Did this episode get pulled? Why?

Bach I am #1 fan, please do concert in Istanbul

What’s the story with plane and the plants in the crowd?

Most dangerous bouncy ball is a golf ball

Edit: golf not gold

Strickland Brickland

Almost all of these comments are talking about the total billed amount, which is correct. On most plans, you’d hit a certain amount, and they’d start covering a larger portion of the bill. But your out of pocket expense would definitely be in the hundreds per day, (thousands if bad insurance), while the insurance company would pretend they did you a huge favor.

.ml still going to find a way to say Ukrainians are the Nazis though, and The Base are the good guys with just a weird shape on their flag.

I imagine most people in general have that reaction

Expansionism and settling is and was wrong. No doubt. To compare it to Hamas’s attacks is simply disingenuous.

Ok buddy. You know how I think and what I notice. That’s an impressive power you got there. Good thing you’re putting it towards such a thorough understanding of the situation.

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That’s shocking. Everyone knows that’s a crowd pleaser that transcends races and identities

Which outkast song?

Perhaps not the whole world, but I’m many/most countries, the larger structures, like government and business, absolutely are anti-intellectual. Nice to have an academic friend group, but that doesn’t change the fact that capitalism makes education less accessible in order to rely on an undereducated workforce, and then politicians push it even further for the sake of easy control.

A quick first note, there are only 10 listed (that I can see). I also think it’s missing a few important reasons:

• Identity politics. Similar to conditioning, but more personal; someone who is deplorable but thinks they’re great sees someone just like them or who’s an archetype that they like, and they get excited to support them

• Literally just to make others angry. So many conservatives start with a mild distaste for democratic characteristics and then get off on the “power” to make people like that upset. They enjoy the rise they can get out of people they dislike, and they don’t care if the way they do it is based on fact or reason. Further, some seem to dive into the maga personality just because it’s ability to polarize is the closest thing to power they have ever known. It gives them the ability to compete and connect with lunatics, and to childishly anger anyone who would otherwise annoy them.

• Deification. Similar to servility, but based on willingness and impressionability rather than fear. Some folks see that problems exist and then just believe demagogues who say they are the only and all-powerful ruler who really knows what’s going on and can solve things. Once they believe that, any claims from opponents that they are wrong just “demonstrates” that others don’t understand and only the demagogue can be trusted.

• Contrarianism and a desired victim narrative. The GOP has successfully pushed the idea that, even at almost 50% of the population and with enormous economic control, they are victims of Democratic control and conspiracy. By being contrarian to all things Democratic, they are fighting the ruling class, who are the source of all evil (other than brown people and foreigners, who are also Democratic tools). So it’s not important to be factual so long as they are contrary to Dems.

Cliche, but love is the only thing that feels good and worthwhile 100% of the time. Excitement, thrills, ambition, sensory pleasure, all of these and everything else feel wasted or actively negative if you’re not in the right context for them. But there’s never a time that a genuine feeling of shared love feels bad, whether you’re in the best or worst or most random situation.

Might sound like a cop out, but I’d argue that any love that does feel bad is actually more desire than love. Just my take, but I know philosophers have much more thought out ones.

Yes, the internet is much bigger than it was in 2003, and it needs more complex protective tools. The fact that you haven’t noticed cloudflare when it is working is a sign that it is, well, working.

And the fact that your favorite sites aren’t down more often is yet another sign. Downtime due to DDOS attacks alone would be so much greater without cloudflare than downtime due to cloudflare currently is. Your perspective is a pure lack of knowledge and an excess of confirmation bias.

I use a chamois cloth, seems to pick up oil/smudges even better that microfiber and need less washing. Also super easy to wash when it does need it. I basically just cut a dollar bill sized section off a natural off-brand sham-wow and it works better than anything else I’ve used