frostedtrailblazer

I never realized how much deci- played into the word decimate until this thread.

To me, the old definition makes sense if it’s before a battle or game, since a 10% difference is fairly sizable. After the event, if I heard a team was decimated though, I would immediately be thinking it’s a large difference.

Ecosia is my go-to and it’s been solid for me.

It’s binary unless voters change the voting system like NYC, Maine, and Alaska voters. We’ve proved that we can change the system. The bigger fight is to change the voting system.

History serves as a record for the decisions of those who came before us. I believe it matters so that we can learn something from both the mistakes and the pivotal moments of the past.

Personally, I was convinced about just how much history mattered when I took a class on it taught by a veteran. The way we avoid making poor decisions -decisions which bring about the premature deaths of countless young men and the innocent, through acts of war - is by learning from our past and looking for a better path.

Philosophy matters for the same reasons, imo. If we are not taught how to reason, how can we expect to live a life that has any meaning or purpose? Both for ourselves and for others. If we’re not taught how to see through the dangers and misdirection of logical fallacies, for instance, we can more easily be bought into a lie or blame a scapegoat for all of our problems.

What makes something useful to you? Does it need to be something done or learned purely for the sake of profits? Does it need to be cold and unfeeling data for it to matter?

I feel it’s funny precisely because of how it betrays your expectations with the setup. If it happened to you - outside of the comic - it’d leave a sour taste, but also you’d probably be laughing a bit in a ‘did that just happen?’ kind of way.

That’s what her campaign of ‘corporate approved small change government’ wanted her to say. Biden’s team also did not want her to separate herself from Biden on the campaign trail.

That line helped to sink her, in driving out anyone not already sold on the plan. Harris avoided taking any risks to not come across as over-selling and under-delivering, but no one wants a leader that doesn’t even believe in the message they’re selling.

I think most people understand that Harris would in practice have been quite different from Biden, but for most larger policies she would have not have differed.

I’ve been experimenting with caffeine from different sources and at different times of the day. I feel the effects are more noticeable/different when I change things up.

So maybe black coffee isn’t going to have an effect on your focus/creativity, but some caffeinated tea or energy drink might have an effect.

Also, I feel that having a meal or a healthy snack with the caffeine matters as well to get a noticeable impact. So just drinking coffee in the morning, with nothing else, isn’t going to give me much of a boost as compared to if I had a meal or snack with it.

I heard about this recently from a different article, but from my understanding, when we yawn, cerebrospinal fluid moves away from our brains. Cerebrospinal fluid “keeps the central nervous system running smoothly, delivering nutrients and removing waste.”

So, as a laymen, I think our brains are flushing the gunk out when we yawn. Having to yawn a second time, to me, would indicate that we didn’t get all the gunk out the first time.

Furthering the need to improve the system even more.

Having the Ranked Choice voting system that NYC, Maine, and Alaska have would make it so primaries and even general elections are won by the people that are most representative of their constituents, rather than just corporate backed donors.

Every state can vote in some form of alternative voting system. It’s such an important change factor that red states have been actively trying to ban Ranked Choice voting.

Changing my perspective a little.

For years now, maybe a bit before Covid, I’ve felt stuck in a rut of failing to express myself properly and coming across as a jerk when I want to be kind and friendly.

It turns out I have had no clue how to relax and not be in a constant state of fight or flight. So I spent time over the past month just learning what my body needed and practicing a more tender approach in the way I interacted with others.

It’s really opened my eyes more to how much the people around me are also starving for basic connection just on a community level.

If anything, make most apartments non-profits or government owned and rented out on the lower end. I feel that no one should be profiting off of another person’s need for proper housing.

I’m not talking about luxury apartments or things like that, but a basic roof over your head should not be something that another person is making a profit on.