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  • This is actually very funny and telling. Mike Pence is on the side of the maga Republican elite who thinks Trump is just a misguided megalomaniac like all of them who's just taking his turn at power and all he's looking for is a little grease in the wheels to see reason.

    What Pence doesn't realize is that Trump moved on from him long ago after dropping him like a soggy sandwich for crossing him even once.

  • Geese are mean and scary, but that doesn't make them deadly. Unless they get a super lucky shot on a major artery they can't kill you. You might end up with some deep scratches but I don't think a goose could even break anything more than your hand. If it's a fight to the death at the end of the day you can just run at the goose and tackle it, sacrificing your face and legs and arms to some really bad scratches.

  • Maybe some country will drop a nuke, or a supervolcano erupts, or america will experience a surprise land invasion and when any major event like that happens I want to be one of the first to know.

    Now it never has happened and it probably won't in my lifetime but don't tell my brain that.

  • I think the tp during COVID was kind of a fluke. It could have been anything. Laundry detergent, some food product etc. TP was just what the news hung their hat on so it's what everyone thought about when they went to the store.

    I'm personally buying rice, beans, and lots of spices to make some delicious meals and wait out the price shocks of food.

    Besides that, I mean what do you really need need when it comes to this stuff? I can think of a few things but it's a very short list. Really we're just going to have to ride it out and hope it doesn't get bad bad

  • That's kind of my point. What part of our whole understanding of how to train dogs involves training them to be more independent? I don't really think there is any. At best you can point to like dog socialization training, but I don't think that makes them more independent, that's just training them to be social when their owners are around.

  • My main issue with this is that the way we train dogs is that we train them to be dependant on us. So yeah, she's training him to come out of his shell, maybe, but if it works the same way a dog does he'll only be loyal and listen to her. Especially because anyone else he meets won't treat him like a dog and will expect him to behave like a person without the expectation of rewards which would probably make him more adverse to others

    Of course, he's a human being too so it won't go down exactly like that. I'm just saying that from the very first premise the way we train dogs is by training them to be codependant

  • Dream job!

  • I get that the glib answer will be "so they can make money"

    But what is the actual thought process they are pretending to go through here? Cause the experience of being a prompt engineer is not some sought after experience like how people pay to be movie PAs for free or work as an artist assistant.

  • A classic cult tactic tbh. Convince people that they can divine meaning from random nonsense and they'll convince themselves that they are more enlightened and above those around them who don't understand.

  • What's crazy is that it's perfect. Getting rid of autistic people is exactly the intellectual purging that fascists want when they get into power.

    I know not every autistic person is "an intellectual" but many transgressive artists and radical leftist college professors are autistic.

  • I honestly don't even know what to say lol. How do you think anyone forms an identity ever? We have - I was going to type decades - but centuries of case studies and writing about why people get roped into cults of personality and insane belief systems despite looking like lunatics from the outside.

    What do you even think is happening to these people? Based on your previous reply the answer is "I have no idea" which should tell you you should look a little deeper into what's happening.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Donkter @lemmy.world

    How do you officially pronounce a possessive like: " Travis' "?

    Do you just pronounce it like "Travises" like we do colloquially? Or is there some way to do it.