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July 7, 2013 July 7, 2013 New Ottawa Critics Fringe 2013, Meaghan Flaherty
Disillusion- Glassiano Creates Beautiful Imagery On Stage
Meaghan Flaherty
It is very easy for a human being to make assumptions about somebody's character based solely on that person's mistakes. Disillusion, presented by Glassiano Productions, explores one former prison guard's judgments of others as he relives the last moments of two inmates on death row; like Groundhog Day, but without Bill Murray and intensely dramatic. Disillusion succeeds in using beautiful lighting and sound transitions to create not only thought provoking theater, but gorgeous images that will stick with you.
The play begins as prison guard Eric Abbott (Jake William Smith) awakens on death row as a man whom he himself had executed. He attempts to figure out why he is there, and how he can get back to his wife and daughter before his imminent execution, but awakens once again after his execution to find himself trapped in yet another dead mans' last day. The audience is taken into Eric's memories of his daughter through excellently timed and placed sound and lighting cues. The memories exist in a red wash, then snap back the present suddenly and without warning, keeping the audience on their toes visually.
As the days pass, the transitional cues once again create the perfect segway. As his first execution approaches, we are left with the image of William Smith lying on the table in center stage, talking about how they've made a mistake, as he is drowned out by intensely growing light and sound which once again snaps back to normal as he awakens the next day. These cues, as mentioned above, were highly, highly effective. Not only did they create the perfect shift from moment to moment, but these beautiful images gave me shivers. The most gorgeous moment takes place at the very end (which I won't spoil, because the journey to the end is quite riveting); We see William Smith, accompanied by the prison guard (James Graziano) and a Priest (Chris Jaworski), and as they talk to him, he is talking to his daughter, whom he reaches for. As he reaches out, the light (which have been progressively fading) switches to a spot directly on his smiling face and outstretched hand as the intense sound cuts out. This moment was not only beautiful, but also the perfect ending.
The cast (including Mekdes Teshome) all work very well together as an ensemble. There were moments when I wish that William Smith had more urgency towards his situation; he seems to surrender to what is happening very easily. His performance overall is very good, but that touch of continued urgency and anger could have taken him just that step further to realism in this non-realistic situation. Disillusion overall is stunning, surprising to uncover, and entertaining. The thought provokingly dark script and the journey it takes you on is well worth the unpleasant look into the human condition.
Presented by Glassiano Productions
Written by Martin Glassford, James Graziano, and Jake William Smith
Directed by Martin Glassford
Sound Design by Nick Kormanicki
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Getting good with women and how I've done almost everything in my life wrong: Part III
November 13, 2014 By Jake Seliger in Personal, sex Tags: Essays, girls, Sex, tucker max, women	2 Comments
This is the conclusion to a series; the first part is here. The second is here.
An interview between me and Tucker Max about how I used to suck with women and now I'm okay just went up on his Mating Grounds podcast. You should go listen or read the transcript. This essay grew out of my notes for that podcast.
Context and environment
Surroundings matter enormously in many contexts, and dating is a major one. Enough people who are dating form a dating market, and you should see this podcast and its transcript for details about markets. It can be important to change contexts if the current context is bad. Particularly bad contexts for straight guys include the military, engineering schools, rural areas, and Silicon Valley. My high school context was very bad and my college context very good. The ratio of men to women in a given situation has more short-term impact on success or failure than almost any other variable.
Let me tell another story to illustrate this. My fiancée went to Arizona State University for undergrad and she says that at ASU she didn't like the pretty one, which is baffling to me. Maybe she felt that way presumably because a lot of the culture there revolves around sorority girls, bleached blond hair, and so forth. Nonetheless that she feels she got little attention seems insane to me.
Still, now we're in New York City, and other guys hit on her all the time; she might be in the right cultural environment for her temperament. There are lots of attractive people in New York, but there's a much stronger intellectual, change-the-world vibe than there is in Arizona (or L.A.).
The above paragraphs remind me of another point that's applicable when you, the guy reading this, starts to get successful: If you're going to be with a high-status, attractive woman, other guys are going to hit on her. If she responds to that in a really positive way you have a problem. But it's going to happen. If you're in a relationship you'll find other women hitting on you too, albeit usually in a less obvious and less overt way. In high school and college, a lot of the smartest guys have exit options ready to go in the event they leave their relationship or their girlfriend leaves them; girls like guys with options and like guys who other girls have approved.
It's also possible to check on girls in a relationship in a reasonable way. For example, we were part of a group in Arizona, and one guy was my fiancée's colleague, and he eventually moved away. A couple years later they were chatting on Facebook, and he was like, "Are you still with Jake?" She said yes, and he replied, "Well, that's too bad. If you break up, call me." Which is a way you hit on someone without being a giant asshole about it. She told me about it and I was like, "Well, that's fair." People do break up for various reasons.
This illustrates another point: if you're with a woman who wants to leave, she's going to leave, either cleanly and reasonably or in a foot-dragging, poisonous way. You can't force a person to stay. Desirable people are always in short supply. Learning to live with loss is part of learning to live with success.
To return to market issues, I don't think I would've thrived at ASU or the University of Arizona as an undergrad: the bro-ish frat types seem to be optimized for those schools, and I wasn't either one. I didn't aspire to go to them. If you're like I was in high school, you shouldn't either, regardless of whether your friends are a fratty, party-down types. I did reasonably really well with women in college because I was a) athletic by the standards of my school, b) had learned a lot through painful trial and error in high school, and c) my school was about 60% female and 40% male. That meant there were always single girls around who were looking for guys. Friends who went to engineering schools had the opposite experience, since those schools were 60 – 70% male; some would have been better served romantically by majoring in engineering at big public schools.
If you're in high school you'll likely find it difficult or impossible to dramatically change your environment in the short term. There aren't good solutions for you. Sorry. I don't believe in telling comforting lies, however, and I do believe that some problems don't have real or good solutions. I wish I'd admitted so earlier.
* The way a girl who says no will sometimes say yes if you find another girl. If one girl says no, move on. It is at best extremely difficult and more likely impossible to change someone's initial response. To the extent it can be done, it can be done through rivalry.
* It is very hard, if not impossible, to fix most broken people. Don't try. If you get with a girl who has very serious mental health problems, or makes very bad choices, let her be someone else's problems. You don't need to fix the world, and broken people can be dangerous. If you're a straight guy you're presumably not too worried about dating guys who are fundamentally broken, but women with serious mental issues can be really bad.
If you identify someone like this, let her go. If you're inexperienced you might be bad at identifying this kind of person, but if you do, keep your distance. Move on. Don't return their emails, texts, and phone calls.
