Nothing is a special about the Cheeto Man. He is not a means to some end, as though his specialty is bringing about some change which nobody else could have. Cheeto Man is an end in himself. He’s the result of where we have been headed for a long time. Circumstances were right for a man like Cheeto Man, and now here he is. It’s like when the weather man tells you circumstances are just right for rain — that means it’s probably going to rain.
Someone needs to make a movie that kicks off with the Middle East having led the Industrial Revolution by capitalistic means of rapid production and innovation. Their need for natural resources growing, and them deciding to use military dominance to covertly get what they need in that regard. Them invading parts of an impoverished US, installing government leaders, … all of it. It would make for a hell of a movie. Kind of like the one where the Soviets won the space race.
The unfortunate reality is that MAGA is only turning on Trump in the slightest possible manner because they see his potential fumble. It’s acknowledging writing on the wall, it’s not a push against their king.
They’re not attracted to winning, in the sense that they may come to reason and stand for what’s right… no. They’re just adverse to loosing, in the sense that they cling to whichever side seems more powerful to them.
Trump is just one bandaged ear away from having his tea-sac in their throats again.
Agreed. Politics is a natural process for us humans. We engage in politics when we raise our hand to be called on in class, or even when we blurt out our answer. We engage in politics when we decide what information should be public, internal, and confidential at work. We engage in politics when we decide to vote on representatives.
Money is just a medium for stored value, a status provided by collective agreement. Money isn’t inherently political, but it’s often used politically. Funds are often produced or withheld based on political considerations. This is usually fine when it’s money leaving our political system. The bigger problem is when the considerations are set by monolithic entities pushing money into our political system.
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Hi, thanks for the thoughtful reply. It’s funny that you ask — I was duel diagnosed with ADHD and Autism. My son’s doctor is also having him evaluated for ADHD now, as well. So, I think you’re onto something there.
I agree with everything else you’ve said as well. I’m just a bit tapped right now with work stuff. Cheers friend!
I’m autistic, my dad was autistic, and my son is autistic. If I may speak, yeah we’re all “smart.” My dad won a state wide chess championship at 14 years old. I build data platforms on small teams where I’m usually the only engineer servicing a handful of analysts. My son has been hyperlexic since he was two years old. Although my son is diagnosed level II autistic, meaning he needs more support in a few places.
The gotcha in our case is that we’ve got pretty poor social ability, and even worse emotional regulation. We get distracted easily when bored, but we can hyperfocus on one thing for 16 hours while forgetting to eat, sleep, and piss. Also, empathy is difficult/unnatural when we’re frustrated. Self awareness is more a learned skill than a natural one, and we can be egotistical at times.
My dad was your classic absent dad, unless you count when I had met him at 11yo and we went out drinking/fishing together. Or again when I was 14 and he felt compelled enough to reach out and insult me. Him being “smart” is probably a narrow way of viewing things. We’re really not the life of the party… but “smart?” Sure, I guess, by some basic measures.
They’re going to slap speeding tickets on the rubble. You laugh now, but those tickets add up fast and Ukraine might loose its drone license.
I wake up every day between 4 and 5 am. Get myself (ready for work) and my kids (ready for school) by 6:30 am. Drop the kiddos off at school, wife off at work, and I’m usually back home by 7:30. Then I walk my dog until 8 am, and finally I have an hour to myself before I start work at 9–usually spent cleaning. I work until 5 pm, then go pick up the kids and wife to be back home by 6 pm. We have two hours now as a family, before the kids bedtime at 8 pm. Cooking is an option if you want to hog up most of the two hours with cooking, eating, and cleaning. Otherwise, we can eat fast food during the drive and maybe watch a movie together when we get home. Beside that, I walk the dog again at about 8:30 pm and I’m in bed by 9 pm. The wife and I might stay up until nearly 10 pm if we’re watching a show.
There’s not a lot of time to do much besides fast food.
If that were the case, wouldn’t the ones who didn’t get the genetic engineering be far more likely to reproduce and stride along with natural selection? I have a hard time seeing that event ever happening, short of the human population en mass deciding to engineer every baby on the planet before a single generation of which could have lived life and been studied for its effects.
What I think is more likely as a great filter is humans eventually settling on the idea that organic matter is really terrible medium for life. So, something with much more longevity, strength, efficiency, and brain power gets synthesized and we move in. At a certain point, wouldn’t biological life die off because life tends to yield to its more evolved forms? If us meat bags had to compete, how could we?
and I think there are more interesting answers to the Fermi Paradox than the Great Filter. For example, the expansion of space not being something we can overcome in travel. Or, maybe the way we perceive space is just so anthropic—we’re making poor assumptions about other beings.
Why would you use something useless like kg that means nothing in 99.999…% of the natural universe?
By my math you’re referring to a backpack weighing about (3.7–4.6) × 10⁸ Planck masses.
Trust me, as some weird modern form of atheistic deist, I am not advocating for religion. But there’s something to be said about community values and how it overcomes the issues you’ve mentioned. Church goers don’t seem to struggle as much with getting their schedules in order, making time for community events, doing community service… when these things are seen as virtuous under the eye of their god, they get it done.
What are we missing now that makes modern life lack this community connection it once benefited from and religious folk seem to still have? What’s missing, why’d it go, and how can we get it back?
Exactly. I wouldn’t put it past them to regard the scrubbing as an “ongoing federal investigation” — which the article clearly mentions can still be redacted.
There’s an obligation not to believe it. If the Grinch fucks up your Christmas 10 years in a row, then tells you he’s ready to turn a new leaf, you don’t respond by telling him where you put the tree this year. You instead wonder if this is the newest trick up his sleeve, trickery. When he later does a good deed, you now wonder if he’s playing the long con here. When fellows start to advocate for the Grinch having changed, you wonder if your fellows are either naïve or in on the trick. I don’t know at what point the Grinch deserves trust, but it’s probably proportional in some way to the amount of trust they proved themselves not to deserve.
Also, if you later discover that the Grinch turned a new leaf only after discovering that the police seized his computer, found support for a pedophile in chief, and plans to make it public… then you wonder if the whole thing is just Grinch trying to survive the blowout. Grinch has been very bad.
And why the fuck would companies get the refund? The costs of their import fees were passed onto consumers. Another fucking payday for the slime fucks while the actual population of human beings suffers?
All that but we can’t grow new teeth in our mouths. What’s up with that, nature?
Not unless you’re ready to change “hung up” to “tapped end.”
Bamboo as well.
I have tripled that on a drive home from my corner Starbucks before. Fun fact: the servers might be “legally required” to warn you of your poor health choices before they hand you your drink.