Take your time and think about things. It’s a lot easier to overcome your cognitive biases when you slow down. Saying that, this is going to be a tough road we go down. Always having a nagging doubt about whether something is real or not is going to weaken the foundations of our reality in ways that open us to further manipulation.
Have you read Workers Deserve More? And did I say they were two basic pillars?
So you’re telling me that a third of democrats now support open borders and public control of large corporations?
I would definitely have words with someone trying this shit.
People severely underestimate how powerful story telling can be in business. A pitch deck with the right speaker can get you millions and millions of dollars, or someone like Elon Musk can tell stories about fully self-driving cars or living on Mars or building data centers in space and people are willing to invest without doing any due diligence whatsoever. Remember, past performance is not an indication of future gains.
So he both can’t and can get a job?
Just like they were dating.
I’m a bit older and much of my life was lived before the Internet. Social media has changed us all for the worse and you’ll do yourself well for staying off of it as much as you can. And yes, there is much more to life than what you’re aware of right now in your life.
Okay, maybe it was $1200.
Though it’s much more likely that man made God in his image.
Our mistake is in believing that any god at all exists.
A number of years ago my wife and I ate lunch at Waterside Inn in Bray, UK. We had wine pairings with all our dishes and every aspect of the experience was near perfection. Total bill was around $1500. Worth every penny.
I had a lot of questions after Trump was first elected and I started reading as much as I could, not only learn more about how and why it happened but also about Trump himself. One of the first books I read was by his niece, Mary Trump. The very aptly titled, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. I came away almost feeling sorry for Trump after what he’d been through. To say his father was an absolute monster and his mother was selfish and uncaring are understatements. Trump had an older brother, Fred Trump Jr, who was groomed from an early age to take over the family business. The senior Trump demanded ruthlessness from Fred but he didn’t have it in him. The pressure destroyed him and allowed an opening for Donald to step in. Trump knew he wasn’t smart enough to be the ruthless and successful businessman his father demanded, so in order to please his father and compensate for his shortcomings, he began to construct a very fragile illusion of himself as strong and capable and ruthless. Gradually, this became Trump’s reality. It wasn’t based on facts or observations or careful reflection; to Trump, it became what he said it was. And in order to sustain this illusion there must be no encroachment of objective reality like the multiple scientific studies showing no link between autism and vaccines. Trump can only exist if people adore him and support the illusion that he is all powerful. It’s why he frequently says that when people talk to him they call him “sir”, or that every response from the White House to counter any criticism of Trump always talks about how he’s the most engaged, the hardest working and the best president this country has ever had or our military is the best in the world. To Trump, might not only makes right, but is his only recourse when things inevitably go wrong: “we are going to beat the fcking sht out of them”. And if his adoring public has any doubt about vaccines and that they might cause autism, then this becomes who Trump is. A reckless and dangerous figure who will do anything to maintain the adoration of his public but is framed as a fearless warrior who fights for the American people. It becomes a caustic, self-sustaining cycle that is the heart of the chaos we now find ourselves in.
I’ve read that one of the jobs most suited to takeover by AI are CEOs.
I’m wondering if all media in a capitalist society gradually just become providers of content?
The right is so incompetent, destructive, and dangerous that anything on the other side seems reasonable. But the democrats need to remember that part of the DSA (which AOC is a member of) playbook is open borders and public control of large corporations. The majority of Americans are absolutely not going to go for that. Maybe the democrats will take back the House and/or the Senate in the midterms as a response to the shit show happening now, but they have to come up with something else if they plan on having a Democrat as president in 2028. The democrats are as equally incompetent as the republicans so I don’t have much hope.
Unfortunately, right wing hate campaigns do affect the voting public. The right excels at getting their voters to hate the opposition.
You’re definitely not going to the right places to get a cocktail.
I enjoy picturing him drinking warm water from a brown and filthy faucet.
Right now it’s the double steak burger with cheese, plain, from Steak N Shake. So delicious.