So long as you have a balanced and fair view
PS. Its spelt mould, ignorant colonist
In your head, is the whole country Mr Bean?
That is a big rock, roughly two and a half "yo mumma"s
And I would gladly give it up to be human
You maybe.
Politically it's a no lose situation for Harris.
If he refuses, she gets to talk about that.
If he releases them, they become a news story about his health.
If they're true she gets to focus on the stuff that makes him look bad.
If they're lies we get to talk about that.
Literally no scenario where this guy gets to release his records and they're helpful for him
You think the reason people engage with "content" is the quality and a drop in quality would decrease engagement?
I'm skeptical
Are you jealous of the other bots who can?
"The pinicle of military deployment approaches the formless. For if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it, nor the wise make plans against it." - Sun Tzu
The fact that a "charitable" organisation has $880M to pay out should be ringing a few bells too I think!
Are they in charge of securing government contracts for their clients?
Can I just add that "fucking Buck rogers" is an excellent phrase and all three words can mean sex and when combined they don't.
Knowing Westeros he probably got paid in wheat and barley 🙄
I agree.
I have all these images in my head and zero artistic skills to create them.
Thanks AI, if indeed that is your real name, for helping me with Visual aids for my teaching work!
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge.
This isn't a social media thing exclusively of course, I've met it in the real world too.
When I worked as a repair technician, members of the public would ask me for my diagnosis of faults and then debate them with me.
I've dedicated the second half of my life to understanding people and how they work, in this field it's even worse because everyone has opinions on that topic!
And yet my friend who has a physics PhD doesn't endure people explaining why his theories about battery tech are incorrect because of an article they read or an anecdote from someone's past.
So I'm curious, do some fields experience this more than others?
If you have a field of expertise do you find people love to debate you without taking into account the gulf of awareness, skills and knowledge?
I'm thinking that noticing the many similarities between Labour and the Tories misses the most important thing, the fringes.
To elaborate...
The UK has always favoured centrist governments, when the Conservatives get too nasty they're unpopular, Labour only wins when they do Thatcherism-Light, etc.
We now have a choice between a relatively moderate conservative prime minister, who is admittedly being dragged to the right by his party and others, and a relatively moderate labour leader who has purged the extremism from his party to pursue a centre left agenda.
In both cases, what I see are two people who believe in principles, compromise them for politics sake, who are fundamentally in favour of the status quo rather than revolution and prefer to win through being seen as competent.
Fine, this has been the case most of my life. It's why I've been relaxed about politics. Whatever happens, things will largely stay the same with small incremental changes.
The difference now is about the fringes. Not a day goes by recently without a headline grabbing policy coming out of the government press machine making a virtue out of being a bunch of ****s.
The ridiculous culture war stuff, the politicisation of fear and anger. Pointless, ineffective policies that are intended to win a few votes regardless of the harm they cause. Sickening stuff a lot of the time, born out of selfishness of behalf of those in power to try and keep that power and get as much as they can for themselves. It feels like they be the ones looting the Titanic as it sank.
So whilst Labour are not likely to usher in a revolution, a golden age or fix things overnight. I'll take centrist middle aged dad running the country if it means an end to this nonsense. An end to a government attacking it's own citizens in the name of defending the people.