I've been checking out WFP, they seem pretty on target so far, working in Democratic primaries to get non-Schumers as candidates.

You're just going to the wrong bars.

Kagi is a pretty good search engine if you're a middle class nerd living in the bay area.

Getting your hair dyed a non-natural and highly visible color will also do this.

Things change over time. What works on one generation may not work on the next whose minds were conditioned differently in their formative years.

I think propaganda still works as a concept, but Democrats are trying to brainwash people like it's the 1960s and Republicans are on the cutting edge of lying.

I'd compare it to, say, the Lutheran Church vs a modern megachurch. Same core absurd claim about heaven and whatnot, but the megachurch knows how to package it for the modem gull.

And an eager young bride can do in 7 months what takes 9 for cows and countesses.

I spent some time Sunday with a refugee from Donbass. This isn't how she experienced it.

The third one is modeled after a working cattle whip I saw in South America (that one was leather ofc).

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I found that keeping up with people over video works better when you're in the same time zone. When I was managing teams at +8 hours and -12.5 relative hours, communication and trust just weakened steadily over time and creative collaboration stalled. Spending a week there in person usually got things unstuck.

I know people on split engineering teams between LA and Seattle who prefer all virtual and it's worked long term. LA to NY I think would be a heavier lift.

And, of course, this whole discussion is always dominated by software engineers; there are lots of jobs that involve actual manipulation of matter where in person collaboration is essential to communicate skills.

I'm kind of doing "multiple parallel dating", which certainly isn't swinging, so I call myself poly. But I've resisted joining formal "polycules" for exactly the reasons you cite in the final paragraph.

His spine will disappear again, I'm sure.