@mconley@Brad_Rosenheim I love this. It’s distinct from but related to one of my phrases, “toothbrushing work:” small effort sustained over a long period of time that has a huge impact. With such work, the primary concern is sustainability: doing a little over years is more important than one big victory now.
@crashglasshouses I think you’re sort of missing the topic here? “New political universe” refers to a crack in the longstanding precedent of presidents showing total, unconditional support for Israel, not matter what its government does. That would be new.
@zzzeek No, it’s not, not by itself. But it’s going to change what issues are in the campaign, and which monied interests are supporting which candidates. More pro-Likud money shifting against Biden could certainly move low-information voters who haven’t fully digested or believed reports of what’s going on in Palestine. This isn’t about a wave of Trump support; it’s about 0.5% of retirees in Florida getting bad vibes about Biden from political ad carpet bombing that resonates with them.
My armchair political analysis (NB, I’m just some pseudorandom redhead, grain of salt):
If Biden follows through with this, then AIPAC will become hell-bent on electing Trump. They have to. Never mind that Trump is a hideous antisemite; that’s not the point. The point is that AIPAC wants every US politician to believe that anything less than blind, unconditional support for Israel is political suicide. If they don’t try to destroy Biden over this, or try and fail, they become a paper tiger.
I expect the “two steps forward, one step back” pattern to continue with the Biden admin, including this. But simply saying this threat in public crosses a line they clearly did not want to cross. Even if they don’t follow through, this is campaign fodder for the GOP. And if they do follow through, well, we’re in a new political universe.
@maple@InternetEh Exactly this — writing sober about experiences of being high — appears to be the case with a lot of the drug-influenced Beatles material where we have personal accounts of the process.
@randahl Understandable except... whatever state that would be still contains a lot of people (usually a majority) who don't want that in the first place and who would be severely harmed and/or die as a result.
@dimsumthinking I hear you. I sometimes lean on iZotope RX for this sort of work, just because I already have it. (Don’t rush out to get it; it’s not actually what you’re looking for. Unless you need to clean up background noise, remove clicks and pops, clean up mouth sounds, etc in which case it’s life-changing.)
If in-place upgrades aren't the goal, then just build something new. Or contribute to one of the various preexisting projects. Don't adopt mastodon's tech debt for no reason. It's not worth it.
I know I'm eager to have more help, if existing projects suddenly sound better.
Update: successfully procrastinating writing up the more substantive Mastodon posts I’ve been meaning to write by doing the task I was avoiding in the OP
Dammit, despite half-heartedly procrastinating for hours, the task still isn’t done. Guess I need to finally dig in and procrastinate with 100% effort.
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