exactly. not only do Washingtonians pay for all the Inslee and Ferguson victories over the past 20 years, but it also sapped all the energy that could have gone into positive things for the state
we could be the #1 state in the country along every measure had it gone to something productive and enduring for the future of this state. but they just wanted to loot the treasury. and they did it
Parents who raise their kids on realistic content are performing a kind of soul circumcision without anesthesia, and they do it proudly. they buy the little books about sharing and recycling and how divorce is okay, sensible books, vetted books, books approved by some committee of childless phds who decided that dragons are psychologically destabilizing. and then this denuded little creature grows up and wanders out into a world that is absolutely crawling with dragons, real ones, humans who feed on humiliation, women who collect men like scalps, landlords, banks, algorithms, addictions, each one an ancient monster. and the kid has nothing, no stored narrative of the small weak thing prevailing, no memory of stones becoming bread or dead girls waking up. his parents gave him nutritious facts and he stands there starving in front of his first real giant with a stomach full of information. meanwhile some other kid whose grandmother filled him with absolute garbage, nonsense talking wolves, magic beans, boys made of wood, walks up to the same giant and something old activates in him. he knows somewhere deep in the meat of him that giants are a problem with a known solution, that has been handled before, by smaller people than him, with worse weapons
for some reason cycling advocacy groups have enjoined with the progressives and endorsed the whole platform of decarceration, social justice, socialist virtue signaling policies etc.
as we were not hated enough already
canβt we just celebrate and support the friendliest relationship man and machine have with one another and promote how much fun it is? doesnβt really make sense to me
thereβs a more defensible argument for a shared psychedelic experience perhaps
in my experience the deepest, most abiding relationships are totally agnostic towards whatever is being consumed or not
long walks, road trips, time. being drunk together doesnβt compare. itβs fun though
@IslandLight5@FischerKing64 yeah a lot of those companies leaving are the same ones that threw massive amounts of money and public support to DEI and social justice initiatives that have put the city in a downward spiral. The worse it gets the worse it gets
Researchers built software inside Apple Vision Pro that lets people on DMT tag the symbols they see in real time while logging brain scans and location data.
If the AI confirms different people see the same symbol in the same spot, it's proof of real encoded information.
Payroll growth by state since just before COVID shutdowns, & the best growers are all red. Strip out health care & the median Harris state has zero job growth since early 2020.