Windex007 @ Windex007 @lemmy.world

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I'm torn if there should be a "voting day" stat at some point during early voting, or to directly make election day a stat.

I voted Monday. Love advanced voting. Didn't have to even wait in any line for even a single second. The dude there said it never was "busy", but always "steady".

It was common a few generations back to have your teeth pulled and be fitted for dentures in your 30s.

The end of your natural life is always going to be gnarly.

There is a distinct concept between a "life span" and a "health span".

Nobody denies that there is a point in time that your health fails to the point where additional life comes with diminished returns. This is where right to die legislation becomes very important.

But, speaking in broad general statistical generalities, both lifespan and health span have been increasing. The gap has always existed. In short: people have always lived too long, as you put it.

In false prophets, were they in federation space? In civilization did the federation exist?

If they're saying their sexual relationship is strictly contingent on having their housing paid for by that person... They're 0 steps away.

No judgement. Sex work is work. But that's what the transaction here is.

On the flip side, anything worth doing is worth doing imperfectly.

100% of the population boycotting at 50% efficacy is much better than 1% of the population doing it PERFECTLY.

Never ever ever alienate or talk down to (or about) people who are acting in a way that is directionally correct, even if it doesn't meet your personal standard.

I'm actually in awe of how textbook FUD this is.

Usually people are able to cloak it to make it more difficult to recognize it for what it is. No attempt made here.

Just being like "HMM I DON'T THINK SO"

Stable Fusion before AGI.

First of all: no judgement.

But familial relationships, of which marriage is, are what makes it nepotism.

So, I guess the missing piece is the relationship w/ the school your husband has. If he directly has any connection to the school... Or he's related to anyone with a direct relationship to the school...

Which, again, doesn't mean you're wrong for the job. Congratulations regardless.

Steven

Good Lord, what is happening in there?

Uh... Carrots?

Carrots? At this time of night?

In this fog?

At this distance?

Localized entirely around the island of England?

...yes

May I try some?

..no

When you punish a person for dreaming their dreams don't expect them to thank or forgive you.

OOOOHHHH sshhhiiiitttt

=)

Published April 1st

Published April 1st, so...

Shits on fire, yo

I don't know if there is a massive material difference from having children being paid trash vs illegal immigrants getting paid trash. Especially given that they won't/can't work as hard as adults. Both depress general wages for the same reason.

IMO a simple "fascism demands a scapegoat" and immigrants have ALWAYS been a politically expedient choice sufficiently explains the phenomenon.

One of the benefits of having young children is that if I play my cards right "my" boycott could exceed my own lifetime.

It was a confluence of things.

And to set the stage, political leanings are complex. There is a tendency (insistence, I'd even say now) to collapse a 10 dimensional notion to 1D. At the time (myself, and what conservative parties were offering) aligned on a retrospectively narrow majority of dimensions.

I'd really drank the capitalism kool aid. You work hard, you get rewarded. The role of the government is to facilitate the opportunities by putting business is a favourable position to incentivize the creation of opportunities to create jobs. Poor people don't want to work; if the jobs are readily available it's on them for not participating.

I'd also really drank the baseless vibe Kool aid. "Conservatives are good at economy" "Conservatives are for personal freedom". These associations were unchallenged through my youth. You spend 20 years internalizing those "truths", it's nonsensical to expect to convince someone otherwise in minutes.

I grew up in a rural area. It was just accepted as truth. There were no homeless people in my sightlines. I understood their experience as much as I understood the experience of a kangaroo.

I moved to the city, and my friend group was a mixed bag politically. Nobody too far in any direction, and politics wasn't a major topic of conversation.

I did have a gaming buddy, though, full on communist. Super smart dude. Loves Talking about politics. Usually voice chat. A few times a year he'd be in town and we could meet for lunch or something.

I think eventually I would have shifted my perspective organically as a function of just having a broadened perspective, but he was certainly the catalyst.

Things I took as true, he'd say "no" and have data to show it. We're men of an era, so I wouldn't say he was "nice" about it, but it was never personal attacks.

We would (and still do) argue. At length. It wasn't an overnight thing. It was a years thing.

When I mentioned earlier about the many constituent pieces of a political leaning, those really just got dismantled one by one. Or, shifted. I still think personal freedom is important. I just now reject the idea that conservatives offer policy to support that value.

Nobody has asked, but I think the key for me was to not make it about identity. Show how your values don't map to the political party you think you support. When I'd challenge, he would respond directly. If we were talking about... I dunno... Taxes, and he felt like I was making points that he didn't have the greatest answers for, he wouldn't just change the subject (but her emails!) kinda thing. He loves being right but he had the integrity to not switch gears just to "win". That built a lot of trust.

It was probably a few years before I actually ever read any backing sources he ever provided. But eventually, I was just too curious. If he hadn't built that trust I don't think I ever would have.

I don't think anyone can flip someone with an identity-based political association in a single conversation online. If the relationship is transient, there is no trust.

You gotta charge up the person's curiosity level. I think many people can contribute to that, though.

People who trip over themselves to make broad statements about how stupid and terrible you are for how you voted reduce the curiosity. People who respectfully engage with curiosity, avoiding identity attacks raise it.

And, it's not just me who believes this. Putin does, as well: it's the playbook for destabilizing western democracy. His troll farms are designed to get people to just snap at eachother and write eachother off as terrible people and lost causes.

Imagine having someone tell you that despite a right leaning tendency, they still vote for Democrats.

And then you swoop in and tell them they're a giant piece of shit.

You know that your behavior is literally what Russian troll farms are intended to cultivate as per the Muler report, right?

Don't know if I've ever done it, but it was done to me.

So, it's obviously possible.

I'm pretty amused by the mix of comments where people are offering up themselves as irrefutable evidence, while others proclaim with certainty it can't be done. Actually a humbling perspective see people who've convinced themselves trying to convince others I don't exist.