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Google is so useless these days. It's very common that my searches get actually zero results now. Like, what the fuck happened? Google used to identify its quality by how many hundreds of pages of (admittedly mostly useless) results it could return for each search. Now, when I do get results, it's about a 3 to 4 ratio of useless ads to actual content.

I have the Google rewards app that occasionally asks me questions about where I've been / what I've bought for which it will pay me a few nickels each. The other day it asked me questions about my use of ChatGPT and the relative trust I had for the answers given by the language model to my trust of the results from a Google search. The last question was an essay question asking me why I thought ChatGPT was better for the specific application I was using it for. Google paid me a whole goddamn dollar for telling it, in many colorful words, that I understood the tool I needed for my question wasn't an ad generator so obviously I didn't use Google.

I want to subscribe to this post because these are very interesting observations and I know almost nothing about present-day Vietnam.

It's pretty fantastic. In 2020 (only just beginning my journey of recovery from a conservative upbringing), I decided I should understand what fascism actually was. I found that dictionary definitions were terribly imprecise but eventually found Eco's essay. I understand there are other methods--of similar scholarly integrity--used to define fascism, but I have not spent the effort to find and compare these other works. It is my (uninterrogated assumption) vague understanding that Eco's definition isn't regarded as opinionated.

There's also the point that a life sentence is wayy cheaper than a death sentence (according to some random guy who once mentioned it)

Hey look, feature 8 of Umberto Eco's Ur Fascism!

... Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. ...

Eco does make a point of clarifying that the presence of absence of any single trait he has identified does not prove a thing is or isn't fascist.

But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

(The full text of the feature I quoted above)

8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

Oh fantastic! I am proud to have observed this exhibit of librarian "humor", thank you and your children.

My friend is having some trouble too, could someone help me explain it to them?

What? This madness could never occur in this democratic divinity!

Shocked Pikachu

Since turning 30 I've been thinking about the half-your-age-plus-seven rule a lot more. It would feel creepy as fuck to date a 22 year old. Is this all in my head? It feels predatory to swipe right on anyone younger than 25

Hang on, maybe I'm just particularly out-of-the-loop but; how long has the third book had a name?

Is there any "recent" (coupla years) news on the expected conclusion of this story??

EDIT: Cute kitty by the way OP!

(source for what I'm about to say: I vaguely remember basically a couple headlines)

I remember reading a statement from Lewinsky regarding that allegation. Something along the lines of her agreeing that, while she had for many years defended him and declared to anyone asking that their involvement was purely consensual, she didn't really have the power to consent. I believe it was referenced how the enlightenment of the recent Me Too revelations had influenced her evolving understanding.

Thumbtack? For random odd jobs around the house, I don't know if that one counts as similar. I'm not certain it's an exploitative con

His ears look like kitten fuzz...

TLDR: triangles are forbidden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry%27s_theorem?wprov=sfla1

I have been trying to decide between an aeropress or pourover. Maybe I'm ignorant of something, how is the pourover a larger hassle?

I had hoped my facetious tone would be apparent given the topic of this thread. Given the downvotes, that was probably not the case and in the case you felt I was attacking you, sorry. You're doing language just fine

sport

Oh but at least we know those highways were built there, on top of all those homes, because that was the most efficient place for it and not because the people who lived in those houses were less desirable than those the car making corporation owning fucks liked

Oh my god, fucking assholes ending sentences with prepositions!

I am being murdered at about the same rate as I've been.

FTFY fuckface

Jesus it makes me so angry I could fucking kill!