* I've gone through very promiscuous phases and very monogamous phases, and this is probably typical of a lot of college / urban young people who aren't participating in some religious sub-culture and who are paying attention to sex and dating.
* Most of the world's major religions discourage sex for reasons that probably made sense in say the year 1,000 but may or may not make sense anymore. Decide for yourself whether a set of rules and principles for running a society in the year 1,000 make sense in a modern, urbanized, industrialized society.
* I'd emphasize this: "a shockingly large amount of human social life, or like intellectual life, or other life boils down to trying to prove that you're not a moron and trying to test to see if other people are." The sooner you learn to do this, the better.
* So much of life consists of defaults. Understanding and in some circumstances getting away from those defaults is vital. The Internet can actually help enormously in this regard by making a lot of information much more available—for those willing to seek it.
* Schools like prestige because it makes the schools look good; parents like prestige for similar reasons, and because they want their children to be economically independent. But prestige isn't necessarily that good or important for average people. Success in school isn't essential to success with women. Prestige as conceived by schools and parents isn't necessary or often even helpful for success with women, and it may be counterproductive. In the long term we're all dead and there is no absolute definition for prestige.
* What people say and what people do are often vastly different. What they do counts ten times as much as what they say. Take note of people whose behaviors habitually don't match their words. With women, if she wants to be with you but does anything else except be with you, she doesn't want to be with you. In this and many life domains, it should be HELL YES or no.
* When someone says no, take it gracefully and move on. "No" is permission and encouragement to do other things.
* You will very rarely if ever truly know another human being, and another human being will rarely if ever truly know you. Accept it and be ready to be surprised.
* People who don't read usually don't know much (or they know a lot about a single, narrow area that's usually related to their work). A good book distills years or decades of experience, insight, and knowledge into a single volume that can be read over a couple of hours. Consider that when you're allocating your time.
In most domains I'm not the best. You don't have to be the "best" either. I'm not the best athlete, I'm (probably) not the best intellectual (depending on one's definition), I don't make the most money, I don't have the coolest job, I'm not the most outgoing, I'm not the best conversationalist, I don't have the best sense of humor. But in all of these domains I'm above average and by now I've been above average for a long time, and that's a huge advantage over guys who don't even try. Success in any domain starts with trying.
But trying can be scary because it comes with it the possibility of failure. It took me a long time to embrace failure as a part of the process that leads to success. The link in the preceding sentence goes to Megan McArdle's book The Up Side of Down: Why Failing ell is the Key to Success. In it she writes of the "deep, soul-crushing periods of misery following stupid mistakes that kept me awake until the small hours of the morning in a fog of anxiety and regret." But while that was obviously horrible:
It was only later—much later—that I saw the wreckage of my previous hopes become the foundation for something bigger and better.
Writers in particular are terrible procrastinators because they were good at English in school. They know on some level that no actual piece of writing is as good as it seems in their heads. The trick in becoming a productive writer is to either have tons of deadlines or to realize that an actualized piece of writing is always better than a perfect piece of writing that only exists in the head. And "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" is a great piece in which seven writers reflect on failure. Success also rarely comes from not failing, since not failing implies not trying; success comes from failing, learning, and then trying again. In the real world there are no no-lose propositions.
In most domains, even the ones I'm now "good" at, I've failed in some respect, and I'm still not the best. But that's okay. For most guys, being the absolute best at a thing is overrated compared to being above average in a range of domains. During my initial interview with Tucker I related the story of Scott Adams, who has said he's not the best artist and he's not the funniest guy but he combines both effectively in Dilbert (he also discusses the role of failure in his own life). Combining disparate skills is still underrated. Steven Berlin Johnson's book Where Good Ideas Come From is good on this subject.
Most guys don't have to be the best athlete or musician. They should, however, be better than other guys, and the amount of effort it takes to be "better" is often much smaller than anticipated (and also depends on the comparison group). I'm not and never have been the best athlete, but by now I'm probably better than 80% of other guys simply because I care enough to run and lift. This is a huge, key advantage, because women do evaluate men based on physicality, especially in short-term situations; arguably women can afford to be choosier than men in short-term situations because women are warier of those situations.
Anyway, as I said earlier, this essay was supposed to be a couple notes but it turned into more, in part because I suffer from logorrhea and in part because most of the content in this essay is already drifting around in my head.
See also "The appeal of 'pickup' or 'game' or 'The Redpill' is a failure of education and socialization" (note: "Feminism didn't come from nowhere. Neither has pickup.") and "The inequality that matters II: Why does dating in Seattle get left out?"
Getting good with women and how I've done almost everything in my life wrong: Part II
This is the second part in a series; The first part is here.
I did some online dating years ago, primarily in Seattle and a little bit in Tucson, and some of the girls I got to know showed me their message streams. Some messages were disgusting or outright idiotic, but most they were boring and poorly thought out: "Hey." "How are you?" "Your profile is interesting." Pretty girls get dozens of them every week. Hell, even average girls do. I was thinking, "If I were a girl, I'd get turned off by all this crap too."
Most of the girls I talked to—even the ones who just wanted to get laid—were in fact tired of all that crap. They got so many low-quality messages, or messages from guys who'd copied and pasted an initially clever come-on but couldn't follow-up. Those women wanted something a little different. They were bored, which is a point I'll come back to later. Dating for women is different in important ways than dating for men, and I wish I'd understood that sooner.
Reading those messages also explained why I was doing fairly well, since I was deliberately trying to say something non-obvious and ideally slightly lascivious without being gross. That class of message stood out. Being tall and in shape obviously helped too. My photos were pretty good. I didn't spend much time playing games, and if women didn't want to meet quickly I would stop messaging them (which would often lead those who were reluctant to meet for whatever reason to want to meet).
The girls from the Internet taught me something else useful too: some said they liked online dating because it let them meet guys without their bitchy, judgmental, hypocritical friends around (they didn't use those words, but that's what they meant). Without the chorus of shame squawking in their ears, real desires emerge. The real upholders of the sexual double standard are actually women, not men.
Somewhere along the way I realized that lots of women are lonely and looking for connection, and that loosened me up as far as approaching women and asking them out. I've asked out women on the street, in buses (if you're a guy on the prowl you should love public transportation), in grocery lines, on running trails. Usually the conversation starts with something observational, then moves to whatever is going on that day or week. If you have nothing going on, get something going on and get talking about it. Energetic people are on average more attractive than sluggards.
