#asking — Public Fediverse posts

🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏🤔🤓🥸😎🧐💛💚💗🧡🩷🩵🤍💜🧡🧡🧡❤️💙🤗*"The Christian life is not a constant high!*I have my moments of deep discouragement!*I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes!*& say 'O God!*forgive me!'*or 'Help me!'"🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏🤔🤓🥸😎🧐💛💚💗🧡🩷🩵🤍💜🧡❤️💙🤗

~ Billy Graham

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #and #Receive #and #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen #Love

🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏🤔🤓🥸😎🧐💛💚💗🧡🩷🩵🤍💜🧡🧡🧡❤️💙🤗*"The Christian life is not a constant high!*I have my moments of deep discouragement!*I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes!*& say 'O God!*forgive me!'*or 'Help me!'"🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏🤔🤓🥸😎🧐💛💚💗🧡🩷🩵🤍💜🧡❤️💙🤗

~ Billy Graham

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #and #Receive #and #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen #Love

🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏🤔🤓🥸😎🧐💛💚💗🧡🩷🩵🤍💜🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗*"The Christian life is not a constant high!*I have my moments of deep discouragement!*I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes!*& say 'O God!*forgive me!'*or 'Help me!'"🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏🤔🤓🥸😎🧐💛💚💗🧡🩷🩵🤍💜🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

~ Billy Graham

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #and #Receive #and #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen #Love

🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏🤔🤓🥸😎🧐💛💚💗🧡🩷🩵🤍💜🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗*"The Christian life is not a constant high!*I have my moments of deep discouragement!*I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes!*& say 'O God!*forgive me!'*or 'Help me!'"🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏🤔🤓🥸😎🧐💛💚💗🧡🩷🩵🤍💜🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

~ Billy Graham

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #and #Receive #and #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen #Love

*~*"The Christian life is not a constant high!*I have my moments of deep discouragement!*I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes!*& say 'O God!*forgive me!'*or 'Help me!'"*~*

~ Billy Graham

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #and #Receive #and #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen #Love

*~*"The Christian life is not a constant high!*I have my moments of deep discouragement!*I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes!*& say 'O God!*forgive me!'*or 'Help me!'"*~*

~ Billy Graham

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #and #Receive #and #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen #Love

🤗🛐🙏🩷🩵🤍💜🤗*"Don't be afraid to ask questions!*Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it!*I do that every day!*Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness!*it's a sign of strength!*It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something!*& to learn something new!”🤗🛐🙏🩷🩵🤍💜🤗

~ Barack Obama

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #Receive #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Love #Obama

🤗🛐🙏🩷🩵🤍💜🤗*"Don't be afraid to ask questions!*Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it!*I do that every day!*Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness!*it's a sign of strength!*It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something!*& to learn something new!”🤗🛐🙏🩷🩵🤍💜🤗

~ Barack Obama

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #Receive #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Love #Obama

🤗🛐🙏🤗*"Don't be afraid to ask questions!*Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it!*I do that every day!*Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness!*it's a sign of strength!*It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something!*& to learn something new!”🤗🛐🙏🤗

~ Barack Obama

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #Receive #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Love #Barack #Obama

🤗🛐🙏🤗*"Don't be afraid to ask questions!*Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it!*I do that every day!*Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness!*it's a sign of strength!*It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something!*& to learn something new!”🤗🛐🙏🤗

~ Barack Obama

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #Receive #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Love #Barack #Obama

*~*"Don't be afraid to ask questions!*Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it!*I do that every day!*Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness!*it's a sign of strength!*It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something!*& to learn something new!”*~*

~ Barack Obama

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #Receive #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Love #Barack #Obama

*~*"Don't be afraid to ask questions!*Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it!*I do that every day!*Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness!*it's a sign of strength!*It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something!*& to learn something new!”*~*

~ Barack Obama

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #ASK #Receive #Learn #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Love #Barack #Obama

🤗🌐🌏🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🤗*Take Hope When Tests Come!🤗🌐🌏❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

🤗🌐🌏❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗*If you do not have wisdom!*ask God for it!*He is always ready to give it to you!*& will never say you are wrong for asking!🤗🌐🌏❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

(James 1:5)

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen

🤗🌐🌏🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🤗*Take Hope When Tests Come!🤗🌐🌏❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

🤗🌐🌏❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗*If you do not have wisdom!*ask God for it!*He is always ready to give it to you!*& will never say you are wrong for asking!🤗🌐🌏❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

(James 1:5)

