The economy is splitting in two.
Yesterday I toured a new gym in town charging $500/month. They offer blood work, recovery, and concierge-style fitness, but most people are really paying for exclusivity.
They haven’t even opened yet and they’re already 25% sold out.
Later that same day, I talked to a family friend who has owned restaurant chains for 25 years.
He told me they are seeing the highest rate of declined credit cards at the register they’ve ever seen.
Higher than 2008.
Remember when ppl filmed & accused a white woman of being a cop for participating in the burning of the Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed? And then it turned out she was Rayshard's gf and she got arrested because of the footage?
[CUT TO 10 YRS AGO] We need to deprogram the alt right by catering to them so heavily that we are, at best, kind of bewildering to anyone else.
[CUT TO PRESENT DAY] Help! I can only speak in ironic decommissioned dogwhistles!
[CUT TO THE REPLIES] "Many such cases"
Growth of these disorders directly matches growth in disability from Long COVID.
This is not surprising. We’ve known every COVID infection, even the mild and asymptomatic ones, cause measurable brain damage. This is just one of the cognitive deficits we expect.
1000 days ago we woke up to my then 3 year old asking me if I could turn that horrible sound (of gunshots and explosions) off, because it’s scary. My heart goes out to everyone especially those parenting while surviving this war in Sudan and elsewhere. May it all end everywhere.
if things around WWII are viewed through the lens of the US doing things to monopolize power for the next 60+ years everything about that history becomes clearer
• symbolic trials
• hiring nazi scientists
• protecting US industry which aided Nazis
• military stations
Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.
do not forget: this platform will be throttled, our accounts limited or blocked, when things kick off. between now and the mid-terms, many voices will be removed.
It also doesn’t much matter if there are Venezuelans “cheering the streets.” There are always people cheering in the streets of countries the US invades. Since when has that ever meant anything? The US still always turns those countries into fascist hells.
It’s never too late to stop using AI
It’s never too late to start masking
It’s never too late to unlearn propaganda
It’s never too late to become better
there is no 'regular' to go back to. we either goin 2 establish some new systems or the old one is gonna come more vicious than this generation has ever felt
Covid damages the immune system, then other viruses hit even harder than they normally would.
This is happening with the flu right now, and it will continue to happen with other illnesses.
This was expected.