#disengagement — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disengagement, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/290883/ Israeli Regime Forces Advance into Syria’s Northern Quneitra Countryside #1974 #advance #Advanced #agreement #Alikhbariah #and #Arab #country’s #countryside #deepening #Disengagement #Forces #into #Islam #Israeli #northern #of #Ongoing #province #Quneitra #regime #reported #run #sovereignty #state #sunday #Syria #Syria’s #Syrian #the #their #Times #tv #violations
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/163828/ Chikli refuses to apologize to Israelis for Oct. 7, blames Oslo, disengagement #AmichaiChikli #disengagement #GazaBorderCommunities #Norway #Oslo #OsloAccords #TheOctober7Massacre
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This is a column for everyone in the path of Hurricane Katrina who ever said, “I’m sorry, I’m just not interested in politics,” or, “There’s nothing I can do about it,” or, “Eh, they’re all crooks anyway.”
Look around you this morning. I suppose the NRA would argue, “Government policies don’t kill people, hurricanes kill people.” Actually, hurricanes plus government policies kill people. […] This, my friends, is why we need to pay attention to government policies, not political personalities, and to know whereon we vote. It is about our lives.Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2005-09-09), “Katrina and You,” Texas ObserverMore about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16624/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #katrina #disaster #disengagement #government #misgovernment #payattention #policy #political #politics #publicpolicy #voting
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This is a column for everyone in the path of Hurricane Katrina who ever said, “I’m sorry, I’m just not interested in politics,” or, “There’s nothing I can do about it,” or, “Eh, they’re all crooks anyway.”
Look around you this morning. I suppose the NRA would argue, “Government policies don’t kill people, hurricanes kill people.” Actually, hurricanes plus government policies kill people. […] This, my friends, is why we need to pay attention to government policies, not political personalities, and to know whereon we vote. It is about our lives.Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2005-09-09), “Katrina and You,” Texas ObserverMore about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16624/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #katrina #disaster #disengagement #government #misgovernment #payattention #policy #political #politics #publicpolicy #voting
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This is a column for everyone in the path of Hurricane Katrina who ever said, “I’m sorry, I’m just not interested in politics,” or, “There’s nothing I can do about it,” or, “Eh, they’re all crooks anyway.”
Look around you this morning. I suppose the NRA would argue, “Government policies don’t kill people, hurricanes kill people.” Actually, hurricanes plus government policies kill people. […] This, my friends, is why we need to pay attention to government policies, not political personalities, and to know whereon we vote. It is about our lives.Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2005-09-09), “Katrina and You,” Texas ObserverMore about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16624/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #katrina #disaster #disengagement #government #misgovernment #payattention #policy #political #politics #publicpolicy #voting
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This is a column for everyone in the path of Hurricane Katrina who ever said, “I’m sorry, I’m just not interested in politics,” or, “There’s nothing I can do about it,” or, “Eh, they’re all crooks anyway.”
Look around you this morning. I suppose the NRA would argue, “Government policies don’t kill people, hurricanes kill people.” Actually, hurricanes plus government policies kill people. […] This, my friends, is why we need to pay attention to government policies, not political personalities, and to know whereon we vote. It is about our lives.Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2005-09-09), “Katrina and You,” Texas ObserverMore about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16624/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #katrina #disaster #disengagement #government #misgovernment #payattention #policy #political #politics #publicpolicy #voting
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/212173/ Why Israel must reverse the 2005 Gaza withdrawal, resettle Gush Katif #Disengagement #Gaza #Hamas #Israel #Magazine #TheOctober7Massacre
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/164103/ Israel Must Choose Life, Not the West Bank Settlements #Disengagement #IDF #Israel #IsraelSettlements #palestinians #WestBank
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The Fediverse Stats Paradox
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe more I use WordPress, and the more they change the UI, the more I want to dump it. These stats, instead of encouraging me to use wordpress, and the fediverse, encourage me to dump both.
