to the extent your thoughts come from various forms of modern media they should probably be ignored

People vote for a candidate, but to the extent that candidate countervails what the power centers want, they install malware of sorts, strategically placed people to thwart the agenda of the voters. If the malware does its job partially, you will have only part of the agenda achieved. If it does the job totally, you will never know whether the candidate himself was in on it from the beginning. Maybe the only way to overcome this is for a candidate to purport to do the bidding of the power centers but secretly subvert them, i.e., to pitch compliance but radically diverge once elected, but without ever announcing it. This is such a tough needle to thread it virtually never happens -- such a leader would have to be so awake that no amount of contact with the system could corrupt him. Chances are he'd probably be crucified.

nicotine is great when you run into it, but a curse to have on demand

A “racist” is someone winning an argument with a liberal, but a racist is someone who evaluates individuals not by their own deeds but the deeds of others with whom they share some ancestry. The former you can ignore, the latter is a type of collectivist whose views are antithetical to freedom and prosperity. For if someone can be classified and judged by the deeds of others, so can you. View quoted note →

Starting to despise the tone and phraseology of AI. It's like music composed as commercial jingles, maybe worse. Just sounds fake. And sometimes I can’t tell whether an account is actually AI or just a person who used it so much he’s started to adopt its style.

Still use a beaten up IPhone 8, zero desire to get a new phone, but it doesn’t take the latest updates, and apps are starting not to work.

it's bullshit we crashed below 122