Well, you aren’t entirely wrong…

In general, I mostly follow those sources that have a functional RSS.

• El País
• El Mundo
• TeleSur
• France24
• RT

I’m pretty sure some of those have an English version (if you can find it, that is).

Same.

Nothing. Not even talk to them. Being cordially distant.

I am in Venezuela. From what i see and my mother, who is more aware of these things, has explained me, in short:

• The hydrocarbons law was reformed to basically give foreign companies that want to invest in our oil almost all the power they need. They are practically the owners of the land where they will drill.
• An amnesty law has freed almost all political prisoners.
  • In relation to this, many of the prisoners who were in the Helicoide, Chavismo’s so-called “torture center,” denied having suffered any torture. Not on TV, but on their personal TikToks.
• It is said that the CIA conducted an investigation to corroborate the claims that the disgraced opposition leader, Marina Corina Machado, and the opposition were making about the Chavista regime and the state of Venezuela in general. All or the vast majority of these claims turned out to be lies or exaggerations.
• Attorney General Tarek William Saab resigned. But in reality, he was only moved to a different position, becoming Ombudsman. The new Attorney General is a man named Larry Devoe. It is not yet known where the former Ombudsman, Alfredo Ruiz, has been reassigned.

That’s pretty much it. As for sources, I can’t recommend any in English, as the vast majority exaggerate or distort the narrative according to an agenda (whether for or against the United States). All mine are regional and in Spanish. The closest would be RT, but it has a very bad reputation (and rightly so).

In reality, everything remains the same at the citizen level. The same people are still in charge, and the dollar continues to rise. The only difference is that Venezuelan oil may be sold to Israel by the US, while we will continue to eat shit with the Chavistas.

Change so that nothing changes.

It definitely is. You can go anywhere you want at any time. You aren’t going to find anything, but that’s kinda the point of the whole game.

In short: many of those who say that have never played Shadow of the Colossus.

(In my opinion at least)

With dad: mundane stuff, like the whether and such.

With mom: geopolitical, philosophical and historic analysis about current events… And mundane stuff too.

The thing is, my mom is an Historian with a PhD, while my dad worked for an oil company. Also, I hanged out with my mom more while growing up cuz dad had to work in others states for weeks, so I couldn’t see him much.

Regardless, I enjoy talking with both of them. Mostly cuz I don’t make much of it, I don’t try to be smart, clever or anything. I just speak my mind out with naturality, depending on how my relationship with the person I’m talking to is.

I just think it’s wrong to place more emphasis on that potentially traumatic episode in that man’s life than on what he is doing. As if the most important thing were that he was the guy Miyazaki told to his face that his work was an insult to humanity itself.

This is the most click-thirsty headline I’ve read this year so far. It isn’t clickbait cuz is not false, but it feels… wrong.

As it should be.

Blame the Dunning-Kruger effect. The people I have seen most likely to acknowledge their lack of knowledge in a certain area have been those who are very wise and well-versed in at least one field, such as science, History (like my mom), art, etc.

Mediocre people are mostly convinced that they know everything.

Me too! Nothing helped me think for myself more than my mother yelling at me, “I don’t know! The encyclopedia is right there! Go read it and let me cook, for God’s sake!”

I tend to think that people use AI (and yeah, search engines too) the way children use their parents:

“Mom, why is the sky blue?” “Mom, where is China?” “Mom, can you help me with this school project?” (The mother ends up doing everything).

The thing is, unlike a parent, AI is unable to tell users that they don’t know everything and that users should do things on their own. Because that would reduce the number of users.

I am not USian. I live in one of the countries that the United States recently bombed (figure which). I sincerely ask USians: Is what is in those papers really much worse than everything the administration is already doing and is going to do to you and all the world?

That’s why I try, as much as possible, to share only the things I like and am passionate about. There’s already enough negativity in the world without me adding more.

All the time. In general, the music I listen to always matches my mood. I listen to happy music when I’m happy and sad music when I’m sad. It’s like a form of catharsis.

Listening to happy things when you’re sad can feel like the music invalidates your feelings, and that can make you feel worse. Sad music serves exactly the purpose you describe: to cry, even when you have no tears left, and let go of all the bad stuff inside you.

I believe that the revenue comes more from advertisers paying to advertise on Google than from people paying for the advertised products or services.

I’ve been playing only retro games lately and I just finished Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for a second time yesterday. Now I’m continuing playing the Fatal Frame saga on my ps2.

Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3