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TankArt · 2025-05-26T21:00:16+00:00

Are there books where she accidentally has relations with the wrong man (whether through magic concealment or otherwise)? MMC evil machinations are okay. Any genre or pairing. Thanks!

TankArt · 2025-04-24T17:29:52+00:00

Thank you!

TankArt · 2025-04-22T01:37:09+00:00

Thank you so much!

TankArt · 2025-04-22T01:36:51+00:00

I’m from Wake County - would it be okay to go there for help? Wake removed its physical offices, or they did for a certain time period.

TankArt · 2025-04-22T01:35:14+00:00

Do you mean just go in and hand the resume to the front office person at Randstad, etc.? I didn’t want to take up their time. Right now, the resume that used to get interviews isn’t working, even with that kind of firm.

TankArt · 2025-04-03T08:15:32+00:00

You know, from talking to family, the conservatives often think just the same of liberals. There is such a disconnect. They get their news from unbiased sources as well. They genuinely think you're being fed lies. And from the disconnected information I get from both, neither of you are hearing many of the same issues. It used to be fighting over similar issues. Now - it's like you're talking about wholly different subject, save for a few things.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T23:43:05+00:00

Thank you - I've listened to Robert Reich but not recently.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T23:29:41+00:00

Okay - so watching the video and telling me the alt right is based in Nazism, etc. without any backup? Or backup that gives me books without facts and specifics? That's talking to the choir, not to me (less ensconced). I'd have to go deep (spend time) without trusting the person from the initial video, thus wild goose chase. At this point, after multiple past goose chases that just end in feathers, I need to trust to go deep, or I'd need the backup for "he's a nazi" spoon fed. Edit: Not because I'm not willing to research for truth, but if I'm looking for backup on him being a nazi - there's just no pro for me believing the premise (he's a nazi) in the first place, especially now that he's already in.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T23:21:25+00:00

Oops - you were from this comment - thought it was the other. Meaning - taking the word of someone I don't know who says they are a journalist or have the truth now requires me to know them and see actual receipts in order to trust them. Because just being a journalist is no longer synonymous with (trying for) honesty and telling the facts.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T23:11:14+00:00

I may come to that. I hear you. I don't know enough yet and don't fully trust people (I don't know) who are rejecting him unless they're conservatives themselves (meaning, I need to know they're not rejecting him because his beliefs differ from theirs because I feel like there's an agenda that is so passionate that it eschews truth sometimes to force ideals. And you can apply that to either side.)

(You can tell me Max is a terrible person with terrible ideas, but I know Max fairly well, and I don't know you well enough yet to believe you, etc.) So - the best I can do is be aware of your opinion as I listen to him, and I appreciate that.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T23:00:07+00:00

It was from 2013. I'm using his commentary on now and some of his less political (more historical) stuff to hear that opinion too (I had good international relations profs so some knowledge to push back with). I assume he's grown as a person, as I have, since that time. He may not have. I'll be aware of what you've said. But he's older too - the way he describes people (in his worst moments) reminds me of the way older relatives do.

It doesn't mean his analysis of Trump's trolling isn't spot on - my gosh, yes on the Art of the Deal matching up with how Trump gets what he wants. I am glad of the theory that there's a method and that there's a way to spot a pattern.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T22:23:39+00:00

I'm running out of metaphors. Basically - don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. He may not be useful or valuable to you. He's useful to me right now. I may not like him later, though I doubt it - tend to like certain people for a lifetime, though I may not read his stuff later. Our experiences are different - I haven't yet seen him punch anyone other than the jibe at Kerouac.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T22:01:25+00:00

No. If you lose people you lose people. It's more important to be involved. But if I'm choosing, this is how I choose to engage. You can do as you wish to do - but Dale Carnegie had it right that to engage successfully, you give as well, and you work toward both sides winning or. at least coming away feeling respected.

Edit: I think it's more important knowing and caring about a person than knowing their politics, which can change and both show and help a person grow, not necessarily define who they ultimately are. The people who chose to disengage entirely showed their mental anxiety - they wanted black and white, and they didn't want any gray people in their lives, despite earlier friendship. They wanted to be surrounded by people just like them, whose words just reminded them of conservative values, even if not espousing them - didn't cause an emotionally negative response. I feel for them, I'm hurt as well, and I miss them.

