"Crackdown" is the most misused term in coverage of our fascist authoritarianism.
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"Crackdown" is the most misused term in coverage of our fascist authoritarianism. It is defined as "severe measures to restrict or discourage undesirable or illegal people or behavior." What is unconstitutional & illegal is the so-called "crackdown" itself.
https://www.google.com/search?dictcorpus=en-US&hl=en&forcedict=crackdown&q=define%20crackdown -
"Crackdown" is the most misused term in coverage of our fascist authoritarianism. It is defined as "severe measures to restrict or discourage undesirable or illegal people or behavior." What is unconstitutional & illegal is the so-called "crackdown" itself.
https://www.google.com/search?dictcorpus=en-US&hl=en&forcedict=crackdown&q=define%20crackdown@jeffjarvis
Probably meant “crackpot” then realised it wasn't a verb. -
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@mariusor@metalhead.club Oh, I actually tried Disco Elysium once but gave up partway through. There was just so much to read, and I hit it on a low-energy stretch. It's on my list to return to someday. That clip is a good reminder.
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@francina1909 scrive AP: ci ha pensato l'aspirapolvere (in questo caso, io e l'elettrodomestico 😬)
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@hongminhee for contrast the successful check song rendition (courtesy of the Reptilian Brain): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcsZsLLuUhQ
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@hongminhee and perhaps something which is not entirely related to the discussion.
A check failure in the game Disco Elysium brings the "Limbic system" character to the forefront to give one of the most "emotional" renditions of a song I've heard in a game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn2x9CSSvhs
If this does not make sense to anyone, but has you intrigued, you should go and play the game, it's really good.
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@mariusor@metalhead.club That's a fair point, and your caveat at the end might actually reconcile the two: the pathways got so well-worn partly because the limbic system kept reinforcing them.
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“NO ad una riforma maldestra e pericolosa che stravolge gli equilibri della nostra Costituzione”
@giornalismo
articolo21.org/2026/03/no-ad-u…
Noi professori di diritto costituzionale e pubblico nelle Università italiane abbiamo
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@hongminhee but then again, perhaps the reason why those neural pathways are so well tuned to work together for the native language is indeed that limbic system. :D
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> that the “GPU” doing all that fast, effortless processing is largely the emotional system
@hongminhee I don't think so... to me it sounds more plausible that the neural pathways that are used for native language are a lot more used than the ones for foreign languages so they trigger with less energy expenditure.
Speaking your native language is basically "muscle memory", speaking in a different language is like navigating a maze: you have to plan your route, change direction often, sometimes backtrack all together, and as such is requiring a lot more brain power.
Caveat emptor: these are non scientific musings, I have no citation for anything. :D
