I downvoted it because it's pseudo-scientific nonsense
Signed, fit man who has hours of le sexy sex with 3d girls and also watches porn and ejaculates average once a day
So what now? I suppose I'm an outlier? Or just lying perhaps? Oh wait I've got one! If I didn't watch porn I'd have triple sexier sex, right?
I posted an insane rant with a video here :
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Mrw my coworker tells me they have to use the bathroom during a meeting and I start violently vomiting from the visceral images and imagined scent of their shit and piss. And then everyone acts like I'M the weird one
Am I the only person who uses mobile tab grouping and sees it as a must-have? Its ridiculous that Firefox is over 5 years behind on this incredible QoL feature. To me it's almost as bad as if a browser didn't support bookmarks. It's just ridiculous at this point.
Tab grouping is the killer feature for me. Chromium lets me group tabs into boxes, color code and name those boxes, easily switch between tabs in that boxed group with icons on the bottom, close all the tabs in the group, and reorder the groups. Here's a video showing this awesome, intuitive, actually valuable feature that many people have begged Mozilla for for years only to be ignored: https://youtu.be/P6mcduJFSsM
It allows me to keep lots of tabs open, social things, shopping things, travel research, etc etc. Without needing to bookmark everything (a lot of stuff you only need for a few weeks, and bookmarks are kinda supposed to be forever).
If you haven't used that feature on mobile, it's hard to see how life changing it is. Like actually life changing in the sense that it allows me to keep an eye on much more things, remember about them, follow up on them, and easily get rid of them when their usefulness is over. If I'm looking for information on some event I can have a group for that and with just one tap access any of like 10 tabs and quickly cross reference them. If I'm shopping I can have products in different tabs, groups for the different things I'm shopping for.
There are no Firefox extensions that provide this functionality, which, to me should be an absolute baseline feature for any web browser now that's been awhile since its been introduced. Especially for mobile browsers where screen real estate is so limited, and where we use our browsers for all sorts of sudden brief things that are ephemeral enough not to bookmark but also longevitous or time-consuming enough that I want to have them open for more than a few minutes.
Compare this with firefox, where all I get is this clumsy two column list of tabs which quickly becomes navigable, and the worse-than-useless "old tabs" feature or whatever they call it that automatically hides tabs I've had open too long. On Chromium I will literally have hundreds of tabs on there at times, and it's great because I can quickly access a "workspace" of things depending on what I'm doing right now. On Firefox the best I can do is roughly reorder them, and even then it takes two taps instead of one to switch to one of my choice, in addition to scrolling if it's more than 4 away. It's such trash that it makes me mad every time I use it and every time I think of it, because I KNOW the Firefox team could replicate the Chromium feature, but instead they fuck around adding AI doodads, while ignoring this silver bullet feature that single handedly keeps me from switching to them as my only browser. Keep in mind this functionality has existed in Chromium browsers 5 years ago, albeit slightly less usable than it is now. It has been this great for probably 4 years. I just can't go back, for certain things.
No disrespect, but I believe you have missed my point - I understood that you're pointing out that only looking at English literacy is shortsighted. I'm suggesting that English literacy is by far the only significant metric when it comes to someone's ability to function, especially with poltical wisdom, in the United States. It doesn't really matter if half the population is fluent in Vietnamese when all the political debates are in English. This forces them to rely on third-party (questionable) commentary and interpretation for all their news and understanding of the political environment.
If we were talking about a country like Switzerland, where signage, documents, and official material is easily accessible in multiple languages, and where political discussion widely occurs im multiple languages, then I would agree that measuring only German literacy is misleading and not meaningful. But the United States is not that type of country, so it is specifically English literacy that matters, especially when we're talking about being politically informed.
TLDR; if I speak fluent Latin, but no other languages, and I live in Kentucky, it is pretty fair to describe me as illiterate. The literacy I do possess functionally does not exist.
It looks like around one third of the illiterate group was not born in the U.S, so I would guess it's somewhere around there. That still means over half of the illiterate group was born and raised in the U.S, which to me can only be a fault of education whether they're fluent in other languages or not.
On the other hand, if even the Daily Mail with their pretty prominent right leaning bias is putting out this report, I find that more alarming than the same report coming from, say NYT.
I feel ya, but the practical reality is that almost all news, all social media, all politics, all technical information, all medical information, and all official documents are presented primarily or only in English.
Yes America doesn't have an official language, but if you had to pick between living here with fluent Spanish and no English, vs. fluent English but no Spanish, which do you think is gonna give you an easier time by far?
