"Why is there never enough money for roads, or bridges, or for schools, but there is always money enough for war?" -- ANNE FRANK

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apparently we can do bluesky live now? this might be dangerous....

Personal checklist for imminent financial collapse. 1. M2(Release date Jan 27) 2. Velocity of M2V (Release Jan 22) 3. WALCL (Release date Jan 29) #Economy

People are worthless idiots.

Most people are idiots. If you are parroting what most people say... you might be an idiot. There are ways to find out!

Lack of Curiosity, Emotional Intelligence of a Toddler. I think this is what is meant by referring to "The Unwashed Masses" or "The Mob". Education level and political spectrum doesn't matter; when these two things are combined it's a recipe for disaster.

Nothing could ever go wrong by extending the childhood phase into adulthood.

Tokenization and forced Crypto/blockchain backing for currency is coming this year. Total surveillance on currency transactions...if it works. It also may have the effect of collapsing the world economies as the demand for this infrastructure exceeds the supply.

Beautiful experimental philosophy paper on what people ordinarily mean when they say that a statement is “true” Turns out it’s not always about corresponding correctly to the facts. Sometimes it’s more closely related to a moral ideal of “truthfulness” philarchive.org/archive/ZYGTJN

Damn imagine dying and the news doesn’t even bother to have a human write about it.

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Christmas was dying because it used to be one time a year when people really made sacrifices to get others what they wanted, instead of necessities. (Sometimes that overlapped) when you have a culture of consumerism where you buy what you want daily, that specialness goes away.

“Can [a person] be expected to be honest when their poverty is punished as harshly as their dishonesty?” Oooh, nicely put Moses Mendelssohn.

Called it again old.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

#VoteVA Owned by AIPAC.

If you ever see the media aligning on an issue, it is because the people owning the media want to align on an issue.

Vought being acting director of the FDIC is not going to be a good time folks.

The first step to undermining control of an autocratic movement is to emphasize virtues in media and capture the attention of the youth. Creatives that glorify vice normalize it. Think about how many characters you see or read that dig their heels in on their positions and don't compromise for ex.

Aside from a previous post about privatization of the military, turning it from a people and state owned force, to oligarch's mercenaries, the state is the only one able to continuously afford standing armies, so oligarchs will be left with few choices. All of which plant the seeds for their demise

One of the things that will likely happen next year is the passage of the SAVE act to solidify autocracy. Locate documents now, replace missing or damaged ones. Keep copies ready to present. Confirm and update voter registration.

Factionalism as a control method for the state fails when there are outside pressures that cause people to set aside those differences. It does require restructuring and agreement on goals, but you don't want to be that goal. Think, Independence Day, or Ender's Game.

"Therefore, do not let our princes accuse fortune for the loss of their principalities after so many years' possession, but rather their own sloth, because in quiet times they never thought there could be a change."

I can't help but shake my head that so many people play whack a mole, detecting unethical injustice, and lack of virtue in daily life without actually seeing the cause of it.

Government shutdowns are a way to funnel loyalists into ICE from feds struggling to make ends meet. ICE is funded. So, what is happening is that instead of fighting employment and other agencies and the court, you cause attrition. This is a common tactic in business. It gives you the luxury to pick-

Think twice before using audio and video. It can and will be weaponized against you. www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBi...

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The secret to cracking the AI code requires understanding the secrets of humankind.

The angle that grifters use gives us some insight into the way people show their interest. Greedy people fall for money scams, caring people fall for empathy scams, and hateful people fall for dangerous rhetoric.

I was right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhy4...

Soul poured out, exposed, inked, absorbed, discarded, forgotten.

We have crafted golems, fashioned in the image of man, hollow shells that hold only baubles, and desire only paper.

Occam's Razors existentialcomics.com/comic/621

Glitter and Gold is a poor substitute for Virtue and Value.

Man's character is his fate.

It is hard to fight against passion; for whatever it wants it buys at the expense of soul.

Justice will catch up with those who invent lies and those who swear to them.

Democracy is only as strong as the education that surrounds it.

It is weariness to toil at the same tasks and be always beginning.

Hate is like water, it follows the path of least resistance, and if allowed to accumulate, it breaks the dams of common decency.

The government is a belt. Too loose and the pants fall. Too tight, movement is restricted and it's uncomfortable. And it is dangerous when used to please a person.