I’m barely 40 and calling something a length of X seems totally normal to me. Making me feel old with that grandpa talk kid.

They can sell the land and buy education and the means to live while they go through it perhaps?

Still mostly a democracy? Erdogan just had the opposition candidate for president arrested and is in progress with getting him disqualified from running entirely. Turkiye has not been a democracy for a long time and the dictator is just doing it in the open now.

I support the Turks. Let them kick Erdogan out!

Dictatorship.

Read that short column by Asimov elsewhere in the thread. It’s a photo of a column in Newsweek so it should be easy to find. It was written in 1980 - three and a half years before I was born, and he’s bemoaning anti-intellectualism and the rising acceptance of ignorance being just as valuable as the opinion of an expert.

If he could have seen what the internet has done, social media specifically, I can’t imagine what he’d think. Social media with 24/7 access to anything that will tell you what you feel in your gut is right. Yeah, we’re dumber than we’ve ever been since before literacy became ubiquitous.

You call it an filtered version of history and you’re exactly right. I’d say it’s more filtered than ever before. Not just history is filtered but the very evidence of the current day from your eyes and ears is filtered in real time.

Like most (all?) big counter-culture movements, most of the people who were “in” it were not really there for deep seated beliefs. It was cool, there were parties and music, sex and drugs were plentiful. Then it was time to grow up put all that stuff behind them.

I don’t mean to disparage the whole hippie thing. Lots of people really believed in it and do to this day. I just think the majority were there for the fun then got back to “real life”.

They literally mentioned that.

If you’re owed money, take it, then adjust your shit at work so that doesn’t happen anymore. I owe money because of contract work I did so I’m filing for an extension and see how it shakes out.

“Republicans are fiscally responsible” = “You eat seven spiders every year in your sleep”

It’s just something people will keep repeating until the end of time because they don’t have anything important to say.

This is the right way to go unless you’re totally incompetent with money or a gambling addict.

I gotta nominate the coffee literally and meticulously gathered from large cat shits for bougiest shit known. I mean, pine nuts are expensive but you can make a lot of pesto with just a small package of them and basil you grow at home in a windowsill.

We’ll have to agree to disagree.

PKK is their eternal bogeyman/scapegoat. I doubt they were ever serious about talks.

I accidentally picked up some Ben and Jerry’s oat milk style and it was delicious. I do prefer the regular but I wouldn’t mind getting the oat kind. Surprisingly to me, the oat milk version had slightly more calories.

I’m not exactly an authority on handing out the title, but since I don’t believe in gender roles I say you’re good to go!

The idea is that it’s an inclusive document. I think the two parts that directly say they are rights for citizens clearly imply that the rest of it is for everyone. It’s a shame we have to rely on this ancient document, which is in some places poorly written.

Good luck getting 3/4 of states to agree that water is wet though, so rewriting, rewording, or amending the Constitution is off the table. That leaves us stuck with interpretations from the courts, which I hope we can at least agree are largely corrupt.

That’s the idea, then people who want to see the movie they paid for can go to the non-brainrot theatre.

Good write up and very important to remember. I just wanted to point out that the typo of J vs K at the end there may lead people to think you are remarking on his ethnicity.

You make good comments, I’ve seen you around. Take it from a 41 year old if you want, you deserve to be here. You’re more thoughtful than the average person your age and that will only improve once your brain gets finished cooking 😉