Blogging shouldn’t be about metrics, it should be about the development of thoughts and ideas, and the occassional feedback. These stats turn blogging and writing into accounting. I don’t want to see disengagement quantified. I want positive signals, and here I only see negative signals.
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The Fediverse Stats Paradox
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe more I use WordPress, and the more they change the UI, the more I want to dump it. These stats, instead of encouraging me to use wordpress, and the fediverse, encourage me to dump both.
Blogging shouldn’t be about metrics, it should be about the development of thoughts and ideas, and the occassional feedback. These stats turn blogging and writing into accounting. I don’t want to see disengagement quantified. I want positive signals, and here I only see negative signals.
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The Fediverse Stats Paradox
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe more I use WordPress, and the more they change the UI, the more I want to dump it. These stats, instead of encouraging me to use wordpress, and the fediverse, encourage me to dump both.
Blogging shouldn’t be about metrics, it should be about the development of thoughts and ideas, and the occassional feedback. These stats turn blogging and writing into accounting. I don’t want to see disengagement quantified. I want positive signals, and here I only see negative signals.
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters, so you’re never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is, “So what?!”
HOBBES: That’s a tough cry to rally around.
CALVIN: So what?!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83708…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #care #takingcare #caring #concern #disappointment #disengagement #engagement #hope #upset #whatmatters
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters, so you’re never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is, “So what?!”
HOBBES: That’s a tough cry to rally around.
CALVIN: So what?!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83708…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #care #takingcare #caring #concern #disappointment #disengagement #engagement #hope #upset #whatmatters
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters, so you’re never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is, “So what?!”
HOBBES: That’s a tough cry to rally around.
CALVIN: So what?!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83708…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #care #takingcare #caring #concern #disappointment #disengagement #engagement #hope #upset #whatmatters
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/64369/ How Israel’s Right Erodes Democratic Oversight to Reshape the Israeli Military #Disengagement #IDF #Israel #IsraelSettlements #IsraelSettlers #IsraeliPolitics #October7 #UltraOrthodox #WestBank
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82852…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #disengagement #truth #dispassion #discernment #insincerity #reality #sincerity #skepticism #truth
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82852…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #disengagement #truth #dispassion #discernment #insincerity #reality #sincerity #skepticism #truth
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82852…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #disengagement #truth #dispassion #discernment #insincerity #reality #sincerity #skepticism #truth
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82852…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #disengagement #truth #dispassion #discernment #insincerity #reality #sincerity #skepticism #truth
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Sliding Doors 9/10 Disengagement is a slow betrayal: unreturned glances, avoided conversations, unspoken resentments. Over time, the jar empties. 🫙 #Disengagement #EmotionalWithdrawal #RelationshipWork
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A growing disconnect between policymakers and the youth population is escalating as debates surrounding the revised German military service obligations intensif... https://news.osna.fm/?p=19464 | #news #citing #criticize #debate #disengagement
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ah, and we posted praxis latest #studygroup, on #disengagement (of cruel systems)
http://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/
we also changed our slogan, for monochrome covenant lyrics.
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ah, and we posted praxis latest #studygroup, on #disengagement (of cruel systems)
http://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/
we also changed our slogan, for monochrome covenant lyrics.
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ah, and we posted praxis latest #studygroup, on #disengagement (of cruel systems)
http://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/
we also changed our slogan, for monochrome covenant lyrics.
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ah, and we posted praxis latest #studygroup, on #disengagement (of cruel systems)
http://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/
we also changed our slogan, for monochrome covenant lyrics.
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working on #disengagement #studygroup for #praxis
https://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/Soon enough we'll have a proper CTA, pretty much asking for historical examples of communities disengaging from cruel systems and nurturing their own alternatives.
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working on #disengagement #studygroup for #praxis
https://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/Soon enough we'll have a proper CTA, pretty much asking for historical examples of communities disengaging from cruel systems and nurturing their own alternatives.
