i never knew there was an actual term for this:
epistemic loneliness is a cognitive form of isolation that happens when you cannot share complex ideas, inner thoughts, or meaningful perspectives because you lack a willing, able, or understanding conversational partner.
In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
why normal people don't want AI agents:
"in order for you to care about agentic commerce... you have to be comfortable with that agent or that AI having entire access to you, what you like, what you want, and be able to carry out that action on your behalf"
🚨 BUSTED: A company in billionaire Rick Jackson’s massive healthcare empire was SUED in a class-action lawsuit for trafficking immigrant nurses. #GAGov#GApolitics
When the right tries to claim that I'm on the Democratic plantation, and would never vote republican, here's a plan that I would vote for a republican. But no republican will get off of the billionaire plantation and go against their masters.
How many people outside of Gary, Indiana are aware they haven't had electricity for a week? These videos on IG ny this young lady are the first reports I'm seeing that they have no power, fuel, or food (no refrigeration), and people are being robbed for generators and supplies.