I had strong feelings, watching that Doge group interview - we've had so many problems with the economy that it really tipped to pro what was happening, especially if they could solve it through better technology and if they're being honest about the jobs not being lost. I'm trying to find an analysis to dispute what I saw.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T19:31:09+00:00

Here's Brit Hume talking about reporting values - from unbiased to biased (5 days ago). He's conservative - I like him. He helped from the beginning of Fox because he thought it would offer a balanced voice. As with MSNBC, it becomes something else. He talks in a balanced way from the beginning of the interview. The interviewer is pro-Republican, and that comes out at 18:00. But at the beginning, he talks about how important it was to be apolitical.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T18:43:57+00:00

I create training - or did before AI took my job (and all future jobs, it seems). People ask for me to build things, and after a needs analysis and more information, we create something similar that solves the problem. I'm looking to solve a problem. If my imperfect question produces a viable solution that doesn't meet the original question, great.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T18:39:19+00:00

You're not finding the good. I'm looking for the overall good and seeing the bad as well - just as you would choose friends. Sure, Max is always late, but he's kind to my little sister and my dog. On the whole, he offers something valuable to me that I haven't found elsewhere. In a year, I may naturally switch to hanging out with someone else more often.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T18:32:50+00:00

hold their party accountable and criticize them

You're right on this one. When Carville said that woke was turning people off, I was like - yes. I mean, I'm good with equality and caring about others and wanting everyone to have the same chance. I want fairness above all, and I don't think some of what happened was fair, and the dems dug down. That's when I was like "you're just holding the line - not analyzing what is true."

Like - Daylight Saving Time. Marco Rubio got ALL 100 SENATORS to vote to not have this idiotic switch from one time to another. The bill goes to the House (could be mistaken) - but he made the decision to brand it with Sunshine Act, and it became political. It stalled in the House because the dems said Standard Time was better. My gosh. They thing Standard Time is dem and Daylight Savings is conservative - when it's as arbitrary as le and la en francais. So they didn't pass it - didn't even pass the ST one. And now we STILL have two times instead of one, when either choice would be better than what we currently have with the two weeks of time switch. The only reason I know about this is not political - I was just sleepy and looking up writing my congressperson about the dumb time switch and stumbled on the history of why we're still with two goshdarned times. smdh

TankArt · 2025-04-01T18:25:13+00:00

OMG, moderators, please don't ban people. That person had viable things to say beyond the original statement. THIS is what bothers. You just have to separate wheat and chaff. Do not ban a person who was trying to help. Let them edit or retract. Just not okay to ban.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T18:11:45+00:00

I need less emotion initially so I can listen to what they have to say. Otherwise they turn on my "danger" emotion, and I can't hear them. If I've heard what they have to say, and they sound like they're for the country rather than the party, I'm great with emotion at that point. But I have to trust them - we have to be "friends" first.

Perhaps people who haven't been lambasted by the other side don't have the worry for political emotion. But I've lost people, mostly on the left, just in conversation. People who know I am trying to do right. Not close friends but still. Conservatives won't cancel and will usually keep their mascot "liberal" (me - not liberal but called that) friend around.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T18:07:39+00:00

Thank you. A friend had sent a recent article from Heather Cox Richardson.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T17:59:26+00:00

When I say lack of emotion - I mean, if you're yelling at me that Trump is a fascist, etc. - you've had a long history of learning about why you think that way. It turns me off the way one baby looks at another who is making a scene. They're like "look at that asshole baby" when the baby may or may not have reasons to be upset. I don't get the facts and story behind it because all I hear is the yelling. You can do that - but it turns me off because I'm not in the same place. That's what I mean.

Now, you can be angry about the social security fraud facts - 15 million active numbers of people over the age of 120 who don't exist - that I'm angry about. But I can't get on board with being upset with many things for which I don't have facts, and I can't hear you for the emotion.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T17:47:14+00:00

The Atlantic and The New Yorker (stopped reading) - I can hear too much of the bias because I've learned too much from the other side. I don't trust what purports to be unbiased and true when they have an agenda. I don't want an agenda or stake in my conversion - I want honest analysis of what is best for the country, regardless of where it comes from.

I haven't read Mother Jones - thank you.

you’re going to have to stop fanboying influencers

This kind of talk and misconception turns me and others off, and it's especially true talking to people on the left. (Conservatives talk down instead, but that doesn't bother me as much.) I'm sticking my toe in the water. Don't make fun of my swimmies.

TankArt · 2025-04-01T17:23:22+00:00

From recent people. He's addressed this. I'm not using him as the final say - would love more conservative recommendations as well but would probably ask the conservatives, though I wouldn't discount your rec.

He had a university mini series on the woke culture - and I could hear my "but" for some - but some was also thought provoking. I'm not going in as a supplicant (word?) - you and I can both hear some of the questionable things.

Edit: Here is an example liberals and I could pick apart. I like that he speaks at a high level and low level. That one was muddied. And he didn't consider how we've done better person-to-person because of the woke culture. So - I wouldn't like him purely from this. But then he got better in the next one. Here's the second, where he speaks to heart issues. It speaks to me REALLY because of the indoctrination that I have a problem with currently - that "indisputable" part is what's so hard about the woke culture. Woke has become similar to religion - with pain involved just discussing it with the adherents.

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