D61 [any]

Unfortunately I’m not in any specific position to have access to things that could be of help.

But good to know.

Mostly because I’m not the most competent techie, I’ve been using VLC between my PC and iPhone, for moving “books” around on devices that are very out of date.

Doesn’t have everything, but does have quite a bit. Still 10/10, would use again.

A gift card with just a few cents left on it.

Does it count if I’ve actually driven tanks?

me hearing a person’s name once during being introduced

me… minutes later realizing that there is just a blank spot in my memory where there name should be

me… waiting for months hoping that somebody uses their name around me in a context that attaches a name to that person because I’m too much of a coward to ask the person directly

make a backup

Pffftt… coward.

/s

Promised a friend that I’d visit them.

Flew across the country to spend a few weeks hanging out.

Got food poisoning at one of the layover food shacks.

I had a blast… literally (from my ass) and figuratively (hanging out with a buddy). It was a lot of fun and horribly uncomfortable/embarrassing the entire time.

When you hit the “Olde Fortran” too hard one night.

Sometimes people celebrate the death of horrific and oppressive people. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

First sentence might have been fine, its the second one that probably was a “foot in the hornets nest.”

Oh… you were asking a rhetorical question.

Yeah, sure. That works.

Depends on how things are organized i guess.

Two things that come to mind are dictatorships and aristocracies, at least as far a governments go.

Depends on what you get to vote on, who gets to vote, if their votes count, etc.

A more democratic system could have done something like, we’ll test run Brexit for a few years, make an assessment, and then allow everybody to vote again to continue Brexiting or roll it back. But that’s not going to happen because … well… representative democracy is authoritarian by design. Nobody is going to put a “Roll Back Brexit” question on a ballot who championed a pro-Brexit stance and will fight any attempt to give the people a chance to vote again (heck, they’ll probably fight tooth and nail to keep any useful assessments of the effects of Brexit from being pushed into the public sphere to help voters make informed decisions as well).

Representative Democracies are, by definition, authoritarian. A small number of people are elected, democratically, to make the decisions for the majority.

Is the decision to end slavery a majority decision? Then it’s democratic.

With the contradiction being that the people who were pro slavery could just decide, “Nah, we’re not going to end slavery”, and continue to do slavery. Which I’m pretty sure is generally how that went in the USA.

Yes.

But slavery was also authoritarian.

Any situation where there is a power imbalance that can be enforced through physical or psychological means that somebody doesn’t agree with is authoritarian. Employer/employee? Authoritarian. Parent/infant? Authoritarian. Bank/bank customer? Authoritarian. Doctor/patient? Authoritarian.

Probably the only reasonable definition of authoritarian would be something like, “To be ruled/governed by an authority.” I’ve decided that Bill over there gets to be in charge of things, they’re the authority. I don’t always agree with the decisions they make but they’re in charge. Which seems like it would overlap a bit with the idea of democratic centralism.

People just being people, sometimes crappy-pants, sometimes a friendly nettling.

Post how you post and let the comments flow past you, around you, through you. Then post again.

“Hello” is probably the best answer but I find myself having a knee jerk “but it seems too informal to use in a work setting” that I will need to get over.

Pretty sure nobody has any real idea how to send text correspondence anymore.

Like, I work in a building 10+ miles away from my boss and often communication is done through text, email, occasionally by voice, but almost never in person.

Every time I send a work email to my boss/coworkers, I find myself staring at the screen wondering…“Wait, is there any particular way to start these things? ‘Dear So-n-So’ is really weird. ‘First/Last Name’ seems fine unless I’m sending the email to multiple people, which happens pretty regularly. Would just jump straight into the body of the text, but that seems… wrong somehow… and potentially confusing if an email address is not something that is human readable or mixed in with a list of email addresses.”

Eventually I just bang something out and figure, whatever, its not like 90% of my emails seem to get read by anybody anyways.

One of the questions was particulary difficult.

If its the only question that the kids “cheated” on, probably just make that question weigh less compared to the rest of the questions. Bonus question or something.

I mean, unless the point of the test is to weed out kids who shouldn’t be taking the course…

r/chapo diaspora, spent a week on the Discord that popped up and it was just too much for my old eyes. Shifted to chapochat (now hexbear) and got all comfy.