Disappointed to see this using the “conservative pounce” formulation.
I’m Gen X. All of us, including liberals like me, were there when we watched a nation filled with brilliant people put its best minds to making socialism work. It was an unparalleled disaster — not just economically, but environmentally, and certainly from a human rights perspective as well.
The fact that we now have people on both the right and the left who think Lenin was on to something, or that “real socialism has never been tried,” is mind-blowing. It represents a massive generational failure of our K–PhD system. They didn’t learn the history, philosophy, or economics that would have prevented them from falling for the same midwittery that too many of our grandparents fell for.
Sure, it sounds nice. Utopia always does. But it was a colossal disaster that we must not repeat.
So no, Axios. The news isn’t that the GOP is sounding the alarm. It’s that more genuine liberals aren’t.
Midjourney is opening a health spa in downtown San Francisco with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges and a new form of medical imaging that they have created, the full body ultrasound.
They can do a scan in 60 seconds. They want to deploy 50,000 of them over the next 6 years.
Doomers gonna doom, be the light ✨
Our AI future is as positive as we make it, so use AI in positive ways for your family
Trying to do my part to share how I do just that and @NYMag decided to help share it 💕
When this stuff first entered my timeline a while back, I had a hard time parsing the reality vs bias vs algo change vs misinfo etc.
Now it seems to be pretty plainly just as terrible and disgusting as so many thought. But those many were coded to one side, therefore, the other half closed their ears. 🙈
The industrial-scale depravity and barbarism revealed by The Rape Gang Inquiry is so grotesque it beggars belief. Nuremberg trials would be in order lest "heads must roll" be taken literally.
Focus on what you can control.
Build something. Anything.
A product. Yourself. A family. Your community. A team. Relationships.
Or help someone else build theirs.
Don’t complain. Don’t play the victim.
Ever.
What are you building?
#PlayNiceButWin
The year is 1825. Inequality is surging as industrial expansion begins to boom across the USA.
John Jacob Astor, a fur trader and real estate investor becomes the USA's first millionaire.
Socialist politicians explode in anger and tell the American public that this inequality is unfair and we need to ban millionaires so this never happens again.
Fast forward 200 years - the politicians were ignored. The USA has become the wealthiest country in human history by a huge margin. The median American is wealthier than 90% of the rest of the world. Capitalism won.
No they're not. They're going to buy a house, buy a hypoallergenic dog, pay a fortune to get IVF so they can still have kids, and they're going to buy a boat and take the whole family to "see the museums" and talk about how they "did Europe".
Staggering the number of you guys that worship outlier lives of great accomplishment, but are completely disgusted by what true outlying behavior looks like