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Perspective Matters: Watching an Englishman eat an LA Cajun Crawfish boil... "Oh, it's health food!" Me: "You may be the only person on the planet able to say that, and I will believe you."

If your regrets hold no value, no lesson for you, abandon them, they were not yours anyway, you were keeping them for someone else who did not show up.

The revolution will be televised... but 1% will be able to afford pay preview and take almost all. Everyone else will get it 3 months later with the ad tier subscription and have to share the 1% left.

The AI crash may not be because of AI's value going down suddenly. It may be that AI trading averages out its approach across many indexes and the algorithm itself for trading crashes at a speed no human could stop because of math, not supply/demand.

Saul Goodman's Poof Gesture in Breaking BadALT: Saul Goodman's Poof Gesture in Breaking Badstatic.klipy.com

The new "class warfare" is further complicated by having to ask the question of who has class and who does not.

In true Pro "The Odyssey" fashion, the Republicans have made themselves a Ship of Theseus leading up to today, since about 2016. With their tactless demi-god of gold waging war on the Persians. But ironically, he is letting Rome burn because he doesn't know Greek from Roman history.

At what point do they introduce the concept of Schrödinger's Mitch McConnell to the Supreme Court in a last-minute attempt to pass the Save Act?

Eletisim is hated in the US for real reasons. Exceptionalism of expertise by actual achievement and service has been corrupted to look like Eletisim by folks unwilling to do the work to check. If someone claims they are an expert, always ask why; distrust those who bleed expertise into other fields.

Farmers do not want handout aid bills; they want actual sales. Aid for nothing is likely to go away in an instant to Republican program whims. That is why USAID and SNAP are important. It lets farmers make real money off what would go to waste.

Cutting USAID, anti-farmer Cutting SNAP, anti-farmer Manipulation of oil prices, anti-farmer Yet farmers and the Ag world love anything for people who own large amounts of land and low taxes because the numbers they deal with are large. Fix our tax policy and conflict rural political power for once.

Food Inspections being cut doesn't just mean less food safety; it means no one is doing the weights-and-measures testing to ensure what you should get, and other things. Things like checking for bogus benefit claims and nutritional values.

Racism math. Human beings' only survival strength is in numbers. Making smaller, exclusive groups that fear and have to legislate inequity is a waste of resources. Because a larger, inclusive group can come and replace you. History repeats itself and says oppression always ends badly.

The USA is Money-rich, resource-poor (resources are materials, manufacturing, and skilled labor) = a recipe for continual debt and inflation. This is not doom; this is correctable, but not the way we are doing it. Basic: "everything is worth what someone will pay for it." -Publilius Syrus

Merit and meritocracies are always a sham, as if you are in charge; no matter how shit or corrupt, you can pretty well define "merit" as what you are. Ideals should change over time but never be dictated by just a few. Example: "greatness" is now a tarnished word.

Marketing tomfoolery spin idea to make the war in Iran less of an unaffordable burden... "Think of the gas pump as a reverse atm investing in lower prices at some point in the distant future."

Just a reminder: to be humiliated, you need to be human. Know your enemy, but do not humiliate them; let them do it for themselves so you know what you are dealing with. Empathy begins with giving the benefit of the doubt and asking why. But if humanity is not found, be like a parent and say "NO".

3 kinds of people to "help you". 1) The person who wants to control the solution. 2) The person who needs to be right about the solution. 3) The person who actually wants to improve the situation. The "trick" is to always insist on #3 but with any combination of the first 2. If #3 is missing, leave.