Sush. Go away. You’re not the president.

Lift toilet seats in homes where no males live.

If the world of full of dumb fucks. We are all literally equally fucking stupid. Someone will still rise to the top and our dumb fuckery will allow us to contribute that to them being the lesser dumb fuck.

Go read animal farm but realize that the specifics of the animals doesn’t matter. Most people think, I would never act like those pigs because this kids the point. It could have just as easily been a team of horses that moved onto the house.

We are all equally stupid, some of us are just less equally stupid than others. The statement is logically nonsense but language lets us lie to ourself by construction nonsense that our brain accepts as reality. We are all susceptible.

Life is far more scary once one accepts that there is no shadowy secret cabal. This concept is just gods of a different natures. Brains are stupid and we’re all stuck inside of one.

We’re not there yet. The problem is as we approach it, they just skim more so we will reach a point where we should barely need to work but won’t know it.

That skim is how the stock market keeps going up in ways that make no sense to the workers. They’ve figured out how to profit regardless of the struggles of the working class.

As it stands today, we could probably survive by working one day per week, likely less. The amount being skimmed is that insane.

The stock market is up because nothing has fundamentally changed. Tarrifs are only going to hurt the consumer.

The stock market is based on value extraction and as long as everyone keeps on working and consuming at reasonable level it will continue to hum along just fine.

Some markets and industries will be harmed by this the tarrifs but these are small fractions of the overall economy. There is also a ton of uncertainty since Trump has a tendency to pull back any measure that affects the market averages.

The pain will be felt by workers and consumers but people have to work and we cannot stop consuming so affected workers will ultimately shift to new places and consumption will shift to new products and the skim will continue.

Global markets aren’t going to get shaken up because the global market is incredibly resilient. Prices will quiver for a bit but in the long run they will simply route around us and new normals will emerge.

The only way things change is if the people cause it to change. Either accidentally or on purpose. But the change has to be sudden and swift because there are tons of levers built into the system to force us to participate.

Something like national strike might not be enough unless it can be sustained indefinitely and it’s not clear how that could occur. I suspect will take several events each gaining the momentum of the last and there is little chance of a first event for occurring.

The stock market is indicating it doesn’t think we have the fortitude and despite what we may want to be true, they know a lot about us and our patterns. Our predictability is to their profit, literally.

Never contribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by dumb fuckery.

I have seen no proof that Trump or Musk are smart. It can all be explained by birth lottery and survivorship bias.

The civil war itself destroyed the south’s market for cotton. The number of slaves that fled was ever increasing and the war made it even easier.

If the north and south were separated they would have continued to come north but would then be asylum seekers.

The north of the south would have been the main producers of economic growth as mineral exports from that region exploded after the civil war. Based on this alone it’s not certain the confederacy would have actually collapsed.

It would take someone with deep historical knowledge of that era to make any realistic predictions of what would have happened.

For instance, the likelihood of the confederate states not further splittering isnt known. And then there are issues such as if the west coast or other regions would do attempt the same break from the union.

There are all sorts of trade imbalances that would be in play. But it’s hardly an idle thought experiment. There are simply too many pieces.

The fun part of IQ is that by definition the average is 100.

Having a Mensa qualifying IQ has never been essier!

Yep. Memory is really silly. It’s why journaling is important. But journaling itself can be deceiving if one isn’t recording truths or is leaving out critical components.

I often wonder what the world would become if we had technology that auto journaled and was immutable. Would we be still so easily be led astray or would we contort ourselves in some other way to cling to our biases and cognitive distortions.

People getting upset about handicap spots are morons. I’m sure there is some overlap between them and those who don’t return carts.

Damn. That’s some commitment.

They didn’t ask for an example of American broken thinking but you provided it anyway because it’s another thing Americans excel at.

Tell me you don’t live somewhere where it gets well below freezing without telling me you don’t live somewhere where it gets well below freezing.

Have had mutinies small children. Always put the cart away. Doors lock and children aren’t that fragile.

Anyone parking in a handicap spot is the one type of person no one should judge when they don’t put their cart away.

I use the cheese that is appropriate for the dish.

Even for something like a cheese tray its based on expectations and variety; a plain, spicy, and aged.

I am surrounded by people who have preferences but I will happily go with whatever is cheapest without sacrificing quality.

Hard to fall for this thinking when you have no favorites.

This guy can control these attacks.

For instance, he could unalive himself.

A casino no less. Multiple times.

A business where even the patrons understand “the house always wins” and he lost the fucking house.

So much efficiency!