Our blogger, Roxanna, has moved from Qatar to London in the past year or so. If my armchair psychiatry is up to speed (and it usually is), she is still bothered by as-of-yet unpacked moving boxes! 😱 Rox asks: House moving. How long does it take you to unpack all the boxes, and I mean absolutely all? In your moving experience, are you the “live out of the boxes as long as possible” type, unpacking over many months, and/or only when some item is finally needed? Or are you the stickler for order and devote the time needed to unpack? Or are you something in between? Maybe you are a traveler type and are sent here and there so it’s not worth the monumental effort it takes to pack, unpack, pack, unpack, etc. And while we’re at it, if you go on vacation, do you live out of your suitcase, or hang your items and/or fold them neatly in the hotel/motel/resort drawers? Explain yourself! (by PrimalSoup for Roxanna López)
Here’s what Russia’s 2020 disinformation operations look like, according to two experts on social media and propaganda. By DARREN LINVILL & PATRICK WARREN Internet trolls don’t troll. Not the professionals at least. Professional trolls don’t go on social media to antagonize liberals or belittle conservatives. They are not narrow minded, drunk or angry. They don’t lack basic English language skills. They certainly aren’t “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds,” as the president once put it. Your stereotypical trolls do exist on social media, but the amateurs aren’t a threat to Western democracy. Professional trolls, on the other hand, are the tip of the spear in the new digital, ideological battleground. To combat the threat they pose, we must first understand them — and take them seriously. MORE: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-troll-2020-election-interference-twitter-916482/ Posted by Jamie B.
It's like this folks: sometimes your mind goes blank. Happens more than usual with me of course. Take this forum for instance. I wanted to post something today and couldn't think of a topic. At least not a non-sexual one and we know sexual ones lately have been frowned upon. Then along comes one of our regulars and complains about something. Well, they might not say it was a complaint, just an observation, but it was a complaint. A minor one. It has something to do about being able to make something out of nothing. Sort of like me this morning, how to make a thread out of an empty head? But they (notice I am using the correct pronoun, not saying he or she), by what they said got me thinking. What I thought was: Not sure if that is the actual saying, if I remember correctly, I remember the saying going something like this: Umm, no, I don't think the saying I am thinking of goes that way either, maybe ONE of you good folks can remind me how the saying goes. Either way, when
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