What’s going on here, exactly? Why are people mad at the person who played one of the leads in LA By Night? I’m usually the last to know these things.

Yeah, I know. But at least there’s no yelling from said family giving advice. 😔

“just stop thinking that”

I hate it when people do that. I could get that kind of service for free at home.

That’s the gist of what I heard. I’m scared if he makes good on it. I hate that the fate of billions has been toyed with like this since the invention of atomic weapons.

How problematic is this?

That’s rude of your dream to say that. I’d be pissed if my mind did that to me. I don’t like getting confused like that by my imagination.

I had one of those dreams last night where I go back to do high school again, despite being in my late 20s but, this time I was like: “Hold on, why am I here? My favorite teacher doesn’t even teach at this school anymore.” (For context, he’s the Republican turned socdem who unironically says “damn white people” when we get to the chapter on the Scramble for Africa).

This would be paradise for my grandfather (he bred sheep in rural Sicily).

Makes sense, considering the Democrat’s foreign policy people are basically the same people from the Bush Administration.

I’ll just read it like he’s yelling the whole thing.

I know. It’s kinda been discouraging to think about but, I have to start somewhere. The one I had in college listened but, then couldn’t really offer the best feedback.

Tbh, in the back of my mind I was wondering how much of such a strong reaction against something like astrology in the OP comes from an unstated/unexamined/unconscious bias against some activities women engage in because they’re “too emotional.” It brings up the old patriarchal dichotomy of irrational women, rational men. I think that should be carefully examined in unpacking the topic of the original post.

I’m not sure myself. Maybe they’re referring to stuff like indigenous technical knowledge of environmental management. When you look into that, all the generations of accumulated knowledge gained by observation and experimentation, it really upends the traditional Western descriptions of indigenous peoples as lacking any scientific tradition.

It blew my mind when I learned about it, especially the major environmental impacts not maintaining those systems had on the western hemisphere post-Columbus.

I just see it as a way some people of all genders try to fill the space left by religion. It doesn’t necessarily have to be coded as an activity exclusive to one gender. I know plenty of guys into stuff like that. I’ve heard others describe this phenomenon as a way to question the accuracy of outcomes predicted by the secularization thesis.

Regardless, I still am diplomatic with people who like that stuff, despite me not believing in it. I don’t want to come off the same way the New Atheists did when discussing religion. That sort of militant attitude can be off-putting when trying to make the case for socialism.

I’d say the best way to discourage taking such practices too seriously, I’d suggest deconstructing such practices by reading about it’s history. Understanding the history of a topic helps one realize the fallible and changing nature of a supposedly unchanging process for discerning truth. I use the same approach with religion

Freedom of movement for all bolides.

Is this guy dropping out yet?

Roughly, what I’ve heard is that they made gains under the NLRB regime of the Wagner Act but, at the price of having that be dependent on the state, which has the power to certify and decertify unions. The period of significant gains was short, lasting from the mid 30s to Taft Hartley. Then you had the post war labor compact, which lasted until the profitability crisis of the 70s made capital take away the seat they gave labor at the table to help recoup profitability.

Plus to do this, they abolished the concept of whiteness that was part of the oppressive colonial heiarchy by declaring the new Polish citizens of Haiti to be black.

Jeez, that’s some rice paper-thin skin right there.

I think the equivalent of that in my area were these nylon book socks. We would stretch them over the textbook covers.

Yes! We love to hear it.