Because during bad times the ones that make bad decisions don’t survive or at very least are removed from positions of power.
The ones best equipped to get in positions of power during "bad times" are bad people willing to put their ambitions above basic human decency.
The idea that violent and traumatic environments lead to strong people making good choices always seemed pretty stupid to me.
The real term is synthetic data
Another reason right to repair is needed
Being paid is a kind of attention/validation. The things he's selling are "branding" stuff that feed into his cult of personality. It's probably more of a narcissist thing than a money thing.
Those went up in price after the initial sale afaik
I thought this article had some interesting insight into how living in Israel can distort someone's perspective on these issues.
Meeting my friends in Israel this time, I frequently felt that they were afraid that I might disrupt their grief, and that living out of the country I could not grasp their pain, anxiety, bewilderment and helplessness. Any suggestion that living in the country had numbed them to the pain of others – the pain that, after all, was being inflicted in their name – only produced a wall of silence, a retreat into themselves, or a quick change of subject. The impression that I got was consistent: we have no room in our hearts, we have no room in our thoughts, we do not want to speak about or to be shown what our own soldiers, our children or grandchildren, our brothers and sisters, are doing right now in Gaza. We must focus on ourselves, on our trauma, fear and anger.
and that’s the only way it’s ever used.
Kind of an extreme claim which is definitely not true.
It’s the best example of what it’s trying to describe. It’s a hypocrite of a phrase, engaging in what it condemns.
So phrases are by themselves guilty of word crimes? A cliche isn't just an often repeated series of words, it's a tired idea. "Thought terminating cliche" is itself a thought terminating cliche if it's being used that way (such as to shut down someone who was engaging in good faith and happened to use a common expression as part of that), but that doesn't mean this category of expression doesn't exist. Of course it exists, the modern internet is plagued with it because it's full of propagandists with an interest in pulling people's levers with minimal effort and no interest in argument.
This is for sure an unpopular opinion lol
Goldfish pregnancy
I don't think this is how fish work
Do you get mad every time someone plays Country Roads? When you live somewhere that place, the people in it, the way they live and your connections to them becomes a part of who you are. I think it's alright to demand that southerners not use the confederate flag for that because of its inherent racism, but basic respect for the humanity of someone who came from a different place means also respecting the fond feelings they may have for it and the way that place is part of their identity.