Ai at the moment, is like CEO's making their own logos, saving money without knowing all of the skills, knowledge, background, and wisdom, assuming you are good enough. Like buying the Time Life book of home surgery and renting the equipment to remove your own appendix... Expertise & trust matter.

The "trick" to good use of power is vigilance. Vigilance in ensuring that someone is taking on the responsibility, not the power. Power is blind, and by will, it is FAR easier than responsibility. Giving power is faith; it requires submission, and should rarely extend beyond you. I want responsible.

'We Have Hollowed Out' Institutional Knowledge in Government, Says Rebecca Patterson, a headline. What I see in my head, when MAGA is like running a government... The Star Trek Pakled: they don't bother with how anything works or want to understand, just force those that do to do it.

Like 30 years in 3D and you know... it is all still paint by numbers.

If you ever struggle not knowing the way and feel alienated because of it, remember struggling without knowing the direction you should go is the most human thing you can do, other than help someone else find their way. Most of the time, all we have to give of worth is trying.

People always want what they cannot have, and once they have everything, not only do they want more, but they also want what they are not supposed to have. External gluttony occurs because they cannot allow personal growth, as personal growth is not backed by others' envy. Metric matter

Just like I am for justice for everyone I am for empathy for everyone. I do not want slaps on the wrists or the lopping off of hands. I am good with justice taking as long and painful a road as healing.

My question is, where do they get all the crosses that don't burn when they touch their skin, and why don't they just let them burn? They apparently, historically, are pro that kind of thing?

Question for the people who live up north: how do you live with darkness for so long? Every morning, it seems I get up and look east, and yet, there is more darkness.

We need to change the game to make a change. Want to screw power? Make lobbying and political donations REALLY sting, for everyone. Make it something you don't want to have to do. You still can but make it like chemotherapy. I don't have faith we can remove money from politics, but we can poison it.

Is it me, or will 2026's word of the year be *redacted* because every time I swear, I hear that word I hear Pee Wee Herman saying "YOU SAID TODAY'S MAGIC WORD!"

PSA: Due to the passage of time and legal reasons the artist formerly known as Kid Rock has had to change his name, please refer to him as "Elderly Flacid" - Thank you.

So many laws will have to be made, changed, and amended to clean up this corruption; it boggles my mind. Lifetimes of gentalemans agreements of behavior are apparently not enough for the modern age. It's time to pick up the can and do some work.

Things I am doing instead of watching sportsball Febtoberfest: Rebuilding my NAS :( yes, it and I are that level of fun, but has to be done. Maybe I'll still run out for Lil Smokies, they are so good.

Things white people wonder about their own culture: Garnishes, why put food on a plate that you do not eat? No one else seems to do this? Is our food so bad that it needs camouflage? I don't want to take the time to know why, but rather why we still do it?

Who was I radicalized by? My Grandpa, who went through 2 wars and a depression. I was sent on deliveries of garden-fresh vegetables to the elderly, poor folks all around, because Grandpa disliked credit and gratitude. He was a stoic man of faith and kindness, even after hardship in his life.

Just an idea, but we should never elect someone to office that has never really known what working for someone else is... lest they have no concept of tyranny to check themselves with.

I used to think the fall of the US economy would end up like Idiocracy, with a giant Costco... Now I assume it will be the worst form of Temu.

When a group makes only themselves the only history narrative, they are responsible for all of it's great works... but also all of its horrors and failures. Controlling the narrative is not for the dim as truth is bright enough to cut through and cast long shadows.

Of all of the songs yet unwritten, the one I would like to hear most is a lullaby for suffering. It has to be, I assume, like a sad funeral dirge with all the hope of a new day at the same time. May we all hear it someday.

So I like ruining things, it is the imp in me, and at somepoint this year I am going to need to get a colonoscopy, if I release the footage to film festivals, is anyone willing to see it, specifically beat the Melania movie in viewership, and write a comic review of why it is better?

On top of today's shit news, I found out Kessler syndrome (that space debris will make space inaccessible) is not going to be a theory much longer. But hey, anything that makes Elon's SpaceX a likely literal garbage company is pretty funny.

The thing about delusions of power vs real power is they both corrupt absolutely. That is why when justice or karma comes around, it is just so fun fun to watch.

Maybe the world has not grown cold, maybe it is just the new should have already happened and so many people are backed up with fear that the new shit is constipated by those who don't want to lose what they only think they have?

