YouTubers be like “wake up at 4am and run, that’s alpha!” No, it’s not. Look at apex predators; they’re all lazy. Bears hibernate, lions sleep all day. You know who wakes up at 4am and runs? Squirrels.
americans really spend 4 years in a walkable community (college), say “wow, those were truly the best years of my life. oh well!” and then proceed to buy a house & car in the middle of a suburbanite hellscape
One of the most eye opening experiences of my life was doing an assignment in undergrad for my professor who spent 6 months studying in China.
He had us pick a random news story & give a presentation on how it was being portrayed in Western media vs international or independent media.
For mine, I chose the Saudi bombing campaign against Yemen.
I found an article from the Atlantic Council in support of the bombing campaign, which completely neglected to mention that the Saudis caused the largest cholera outbreak in modern history by hitting water desalination plants.
Upon looking deeper I learned that the Atlantic Council was literally a mouthpiece for major weapons contractors & their think tanks, masquerading as an “unbiased” news outlet.
It was only be looking at independent media that I was able to get real information about the bombing. For example the targeting of civilians & infrastructure, or the fact that the Saudi jets were all being fueled by the United States & the American taxpayer.
And while mainstream media gave the usual line about bombs being dropped for “Freedom & Democracy” the independent outlets helped me understand that the Saudis were trying to crush an anti-imperialist left wing militia movement in Yemen called Ansar Allah (The Houthis).
I knew the American media is bad, but I didn’t understand how bad. They don’t just smudge the truth, they completely invert the nature of reality itself. And you can’t truly understand it until you dig a little deeper into their sources of funding, and look to sources beyond the mainstream media bubble.
If you're using AI to write essays, something everyone was capable of doing until the day before yesterday, I think less of you as a person. Surrendering your mental abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and you should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
This time of year is very stressful for sensitive young men with too many light jackets. Very hard to squeeze them all into just 3 weeks of light jacket weather.
we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out
Really obvious if you ever go hike lol. Discrete gear shift at the point of 'failure' and then you can just keep going for more than what just got you to 'failure'