Landrin201 @ Landrin201 @lemmy.ml

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Based on some of the people who got money I should have applied for A PPP loan and flat out lied on the application, used that to pay my student loans off, then had that forgiven.

It seems like it was DESIGNED to allow fraud like that to happen

I think they're just brainwashed by our capitalist system which says that if a person is wealthy it's because they worked for it and we're successful. We are indoctrinated from very young ages to believe that capitalism is a strict meritocracy where only the best, most intelligent, most deserving people become wealthy.

In reality most wealthy people inherited some or most of their wealth, and used that inherited wealth to create more wealth- because it turns out that once you are wealthy it's really easy to get more wealthy. They aren't wealthy because they are skillful or intelligent or good at business. Most of them are good at precisely one thing: giving some of their money to a professional who knows how to grow it so that they will never run out.

Then they throw money at whatever catches their eye, and when you have billions to throw around you can cast a very wide net that will almost certainly catch something.

What does that have to do with the conversation being had here?

Also, not that any of this is relevant to the actual topic at hand, but that's different from the United States... How?

Just this year Idaho approved the firing squad as a means of execution. It joined 4 other states.

We now use the lethal injection, but research is showing that it isn't painless, it just looks like it is. We used the electric chair for decades, and hanging before that.

It's not my fault that you failed civics in elementary school but you need to go pick up a civics book and read it, because it's very clear that you haven't got a clue how our government works.

How can you look at the GOP in congress voting lockstep with the party line and claim that you just vote for the individual?

Or are you just being deliberately obtuse in order to muddy the water for observers so people will be more receptive to your regressive arguments?

And jews, don't forget us. Their rhetoric is identical to the early nazi party right now, that "LGBTism" is being "forced" on America by a nebulous "them." And funded by George Soros.

Just wait, when they finish with their anti trans panic and start arresting trans people for existing in public the gloves will come off and the nebulous "them" will become "the jews."

We desperately need to properly teach how the Nazis came to power. They didn't start out at "kill the jews" they started at "we need to protect children from this dangerous Jewish ideology of homozexuality being taught in schools" and "cultural bolsheviks want to brai wash their kids into their globalist agenda" and "women are too promiscuous and it's destroying children in out country."

Your other words all make it very clear that you only care about yourself so I'm not taking your word that you "care about a lot of people."

If you actually did you wouldn't be arguing and voting for taking away people's rights.

Literally in my post I said "to do this safely you need to work with your doctor"

This was less directed and you, and more at the large number of people who will read a post like yours and go "I can totally do that!" and just cold turkey start eating only 1500 calories a day, without any consultation with doctors or nutritionists.

Thats extremely common. Literally googling "1500 calorie diet" comes up with pages of unsafe recommendation, most of which do not begin with "consult with your doctor and don't take advice from strangers on the internet about your diet."

I've always like the idea that the Olympic events should have one "normal" person do them, at least for ones where that is plausible and makes sense (like racing events, maybe not stuff like the giant slalom or the ski jump)

Like, if you had a 9th swim lane and put a guy who swims 3 days a week in there for fitness, I guarantee he'd get completely smashed in a way that would really illustrate how much faster the Olympians are.

Usually I try to listen to a few different versions until I land on one that really clicks with me. It takes a little bit to really understand what that means. To me the orchestra is less important than the director. The music is always the same, but the director decides which parts will pop out the most, how fast the tempo is, and how he wants the orchestra to play parts.

I'll use the beethoven example again.

Here is the version that I don't like. That was the "familiar" version I knew, and I didn't like it so I never listened to this piece.

When I got into my current classical kick, I went to Spotify and stumbled on this version: https://open.spotify.com/track/4mw5oRBKNBfNV0dXAOIcne

I literally picked it because I thought the album cover was interesting because it had some color. A lot of classical albums are committed to black and white for some reason.

Googling a piece can help, especially if you search for like "beethoven 5th best recordings." You'll find a lot of opinions out there, and it can help you get a starting point for a given piece to go from.

