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Tell ya what. Go listen to the extremely American podcast start to finish, and then tell me how uncoordinated extremest groups, the christo-fascists, and the Republicans are.

The podcast makes the argument much better than I ever could.

Looking for stats, I found this: https://open.substack.com/pub/armedwithreason/p/dog-shoots-person-again

I’m just hoping it was an /s-less sarcasm. I agree with the point through. Our attention span are shorter and the world always appears to be ending, but I think a lot of that is that along with all the lies and manipulation, we’re actually seeing more of ‘how the sausage is made’ than ever before.

As disastrous as smartphones have been, it’s never been easier to collect and instantly share evidence.

This, of course, is not to say that I think we’re not supremely screwed right now, and there’s still a lot happening in the shadows, but I feel there’s definitely an increase of visibility.

Interesting. Thanks, and I definitely take your point, though I don’t know much about Russia or Russians aside from a “history of Russia and China” class in college.

Also TIL prosody 😁.

We’re talking about different things.

You’re talking about social dynamics, and what I’m talking about is more general than that.

There’s a certain range of emotions and certain root emotions that are common to everyone but there’s also a great deal of variation between people that speak different languages.

The language you grow up with shapes how you think at a very low level. How you process information, how you see the world.

For example, I read about a study, presumably about Mandarin, that explained an interesting difference between how Chinese people and English speaking people themselves in the future.

In Mandarin, the language sort of forces you to see your future self as self-same to your current self and this causes Chinese people to be much much better about saving money for the future. On the other hand the English language causes one to think of the future self as a different person and it makes it more difficult to identify that future self as truly you.

I tried to find the article for you but couldn’t. The concept is called self-continuity.

Another place I’ve seen this present is in software design, oddly. I used a tool at a previous job that was largely developed by people that didn’t have English as a first language. It had a very clear logic to it and made sense, but everything was put together in ways that were initially counterintuitive.

This also applies to how foreign speakers emote. Like I said, all the root emotions are pretty much identical, but there’s a lot of nuance and a good number of emotions that are not universally represented and not experienced as often (sometimes not at all) in due to lack of language for it. Saudade is an example of it. Not only does it not translate, but it’s not universally experienced.

Anyway, I was more or less “squirreling”.

Lol “someone”.

A while ago I signed into x using a Gmail account. Mostly I was being hasty and careless. Never really used the account even. Forgot about it.

Recently I went and deleted the account, but when I log in, the first thing I see is a ridiculous antisemitic conspiracy theory.

That’s the default algorithm.

I think I understand it just fine.

I actually didn’t get very far at all into it. It made me too anxious and depressed. What you’re saying is totally valid though. People that speak different languages literally have different sets of emotions and different emotional expressions for emotions of the same name.

Eg., I’ve never experienced saudade (Portuguese, I think), It doesn’t really exist in English speaking countries.

This is good. I have time to PLAN the de-googlification. Nice.

Nice reference.

I wish I had the spoons for that.

Maybe some day…

Looking at you, Mark Cuban

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0lAhnoDlU

…And so the Democrats folded. Again.

I have actually done this.

I used to have sleep problems.

Total recall gives me instant flashbacks to the mutant scene, the cool part and the creepy part.

Yes. Let’s make the planet even hotter… Fucking morons.

Then I’m f’d because it’s really hard to enter tabs in most password text fields.

Yup. Tis a joke.

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Fuck that csv All the way up.