Columbia Journalism Review: "Where Chuck Todd Failed" and I agree -
Chuck Todd channels "the very aspects of consensus practice in journalism that I hate: bothsidesism, false equivalence, an obsession with presidential politics, handwringing about ill-defined concepts like 'polarization,' a focus on political optics."
#MeetThePress #Sunday #news #TV #television #shows #cable #blog #weekday #ChuckTodd #meet the #press #reporters #follow #up #question #false #equivalence https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/where-chuck-todd-failed.php

[QUESTION OF THE WEEK] What's an alternative band you should TOTALLY BE INTO based on your taste, but no matter how hard you tried... it just didn’t click: https://lemmy.world/post/4864014

Bands where, on paper, when you do the math, you should totally be a fan! “If you love X, you’ll definitely love Y!” yet something about the band… it… it just didn’t hit right with you.

Me: Radiohead. Weird, proggy, alt, quirky, check! But nope. Dead inside for them.

#music #question #alternativemusic #indiemusic

So, that #Chrome is bad is a no-brainer, but it looks like MS Teams will not work completely (video calls + audio) in #Firefox. And I don't mean it in the "change UA settings" way, I guess Microsoft just uses something specific to Chrome's engine on it, I think.

So if you depend on this shitty app for work but don't wanna use Chrome (or the desktop client), what do you do? Honest #question.

#Android #termux #question
Est-ce que vous savez comment faire sous Android : Partage > vers Termux ?

Je voudrais faire "Partager" dans Android de manière à envoyer la liste des fichiers à un script shell Termux.

#Question: Don't you think that the support from #religion s and #religious teachers is a great help to man in his effort to free himself from all that binds him?

#Krishnamurti: No teacher can give us right values. You may read all the books in the world, but you cannot gather wisdom from them. You may follow all the religious systems of the world and yet remain a slave to them. Only when you stand alone can you find wisdom and be wholly free, liberated. By aloneness I do not mean living apart from humanity. I mean that aloneness which comes from understanding, not from withdrawal. It exists, in other words, when one is utterly individual, not individualistic. You know, we think that by continually practicing the piano under the direction of an instructor we shall become great pianists, creative musicians; and similarly we look to religious teachers for guidance. We say to ourselves, "If I practise daily what they have laid down, I shall have the flame of creative understanding." I say, you can practise it without end, and you will still not have that creative flame. I know many who daily practise certain ideals, but they become only more and more withered in their understanding, because they are merely imitating, they are merely living up to a standard. They have freed themselves from one teacher and have gone to another; they have merely transferred themselves from one cage to another. But if you do not seek comfort, if you continually question - and you can question only when you are in revolt - then you establish freedom from all teachers and all religions; then you are supremely human, belonging neither to a party nor to a religion nor to a cage.

What do you think about the recent videos we've been putting out? by AnswersInReason
https://www.tiktok.com/@answersinreason/video/7162868779024682245

I've been trying to combine the shorts style format in portrait and more full length landscape stuff too.

#question #youropinion #shorts

#Crowdsource #Question #HiveMind

I, like you, hate cleaning the shower. But it has to get done.
What is your best #lifehack to get the job done?
Best products?
Made-at-home concoctions that don't blow up, give off noxious fumes or easily ignite?
I want to hear them all!

I have a #question for #GroceryMastodon and/or #PickleMastodon in the #US.

Where are the #sweet #pickle #salad cubes?? Why have they been off #grocery shelves ever since the #pandemic started?

I used to put sweet salad cubes in my #tuna fish salad but for the last 2½ years, I've had to settle for sweet relish and it's just not the same.

Anyone know these little square pickles are gone? I feel kinda silly for asking but it's been bugging me for years now.

(a boost would be nice!)

#IAmDB

To continue watching Shi-Ki or not

That is the #question

This shows #pacing is #insane
I can't stop if I make it over ep5.
Mhmm..

