Daily Pedantry

“Epistemology before ideology”: If I’m wrong, explain to me how. Have evidence.

Don’t blow me off just because you think I’m wrong. You might be surprised.

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@christapeterso me: Look, I grew up with a father who had malignant personality disorder, and he was so intimidated by my intelligence that I became his psychological punching bag. If I've opened my mouth, know that the wolf inside me he force me to feed is pretty damn sure, now go check again.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

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@Floki2288542 @ArthurDent__TM @XFreeze Et il a dit « citoyen de l'UE ».

D'après l'article 9 du traité sur l'Union européenne et l'article 20 du traité sur le fonctionnement de l'Union européenne: « Est citoyen de l'Union toute personne ayant la nationalité d'un État membre. » https://t.co/mlwAkqHili

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@guy_fromthemoon @RepPatHarrigan It’s a _radio_ knob. That apparently also failed and needed replacement 4 times a month.

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@ChShersh Both systems are… well, at least better than subscriptions that go unused. We sent a product after all, so it’s not like our business model relied upon people holding unused subscriptions…

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@ChShersh Since they were generally getting paid from the US regardless, the accounts were never canceled. Either you got sick of collections, and canceled yourself, otherwise you just kept getting boxes, and they kept sent demand letters.

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@ChuppaVGC Apparently, appearing like you’re one of them on a teams call is 100% an actual feature.

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

The "europoor" discourse migrating from terminally online Twitter to the WSJ op-ed is actually a big tell. When a narrative stops being a meme and becomes establishment messaging, it means the establishment needs it. You simply don't reach for "but Europe is poor!" unless your domestic numbers have become very hard to spin for the citizenry.

Millennials and Gen Z have no memory of American prosperity - you can't revive the American dream, because they never lived it. And if they ever compare their median household situation to, say, Denmark or Belgium, the math is simply not mathing.

Just go with the truth (for once!) and admit the U.S. has been run as an economic extraction zone for a narrow class of people, and the bill is now coming due. Pointing at Europeans won't make average Americans grocery bill or insurance premiums go lower.

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@gf_256 This feature was thought up by some corporate compliance officer, who already wrote the little annoying popup: “you have brew packages out of date, run brew update && brew upgrade to fix this!”

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@tzhechev @WSJ @WSJopinion Microsoft’s operating budget is about 153 billion USD/year. It’s not even the billionaires driving up “economic output”, it’s corporate revenue and outlays.

That’s why you’re right, median wealth is the way better value to look at for “are the citizens poor?”

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@4thTroglodyte @WSJ @WSJopinion WTF? Is it really August already?😅

[Stephane Sorlat @SorStephane]

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@WSJ @WSJopinion Economic output is a measure of how much money corporations are making, not on how much the workers are earning (or more importantly: saving, which is obviously something that can only be done with discretionary allocation).

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

Linus Torvalds explains "taste" in code by showing how to remove an entry from a singly linked list in C without adding extra complexity.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

A lesson on social democracy that is not from a lying billionaire.

[DreamLeaf 🌱🌻 🍉 @DreamLeaf5]

B-but why can’t they just accept themselves the way they are?? 🥴

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Trump's approval rating is down 1500%

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@Quasilocal Where'd my coffee toroid go, and why is there a sphere on my desk?

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@glueckspiel @videolan

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.