What Russia and every other country on earth now knows is that you cannot trust the United States if you disagree with them

If any country pays attention to US foreign policy, they’ve known this for decades.

1. Upvote one
2. Downvote the repeats
3. Block the user
4. Move on with my life.
5. Smile

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The most likely scenario is that the person with first-hand knowledge misinterpreted the situation.

Exactly. Which is why I started with questions so you could explain more. That’s how a conversation works and prevents it from getting toxic.

These poor men and their sensitive feelings…

Case and point.

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minimize the chance of a thought occurring

This should say “negative emotion”. Thoughts are fine, more please.

Did you watch only the first hour of the first movie?

Dude, if someone’s opening pitch sucks then they have failed as a creative. That’s a skill issue and indicates that the rest of the work sucks.

You should only need to watch the opening to the LOTR movies to gauge if you’ll like it or not.

That’s a five minute investment before you continue watching a 9+ hour work.

Hey! That’s “Mr Moron” to you.

Reference explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_scanner_moment

It says “low interest” on their website: https://www.smallholderfarmersalliance.org/programs

They’ve had 100% repayment rate for over a decade. One of the quirks of the program is that women band together with other women to ensure the loan is paid back. The maximum loan term duration is 6 months.

NB: All of this information is from the alliance. I haven’t seen anything from a third party to verify the claims.

What if we just choose a role who decides what is and isn’t harassment? Just like how Minnesota chose a role that decides what books should be banned.

The way to avoid fascism is to keep power away from bigoted demagogues.

And there are no librarians that are bigoted demagogues?

You missed my point.

If a small committee can make the call, then that committee can be coerced for power. Especially if that committee gets little pay (in your words).

If you don’t want fascism, then you want to avoid consolidation of power.

Again, this sounds like a win on the surface, but I fear library staff being harassed.

content curation will be managed by “a licensed library media specialist, an individual with a master’s degree in library sciences or library and information sciences, or a professional librarian or person with extensive library collection management experience."

Cool, now we know who to bribe / influence / coerce. I don’t know if this is a win for at-risk groups.

Victorian England is responsible for most of our annoying modesty rules.

Yeah, it’s why people still avoid showing any skin at all, why women still wear corsets, and why we still wear ridiculously large hats.

And then we just never changed from then.

Orphan-crushing machine.

I don’t think it’s a pun. It’s an actual person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fowler_(software_engineer)

I don’t get:

Reed Hucks (“Redics”? What does that mean?)

Ann Vars

Heather Net

TLDR:

Trailing commas for lists allows easier:

• merging of code
• rearranging of items in the list.

So roll a d20?

It’ll be done soon, then I can go home. TGIF, am I right?