Marxism on Trial | TJump Vs Leo | Debate Podcast by Modern-Day Debatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_1DLgetinw#debate #podcast #AiR #answersinreason #question #questions #art #book #reading #psychology #recommendedviewing

https://jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/1933-the-art-of-listening/jiddu-krishnamurti-the-art-of-listening-07

#Question: You say that #truth is simple. To us, what you say seems very abstract. What is the practical relation, according to you, between truth and actual life?

#Krishnamurti: What is it that we call actual life? Earning money, exploiting others and being exploited ourselves, marriage, children, seeking friends, experiencing jealousies, quarrels, fear of death, the inquiry into the hereafter, laying up money for old age - all these we call daily life. Now to me, truth or the eternal becoming of life cannot be found apart from these. In the transient lies the eternal - not apart from the transient. Please, why do we exploit, either in physical things or in spiritual things? Why are we exploited by religions that we have set up? Why are we exploited by priests to whom we look for comfort? Because we have thought of life as a series of achievements, not as a complete action. When we look to life as a means to acquisition, whether of things or of ideas, when we look to life as a school in which to learn, in which to grow, then we are dependent upon that self-consciousness, upon that limitation: we create the exploiter, and we become the exploited. But if we become utterly individual, completely self-sufficient, alone in our understanding, then we do not differentiate between actual living and truth, or God. You know, because we find life difficult, because we do not understand all the intricacies of daily action. because we want to escape from that confusion, we turn to the idea of an objective principle; and so we differentiate, we distinguish truth as being impractical, as having nothing to do with daily life. Thus truth, or God, becomes an escape to which we turn in days of conflict and trouble. But if, in our daily life, we would find out why we act, if we would meet the incidents, the experiences, the sufferings of life wholly, then we would not differentiate practical life from impractical truth. Because we do not meet experiences with our whole being, mentally and emotionally, because we are not capable of doing that, we separate daily life and practical action from the idea of truth.

How long does a #tonsillectomy feel like you’re swallowing broken glass with salt, on the verge of brain freeze, every time you take a sip of water?
Like, is this normal?
It’s been just over a week; I knew it would get worse, but like, each day has continually gotten worse than before - I presumed it would start to get better by now. Even Codeine doesn’t help now.

I would go to a doctor, but moving country in 2 weeks, no appointment before then sadly.

#help #question #medical #mastodon #doctor

Salut ! Une #question : Comment on fait pour envoyer un message direct sur #mastodon ? Je trouve pas !

#question of the day: if you had to pick at most five people in #web #development you'd consider to deliver the most consistently balanced and informative sources - who would they be?

#coding #frontend #fullstack #WebDevelopment #backend #html #css #javascript

https://jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/1933-the-art-of-listening/jiddu-krishnamurti-the-art-of-listening-07

#Question: You say that your teachings are for all, not for any select few. If that is so, why do we find it difficult to understand you?

#Krishnamurti: It is not a question of understanding me. Why should you understand me? Truth is not mine, that you should understand me. You find my words difficult to understand be- cause your minds are suffocated with ideas. What I say is very simple. It is not for the select few; it is for anyone who is willing to try. I say that if you would free yourselves from ideas, from beliefs, from all the securities that people have built up through centuries, then you would understand life. You can free yourselves only by questioning, and you can question only when you are in revolt - not when you are stagnant with satisfying ideas. When your minds are suffocated with beliefs, when they are heavy with knowledge acquired from books, then it is impossible to understand life. So it is not a question of understanding me.

Please - and I am not saying this with any conceit - I have found a way; not a method that you can practise, a system that becomes a cage, a prison. I have realized truth, God, or whatever name you like to give it. I say there is that eternal living reality, but it cannot be realized while the mind and heart are burdened, crippled with the idea of "I". As long as that self-consciousness, that limitation exists, there can be no realization of the whole, the totality of life. That "I" exists as long as there are false values - false values that we have inherited or that we have sedulously created in our search for security, or that we have established as our authority in our search for comfort. But right values, living values - these you can discover only when you really suffer, when you are greatly discontented. If you are willing to become free from the pursuit of gain, then you will find them. But most of us do not want to be free; we want to keep what we have gained, either in virtue or in knowledge or in possessions; we want to keep all these. Thus burdened we try to meet life, and hence the utter impossibility of understanding it completely.

