#asking — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #asking, aggregated by home.social.
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@elsua54 I admit it's asking a lot.
BUT #ASKING is a great #signal to what we need and what someone else can do to fill in / help comment on.
I think there are a lot of people out there and not necessarily the official people have to do much but listen.
Just put a small stamp of 'testing idea' on it - the public that naturally checks in / helps test progress meanwhile.
Without #pioneer users / people doing / helping test things - I'm not sure what admins achieve socially apart from data.
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Asking an Italian chef for the special of the day
I grew up near Venice, in the Veneto, where dinner was never really about the menu. My grandmother did not read menus, she read people. When we sat down somewhere new, she would look up before a…
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I wonder if Andy Burnham will survive the lettuce - #Asking for a British friend…..
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I'm considering a new essay on Parsifal, Cassandra, and The Emperor (and his new clothes) as a metaphor for institutional silence.
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
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'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...
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Hitchhiking As A Type of Women’s Emancipation in the Early Thirties
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
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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 -
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.
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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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Are you be drugs ? (Boost for exposure)
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I want to post a risky post actually, but I'm still considering the good platform for that post. Would it be good to post it here?
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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)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #admission #asking #confession #education #help #ignorance #learning #solution
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A Few Observations on Standing on Quicksand
A few thoughts on the drawing I made yesterday morning.
One amoral transactionalist or another in my drawing might try to accumulate sufficient goods — in this case, enough flooring: planks, paving stones, rebar, etc. — to shore up only his patch of quicksand.
As he watched his trading partner and his fellow man sink, he might realize that he has done himself out of the trade that sustained and defined him.
He might also find that he needs the other guy after all, as it’s very hard to lay planks across one area of quicksand without building up another. (The best design would go to the very margins of the whole patch of quicksand, and anchor the floor in terra firma.) He has won only as much land as his transactions to date have secured for him. Once his trading partner sinks, he has made his last acquisition.
Even if their trade observes some rules, it will be short-lived unless they recognize that the patch of quicksand they’re standing on needs shoring up and maintenance. When the pair recognize that they share common ground, and a common future, they have a much better chance of keeping themselves from sinking.
With that recognition, they have already crossed over from amoral transactionalism into some sense of common life or mutual standing. They can start working together, or start coordinating their efforts: they might decide to tax their trade so that they can direct some of the goods toward building a shared foundation.
Do the pair locked in territorial rivalry have any future? One might prevail over the other, raid his stores of goods and make plans to occupy the entire territory. He could even enslave him or coerce him to build a stable platform over the quicksand patch.
It’s a future from which both parties should recoil in horror. At the very least they might understand that, all things being equal and luck being what it is, committing to this course means that one of them will end up dead or suffering under the lash.
And the best the winner of such a contest can hope for is the master’s fate: he will never be truly respected nor have standing as a person (which can only be granted by another person; but he has deprived his rival of that standing). He will have lost even that bitter sense of “we” that he knew in the days of territorial rivalry. Now he can only make the vanquished party hand over his goods, do his bidding, cower in fear or howl in pain.
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