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Unexpectedly teared up several times reading the letter

For politics, history and psychology with a gender lens @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social 100%

Honestly I sometimes feel I shouldn’t be allowed to access free content from people THAT intimidatingly smart and educated and yet here we are

10 out of 10 cloud rating for you!

UK press is among the worst in the world & has made us a more bigoted & hateful country for decades. Living here you can get desensitised to it, but our media is a disgrace & a laughing stock internationally. V seriously, what do we do? Is it possible to unfuck institutions like this after so long?

Normal stuff

Är det inte bisarrt att det här är något som kommenteras på av svenska politiker till att börja med? Finns det mer än kanske fem personer i Sverige som ens visste vem han var?

Did you also like Star Trek: Discovery by any chance Paul?

Same, I looked everywhere and there just isn't an open access version. It's only published a couple weeks ago though so hopefully will be available elsewhere in the future. It's interesting but not £30 interesting!

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I see no other option but to initiate this war of the worlds to save us all

Yeah agree, it would've been counterproductive to use the word dictator, it has negative connotation for most people. But then what happens is the researchers and scicomms conclude that ppl sort of understood Q2 was about dictatorship-ish, and therefore are confused about the contradictory responses

My hypothesis was based on the people I know, & general human stupidity (or, more generously, the fact that most people are busy thinking about other stuff in their lives and never develop deep media literacy, critical thinking when it comes to authority figures, or political consciousness raising)

Also, I should clarify I’m speaking as a European living in Europe. I think the survey referenced here has respondents from a range of countries if I remember correctly. Most likely there are cultural differences I'm not familiar with when it comes to the US

Yeah agree, but the question doesn’t say the word dictator. My point is precisely that I think a lot of people aren’t able to read “dictator” into that question, they think “oh a strong leader who isn’t bogged down by red tape? Hell yeah”

Source: I know a lot of folks ranging from dumb to disengaged, and I used to be probably both myself as well.
Coming to survey questions like this from a place where u are not steeped in political or even just societal understanding will not yield the most insightful results

Yeah I think a huge amount of “normal people” wouldn’t think those two questions as contradictory, at least not without prompting or further context provided. Genuinely I think people read the words “Democracy” and think 👍 , and they read the words “Strong leader” and also think 👍, and that’s it

I fear you are all nostalgia-poisoned (which is also confusing to me bc this show should have no overlapping fans with Alien).

I feel I’m going crazy seeing all these positive A:E takes. The show is bad. Ep 5 the worst yet! I can’t believe how bad the dialogue is, how messed up the pacing is, how they hit you over the head like I’m watching a Disney Channel original, it’s tonally a mess & characters are written by hacks

On this date in 2008 RATM was scheduled to perform at a protest festival against the RNC in Minneapolis. As we approached the stage the cops blocked us, pulled the plug and threatened arrest.

Maybe misanthropic but I honestly think this (survey result) as well as THIS (gestures vaguely at society) is more bc most people just don’t understand these terms & don’t have the context or knowledge to be able to discern what their responses truly mean. Rather than any legible opinions as such.

The examples in that link are pretty cool actually. The pastel paper is spot on ! Thanks for educating me x

Or like in belles hair there’s textured sections next to very digital looking ones. To me it ends up looking like a mistake was made more than a choice, but it could just be that the art style isn’t for me

Ah ok makes sense, so those would be entirely digital most likely, but they’ve used brushes that mimic traditional? I guess I just don’t understand the choice to do that on part of the artwork, but not on others. Like the instagram filter smooth face looks jarring to me next to faux brushstrokes

There are so many different textures going on

I don’t know anything about digital art, can someone explain the mixed medium look? Is this common method in this style of art? I don’t mean the ai retouching, I mean like how some of the backgrounds and e.g belles dress and body look like paint on board and the faces look like digital airbrush

Also interesting that the baseline pre NOTA adjustments aren’t 100% accuracy, or even close? My interpretation of that study is that the accuracy to the question set was around 80% initially which also doesn’t seem like it’d be good enough to push usage in medical diagnoses

I could barely stand seeing even those brief clips in the video. A full kill Tony set would’ve killed me dead from the sad, sad cringe

Jar-Jar if he had bigger loser energy and exuded severe anxious attachment style.

It's a joke, he's referencing back to how boomers were posting that on fb a few years ago because of chain mail posts going around, but obviously it does nothing.

And maybe also bc I'm not interested in developing your pointless AI product that no one asked for and that you can't articulate what problem it's solving, and also it's not really "AI" at all you're being scammed.
Either way, I've never had such a hard time in the job market before. Sucks.

As a pm I've always gone with a v loose and fluid interpretation of agile. Can't remember the last team where I used daily stand ups e.g. My approach has worked w my dev teams but now I can't get a job after mass layoffs and it feels like it's bc I refuse to lie about what works.