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There are neurological issues that can cause music to be experienced as boring, and the person who has those issues may not necessarily know it. They could impact the way that you hear music without impacting the way that you hear spoken language. I was married to an audiologist for way too long.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

The Washington Post is useless and disgusting.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

It's an identical business and information model to the 1980s televangelists who would send you a book or a set of dishes for only a $700 donation in the name of the Lord.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

If she had to wear a frog costume you know it would be too heavy for her to even move in it.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

How do they not understand how bad this is making them look among regular people.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

How is it possible that there are so many terrible people in the world and they all somehow end up working for Trump.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

The world is falling apart, so I understand why people aren't covering Trump's health as closely as they could. But on another level, isn't that the most urgent and immediate story of all?

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

He's barely even a man. He looks like a cartoon ant that constantly gets lost.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

In theory couldn't the court also use this to come back to the issue and refine it? I don't have hope for that, but is it at least possible?

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

He does strike me as a person battling deep inner weakness and emptiness. There's no other explanation as to why he has to consciously try to seem tough and loud all the time. He's trying to compensate for his profound inadequacy in ways that he doesn't even fully understand himself.

Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 6h

I think a lot of people don't realize how many lawyers actually make up the military. Somehow they think it's "just" ground troops and don't realize all of the legal people, administration, operations, engineers, thousands of other categories of people involved.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 7h

Obama did several times--on gay marriage, for example. And this was due in large part because he was a younger president who still had cognitive and emotional flexibility enough to change his mind. Nobody in their 70s or 80s can do that with the same alacrity.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 7h

Political ideology is directly related to your age and generation. That's why the vast majority of young Republicans under 40 are opposed to Israel's genocide. The line on this kind of issue is very neatly drawn depending upon how old you are.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 7h

Do you think this was because he was elderly? Among his generation it's really the only attitude I know of.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 7h

It's a psychological phenomenon related to individual theory of mind. When it's an individual, humans concentrate on and hold it better. That's why a lone dog stranded on a boat at sea sustains attention in a way that 300 wouldn't. That's the example they gave us in grad school anyway. lol

Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 7h

I used to live above an Argentinian family. One of them told me that Argentina has never been stable, it only appears to have been because all of its neighbors are so chaotic.

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