Personal/Opinions

• 🔤SpellBinding: EHIZORM Wordo: SPEWS

• End of School - Next is University

  So, this month I had my last secondary education exams and a celebration about it. I don't feel myself very nostalgic about it, but maybe I haven't understood it well yet.

  But now I am already preparing myself to university. Actually, I wanna archive best results there, so my plan is to work hard. I am enrolling at PJATK for Computer Science degree (If anyone also applies to this uni this year or even to CS in another uni, I would be happy to talk about it. Let me know if you do any preparation and how do you feel about it.)

• Overton window, yeah OK

  Even though Overton was on the opposite political camp from me, I 100% agree with his “Overton window” model, which says that there’s a narrow range of politics acceptable to the mainstream, so pundits and think tanks who push radically outside that window have a lot of impact. Of course, he wanted to push on the wrong side of that window, but that doesn’t mean the tactic is ineffective. It has, unfortunately, been very effective for them.

• Hilltops over horseshoes

  If established power is on a hilltop using tactics suitable for an uphill position, all the other li’l guerillas crawling around on the outside of those city walls are gonna come across as having some similarities in how they approach that fortress, even when their goals are absolutely the opposite. That doesn’t mean they’re “the same” in any meaningful way. They’re still opposites.

• Idiomdrottning: Not enough polarization

  Society is polarized but our politicians don’t reflect that. The options are too close to each other and they are too far towards the right’s delusions, not close enough to the left’s clear analyses of real problems (mainly climate change).

  The convo is that we’re too polarized these days and it is true that that’s a big problem, because it’s hard to see a reconciliatory road forward. I had a terf friend and I loved her and I wanted to have patience with her and see her come home, come out of that gc cult, but in the end we had a falling out when she found out I had been excluding her from things in order to protect my queer friends from her and now we haven’t spoken in years. The solution cannot be that the camps must kill each other. We must reconciliate because living apart isn’t an option either since climate change requires a universal solution because local actions, like drilling and burning, have global consequences.

• Has the political elder abuse finally ended?

  The CNN panel commentary after last night's US presidential "debate" was without question the weirdest thing I've ever watched: what's been obvious to me for three and a half years was :suddenly: obvious to most - if not all - of the commentators, who I'm willing to bet were all absolutely certain Biden was a reasonable candidate the day before.

  It seemed somewhere between prepared/orchestrated, and an astonishing case of collective true believer denial magically unraveling.