I can’t believe how many people I’m seeing who automatically assume that it’s going to be an auto-lose for the right in the upcoming election. Do they not remember how everyone had this exact sentiment in 2015? We can’t let ourselves fall any further by losing again to someone we thought couldn’t win.
It’s not so much that people will switch sides, it’s that they won’t vote at all. I know so many people who thought voting in 2016 was worthless because Trump was never going to win. Anyone who views voting as a hassle is a lot less likely to do it if they think that the results are guaranteed, so we need to be mindful that we thought that exact same thing in 2016, which caused us to get the worst president ever, and I personally believe we only won 2020 not because people switched sides, but because so many people who never bothered to vote before finally went out and did it to stop Trump.
This is how I fixed mine when it happened to me. I didn’t realize the AC was using the same air filter as my furnace, so it had gotten really dirty and blocked airflow. A cheap new air filter replacement fixed all the issues.
This is how it works for me. The radio plays songs I’m not all that interested in, so it fades into the background and I can listen to it for hours without issue. My own songs are interesting to me, so I actively pay attention to them, but that also means I get brain fatigue from that attention.
Don’t get complacent; while the policy changes are rallying Democrats to vote in order to reverse them, they’re also rallying Republicans to vote to keep the regression train going.
Yeah, that’s my understanding of it, too. If you go back in time to any point in your life, you’ll be exactly the same, with all the same experiences and the exact same thoughts running through your head. Every single atom in the entire universe will be exactly the same as it was at that exact moment, so of course you’ll make the exact same decision.
The universe as a whole is just a huge, insanely complicated chemical reaction. Ultimately, we’re free to make whatever choice we want, but that choice was what we were always going to choose.
It’s like how flipping a coin or rolling a die isn’t really random - if it were possible to gain an insanely in-depth understanding of all of the forces acting on the object, and you had the power to manipulate your throw to give it the exact force needed, you could have it land exactly how you want it to every time. Instead, we call the act random because it’s too complicated for us to manipulate it effectively.
They probably use a simple posts-over-time equation to gauge popularity, so a 5-second-old community with 1 post technically has a rate of 12 posts a minute. Very popular.
They’ll consider it if they know someone else is willing to pay it. I got headhunted a couple years ago by a place willing to pay me 50% more than I made to work remotely doing generally the same thing I was already doing in-office. There were more responsibilities, though, so I wanted to stick with my current job if I could get them to match the offer. I took it to my boss, and he agreed to match the pay, and even talked the CEO into letting me work remotely when they otherwise have a pretty strong push toward in-office work.
Now I get paid more than my own supervisor while working a pretty cushy job in my pajamas.
Same as the last one; there are 2 torsos on top of one another, so since the torso is where mammary glands reside, there’s no reason to doubt that both torsos have mammary glands.
People who watch conspiracy videos tend to watch a lot of conspiracy videos, which the algorithm likes. So if your watch history suggests you might watch a conspiracy video, it’ll suggest them to you so that you’ll hopefully get pulled in and watch a bunch of videos.
They’re trending heavily in their community, but nowhere else. It’s like how a bunch of audiophiles will probably watch a review of some super-expensive set of headphones, but nobody else will be interested at all.
I have a canister vacuum and it’s been great for this, as well as for things like clearing up cobwebs in tall corners and cleaning small spaces like between my fridge and counter. I got a Miele, since the guys at the VacuumCleaners subreddit had it listed as a good balance between price and reliability, but I’m sure there are cheaper options out there if you’re not looking for BIFL-level quality.
Ultimately, we need to tip people in the short term to keep them afloat until we can work with them in the long term to get America to the standard that most of the rest of the world takes, where tipping is a special case scenario only for exceptionally good work, and never to be needed or expected.
Yeah, essentially a centaur is just a creature with 2 torsos on top of one another. Yeah, they also change species halfway through, but just because you connect a human torso to a horse torso doesn’t mean the horse suddenly pees from its torso. The human digestion system probably connects directly to the horse digestion system. Maybe it’s even got extra stomachs to better process plant material. Either way, there’s no reason to think it just pees out of its horse chest - it needs that space to hold the enormous horse lungs that let it gallop.
Whose values? Their own, of course. Children quickly learn what is good and what is bad without being directly taught; if you take away a child’s toy, they’ll cry - they understand that it’s bad to do that. Of course, they’ll still likely steal other children’s toys when they’re young, but that’s because they haven’t yet begun to assess the morality of their own actions; that level of sophisticated thought doesn’t come until later, but it does still come naturally with time, and does not need to be directly taught. Just allowing a child to be a part of their society will teach them what feels good and what doesn’t, as well as show them that their actions cause those same good and bad feelings in others. Teaching someone about values isn’t meant to be telling them what to value, it’s only meant to be fostering the self-assessment that leads to them understanding their own values more thoroughly. It’s completely independent from religion.
You’d be surprised how little these people can think about any given topic. When I was still in contact with my conspiracy theorist mom, she often sent me stuff that specifically went against her beliefs, but she misinterpreted them and thought they agreed with her.
One time I sent her a meme about “dihydrogen monoxide” to try to show her how easy it is to use scientific language to mislead people, but she literally thought it was real and didn’t listen to me when I told her it was satire. That was the day I realized she was never getting out of the conspiracy hole.
The thing is that he’s blind to his own upcoming demise.
He’s not dying of boneitis right now, so he can make a profit and use his money to do something about it when it actually becomes an issue, but in the end, when that happens he’s too late. And to top it all off he curses the boneitis instead of his own mistake of destroying the company making the cure.
It’s similar to how capitalists will likely react when their homes and lives are destroyed by the byproduct of climate change - it will be the weather’s fault, not theirs for choosing profits over fixing the issue.
Matt Gaetz Shouts That ‘Only Through Force Do We Make Any Change’ While Standing Beside Trump in Iowa (www.mediaite.com)
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I hope this is the right community to ask. Are radio stations doing something to songs? Or is it the playlist they use? Or is it me?...
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A now-former Los Angeles police officer convicted of raping a woman while he was off-duty was sentenced today to six years in state prison....
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