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We are back in the age of Sophists. Plato weeps

Urban or rural or suburban Republicans support the free market only when it aligns with their interests.

In America, you’re allowed to beg when you have money, but you’re not allowed to beg when you don’t have money.

the weekly cycle in my city: quiet workweek streets until dusk, followed by a Saturday influx of suburbanites. By Sunday, downtown trash cans overflow, leaving litter everywhere by Monday. On Tuesday, suburbanites on social media and at work complain about how dirty the city is.

While I walk along a paved path, i’ll see a shorter line home, where the grass has been trampled on by many others over a long period of time, and a moral decision is pressed against me.

Fun story: Looks like my School District ignored all the complaints and objections from the majority of the community and will be upgrading the middle school sports facilities anyways.

The funny thing is that Google tried to rip and scan books for their databases before LLMs and were stopped by copyright lawsuits

Just like Julius Caesar did! —“Morning Call that he did so “to avoid even an appearance of impropriety,” adding that Mackenzie “never advocated for a pardon from the President on anyone’s behalf.”

As human population continues to grow, oligarchies and authoritarianism will be more and more wasteful and cumbersome.

Thinking about 50 year old Rufus Payne, and 10 yr old Hank Williams, today: Payne going and getting homecooked meals from Williams' mother, in exchange for teaching her son guitar.

the irony is that a Republic is meant to protect minority communities from being sacrificed for the majority.

The joke is that yt america doesn’t have culture, but it’s culture is Cruelty.

Patriarchy is oppression. You can’t have a meritocracy under Patriarchy.

the war has cost $37.5 billion so far.

Businesses have been the LAST to enact change. because of late-stage capitalism?

businesses would be more ethical if their only customers were family and community members.

Superman is going to be really unhappy with all this smog

when a society is too ignorant and too illiterate and too busy, politicians can say whatever they want and they’ll be believed.

If we stay in this perpetual state of competition, then we’ll eventually destroy ourselves.

Egoism is expedient and collectivism is sluggish.