I’m the same, but it can also be frustrating when I _try_ to retain that info, it constantly shifts.
I described it to my partner as one of those AI generated videos where the details are constantly morphing and shifting, even if the general idea remains the same - I simply can’t hold onto a single still visualization for more than a second.
So, to agree with you, I have also read all five SLA books, and I could imagine Kaladin right now, but in an amorphous, constantly shifting way, which is a bit unsettling - maybe like Pattern? :-)
This is particularly why I am a registered independent. The Democratic Party seems intent on shooting themselves in the foot by focusing on cultural issues that only alienate rural voters, even if they are important.
I think that’s why Sanders and Mamdani have found success - they focus on kitchen table issues, and don’t let themselves get caught in culture war crap that just pisses everyone off.
I don't understand this argument. The Democrats have plenty of non-cultural issues. The current government shutdown is focused on health care financing. Democrats have long campaigned on raising the minimum wage.
Climate change isn't supposed to be a cultural issue. It's a question of science, and that's the problem. Every area where Republicans disagree with Democrats is defined to be a "cultural issue".
Democrats do have cultural issues, but so do Republicans. For some reason only Democrats get the blame for it.
Yes the party platform contains excellent economic issues that poll high among both Democrats but also Republicans.
The problem is when they are in office the economic policies are immediately tossed aside in favor of social issues and then even those issues become a struggle and we end up with virtue signaling. Voters can only take enough failures until the Democratic "brand" is destroyed among a generation.
>Democrats have long campaigned on raising the minimum wage.
Early 2021: Democrats tried to attach a $15 minimum wage to the COVID relief bill (the American Rescue Plan) using the budget reconciliation process.
Feb. 25, 2021: The Senate parliamentarian ruled the $15 provision violated the Byrd Rule so it cant be included in reconciliation
Mar. 5, 2021: Sanders offered an amendment to put $15 back in -> failed with 8 Senate Democrats joining Republicans to block it.
At that point, Biden did not try to overrule the parliamentarian and the Senate did not change the filibuster to pass a standalone wage bill.
So...what ~4 months into office the pledge was tossed in the trash?
I guess Trump has them beat this term in tossing pledges in to the trash but in Trump's first term he actually threw some of his voters a bone and got things done (repealed roe v wade, tried to build the wall etc.)...actually now that I think about it, he is actually making his most vile voters happy (deportations and increased problems for his voters enemies I guess?) but the "America first" stuff hasn't panned out yet...those voters are unhappy.
When it came time to raise the debt ceiling during Biden's term(ie. to help the donor class), all of a sudden there is no problem whatsoever.
Repeat this over decades and for every issue that could help normal Americans boom you end up where we are.
That's the question that has been stuck in my head as I read all these stories about junior dev jobs disappearing. I'm firmly mid-level, having started my career just before LLM coding took off. Sometimes it feels like I got on the last chopper out of Saigon.
In the first picture, there's the nude->rude replacement games, bikini (which is not nudity), models (which is not nudity). Unshaven girl could mean legs, armpits, and/or public area.
The second picture also has no nude people in it. The closest "skin" picture is another bikini, which again, is not nudity.
The 3rd picture is too blocked out, but likely more bikini pictures. Again, yes, you can see the labia bunching up (cameltoe). But this again is completely legal and normally seen in water parks and beaches.
I also note they said "We have deliberately not included examples of the hardcore pornography that was shown to us.". So yes, I do doubt they exist for any length of time here.
And the text search autocomplete is also hard, because many words are banned. So nude becomes rude. ICE protest and similar becomes party. Drones are "dior bags". And banning the stringing replacement words together is basically whack-a-mole.
But no, this whole operation smells like "let us do anything in the name of ThE ChiLDrEn", including that scourge Chat Control.
And to be fair, I'd rather adolescents look at titties. Sexuality is completely natural. And the fact this article is targeting 13 year olds, remember - they're already going or gone through puberty. Sexuality, and wanting to see what the other sex looks like is completely natural. This weird quazi-religious shaming is just terrible for everyone.
What? Discussing thought provoking news in the political world? No, flagging this thread, which is thought provoking is just insulating those who can afford to ignore it.
If HN is about intellectual curiosity, the heated disagreement in this comment section should be proof of how stimulating this topic is. But we’d rather stick our heads in the sand rather than confront what inconveniences us.
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