I don't find 21% illiteracy hard to believe. I went to a particularly good high school, and even there about 1/5 kids could only read books aloud in a painfully halting, word-by-word manner. And they could either read aloud or understand what they read, not both. And again this was a top-rated high school in the area by far. And just look at the social media trend of flashing words one by one as captions - people pretend it's for those with sound down or hearing difficulties, but the truth is it makes the content vastly more digestible for people who can't pay attention to words but get overwhelmed by the sight of full sentences. So even the people who can read are fantastically bad at it.
Idk dude Herbert specifically called it spice. If he wanted it to be oil why wouldn't he have just named it oil? You could just as easily have a desert filled with oil, probably even more plausible tbh. Media literacy really is in decline
Mrw life imitates the art that was originally imitating life
You say this in the comments of a news article about someone with a pride flag in their social profile who was shot and killed. So it does kinda seem like people in the LGBT community do need to protect themselves, eh?
It's not a tricky nuance to understand that these people approve of individuals owning handguns but not automatic weapons. Kind of like how you likely approve of individuals owning automatic weapons but not nuclear weapons. It's just a different threshold 🤷♀️
Ah I see the Palantir + Flock + Instagram license plate to demographic cross-referencing system must be up and running. (Joking but worth realizing that there is no technical barrier to the existence of such a thing)
Jokes aside, this hits close to home. RIP Renee Good :c
At least they aren't shooting the conservatives in the head like conservatives do to the democrats, liberals, and leftists
It's good to always reserve some skepticism, but lots of people talk and write like this, my friend.
Yeah, just saw that reported by my main man Ken Klippenstein https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-kills-american-woman-in-minneapolis
This is a great example of how that other post about Trump fucking up America is so wrong. It started long ago. Anyone with a brain knew exactly what the concept of Domestic Terrorist would be used for, and here it is.
Also. Was the lady a citizen? I don't exactly hope so, but on the other hand, there's people in my life who really need to see that citizenship doesn't protect them.
I respect that you acknowledge my way of thinking rather than caricaturizing it. Thank you. I am still of the opinion that had the grenade not been thrown now, it would lead to situation becoming even worse next time around. This is why I say Harris would only have delayed the inevitable. It is my opinion that the death toll would have been higher and more dramatic if the issue was allowed to fester for another election cycle. I agree that sometimes you have to take a loss to keep fighting long term - it's just that to me, the current situation is that loss, and it enables us to keep fighting in the form of people like Mamdani being elected. I strongly believe that if Kamala had won, Mamdani would not have. Mamdani may actually move the window, we'll see. That's what we need.
Blood is partially on my hands indeed, but it is also on the hands of all the neoliberal voters of the last few decades by the same reasoning. If the grenade had been thrown 30 years ago, it also would have blown up, albeit less spectacularly, and that lesser blood would be on the hands of those who refused to vote out of principle that year. If the grenade had been thrown 25 years ago, it would have blown up, slightly more. 20 years ago, even more. Etc etc. This is why I believe that if we sucked it up with Kamala this time around, then we would just find ourselves with the same gambit in the future but with even higher stakes. Every election, people have said "sometimes you have to take a loss to keep fighting long term" and "THIS is the ONE election that you really can't afford to throw the grenade! That last one maybe, sure. But that's in the past now anyways. THIS is the one you have to suck it up and vote for!" And indeed it never gets better. Blood is on the voters hands either way, the only difference is if we see the toll paid immediately (making it easy to blame them) or see it delayed by decades (making it hard to connect the dots). From my perspective, the majority of blood spilled today is precisely due to the lack of strategic foresight of compromise-voters of decades past, exhibiting exactly the same mentality that called for voting for Kamala this time around. In a nutshell, I believe my mentality spills blood today, but the compromise-voting spills more blood tomorrow. I consider my ability to properly take into account a greater future cost over a present cost exactly an example of strategic thinking. So it's funny that we have an identical qualm with each other - it comes from simply a different prediction of the future.
I'm sure that this still leaves us in disagreement, but it is at least a smaller disagreement, not about strategy, intention, or even mentality - we merely have different judgements of the most likely future, which I think is a much more negligible disagreement - since predicting the future accurately is known to be difficult.
Yeah the whole meme of "sportsball is for dummies" kinda bugs me as I have a few ridiculously intelligent friends who are huge sports fans, but there's no denying that the average smartness of sports fans does indeed seem lower. It's not because of something wrong with sports, it's just that they're intrinsically pretty easy to understand. The barrier to entry, intellectually, is lower. In a way, that's great, because it's something anyone can enjoy. But it doesn't bode well for the general fan base's ability to do things like critical thinking.