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Tattoos are a lot like bumper stickers. Neither ages well and they’re really hard to remove.

I’m not sure I understand why anyone is surprised evangelicals love Donald Trump.

Which is the more efficient method for genocide

It doesn’t take a genius to know that the newspaper industry was destroyed by the move of advertising to the Internet. Advertising is what makes the Internet go. Including TwitteX. 

I’m watching CNBC and coverage of the release of the Tesla Cyber truck. For me, the truck’s unremarkable. What’s remarkable, though, is the way the commentators are gushing, not over the truck, but over an unremarkable racist like Musk.

So it goes.

B-side Police has been rolling around my head for a while now.

“...murder is the sport of the elected, you don’t need to lift a finger of your hand.”

youtu.be/tUq9fURN2VQ?si=iI4iwz

Why are they calling the poo flinging monkey show between the IDF and Hamas a “war” when it seems like the only people dying are civilians?

It’s all fine as well to thank a veteran for their “service to the country”. But when was the last time you thanked an accountant in your local government for stewarding your tax dollars? When was the last time you thanked a teacher for creating a future American? When is the last time you thanked the guy that’s paving the road you drive on every day? Those folks spend their entire lives serving their country and, quite frankly, they are ignored. They all serve. Their contributions are many. 

When I hear the term “Jewish state” I cringe. Like it or not, the term feels like the white supremacist notion of an ethnostate and is counter to anything resembling the idea of a democracy. Using the term “Jewish state” sets up a semantic muddle that makes it difficult for non-Jews to be clear about the country’s intentions. Are they interested in democracy? Or are they interested in an exclusionary state based on religious belief? My cultural experience with the 1st amendment gives me pause.

Erich Fromm's 6 rules of listening – the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist on the art of unselfish understanding t.co/D0DPIjbNpw

When someone uses the Bible to prove a point...they don’t.

Someday I will live in a religion blind society. A place where I will be assessed by the content of my character, not by the beliefs that may or may not be foundational to my character.

Sometimes, when I’ve had my glaucoma medication, I consider the weirdness of a thousand humans sitting in proper rows and efficient waiting lines cradled and crammed by the relative security of science.

I used to worry about artificial intelligence destroying civilization but I’m not worried anymore since we can buy our way out of it with bitcoin. Whew! 😰

For the foreseeable future, it appears that drones are becoming a reliable offensive tool against asymmetrical power. Heads up folks!

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