If you find yourself wanting to go to a more "comfortable" version, it means something in the recording you're listening to isn't clicking with you. That's OK! Try to identify what it is that makes you not like that recording, and what the one you prefer does differently that makes you prefer it. It helps to write it down; if you make posts here or on Mastodon that may help a lot with articulating what you do or don't like (and boost engagement).

Seemingly "simple" things like "i think this section is too fast" or "the version I like has the horn section louder here, but this version focussed on the windpipes" really influence how you hear the music and make a big difference, and are completely valid reasons to prefer one recording over another.

Or we could just life the embargo and allow them to trade with the countries we have strong armed into not trading with them.

We have deliberately crippled the Cuban economy and are surprised they're asking us to stop.

Yeah NGL I loved that game. I obtained it... Maybe not legally so that I wouldn't give JKR money. But oh man did the kid in me who grew up with those books absolutely love it.

Though... The slytherin dudes plot goes kinda Hog wild.

Look. I really hate to be harsh here, but this is terrible advice.

Yes you'll lose weight because eating only 1500 calories a day is definitional malnutrition. Any "diet" which claims that is healthy is very literally encouraging people to develop eating disorders. You absurdly absolutely can't do it by "eating anything you want."

Unless you are doing this under strict super vision from a dietician and your doctor, for a specific medical reason, it is extremely dangerous and more likely to cause other problems with your overall health in the long run. You will almost certainly not get the nutrie ta your body needs to function correctly if you are not carefully monitoring what you are eating with professional help. You're also significantly more likely to end up with an eating disorder. These diets are extremely harmful, I hate seeing them literally everywhere.

You may have seen results in losing weight in such a "diet" because you were very literally starving your body of the calories it needs to function. That just isn't a healthy way to lose weight.

If your doctor is telling you that you are in good health and the only reason you want to lose weight is cosmetic, don't do it. Unless it is directly impacting your health and your doctor is recommending it and supervising it, forcing yourself to eat significantly less than what you need to function is not safe.

A lot of Muslim men wear what appear to me to be long white skirts, especially in the middle east and north Africa where wearing a flowing, loose garment that reflects lots of light is a practical measure for staying cool. I think it's called a Kandora?

My point is that such garments DO exist, they just aren't common in the west because of western views of male gender norms and Islam.

Or they are neolibs who are seemingly incapable of thinking critically about anything

Mahlers 5th is good, but I think his 4th is better.

But my personal favorite is Beethoven's 5th. I used to HATE that symphony when I was a kid, my grandmother loved it and it bored me to tears.

Turns out the version she had on CD that she always listened to was the worst recording you can find of it. It was WAY too slow, it made the whole thing drag on. That symphony works best when it's damn near rushing. When I got back into classical a few months back I found the Berliner Philharmoniker playing it directed by Simon Rattle, and the sprint through that symphony, and it works SO MUCH BETTER. It was very clearly intended to be played fast, so many of the parts feel way more interesting and there's sections where each part of the orchestra feels like it's tripping over the others to be heard.

He's incredibly good at turning experiences into words. Allentown is still relevant today, the way he wrote it it just describes so many peoples American experience.

But he did that a lot. Where I think he's best with it is more emotional songs, he really captures whatever emotion he's getting into words well. Like, Captain Jack does a good job of telling the story of someone in small town America, but I always heard it as a song about depression. All this stuff is happening around you and you're just kinda there for it, not really feeling much of anything.

Or how he captures that nervous feeling about meeting a girl for the first time in Get it Right the First Time. He is so good at getting emotion into music.

Lots of classic rock. Billy Joel, led zeppelin, etc.

But lately I've been on a classical music kick.

Yep bitwarden is the best

Yep, that's basically the only LED that I miss. I used to REALLY like that LED light that would flash to tell me what notifications I had. Different colors for different notifications.

At night I'd just flop the phone over so it doesn't light the room up.

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