I very much believe that the concept of meritocracy will destroy us all. When the metrics are more important than the people they supposedly measure, it won't be long before those people become mere things to be used, bought, and sold like any other commodity. History proves this.

Don’t support a nation of people who are sitting on their asses and taking money from those who work without trying to make it better. *if you think this is referring to the poor or disabled people on assistance programs, you need to educate yourself better and stop licking the boots of oligarchs.

Two things most conservative and liberal citizens agree on that neither republican nor democrat politicians will ever pass into law are single item bills and term limits for all elected and appointed politicial offices.

If you're not willing to work with the shadow, you'll never be able to work with the light.

If you have a problem with the number of brown people in your country, perhaps you shouldn't have gone out and conquered and destabilized so many brown peoples' homelands in the name of your empire.

History shows that all human beings make poor slaves if they know they are slaves, but will on average willingly and eagerly enslave themselves to any master who gives them a comfortable life and allows them to believe they are a free people.

To worry about something is to worship the problem. Take action, no matter how small, even if it's just making a note to look up advice.

When you keep referring to an "enemy" without specifically naming one, you are signaling your followers to tell you who they have already decided is the scapegoat for all their issues.

Hold politicians accountable for the results of their policies rather than judging them based on their stated intentions

I am not a good person. But maybe, just maybe, if I pretend to be long enough, other people will be inspired to become such.

Your ability to learn new things quickly is determined by how willing you are to look stupid.

Faith and fear both cause ripples that attract the things attached to them to you. They are also mutually exclusive. One can't live where the other dwells.

A sim card is basically a super miniaturized Commodore 64 with the ability to run Javascript. Or Linux. Or Doom.

My best argument against flat earth: if the earth were flat, the edge or ice wall would be more commercialized and tourist trapped than the Grand Canyon and Niagra Falls combined.

In my opinion, adjectives applied to other people's gender based on (usually assumed) biological sex are unnecessarily rude and divisive. If he is a man, call him a man. If she is a woman, call her a woman. If they are both/neither, call them genderfluid/agender.* *Or whichever label they prefer.

Health, education, employment, housing status. None of these have any relation to a person's value as a human being.

All men are men. And a man is the only one who can decide for himself if he is "man enough" to be a man.

You don't find purpose. You are purpose.

I am homesick for a place I can not remember but will never forget.

The only savior coming to help you is the version of yourself that's tired of your current situation

Remember that most of what you know is second hand, and only as reliable a foundation of your worldview as your trust in the source.

When it comes to Egyptian archeology, the irony of the most philosophically materialist culture in history studying one of the least rooted in materialism cultures in history never fails to amuse me.

If there is any kind of supreme being, it is up to all of us to become his, her, or its moral superior.

5% greater than chance is not a lot of evidence in favor of an effect being legitimate. But when you consistently get those results in thousands of experiments, it lends credibility to rare phenomena.

Many of the paranormal things hardline materialist skeptics say are scientifically impossible are only impossible if your understanding of physics stops at 19th century science.

If I were going to take health advice from a former heroin addict, it would be Keith Richards or Nikki Sixx.

You don't need to be anything. It's okay to just be.

Just going out on a limb here to suggest that maybe, perhaps, the apathy of society towards the genuine problems of cis hetero white men is a large part of the reason those very issues cause 75% of everyone else's problems.

100% and also stop teaching boys that they need a wife to mother them when they grow up. Teach all children to be self-reliant and welcome loving partnership, not codependency and servitude.

If the empathy and compassion we allegedly teach children were taught continuously as they grew older, instead of a "more edgy and realistic cynicism of the world," we could completely change civilization within a generation.

If a random stranger observed your actions for the past week, but couldn't understand any of your words, what would they assume your values are?

Are you unlucky, or are you suffering the consequences of habits you are afraid to change?

There is no debate. Existence and identity are not open to debate. If our existence is up for arguing We've already *fucking lost* A "queer question" being up for debate is *bad* any queerness, inherent, inborn, expressed or repressed is treated as something to fix To eliminate To exterminate

Mr. Rogers' quotes are never inappropriate, even out of context.

Encouraging the exclusion of non-white cultures from games and fiction written by mostly white people for cynical PR reasons achieves the opposite of the intended effect. Or is that exclusion the whole reason for such policies?

As a gen-xer born in the 70s and raised in the 80s, the pop culture hill i am most willing to die on is that the only good thing about Friends is the theme song.

Tie tax breaks for corporations to the ratio of pay between the lowest and highest paid employees in the company and watch how fast corporations start paying an actual living wage....

No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. And it's never Us that does the bad stuff. Its always Them.

It works both ways. There is a dogmatic fundamentalism to modern popular science that completely ignores any evidence, no matter how credible, that science writers feel contradict their apriori assumptions on the nature of reality and physical existence.

Eugenics, applied to sapient beings, is immoral, unethical, and horrific. But all the domesticated plants and animals bred from wild variations that don't share their physical and psychosocial characteristics prove that the one thing it is not is pseudoscience. And the belief that it is is dangerous

People incapable of a healthy relationship with their own self are also incapable of a healthy relationship with others.

The only thing I have to say about today's event is that those who have no compassion for others whose lives have been ended by violence do not deserve compassion when they are the victims of it themselves.

Never forget that you are the grandchild of Tiamat and Apsu. The very flesh of your body and spark of your soul are woven of the same cosmos and chaos made from their essences.

Your body is the strongest talisman you will ever carry.

The system isn't broken, it was deliberately designed this way.

If growing up watching 80s cartoons taught me anything, it's that you can always recognize the bad guys because they are the ones who hate rainbows and friendship.