“There will be no art, no literature, no science… There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.”
Orwell, 1984
@PlumbNick He is the R incumbent here in his district, and ran unopposed for the R nomination in the May primary. His DSA opponent for the house seat is no better, so we’re pretty much f$cked this election cycle. 🤷♀️
what doesn't kill you introduces you to carl jung, marcus aurelius, epictetus, friedrich nietzsche, james baldwin, bell hooks, audre lorde, frantz fanon, paulo freire, joseph campbell, alan watts, ram dass, gary zukav, brene brown, gabor mate, shadow work, attachment theory, nervous-system regulation, ancestral trauma, existentialism, stoicism, meditation, emotional intelligence, neuroplasticity, metacognition, pattern recognition, game theory, delusional optimism, boundaries and discernment.
Just 120 years ago:
All dairy was raw
All honey was raw
Seed oils did not exist
GMO foods did not exist
PFAS did not exist
Synthetic dyes did not exist
Plant based meat did not exist
High fructose corn syrup did not exist
Autoimmune diseases, heart disease, cancer, and obesity were all incredibly rare.
Do you get it yet?
The only reason Michigan is a tossup between the normal republican and the anti-American psychopath is because we imported an entire population that will vote for the anti-American psychopath.
Remember that.
This is NOT the answer. We don’t need more socialism distributed by our fraud-ridden government. The tax paying middle class needs relief through the abolition of property and income tax!
🚨 BREAKING: The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a plan pushed by JD Vance to give federal child care funds to married couples with a STAY-AT-HOME SPOUSE while the other parent works — NYT
The program could be $9K per year for these families
The goal: make it easier for married Americans to let one parent take care of the children, rather than both work and pay others to take care of the children
This could create an incentive for parents to "stay at home with their children"
Apparently, this is similar to a MARCO RUBIO proposal when he was Senator 👀
It sounds like this would be under current federal programs, not new laws passed by Congress
Let me get this straight... OpenAl was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. "To benefit humanity." Then he raised billions of dollars. Then he closed the source code. Then he converted to for-profit. Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone. Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models. Now he's on stage saying you'll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter. He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he's going to bill you to use it... Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they're not even hiding it anymore...
If Lindsay Clancy is found innocent because hormones made her emotionally unstable, women better be very careful celebrating that verdict.
Because the law loves PRECEDENT.
From that day forward, every job application is going to have a new question:
“Are you currently hormonal?”
“Well, I’m a woman.”
“Thank you. I think we’ll be going in another direction.”
You can’t carry a weapon anymore. No female police officers. Sorry, but we cannot hand a loaded gun to somebody whose legal defense might eventually be, “My hormones were acting up.”
No more high-stress jobs, either. No air-traffic controllers. No surgeons. No nuclear-launch codes. One bad hot flash and boom 💥 Canada is glowing.
And women definitely can’t be judges. How can you decide whether somebody else is emotionally stable when your own gender just established in court that hormones can make you kill three people?
No female politicians, either. You can’t be trusted to run the country if, according to your own argument, your endocrine system occasionally takes over the government.
And custody hearings are going to change overnight.
The judge will say, “Ordinarily, children belong with their mother. However, according to the Lindsay Clancy precedent, she may be only one hormone away from a Netflix documentary. The children go with Dad.”
Dad doesn’t know their shoe sizes, the pediatrician’s name or which one is allergic to peanuts, but his testosterone has never been successfully used as an insanity defense.
Feminists spent a hundred years saying women are not hysterical, irrational creatures controlled by their biology and one defense attorney walks into court and says, “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury… have you considered the uterus?”
You cannot demand equal authority and then ask for discounted accountability.
If women want equal rights, great. But equal rights come with equal wrongs.
Otherwise, that glass ceiling is about to become a padded ceiling.
@Erik7354@Teslaconomics The other day I asked Grok if I could use the Grok bot to help me tidy up my QuickBooks Online and it told me no, but said it would give me the step-by-step instructions to do it myself. What’s the difference between a bank account and QBO? 🥹
I can 100% confirm the one in Hancock, NY. I grew up 20 minutes down the road. It’s been there for more than 30 years. I tried to show it to my friends on Google Maps when it was first released in the mid-2000’s (after I moved to GA), and it wouldn’t allow me to zoom in on their compound. They’ve been protected by our government for a very long time!
Here's why the world feels like its falling apart.
In 1895, a French psychologist named Gustave Le Bon mapped out how civilizations are built and how they fall apart.
He called it the lifecycle. Here's how it works:
Scattered people find a shared ideal.
Typically a religion, mission, or vision of order, and it pulls them together into something greater than themselves.
That ideal builds institutions, culture, law, economies, and art. The civilization rises, and for a while, it works.
Then the ideal fades across generations.
The shared purpose that held everything together quietly drains out, and what replaces it is barbaric self-interest.
People stop asking what they owe the whole and start asking what they can take from it. Duty gives way to entitlement.
The institutions remain standing, but they’re running on fumes — coasting on the reputation of a past they had no part in building.
That’s where it gets dangerous. Because from the outside, nothing looks broken.
The buildings still stand, the summits are still scheduled, and the flags still fly.
But the load-bearing structure underneath (the ideal that bound the whole thing together) has rotted out.
Over a century ago, Le Bon watched this pattern devour every civilization he studied. Read it today and it feels like a diary entry.
Did not know about Brookhaven. 😳Commander of FOCO South Precinct (have you taken a look at the number of Flock cameras set up around South Forsyth HS? It’s INSANE!). Groomed by Brookhaven/GBI (lots of accolades during his tenure there based on the LinkedIn shared here), and then back up to Sheriff here. 🤔
@WinterBlues1104 Thank you!! Freeman signed it on 12/21/2023, and it expires in Dec 2028.
I couldn’t make the meeting the other night because of juggling my kids’ soccer practices, but please know I am telling everyone I know here (heritage Forsythians) that it’s time to get battle ready. 💪