When Trump couldn’t get a loan from US banks in the '90s he took real estate investment funding from Russian oligarchs, he’s been in their pocket since the same year Dr Dre released The Chronic and the collapse of the USSR

Something doesn’t have to exist forever to have meaning, that seems like a holdover from utopic afterlife religious indoctrination.

We can enjoy a movie or a lunch knowing it will end, I can pursue meaning and find multiple purposes throughout a lifetime.

It either ends with a NATO allied Ukraine or a nuclear armed Ukraine, the only language dictators like Putin understand is violence or the threat of violence.

Or if you’re a senator

FUD: increase fear, uncertainty, and doubt by spreading misinformation propaganda and undermining independent, fact based journalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

It’s the same tactic far right conservatives used against popular public progressive movements like the enlightenment, the hippies, corporate monopolies like IBM and Microsoft against open source, etc to divide the working class against themselves.

Is common sense just an earlier, naive label for confirmation bias?

I heard if you say his name 3 times in a bathroom mirror on a moonless night he’ll throw you to the sand worms

It was only capped for Medicare recipients like retirees and congresspersons, HHS is still reporting it as active policy

https://www.hhs.gov/inflation-reduction-act/index.html

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Sectarian violence should have no place in a secular government

Polar Pals

They can’t because it’s not believers vs unbelievers, the clergy educated in biblical scholarship know their position is indefensible that’s why they enforce blasphemy laws and murder apostates. Because in the light of transparency, historical context, and evidence none of the religions of Abraham are reasonable to believe.

They know it’s made up, but they can’t stop because they’ve convinced themselves it’s for the greater good to defend the ‘noble lie’.

Reminds me of this classic from Mr Show

https://youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA

I hope this doesn’t awaken something in me…

14 stars and 6 stripes, Norway + Australia? Namibia + Somalia?

If everyone is reliving the same day over and over again most people can go a day without eating with some mild discomfort, pretty much all agriculture, grocery, etc would become luxury and less needed or used.

All travel would become short distance you can’t spend 24hrs traveling to the other side of the planet just to get reset back home. Markets would go into stasis and stay closed there’s no interest earned over 0 days, which means most people would stop working as most jobs wouldn’t be necessary if everything just resets after 24 hours, you can’t build or destroy anything permanent.

I think most people would panic or just vacation for a few months worth of repeated days before organizing around new myths and practices and traditions around what caused it and how to change it back.

No question it causes a little heat when it bounces off and the heat is absorbed, but if that heat gets to the point where you’re causing damage cooking yourself with a phone the phone is seriously malfunctioning and broken.

But blocking any of it is useless because none of it is going into your head, the wavelength of the radio waves is too large to penetrate skin or bone, it bounces off harmlessly like am/fm radio waves. It’s in the nonionizing range of the em spectrum, unlike ionizing em waves like X-rays, gamma rays, radon emissions, etc that do penetrate human bodies and can cause protein or DNA damage.

Don’t play rigged games.

Do what you think is right, but actually take some time to think about if it’s right or just feels right.

Being right and being wrong feel the exact same until challenged by facts, challenge your own beliefs, use the Socratic method if you need a starting point.