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There’s a funny social media scandal about several journalists and politicians (Keith Olbermann, Ryan Lizza, RFK, some weirdo politician from South Carolina) who were all passing around some hooker and imagining that they were in a relationship with her.
Middle age hits people hard if they don’t manage to stabilize their personal life before it comes.
I highly recommend the Netflix cartoon film In Your Dreams to people with children. It’s a very nice children’s movie that promotes the following ideas:
A very wholesome, utterly unobjectionable movie. I particularly loved that the importance of reality was at the heart of the plot. If you want a children’s movie with a conservative sensibility, this one is perfect.
Did you know that at some Florida universities faculty and staff are obligated to take flu shots?
I’ve never seen anything of the kind. Flu shots seem kind of random.
I fear to ask if COVID is considered a type of flu.
DHS statement to FOX via @TriciaOhio:
“Not only was Akhror Bozorov—a wanted terrorist—RELEASED into the country by the Biden administration, but he was he was also given a commercial driver’s license by Governor Shapiro’s Pennsylvania. This should go without saying, but terrorist illegal aliens should not be operating 18-wheelers on America’s highways.”
Not only did this wanted terrorist get a driver’s license, he got Real ID:
I don’t have one because it’s very hard to get. How come criminal illegals are handed out Real IDs? The dude is an open jihadi. Is there a reason why such efforts were made to give him the only form of ID besides a passport that gets you on a commercial flight?
Yeah, because if you say that yes, you want to remarry, what if you jinx it? Or what if you don’t meet anybody and end up feeling like a loser? It’s easier to pretend that you are not interested and then position yourself as somebody who unwillingly gave in to the pleas of desperate suitors. It’s a much better look than confessing to spending years desperately trying to scare up a new husband. That’s exactly what I did between marriages.
What people say they want is an indication of absolutely nothing whatsoever except that, at this particular moment, they felt like saying it. This is why I could never understand this whole branch of sociology that conducts questionnaires and then draws conclusions based on what people said like it’s indicative of reality.
Words are not reality. Words people say about themselves are definitely not reality.
This is very mysterious. Why are they on the floor? Is it a cultural thing?
My mother grew up in a small village, six children in the family, the father disabled from the war and not earning much, no indoor plumbing, got up before dawn to feed the animals and clean out the barn. But they had extremely high hygiene standards. The bedding was always crisply white which in those conditions was a bloody miracle. Grandpa checked the cleanliness of surfaces with white handkerchief. Somebody leaving socks on the floor would have led to months of soul-searching.
In my father’s educated city family, it would be equally unlikely to encounter such a scene. Somebody would have definitely written sarcastic poetry if that happened.
Cultural differences are very interesting to me.
Would you try this?
I wouldn’t. Not for any principled reason but because it’s boring.
I agree with Matt, though, that for people without a strong sense of self and those with narcissistic injuries this will be both irresistible and damaging.
AI will mean more stratification and more people trapped in a favela of body and mind.
A very flawed person can create amazing art, generate crucial ideas, and do something very worthwhile for others.
Conversely, all art, ideas, and worthwhile things were created by very flawed people.
Because all people are flawed.
I can’t believe some moron journalist pestered Trump with questions about the Tucker – Fuentes interview. Seriously, a podcast interview from all that time ago is so urgently important?
I’m disappointed in people.
Another little productivity hack is that the time on my computer is always set an hour ahead. Every day I receive a nice jolt of surprise when I realize I have an extra hour.
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