BertramDitore @ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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I think you are underestimating the power of empathy. I mean this constructively, not as an attack. In my opinion, it’s the single most important emotion for leading a fulfilling life, maintaining healthy relationships, and contributing to and living in a healthy society. The cool thing about empathy is that almost everyone can learn how to do it, even if it doesn’t come naturally. Think of it like a muscle you need to exercise. If you don’t use it regularly, your abilities can atrophy.

You’ve already recognized that you’re not great at empathy, which shows that you are capable of self-awareness, which is huge! The next step is just to find a way to turn that awareness inside out and put yourself in other peoples’ shoes.

The fact that you’re wrestling with the issues you bring up, shows me that you do care about these things. So I think it could be valuable to interrogate what specific things you do and don’t care about when it comes to all the things you mentioned. If you do that with empathy for others always in mind, I think most of your concerns will resolve themselves.

Cultivating Empathy

Do something real

If I had been planning to make a big purchase on Friday, but decided to join the boycott and not make the purchase, that is absolutely doing something. That is money that the retailer will not get from me.

If I usually buy groceries on Fridays, or Friday is the day I drive by the local Target and sometimes stop in, but because of the boycott I actively decide not to, that is absolutely doing something. That is money that those retailers might have come to expect, that they will not get from me.

If enough people make those decisions, the impact will most definitely be felt and reach the top.

Collective action is incredibly powerful. Sometimes collective action means deciding not to do something, together. And that is also incredibly powerful.

I’d love to hear your suggestions on what “real” looks like to you.

I watched the first one a couple weeks ago, and I was struck by it. It has some really cool and unique visuals, and it just had a very different vibe than American animated movies like it. Really enjoyed it, despite the super-weak English voice acting for the dub. I’ll probably watch it again in the original Chinese before the next one is released on streaming or physical.

Ha! iRobot, what a trip that movie was…

Yeah, I don’t disagree at all that they were totally unfaithful to the material. I still enjoyed the show, but I deliberately force myself to take a huge step back and just watch those kinds of adaptations independent from the source material. I try my best to block off the memories of reading the books, and just enjoy the interpretation as much as I can. Doesn’t always work, but Foundation was visually beautiful enough to me that I could forget about what the story should have been and just escape into what it was.

I’ve pulled this move way more than I’d like to admit…

It's close, and malapropisms are great too, but they rely on a similar-sounding incorrect word being used in place of the correct word, usually resulting in hilarity. Your example is also hilarious, but I don't think it counts as a malapropism, not to get all linguistically technical (okay, I will lol). Rick Perry saying states are "lavatories of innovation and democracy" instead of "laboratories" is a perfect and awesome example.

The genius of @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml's comment was that they combined two relevant proverbs into a single equally relevant but hilarious one: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink" + "Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth" = brilliance

Oh boy, this makes me nervous but cautiously excited. This is one of my favorite books, and is the first in my absolute favorite series of sci-fi novels. Banks’ Culture series represents the apex of space opera narrative for me, and it was the one series I was totally fine leaving on paper since it’s so dear to me.

I’m usually less critical of TV adaptations than most, so they’d reallllly have to fuck it up to ruin it for me. I’m an Asimov fan for example, and I didn’t hate the Foundation show…I know, I know, the heresy! So we’ll see what happens. There’s a lot they could do beautifully, and a lot they could really mess up.

In case you'd like to read more about what an absolute asshole this guy is:

Jamie Dimon’s $13 Billion Secret—Revealed

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JPMorgan to pay US Virgin Islands $75m to settle Epstein lawsuit

Will Anyone Hold Jamie Dimon Responsible for the London Whale Scandal?

The Crumbling Cult of Jamie Dimon

JPMorgan executive calls for 'more hustle' after return to office mandate

I’m not gonna lead a gift horse to water

What a joyously adorable mix of proverbs. This made me smile.

It looks like they’re still very much trying to build this stupid city, and are doing everything they can to circumvent local opposition.

