The stuff about corporate “power-speak”, where the sociopaths start using certain phrases for their power-games and larger selfish strategies, and the clueless layer try to imitate them but without knowing why, is something I experienced at every workplace.
Same. The idea that organizations create a barrier of clueless acolytes to shield the sociopaths at the top from the workers at the bottom makes a lot of sense. I tried to read the whole book he made out of these essays but it wasn’t as great as the main ideas.
“Iran is oppressive. The media from the country bombing them told me so”
CeraVe is the only skin-care company afaik whose products are developed by dermatologists, and are consistently highly rated by dermatologists. They have good scentless moisturizers, lotions with sunscreen, retinol, shampoos, conditioners, and wash bar(soap alternative).
The strangest person I’ve ever met was homeschooled, it was a really sad case. He was an only child home-schooled by fundamentalist christian parents, and didn’t have much interaction with peers his age until he was in college. Zebulon (yes that was his name) could not hold a simple conversation, and clearly had less education than most grade-schoolers. Talking to him was worse than talking to a child, he would babble or ignore everything you said and change the subject completely. I hope he’s overcome that and is doing better now.
It should be illegal or heavily restricted, as it is in many countries already.
Looks like they’re having some DNS issues atm.
I use dreaming spanish too! And vidioma.com for mandarin.
For anyone interested, here’s a detailed explanation from the ppl at dreaming spanish on why it works.
I love hjson / json5 for config files: https://hjson.github.io/
Never understood the toml philosophy of trying to flatten every object field.
Oof, such a good album. “All my little words” is one of the best songs ever written.
“The republicans of 10-20 years ago are today’s democrats” has been true for like 60 years now.
Modern democrats are even rehabilating GW Bush, who killed a million innocent people in Iraq just a few years ago. The democrats of a few years from now will be rehabilitating Trump when there’s a new “bad cop” they need to play “good cop” against.
The commenter above suggested they refuse to perform as a protest, not “just play”.
Don’t take the precious! Smeagol wants it!
goblin mode
In western capitalist dictatorships, “centrism” means an acceptance and non-opposition to the status quo of capitalist rule, liberalism, and landlordism.
Any opposition to poverty, homelessness, hunger, or rule by capitalists, is deemed “radical”, and outside of respectable discourse, even though these should be just a baseline of human decency.
Some resources:
The core function of lemmy, is following communities, either built around a topic, region, or anything else.
The core function of mastodon, is following people.
The only way to make microblogging tolerable, IMO is to follow “topic-based” accounts. I might be interested in what a person thinks about a topic, but I’m not interested in what food they ate that day.
There’s also the issue of overwhelming feeds: not everyone can be a celebrity, and there’s a limit to the number of people we can hold in our heads and follow, before our entire day is wrecked. I can’t use most microblogging because its just too overwhelming, and I don’t care about celebrities outside of a few writers or academics.
The city’s leaders have shown that no amount of corpses will sway them to take action. ICE can kill anyone with impunity and the city will do nothing against them.
Nope, peaceful protests have never worked at any point in history, and you are sold that they do, because it serves the interest of those in power who do not want to be challenged.
CIA and the MIC for sacking Dulles, warming to Cuba, and indicating that he would slow down / put the brakes on interventions in Vietnam and SA.
JFK was still an anti-communist imperialist, but he increasingly thought the best strategy for winning the cold war, and getting the world to line up behind US wasn’t more war, but soft-power initiatives like the space race, and more equitable economic ties with global south countries. His disagreements with chancellor Dulles led to his killing, Dulles’ restoration, and Dulles heading the investigation of JFK’s murder.