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Lol, Apple thinks it's user base is annoyed by the length and subtilty of headlines. AI to the rescue!

They learned nothing in the first 11 months of this year, and they're not about to start now.

This paragraph I don't understand:

Only the movements in solidarity with Palestinian freedom offered a substantive challenge to the Harris coronation, as it remains the only issue impervious to party influence. To be sure, the absence of a primary for the Democratic Party lessened the ability of progressive forces to push back against Harris galloping rightward.

What does it mean to say the opposition to genocide was "impervious to party influence"?

I do agree the one clear problem was lack of a primary-- that's the major structural difference from 2020. Without a primary you can't prove who has the votes and who is voting, it was easy for them to pretend "progressives won't vote" even though from this article it is clear progressives delivered via in Biden's election.

Oh, my bad, thanks

Some people just want to be criminals. They are gamblers or just enjoy feeling superior

That's not all. Apparently a chemical added to extend tire life (sort of good from an environmental standpoint) turns out to leach into water and kill fish, so...

I think it comes from the idea that regardless of how we think of ourselves, most of what we do follows our own long term habits and the models we have identified with, often from a young age. A person can even believe they are rejecting the past or their parent's influence and then behave exactly the same without noticing or even rationalizing afterward how this was not exactly what it looked like.

Your brain's best trick is to make you think your view of the world is complete and that you are using all the powers of your free reason, when in fact you only have a narrow slice of human experience behind you and are often responding to circumstances before you have even become fully aware of them or of your alternatives. Your mind fills in the blanks to support your view of yourself.

People learn a behavior because it is safe or effective in a certain condition of life, and then just keep using it even when it isn't suitable out of fear of changing something that works, however badly, or lack of imagination, or because they have identified with it as a part of their personality that they need to protect from real or imagined self-erasing forces. It feels weird and wrong and self-betraying in the moment to change how you do things, only afterwards you can maybe see the good side.

You care about these people, and it shows care to confront them when they are doing things they have said they want to avoid. But it will be a matter of many such confrontations and maybe better just saying Wow, that's not what I would have done! I guess I'm just ____ and prefer to _____ in that situation. You can reinforce some alternative options they might not have seen a lot of modeling for and in the future these options may come to mind with greater force in the actionable moment. Also, take notice when they do things well and see if you can figure out why they are more clear-headed in those cases. It will help your own feelings to see some bright spots.

Just to make this even longer... For my part I see this when I go to the doctor's. I always find myself very meek and even stupid in a doctor's office, for personal history reasons, but the solution for me is not to give myself a stern talking to about why I should stand up for myself and think critically about this important stuff. Rather, I tell myself to "channel" my old friend, who is very salty about the whole medical establishment, and just hearing his voice in my head helps keep me properly engaged through the appointments and not mentally bowing the whole time. Without his real example, I'm not sure any rational arguments would be enough to change how I actually behave. I couldn't even visualize myself doing it.

But, obviously I'm not super sure about free will, so I'm interested to see what other people say.

While I don't agree with her sentiment, I can absolutely believe some human union employees would say this. I don't know if this applies to Amazon jobs, but in the union I know (caregivers) one problem is workers with very few hours have to pay the same monthly dues. Still not really a valid point for most people, but for those few that get caught in it, definitely bittersweet and they will grumble.

They found on him a three page document that indicated "some ill-will toward corporate America" and the id used at the hostel. They are "scrubbing" his social media, by which I hope they mean scrutinizing.

Of all the times to worry about being perceived as opportunistic "on the way out". After a year of worrying about perception "during the campaign". And three other years of "reaching across the aisle". Like trying to choose a place to eat with my family except it's the direction of our country in a time of rapid global change.

The only surgery I've had there were two surgeons in the room-- they were a team and worked together as a rule. I wish every procedure could have even a casual zoom surgical partner as a check. Think of the surgeon who was tying knots wrong his whole career -- would have been a single mistake and then corrected.