In Sweden kids learn English from second grade and a third language from fifth grade.
What really annoys me is how many programmers seem to expect us to only be able to understand one language. I much rather have the program made in English than to read a bad Swedish translation.
I agree with you. So many times in the last decades democratic presidents have started their period with the economy in a downswing after the last republican president. They get the economy in order just in time for the next republican president to step in, take the credit and mess things up again.
The stupidity of that really baffles me. How can you be so low on empathy and understanding that you don’t get that this would be the reaction?
I mean, I understand, even if I don’t like, the drive some people have to greedily gobble up every dime they can get their grubby hands on. But I can’t understand how they could have thought that the people adversely affected by it would applaud it. It’s not like I expect cows to give me a high five when I eat a burger…
An infuriating part of it is that IMF, money lovers that they are, published research on this at least ten years ago.
But you can teach someone something that their job depends on them not knowing.
I mean, most protestant Christians dislike Catholicism, that’s why they are called protestants after all.
The new part is American evangelicals and other extremists thinking that catholicism not being conservative enough…
They already have. Been reports of congregations who have complained the the words of Jesus are too woke and weak…
Looking forward to the documentary of bounty hunters trying to catch him 😊
Sure, but all his money goes to his lawyers. Or maybe not. Only one I know who’s actually gotten paid by Trump is Stormy Daniels.
One theory is that the body doesn’t know if the sweetness is sugar or sweetener. So it produces insulin to take care of it. When the level of insulin gets too high the body tries to compensate by eating more. If that “more” is more sweetener…
I can’t understand why crunch time has become so normalised. There’s no other software development project where constantly failing to plan for the needed time requirement would be accepted. Crunch is a sign of bad project management, it isn’t normal.
For every complicated and difficult question there’s a simple, and above all, wrong solution.
Or as I believe he sees it, like an old Jewish king…
This part surprised me, but mostly that Trump even knows what that is.
Jepp, it’s quite impossible to discuss with them even though I keep on trying. Many of them can’t even admit that their reading of the text is also an interpretation or that interpretations also has been made during the translation of the texts.
I much prefer the traditional Jewish tradition to argue with the text (and god) for the benefit of human kind. But that takes a deep knowledge and understanding of the texts that most people lack.
While I bet there’s exceptions what has been the general trend for conservative is that they are pleased with the status quo. They are on top and therefore don’t want things to change. When you’re not satisfied you tend to not be as patient. It also help to lack empathy for people not as lucky. Considering that you, commendably, can see the need for change you obviously belong to a different group.
What is new is that the once who call themselves conservative now instead strive to change things due to a lack of control. They want to go back to the point where they feel they had control, power, and privilege over others.
And when a group of people who lacks empathy want to take back power it can get dangerous very fast. Suck as January 6:th…
While I bet that it goes faster if you already lacked empathy there is research that indicate that coming into money makes you less empathetic.
And then of course there’s also the exceptions, like Keanu Reeves and Brendan Fraser (from what I’ve heard at least).
I would also prefer if people just acted out of empathy but I believe some people just can’t. Ironically while many claim that autistic can’t they are often more empathetic than others.
What I really dislike with this kind of Christians is that they have so much text regarding compassion but they still just care about the parts that can be used to judge others. even though they claim to read the Bible literally. Which of course they don’t.
While I partly agree with you, my point was not so much the content of the laws but that some people need an invisible all seeing power to make sure that they’re following them.
They have trouble empathising with others unless it also directly affects them. There are for instance a number of republican politics who only supported the LGBTQ after their own child came out as gay or what ever. And that’s the best case scenario.
Religion in the US is weird though. You got the extremist kicked out from Europe and you southern state branches where pastors either moved north or stopped talking about equality for all men. What remains is non of the kindness and only cruelty and punishment that some people seem to get off on.
My own take on the morality of the laws in the Bible is that we would be better off if we more looked to the reason for the why of the laws than just reading what the law said. What spoken of in tanakh (or old testament) regarding men having sex for instance isn’t about to consenting adults but a question of rape of the penetrated man. Or in an interpretation from a Danish theology, incest of a male relative. Except for the question of rape and incest, it doesn’t have any bearing today regarding same sex relationships.
The chatolic diaconese in the US is as far as I’ve heard extremists and the Vatican seems to have trouble reining them in.
Talibans, Christian fundamentalists, they are quite similar…