So the difficulty lies not in understanding me, but in understanding life itself; and that difficulty will exist as long as your minds are burdened with this consciousness that we call "I". I cannot give you right values. If I were to tell you, you would make of that a system and imitate it, thus setting up but another series of false values. But you can discover right values for yourself, when you become truly an individual, when you cease to be a machine. And you can free yourself from this murderous machine of false values only when you are in great #revolt.

so I went to work on my computer but two of the monitors were off.

Weird.

They won't power back on.

I check the UPS and it is off.

Okay. I turn it on and then turn on my systems - everything seems to boot up fine.

I turn away for a second and it is all powered off again.

The problem? The outlet itself isn't providing any juice.

I've reset the breaker but still no power. Any suggestions?

#question #electrical

https://jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/1933-the-art-of-listening/jiddu-krishnamurti-the-art-of-listening-05

#Question: It has been said that you are the manifestation of the Christ in our times. What have you to say to this? If it is true, why do you not talk of love and compassion?

#Krishnamurti: My friends, why do you ask such a question? Why do you ask whether I am the manifestation of Christ? You ask because you want me to assure you that I am, or that I am not the Christ, so that you can judge what I say according to the standard that you have. There are two reasons why you ask this question: You think that you know what the Christ is, and therefore you say, "I will act accordingly; or, if I say that I am the Christ, then you think that what I say must be true. I am not evading the question, but I am not going to tell you who I am. That is of very little importance, and, moreover, how can you know what or who I am even if I tell you? Such speculation is of very little importance. So let us not be concerned about who I am, but let us look at the reason for your asking this question.

You want to know who I am because you are uncertain about yourselves. I am not saying whether I am or whether I am not the Christ. I am not giving you a categorical answer, because to me the question is not important. What is important is whether what I am saying is true, and this does not depend on what I am. It is something that you can find out only by freeing yourselves from your prejudices and standards. You cannot attain real freedom from prejudice by looking towards an authority, by working towards an end, yet that is what you are doing; surreptitiously, sedulously, you are searching for an authority, and in that search you are but making yourselves into imitative machines.

You ask why I do not speak of love, of compassion. Does the flower talk about its perfume? It simply is. I have spoken about love; but to me the important thing is not to discuss what love is or what compassion is, but to free the mind from all the limitations that prevent the natural flow of what we call love and compassion. What love is, what compassion is, you yourself will know when your mind and heart are free from the limitation which we call egotism, self-consciousness; then you will know without asking, without discussion. You question me now because you think that then you can act according to what you discover from me, that then you will have an authority for your action.

So I say again, the real question is not why I do not talk about love and compassion, but rather, what prevents the natural harmonious living of man, the fullness of action which is love. I have talked about the many barriers that prevent our natural living, and I have explained that such living does not mean instinctive, chaotic action, but rich, full living. Rich, natural living has been prevented through centuries of conformity, through centuries of what we call education, which has been but a process of turning out so many human machines. But when you understand the cause of these hindrances and barriers which you have created for yourself through fear in your search for security, then you free yourself from them; then there is love. But this is a realization that cannot be discussed. We do not discuss the sunshine. It is there; we feel its warmth and perceive its penetrating beauty. Only when the sun is hidden do we discuss the sunshine. And so with love and compassion.

Oops, looks like my phone got EOL'd last year after a whole three years of support. I've been using Pixel phones for a while because I like the vanilla Android experience but I'm liking Google less and less. Is there a phone you like that delivers a fairly stock version of Android but maybe isn't made by Google? #question #phones #android

#FediTips #Question
Someone said that hashtags do not work with content warning. Is that for hashtags within the content warning label, the actual content within, or both?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/454096/lattice-point-counts-on-determinant-variety

Please look at my question. Boost it, and if possible, answer it!

#mathoverflow #question