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working on #disengagement #studygroup for #praxis
https://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/Soon enough we'll have a proper CTA, pretty much asking for historical examples of communities disengaging from cruel systems and nurturing their own alternatives.
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working on #disengagement #studygroup for #praxis
https://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/Soon enough we'll have a proper CTA, pretty much asking for historical examples of communities disengaging from cruel systems and nurturing their own alternatives.
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Like everything else in the world, however, there is a price to pay for love, for the more happiness we derive from the existence and companionship of other human beings, the more vulnerable we are when there is any cause for apprehension. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who live generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1939-04-01), “My Day”More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/59…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #emotionalcost #disengagement #emotion #engagement #fear #living #love #emotionalpain #risk #vulnerability
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Like everything else in the world, however, there is a price to pay for love, for the more happiness we derive from the existence and companionship of other human beings, the more vulnerable we are when there is any cause for apprehension. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who live generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1939-04-01), “My Day”More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/59…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #emotionalcost #disengagement #emotion #engagement #fear #living #love #emotionalpain #risk #vulnerability
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Like everything else in the world, however, there is a price to pay for love, for the more happiness we derive from the existence and companionship of other human beings, the more vulnerable we are when there is any cause for apprehension. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who live generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1939-04-01), “My Day”More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/59…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #emotionalcost #disengagement #emotion #engagement #fear #living #love #emotionalpain #risk #vulnerability
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NO! your people are not lazy or resistant!
#Disengagement is a typical result of the ongoing experience of #ineffectiveness.
...if people feel unseen, unheard, unrespected, they stop being active
Passivity isn't employees natural preference. Building #trust and delegating meaningful #responsibility rebuilds ones self-efficacy, which — alongside curiosity — serves as a sustainable motivator for exceptional performance.
https://harald-schirmer.de/2025/04/21/mastering-collaboration-in-a-distributed-workforce/
*pic AI generated
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NO! your people are not lazy or resistant!
#Disengagement is a typical result of the ongoing experience of #ineffectiveness.
...if people feel unseen, unheard, unrespected, they stop being active
Passivity isn't employees natural preference. Building #trust and delegating meaningful #responsibility rebuilds ones self-efficacy, which — alongside curiosity — serves as a sustainable motivator for exceptional performance.
https://harald-schirmer.de/2025/04/21/mastering-collaboration-in-a-distributed-workforce/
*pic AI generated
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@AliceStollmeyer A multi-generational ally (now a hostile elected autocracy!) stabbing Europe in the back is truly something for the history books.
Yet, talking about chasing, most European states are *still* individually seeking to further deepen their economic entanglement with the Chinese dictatorship hostile to *all* of our fundamental values. 🤯
That equation is — and always was — not only absurd and ridiculous, but it is the absolute antithesis to "democratic resilience".
Before we choose to acknowledge and address the truly foundational threats to democracy worldwide, all else is akin to building sandcastles on a beach near a key PRC-operated shipping port... 🤷🏻♂️
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@AliceStollmeyer A multi-generational ally (now a hostile elected autocracy!) stabbing Europe in the back is truly something for the history books.
Yet, talking about chasing, most European states are *still* individually seeking to further deepen their economic entanglement with the Chinese dictatorship hostile to *all* of our fundamental values. 🤯
That equation is — and always was — not only absurd and ridiculous, but it is the absolute antithesis to "democratic resilience".
Before we choose to acknowledge and address the truly foundational threats to democracy worldwide, all else is akin to building sandcastles on a beach near a key PRC-operated shipping port... 🤷🏻♂️
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@AliceStollmeyer A multi-generational ally (now a hostile elected autocracy!) stabbing Europe in the back is truly something for the history books.
Yet, talking about chasing, most European states are *still* individually seeking to further deepen their economic entanglement with the Chinese dictatorship hostile to *all* of our fundamental values. 🤯
That equation is — and always was — not only absurd and ridiculous, but it is the absolute antithesis to "democratic resilience".
