Omfg Temu Goebbels is amazing

Most compelling argument I've seen for voting mattering is that rich people are spending a ton on advertising / campaign funds / etc. Follow the money, and if Musk is dropping half a billion to get more shitty republicans elected, then clearly it matters and both sides are not the same.

I came to the comments hoping for this exactly

"Move the slider so you can just barely see the symbol on the left."

cranks slider to max brightness

Feels AI

But now I don't use em dashes anymore because I don't want to sound like AI, unfortunately.

Evidential past tense. Depends the verb, but it's usually verb-miş, which kinda sounds like 'misha' or 'mush' to my US ears. It's used when you haven't personally witnessed something. Like if you go outside and see puddles of water and a cloud that just passed and a rainbow, it clearly just rained but you didn't TECHNICALLY see it rain, so you say yağmur yağmış instead of yağmur yağdı if you had actually seen it.

So when you find a group of people gossiping, you just hear 'misha' 'misha' 'misha' 'misha' because they're all talking about inferred info, and I've heard it called the gossip tense.

And it's appropriate to note that I know all this second hand. I don't know any Turkish (besides Dur = stopsign from geoguessr), this is from my language nerd friend who speaks a decent amount, so I probably need to throw a -miş in here somewhere.

Turkish has a different verb tense for something you personally witnessed vs heard second hand or inferred, and I really appreciate that

Probably more difficult if you have pets

Mental load. I love autopilot tasks, and will happily do dishes sweep vacuum laundry whatever. But deal with The Pile? where random stuff has built up and each item has to be considered and handled separately? Oof, count me out. My spouse is the opposite, and used to get pissed that I didn't handle the piles, but now we do the stuff that we do best, though I still have to deal with my stupid desk pile...

Cheers to that

That's exactly what's happening where I am. Wildfire danger is so high they have to shut down city power every time there's serious wind, as there aren't enough fire services to cover all the potential fires from downed lines. Now a good chunk of tax dollars are going to moving lines underground, though arguably it'll take some time.