And yet when I go to my local watering hole weighing in a 600lbs., no one photographs me with wonder at me being a magnificent old male with a great life story.

/Star wars meme

Most cars especially BMW, Cybertrucks, corvettes, cameros, Hummers. Chat gpt, caviar, phone ring tones, expensive weddings, store bought cakes/cupcakes, fake grass/colored rock landscaping, overpaying/over borrowing for higher education.

Wearing/buying luxury fashion goods.

After Jan I said we’d have national guard in progressive strongholds within 2 years. Didn’t think they’d go only months later. Oh well, down seems to be the only way to get to up from our current predicament and the fast we hit bottom and more folks experience pain, the sooner we can grow collective values that bind us together again and take the reins back. Hope the fog clears again in my lifetime.

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Ignorance.

It’s practiced by many, in alignment with arrogance. Many different flags, cloths, creeds and livelihoods depend on it.

Intuit about to hire a “private Security company”

Is this a Florida sea level joke?

Campaign “stop”

Your brevity is perfectly cromulent.

“But in the past year-and-a-half our congregation has tripled in size.”

Still the same 2 dudes, I deliberately misleading you with that phrase and was referring to bicep circumference.

Big crayon and the paint cartel always come out ahead.

The global seed vault in Norway is north of the arctic circle as a way of offering preservation insurance and predictable, controlled, frozen temps for food sources and biodiversity. It’s constructed deep underground in permafrost.

I was reading a book about refrigeration’s impact on the food supply last year and at the end the author decided to visit. The day of her visit it was closed due to emergency at the main gate; meltwater was flooding the entryway. Meltwater North of the arctic circle.

I think it’s much more likely you awake when the power goes out because MicrosoftAlphafacebookXDisneyP&G needed more power for a new data center and you couldn’t afford a politician to keep your town’s power.

Totally lost their way as they commodified and expanded so quickly. Truly great, unique insights are worth keeping small and waiting for. All the ted x and mini Ted x and micro teds etc. just water the brand and impact down.

I went to one in 2015 and cried, multiple times. By 2020 I couldn’t even stand to watch them online as everyone was trying to give the next great Ted talk instead of Ted picking the most impactful content. They also got into echo chamber/preaching to the choir territory as it became too rote.

This nanny state for multi-leggers must end. Fancy Feast queens.

I’d say given the current tech environment that book would “educate” based more on a Brave New World caste and less on ideal knowledge to raise someone up but to keep them in a certain assigned position.

Business management practices. For a half century now, the snake has been eating it’s tail devouring itself, it’s employees, it’s communities, it’s government’s…all to make Lumberg’s stock go up 1/4 of a point. None of it is sustainable. Most of it is impractical. We all know it will end in violence in several likely ways and some of the damage is irreversible to people and planet. Yet, despite those unequaled consequences of current approaches, it’s breathtaking the confidence with which freshly endebted newly minted business grads seek to join the line of miserable adults to create more miserable adults. Impressive execution of horrible ideas for sure.

I think your premise is pretty easily shown untrue; modern propaganda tools simply outpace and put volume traditional education and so bad ideas, memes and misinformation–to say nothing of the lower ends of human nature–are quite popular.

Lots of support jobs and customer service (if US based) are moving to remote. If you have any tech/software/computer background you might be able to swing that.

You’d have to get lyrics, and then cross reference them to scripts, probably not that hard with an LLM; the key is that many of these are recognizable movie scenes and characters that add their own weight, nostalgia, and association to the original song, so putting one together well would be a bit more effort.