Feeling quite sick, may not post the next few days (or maybe I’ll make myself post something).
Also, since I feel unwell after a bunch of very humid weather I thought it may be mold. No strong reason but I decided to go ahead and read about mold.
I’m currently listening to the audiobook of Break The Mold by Dr. Jill Crista shared by @anonymous103 here:
I’ve listened to it for a few minutes so far and like it. I’ll post about it more in the mold thread soon.
Optional assignment: go through the recent debates (feminism and politics) and share some of your own opinions/comments/arguments. Focus on writing more than reading: just read a bit then say something. Don’t read it all then try to write after. Read enough to be able to comment, then repeat, don’t read extra without commenting. (You can read extra without commenting if you want to but that isn’t this assignment, not the goal here.)
We could get into topics like making discussion and debate trees if you want.
If you prefer to focus on other topics like math and law that’s fine too. It’s up to you.
For the politics stuff it isn’t too long so I’ll start from the beginning. Do you want me to do the same with feminism stuff?
I think starting in the middle could be confusing. But if you just read one topic and don’t miss posts for that topic it could work. Like abortion or trans or dating are topics. Reading by topic instead of in order might work better.
Ok I started some stuff and I just realized: do you want me to post in the discussion? or do you want me to write some of my opinions/comments/arguments here on the stuff in the threads?
Ok so I commented on ~10 posts on the politics discussion. Right now I have a large draft, with split sections, responding to the posts.
Do I share that here or there? and if there do I split up my posts or just post the whole wall of text? I think splitting up my posts would be better.
I know I (and others?) have been told to @ people I/they talk about. Does that include you? Since we’re discussing your articles and stuff I don’t think so unless there’s a specific way(?) we’re talking about you. I’m unsure so thought to ask.
You could post in the discussion if making on-topic points and here for meta stuff.
Yeah no need to tag me just for talking about my articles or ideas, although you can, it’s fine. Definitely tag if you specifically want me to see something but aren’t replying to me, though I’ll generally see it anyway.
Replying to multiple posts with one post is OK but generally for one post you should reply to one person about one topic. Split into other posts for other people or topics.
If there are multiple topics in one post and you reply to them in one post it’s fine but generally don’t take multiple posts about different topics, or from different authors, and then do a combined reply.
You can also just split posts up if you think they’re too long or to separate each point you make that you think is separate. You should definitely keep stuff together when you’re building on a point between sections (quotes + replies), otherwise splitting is harmless when stuff can be read independently.
I originally just loosely followed the politics discussion so I don’t know if it gets revisited but it looks like I finished reading the nazi salute stuff. After you shared this comment:
It seemed to move onto a broader political discussion.
On the nazi salute stuff:
One thing that comes to mind is I think that @Neo is giving Elon more credit than he may deserve. Maybe he’s not a full blown nazi, but nazi sympathizing/not thinking they were all that bad seems pretty common.
Also in general I’m just skeptical of giving powerful people the benefit of the doubt. Depends on the person I guess, but their usually media trained and stuff. Or, put another way, I think people are more aware of what they’re doing in general.
Also Elons a liar. Like just something simple. He lied about being good at Path of Exile. He lied about something nobody even cared about (in his overall image). He lied about something pointless for his image.
Also I think Elon’s been known to be wishy washy on politics and stuff right? Big on the left years ago, now he’s big on the right. He’s just trying to be popular/get power I think. Doing a nazi thing fits in with that.
I think generally I agree with @anonymous105 about the nazi salute stuff. I’m a bit unsure of the general political commentary shared.
Yes media training and past lies are relevant context. Also it was a prepared speech, scheduled in advance.
I started up my next two classes for the semester and have been busy with them. I’ve been just spending time on getting a feel for the time required for each of the classes and I think I should be good now.
I’m probably going to make a topic on my classes so I can post some more and to, hopefully, get any interesting feedback on the stuff I’m being taught. I’m taking a class on the basics of accounting and a class on Microeconomics.
Been busy the past few days with some family legal troubles.
Long story short my uncle was outside recording a video to send back home. He records a lot of video. A little too much. We’ll take him out to eat and he’ll record people just eating at the restaurant. We tried to explain to him people don’t like it, but he never really listened and no one ever said anything so he just kept doing it. The other day he, while recording my brothers friend new car (and other stuff), recorded our neighbors kids for a short time in the video. Our neighbors didn’t like that and noticed the filming. They got angry. Threatened him. Broke his phone. Cops showed up. (Skipping a lot of details I don’t think matters).
There were two cops. One was kinda helpful and listened to us. The other one was not. He pretty much excused everything the other party did because “I’m a father and I would do the same.” Things de-escalate and some other stuff happens.
Reason I share this is because we come to learn just how bad the cops were in the situation. They:
There was some other smaller things I can’t remember/don’t wanna share, but it pretty much ended with everyone we interacted with telling us to file a complaint about these officers. Wack.
Idk. I don’t interact with the police much (if at all really) and one of my very few interactions with them. they did a bad job. Am I just the odd one out? I don’t think so.