The superscripts are almost certainly references to translators’ footnotes.

The random italicization I’m less sure about, but it seems to primarily be on words that may not have a direct Hebrew counterpart?

A lot of us thought this would happen if Trump won again. I don’t think any of us thought it would get this bad this quickly, but definitely within his 2nd term.

Just to be clear, when I say I blame Democrats, I mean I blame the Democratic party, the Democrat leaders (Pelosi, Schumer, etc), and their apparatus. I can see how you thought I was blaming voters, but I assure you that’s not what I meant.

And yes, I agree. The GOP are officially fascists by virtually any definition of the term.

I’m not sure the specific blame the above commenter is referring to, but I blame Democrats for two things.

1. They failed to recognize and truly fix systemic problems because the actual solutions aren’t market-oriented.

2. They dragged their heels on prosecuting Trump when he was out of power long enough for him to escape any liability and ultimately establish… this.

“DARVOs”?

I don’t think I disagree with any individual point you’re making. But I’m still getting the sense that we’re focusing on what won’t work rather than what possibly could work. It seems like you’re opposed to bottom up approaches (worker coops, etc, in a market system) and also top down approaches to regulate the edge cases.

I don’t have the time to really sit and think through possibilities, but I’ll simply say I think a current failure to think how socialism could work in a market economy does not necessarily rule out the possibility.

I appreciate the conversation regardless. You’ve given me a good few things to chew on.

I would imagine every crew has a wide range of ages already. They’re not all gonna retire at the same time. Plus, whatever happens to the business would be a democratic decision by all workers, however they choose to structure that democratic process.

If you think that sort of process would fail, I’m not sure why you would support socialism at all.

That’s not a judgment on you, to be clear. I’m relatively new to socialism, at least in terms of thinking of it in practical terms. Maybe there’s a role for a bigger regulatory body to play in that system to ensure capital continues to be owned by the people who work with that capital (or owned by the broader community in which it resides).

I don’t understand. Why couldn’t the teams that make the machines, the crews that make the steel, all the way down, all be worker owned companies in a market economy?

I was under the impression that you can still have a market economy under socialism. That is, you can have workers own the means of production while still buying and selling goods through fairly normal means.

But maybe I’m misunderstanding?

I’m not sure what started it exactly, but yes, those two had a big public falling out. During which, Elon criticized the budget bill.

Eh. Trump is publicly weighing the idea of deporting Musk. He’ll turn on anyone, no matter the previous displays of loyalty.

This does seem aimed at CNN, in particular, imho.

It was lined with plastic.

As an American, I suppose I’m getting used to disappointment.

:(

please take all of Michigan. Please please please.

That’s exactly it, yep. I’m well over apologizing at this point.

And yeah, I also moved back home for a while after college, and it was a bad time. Plenty of good, but plenty I’m glad to leave behind. Let us all strive to be better people than our parents were, I say.

I’m glad you’re out, and I hope you’re doing well. Stay safe out there!

Yeah, I’m conflicted about my family enough as it is. But push comes to shove, I’m fine on my own at this point.

Ah, that’s the thing. He never demanded an apology. He sulked, and it was others in the family who learned about it (through either me or him) that told me I was wrong and to apologize.

I’ve never been one to back down from a conflict I thought was worthwhile. It wasn’t until I was literally a married adult when an in-law (whom we love dearly) told my SO about how my family “sweeps things under the rug”. When my SO told me later, I was like “nah… but wait do we though?” That led to a lot of revisiting old memories and realizing how conflict avoidant we really were (except for me, lol).

Yeah, if either of my parents demanded an apology from me for anything right now… they have some choice words coming.

My dad was smart when I was growing up. He is smart now.

But he’s so entrenched in the worst right wing political lunacy, and always has been, that I’ve rarely viewed him as someone to imitate morally.

I blew up at him as a teen over the Iraq War. He never once justified his position in anything remotely resembling a reasoned argument, but I hurt his feelings, so I had to apologize to him about it. That family dynamic has never really changed, so I just don’t talk to him anymore.

Man, I still really struggle to understand​ how we can reliably age-gate anything on the Internet without sacrificing privacy for everyone.

IRL you can just show your govt issued ID, but there’s virtually zero privacy risk doing so. Bouncers don’t register ID scans, typically, and they’re just one person. The govt doesn’t know you went to that club or drank at that one bar, unless they’re actively surveilling you.

But if I needed to identify myself as an adult online, simply by virtue of how digital systems work, that probably requires checking against a govt database, and that database will keep logs, and now Trump knows I went to Pornhub, and likely also exactly what I watched or searched for.

Maybe I’m dumb, but I really don’t know any way around this sort of thing.

I remember reading a Haidt article for an ethics class in grad school. The analysis felt… underwhelming? It’s been too long to remember the article, but I think it was something about the “morality” of conservatives being not worse but different than liberals (limited to the US, iirc). I just remember reading it and going… yeah conservative morality functions differently. It’s also just demonstrably worse, though, even based on what the article was focusing on?

That class was weird though. Mostly just a bunch of folks going,“yeah well this is what I care about” and disagreeing with each other with seemingly no intention whatsoever to try and evaluate or engage with one another.