Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo That's not an unreasonable position to be in.

As for trying, the Crusaders were trying to make the world a better place by spreading the word of Christ; how well did that work out?

Trying is only half the battle. *How* you try is equally as important, and that's where the issues with Sanders arise.

@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo Have you *seen* how humans behave?

No, I think a prerequisite to survival is, y'know, "wanting to survive" and it seems like a majority of our species is ambivalent to that at best.

@freemo @admitsWrongIfProven Our odds are always going down, on a long enough timescale. That's the nature of entropy. 😛

@freemo Certainly not a realistic one. It seems more or less inevitable that we're getting a rematch.

Once again, politics isn't about the best choice, but rather about the least-worst choice.

@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo He said "moderate"

@freemo In my case, it usually means that I've gone beyond the depth of knowledge I have readily available, but I still think the other person is wrong, but I feel too lazy or exhausted to do a couple hours of research to argue with someone on social media.

@fakertarians There are very few quote tweets that so thoroughly prove the point they're trying to reject.

@Loukas A little of both. If someone I don't know tells me they have cancer, I don't really know how to react to that other than very basic sympathy. And that's what the hollow offer has become in modern language... an expression of sympathy.

@Loukas Me neither, but what else do you say? "Good luck with that"? We can't provide meaningful help to people we don't really know.

@Loukas Isn't that kind of the point of the phrase, though? For true friends, we already know what they need and we just help. For the neighbor we've seen twice in the last year, we say "Let me know if there's anything I can do to help." knowing that it's largely a hollow offer.

@brad_frost I don't know Notion, but the standard pattern for a relational database would be to add a new table to describe this relationship, with just those three keys, that could then be referenced in relation to any of the three main tables.

@saren @theaardvark @robb The drier sheets and kleenexes don't need to be everywhere, but for those of us with pets & allergies, they are still far more necessary than an iron or a top sheet.