yesman

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's obtuse to treat the bear metaphor as a math problem. It's doubly so to correct the work.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The first half of your comment is an acknowledgement that you don't understand American culture and the second half is you casting declarative judgement upon it.

I don't know which one of your minds to respond to.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

This is shaping up to be the official first shit-show of Trump's second term. Remember, if Gaetz is only prominent in Washington and under the graces of Trump because he blew up the House to oust McCarthy.

Would anyone be surprised if McCarthy was whipping votes against Gaetz?

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This would have been productive with a blue-ribbon commission and 2 years. But Biden should totally be able to hammer it out one rainy morning.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

the greatest, highest earning, and most influential game of all time is Clash of Clans. It earns about $5mil a day.

Titles like Elden Ring, Zelda, Bioshock, KoTOR, God of War, Skyrim and the Witcher are obscure also-ran games that titans of the game industry (people who fund video game development) consider them failures.

EDIT: I changed some stuff.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

I've always suspected that many of these kinds of images were staged or propaganda.

Every so often you'll see a meme on Reddit with a bunch of American teenagers being athletic in the 60s. The meme suggests that people were healthy and fit back then, but I happen to know that the footage was for a physical fitness push at the time (gotta do more pushups than the commies) and the athletes were far from typical students.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Even popular egalitarian movements face significant resistance to social and economic change. This will not only come from elites who stand to loose from social change, but also from common people who for one reason or another oppose that which benefits themselves. Beyond the social and economic connections to the elite, the social inertia to change is on the side of capital.

The solution, from Bolivar to Lenin to Castro has been to force the people to be free because you can't have socialist democracy if people would vote to return to capitalism or colonialism.

Leftists have long talked about "educating" the populace, but this is another tempting avenue for creeping totalitarianism. It's not like capital is innocent of coercion, but so long as it accommodates the ignorant, it has an overwhelming advantage over a system that requires an improved humanity.

I suppose we'll iron this out. Remember that the social anchors for capital are hundreds of years old and have their roots in feudalism and aristocracy. Socialism is young and her sins are close in our minds not because their failures are extraordinary but because they're recent.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

The problem here isn't nutrition or fallacy from nature.

The problem is that everything special about RFK jr. was true before his umbilical chord was cut.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

According to the SCOTUS, the State and police have no constitutional duty to protect the public, uphold the law, or enforce court orders.

source: (warning child harm)

DeShaney v. Winnebago
Town of Castle rock v. Gonzales.

 
 
 
 

I've always been told that Hitler was a masterful public speaker; that his support can largely be explained by his compelling, if not mesmerizing hold on crowds. This narrative is not common, it's universal.

Sometimes I think this is emphasized over how much the crowds approved of the content of his speech.

How do native German speakers feel when they view footage of Hitler? Do you think the reputation is earned?

 
 
 

I use a box fan to help dry the dishes in the dishwasher. Recently I mistakenly pointed the fan away from the dishes instead of toward them. This appears to be faster and more effective than my normal method. Why?

 

Internet culture loves nothing more than adopting half-understood academic jargon. And more and more I'm seeing the phrase "media literacy" to mean: being smart enough to come to the correct interpretation, or even worse: being able to decipher authorial intent.

I'm a 'death of the author' kind of guy, but we all should agree that any text will have multiple valid interpretations, so long as you can back it up with the text.

I wanna stress that I'm not gatekeeping the phrase, I just want to promote the idea of media education over the smug notion that one person reads books better than another.

 
 
 
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