Before we choose to acknowledge and address the truly foundational threats to democracy worldwide, all else is akin to building sandcastles on a beach near a key PRC-operated shipping port... 🤷🏻♂️
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@AliceStollmeyer A multi-generational ally (now a hostile elected autocracy!) stabbing Europe in the back is truly something for the history books.
Yet, talking about chasing, most European states are *still* individually seeking to further deepen their economic entanglement with the Chinese dictatorship hostile to *all* of our fundamental values. 🤯
That equation is — and always was — not only absurd and ridiculous, but it is the absolute antithesis to "democratic resilience".
Before we choose to acknowledge and address the truly foundational threats to democracy worldwide, all else is akin to building sandcastles on a beach near a key PRC-operated shipping port... 🤷🏻♂️
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Michael Tomasky concurs with Joyce Vance (see /1):
"Folks, it’s time to reengage. …
You can’t tune him out, even if you wanted to. It’s time to reengage."
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Michael Tomasky concurs with Joyce Vance (see /1):
"Folks, it’s time to reengage. …
You can’t tune him out, even if you wanted to. It’s time to reengage."
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Michael Tomasky concurs with Joyce Vance (see /1):
"Folks, it’s time to reengage. …
You can’t tune him out, even if you wanted to. It’s time to reengage."
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To those of us longing to opt out and just get on with our lives, ignoring what's going to be happening around us, Joyce Vance says,
"Politics is not some foreign apparatus, separate from our daily lives. Everything is politically adjacent: our families, our livelihoods, our freedoms. Our future world will be the one we are willing to fight for."
#Trump #fascism #disengagement #politics
/1https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-relay-race-of-democracy
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To those of us longing to opt out and just get on with our lives, ignoring what's going to be happening around us, Joyce Vance says,
"Politics is not some foreign apparatus, separate from our daily lives. Everything is politically adjacent: our families, our livelihoods, our freedoms. Our future world will be the one we are willing to fight for."
#Trump #fascism #disengagement #politics
/1https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-relay-race-of-democracy
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To those of us longing to opt out and just get on with our lives, ignoring what's going to be happening around us, Joyce Vance says,
"Politics is not some foreign apparatus, separate from our daily lives. Everything is politically adjacent: our families, our livelihoods, our freedoms. Our future world will be the one we are willing to fight for."
#Trump #fascism #disengagement #politics
/1https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-relay-race-of-democracy
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To those of us longing to opt out and just get on with our lives, ignoring what's going to be happening around us, Joyce Vance says,
"Politics is not some foreign apparatus, separate from our daily lives. Everything is politically adjacent: our families, our livelihoods, our freedoms. Our future world will be the one we are willing to fight for."
#Trump #fascism #disengagement #politics
/1https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-relay-race-of-democracy
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A quotation from Antrim, Minna:
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When I learn that husband and wife never quarrel, I know that indifference has set in, and after that — the deluge.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/antrim-minna/73821/#quote #quotes #quotation #argument #disengagement #husband #indifference #quarrel #warningsign #wife
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A quotation from Antrim, Minna:
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When I learn that husband and wife never quarrel, I know that indifference has set in, and after that — the deluge.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/antrim-minna/73821/#quote #quotes #quotation #argument #disengagement #husband #indifference #quarrel #warningsign #wife
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India and China have arrived on a patrolling arrangement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Himalayas, and it can lead to disengagement and resolution of skirmishes that began in May 2020, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said today.
#India #ChinaBreakthrough #LACPatrollingPact #Disengagement #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-china-agree-on-patrolling-agreement-along-lac-leads-to-disengagement-6838489 -
India and China have arrived on a patrolling arrangement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Himalayas, and it can lead to disengagement and resolution of skirmishes that began in May 2020, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said today.
