Tell ya what. Go listen to the extremely American podcast start to finish, and then tell me how uncoordinated extremest groups, the christo-fascists, and the Republicans are.

The podcast makes the argument much better than I ever could.

Yeah, all the Republicans’ souls in exchange for his freedom.

Peppridge farm remembers.

Edit: couldn’t help myself:

trying to reign in the gossip.

I see what you did there 😉

My understanding about this and if I remember correctly they charged the maximum amount that the pump will let you pump so if the pump will let you pump 50 gallons they authorize the dollar amount for that amount of gas.

After that they charge the amount of gas that you actually get and delete the first charge. Normally this happens fast enough that you don’t ever see it on your account. If you were in the middle of nowhere though, they might have been using tile up for their credit card system and that could delay things.

America will never look out for the workers. The workers have to unionize. Probably even the H1B employees. I think until that happens, we’re going to see wages stagnate and fail to keep up with inflation.

Unfortunately people are so cowed by their employees and the system that they won’t unionize.

Personally this is why I think we don’t have universal healthcare and basic social support systems. They would enable us to negotiate.

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Interesting. Thanks, and I definitely take your point, though I don’t know much about Russia or Russians aside from a “history of Russia and China” class in college.

Also TIL prosody 😁.

We’re talking about different things.

You’re talking about social dynamics, and what I’m talking about is more general than that.

There’s a certain range of emotions and certain root emotions that are common to everyone but there’s also a great deal of variation between people that speak different languages.

The language you grow up with shapes how you think at a very low level. How you process information, how you see the world.

For example, I read about a study, presumably about Mandarin, that explained an interesting difference between how Chinese people and English speaking people themselves in the future.

In Mandarin, the language sort of forces you to see your future self as self-same to your current self and this causes Chinese people to be much much better about saving money for the future. On the other hand the English language causes one to think of the future self as a different person and it makes it more difficult to identify that future self as truly you.

I tried to find the article for you but couldn’t. The concept is called self-continuity.

Another place I’ve seen this present is in software design, oddly. I used a tool at a previous job that was largely developed by people that didn’t have English as a first language. It had a very clear logic to it and made sense, but everything was put together in ways that were initially counterintuitive.

This also applies to how foreign speakers emote. Like I said, all the root emotions are pretty much identical, but there’s a lot of nuance and a good number of emotions that are not universally represented and not experienced as often (sometimes not at all) in due to lack of language for it. Saudade is an example of it. Not only does it not translate, but it’s not universally experienced.

Anyway, I was more or less “squirreling”.

A while ago I signed into x using a Gmail account. Mostly I was being hasty and careless. Never really used the account even. Forgot about it.

Recently I went and deleted the account, but when I log in, the first thing I see is a ridiculous antisemitic conspiracy theory.

That’s the default algorithm.

I think I understand it just fine.

Trump isn’t exactly friendly with the CIA. His relationship with the CIA was marked by deep suspicion and frequent public attacks. Trump often accused the intelligence community of working against him and undermining his administration, especially over investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He publicly disparaged CIA officials and even compared the intelligence community’s actions to those of “Nazi Germany.” Trump cut CIA workforce and spending, dismissed officers involved in diversity initiatives, and showed support for controversial positions like bringing back torture. His mistrust and criticism led to strained interactions with CIA leadership and concerns about morale and operational security within the agency. Not to mention when he blew the cover of an untold number of CIA agents, a direct betrayal.

Trump’s hostility was even more direct with the FBI. He publicly questioned the agency’s integrity, calling its reputation “worst in history,” and fired FBI Director James Comey, labeling him a liar and leaker. Trump accused the FBI of illegal activities like wiretapping his campaign and removed multiple top FBI officials. He demanded lists of employees involved in investigations connected to his alleged misconduct and disparaged the bureau’s motives and credibility on various occasions. All this shit fueled a significant decline in morale and trust within the FBI, contributing to a contentious and adversarial relationship between Trump and the bureau throughout his tenure.

I remember hearing in an interview, something along the lines of a suggestion that the CIA could take some kind of action against Trump for all his bullshit. The former CIA employee only said “there are a lot of good boys at the CIA and they’re doing what they’re supposed to” but he said it with a tone that implied that their patience was being tested by Trump’s vitriol… And that interview was done during Trump’s first term, before he turned into the tangerine tyrant.

I can only imagine what they’re up to now, especially if they’re serious about either upholding the constitution or maintaining the status quo. I get the impression that they are probably fans of both.

I actually didn’t get very far at all into it. It made me too anxious and depressed. What you’re saying is totally valid though. People that speak different languages literally have different sets of emotions and different emotional expressions for emotions of the same name.

Eg., I’ve never experienced saudade (Portuguese, I think), It doesn’t really exist in English speaking countries.

Nice reference.

https://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/conservative-radio-host-freaks-out-transgender-crowd-will-use-magnets-to-suck-god-from-your-brain/

https://archive.is/20171029004936/https://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/conservative-radio-host-freaks-out-transgender-crowd-will-use-magnets-to-suck-god-from-your-brain/

I wish I had the spoons for that.

Maybe some day…

Looking at you, Mark Cuban

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0lAhnoDlU

That looks so good dude!

The purpose of life is to gather data and reflect the universe around it through adaptation.

It is without intrinsic meaning but the meaning that I give to it is to try to end all suffering.

And maybe start a new party. Call it progressive. Democrats certainly aren’t.