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen

🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗*Take Hope When Tests Come!🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🙌🤲🛐🙏❤️💙🙌🤗*If you do not have wisdom!*ask God for it!*He is always ready to give it to you!*& will never say you are wrong for asking!🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

(James 1:5)

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen

🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗*Take Hope When Tests Come!🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🌐🌏❤️💙💛💚💜💗🩵🩷🧡🙌🤲🛐🙏❤️💙🙌🤗*If you do not have wisdom!*ask God for it!*He is always ready to give it to you!*& will never say you are wrong for asking!🤗🙌🤲🛐🙏✝️👑🕊️💦❤️‍🔥🤗

(James 1:5)

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen

*~*Take Hope When Tests Come!*~*

*~*If you do not have wisdom!*ask God for it!*He is always ready to give it to you!*& will never say you are wrong for asking!*~*👉

(James 1:5)

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen

*~*Take Hope When Tests Come!*~*

*~*If you do not have wisdom!*ask God for it!*He is always ready to give it to you!*& will never say you are wrong for asking!*~*👉

(James 1:5)

#Take #Hope #When #Tests #Come #Father #LORD #GOD #Almighty #Christ #Jesus #and #Holy #Ghost #I #AM #ASKING #FOR #YOUR #HELP #WHILE #MAKING #DIFFICULT #DECISIONS #Amen

I'm considering a new essay on Parsifal, Cassandra, and The Emperor (and his new clothes) as a metaphor for institutional silence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/working-title-parsifal-cassandra?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I've got a working thesis and an abstract. This started as a commentary on The Fisher King, but it's expanded to all three

#philosophy #writing #metaphor #myth #legend #fairytales #parables #blog #podcast #substack #poll #society #institutions #structure #diagnosis #analysis #conformity #speaking #asking #silence

I'm considering a new essay on Parsifal, Cassandra, and The Emperor (and his new clothes) as a metaphor for institutional silence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/working-title-parsifal-cassandra?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I've got a working thesis and an abstract. This started as a commentary on The Fisher King, but it's expanded to all three

#philosophy #writing #metaphor #myth #legend #fairytales #parables #blog #podcast #substack #poll #society #institutions #structure #diagnosis #analysis #conformity #speaking #asking #silence

I'm considering a new essay on Parsifal, Cassandra, and The Emperor (and his new clothes) as a metaphor for institutional silence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/working-title-parsifal-cassandra?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I've got a working thesis and an abstract. This started as a commentary on The Fisher King, but it's expanded to all three

#philosophy #writing #metaphor #myth #legend #fairytales #parables #blog #podcast #substack #poll #society #institutions #structure #diagnosis #analysis #conformity #speaking #asking #silence

I'm considering a new essay on Parsifal, Cassandra, and The Emperor (and his new clothes) as a metaphor for institutional silence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/working-title-parsifal-cassandra?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I've got a working thesis and an abstract. This started as a commentary on The Fisher King, but it's expanded to all three

#philosophy #writing #metaphor #myth #legend #fairytales #parables #blog #podcast #substack #poll #society #institutions #structure #diagnosis #analysis #conformity #speaking #asking #silence

I'm considering a new essay on Parsifal, Cassandra, and The Emperor (and his new clothes) as a metaphor for institutional silence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/working-title-parsifal-cassandra?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I've got a working thesis and an abstract. This started as a commentary on The Fisher King, but it's expanded to all three

#philosophy #writing #metaphor #myth #legend #fairytales #parables #blog #podcast #substack #poll #society #institutions #structure #diagnosis #analysis #conformity #speaking #asking #silence

'Asking for freedom': Iranians in Utah make argument for regime change in Iran

https://misryoum.com/us/today/asking-for-freedom-iranians-in-utah-make-argument/

SALT LAKE CITY — As the war in Iran continues, Iranians living in Utah have a simple message and plan to gather Saturday as part of their efforts to get the word out."The Iranian people are asking for freedom, accountability...

#Asking #for #freedom #Iranians #Utah #make #argument #for #regime #change #Iran #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

Hitchhiking As A Type of Women’s Emancipation in the Early Thirties

https://youtu.be/v7nAKKLxLXY

This scene from director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1934 Heat Lightning brings me back to the observation that American women in the 1920s and 30s pioneered and popularized the practice of hitchhiking. Women like Doris Poggendee and Nettie Matthews, Barbara Starke, Nancy Youse, Betty Simpson, the McManus Sisters, or Allen Ginsberg’s mother Naomi – all could have been models from which these two characters were drawn. Some were out for adventure or, like these two, were seeking their fortune; many others just had no other practical way to get to where they were going, or get away from where they were.

