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Thinking “Cognitive dissonance doesn’t exist”, is one way to experience cognitive dissonance.

Managing unpaid volunteers is its own kind of headache

Oh, right. Like that’s gonna help. Pfft.

(How was that)

This is the difference, I think. So many non-American people don’t understand the particular way our political things are screwy, and when they make blanket pronouncements about it, it’s sort of a different conversation than when an American does.

Several times I’ve discovered the person I’m arguing with isn’t an idiot or a right-wing nutjob, they just don’t know the peculiarities of American politics, because they’re not American. Like how unlimited money is allowed to pour into campaigns and are essentially bribes. Or the revolving-door lobbying that happens. Stuff like that.

Idiots and right-wing nutjobs abound here so it’s always a little disconcerting to have to say, “Oh. Oh, sorry, I thought you were a voter and that’s why I cared so much that you had all the information. No, if you’re not American, we can just agree [whatever the thing is] is [stupid] and leave it at that”

Could you not, say, just subscribe to a news community and keep your settings to “local” so it only displayed that?

Are you asking this on an Android app where people discuss news and share it?

Don’t log in

Terrible advice, you deny yourself the best tool you have against this, curating your watch history.

—- Person 1: phone is constantly being harassed by spammers and scammers with spoofed numbers, calling person 1 by name, mentioning their make and model of car, etc.

Person 2: doesn’t own a phone —-

Person 2 is better off. I think it’s pretty good advice.

Don’t log in, clear your cache, use a vpn

Ok

“Do you hate the country you’re from?”

They think they’ll get money.

Is why.

Unless a hyped-up investor gives it to them, they won’t.

Nice try, Narc

checks watch

Uh, sure. Now is good. Several years ago was better, but, yeah.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/rip-surface-duo-microsoft-reportedly-gives-up-on-the-weird-form-factor/

Too wide, incompatible with android somehow, and too expensive. At least per the article.

A story about Xitter!

Hadn’t heard of it before.

19thnews again? Hm.

Edit: Oh. Cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_19th

What the actual fuck

If he declares it an official act, then it’s not illegal. Drone strikes are pretty official.

SCOTUS fucked up super-sized