SolacefromSilence

Wait until you see answers in Amazon reviews

Who owns the press and who benefits from the crimes? This is why there were laws preventing media consolidation and extensive corporate ownership before they were dismantled over the last 50 years.

Perhaps this goes without saying, but are you taking time to explore wild or green areas around where you live?

Hello, I’ve been on eBay/FB more lately and I’m wondering if there’s much value in alternative sites. I’m sure it’s an 80%/20% thing, but are there a few other sites that you find useful?

Sartre approves.

Listen here you little… well done

If you want to make a change, you have to understand that you’re going to fail a lot and that’s ok. I don’t really like to direct people to reddit, but mostly lurking there really helped me a few years ago before I even stopped drinking. https://www.reddit.com/r/stopdrinking/

I had a lot of times where I just wanted to not drink for one day for whatever reason. Then I stopped for a week here or there… then I tried it for a month to see if I could. Later, I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t drink on vacation so I’d be more present, and I kept going.

Why would they want to “fix” it?

I want Twitter to fail for how it’s turned, but until shown otherwise, bluesky is another closed system. It’s better than Twitter and I hope they prove me wrong.

You’re trying to understand the logic behind motivated reasoning. They knew the conclusion they wanted, so they constructed a fig leaf of an argument that 1/3 of people would cheer, 1/3 would defer to the tortured logic by habit of deference to authority, and 1/3 would protest while being alienated from the whole.