By 1934, the word “hitchhiking” and its variants had already been in circulation for well over a decade (the earliest instance I’ve found, so far, is 1918); and female hitchhikers were an established American “type.” I borrow that word from one reviewer of the 1933 play (also called Heat Lightning) on which LeRoy’s movie is based, and where the characters of “First Hitch-Hiker” and “Second Hitch-Hiker” were played on stage by Gail de Hart and Geraldine Wall. (LeRoy cast “Blonde Cutie” Muriel Evans and the brilliant and under-appreciated brunette comedienne Jill Dennett in the roles.)

The comic portrayal here may not be entirely true to historical type — it would be surprising if it were — but it was the case that American women often hitchhiked in pairs, sometimes advertising in newspapers for a traveling companion.* And then there’s that thumb gesture George makes when he says he and his troubled friend Jeff are “just passing through” – the hailing gesture that we now associate with hitchhiking, and which Helen Card associates with a woman’s “right to ask things of the world.”  

In Card’s 1931 book and in newspaper accounts from the 20s and 30s, the hitchhiking type of woman meets with a mix of moral disapproval, admiration for her pluck, and a thinly-disguised sense of titillation. Even here, in LeRoy’s film, the hitchhikers complain about having to listen to their ride’s “speeches about nice girls not hitchhiking” while the old man pinches the thigh of whichever young woman has the misfortune of being seated next to him in the front seat. And that line about the lecherous hypocrisy of the moralizing old codger made this one of the scenes in the film that the Hays Office found objectionable. Nor did it sit well with the Catholic League of Decency, founded in the same year this film was released. The League gave Heat Lightning a rating of C, for “condemned.”

Dressed for the road, as these two are, in trousers (or jodhpurs) tucked into boots, a loose blouse or buttoned shirt, and a sturdy hat, the hitchhiking woman cuts a transgressive figure. Adventuress or androgyne, self-directed or vagabond, an avatar of social dissolution or revolution? She looks like trouble. As one columnist put it in 1928, “the only distinguishing vestment left to man is his trousers…and even these are assumed by the female hitch hikers…. Man may well ask, tremblingly, ‘How much farther is this emancipation to go?'”

How much farther? It’s a question Helen Card takes on, albeit from a different angle, in her book about her hitchhiking adventures (and in this connection it’s worth remembering that the American edition of Card’s Touch and Go appeared under the title Born in Captivity). It’s also a question that runs throughout Heat Lightning itself, though there’s not much hint of it in this comic, flirty scene (except perhaps in the remark George makes, that their ride, “Popsy,” has more to fear from these two tomatoes than they from him).

The film — which is currently playing on Criterion Channel, but which can also be found online — explores this question of women’s emancipation more fully and a little more seriously through the story of its main character, Olga, a former dance hall girl who traded her fancy dress for denim overalls and now runs a filling station with her kid sister in the California desert. By the end of the picture, Olga’s virtue may be compromised, but her independence is not. 

*Postscript 12 Feb 26: It was also the case that women in the late 1920s and early 30s were hitchhiking to Hollywood, or at least the newspapers said they were. The type was well known. The 1933 Will Rogers film Mr. Skitch features Florence Desmond as a hitchhiker bound for Hollywood. I hope to find a copy and watch it soon.

Correction 13 Feb 26: The 28 December 1933 review of Mr. Skitch that got me looking for a copy of the Will Rogers film was misleading. In the film, which I’ve just managed to see, Florence Desmond is headed for Hollywood, but she’s not a hitch-hiker; she just flags down Will Rogers and his family because her own car has run out of gasoline. I haven’t seen any instance where the word is used in this way, as a request for roadside aid, so I’m assuming it’s just an error.

