What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.
The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
Catholic in Latin American countries want to move to America. No American wants to live in South Africa, which is 90% Christian. People are afraid to wrestle with this. "Paris is cuz Islam," is a false catharsis. A coward's way out.
Taxpayers guarantee loans. Universities raise tuition. Boomers created this system. They run the universities and they made it illegal to file for bankruptcy. Debt slavery system.
Time to take accountability, Boomers, and stop blaming teenagers.
How it feels to fall asleep in a 65° room with shaved legs on fresh sheets with no alarm and no plans and cheese danish on the kitchen counter for breakfast
A quick guide to flu shots
Standard flu shot: Useless
mRNA flu shot: Useless, dangerous
The preceding advice applies to adults over 65, adults under 65, and children
Former four-star General Wesley Clark said right after 9/11 he was shown a plan to topple seven countries — Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finally, Iran. Look at what has happened in all of these places since. Iran is the last domino.
Neocons use your taxpayer money to fund the pensions of people in Ukraine, buy new cars and mansions for oligarchs, and then call YOU entitled for bringing up cost of living.
never forget what the jacobins did to Louis XVII, he was just a child when they tortured him, he was only 10 when he died, and keep in mind this is just what wikipidia is willing to have up, imagine how much worse the full truth is.
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
@HedgieMarkets I’ve asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning
I think Nolan is making a far more radical argument than Homer ever did.
Homer celebrates the Trojan Horse as Odysseus’ greatest act of metis, cunning intelligence.
Nolan appears to reinterpret it as the original sin of Western warfare: the moment humanity weaponized trust itself.
Dunkirk asks how we survive war.
Oppenheimer asks what we’ll invent to win it.
The Odyssey asks whether crossing that moral line means we never truly come home
@VivaldiVril Rhett left with no doubts. I'm not sure if many reach his level of clarity.
"What is broken is broken...I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates & starting all over." Rhett Butler