He’s a neoliberal which is an economic stance that promotes deregulation of the markets and support of free trade along with government austerity.

Well you need to start with a bunch of billions and some billionaire friends.

Liberal in economics and Liberal in US politics mean two very distinct and different things. It’s like the way a ‘runner’ in a race is different to a ‘runner’ in a restaurant. They’re not the same things at all.

Economic liberalism means free trade and deregulation. If it makes money, it’s good. Neoliberalism is also referred to as ‘hypercapitalism’.

‘Liberal’ in US politics means ‘left of the GOP’ and is its own unique thing. It bears no relation to economic liberalism at all. The two may coincide but they’re independent of one another.

Ha!

My choices now are

Mastodon
Lemmy
Kbin
Actually edit the novel

That sounds peaceful

I picked up Sun Haven. I was thinking of playing it the other day, and the steam sale reminded me it existed. (I’m having fun with it, but the play experience is somewhat janky.)

Other items on my wishlist on much bigger discounts are just sitting there because I don’t have the mental space for them.

Very good luck with all of that!

The Finnish song Cha Cha Cha is awesome. It should have won Eurovision!

If you can afford it, I found that the Pimsleur technique taught me how to speak well better than anything else I tried. I’ve forgotten the Spanish I know because I didn’t keep using it, but it got me to a decent adult conversational level in about a month at half an hour a day and I was always speaking ‘adult’ sentences right from the start, both copying then making new ones.

I think from Gen X onwards it just gets more and more common.

Also, people will say “I don’t play computer/video games” and then spend hours on Candy Crush or whatever.

Ooh, that’s my favourite so far. Before that I was pro-Lemming.

One of the subs I can’t let go of closed early and I ended up hunting down a forum instead.

I suspect that’s going to happen more and more.

I’m seeing it out. Once old.reddit is gone then I’ll pretty much have to.