I believe French does this as well. To answer in the affirmative to a negative question, you use “si” instead of “oui”

“Si” is also the word for “if”, which has probably confused people.

(top search hit, not sure if good, but on a quick glance it looks correct https://www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/si-in-french )

The underlying cause is they are more emotional driven than the baseline human, I think. We’re all emotional, but I feel like some people really let the truthiness gutfeel of emotions rule the day and facts are just not that important to them.

Pick like any of those and you see they had a choice between feelings that make them feel smart or part of an in-group, or facts that made the world clash with their beliefs. And because they’re kind of fools and cowards, they go with the feel-good most of the time.

Windows sure is bad, though I haven’t seen an actual blue-screen in years. That’s some foul luck.

Oh yeah I got a cheap wireless mouse and keyboard for it, worked fine. One or two crashes, but mostly just fine.

I think the rich assholes are banking on protests never ascending beyond chants and the occasional march. Maybe some blocked traffic.

When the right wing leaders are dragged out of their mansions at night and hanged from the nearest tree, and all the would be witnesses say they didn’t see anything, then we’d be getting somewhere.

Laws only matter if they are enforced.

The right wing doesn’t care about law or consistency. They care about in-groups to protect and out groups to bind.

If “how do treat strangers” is a viable metric for assessing if someone is a good person or not, the the right wing are not good people.

I think at least New York now requires jobs to post a range. I haven’t even seen bullshit like “$50k - $500k” - maybe the law was written strongly enough that they can’t loophole it that way.

Been doing the job search and it’s frustrating how bad most of the job postings are. There’s so much filler nonsense.

I pretty much just want to know like

• tech stack
• team size
• big picture what the company does
• if they’re assholes about in-office mandates
• salary range

Some postings are like “must know Java, go, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, or rust” and I’m like do you use all of those?

I just feel like there’s a lot of “You hate every piece of capitalism, but you won’t connect the dots to see they’re all coming from the same source.” It won’t be enough to restore social security payments if we still have billionaires just walking around, or we keep this broken two-party system that also empowers less populated areas. Just to name two issues off the top of my head.

We need larger, structural, changes.

But I guess everything starts somewhere.

Yeah… Some of the solutions start easier (someone just shoots musk and his lackeys dead) but bring high chaos.

More stable solutions I don’t even know what they’d look like.

Pray to Saint Luigi for guidance.

It’s certainly not easy. But what saint Luigi allegedly did might become common if more people feel like their back is against the wall and there’s no peaceful way forward.

The hypocrisy, mostly. Conservatives go on about “waste”, and fire a bunch of people who were actually doing work. Meanwhile, this silver spoon’d asshole is making $800k for doing barely anything.

We shouldn’t put up with the rich anymore.

“I want computers to do my laundry so I can do art. Instead computers are doing the art.”

All of this AI stuff would be fine (or at least less bad) if we didn’t live in a capitalist dystopia where people might have their basic needs (food, shelter, etc) threatened so some rich turd can become a little richer.

Sounds like it. But the people who suffered from under funded education will never have that injury remedied.

The people responsible for this problem (I’m assuming Republicans) should face some consequences.

It’s going to bother me forever that, even if we do get some sort of new deal, the people who shit up the world will never really be made to pay for it. Like, one time Facebook tried to see if they could just make people sad by changing the feed algorithm. And yet no one hanged for that mass cruelty, and no one ever will. Energy companies pollute the air and water, lie about the facts and consequences, and then are never put up against the wall and shot. It’s unfair. It’s not right. Little new deal changes to raise minimum wage or provide mandatory maternity leave are good, but they’re not enough to account for the crimes and injustice.

The people who shit up the world should pay. In money, in time, or in blood. But if they skate free, that’s another insult and injury on top of everything else.

You ever wonder if Republicans are actually aliens that are trying to terraform earth to be more like their own planet? (whatever that is. Maybe hell.)

Can’t be the first person to have had that idea

If they weren’t punished they won’t learn much. Now if all the Republicans who tried this mini-coup were removed from office, that’d be a start.

Stop going to nazi bars.

A lot of their supporters seem to be “keep the government out of medicare” tier thinkers.