This is the way. Wait, wrong show. Rebellions are built on hope.

Spring or summer, and mostly the idea. I like the flowers and how everything is super vibrant green, but I hate the pollen and where I live it rains all the time in spring. Summer is the same, I like the long, bright, clear days, but also I live in Texas so it’s hot as hell and not at all uncommon to go a week or two highs north of 100F/38C (a couple years ago we had 43 days in a row like that.)

What the fuck do you imagine a military - especially the Israeli military - does, exactly? How do you imagine they’re locating those hostages? I’m going to guess it involves a lot of rather unfriendly things done to Palestinians that they would classify as ‘harm’.

Society should exist for the sole purpose of bettering the lives of all of its members. Anything that goes against that is inappropriate in my book. Right now democracy is going against that pretty hard in the US.

Oh do you guys have cheap power too? Soon you too can enjoy the constant droning hum of some rich fuck mining bitcoin on an industrial scale to get just a little bit richer just like Texans.

Heh, I do to a little bit, but starting in high school I was just actively correcting my twang hard until I just had like a generic American accent. Somehow from that effort I’ve picked up localisms from all over the US (I have moved a lot, but that was years later), like I use ‘soda’ instead of ‘coke’. Nowadays you’d never be able to tell unless I was drunk as shit, which I don’t do more than once every few years at best, cause even without the accent I don’t talk like an Okie anymore.

You missed the most important part of the article, at the end:

What Every Trump Article Needs

Every article about Trump’s immigration policies needs to make it clear that those policies are steeped in racism.

Every article reporting on what Trump said needs to make it clear that he is a serial liar.

Every article quoting Trump needs to quote him at length, rather than cleaning up his incoherence.

Every article about a Trump announcement needs to make it clear that he could very well reverse himself anytime.

Every article about a Trump reversal needs to clearly indicate that the White House is in constant chaos, and that its reversals are deeply destabilizing

Every article about something Trump says in a social media post needs to state that he often uses social media to impetuously propose irrational things that end up not happening.

Every article involving him “testing the limits” of the rule of law needs to clearly indicate that he has no grasp of his constitutional responsibilities and is acting so unlawfully that he’s basically running a criminal enterprise.

Every article about what Trump “believes” needs a caveat that his only consistent beliefs are self-interested.

Every article about Trump enriching himself needs to make it clear that enriching himself is his dominant guiding principle.

Every article about something the administration has done needs to question whether Trump is actually aware of it.

Anything less than that is basically a cover-up.

I’ve only seen three (Spirited Away, Nausicaa, and The Wind Rises), and Spirited Away was long enough ago that I don’t remember much about it. But I loved both Nausicaa and Wind; if I had to pick a favorite it would probably be Wind just because the historical context drew me in even more than I already was.

It’s less that I’m unhappy with the answer and more that I’m confused about why you would give an answer that I’ve already said I won’t use. But if screaming into the void is your jam then you do you.

Huh, that’s unfortunate. I see a lot of recommendations for Fennec and Ironfox a fair amount and use regular firefox on desktop, maybe I should check those out. Is there one you recommend?

Interesting, I didn’t realize it had a name, I thought it was just immersion.

Flooding the zone (which now that I think about it is close enough to gish-galloping for there not to be much of a distinction), whataboutism, and moving the goalposts are all extremely common.

Whataboutism and moving the goalposts are the ones I see most often.

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo’s browser, it’s pretty alright.

Depends on your definition of ‘difficult’. I can pull a motherboard and replace it, I can hand-edit the Windows registry to do some shit most people aren’t even aware is possible, etc. Are those things difficult? No, because I know how to do them. They are complex and technical and require a fair bit of knowledge and understanding to not screw it up though. Everything is difficult until you learn how to do it, then it’s not. Might be better to ask how hard it is to learn? Cause I can’t drive at all so I’m guessing it’s somewhere between multiplication tables and organic chemistry but that’s probably not helpful. :P

I’ve been on the internet for a long time and met lots of people from around the world, and one thing I hear a lot is that many of them learned English by watching American TV. Some of those folks speak better English than I do as a native, so maybe there’s something to it? Though they mostly did it as kids and for years and years, so maybe that’s not practical.

It’s pretty normal. There’s a graph that plots confidence as you gain new skills or knowledge, and it sounds like you’re on the down-slope of Mt Stupid and coming into the Valley of Despair.

I have spent my life learning for fun and if I can be said to have learned anything about the process it’s that the more you learn the better you understand just how vastly complex everything is, how many ways you could be wrong, and how insufficient your earlier simple assumptions were. Like yeah, maybe trans people are just mentally ill because there have been a few cases where that seems to be the case. But does that make it okay to deny all of them the agency and dignity of being able to decide who they want to be? Even if we define gender-affirming care as ‘harm’, we seem fine as a society with people harming themselves with stuff like cigarettes, why are we not fine with people ‘harming themselves’ with gender-affirming care?

At the end of the day the question you have to ask yourself is: would you rather never be made uncomfortable by this realization that things are more nuanced htan you thought, or would you rather have the most accurate information about the world that you can get? Because you can’t have both. Moral/intellectual certainty is a pipe dream, that way lies true evil, because no one cares less about others than someone who is absolutely convinced that they’re right/just.

And you’re so stupid as to not be able to understand that it’s your responsibility to decide what your kids should and should not have access to, not the government’s, especially when the only tools they have to do so just make it harder for the rest of us to get access to those things at best? ‘Won’t some one please think of the children’ has worn pretty goddamned thin: think of your own children, they’re your responsibility, not mine and not Congress’.

I dunno who it was who decided that legislation should parent their kids instead of them having to do it themselves, but if I ever find them I’m going to slap the shit out of them.

Please allow me to be the first to say:

I will just change it if it’s something that can easily be changed, otherwise I’ll leave it be unless I really hate it. That’s a good idea though, I should do that more often.