The description was clear enough to me 🤷🏻‍♀so I clicked the link. She has an awesome voice.

Thanks

I’ve been debating trying this but I’m not an IT expert, so feeling overwhelmed and nervous to even start. Do you have any guides or websites that you could recommend?

Sadly, not true. Most people in South Africa still drive manual cars because they’re cheaper. The drivers aren’t any better. Anyone can learn to drive a manual, it just takes a little longer.

Personally, I suspect that automatic cars are safer because there is less the driver can do wrong in an emergency.

A big issue with Switzerland is that the EU lacks direct democracy i.e. the ability for the people to force a vote.

It’s actually pretty awesome. I mean sometimes they end up forcing a vote on stupid things but generally it’s a safeguard that allows the people to block legal changes. So a situation like the Trump tariffs couldn’t happen in Switzerland if the majority of the population objected.

Personally, I think the EU would be a stronger democracy if they added it, and the odds of Switzerland joining would increase substantially.

I feel you, although I’m not sure this counts as minor

The 2nd half of the article also mentions an AI generated song released by China’s state run media.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-04-03/-Liberation-Day-or-a-price-to-pay--1CgrB0bz7by/index.html

Wow. You have issues mate.

Um, you’re taking my comment way too seriously. I replied to a cartoon picture. I literally just made up a silly explanation that would fit the photos. Please take a deep breath and go touch some grass.

If they honestly thought both parties were equally bad, then they’re getting what they expected - an untrustworthy political party that doesn’t represent their values. I trust they’re feeling sufficiently vindicated.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Sometimes life has no perfect choices. Not voting was an active choice, a choice not to take action to protect the US from facism. Anyone who didn’t think Trump was bad enough to vote against, doesn’t get to blame others that he won. Their choice comes with responsibility, just like everyone elses choices do.

Voting doesn’t always mean you 100% agree with the party you are voting for. Sometimes it means that you vote for the least bad option to prevent system collapse. I say this as a South African whose only voting goal for years was to prevent the ANC from getting a sufficiently high majority to be able to change the constitution. We came insanely close a few times but made it through.

Not voting in the US election was a choice, a choice not to stand against Trump. So anyone who didn’t think Trump was bad enough to vote against, doesn’t get to blame the GOP for what’s happening.

All that is needed for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.

Please could you define what you understand by “high logic”?

Personally, I’m only familiar with “higher-order logic” as defined in maths. So for me, someone with “high logic” has the ability to interconnect and solve complex problems, which is one of the key skills measured by IQ tests.

Realising your beliefs and reality do not align doesn’t require complex logical reasoning, so for me the statement you quoted doesn’t mean high logic.

Personally I’m betting on Nessie having camouflage skills like an octopus, and instead of squirting ink they can create the equivalent of an underwater dust cloud. That would absolutely explain these photos.

Edit to add: /jk since apparently that wasn’t obvious 🙄

Your bias is showing. Intelligence isn’t necessary to be left wing. Change is hard for everyone and requires emotional intelligence, not IQ.

Would you mind sharing more details on your experience?

Like, was it a single person that got you thinking, or feedback from a group?

Is there a particular conversation that you remember as the start of change, or rather a gradual shift over time?

Did/was something happen(ing) in your personal life at the time that made you more open to hearing another opinion?

Makes sense, thanks for clarifying.

No, you hand them in for recycling.

We have a lot of existing plastic. Until we can destroy it without harming the climate, the best we can do is re-use it and not make more. What’s the alternative, have it sit in a dump somewhere poisoning the earth and seeping into underground water?

No argument from me, I understand why anti-DEI proponents oppose it. Their racism, classism and misogyny is clear.

The point to my comment was simply that the original commenter is incorrect in thinking that not having DEI explicit adverts excludes a business from having DEI targets.

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

I understand this to mean that job adverts shouldn’t explicitly target DEI hires. That is not, however, the same as not implementing DEI targets in a company.

The intelligent way to implement DEI has always been to interview and identity the top candidates for a role, and then if you have 2 capable and competent candidates and one is a women / minority, they get the job. This law wouldn’t prevent that.