

And it’s not a secret either.

Trump is Putin’s lapdog and Putin just wants to destabilise US and EU to level the playing field for Russia.

Often Russian campaigns aim to disrupt domestic politics within Europe and the United States in an attempt to weaken the West

Russia seeks to promote American isolationism, border security concerns and racial tensions within the United States through its disinformation campaigns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_disinformation

You could just order them straight from them producer.

https://www.fazer.com/en/products/fazer-green-jellies-500g-p404231/

Two day old account doing a little “look look Ukraine is doing something I’ll imply is bad.”

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/15/russian-hybrid-threats-council-sanctions-twelve-individuals-and-two-entities-over-information-manipulation-and-cyber-attacks/

Many of them falsely think that Santa Claus lives on the north pole

Hehe. Dummies. He obviously lives at Ear Fell, every Finn knows that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korvatunturi

Nr 4 sounds just like tobacco companies questioning if smoking causes cancer.

I know you did. But a doctors could’ve tried other milder substances to make it work, but when you work for a billionaire, you kinda do what they’re telling you or they hire someone else.

So… The dr overtreated an issue they’re could’ve used multiple substances to treat with the same effectiveness, but dispersed risk.

Yeah well, here the problem was, imo, a bad doctor. There would’ve been plenty ways to give the same effect without compounding the abuse from a single drug.

It’s not like you administer propofol for yourself. But the social dynamic between a celebrity that famous and anyone who isn’t would ofc be different from regular patients. And propofol doesn’t exactly have a large abuser base, which would’ve made it easier to avoid a fatal dose…

But anyway…

Yeah it can be relaxing, especially if you’ve slept really poorly, but on a long term basis any drug that strong will have side effects of one sort of another.

Death being one of the rarer ones. Bad luck, Jacko.

I mean, it’s not far off it. It’s like, a similar thing, but on a whole other scale.

Like when you doze off real fkin tired, you might wake up and have a bit of trouble with time. But with anaesthesia, you know you haven’t just got trouble with remembering where you were or when, but someone’s just gone in and taken a huge chunk out.

When you’re dozed off and confused, it’s closer to being black-out drunk. You sort of may have memories about the time, just needs the right trigger. Like someone saying a fun thing that happen ed which you recall, or when dozing off, you remember having heard the credits of a show you know that airs at a certain time.

Like as in, you’re just really uncertain. With anaesthesia, you’re certain you don’t know what the fuck happened.

It’s like the difference between being an agnostic and an atheist. One is really sure and one’s very much on the edge.

But it definitely depends on what kind of anaesthesia. There’s light, heavier and full-on. I’m sure an anaesthetist could classify them better, but basically one is slight sedation, then heavy sedation/light anaesthesia and then “proper” anaesthesia. The first would be something like perhaps a benzo (valium, diapam etc) or some laughing gas through your nose. Second is like ketamine/fentanyl or other somewhat fast acting substances. And third is just proper knockout byebye and that’s propofol. That’s what Michael Jackson died of. And if he had to take that to sleep…? I mean I can see the appeal, it’s like an off-button for the brain, but I don’t believe you really get rest while in a state like that, not the way we need.

“In cryo, you don’t dream at all. Feels more like a fifth of tequila and an ass-kicking.”

That’s a bit dramatic but I just rewatched the Avatars and popped into my head

Propofol is the one which knocks your light right out, the medium tier with ketamine/opiates is the one which makes people all weird and giddy. (Which is sort of weird to see from Europe that Americans use for dentistry. I mean I would take it, Finnish docs would just never do that, because anaesthesia has risks and pain and trauma apparently doesn’t.)

So to answer your question… sort of? Like in the way that a tsunami is sort of like the wave you make in a puddle. But you know, different scales…

Yeah you have no idea of time passing when put under. No matter how groggy you are when you normally wake up, you have like an intuitive feel about how much you’ve slept. Sometimes its wrong several hours and that feels weird.

But when put under the intuitive feel is just like as if had been minutes. Or two days. Your brain has no idea. It’s a weird feeling, yeah.

I don’t even know how many times I’ve been under. Many.

Yes, I think it is. But not the one where he actually does become the ECH?

The Doctor has added a daydreaming protocol and some aliens who have an AI overlord (they can’t do anything without asking it first) manage to survey the Doctors daydreams but not the inside of Voyager, so they believe the Doctors daydreams to be real.

I think Voyager’s more musical episodes (and Robert Picardo himself) have at least a little to do with SNW eventually getting the musical episode.

Aka the grocer’s apostrophe