β² @RabbitsPlantsandYoga@kind.social: This is my first post on any form of social media in almost a decade. I've spent the last 3 weeks worried that I don't have anything valuable enough to share.
Today I'm telling my inner saboteur to suck it and I'm doing something that scares me: putting myself out there.
Setting aside the adolescent histrionics, this is a good look at how a business with a dominant position destroys itself from within. wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-kiβ¦ wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-kiβ¦
"It is undisputed that President Bush did not secure a congressional declaration of war from Congress before he ordered his military to invade Afghanistan. That made their war illegal under our form of government.
How can participating in an illegal war be considered βpatrioticβ? Dwyre doesnβt explain that.
The U.S. was the aggressor under Nuremberg" A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman β The Future of Freedom Foundation fff.org/2024/04/24/a-warped-viβ¦
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Ji Fu#Sunak is trash Controversial UK government plans for deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda clear their final hurdle after a marathon tussle between the upper and lower chambers of parliament lasting late into the night. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his ruling Conservatives have been seeking to push through legislation that will compel judges to regard the East African nation as a safe third country msn.com/en-in/news/India/sunak⦠#immigration
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As the end of the school year approaches, the Michigan Science Center has received an overwhelming number of applications for field trip support, and we need your help to provide those field trips and transportation to our under-resourced schools across Metro Detroit that lack the funding and need our support.
Weβve created a program called SOS, and throughout the year, we can help these students. However, there is such a great need in 2024 that we will have to suspend this effort right now without your support, as we have over 2,000 students on the waiting list.
In February, 260 elementary students from Holland Elementary had the chance to visit Mi-Sci with SOS funding, which supported their field trip and paid for transportation!
One Holland Elementary teacher, Cynthia, shared that shortly after their visit to Mi-Sci, her 5th-grade class learned about the history of flight. She was able to immediately connect what the students were learning in the classroom to their experience at Mi-Sci, interacting with our Above and Beyond exhibit. This exhibit allowed her students to build and fly their own virtual jets, learn about forces of flight with motion-sensing technology, experience a 360-degree view of Earthfrom orbit, and much more.
@Hypolite Petovan No, Alcoholics Anonymous have as one of their rules that nobody can recover without the help of a higher power.
I think the idea is you need to leverage some kind of external pressure to yourself, to hack your peer pressure circuitry as a force to help you do the right thing.
For some people it's a simple as their God, Christian or otherwise. For atheists, they may use something more abstract like the ideals of Starfleet or whatever.
Disclaimer: There is a lot of legitimate criticism against AA, ideological and in terms of outcome, I'm just explaining what I've learned of their higher power concept.
@Abhijith Balan It's an originally Christian framework, so people do what they can to make it work, and they redefine the terms as a workaround.
If you say "I interpret the 'higher power' of this framework to be my loyalty to my family" it doesn't suddenly make you believe in miracles, an afterlife and an omniscient Creator.
It's becoming more and more common that I can't search-fetch a post. Reposting it from another place brings it here and then I can search and find it.
I'm guessing this is because more sites are enabling authorized fetch and Friendica hasn't yet implemented it ... for search specifically? Otherwise I shouldn't get the reposts either?
Not pushing anyone to do anything, it's not a weird corner case, I'm sure the relevant people are aware and it's in the backlog, and a fix will arrive in due time.
I understand why, Roomie is in the music industry and as a youtuber he is even more in the business of knowing what's hot and commenting on it, whereas I'm your typical "stopped listening to new music after college unless a song really forces itself into the zeitgeist", but it's still amazing to me that I have heard less than maybe 25 of these top 100 streamed songs before, and several of the top artists are complete blanks to me, but he has heard 99 of the songs, relates them to other works by the same artist, accurately predicts which artists will show up again closer to the top etc.
Such different bubbles! He's Swedish, but he's also ten years younger than me, but that's likely not what really puts us apart, it's our interests and especially his professional interest.
RoomieOfficial: "Top 100 MOST STREAMED Songs of All Time (Updated 2024)" (21:46)
@C++ Guy I know Dua Lipa because she was on Barbie. I know Billie Eilish because kid liked one of her songs and because people made parody memes.
Ava Max was in Barbie too (and so was Eilish, but I had already heard her), but she wasn't on this top list.
They're all great, and I've listened to them more since, but I wouldn't have known of them if they didn't reach me in some incidental way.
Taylor Swift is everywhere and impossible to have not heard about. She's even in the news, because men older than me aggressively don't like her for angry old man reasons.
But what I listen to most is Queen, Mike Oldfield and Daft Punk.