Your effort is much appreciated! Do you manually choose a book from the github list of books or did you come up with some logic to choose one randomly?

If he was left-wing, this would be prosecuted (and propagandized by the media) as terrorism.

I would appreciate a source for that. I don’t really need it but it at least helps amplify it for the lurkers.

ETA: Here’s one- https://campaignlegal.org/update/these-hidden-provisions-budget-bill-undermine-our-democracy

But the reconciliation bill would require anyone suing the government to pay a bond before the court can use its contempt power to enforce injunctions or restraining orders meant to halt illegal actions.

By restricting this authority, the House bill threatens the power of the judicial branch. On its own, that represents an attack on the rule of law and the separation of powers that underlies our democracy.

Basically it seems like it is adding a paywall paid by the suer before the judge can use their contempt power against the executive branch. Such a blatant power grab for Trump’s executive. Very unfair and bad.

That could be but I feel like good propaganda does use other stories and narratives to boost its persuasive power. IF it was due to risk assessments then they should put that in the article. I feel like if they had solid proof, they would be willing to actually share that proof with the public rather than just hearsay that these stories have been.

If there was evidence of it being China, I would think they would be a lot less subtle about it then running articles about sus components without mentioning the connection Iberian incident. Something more direct like ‘Iberian outage caused by kill switches in Chinese solar equipment’ rather than running separate stories and leaving it to the reader to connect the stories on their own.

That’s what makes it suspicious too me, too much fearmongering and too little substance and facts in the articles.

Ah yes let’s try to stifle Chinese innovation by … checks notes … expanding our surveillance state. Usually we are the ones calling China a surveillance state, but it’s fine(it’s not) once we do it.

Idk, feels like US propaganda to me. All the articles about it are suspiciously light on details and it just so happens to coincide well with US Oil based energy policy and our(US) susceptibility to China fearmongering.

Edited to add: I know this is the Europe comm but I feel like US media narratives definitely trickles over to Europe.

Bold of you to assume they walk anywhere. This is America not communist China with public sidewalks and transit.

/s

Because the media uncritically parrots the companies PR talking points and then it’s suddenly the accepted terminology.

sighs …

This seems like satire, but it also sounds true.

The way I read it you don’'t have to be out for more than 48 hours. It’s really not phrased very clearly though.

If you cannot claim other exemptions because you have not been out of the country for at least 48 hours, you may still bring back $200 worth of items free of duty and tax.

Lots of these streams don’t show the commercials and instead just have blank airspace when the commercials are airing. But I don’t know if that applies to the superbowl streams though since some people like to watch those commercials.

Fair use is a defense you have to make in court. And court is expensive.

Maybe you’re right. I’m certainly not an expert by any means.

The point I was trying to make is that we have a tendency to see ourselves in a biased way. We lie to ourselves all the time about who we are and what we want.

If you can step out of your own head and judge yourself based upon your actions instead of based on how you think of yourself you can hopefully see yourself in a more accurate way.

I don’t believe I prescribed any behavior. I gave the example to encourage thinking about how you value people based on your actions.

Based upon my actions, I tend to avoid people probably from a fear of judgement, and maybe partly because I think I am better than them because I like to think I’m more informed than them usually. I also like to think and tell myself that I like people even when I don’t necessarily live up to that in reality. In general, I try to assume that people are good, while keeping in mind that they are inherently selfish.

Even if people say and have a lot of naive or ignorant viewpoints, I try to remind myself they may partly hold those viewpoints to feel better about themselves. Everyone wants to feel like they are important, and some people do that by tearing other people down. If the only way someone can feel better about themself is by telling themselves at least they aren’t black, gay, trans, a lib, a commie, a repub, poor, etc. then they must have a pretty sad life.

Sir, this is a Lemmy.

Here’s a creative way to do it.

1. Print out the downvote symbol and a screenshot of the ad.
2. Dip the paper in dog shit to emphasize that the ad is a shitpost.
3. Send it to 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043.
4. ???
5. Profit.

Socializing in school is only really allowed in the ~20% of time not made up of lectures / homework. E.g. Recess/Lunch/In-between classes. The other 80% is largely made up of lectures and homework. Ideally those percentages should be flipped. 80% learning via social learning(socialization) / 20% lecture.

Call me crazy, but I think humans learn best socially(conversationally) not by lecture via teacher. Talking and socializing should be integrated in how we learn and teach. The learning should largely be social between the students so that they actually learn material instead of just learning to temporarily remember the information for the next test.

The teacher should drift between the groups of students and clear up any misconceptions or disagreements that occur.

Yeah, you’re probably right to some degree. It may not have been fully intentional on the part of the designer.

However, since the elites of the time controlled the government, the government would tend to favor institutions that elites think will benefit from.

Relationships are discouraged through school, in favor of competition, so we can be more effectively exploited by the elites (and all hierarchical societies). That is by design. Healthy individuals with good relationships are harder to sell to and to exploit. It’s relatively hard to convince someone who is satisfied with their life and image to buy something. It’s a lot easier to convince them to instead seek emotional satisfaction through excessive buying (escapism). Each new item (or service) you get can temporarily fill the emotional void and provide a fleeting sense of excitement or comfort.

I know what facism is. I also know that it is also commonly used as an insult and has therefore lost meaning for a lot of people. Call me ignorant if you want. I was simply making a point.