I have aphantasia so I can’t visualize much of anything. But I did understand the passage.
I read a lot of fictionalized historical diaries as a kid (i.e., diary entries written from the POV of a fictional character living during important historical events) because they were given to me as gifts and the writing style is somewhat similar, though not as creative with imagery as Dickens.
Pumped milk can be stored in a bottle and taken with you anywhere you want. I’m told it’s very convenient.
It’s not pure. It’s water from the air, which contains all sorts of crap. Especially if you smoke or have pets.
China hasn’t been communist for decades. At least since Hong Kong was handed over (1997) if not for longer.
He FA’d and now he’s FO-ing. Lol.
Wow, right out loud in the open. I wonder if they’ll make it a slogan, like MAGA. “Go home or talk to Noem!”
God, this world is bleak.
Generally, leaving work early in Japan is (was?) seen as lazy and a sign of a morally dubious person. Keep in mind that, traditionally, people in Japan are expected to work 12-16 hour days with no complaints and, for businesspeople, sleep at the office if there is a lot of work to be done.
The fact that people are eager to leave early and don’t think of it as inherently shameful signifies a huge shift in culture.
I’ve previously lost 72 pounds with diet alone - has a caloric deficit worked for you at all? I have ADHD and exercise is just boring to me unless it’s Just Dance. Plus, it’s something you can do passively since eating less doesn’t really take any time (except the time it takes to count the calories), unlike going to the gym or exercising at home.
Yeah, I’m aware of that. We need more study and research, like I said. I’m very pro-weed (I’m smoking right now lol), but we can’t make reasonable conclusions about the level of risk involved in teen smoking yet. We just don’t know the full extent of any negative effects on developing brains.
I think assessing risk based on consumption makes sense in terms of teens (and young adults too because their brains are still developing) being informed of the level of risk involved in how much they smoke, so that’s why I advocated for that.
Alcohol, then. Prohibition didn’t work and a lot of people died making and selling their own moonshine.
I’m wondering about dosage here, really. As a kid, I smoked weed like maybe once a week but I knew kids who were constantly high all day, every day. We called them “permafried” and some even self-identified that way as a matter of pride.
Hopefully, with further study and research, we can get more information about the actual risk to teens with a variety of usage patterns. Then it’s a matter of education so that they’re aware of the risk before they’re presented with the choice to smoke.
I don’t think I’m fully understanding the satirical nature of the topic. What is the preamble or reasoning for the proposal?
I’ve read the original A Modest Proposal and it’s more clear about the reasoning despite the humour being somewhat self-evident.
If the punishment for deliberately claiming more in benefits than you’re entitled to is simply to repay the benefits then there’s no incentive to not do it.
Uh, what? The incentive is not having to pay anything back by claiming the correct amount. They’re poor, that’s why they’ve applied for the benefit in the first place. They can’t afford to pay stuff back.
The reason this is punitive is literally because they’ve chosen the amount they’re able to manage and yet are hit with huge fines when they’ve “gotten it wrong” by small margins, some as low as 38p like in the article.
If they take money from poor people, they can give tax breaks to the rich and still break even.
She has a BA in criminal justice and a JD. Not that she’s using either very well.
He’s essentially the entryway to the alt-right pipeline for young boys. A lot of his ethos is anti-women, anti-LGBT, etc. and he’s gone on record as being against “woke moralists” and “cultural Marxists” (i.e., people who care about human rights). Not to mention he isn’t able to actually articulate his ideas in public forums and is afraid to have real debates, showcasing the flimsiness of his justifications for his beliefs.
And some of his stuff is just crazy and incomprehensible, like the lobster theory and basically everything from Maps of Meaning (like this and this).
Sure, and we have lots of immigrants already, including from the US. We take in around 300,000-500,000 immigrants every year. Why should Canada specifically do (and spend) more so that we can get more Americans to come here? I know Americans want that, but why should we do it? I don’t see a benefit.
We’re even passing legislation lately that makes it so that we take in fewer people. Why would we change that for Americans?
Biden said many, many times over decades that he is a Zionist. Zionists don’t end Zionism. It was an obvious lie.
Why? If they want to be here, they can apply like everyone else. I don’t want taxpayer funding going to some stupid advertising scheme to convince “the good ones” to come here.
I sort of just try to contextualize the words and their meaning and draw upon my experiences to fill in the blanks. I still have other senses and my own mental concept of things and how they fit together. I can imagine “faces scowling” or a muddy street and how that affects the story and its setting, just not visually.
I will often infer the emotions of a scene and place myself within that context, since I usually am drawn to more character-driven experiences. I know what a room will look like based on the description, I just can’t hold an image of it in my mind.
I should also note that there are levels of aphantasia and everyone is different. I kind of have a little bit of visualization, but not much. Like limbs moving, some motions, etc. kind of like stick figures that can barely move. It doesn’t allow me to “see” things with any detail, and if I were to try to visualize (for example) a golfer taking a swing, the swing gets to the ball and then stops. There’s no physics applied to it.
I actually joined a psychological study in undergrad, because it was mandatory to do some, that was about visualizing and that’s how I discovered that I have aphantasia. They asked me to visualize and describe certain things and I was like, “I can’t” for basically every question. The researcher’s face was sort of priceless, lol.