OpenStars
joined 2 years ago
That's... not how dementia works.
First you have "bad days".
Later you have "good days".
Then and only then do some people finally start accepting what may have begun decades ago in the past.
Source: clearly I must have dementia too, if that is the only way to know that one has it? :-P
BTW, I never said, nor even implied, that he has dementia. I mentioned that he has trouble recalling things, from time to time, and that in a crucial matter that might be relevant. Crucial matters do not come at you only at scheduled times of your choosing and which you can cancel if you need to. Whether it goes all the way to full-blown dementia or not though is not for me to say. Oh, I just looked up the definition of dementia - so yeah I guess I am saying that to me, it looks he has dementia:-). But what I mean is that whether it's a 1 on a scale of 100, or a 10 or a 20 or whatever, I could not begin to say, just that I am worried that it is not zero.
Though so too does the other guy - and his might be up to sth like 80 at this point - so I'm not talking about "both sides-erism" and I'm so fucking tired of pretending that the only things that ever exist are the two extremist polar opposites of one another, with literally nothing else allowed to exist in the vast gulf between them. Whether I say any of this or a mod removes it or whatever, people are still worried about it regardless - it's a real worry.
That said, he and his team have greatly surpassed my expectations from his first term and I hope I get the chance to see how well that combo performs in his second, even though I suspect that the part of it that involves "him" will diminish greatly.
True, though haven't studies shown that it is the major one, currently? So if the goal were to reduce even if not eliminate all crime, it might be a great place to start.
I think at this point that ship has sailed - they don't even believe themselves anymore, e.g. many don't go to church. Certainly the Karens do not bother to "love one another", or to feed the poor, give comfort to those in prison, take care of widows & orphans, care that the worker deserves their wages, etc. It is cultural at this point, less than religious.
But not entirely, bc in the last Presidential election "evangelical Christians" did have the single highest majority of people in it voting for Trump. So there's that, though I am saying that it just seems a more complex mixture than only that.
Counterpoint: is it better to put the TB-grade taco into the car than into a human body? Nvm, that seems to get into a whole "exactly what type of emissions are we talking about here?" side-track:-).
I have only ever used simply "git push". I feel like this is a "how to say that you barely know how to use git without saying that you barely know how to use git" moment:-D.
I mean... at a certain point though, can you blame them? The system is so heavily corrupt that even criminals walk free, so ofc a high-ranking police officer will too. Like if the governor, mayor, and chief of police are all active members of the actual KKK, is a noobie's job to overturn all of society to make it more just, or can they do at least some good if they keep their heads down and focus on what they can affect?
Most Americans (I am one) are lazy AF, always wanting others to do work for us. Trash collectors: "just make my garbage go away" (rather than work towards a more sustainable lifestyle). Doctors: "make a pill for that" (rather than eat healthy and exercise, but accepting that death eventually comes for us all). Police: "just make crime go away" (rather than work to address the systemic imbalances in the system that cause it.
Ultimately it is not only the job of police to police the police, but also the Mayor and thus the voters to choose what we want done. And if one side refuses to function - which sometimes but isn't always the police - then it is lazy to place all the blame onto them.
Also, since when did the job of police ever include "changing" anything? Their whole thing is to "maintain the status quo", which is like the polar opposite of change? Oh... now I get it:-P.
I mean... literally everyone is biased in some way so I would be dishonest if I said that he lacks any and all biases, right? But he did present multiple POVs surrounding the issue, which is about the best that could ever be hoped for, practically speaking. Ofc it's less than 15 minutes long and has jokes mixed in along with the information so the information density is even less than that... so there's only so much detail that he is going to be able to cover there.
Off the top of my head, I would think that his chif bias would be away from violence - most of us in the Western world would share that, but it is a bias nonetheless, that not everyone today and certainly not everyone in the past and future will share.
In most ways I consider one of the least biased "journalists" still active today (that word should probably have a pseudo- in front of it, b/c he's more of an aggregator and deliverer than a finder-outer, but still, him + his team have done quite well in the past). He was already retired, having stepped back into the fray only temporarily during this next USA Presidential election season for his own fun and b/c I think he genuinely cares about people and realizes how lost most of us feel right now, so he is offering and we (his audience) are glad to accept. So unlike most media personalities, he doesn't give a crap about building up his "fame" or having to toe the corporate line - I imagine that if he says something that "they" don't like, he will just walk away, and it will be their loss far more than his for him to do so. :-P That said, he still would like his videos to be aired, and there is just common decency and politeness too, so he probably toes the line a little bit, i.e. he still has biases it is just that they are greatly reduced compared to most in his line of work.
Edit: I am just going to add this little gem here too:
“The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.”
― Jon Stewart (quote)
I can't be a mod but I thought I would offer some suggestions in case you are amenable and if they might be helpful:
- edit the OP to include an actual link to the community - I tried to make one but it kept adding "posts" in front of the c; Lemmy really is difficult to use in many ways
- add a welcoming post, to draw people in and let them know that they got to the right place!:-D
- maybe clarify more deeply what the community is all about, not just in the welcoming message but in the sidebar area itself - like why does this one exist, given how others also exist? did you want it to have a particular focus more on actions closer or with greater relevance to the midwest USA? and if so, are posts mentioning global or national events still welcomed? people are going to want to know, so help them out by telling them!:-)
- have fun! thank you for your service to the Fediverse
I can follow along re-typing the same commands told to me by a more senior dev just like any average monkey!
This reminds me of something I made a long time ago:
Since I am calling myself dumb, I estimate my progress to be somewhere perhaps at the 20th percentile marker? :-D One of these days I'll RTFM and rocket all the way up to be dumb enough to properly qualify for "below average"! :-P