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Who is a character you feel is overhated and despised too much ?
  • Uncle Iroh
    I know he's a genocidal war criminal, but he lost his son and traveled a long path of tea and paisho eventually cherishing and mentoring his nephew.

    Uncle Ruckus
    He's a simple man, tryin’ to make his way in the world. Life’s dealt him a tough hand, but he played it the best he could. He worked hard, respected the values he was raised with, and tries to bring a bit of order to this chaotic world. He ma be rough around the edges and may not make words so good, but he believes in tough love and speaking his mind.

  • things you can only do with boys
  • I was talking about collective trauma which OP was citing, though their initial term is collective PTSD.

    Why would you use n-gram and not journal search engine like Google Scholar. There seems to be an engagement in the concept of collective PTSD since about 2007.

    Is this an area of research or practice for you? It is not mine.

  • A fence that casts piano key shadows
  • First, you don't have to, it's a useful convention.
    Since the middle ages, the west has used a seven note scale with five whole steps and two half steps. This gives one scale, c major, with seven natural (neither flat nor sharp) notes.

    As an aside, I believe there are six note scales.

  • How have your opinions on media you once enjoyed changed over time? Are there movies or shows you used to find funny but no longer do?
  • Man... I remember having fond memories of it. Plus, sort of a Christmas flick. So come winter break, I turn it on for my eight year old. I get to cooking dinner and about 45 minutes in, he's shaking from it. He slept in our room for the first time in years that night. And the next night. And the next.

    Literally just told his mom he's still scared of gremlins. This will be one of the parenting regrets.

  • Biden stung by student loan legal loss days before taking effect
  • Income based repayments such as SAVE calculate your payments as a percentage of your disposable income. This means it can be as low as $0 per month if you happen to be unemployed for even a short time. Interest still accrues, but doesn't capitalize with SAVE. This can result in a "significant" balance.

  • Rene Gonzalez, candidate for Portland mayor, pitches more punitive approach to homeless campers
    www.oregonlive.com Rene Gonzalez, candidate for Portland mayor, pitches more punitive approach to homeless campers

    Gonzalez, a current city commissioner, is floating a measure that would immediately ban homeless camping citywide, should the U.S. Supreme Court and Oregon Legislature do away with current restrictions.

    Rene Gonzalez, candidate for Portland mayor, pitches more punitive approach to homeless campers
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    Is an end in sight for Portland’s long tradition of parent fundraising for their own children’s schools?
    www.oregonlive.com Is Portland’s tradition of parent fundraising to add teachers at their child’s school near an end?

    Portland Public Schools parents will no longer be able to raise money to pay to add educators at their own children’s schools, under a proposal that the district’s school board is poised to approve.

    Is Portland’s tradition of parent fundraising to add teachers at their child’s school near an end?
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    Who are the swing voters in America? | The Economist
    www.economist.com Who are the swing voters in America?

    We interrogated a dataset of 49,000 people to find out

    Who are the swing voters in America?

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14210696

    > > The two percentage points of vote share that Mr Trump has gained since 2020 come from three sources. The largest group is people who supported Mr Biden last time, but are now undecided, backing minor candidates or not planning to vote, who outnumber those making the same shift from Mr Trump’s camp. These voters account for 0.9 points of Mr Trump’s two-point improvement. Undecided former Biden voters are slightly younger, more likely to be black or female and less likely to have attended college than repeat Biden voters. > > > > Mr Trump also enjoys an edge among people entering or returning to the major-party electorate. The share who say they did not vote for either him or Mr Biden in 2020 but have now settled on Mr Trump is 3.7%, slightly above the 3.3% who are choosing Mr Biden. This group adds another 0.3 of a point to Mr Trump’s tally. > > > > The final group, swing voters, is the smallest but also the most impactful. Because people who flip between the two major-party candidates both subtract a vote from one side and add one to the other, they matter twice as much as do those who switch between a candidate and not voting at all. Such voters are rare—just 3% of respondents fall into this category—but Mr Trump is winning two-thirds of them. With 2% of participants shifting from Mr Biden to Mr Trump versus just 1% doing the opposite, swing voters contribute a full percentage point to Mr Trump’s two-way vote share. > > ! > > > The most intriguing pattern in YouGov’s data, however, is probably an equally powerful factor that has nothing to do with ideology. Compared with committed partisans, swing voters are vastly more likely to have children aged under 18: 47% of those flipping from Mr Biden to Mr Trump and 40% of those switching the other way are currently raising children, compared with 22% of repeat Biden voters and 19% of consistent Trump ones. And once the effects of race and parenthood are combined, the disparities are striking.

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    Preview Post and Spoilers

    When writing a comment, you can preview it. I didn't see this feature when making a post.

    Also, spoiler markdowns weren't rendering in Boost when I tried using the menu insertion. I've seen other posts and comments with spoilers, so I'm not sure what's happening.

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    Who are the swing voters in America? | The Economist
    www.economist.com Who are the swing voters in America?

    We interrogated a dataset of 49,000 people to find out

    Who are the swing voters in America?

    > The two percentage points of vote share that Mr Trump has gained since 2020 come from three sources. The largest group is people who supported Mr Biden last time, but are now undecided, backing minor candidates or not planning to vote, who outnumber those making the same shift from Mr Trump’s camp. These voters account for 0.9 points of Mr Trump’s two-point improvement. Undecided former Biden voters are slightly younger, more likely to be black or female and less likely to have attended college than repeat Biden voters. > > Mr Trump also enjoys an edge among people entering or returning to the major-party electorate. The share who say they did not vote for either him or Mr Biden in 2020 but have now settled on Mr Trump is 3.7%, slightly above the 3.3% who are choosing Mr Biden. This group adds another 0.3 of a point to Mr Trump’s tally. > > The final group, swing voters, is the smallest but also the most impactful. Because people who flip between the two major-party candidates both subtract a vote from one side and add one to the other, they matter twice as much as do those who switch between a candidate and not voting at all. Such voters are rare—just 3% of respondents fall into this category—but Mr Trump is winning two-thirds of them. With 2% of participants shifting from Mr Biden to Mr Trump versus just 1% doing the opposite, swing voters contribute a full percentage point to Mr Trump’s two-way vote share.