I'm still not inured to rejection—is anyone?—but if a girl on the street says no, it doesn't matter. Move on. She'll forget, and perhaps I'll make some other girl's day, and she'll go home and tell her friends that a cute stranger was hitting on her.
This isn't something I experienced directly, but a friend's recent adventures helped teach me too. She's posted to a well-known amateur porn site (without her face in the shots). On this site she gets a lot of responses from viewers, and she's shown them to my fiancée and me. They're voluminous, amazingly bad, and unintentionally hilarious. Hundreds of guys write to her, almost all of them saying some variation on "You're so hot" or "I want to fuck you." And these guys have no idea where she lives.
The messages were pathetic, and when we were reading them my fiancée said something like, "This is what all women have to deal with." In that moment so much became clear to me. I knew that, intellectually, but seeing the really low-value, unsuccessful messages from guys on the Internet reinforced that point. It's such a waste of time to send those messages. They're more a fantasy projection that a real attempt to meet women, but every minute or second they spend sending "Ur so hot show me ur butthole" is a minute or second they're not doing something useful. If I were a woman I couldn't imagine looking for quality men on amateur porn sites. Yet these are doing so, and the way they're doing it is all wrong, and yet they persist in doing it the wrong way.
And our friend is not the primary motivator for them. She's reasonably attractive but not incredibly spectacular—most guys and girls who have a taste for other girls would be happy to date her. But you won't see her on a Victoria's Secret runway. she's getting this kind of response, which is a distillation and intensification of what many women experience otherwise. In real life most guys won't go up to women and say "show me ur butthole" for good reason; online, with the cloak of pseudonymity, they're willing to. In real life, guys would probably like to say that, but they can't or don't.
On a separate subject, reading Norah Vincent's book Self-Made Man taught me about the lack of empathy women have for men. So did stories told by women about gross and very insistent guys, or nasty comments from parents and other girls. Reading "The Daughter-Guarding Hypothesis," since it showed how fear and loathing around sexual behaviors get inculcated in women from an early age.
Looks count
Looks and style matter, and like many nerds (and especially nerds growing up in nerd-infested places like Seattle) I wanted to believe they didn't. But people make snap judgments for reasons that I now realize are quite good: we communicate a huge amount of information based on what we wear, how we hold ourselves, and so forth. For both men and women wearing clothes that fit matters. Women learn this almost immediately; it took me until I was 25 to figure it out.
Still, when I was 14 or 15 I started lifting and running consistently relatively early, and that was a definitive advantage that continues to be an advantage—not only in dating but in long-term relationships. If you're old enough to know people who've been in long-term relationships, you'll have seen the pattern in which one or both parties in a long-term relationship let themselves go, which usually coincides taking their partner for granted. That's probably a mistake at any time or place, but it's really a mistake in contemporary American society, since in this society and culture the rigors of the dating market never really end. That may be a bad thing but it is a thing. You can't let yourself go, both for your partner's sake and because you never know when you're going to be involuntarily dumped back into the market.
Younger people probably shouldn't be focused on very long-term relationships because they change so much. I didn't have a somewhat stable, developed personality until I was 24 or so. People evolve through their lives but that evolution is particularly rapid and pronounced from puberty well into the 20s. If you're 20, chances are you won't be dating the same person for five years. Understand that you're going to be on the market a lot, and it's difficult or impossible to hide from market tests.
Guys who pay attention to their posture, to what they wear, and to their workouts are in the game. Guys who don't probably aren't. That doesn't mean guys have to become obsessed with these issues—I never have been—but it does mean being aware of them and taking care to do them right.
The last part is here.
If you don't have a purpose, pick one for yourself
September 16, 2013 By Jake Seliger in Books, Culture, Fiction, Writing Tags: Claire Messud, Culture, girls, Ideas, Life, purpose, The Emperor's Children, The New Yorker, very recent history, Writing	1 Comment
The New Yorker's "Briefly Noted" book review section (behind a paywall, but check here if you're curious) has a review Very Recent History that displays all the telltale signs of pointlessly plotless modern novels: adrift protagonists; problems with few or no important stakes; expecting the world to be automatically interesting, instead of you being interesting to the world; consumption for its own sake rather than for the sake of pleasure. Even the language of the review is stupid, saying that Very Recent History "serves to underscore the sense of trauma that is daily life in a late-capitalist moment."
What? How do we know this is "a late capitalist moment?" Assuming capitalism as such dates to the 18th Century and, say, Adam Smith, and is the dominant organization of successful societies in 200 years, this is a "mid capitalist moment." And there is little or no "sense of trauma" in "daily life" for most urban dwellers: If you want fucking trauma, try getting gassed in Syria, or AIDS in much of Africa, or live as one of hundreds of millions of people without electricity or running water in India. Get some fucking perspective people. Being laid off from a white-collar job is not the same as being shot by the regime's uniformed thugs.
The other funny thing, as a friend mentioned in an e-mail, is that "no novelist who manages to write an entire book and get it mentioned in the major media is anything like those adrift protagonists; that's someone with purpose."
There's a whole genre of these novels about people who behave stupidly in transparent ways. My favorite example is Adam Wilson's Flatscreen, because it helped crystallize the problem for me, though there are many others examples. It's also not a badly written book. These kinds of novels can actually be fabulously well-written, and have all sorts of brilliant micro observations. Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children fits this designation. All those wonderful sentences about a bunch of boring fools leading unimportantly literary lives in New York. I wanted one of them to get a job as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan instead of debating about whether they should Follow Their Muse or sell out.
The Emperor's Children is an example of the apparently growing number of people who have no direction or purpose in life and choose not to have one. Call it the Girls problem, which is not having real problems while simultaneously not trying anything and not knowing about anything.
About the TV show Girls: it has probably engendered more essays about it than viewers, but my fiancée and I watched the first couple episodes and the beginnings of a couple episodes after that, but it was too dumb to keep going: the characters were privileged morons. I wanted to climb in the TV and say, "Hey! There are real problems out there! People are starving in various places! Science is finding and doing all kinds of awesome stuff. Programs need to be written. There are sick people in hospitals and children who need education. Why don't you all get real fucking jobs?"
I would love to see one of the girls on Girls get a job as an ER nurse or doctor. They'd learn a little about what's fucking important. Or they could be working on democracy in Guinea. None of the characters in Girls appear to be learning how to paint, draw, write education grants, keep tropical fish, hack, solder, cook, sew… the list goes on. None seem to appreciate that SpaceX is sending rockets into space and is probably our best collective shot at visiting Mars in the next 40 years. Wow!
Whole industries are being shaken and rebuilt all around us (publishing, for example, by the colossus in Seattle).
