In a world where every person is free to share their opinion directly to a mass audience, *we need trusted experts in various fields more than ever.
No, they’re not necessarily going to be concentrated only in traditional media, but if I’m looking something up real quick, I’m more likely to trust some random author on a real news site than some random author on social media. Maybe I’d still get wrong information sometimes, but the odds are better.
And as soon as the young spelling pro gets “eye”, throw “ewe” at them.
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Most “Q” words are weird to start with, then just adding a bunch of silent vowels at the end doesn’t make it any less so.
He’s more of a turtle golem.
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The pessimistic view: basically everything you do online can be tracked, sold, and bought by anyone with a few bucks. Poor online security means you have no privacy regardless of browser, while good (or at least “better”) online security is possible with almost any browser.
If your friend is advocating switching browsers, but with no other behavioral changes, that’s just a false sense of security, which may be worse.
To more directly address the question, unless you are a Chinese dissident, “China” having your browsing data isn’t any better or worse that Google or Microsoft or Meta having that same data. Spoiler: for the average user, they already do.
Red/Silver
I can’t draw a horse if I’m looking right at one.
Delayed while the parties tried to make sense of the SCOTUS wrench.
Now set for Sept 18, with one more hearing on Sept 6 for final arguments first:
Small correction since I misread that a bit: The parties are submitting written arguments on whether the conviction should be upheld. The Sept 6 date is when Justice Merchan will rule on those arguments.
Nope.
First blood draw was just shy of 43yo, and that was for a new life insurance policy, so it was a contract nurse in my own living room.
I have become more familiar with the hospital recently, however.
I didn’t even see it. My brother, unhelpfully, said it had been there a while. We were pretty young, so I never questioned it. Maybe I should have.
“Whereas” sort of makes sense there instead of just “Where,” but even that sounds like someone trying to be formal and missing the mark.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/652015/where-vs-whereas-how-use-each
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdultsAreUseless
I don’t know if this is quite the correct trope, but it’s close, at least. It’s common in any kid/teen story that the adults are complete screw-ups, and it’s up to the brave child heroes to do anything about it. I always think of it as the Goonies plot (my first obvious exposure to the trope) but I’m sure it goes back way further than that.
(Paraphrasing an old comment from the Bad Site)
“Make America Great” would be a fine, if bland slogan. Everybody wants that. It’s not controversial, but also not distinctive in any way.
“Make America Greater than Ever” would be better. The implication being that we can do better, and be better. But they intentionally went with something else.
It seems to me, and as you have identified, that the “Again” is the key part of the phrase that drives the whole narrative. Here’s the kicker: by nearly every objective measure, the country is safer, richer, more equal, and has a better overall quality of life today than at any point in history[1]. The only thing that has significantly declined over the last 40-50 years is “the percentage of total societal influence held by straight white men.”
“Again” is the dog-whistle of misogyny, racism, and homophobia, wrapped up in the plausible deniability of nostalgia for an objectively worse time.
[1] There may be some room for disagreements here, primarily because of the first Trump administration and the pandemic years causing some backsliding, but this was especially true in 2016 when the slogan first really appeared, which is when it should be judged.
IIRC, there was a bug in the race car (F1? Indy?) where if you max out the speed, it would get stuck at that speed no matter what. Then you could take it off any ramp and jump most of the way across the map. Just messing around with the map editor and that car wasted so many weekends for me.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Even if he were a natural born citizen, he’d have to live in the US for 14 years first to be eligible.
That’s Washington State in a nutshell.
There are things I disagree with Harris about, but this cycle, I’m a single issue voter.
That issue is “never having to experience Trump in any office ever again.”
Hopefully my politics can be a little more nuanced next time.