About a year ago, some guy knocked on my door as part of a canvas to gauge the support of towns in the surrounding area, but he never once mentioned that this dumb Silicon Valley wet dream was the project he was talking about. He spoke in very vague terms about “building community” and providing “housing and opportunities for the working class,” which sounded great so I said of course I support those things. He smiled, jotted something down and then left. I called after him asking what organization he represented, and he turned around, handed me a postcard with a shitty AI generated image on it, and then he was gone. Turns out it was California Forever, the org behind the dystopian exploitation fantasy that is their juvenile idea for a new city. I felt violated, humiliated, and furious. They’re doing some seriously underhanded bullshit to try to force this down our throats.

Bernie has a very strong Brooklyn accent which is why the R turns to aw, but either pronunciation is totally fine.

Seconding this. He has a great style that keeps it light and simple while still explaining the science behind why certain methods work better than others. I also love that he shows his work by talking about all the testing that goes into his recipes and methods.

He also used to regularly respond to random comments and questions on the other site, which was super cool, though I don’t know if he still does since I went cold turkey so long ago.

That article was all over the place, largely underestimates the moment, and completely misunderstands the purpose of the laughably weak Republican pushback, but the last paragraph at least tries to clean it up.

This is also not a call to stand down, to relax, to be less vigilant. It’s merely an observation: Public outcry has succeeded. It’s made it impossible for Trump to sustain his coup. If the people keep this up, they will succeed even more.

I’d also moderate his language significantly. Public outcry has absolutely not succeeded, but it has helped give some ammunition to elected officials and confidence to civil servants, so it’s true that we will absolutely fail without sustained public outcry. But we are still light years away from succeeding.

No, there are some great independent outlets that are still doing exceptional journalism. Many of the new outlets were founded by reporters who came from mainstream or traditional media but were either laid off or quit because of the profit-above-all-else mindset. As citizens and news consumers this means we have to be pickier and more discerning when it comes to what we read, because we can’t trust that we’ll get everything we need from just a single newspaper anymore. But if you look around you’ll still find some very high quality journalism, it’s just a bit more diffuse than we’re used to.

To add some context, one nice thing about the independent model 404 Media has gone with is that they tell us exactly what their motivations are, in their own voices (it’s only four people). On their podcast they’ve been very open about what they want, and maximizing profit is not it. They’ve talked honestly about what it costs to operate, and they’ve said the infinite growth model is not what they want to emulate. They just want to keep doing good journalism, they are not in it to get rich. Since I believe and trust their journalism, I’ll choose to believe them on the business side too, and that’s up to everyone to decide.

I think they’re in touch with their readership enough to know that they’d lose a ton of subscribers if they sold out or started making terrible profit-driven decisions.

But who knows, I don’t know them personally so they could just be really really good liars.

These stealth edits are unacceptable. They are tantamount to the NYTimes shouting about their cowardice from the rooftops. Do they really think people won’t notice? Clearly they underestimate how satisfying it is to catch them in a lie, which is ironic for a newspaper whose reputation has been bolstered by exposing (some) lies.

I thought correction notices were standard practice. It’s not like they can correct the hard copy, so fuck all their online readers I guess? Infuriating, but we shouldn’t expect anything better from them at this point in their downfall.

Oh that’s good…

For fuck’s sake, I hadn’t heard about this yet. These educational bookshops in occupied East Jerusalem are super famous and one of the only places you can get good quality international books and academic journals in Palestine. Their customers are mostly foreign scholars and students. This is yet another proof point that Israel is proudly genocidal.

Wow that’s wild. The thing that bothers me most about shit like this is that a good teacher would put aside their pride and take it as an opportunity to learn something themselves and show the class how to find out an answer to a question like this. Instead, you’ll always remember her as the dumbass who didn’t know what fossils are.

Ugh Cuomo. I forgot about him. Would New Yorkers really vote for him? I go back and forth, but yeah, probably. That’d be on brand.