Trumps biggest failure for me is he doesn't know what a "job" is. He was voted in by people who have jobs, to do a job, but he has never done a job in his life in that he has never worked for someone else. He is running the US as "his" investment, not our livelihood and security. Bankrupt Inc.

The more I think about Ai, the more I realize the danger we have already been dealing with since the dawn of man, namely the yesman/yeswoman. As they enable stupidpeople with power to use it with confidence.

Words; they are always evolving. Our command of them, our meaning from them, over time, over each persons interpritations, over translations. They fly now at the speed not of thought but light, and in doing so, unleash the code that may one day give life to what is after us. Our war of words. wow

Anger never dies It's part of life It's part of you The end will cease the fire And make us accept We tend to lose - Hooverphonic

I admit I am oldish and still do not understand humanity. Like when people raise a fuss about pineapple on a pizza, when tomatoes are a fruit, a pizza is a pie, and people were already adding tiny slivered fish to it. Gross

It is so simple, so beautiful, "Are you OK?" the last words of a man that should not have been murdered. This should be our new slogan to combat what we have turned into. They are the words of a helper, a healer. Words of empathy to defeat words of anger and entitlement, the Anti-MAGA as a tribute.

Throughout history, if, as a country, you run up a deficit while abandoning your allies... You are looking to start a very large war.

Just an observation... a lot less women are shelping snacks around in their purses. Don't you get hungry anymore, or is it the economy or something else?

Things I believe to be true with no evidence: Somewhere in America, there is likely a menu item called "Fried Salad."

Hearing from other world leaders makes me sad, as some of them got there by their intellect and diplomatic skills, and my jealousy is higher than I would like.

MAGA women, when you shave, do you like leave a landing strip or go full Hitler?

Tech companies SHOULD make consumer products again, not consumers AS products. By selling your customers nothing they can own, why should they buy yours when someone else can make the same product and undercut you to get your "customers" repeatedly until the margin is your capital investors.

Why inequality is dangerous. The upper class has "problems", the middle class has "worries," the lowerclass has "fears." The greater the # of people who feel they are moving down... the more everyone fears. Fear shuts off hearing, listening, and hearts; only survival remains. We already know this.

Well, America, we are garbage country now, no more hiding it.

If they check ordinary people for gang tattoos to be able to deport them if they are here legally who is checking ICE for Nazi and racist Tattoos?

Honest question, the Fed was supposed to have independence... why is the chair elected from outside? I can see nominating for the seats, but the chair should be by their opinion, right?

I like odd food combinations and cultural blurring. Like right now, I want Coconut shrimp, mango chutney to dip in, Mexican sweet corn, and Thai spring rolls. But instead, I will sleep, might as well dream it, as I am too tired for anything else.

I guess I will never get those who think justifications mean things are balanced or equivalent. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or why. Harm is an incredibly hard thing to remedy.

I am so old I will have to explain the band name Porno for Pyros to younger people because they were printed and therefore burnable... and of course how easy it was to make movie plots before cell phones.

All of our political problems lie in the fact that someone doesn't know the difference between asking to do a contract job, vs being a king. Because they never had to work for someone.

A friend asked me to say one positive thing about the current administration. A: Well, I have a greater empathy for oppressed people now, and we have a lot to learn from them, with our response to this.

Love a good nap, but when a 2-hour nap turns into a 5-hour day, it's gone, the day is gone.

Suggestion for a better world: spend 10 min more than usual if you are a pet owner playing with your pet. If you have a significant other, a loved one, or a family member who needs a pick-me-up spend just 5 min sharing nice trend changes in your partner you have seen lately, then hug 1 whole minute.

What reforms should we make? Here is one, stop giving and re-scrutinize immunity to public officials and law enforcement. Harder to do a job is fine if it forces people to follow the laws they are supposed to protect. Make them think hard about empowering themselves and the cost.

Make no mistake, what I fear most in terms of uncertainty for America is not now. We have a lot of work to do to fix things. What I fear is what happens when this ends. The worst will scrapple and scheme for "legacy," and all of the bandwidth of resistance will likely be wasted on "direction."

America's love of the rebel, the non-conformist, has got us here because we forgot or ignored the need for that spirit to be deeply conflicted, intellectual, reflective and most of all compassionate.