Their collective response to this, however, is to continue to gaze lovingly at the lint gathered in their own navels, and to wonder why people aren't beating a path to their door to offer them fame and fortune. Hell, they can't even make the bad sex they're sometimes having into a politically or intellectually interesting act, as someone like Catherine Millet or Toni Bentley can. They have no sense of the past. They have no sense beyond the most rudimentary knowledge of other cultures. They're not trying to be an amazing novelist like Anne Patchett.
Take meaning where you find it: HBO's Girls versus life in startups
April 13, 2012 By Jake Seliger in Culture, Life, Philosophy Tags: cancer, girls, Ideas, instagram, lena dunham, Life, lyndon johnson, robert caro, the power broker	Leave a comment
My Instapaper queue had its usual dozen or so articles in it, and I noticed a trend or attitude that roughly divided them in two and offered useful juxtapositions on contemporary life: the first bunch involved the HBO show Girls (see here, here, here, and here) and the next ones involve startups (sample: "Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane, Roberto Caro, and cancer ("Why haven't we cured cancer yet? (Revisited): Personalized medicine versus evolution). The former articles say things like: "For a certain kind of lucky person, freed of the most immediate financial burdens and rich in a family's emotional investment, college might have felt like independence or responsibility. But it turns out to be so cosseted and circumscribed that graduating feels a little like leaving the womb." The latter describe how mind-boggling complex biology really is and say things like, "If [Instagram] can just keep doing what it's been doing, but bigger, faster, better. If it can do all that, it just may get there. Either way, it's going to be fun to watch."
The Girls articles are mostly about how the characters lack direction or meaning. The latter are about the extraordinary opportunities that exist for doing new, interesting things in the world, especially if you can find a topic beyond yourself that you find fascinating. The Girls articles (not necessarily the show itself, which I haven't seen much of) are what happens when you don't do anything real. You don't have real problems. Your identity is all about consumption and beliefs instead of production, knowledge, and being able to do things other people can't. Ennui and anomie threaten to overwhelm. The primal needs of food and shelter are unlikely to become life-threatening.
Instagram, Robert Caro, and cancer research show, by contrast, what happens when do things that are real. Nothing stops the characters in Girls from writing software that people want to use, writing magisterial tomes that plumb the depths of the human experience, or trying to figure out how fundamental biology works. Nothing, that is, except themselves. The world is vast, human desires appear to be infinite, or nearly infinite, and the world's problems are by no means solved. The girls on Girls should try solving them. And the writers who discuss Girls should be thinking about these kinds of fundamental issues of meaning that one can see peppered across American life.
The commentary around Girls shows a certain kind of problem in American, and general affluent Western, life. It's still a problem that the writers of these articles aren't really acknowledging, and it's a problem that Instagram, Robert Caro, and cancer research shows us how to solve—if we want to listen.
Take meaning where you find it: HBO's Girls versus life in startups
My Instapaper queue had its usual dozen or so articles in it, and I noticed a trend or attitude that roughly divided them in two and offered useful juxtapositions on contemporary life: the first bunch involved the HBO show Girls (see here, here, here, and here for examples) and the next ones involve startups (sample: "Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane, Roberto Caro, and cancer ("Why haven't we cured cancer yet? (Revisited): Personalized medicine versus evolution). The former articles say things like: "For a certain kind of lucky person, freed of the most immediate financial burdens and rich in a family's emotional investment, college might have felt like independence or responsibility. But it turns out to be so cosseted and circumscribed that graduating feels a little like leaving the womb." The latter describe how mind-boggling complex biology really is and say things like, "If [Instagram] can just keep doing what it's been doing, but bigger, faster, better. If it can do all that, it just may get there. Either way, it's going to be fun to watch."
The former group are mostly about how the characters portrayed in the show lack direction and meaning. The latter are about the extraordinary opportunities that exist for doing new, interesting things in the world, especially if you can find a topic beyond yourself that you find fascinating. The Girls articles (not necessarily the show itself, which I haven't seen) are what happens when you don't do anything real. You don't have real problems. Your identity is all about consumption and beliefs instead of production, knowledge, and being able to do things other people can't. Ennui and anomie threaten to overwhelm. The primal needs of food and shelter are unlikely to become life-threatening.
Anyway: I want to emphasize that I haven't seen Girls, and it might be very good. But the commentary around the show shows a certain kind of problem in American, and, more generally, affluent Western, life in general. It's still a problem that the writers of these articles aren't really acknowledging, and it's a problem that Instagram, Robert Caro, and cancer research shows us how to solve—if we want to listen.
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April 12, 2012 By Jake Seliger in Links Tags: Academia, English Grad School, Europe, girls, grad school, haidt, HBO, Higher Education, lena dunham, the righteous mind	Leave a comment
* When to leave grad school off your resume. In my limited experience reading resumes, having a PhD is a minus; an M.A. is useless, and being in grad school makes me think less of its value, not more.
* "The Forgotten Student: Has Higher Education Stiffed Its Most Important Client?: How the prestige game costs students more money for a lower-quality education." To me, this is utterly obvious.
* The novel Hemlock Grove sounds like fun: "'Its howls all the while more plaintive and lupine as a snout emerged through its lips and worked open and shut, its old face bunched around it in an obsolete mask. It rolled onto all fours and rose shaking violently, spraying blood in a mist and divesting himself of the remnants of man coat in a hot mess.' It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to write like this, to use an almost Faulknerian descriptive palette in service of a monster story."
* Is the Future of English Bad Science?
* "Hunter Moore Makes a Living Screwing You;" I had never heard of isanyoneup.com before and won't link directly, but as I read the story I kept thinking, "This is why it's hard to write relevant contemporary fiction. . ." This, and Reddit's user-submitted adult site, which you can find easily enough if you want to.
* A short, accurate description of the long-term problems in Europe. This is also, on some level, about how people form groups and act in those groups. ("Americans in Massachusetts and Americans in Mississippi do feel themselves part of the same country, sharing language and culture. Germans and Spaniards do not feel the same.") See further Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind.
* "Most men won't be allowed to admit this, but the new HBO show [Girls] is a disastrous celebration of entitlement and helplessness."
* Why poetry should be more playful, which seems completely obvious to me; Billy Collins is one of my favorite poets precisely because he's so playful, so much the opposite of the poetry read in school. From the post itself: "The growing distance between serious verse and children's verse has certainly been connected—as cause, effect, or more likely both—to the increasing irrelevance of serious poetry."
* Why you should read Before the Lights Go Out.
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Carme Forcadell i Lluís, née le  à Xerta en Catalogne, est une spécialiste de la langue et de la littérature catalanes et une femme d'État espagnole, fondatrice de la Plate-forme pour la langue, pour la défense du catalan, membre du bureau de l'Òmnium Cultural de Sabadell et présidente de l'association indépendantiste de l'Assemblée nationale catalane de sa création en 2012 et jusqu'en 2015.

