GreyShuck @ GreyShuck @feddit.uk

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Is 'consistent' the critical thing here though? Or is introducing ideas to large numbers of people who could actually benefit from them?

Should all leftists just sit in a small room together and only talk among themselves to ensure that they are consistent? Or should they be going to places where there are other people and talking to them to actually spread leftist ideas among them?

Do you really find it that baffling that people are choosing to provide help and advice in a setting that has millions of active users rather than a setting that has some thousands?

Reading, hiking, film & TV, conservation volunteering

I recall hearing that one should never use a three letter word starting with 'g' and ending with 't' (i.e. get, git, got, gut). Instead: obtain, stomach, 'being unhelpful' etc.

This was before github was a thing, of course.

If you are a producer of doohickeys and I buy them from you to sell on, then I am a retailer and a customer of yours, but I do not actually consume the doohickeys. It is my customers who are the consumers.

Or, if you produce a certain show and I pirate that show from a torrent site and watch it, then I am a consumer of that show - but not a customer.

Not very. I have nothing against them, but we just have separate lives. I may contact them once a year or so, but that's about it. One of my sisters acts as the main info exchange for the other four, but even she is only in routine weekly contact with one of my brothers.

From the article:

“The issue is not where the money is spent,” says Clark, now president of Defenders of Wildlife. “The issue is that there isn’t nearly enough of it.”

That is the most significant part of this.

However, single species conservation work is almost short sighted IMHO. The vast majority of the time the main issue for species that need conservation is loss of habitat.,You need to be conserving that habitat as a whole including the entire flora and fauna community from the ground up.

Not convinced about the connection. As the author mentions this is totally different to the situation in America - which is not exactly renowned for the deep intellectualism of its politics.

The 'original' game: Why Don't You - Yes But was the one that I first recognised in myself. There are plenty of other examples on that website, but as the page says, it doesn't have the full explanation and context.

Validate your child's feelings. Let them know that you understand that they are scared and that it is ok to be scared.

There have been several. I'll pick Eric Berne's book Games People Play.

I immediately recognised a few that I had played and, having been 'called out' on them by the book, it did lead me to stop and behave more constructively.

Depends what you mean by body language. I think that most can recognise basic facial expressions like happiness and fear before they can talk, and understand things like pointing and reaching for things to express interest etc.

Finnegans Wake. I read it across the year with an online group. It was always on the edge of incomprehensibility - often well over the edge - but it definitely had a impact.

This year's 'big read' will be the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms I'm just about to make a start.

For complicated reasons over which we have had very little control, we have had to move house 3 times in the last 5 years.

In April of this year, thoigh, we finally found somewhere that we both really love and which should be pretty much permanent. I am very happy about that.

Depends whether I am working or not. If it has been a workday, then often the half hour or hour that I set aside at the end of the day for reading before I go to sleep.

If I am not working, and don't need to get up do things immediately, then the time just after waking and before I get breakfast. Maybe read a little, plan the day and check the Web.

Most of the current government ministers are parents. They are the crap parents, crap ministers & crap people in general - that are the reason that children, and everyone else, in the UK are struggling.

Hell, that's going back a way. I don't think that I have heard one of those since the 90s. They really haven't aged well - not that they were exactly the height of PC humour back then.

What's the difference between a shopping trolley and an Essex girl?

A shopping trolley has a mind of its own.

Novel - Corey's The Mercy of Gods

Movies - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Dune, part 2, Mickey 17 (this one particularly since it isn't part of an existing franchise or a remake or whatever).

TV - Severance season 2, Netflix's 3 Body Problem, Strange New Worlds season 3 if it drops in 2024.

I would say that kindness is an expression (not the only one) of empathy. Some degree of empathy is present in the overwhelming majority of people - barring extreme sociopathic conditions and an absence of mirror neurones. So for most people I would say that it is innate to some extent.

Even in cases where empathy is not present, kindness can be simulated or faked and some people with strong sociopathic conditions have proven to be very good at this when it suits their purposes - so I certainly say something with the appearance of kindness can be learned in one form or another.

It can definitely be cultivated - and I would say that this is one of the major qualities in the whole "two wolves" metaphor or, in classical Greek terms, a virtue to be developed.

This is a noted issue with Ticks. When removing them, unless you do it properly, you may end up with the mouthparts left embedded in your skin.. However, even with those, the body will usually deal with it without too many problems.

Mosquito proboscii are much smaller and so I would not anticipate any issues for anyone with a functioning immune system to deal with without ever noticing.