Is this named after Karl Popper? If so that’s unfortunate because Popper spent his life arguing against the validity of inductive reasoning in science. His distinctive contribution was to try to describe a scientific method that did not depend on induction.
https://philosophy.institute/logic/poppers-critique-rejection-induction/
Not just the tech industry. A huge proportion of the US economy is made up of betting on AI. Like the crash of 2008 (but worse, some predict) it will hurt everyone but the richest, who will become even richer.
Trump is seen as being strongly aligned with the working class
This explanation is even more unfathomable than the thing it explains. I dont really understand how anyone can look at the (multi)billionaire Trump and think “he’s on the side of the workers.”
They are paid to be so.
This bill did not pass because the Senate was evenly divided and the Democrats suffered a backbench rebellion from two “centrist” senators.
There’s a reasonable suspicion the Democrats only advance these bills proposing real change when they already know they have those two “rebels” lined up to block it. That way they keep the voters coming back for another try, while looking after the interests of those who pay them.
Ah but RFK knows fire kills measles, COVID and cancer.
In October, the group played an active role in advocating for the release of a 16-year-old Palestinian-American from Florida who had been held in an Israeli prison for eight months. Mohammed Ibrahim was released last month.
Oh, it’s that kind of terrorism - the sort where you stand up to protect the victims of Israel’s genocidal fascism. Makes sense now.
If there’s one thing I know about Americans it’s that when they say “bullshit” they mean “utter poppycock, twaddle and codswallop.”
Or when he thought Portland was a war zone because he saw it on Fox News?
If it discourages Trump from coming to London, I’m sure most Londoners would be fine with him staying deluded.
It will probably just be vague fearmongering, like “This product hasn’t been proven not to have the potential to do really bad things to you.”
In Chinese, affirmation is often compiled through negation:
没错 (méi cuò) = “not wrong” = Right
不差 (bù chà) = “not bad” = Decent
还行 (hái xíng) = “still passable” = Okay
没事 (méi shì) = “no problem” = It’s fine
In English, this feels bizarre. If something is good, you say:
Nice
Great
Perfect
Brilliant
You name the quality directly. You point at it. You own it.
In American positivity-laden, self-marketing, businessy English perhaps. But in the UK “not bad”, “could be worse”, “not wrong”, “can’t complain”, “I’ve had worse” and so on is often as positive as it gets, or at least was for a long time. American positive-speak gets on British people’s nerves; it’s perceived as boorish, boastful and unsubtle. And “no problem” is common in English all over. British people do say “brilliant” but only when they’re being unusually enthusiastic, or fake, or sarcastic.
The problem is that even if at some level they realize this, self-deceit and denial is an easier way to deal with the feeling that maybe their whole world view has been a bad mistake, than admitting their whole world view has been a bad mistake and changing it.
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So It’s Republican policy that the government must not, even in the smallest way, make life any easier for disabled people? And the government must not do nothing and leave in place something that already makes life easier for them, but must actively intervene to make it harder? Of course it is, but what the fuck is wrong with these people that they dedicate their entire life to getting into government so they can punch down and hurt others? How have they not even accidentally stumbled into being better than the worst they can be?
Americans must learn to adjust to a lower standard of living, he told the crowd before suggesting a specific solution to prices hiked by his tariffs, which he continues to insist are a success. “You can give up certain products. You can give up pencils…You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is nice.”
Trump thinks the economic problem is pencil addicts and spoiled little girls. The guy is a mental ruin.
Remember there’s also the Republican ownership of voting machine companies, the Republican replacement of state officials who oversee elections, and the Republican demand that their DoJ “comprehensively” oversee elections in states (whereas in 2024 they argued the opposite, that the DoJ should have no access to monitor elections). They have a number of tricks up their sleeves.
The aging sea lion enables the Stephen Millers to go about their nasty business while everyone is looking elsewhere. That’s one way he’s dangerous. The other is that he’s a threatened malignant narcissist with dementia and diminishing impulse control, and one of the world’s most powerful armies.
It never was, but it’s much less so now. Many Americans have believed the propaganda for a long time.
Well that makes more sense. Thanks for the information!