Elle est présidente du Parlement de Catalogne de 2015 à 2017.

Biographie

Débuts dans le journalisme et en politique
Carme Forcadell est licenciée en philosophie et en sciences de la communication de l'université autonome de Barcelone. Elle a également un master de philologie catalane de la même université. Elle travaille pour TVE Catalunya de 1979 à 1982 et collabore à différents médias. Elle est fonctionnaire au département de l'Enseignement de la Généralité de Catalogne depuis 1985, et à partir de 1992 devient coordinatrice de la normalisation linguistique du service d'enseignement du catalan au sein du département de l'Éducation. Elle est ensuite, à partir de 2004, conseillère de langue interculturelle et de cohésion sociale de la comarque du Vallès Occidental. Elle a publié des ouvrages pédagogiques, linguistiques et littéraires, ainsi qu'un dictionnaire. Elle a également écrit dans différents médias sur la planification linguistique, la langue et l'identité. Elle participe à la Commission pour la dignité, fondée en 2002 et destinée à retrouver les propriétaires de documents spoliés sous le régime franquiste, ainsi qu'à la Plateforme pour le droit de décider, créée en 2005 et revendiquant le droit pour le peuple catalan de décider de son destin en tant que nation. Elle est élue conseillère municipale de Sabadell de 2003 à 2007 et milite à l'ERC.

Présidente du Parlement de Catalogne
Carme Forcadell est élue dans la province de Barcelone, avec trente et un de ses colistiers de la liste Ensemble pour le oui, au Parlement de Catalogne le . Elle en est élue présidente le  avec  sur 135 ( blancs et ). Elle prononce un discours d'investiture partisan qu'elle termine en proclamant : . À la suite de ce discours, Ensemble pour le oui et CUP concluent un accord et publient une proposition de résolution déclarant .

Le , le gouvernement catalan, conjointement avec les députés indépendantistes du Parlement de Catalogne, annonce la date et la question dans une allocution solennelle faite à la cour des Orangers du palais de la Généralité de Catalogne. La question est :
« Voulez-vous que la Catalogne soit un État indépendant sous forme de république ? ».
Cette question sera posée dans les trois langues officielles de la Catalogne, à savoir le catalan, l'espagnol et l'occitan. La date fixée pour le référendum est le .

