How do you think I feel, I joined about twenty discussion groups about "Europe's Changing Demographics" and not a single one of them cares even a little bit about pension regulation

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I keep getting announcements from various universities about how they have some new initiative focused on how to have what they all are calling “difficult conversations”. Initially I was like hey sign me up, I am famous for my awkward conversations, but it turns out that’s not what they have in mind

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The teen and I watched an episode of the Simpsons where Homer makes a website, which led me to show him the dancing baby and the hamster dance and the badger badger site--and phew, trying to explain the early Internet is a lot.

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Some people were making me mad on the internet so I wrote a blog post about it. On the different reasons for people have for being left wing and how people manage the psychological tensions of the fact that they come apart. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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pet peeve of mine that you see in all sorts of contexts: posing questions that "need to be answered" that have been answered many times. this just mires the debate in an endless loop where one side has to argue and the other just asks the same questions over and over.

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