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Asking Gemini 3 for Brainf*ck code puts it in an infinite loop

https://teodordyakov.github.io/brainfuck-agi/

#HackerNews #Asking #Gemini #3 #for #Brainf*ck #code #puts #it #in #an #infinite #loop #brainfuck #programming #gemini3 #infiniteloop #technews

Asking Gemini 3 for Brainf*ck code puts it in an infinite loop

https://teodordyakov.github.io/brainfuck-agi/

#HackerNews #Asking #Gemini #3 #for #Brainf*ck #code #puts #it #in #an #infinite #loop #brainfuck #programming #gemini3 #infiniteloop #technews

Asking Gemini 3 for Brainf*ck code puts it in an infinite loop

https://teodordyakov.github.io/brainfuck-agi/

#HackerNews #Asking #Gemini #3 #for #Brainf*ck #code #puts #it #in #an #infinite #loop #brainfuck #programming #gemini3 #infiniteloop #technews

Asking Gemini 3 for Brainf*ck code puts it in an infinite loop

https://teodordyakov.github.io/brainfuck-agi/

#HackerNews #Asking #Gemini #3 #for #Brainf*ck #code #puts #it #in #an #infinite #loop #brainfuck #programming #gemini3 #infiniteloop #technews

Asking Gemini 3 for Brainf*ck code puts it in an infinite loop

https://teodordyakov.github.io/brainfuck-agi/

#HackerNews #Asking #Gemini #3 #for #Brainf*ck #code #puts #it #in #an #infinite #loop #brainfuck #programming #gemini3 #infiniteloop #technews

Black Caps v West Indies: New Zealand torn between Kristian Clarke, Ajaz Patel for final spot in Bay Oval XI https://www.byteseu.com/1634526/ #against #ajaz #asking #Bay #between #black #caps #Clarke #final #for #from #in #indies #kristian #new #NewZealand #oval #Patel #question #selectors #spot #Test #thats #themselves #third #torn #West #Xi #zealand

Tatterhood is a fairytale with mixed messages. One interpretation is popular. I discuss another.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/09/tatterhood/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #psychology #messages #stories #writing #reading #morals #teaching #learning #goats #roles #norway #agency #society #conformity #prices #blog #podcast #lessons #culture #curiosity #asking #talking

The people I know have so much.

This year I'm going to give what I can to people I don't know who have less.

@nekoow7 needs to fix her phone and feed some cats. Right now she's trying to raise FIFTY DOLLARS for a new screen. If you use #PayPal, please think about a random gift this season.

👇🏻

[email protected]

#Asking #MutualAid #Xmas

my favorite form of #intimacy is #asking #questions, and i swear it’s not in a nosy way. i just like to #understand and i like to #know.

Where are Grinevsky’s Notes?

And why am I only just now learning about Andrei Gromyko‘s three rules for negotiating with the West?

1) demand the maximum – do not meekly ask, but demand that which has never been yours;

2) present ultimatums – do not hold back on threats, since you will always find people in the West who are willing to negotiate; and

3) do not give one inch of ground in negotiations – they themselves will offer you at least part of what you are asking for, but do not take it: demand more, because they will go along with it, and in the end you will get a third or even half of that of which you had nothing previously.

These are the rules as summarized by Kaja Kallas, in a statement on the security situation in Europe in January of 2022, and again, one month later, at the Munich Security Conference, which was held just a few days before Russia invaded Ukraine. Kallas’ remarks have been in pretty wide circulation since then (and they are getting renewed attention now that Trump has presented Kyiv with an ultimatum*).

In an August 2025 article for Corriere della Sera (English text here), Paolo Valentino says these rules — the Gromyko “doctrine”– are taken from the “notes” of Gromyko’s associate, Oleg Grinevsky.

So far I have been unable to find those notes. That I cannot read Russian is an obvious but not insurmountable handicap; translation is likely to introduce other difficulties. (See this discussion of the “language barrier” and the examples given on pages 10-11 of this CIA Guide for American Negotiators from the early 1950s.) Still, I would like to see if Grinevsky-Gromyko draw the distinction between asking and demanding that Kallas draws. (Valentino’s paraphrase does not.)

That’s a distinction I’ve written about before, and at considerable length, so I won’t go on about it here. It’s a distinction that’s critical not just to the practice of negotiation, but also to the ways people conceive and model power.

*Update 26 Nov 2025: A leaked transcript of the 29 October conversation between Yuri Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev about the Ukraine peace plan echoes the first rule of the Gromyko doctrine: it shows Ushakov telling his associate to take “the maximum position” in negotiations with the United States.

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Asking three LLMs a simple question

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A quotation from Thomas Fuller

If thou wilt be cured of thy Ignorance, confess it.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 84 (1725)

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A quotation from Watterson, Bill:

«
HOBBES: Did you ask your Mom if you could jump off the roof?
CALVIN: Questions I know the answers to I don’t need to ask, right?
»

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When I was younger I was dreaming about having a very custom router with bare #Linux, without any custom configurators, web interfaces or other stuff which nearly every router has.
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