Le 6 septembre 2017, après une session parlementaire houleuse, la majorité, composée des groupes Ensemble pour le oui et Candidature d'unité populaire (CUP), fait approuver la loi sur la tenue du référendum portant sur l'indépendance de la Catalogne prévu le  octobre.

Le lendemain, la loi sur la tenue du référendum est suspendue par le Tribunal constitutionnel qui met également en garde les maires des 968 communes de Catalogne pour les dissuader d'organiser le scrutin. Le Parlement adopte le même jour et avec la même majorité (71 voix sur 135) la loi de transition (Ley de transitoriedad jurídica y fundacional de la República) qui prévoit l'organisation de la Catalogne si le « oui » au référendum du  octobre l'emporte.

Le 8 septembre, le parquet supérieur espagnol en Catalogne porte plainte contre les membres du gouvernement catalan de Carles Puigdemont et les membres du bureau du Parlement de Catalogne présidé par Carme Forcadell devant le Tribunal supérieur de justice espagnol en Catalogne pour motifs de prévarication et de désobéissance ainsi que de détournement de capitaux publics.

Le 27 octobre, le Parlement valide la résolution de déclaration d'indépendance. Après l'approbation par le Sénat espagnol de l'application de l'article 155 de la Constitution, Mariano Rajoy, président du gouvernement espagnol, dissout la chambre catalane et annonce la tenue d'élections régionales pour le 21 décembre 2017. Carme Forcadell demeure présidente du Parlement de Catalogne de façon symbolique jusqu'à l'élection de son successeur.

Réélue députée au Parlement catalan sur les listes d'ERC, elle occupe de nouveau son siège à compter du 17 janvier 2018 mais renonce à celui-ci le 22 mars suivant.

Emprisonnement
Carme Forcadell est incarcérée une première fois pour rébellion, sédition et malversation le 9 novembre 2017 à la prison d'Alcalá-Meco avant de payer la caution fixée à  quelques heures plus tard. Le , elle est de nouveau incarcérée pour les mêmes motifs en compagnie de Dolors Bassa, le jugement prévoyant cette fois-ci de la prison ferme. Le  suivant, elles sont toutes deux transférées au centre pénitentiaire Puig de les Basses situé dans la commune de Figueras.

Le , le Parquet espagnol fait savoir qu'il requerra dix-sept ans d'emprisonnement pour délit de rébellion tandis que le Bureau de l'Avocat général de l'État annonce qu'il requerra dix ans de réclusion pour délit de sédition.

Le 14 octobre 2019, elle est condamnée par le Tribunal suprême espagnol à 11 ans et 6 mois de prison pour sédition, assortis de 11 ans et 6 mois d'inéligibilité.

Carme Forcadell est libérée fin juin 2021.

Distinctions
En 2014, elle reçoit le prix Joan Blanca, attribué chaque année par la ville de Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) à deux personnalités reconnues à la fois pour leur défense de la culture catalane et leur fidélité à la ville.

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 Référendum de 2017 sur l'indépendance de la Catalogne

