At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Sounds very much like a hold my beer solution.

Drunk: bet you couldn’t fix blindness with mah tooth!

Drunk eye surgeon: hold my beer

Everything old is new again.

You should give them their erasers back mate

I call ahead now.

Everything old is new again.

I wish I could find it now, but there was a quote attributed to someone suffering under an oppressive regime which would blatantly lie, and yet it remained accepted: “The lie is the insult.”

I find comfort in knowing there are more planes in the sea than there are submarines in the sky.

Thank you! Can’t believe it’s been a year already. Wow

All planes land, some more controlled than others.

Take-offs are optional; landings are mandatory.

Two of them, one on each side.

Note linking is what did it for me a few years back. It’s possible in OneNote, and clunky as hell.

I was sold the moment I read links can be wiki style in Obsidian.

They just need to be remagnetized.

I love lamp?

There is a fairly misunderstood tax rule which lets US persons working abroad for more than 330 days per year to exclude a reasonably large chunk of income: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion

“I’m being evaluated for terminal cancer. I’m gonna have a great time.”

If one earns $10,000 per year, a $2,000 annual tax is 20% of annualized income.

If one earns $100,000 per year, it’s 2%.

The less one earns, taxes are a greater proportion of total income.

Often, flat tax concepts come (or should come with) tax exemptions for actual low-income folks.

They’ll regex those bug reports so fast it won’t even matter.

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If you stop paying attention entirely

This is the part which normalization works to accelerate. Every message is crafted to rally supporters and repulse opponents; enough to get one to tune out and stop paying attention. Do it long enough and whatever they want to do will be done without any scrutiny.

This is one of the reasons the consolidation of mainstream independent media is a serious problem.