People complain about the evil of landlords, but it’s nothing compared to companies like this.

Landlords at least nominally provide some sort of ongoing services. There are no necessary services a font company could possibly provide - there’s no maintenance, no upkeep, no ongoing costs at all. This is just pure, and purely evil, rent-seeking.

A federal judge ruled in October that the USDA could not deny SNAP funding to the states because of their failure to submit data.

This is how it works now - the Trump regime says it intends to do something, a court rules that it can’t, then the regime says, effectively, “Fuck you we’re going to do it anyway.”

At this point, Trump will go down in history either as the president who destroyed the US or as the president who was prevented from destroying the US. There is no third option.

Kristi Noem never outgrew being a 13 year old rodeo queen, so this was like a dream come true for her.

And if she can make millons off of it by abusing the national emergency declaration to award a no-bid contract to a business connected to her and her staff, all the better.

This is the most corrupt, and most brazen, presidential administration in US history.

New Electric Callboy song - I expected that it was going to be irresistably catchy, goofy and strange, all at the same time. And sure enough…

Just your daily reminder that the President of the United States is a raving lunatic.

Have to eliminate the witnesses.

Evil loves company.

Because he’s Trump’s envoy and Trump is Putin’s bitch.

By refusing to engage in a public spat, she demonstrated emotional intelligence — the ability to understand and manage emotions effectively.

Ahh… that’s such a perfectly aimed backhanded dig at Musk, since emotional intelligence is one thing that he very definitely does not possess. He obviously made it as far as “teenage edgelord” on the emotional maturity scale, then just stopped right there, and is still stuck there today.

Um…yeah. About ten seconds of critical thinking also shows that language is not the same as intelligence.

If Israel was a person, they’d be on a psych hold.

normies

I think you missed the point of this thread.

Do you have the internal monologue, when not reading?

It depends on the situation.

I actually have it sometimes when I read - like when I’m reading something purely conceptual, like a question on a forum.

Basically, as near as I can tell, if it’s a written description of some tangible thing or place or event, I jump straight to visualizing it and the words don’t really register. But if it’s conceptual - an expression of an idea or philosophy or such - I “narrate” the words to myself.

I also have an internal voice - my own - when I write, presumably because I can’t directly share my visualizations, so have to translate them into words right from the start.

When I’m not reading, it seems to split broadly the same way - I only have an internal monologue regarding things that are conceptual. If it’s available to my sensorium, then my consciousness of it is simply those sensory impressions without the accompanying words, so no internal monologue.

But if it’s something conceptual, or something I’m sharing with someone else, then I translate it into words.

This reminded me of a sort of similar topic, and curiously enough it’s about reading, and might provide some insight into your question.

Some years ago, I happened on a thread in which the OP asked people whose voice they “heard” when they read.

I couldn’t even make sense of that question. The only time I “hear” voices when I read is when a character speaks. The rest of the time, I not only don’t “hear” the words - I’m not even really aware of them. My eyes follow the lines while my brain instantly translates the words I’m seeing into images and concepts and the like. And yes - it’s like a movie playing out inside my brain, and yes, I’m a #1 on this chart.

But apparently there’s a not insignificant number of people who “hear” a book inside their heads just as if someone else was reading it out loud. Instead of visualizing things, they remain focused only on the words - the representations - and somehow glean from them alone the necessary details.

I wouldn’t be surprised if those people are also generally #5 or thereabouts on this chart, and again what it is is that their brains don’t directly envision things but instead rely on descriptive representations.

I don’t get how it works either, but self-evidently it does.

This administration is not only overtly but arrogantly criminal.

Seems reasonable.

The mistake isn’t ignoring the problem - it’s subsidizing it.

They’re free to continue to be ignorant, short-sighted fuckups because we’re there to bail their pathetic asses out.

If we’re going to bail them out, then that means we’re taking responsibility, and if we’re taking responsibility then they’re going to sit the fuck down and shut the fick up and do as they’re told, because obviously they can’t take care of themselves.

And if, on the other hand, they’re going to do as they please, then it’s not our responsibility - it’s theirs. And if they can’t bail themselves out of the trouble they’ve caused for themselves, that’s their own fucking problem.

It has to be one or the other. Authority without responsibility just creates moral hazard. Either they have the aurhority, in which case they also have the responsibility, or we have the responsibility, in which case we also have the authority.

Yes.

They’re hyperfocused on states rights. Fine. Here’s the thing though - with rights come responsibilities. One can’t claim the right to make one’s own decisions, then dodge the responsibility for those decisions.

They.make their choices, they have to deal with the consequences themselves.

So they can grow the fuck up and join the modern world, or they can just wallow in their ignorance and incompetence. It’s their problem - not ours.

I’m sure that’ll be a comfort to the millions of Americans who are going to suffer and die because they can no longer afford healthcare, adequate food or even a roof over their heads.