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What Are The 4 Types Of Fuel?
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What are the 4 types of fuel? 4 Most Common Types of Fuel, and What You Should Know About Them
Gasoline.
Diesel Fuel.
Bio-diesel.
Ethanol.
What are the main types of fuel?
Most of the substances used for burning are fuels. Substances that produce heat and light energy on burning are called fuels. Some commonly used fuels are wood, coal, cow dung cakes, kerosene, LPG, petrol, and diesel. We use fuels for cooking, heating, in automobiles, and for the generation of electricity.
What are the 3 original fuel sources?
Coal, natural gas, and petroleum formed over thousands of years from the buried remains of ancient sea plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. That is why we also call those energy sources fossil fuels.
What are the 3 types of fuel at gas stations?
Gas stations in the United States generally offer three octane grades: regular (usually 87 octane), mid-grade (usually 89 octane), and premium (usually 91 or 93).
What is fuel and its types?
Fuel meaning: Meaning of fuel is a substance that is burned to provide nuclear energy, heat or power. Materials like coal, wood, oil, or gas can provide heat when burned. Methanol, Gasoline, Diesel, Propane, Natural gas, Hydrogen are types of fuel. Nuclear energy is produced by burning plutonium.
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How many types of petrol are there?
You'll see regular unleaded, or 91-octane, premium unleaded 95, premium unleaded 98, E10 unleaded, E85 ethanol, diesel and premium diesel. That's a lot of choice and potential disaster considering that there are only two major fuels: unleaded petrol and diesel.
5 Types of Fuel and Their Uses
Ethanol. This is also known as ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol.
Methanol. Similar to ethanol, methanol is a colorless, flammable liquid, and is the simplest alcohol.
Diesel. Diesel fuel undergoes refining process before it's ready for use.
Biodiesel.
Natural Gas.
What are the 3 major forms of fossil fuels?
coal, oil, or natural gas. Fossil fuels formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals.
What are the three source of energy?
Primary energy sources take many forms, including nuclear energy, fossil energy -- like oil, coal and natural gas -- and renewable sources like wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower.
What are the different types of energy resources?
Here is an overview of each of the different sources of energy that are in use and what's the potential issue for each of them.
Solar Energy. The primary source of energy is the sun.
Wind Energy.
Geothermal Energy.
Hydrogen Energy.
Tidal Energy.
Wave Energy.
Hydroelectric Energy.
Biomass Energy.
What are the 4 non renewable resources?
There are four major types of nonrenewable resources: oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy. Oil, natural gas, and coal are collectively called fossil fuels. Fossil fuels were formed within the Earth from dead plants and animals over millions of years—hence the name "fossil" fuels.
What are the three most common fuels?
There are three types of fossil fuels which can all be used for energy provision; coal, oil and natural gas. Coal is a solid fossil fuel formed over millions of years by decay of land vegetation.
What's the difference between the 3 gas types?
Regular gas has the lowest octane rating, Premium has a higher octane and Super (or Supreme or Premium Plus) has the highest octane. Octane is the measure of the fuel's ability to resist "knock". Knocking or pinging are the loud noises that occur when the air/fuel mixture is incorrect.
What are two types of fuel?
3.3 SOLID FUELS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS
Solid fuels are mainly classified into two categories, i.e. natural fuels, such as wood, coal, etc. and manufactured fuels, such as charcoal, coke, briquettes, etc. (Table 3.1).
What is the primary fuel?
Primary fuels are fuels that are found in nature and can be extracted, captured, cleaned, or graded without any sort of energy conversion or transformation process. Gasoline, for example, is created after distilling a primary fuel, oil.
Which is a secondary fuel?
Secondary fuels are fuels that are derived from some primary fuel or fuels through chemical or physical processes. These are fuels that are not found as a natural resource. Gasoline is the best example of a secondary fuel, as it must be made from oil through distillation processes.
Which type of fuel is petrol?
gasoline, also spelled gasolene, also called gas or petrol, mixture of volatile, flammable liquid hydrocarbons derived from petroleum and used as fuel for internal-combustion engines. It is also used as a solvent for oils and fats.
What is the difference between petrol types?
Premium petrol usually has a higher octane rating than regular petrol. The standard rating for petrol in the UK is 95 octane, and every car sold in the UK has its electronics tuned so that it can run properly on this fuel.
What is the most common fuel?
Gasoline is the most commonly used U.S. transportation fuel.
What is the best type of fuel?
Premium Gas - 92 Octane
For high performance vehicles with engines that have high compression ratios or turbochargers, premium gas is usually best and will often be recommended by the manufacturer. Premium gas helps improve fuel efficiency and offers optimal performance.
What are the main fossil fuels?
Coal, crude oil, and natural gas are all considered fossil fuels because they were formed from the fossilized, buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
Why is CNG called a clean fuel?
Complete answer: CNG or Compressed Natural Gas is considered to be a cleaner gas because it causes less pollution as compared to other fuels like petrol or diesel. It exhausts a lesser amount of nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide, and sulphur dioxide while burning as compared to other fuels.
Why are they called fossil fuels?
Over millions of years, heat and pressure from Earth's crust decomposed these organisms into one of the three main kinds of fuel: oil (also called petroleum), natural gas, or coal. These fuels are called fossil fuels, since they are formed from the remains of dead animals and plants.
What are the 3 largest sources of energy consumption in the world?
World total primary energy consumption by fuel in 2020. Oil (31.2%) Coal (27.2%) Natural Gas (24.7%)
2018 World electricity generation (26,700 TWh) by source (IEA, 2019) Coal (38%) Gas (23%) Hydro and other (19%)
World total final consumption of 9,717 Mtoe by region in 2017 (IEA, 2019) OECD (38.2%) Middle East (5.1%)
Do different types of fuels create different types of energy?
The kind of fuel that was created varied depending on the conditions like what kind of organic material (from plants or animals), how long it was buried, at what temperature and under what pressure. Types of non-renewable energy are natural gas, coal and oil.
What type of electrical source is fossil fuel?
Coal, gas and oil
Fossil fuel power plants burn coal or oil to create heat which is in turn used to generate steam to drive turbines which generate electricity.
What is the major component of natural gas?
The largest component of natural gas is methane, a compound with one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms (CH4). Natural gas also contains smaller amounts of natural gas liquids (NGL, which are also hydrocarbon gas liquids), and nonhydrocarbon gases, such as carbon dioxide and water vapor.
Is nuclear energy green?
Nuclear is a zero-emission clean energy source. It generates power through fission, which is the process of splitting uranium atoms to produce energy. According to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the United States avoided more than 476 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2019.
Is nuclear renewable?
Other Non-renewable Energy Sources
Nuclear energy is usually considered another non-renewable energy source. Although nuclear energy itself is a renewable energy source, the material used in nuclear power plants is not.
What do gas types mean?
Typically, you'll find three grades of gasoline at the pump: Regular (87), Plus (89), and Premium (92). The engines in these vehicles put a lot more pressure on the gasoline. Higher octane fuel can withstand that pressure, whereas lower octane fuel will ignite all at once and melt the engine.
What are the different types of gasoline engines?
Gasoline engine types include (A) opposed-piston engines, (B) Wankel rotary engines, (C) in-line engines, and (D) V-8 engines.
Is diesel a gasoline?
Gasoline Fuel and Diesel Fuel
Diesel fuel also has more energy density. While diesel fuel typically costs more than gasoline, most diesel engines require less of it to accomplish the same amount of work as a gasoline engine.
How many types of diesel fuel are there?
DIESEL Fuel Types 101. Technically, there are three types of diesel fuel options, but it is essential to break down the details. For instance, there are two types of standard diesel fuel: Diesel #1 (or 1-D) and Diesel #2 (or 2-D). Then there is biodiesel which is mainly made of agricultural materials.
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Richard Sleegers contrasts 19th century Protestant teachings about salvations to what Joseph Smith taught about life after death.
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The Significance of Joseph Smith's
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In this early article, Allen shows that the First Vision was not well known during Joseph Smith's lifetime. It became well known after the Prophet's death, which is when missionaries started to teach about it…
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Karl Keller, editor; John Wickliffe Ridgon
Sometime after Sidney Ridgon passed away, his son wrote a document detailing his father's life, which he then gave it to the church. The entire document that Sidney Ridgon's son wrote is contained in this…
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Q: query must match 2 fields exactly, don't analyze I tried a few different ways of doing a simple get request, filtering on two different attributes, example:
"query": {
    "filtered": {
        "filter": {
            "bool": {
                "must": [
                    {
                        "term": {
                            "email": "erik.landvall@example.com"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "term": {
                            "password": "bb3810356e9b60cf6..."
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        },
        "query": {
            "match_all": []
        }
    }
}

