Happens to me sometimes too.
I’ve literally told a story of something that happened to me, just to have that person say that it happened to THEM and I’m just remembering the time they told me about it.
Or, maybe I just read about that happening. 🤔
Trust me bro, I heard it FIFTH HAND from the source!
Welcome to misinformation on the Internet!
If YOU don’t know, and someone is confident in their answer, you can’t possibly know if they know for sure or not.
And when someone else who DOES know disagrees, how do you know which one is lying? You don’t! You can only go by who SOUNDS more right, and that is often manipulated by what you wanted to believe before the conversation even started!
But I don’t think it paints anyone in an unfair light. Now, if they called them antisemitic, anti-Israel, or anti Jewish rioters, that would be painting them in an unfair negative light, but when you get a relatively neutral term even though you would prefer an edgier one, that’s not the journalists fault.
I would’ve rather been known as “Heroic defender of the marginalized and downtrodden”, but I guess I’m ok with just “Democrat” in the headlines.
I saw the source and thought the same thing. The link isn’t as bad as some I’ve seen, so I think the complainer was out of line in that specific instance, but some are worth pointing out.
In American News, white people “protest” and black people “loot and riot”. They could be doing the same thing, but that’s what we call it.
Favorites come and go with the seasons, but objectively, the one game that we have played more than anything in my house is Silver.
We’ve bought all the expansions and created our own variation of playing with ALL the cards.
Early 40s here. I read a lot, but never books.
I read online. I get information, jokes, funny stories and random bullshit.
I can’t imagine myself sitting down and reading a book in the near future. I don’t have the time, and if I did, there’s so many other things I could be doing for much more personal benefit.
Does Tom Hanks count? He might beat Jorda ln in fame but Hanks isn’t quite the same as Hank.
Is Jackson a “first” name? Sure, I understand that some people use it as a first name, but I would say someone named Jackson Smith has two last names.
Michael Jordan though, that’s legit.
I am Joe’s intestinal tract.
What did you buy the Doge at? Mines up 200%
Damn right, meatbag!
I have a Taoist reading suggestion for you.
The Tao of Pooh
Turns out, Winnie the Pooh (from the original literature) embodies a lot of Taoist principles, and this book explains the parallels. My brother read it a long time ago and passed it on to me, because he said it reminded him of me. Turns out I’ve unknowingly been a Taoist my whole life. I just didn’t know it until I read the Tao of Pooh.
I do NOT recommend the Tao de Jing. Although it is essentially considered the “Tao Bible”, it’s all over the place and doesn’t really spell out what Taoism is all about.
That’s even worse!
I’ve seen one laundromat/bar like that, and instantly thought it was genius.
Because some of those angry lonely people are writers, and they have a lot of time to think.
Buy N Large!
What the fuck does that guy think a Nazi is?
As a kid, I thought I hated steak, but it turns out, my mom was just really bad at cooking steak.
I would say it’s better to not have an opinion than to have an uninformed opinion.
Like a kid who has a strong opinion on a food that they’ve never tried. How can you know you don’t like something if you never tried it? Sure.
You could look at the ingredients and if you don’t like anything that goes in it you can assume that you wouldn’t like the end product, but at least some thought went into at that point.