a lil bee 🐝

Sure, but music is also one of those subjective things. Hell, I’ll even be open and say I never really enjoyed Michael Jackson’s music. Even being old enough to know who George Michael is puts our spot in the zeitgeist near the edge, I have to imagine. These big pop stars are also an image of success, celebrity, and youth. That all creates a big stan culture.

Michael Jackson, Elvis, George Michael, Madonna. Solo artists on that level always generate a fair bit of… extreme fandom, you could say.

I really wish it did, but the constitution does not contain that phrase. It does contain “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” (the establishment clause) but “separation of church and state” comes from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson.

They never took it from me! Animal Well and Dread Delusion are phenomenal experiences just from the last couple of months. Indies are always generating good games, even when AAA is just following trends.

Support? Nah, that’s rare to the point of non-existence. I completely agree with your second sentence and I think people who are not willing to make the concession from the first half because of the second, substituting Hamas for ISIS, are doing themselves and Palestinians a massive disservice. Explanations are not excuses, and the behavior of both Israel and Hamas in the modern era cannot be excused.

I’ve never said that people should ignore any attempt at logic and just focus on their passions, but the modern cult of rationality and stoicism is ironically hugely lacking in self-awareness and rationality.

I’ve never said that people should ignore any attempt at passion and just focus on their logic, but the modern mobs of righteous indignation and fury are ironically hugely lacking in empathy, tolerance (not of intolerance, before that gets tossed at me), and pragmatism.

I agree that we mostly seem to be on the same page, but I really need to stress that I have not asked people to be soulless and I think that’s a mischaracterization of my asking for people to set their passion aside as much as possible as an exercise which is inherently temporary. We’re both just looking for balance here.

Yes, of course, but there are degrees of engagement with politics. I still think this route is worth pursuing, but there will be a not insignificant number of his supporters turned from reluctant to passionate over this as they (incorrectly, stupidly) perceive it to be a governmental attack on their preferred candidate. Trump had his best fundraising day of this year the day of the conviction. There’s a lot of political math behind whether you think it will galvanize Biden’s supporters more or if you think it will increase reluctance for Trump with independents, both of which I think are true. I wouldn’t fault someone for coming to either conclusion really and I think you would need harder polling numbers (that I’m sure Biden’s team has) to really make an informed decision.

Genuine question, does anyone have any better suggestions that can be implemented in a reasonable timeframe? Immigration is a bad economic target for so many reasons, but Americans overwhelmingly view it as a critical issue. When 1 in 5 of your citizens, regardless of party, considers it the most pressing issue right now in an election year and it is the thumping drum of your opponent, you’re going to be under a lot of pressure to act. I don’t want this EO to happen but I kind of have to be willing to say I’m in the vast minority in my country, evidently. This is a social/educational problem to solve first, I think.

If only we listened to the bees 😔

Agreed. I thought the bit on “values-based” and “practicals-based” alliances was interesting. Diplomacy is overwhelmingly complex and I’m glad I’m no diplomat, for my own sanity.

Yknow, that’s pretty reasonable. Thanks for a good example!

I’ll take that! Here’s to kicking his ass in November and hopefully fixing this clusterfuck of a society. 🍾

Even voluntary cooperation being okay is pretty wild, conceptually. What possible purpose could that serve but covering up crimes?

No closing quote??

It’s a good interview. I highly recommend that everyone reads it in full for themselves rather than cherry-picked quotes.

We’ve hit the 24 hour mark and I don’t think this thread is going anywhere productive. I think you and I just have some deeply-held beliefs or ethics that are opposed here. For what it’s worth, we completely agree on who Donald Trump is and the horrific actions he’s taken over his lifetime. The lies, the fraud, the assaults, all of it. I do get frustrated that more people don’t see that, but where we split is what we’re willing to see society do to solve it. There’s a lot of complexity there and I don’t deny that there would be benefits to your more hardline approach. I just think it would have irreversible, terrible consequences for our media landscape, and subsequently the entire American constituency, after Trump is gone.

It’s unfortunate that we weren’t able to find common ground, but I respect your convictions, genuinely.

I read the article you posted here (great read btw, thanks for posting) and I think just to quibble, that idea of lift (Bernoulli’s Theorem) is not wrong, just insufficient. It sounds like that mechanism definitely contributes to the overall generated lift, but doesn’t tell the whole story.

I really enjoyed the bit about Einstein designing an aerofoil and when it was tested, the pilot said the plane “waddled like a pregnant duck”. Really interesting to see one of the smartest physicists to ever live just kinda give up on aeronautics and consider it a “youthful folly”.

This was a cool read, thanks for posting! That final bit about experiments on both the color and sound while chewing also affecting flavor is super interesting.

Ugh this sucks, but no, not really. LinkedIn isn’t just a platform, it’s the people on it. No other site exists that will get you the same amount of exposure. There are definitely other sites and non-internet options for networking in general though.

I’m with you, I was leaning toward him embracing it as well. It’ll be interesting to see how the campaign walks that rope, especially with Trump’s campaign throwing darts at him the whole time.