That's the game, she's just doing her best to play it. Listen to her more casual interviews if you want a normal person, she gets seconds of the average person's attention at a time
Agreed. It's like they start looking for confirmation, so they start expecting and noticing every little mistake. Or they don't see it, and give you unsolicited speeches about how they struggle to focus to and you just need discipline... In fact, you should stop taking your meds
I just tell people without telling people. "I can't sit still for too long, I have to walk", "the music/videos and stim toys help me focus", "my thought process is weird, I know that sounds unrelated but it makes sense to me", "I know you're writing up a list, I need to take notes to process what you're saying and if I don't doodle I can't pay attention to this boring ass meeting"
If you take on the label, they don't see you as managing your symptoms, they look for the cracks. If you explain your compensation strategies and areas of difficulty, they usually are pretty supportive and will even respect the level of thought you put into it
On a personal level, I have trouble maintaining any respect for people who voted for him... But that's one thing
We still have to understand. We have to understand the why and the how, otherwise we're basically giving up - these people believe someone who's every accusation is an admission, so obviously that I can't even appreciate the absurdity anymore
It helps me to remind myself that propaganda works, that if you hear something enough you internalize it - we all do to differing extents, and most people are unable to examine their own beliefs. It helps me to imagine how they'll feel when they finally look at things clearly. It helps me to think this isn't all for nothing, that the sheer amount of suck coming our way will galvanize us all to fight for meaningful change
You don't have to forgive, but you've got to understand why, and use that
It's because Trump is so out of pocket on any given day that he has interpreters.
When he says "maybe if we put the sunlight inside the body it could kill the virus, we should look into that" they explained it as "well actually there was an idea of using uv light to clean the blood, so it's not as crazy as it sounds even though there's no substance to it medically". And there's not just one interpreter, there's different messages for different audiences
So when he said "were going to put tarrifs on our largest trading partners" the message to people who understood tarrifs was "this is an intimation tactic to get better trade deals, he's not going to actually do it"
I think we use it, just not consciously. It's not like knowing where north is helps much, but aligning your mental map of an area means a lot
Have you ever come out of a forest or something not where you expected, then had a moment of disorientation before everything snaps into place and you realize exactly where you are?
See, but you're making it complicated again. You want to stop black rock, but how? If I rent out a couple houses, are you going to come after me? What if this crashes my home prices?
You need to be able to turn around and say "people are homeless. If you have a an empty house, rent it or sell it, otherwise get fucked"
You can't get into commodificstion of housing or go after investment companies, that muddies the waters. People believe all these myths about how markets work, if you leave an opening they're going to start getting people worried about themselves losing something, or they're going to see it as an empty promise
But you keep it simple - empty houses = get fucked
You get healthcare, you get healthcare, everyone gets free healthcare.
The rent is too damn high, we're going to put crippling taxes for owning empty housing
We're going to tax corporations and close loopholes, and get rid of all income taxes for all
Clear messaging with easy, simple solutions. Ram them through.
They'll cause side effects, but who cares? The cost of rent will plummet, Americans will have more money in their pockets, and they'll get on board with more nuanced things. People will worry about their retirements or "the economy" at first, but they'll get on board when these simple promises are fulfilled and they feel it
Then we work on unions, tax breaks and sweetheart loans for worker owned businesses, breaking up corporations, an actual green new deal, fixing elections, etc. All the nitty gritty most voters don't want to take the time to understand
And we'll just keep hitting it. They say "Our economy is ruined, these people are destroying this country". We don't bring up facts and figures, just keep slamming soundbytes "is your rent cheaper? Is your paycheck bigger? These people want to tax you so they can pay off the 1%"
Remember when Trump signed and executive order demanding all his pardons be processed immediately? He really leaned on them, and some of the people released came back to protest for the rest to be released faster
Trump just decided he didn't have time to look at them individually, so he let them all out... Then doubled down and pressured them to do without the normal process
His whole project 2025 playbook is based around fear and confusion to gain dictatorial power, at least he's still planning to crater the global economy this week...
Basically it's this system to do all kind of directional acyclic tasks, primarily based around data ingestion. It's very flexible and powerful, which also means there's a steep learning curve.
To give an example, you could have a task that gatherers a list of instances and updates the database. It could also spawn a new task for each one to check if the server is up and get the version number, and you could even have it email you to create an account for new instances.
Then from the task that made sure the server is up, you could spawn a new task that gets communities, which then spawns new tasks to ingest posts from it
And when this whole process is done, you could have it kick off a new set of tasks to do the indexing or whatever else on the up to date data set
It has some nice visualization of the process, you can allocate workers across devices, you can kick off the process through an API... You can use it to do anything from monitoring to scraping and doing map reduce on it. You could even federate and wire into activity pub directly, use their apis, or mix and match with scraping
I've never worked with crawlers and I'm not sure what angle you're going to attack this from, but if normal crawlers don't play well with the fediverse this is an option
I will say, cruise control makes driving much less tiring. I can put on something to listen to, change up how I sit, and just zone out with my thumb over the cancel button so I'll immediately slow and have time to slam on the brakes. If my cruise control would also match speed with whoever is in front of me and keep me in the lane, it would be even less tiring
That being said, the only way I'm using Tesla self driving is if I'm hyper alert and ready for my car to decide it wants to do some offroading
I'm starting to look at airflow for my own project, not sure if you've heard of it or projects like it, but it seems like a great foundation for a scraper. I'm still evaluating options for that, but so far it's my pick
Hit me up if you get stuck or make a breakthrough, I've got a pretty good handle on activity pub and the lemmy API, and your project would add a lot to mine
That's the game, she's just doing her best to play it. Listen to her more casual interviews if you want a normal person, she gets seconds of the average person's attention at a time