Canceling the penny is a headline pun writing dream scenario:
Can we talk some cents into the US mint?
It makes sense to make no cents.
No more pennies, a cents-less policy.
Once my Grandma told me that when she can't sleep she imagines herself floating through outer space. Now when I can't sleep, I imagine my grandma sitting calmly in her rocking chair with an afghan across her lap, floating through outer space... and I fall right to sleep.
@NoHolyScripture I think he's right that without religion people adopt ideology. Not just woke, but any ideology or ism (racism, conservatism, capitalism) as an identity. It's stupid, but woke-ism could fall into that category. Woke = Awakened to the suffering of others, not a pejorative!
@EricLane219 @AdamMGrant Agreed, we're indoctrinated from birth to be workers & consumers. Our societal structures and the time and place we're born into give us a narrow set of options of what we can imagine is possible. knowing this makes free will feel more like a choose your own adventure book.
Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
@fonz599@marcuschown Yes, however I think it’s more precise to say - they feel special. Without supporting trump they’re insignificant. By publicly supporting an idiot, they become “interesting” - same for believing a conspiracy like flat earth. Explains why their support is so extroverted too.