For anyone who’s confident Trump is going to cut social security, you can earn money by predicting that correctly: https://polymarket.com/event/trump-signs-bill-cutting-social-security-before-july?tid=1741193398789

The Democratic Party is extremely democratic.

They lost my vote this election because they skipped their primary. It’s not democratic to skip an election. That’s the death of democracy.

Oh no not the CFPB

Authoritarian reasons: thousands of businesses forcibly shut down a few years ago, leading to massive market consolidation, leading to less competition, leading to the greed being unchecked.

Greed didn’t recently appear on the scene. Attributing the inflation to greed is like attributing Ukraine war deaths to gunpowder.

Eggs used to be people’s go-to for cheap animal protein

Yeah imagine a plan to fix hyperinflation taking more than eight days to implement.

what?

Slam the door on slamming

By “restrictive voting laws” do you mean voters having to show ID? Like every other country on the planet?

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The whole world is indeed in a bad mood and the reason is we’re all addicted to social media, which makes people miserable.

It’s impossible to fully patrol one’s territory in cyberspace. That means our hippocampus never sends the “all clear” signal which would allow us to relax from fight or flight mode.

As a result, the entire population of humanity is in an unprecedented state of hypervigilance.

Nazis used to be flesh and blood. Now they’re phantoms

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WW3 began in 2022

So then what does the green line represent?

You can’t fix society from the top.

Every person has to do their part to fix society.

The idea that societies can (perhaps only) be fixed from the top is a convenient excuse to abdicate one’s own responsibility for taking care of things around them.

What are your x and y axes here?

Having a life plan that works, that realistically and with some degree of certainty is taking me to somewhere that I want to go, and in the context of which waking up is an instrumental action furthering my progress along that path.

Without a good reason to wake up, waking up sucks. A good reason to wake up is a complex thing. A good plan for life is hard to make, but worth it.

I say this from the perspective of a history of massive depression.

A good reason to open one’s mouth is that there’s delicious food in front of you. A good reason to wake up is that there’s a plan for the day that brings you closer to the things you want in life.

If you have a hard time getting up, resolving that starts with making sure whatever thing you’re getting up for actually serves you.

I think the term “social” here refers to one’s peers. It’s the same idea behind the term “YouTube”. It’s a play on the term “boob tube” which refers to the television. So instead of showing you boobs, YouTube is supposed to be “TV about you”.

It’s the same idea as the brand name FUBU, which stands for “For Us, By Us”.

“Social” here is the same concept as in the word “socialism”. In this context, the word means “of the people”. Same as in the phrase “social causes” as a term for charity.

Yes.