@michaelshermer i'd like them to cover the various flood myths, brothers slaying each other, babies set adrift in baskets, etc. rather than finding out later in life that most of the stories of the bible are ancient folklore told and retold.
@NevinClimenhaga@KelseyTuoc Particles seem inclined to participate in increasing complexity. A quark forms an atom that makes a molecule and thus all you see. Life is a feat of that same drive, until it meets entropy, dissolves, then reconstitutes.
@TVachaW It is compelling to avoid discomfort, but that is where you find your capacities. Outdoor life, for all its pleasures, is also rife with discomfort. This is not under your control, and you're better for it. Also, itchy.
@Badhombre i cannot imagine you're bothered by that. you just want everyone else to be bothered by that. please note he's wearing an orange jumpsuit. you may be unfit to live in a just society.
@majamediaco Endeavor to watch without the blinders of ego so you can see. It's hit or miss with me. I can only drop ego if I know I'm carrying it, and the seduction of ego is I don't always know when I'm wearing it.
From a financial point of view, among the best investment strategies today seems to be to identify which ventures are most destructive for the planet and society, and are tied to the most corrupt oligarchs, and to put your money there. We’ll live in hell, but with good returns.
@CinemaTweets1 We want to romanticize our heroes because we loved them but heroes are sometimes people who sacrificed absolutely everything in pursuit of their goals. idolize a hero, but do not be their children.
@AFP The arrogance of this administration blocks their awareness that they are losers cosplaying as perpetual winners.
Hegseth may share with Trump an inability to discern that he is a pathetic glitterboy.