Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day.
I think your approach of blocking any user who posts about politics is eliminating the most prolific posters when 95% of their stuff is non-political. This is not to say your approach is bad, just that it doesn’t actually represent “Lemmy without politics”.
I think transforming “it’s possible to think without language” into “language is not a tool for thought” is an overreach. Definitely a lot of our internal voice is post-thought, but crystalizing those thoughts into words can provide footholds for further thought. Some would argue it’s not possible to think through a complex issue without writing:
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization
-Jo Walton, Among Others
That is why in California, bees are fish
Oh man, don’t stop
You got it! Here’s some other consumer protections the administration has introduced recently:
Hungry for more? Check this out:
White House Statement on Junk Fees
That’s from October, so some of it overlaps, but among other stuff there’s still a “Click to Cancel” rule working its way through the FTC.
Sadly Biden has been spending a bunch of time on lame crap like climate change, human rights, health care, infrastructure, election integrity, etc., so it might take a bit longer for him to single-handedly usher in consumer utopia.
This seems entirely opposite to my observation. I’d say Biden and his administration are unusually focused on unfair or annoying business practices. In just the past two weeks the Biden administration:
Funny running across this article after reading https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Spoiler: the author does not have a high opinion of Raghavan.
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Possibly from here: https://lemmy.world/post/14481959
Oh, apparently Schur directed the sweet Eschaton music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I
Pretty sure Paul is using “fragrant offering” metaphorically there. He uses the same phrases to describe Christ in Ephesians 5, and both call back to burnt offerings giving a “pleasing aroma” in the OT. The shift from plural “gifts” to singular “sacrifice” further supports this interpretation.
In John her name is given as Mary.
It’s worth pointing out the context is days before Jesus’ death. It’s also part of hitting the clueless disciples over the head with the message He’s dying soon.
With respect to the poor, I like the phrasing in Mark: “You always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them” (bold mine). Jesus did not criticize them for failing to annoint Him, but for harassing the woman, for nitpicking her good deed.
It’s a profoundly fitting verse in relationship to this discussion. A group of people try to tell as many people as possible that Jesus loves – and Christians are called to serve – all people: folks of every age and race and creed including those the right is stoking hate for: muslims, LGBTQ+, those who’ve had abortions, everyone. Instead of supporting this push-back against hate, cynics have decided that this money was the missing piece of the several billion dollars needed annually to address world hunger.
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I’m not sure how you come to that conclusion, even with the internet meme version of the Dunning-Kruger effect. In the meme version, the incompetent think they are most competent, but I don’t think it follows that the most competent would think they are least competent.
I would summarize the actual Dunning-Kruger effect as: people tend to think they are a bit above average, and actual skill factors in only slightly. Worth emphasizing that these results are over groups of people, and individuals have extreme variation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect