It’s 3 political parties. What you said. Peter Theil and cronies using tech, AI, and the worldwide data collection to influence world thinking, instead of politics, with the lovely side effect being an erasure of privacy. And the ever-present shrieking religious minority that is Heritage Foundation.
High odds that middle one affects you as well, but at least your government isn’t in bed with Peter Theil. Vance is even his purchased boy.
Only the top 10% of us are doing fine. The rest of us are getting royally screwed.
This is the Peter Thiel world. Trump will die in his sleep of old age and one too many chicken nuggets, and Thiel’s puppet, Vance, will take over.
At which point all privacy will be off the table.
It has to be easy, low effort, and something there friends are doing too.
Spamming Marco Rubio’s name would be nice.
Generic “American”.
He’s not the most powerful globally though, that’s the inertia talking. You, United with Europe and in trade with China are.
Look, we won’t do it because most of us are scared of confrontation at a level of disagreeing opinions in light conversation. Half our men are online gaming right now. And most of what’s happening is being hidden and deleted within the Signal app.
Spam the dementia angle. Scream it loud and demand a medical assessment. His erratic behavior reads of that to me. Not all dementia looks like Biden, there are different flavors.
There is interior hauling. The Prius V had 6ft of back space such that you could fit an entire washer or dryer in there. It could accommodate small batches of lumber and was an option for car camping as it would fit a six foot bed and came with a battery that could be tapped for electronics like CPAPs and laptops. The Prius V was a discount option for the van life crowd back when that was a popular thing.
Effective interior hauling can also happen in minivans with the seats pulled and some SUVs.
Therein lies the issue. What is the point of a truck if it can’t haul? At that point, buy the car.
Is this why the car only comes in duct tape silver-grey?
I’m not sure ambition is the right descriptor here. It reads more like an old school bully group of kids taking actions that appeal to their social group. Followed by a fist bump or a snide shrug.
Or the new-ish paramedic who intubates for the point, having never done the procedure before, only to have the patient extubated in the ER after they complete the drop off and leave. That’s not quite right as an analogy, but this ICE behavior seems to exist between this and the bully group of school kids performing for one another.
but also I feel like we get held to a higher standard for some reason?
I realize I discuss inertia as a driving human force a lot, but inertial force doesn’t just rule over behaviors but thinking and expectation as well.
This one is derived from that American ethos born of not just 1776 but WW2 and the post WW2 remapping of world politics, centered in the West. That’s it. We’ve been riding and reinforcing that inertial force ever since. That is simply how long and powerful inertial force can be within the context of psychology.
We The People hit a brick wall in November, but so did the rest of the world.
How that brick wall happens for individual Americans, wakes them up and energizes them instead of just making them feel tired and broken, I don’t know.
Aside regarding headlines. Germany is the classic comparison in studies. Brutal headlines and imagery are typical, even pre social media.
Brilliant. Sometimes the obvious items we set and forget needs a reminder.
In addition, just generally, stop using biometrics and only use encrypted messaging.
If you’re not using Signal or WIRE for personal texts and FaceTime, you’re doing it wrong. It’s a new era.
You’re talking about a country that largely lives with its head in the sand. America is notorious for avoiding the news, especially world news. The fact that any is ingested as all is likely thanks to social media. (Im talking large strokes, middle of the bell curve behaviors). As long as the family unit is ok, people generally think they’re ok, and live with blinders for anything outside of that. This life approach has existed long before Trump was even a blip in politics.
Remember, inertia is a seismic, global driving force of action for much of humanity.
I think it would likely take everyone’s personal house burning down in tandem to inspire mass action and those who still had houses would still function via the force of inertia propelling them through their daily habits, ignoring everyone else.
I say that as an American. I don’t like it, but it’s true. That and liberals a very un unified and tend not to like each other. A lot of gatekeeping takes place there rather than uniting and doing, always has. It’s a scattered, messy, un unified party.
In addition, there was another post made in response to a “do something” rant that I think sums up the other piece in play.
“I don’t know how to start a riot.”
Which is a fair point. How? Seriously. And where do you find people when your full personal circle is 2-7 individuals (if you have friends at all, it’s a major problem people seek therapy for these days). and half of the people who are friends with are either MAGA or a dissociated young man who spends all their free time behind a screen engaged in escapism.
We’re kinda screwed on the psychology side over here.
Phones from 2004.
Sense of purpose is probably the single most contributor to positive mental health in a career. Or, simply, positive mental health.
75 million of us studied for the test, took the test, passed the test, and still failed.
Standing in a street with a sign isn’t going to fix this. 60% of us still need to work 5 days a week just to eat, or at least sort of eat while our kids actually eat. The DNC didn’t even ask for a single recount they quietly rolled over and gave been laying on the floor ever since, and they’re the ones with all the money.
So, in your fury, what would you suggest?
I admit, at first glance, I thought I was looking at a still shot of Hoth.
Mass Effect recycled many names from science. I hadn’t realized Garneau was one of them until now. (Leviathan expansion, ME3).