    !

    > The most intriguing pattern in YouGov’s data, however, is probably an equally powerful factor that has nothing to do with ideology. Compared with committed partisans, swing voters are vastly more likely to have children aged under 18: 47% of those flipping from Mr Biden to Mr Trump and 40% of those switching the other way are currently raising children, compared with 22% of repeat Biden voters and 19% of consistent Trump ones. And once the effects of race and parenthood are combined, the disparities are striking.

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    The polls are suggesting a huge shift in the electorate. Are they right? | Politico

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14025725

    > > It’s a significant reversal from recent history: President Joe Biden is struggling with young voters but performing better than most Democrats with older ones.

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    The polls are suggesting a huge shift in the electorate. Are they right? | Politico

    > It’s a significant reversal from recent history: President Joe Biden is struggling with young voters but performing better than most Democrats with older ones.

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    Five Takeaways From the WSJ Swing-State Poll

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13897979

    > > Survey finds a fraying Democratic coalition as Trump gains among young and minority voters > > https://archive.is/vW5Go

    Original poll and archive

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    Five Takeaways From the WSJ Swing-State Poll

    > Survey finds a fraying Democratic coalition as Trump gains among young and minority voters

    https://archive.is/vW5Go

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    Closing The Book On The College Bookstore Scam
    www.forbes.com Closing The Book On The College Bookstore Scam

    In an era with an unprecedented amount of free educational content, the impact of Inclusive Access has been to create a monopoly for college bookstores.

    Closing The Book On The College Bookstore Scam
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    Proper Opossum Alien Alert
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    Scrolling Another Instance's Local

    Not sure this can be done, but I'd love to scroll another instance like I do for my local instance. I use that to discover new communities and get an initial sense of their post quality.

    I imagine I could create another login for that instance, but would love to do it with one login.

    Barring that, I'd love to filter communities by federated instances.

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    Seeking Support and Clarity

    So I don't normally reach out to a group of strangers for emotional support. I worry about failing to communicate my views and I'm pretty "sensitive", but I don't like to be coddled either. But I've been lurking here and, while there are many viewpoints and voices, as a whole, I see this community as being considerate and supportive.

    I had my first appointment with a mental health professional yesterday. This is after a year or so of realizing that I might have ADHD. I went down the rabbit hole for a couple of months, talked to my primary care and got a referral and everything! Heck, I even followed up with the clinic when they didn't reach out to me as they said they would (gasp!). I occasionally display a moderate level of adult proficiency and sort of need to as a middle aged man.

    The practitioner was lovely and she did her thing. I work in healthcare as well, so much of the structure was obvious even if the specifics were outside my field. She sends me the screen and gets the office to call me to schedule a follow up.

    And I feel myself stalling again. If I look-feel at myself, I feel anxiety about being labeled. I personally don't think it's a bad thing to get a diagnosis; however, there are those who say it doesn't matter, but they aren't aware of their feelings enough to say otherwise. Sorry for being cryptic. In particular, I worry about future job prospects if needed. I always want to perform my job at the highest level I am able to and it would suck to have something that should be seen as just neutral become a liability.

    Second concern lies with family members. I have a loving family, but some of the older generation view mental health conditions as a personal failing. It's funny because we have members of the family in the generation below me that have an ADHD diagnosis and there is a loving acceptance of that fact. However, being a grown, I suspect that they would see it as character flaw and a personal failing. I've soft drop the idea that I believe that I have this condition.

    The next thing I was hoping to hear about is people's relationship to masking and choosing not to mask. For years, I've accept that I'm a bona fide weirdo. Many love and accept it even if it's a bit too much at times. But it's sort of unfamiliar to be my weirdo self and realize that I spend a lot of time keeping it at bay. Heck, writing this message makes me wonder if I'm masking or leaning into my over-explainer self. (For the most part I'm enjoying the process, so I'll keep on keeping on).

    Finally, I didn't follow adult ADHD screening sent to me my the mental health practitioner. It was emotionally difficult swing from "Holy shit ... I know that." to "I know that and I a fucking failure". The shame and depression is real and I've struggled with it for years. I only hinted at it in the interview with the practitioner. As I gain trust in her skill and competency, I imagine that I'll share more with her.

    Oh and meds! I'm glad to hear that meds have helped so many! I tend to be medication hesitant in general. I can see it being part of a management regime. However, I lack the clarity to contextualize its role in a long term strategy which is seated in a long term goal. If you have been medication hesitant, let me know what helped you decide one way or the other. And if you use the meds, I'd love to hear if you situate it in a long term goal and strategy for managing the condition. Sorry for the big ask.

    Geez. ... I guess the last thing I hate is thinking that I can't just be me for everyone. I have to have zipped myself up in a certain way and even use meds to do it. I think this is the rawest thing that I'm feeling. Apologies if I come of as prickish. I think I need to wrestle with this more and find loving acceptance for society and myself in society. I am generally a fan of doing what you have to do to be in this world. Be kind to yourself. Be careful not to hurt others.

    Alright. Preachy oversharing done. I know this needs a proofing and am tapped out. Cheers!

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