#India #ChinaBreakthrough #LACPatrollingPact #Disengagement #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-china-agree-on-patrolling-agreement-along-lac-leads-to-disengagement-6838489 -
India and China have arrived on a patrolling arrangement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Himalayas, and it can lead to disengagement and resolution of skirmishes that began in May 2020, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said today.
#India #ChinaBreakthrough #LACPatrollingPact #Disengagement #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-china-agree-on-patrolling-agreement-along-lac-leads-to-disengagement-6838489 -
A quotation from Montaigne, Michel de:
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‘Tis for little Souls, that truckle under the Weight of Affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside, and take them up again.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/67661/#quote #quotes #quotation #business #character #disengagement
#compartmentalization #matters #overwork #personality #work #worklifebalance -
A quotation from Montaigne, Michel de:
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‘Tis for little Souls, that truckle under the Weight of Affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside, and take them up again.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/67661/#quote #quotes #quotation #business #character #disengagement
#compartmentalization #matters #overwork #personality #work #worklifebalance -
#Putin, #Trump, #Netanyahu, #Modhi and other recent authoritarian strongmen (#Orbán, #Erdoğan, #Bolsonaro, etc) have discovered just how effective the #FirehoseOfDisinformation is in an age of deliberate political dysfunction, polarised electorates, microtargeted #disinformation and the general milieu of ecocidal late capitalist societal crumbling ('the Crumbles'). Their supporters generally either never hear about the debunking, reject all evidence that conflicts with their commitments (#IdentityProtectiveCognition), or don't care and openly embrace #authoritarian doublethink (cf #MAGA, widespread #Israeli support for *increased* violence in #Gaza, #Russian troll farmers).
Mainstream journalists reliably get caught up in the #FalseBalance of #BothSides; #centrists fret over #CivilityPolitics; the politically disengaged grow ever more cynical and abandon the search for truth, embracing the very #cynicism, #apathy, #LearnedHelplessness and #disengagement that this strategy of #InformationalWarfare seeks to nurture.
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#Putin, #Trump, #Netanyahu, #Modhi and other recent authoritarian strongmen (#Orbán, #Erdoğan, #Bolsonaro, etc) have discovered just how effective the #FirehoseOfDisinformation is in an age of deliberate political dysfunction, polarised electorates, microtargeted #disinformation and the general milieu of ecocidal late capitalist societal crumbling ('the Crumbles'). Their supporters generally either never hear about the debunking, reject all evidence that conflicts with their commitments (#IdentityProtectiveCognition), or don't care and openly embrace #authoritarian doublethink (cf #MAGA, widespread #Israeli support for *increased* violence in #Gaza, #Russian troll farmers).
Mainstream journalists reliably get caught up in the #FalseBalance of #BothSides; #centrists fret over #CivilityPolitics; the politically disengaged grow ever more cynical and abandon the search for truth, embracing the very #cynicism, #apathy, #LearnedHelplessness and #disengagement that this strategy of #InformationalWarfare seeks to nurture.
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#Putin, #Trump, #Netanyahu, #Modhi and other recent authoritarian strongmen (#Orbán, #Erdoğan, #Bolsonaro, etc) have discovered just how effective the #FirehoseOfDisinformation is in an age of deliberate political dysfunction, polarised electorates, microtargeted #disinformation and the general milieu of ecocidal late capitalist societal crumbling ('the Crumbles'). Their supporters generally either never hear about the debunking, reject all evidence that conflicts with their commitments (#IdentityProtectiveCognition), or don't care and openly embrace #authoritarian doublethink (cf #MAGA, widespread #Israeli support for *increased* violence in #Gaza, #Russian troll farmers).
Mainstream journalists reliably get caught up in the #FalseBalance of #BothSides; #centrists fret over #CivilityPolitics; the politically disengaged grow ever more cynical and abandon the search for truth, embracing the very #cynicism, #apathy, #LearnedHelplessness and #disengagement that this strategy of #InformationalWarfare seeks to nurture.
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