That’s karma, handing us the same lessons until we graduate to new ones.

Southeasterner here. That’s changed.

And whales.

US $2.54

I’m doing this now. For Mr/Ms fix it myself, I don’t find much elsewhere. I hope that changes.

Tbh I figured they have bots crawling social media to find out what people are using to avoid their annoying, intrusive, abusive practices and use that to get ever more obnoxious.

A month so far. I mean, I’m pretty sure I probably said stuff that was ignorant of actual facts that showed up on other instances and could’ve been dv’d by, it argued over with them, it’s hard to say since my original instance went down and I generally try not to hold grudges, but as long as I’ve been consciously aware, I don’t recall any unpleasantness. But then I’m not going on their instances acting like I know everything just because I read it from a Western or US-centric source. All governments BS their citizens and we never really know to what extents, since *Assange, Snowden, Manning and a bunch of other whistle-blowers were heavily persecuted and prosecuted.

I have been corrected, with credible sources from Western-centric media and had my thinking challenged, but it wasn’t disrespectfully, as far as I was aware. They’re alright, I’ve had non -confrontational posts rm’d and been flamed for no good reason by mods and regulars on the biggest instance. Every other instance seems pretty decent, but that’s my own experience.

I haven’t.

Most people in the security industries that I’ve ever known are keenly interested in privacy, for good reason. There is a reason certain protesting elements *cover their faces and it’s not usually for nefarious reasons.

*Autocorrect ftl

That is because it’s beneficial to their bottom line.

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/academic-skills-kit/study-skills/critical-thinking/using-evidence-to-support-your-argument/

🫡 Really

Common knowledge You don’t have to back up absolutely everything you say with evidence (or you’d soon run out of wordcount to advance your own point properly!). Some things are common knowledge. That could mean that a fact is just generally known by everyone, and not disputed or in doubt. This could include:

•facts such as London is the capital of the United Kingdom •well documented dates such as the start of the First World War in 1914 •H20 being the chemical formula for water •things which everyone knows from their lived experience, such as the sky is blue.

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Unless it’s common knowledge or easily sourced.

Let it go. Move on to those more receptive.

I remember when one conservative parent was absolutely furious with GW Bush over invading Iraq. Then they were all in MAGA for nine years. They’ve finally disavowed that one, but I don’t know how much time they have to come further left, or how the trajectory may shift. We actually had a pleasant few days together, with each of us clenching our teeth and walking away a few times, but that’s any relationship. Some things we (everyone) feel strongly about really aren’t worth that argument. In fact, a lot of them.

“If it doesn’t apply, let it fly.” “Hit dogs holler.”

Where will poor people go and how would they afford to go and how would they get there?

Mathew and Hugo were pretty horrific.

That was a great movie. I also really liked “Get Out.”

Start with the original and tng. The beginning.