[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

IMO Labour should be loudly shouting now about the likelihood of this whole thing ending in disaster. It’ll be too late after people die, both practically and politically.

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Narrator: “The solution was another clapped out beater from Europe.”

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago

The HR profession’s reputation as pond scum remains intact.

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago

Let’s not forget he stole an election with the help of a corrupt Republican governor and the Supreme Court, either.

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months ago

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

I increasingly feel like religious indoctrination in childhood creates a kind of mental illness or disability by disrupting the development of critical thinking skills.

This is not accidental. Many religious scholars have talked about the need to "instruct" children when they're very young - by the age of three or four.

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 149 points 9 months ago

The whole point is to 'normalise' all the issues with Trump's presidency so that the public just sees impeachment etc as a normal political process rather than a sign of something being seriously wrong.

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 73 points 11 months ago

And just straight up broken by idiocy like infinite scroll.

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 156 points 1 year ago

Worse. It’s “attempting to understand this might cause me to question my faith, so I’m not going to even try.”

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

Boomers started out progressive then sold out. They project this onto everyone else as if it’s the natural order of things.

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago

I like “Executive Function Disorder” as it actually describes the underlying issue and not just the symptoms that other people can see.

[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

Most READMEs are terrible. The biggest issue many of them make is failing to include one or two simple examples.

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