Maeve

Tamir Rice

Thanks. That’s a liberal (sorry, I couldn’t resist) definition of socialism he used there too, even allowing for the “national” qualifier.

It seems I read once that “socialist” was just in the party name to garner support of those who would be supportive of socialist values. I can’t recall the publication, but wonder if that’s true?

You’re welcome? I haven’t done anything but share a limited perspective, and I’m happy you appreciated it.

There’s an anchoring effect at play here as well where people naturally assume that the society they grew up in is the natural default. Any deviation from that is seen as being extreme as a result.

That even happens from household to household, in the same neighborhood.

We’re heavily propagandized from birth. I realize that happens to greater or lesser degrees, around the world, but overworked, underpaid, tired, struggling for necessities, junk science with fake peer reviews and certain governments strongarming (to put it mildly) other governments. Cognitive dissonance waved away with professional terms. Overwhelm, in short. I only have the “luxury” of scratching the surface of my own enforced, propagandized ignorance because I’m chronically underemployed, my offspring is an adult, and other factors. Critical thinking isn’t rewarded, often punished, and it’s hard, especially when you’ve been deliberately misguided for decades, from birth.

I can’t begin to imagine how exhausting it must be for you. I am grateful for your patience and gentleness with me as I struggle to remedy whatever is within my personal capacity to remedy, with the time and resources available to me, and would urge continued patience, for the few who may still be reached.

Maybe if I have some pennies to spare, I will donate. I’m just not an Amazon fan. I haven’t given them money in a several years.

I’d prefer we not give Amazon money. I’m asking if there’s a better place, for either?

The YT channel. Apologies, I know people aren’t psychic.

Can we promote our products somewhere besides Amazon? One more friendly to regular producers?

You know it!

Rich people who lived simply, “not underdeveloped, over exploited.”

The bananas were a nice touch. It’s sickening how politicians are using terms like “banana republic” divorcing them from actual meaning. I almost said, “and kangaroo court,” but caught myself, before typing “court,” since for a lot of North Americans struggling for any justice get that, for instance the college protesters.

I recently learned vanillian has over 200 ingredients. I realize demand for natural vanilla is probably bad for the habitat, but I’ve no idea what those chemicals do, ingested singly, let alone how they may interact together, with digestive liquids.

No it wasn’t. It’s a backwards and weird word.

Contacts end and contracts begin. While it may be a good while, I think we are goingseeing large corporations like Microsoft enter autophagy.

I bet when demand crosses a certain threshold, support supply will quickly follow, gatekeepers bedamned.

I don’t see it as impossible. Like various brands are distributed with windows, various brands can be distributed with various Linux distros, customizable by distro and features, pre-order. These brands can work out a donation contract with distros.

I didn’t know people still use pidgin.

“boosted” this for visibility. Perhaps random devs will take interest.

It’s not. And I was pretty hyped about Waltz, until I read his stance then non-stance on Palestine. So I’m looking for decent third party options, but apparently not finding anything. So I may simply not vote and that makes me not feel good. Not supporting genocide is good and feels good, I just don’t feel good about candidates that inspire a vote.

You’re not wrong. I’m still mulling appropriate voting responses, either Palestinians are human beings like the rest of us with the same needs, deserving of human rights, or they aren’t. Sure look human to me.