The problem is that I get nothing back in return. As I understand it, this is because ElasticSearch analyzes the email field, making the query fail. So if I however would use the term erik.landvall instead of the complete email address, it will match the document - which confirms that's what's going on.
I can define the attribute as type:string and index:not_analyzed when I create the index. But what if I wanna be able to search on the email attribute in a different context? So there should, to my mind, be a way to specify that I wanna filter on the actual value of the attribute in a query. I can however not find how such a query would look.
Is it possible to force Elasticsearch to use "not_analyze" when querying? If so, then how?

A: You can use scripting for this purpose. You would have to directly access the JSON you have stored with _source. Try following query
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "filter": {
        "script": {
          "script": {
                "inline" : "_source.email==param1 && _source.password==param2",
                "params" : {
                    "param1" : "erik.landvall@example.com",
                    "param2" : "bb3810356e9b60cf6"
                }
            }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

You would need to enable dynamic scripting. Add script.inline: on to your yml file and restart the node.
If this kind of query is fairly regular then It would be much better to reindex the data as others have suggested in the comments.

A: Its not possible to turn on/off analyzed or not, the way to do it to "transform" your field to analysis you need by using fields.
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my_index?pretty' -d'
{
  "mappings": {
    "my_type": {
      "properties": {
        "city": {
          "type": "string",
          "fields": {
            "raw": {
              "type":  "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}'
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my_index/my_type/1?pretty' -d'
{
  "city": "New York"
}'
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my_index/my_type/2?pretty' -d'
{
  "city": "York"
}'
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/my_index/_search?pretty' -d'
{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "city": "york"
    }
  },
  "sort": {
    "city.raw": "asc"
  },
  "aggs": {
    "Cities": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "city.raw"
      }
    }
  }

}'

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Related: Federal Reserve may buy more bonds
Investors are also waiting to see how the Federal Reserve acts later in the week.
The Fed's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday could move markets. The central bank will have to decide the fate of one of its stimulus programs, Operation Twist, which is set to end this month.
Economists are expecting that the Fed will convert its program from swapping short-term bonds from long-term bonds into an outright bond purchase program.
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Q: RecyclerView Items are not showing FolderListAdapter Code
public class FolderListAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<FolderListAdapter.myViewHolder> {
    private final Context context;
    private final ArrayList<Folder> folderList;

    public FolderListAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<Folder> folderList) {
        this.context = context;
        this.folderList = folderList;
    }

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public myViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.folder_view, parent, false);
        return new myViewHolder(view);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull myViewHolder holder, int position) {
        Folder folder = folderList.get(position);
        Glide.with(context).load(folder.getFolder()).into(holder.imageView);
        holder.folder_name.setText(folder.getFolder().getName());
        holder.folder_item_count.setText(folder.getFilesList().size() + " Items");
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return folderList.size();
    }

    public class myViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        private final ShapeableImageView imageView;
        private final TextView folder_name;
        private final TextView folder_item_count;
        public myViewHolder(@NonNull View itemView) {
            super(itemView);

            imageView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.folder_image_view);
            folder_name = itemView.findViewById(R.id.folder_name_text_view);
            folder_item_count = itemView.findViewById(R.id.folder_items_count_text_view);
        }
    }
}

MainActivity Code for RecyclerView
FolderListAdapter adapter = new FolderListAdapter(this, folderList);

RecyclerView recyclerView = binding.folderRecyclerView;
recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);

recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new GridLayoutManager(this, 2));

XML CODE OF recycler view
<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/folder_recyclerView"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layoutManager="androidx.recyclerview.widget.GridLayoutManager"
        app:spanCount="2"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        tools:listitem="@layout/folder_view" />

folder_view.xml code.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <com.google.android.material.imageview.ShapeableImageView
        android:id="@+id/folder_image_view"
        android:layout_width="150dp"
        android:layout_height="150dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
        android:scaleType="centerCrop"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
        app:shapeAppearanceOverlay="@style/ShapeAppearanceOverlay.App.CornerSize50Percent"
        tools:srcCompat="@tools:sample/backgrounds/scenic" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/folder_name_text_view"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
        android:text="Camera"
        android:textColor="@android:color/primary_text_light"
        android:textSize="16sp"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="@+id/folder_image_view"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/folder_image_view"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/folder_image_view" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/folder_items_count_text_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="600 Items"
        android:textSize="12sp"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/folder_name_text_view"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/folder_name_text_view" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

activity_folder.xml layout file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".ui.addFiles.FoldersActivity">

    <androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/folder_recyclerView"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

OUTPUT

*

*The size of folderList is 2

*I also check the size of adapter. It is also 2

*I also tried by making a new Adapter but it also does not work.
I don't know where I am making mistake and why it is now showing nothing in activity.

A: Change 1 :
In the xml set attribute android:layout_width="0dp" to android:layout_width="match_parent" and android:layout_height="0dp" to android:layout_height="match_parent"
Change 2 :
In your MainActivity code set LayoutManager to the RecyclerView before setting up adapter. so the code goes this way :
//Defining RecyclerView and setting LayoutManager
RecyclerView recyclerView = binding.folderRecyclerView;
FolderListAdapter adapter = new FolderListAdapter(this, folderList);

//Setting up Adapter
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new GridLayoutManager(this, 2));
recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);