I kinda feel this if I turn on both subs and dubs on an anime. Sometimes they’re different, and you can see where one chose a straight translation where the other tried to convey some idiomatic meaning lost in the literal translation. It’s interesting to note the differences, and try to figure out the original meaning by comparing them.

Because voting is specifically a popularity contest, and most people aren’t very politically engaged.

Blue is marginally better than red, in terms of trying to secure conditions where actual action can be effective. Summarizing another commenter, you’re not voting for good vs evil, you’re determining which mainstream option is going to be more difficult to fight against and trying to ensure they don’t win.

I don’t think you can erase the acknowledgement of “no child should be killed” from the masses. The people who already believe that aren’t going to stop, and the ones who don’t aren’t going to start.

But we celebrate saving one child because, again, it’s a popularity contest.

The red voters are pretty stalwart supporters. Their voting habits don’t vary much no matter what their party does. They’ll celebrate killing 3 children because their party tells them that they were the bad kind of children.

The blue voters are much more variable. They like to think of themselves as decent, principled, thinking people. When you inundate them with the child killing, they’re more likely to stay home. And since blue is marginally better for us, that works against our purposes. Ironically, loudly condemning the killing of 2 children makes it more likely that it will be 3 children after the next election.

You’re absolutely right that they’re ghouls who don’t deserve to be celebrated. But we don’t celebrate them because they deserve it, we celebrate them to reduce the chances of getting the worse alternative.

Once the worse alternative is eliminated, and there are better alternatives that stand a chance to win by calling out the lesser evil for still being evil, we should absolutely 100% do that. But until then, I don’t want to demoralize the voters who can help stave off the greater evil until we have a viable alternative, be it an actual leftist candidate with broad appeal or a sufficiently organized revolutionary force.

Certainly possible. In that case I would have expected a good faith attempt to understand that those resources and conditions separate them from a large number of people having a more difficult time, but who knows.

Uh, that seems like a legitimate reason to be stressed. You might just be particularly stress-tolerant.

I’m busy, but that’s because I cram a lot of extra things in my life for fulfillment. I’m also fairly lucky in that I make over the median income working 30-35 hours a week. I assume you are also financially comfortable, but our experience is very different from someone who has to work 2 jobs to make ends meet.

I half-joke that my childhood was so stressful that the stress/anxiety circuit in my brain burned out years ago. It’s probably more accurate to say that I have a solution-oriented mindset: when there’s someone wrong in the world, instead of getting anxious I start brainstorming solutions and how to implement them; if I have no solution, stressing still isn’t going to fix anything so I just focus on problems I can find solutions for.

I’d wager most people feel more helpless than that, they see big problems in their life as immutable facts instead of temporary conditions. That certainly plays a role in how stressed/anxious they feel.

Sometimes PR people don’t write defensively, at least not entirely. Sometimes there’s an error, and the correct PR response is to acknowledge the error and communicate intent to rectify it for the future. Being totally defensive in the light of an actual error can do more damage than gracefully acknowledging it.

LLMs are trained on data. They learn from actual human content. They’re usually pre-prompted to be agreeable, professional, and diplomatic. PR writing is probably a good chunk of the training data used to inform LLM word and phrasing choice.

You’re essentially arguing that an impressionist painting “reads like AI” because you’ve seen a lot of AI images generated by models trained on impressionist paintings.

“you’re right to raise this” is an LLMism on the same level as “You’re exactly right!”

It’s also a standard PRism. Given that this is a PR post, that’s not really proof.

I wore a bandana pirate-style

But my hair was only shoulder length. I’d probably combine that with a bun.

Eh, the 80s and 90s were a marked shift towards usefulness. Gotta maximize shareholder value, dontcha know.

You and me both buddy, although “sprinkling” somewhat understates my general approach.

if it ain’t broke

Ironic choice of words

There’s just really not a very useful reason outside of “because we can”, so it hasn’t really been a priority. Still, that’s kinda the point of the Artemis program, so we’re getting there.

There are a few that you can buy, they just aren’t cheap. KAT Walk is a usable omni-“treadmill”, FreeAim has their motorized shoes. Again, not cheap, but still within the budget of a motivated enthusiast.

Have you seen a superhighway? It’s still accurate.

“Your opinion has no value”, or some variety thereof. Then get on with your day.

Harry Coin

Ah, scarcity leads to price inflation

Rush Job - Sheena Ringo

Swamp - Mid-Air Thief, but the whole album Gongjoong Doduk is pretty good.

Dixie - Harmonium

Le tombeau est vide - Chromb!

For fun:

El Corazón - Hard n Phirm

Honorable mention that might not technically count:

Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano

Weasels Ripped my Flesh is the first to come to mind, but I’m also partial to The Muscular Sorrow of Sadbrain Beardman

I dunno, that sounds like a fast track to being the subject of a murder mystery. I think I’m good.