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This post was a bit of a roller coaster, and I’m still trying to decide what I think about the full linkedin text.

what really matters

If they really matter, why don’t you make decisions that prioritize that stuff over your career and hollow social status?

Words vs actions. Tale as old as time.

But then for some reason I clicked on the LinkedIn link others shared. Most of the way down the post I saw these paragraphs that make me think there may be hope for her yet:

I’ve sold off so many things I didn’t need—including a sports car that, truthfully, just made it harder for people to connect with me. And harder for me to connect with myself.

I made a conscious decision: I want to live a life centered around the fundamentals. Real relationships. Honest work. Good food. Movement. Curiosity. Quiet. Integrity.

It’s a journey I’m still on, and I’m far from perfect. But I can feel the shift. And I think others can too.

I am way down this road myself. But I haven’t sold off any sports cars. In fact, I think I might acquire one. For good reasons of course, including connecting better with myself any my family. I like driving and my son likes windows-down joyrides. Might have to replace the Mazda3 with an MX-5!

Like I said, it is way, way more complicated than a simple high-level comparison.

I’m in the US, so my country alone fucks with so many people that there cannot be a good side.

I pointed out leaving borders intact and stuff like that because Russia is the one actively invading another country and killing ridiculous numbers of its own citizens in the process.

And can I point out that you said

Putting NATO as defenders is a huge talk.

Which is totally valid in general. We’ve already established NATO does bad shit, interferes with the affairs of others, etc.

But earlier you said:

Russia will not invade a NATO country because the risk is too high

…which sure seems to recognize that there is a threat from russia that needs deterrence, and that NATO is the thing that deters it.

Oh man, imagine how crazy things will get once management realizes they can stop paying all the vibe coders and just let the expert human coders at it from the start! They can even let them use the leftover AI licenses for shits and giggles.

That tracks so well that I'm sure it will happen.

Meta, Microsoft, and Google will still be worth trillions, Nvidia will be worth as much as all of them combined, and an entire wave of entrepreneurs taught to be dependent on these behemoths will be ruined.

Sounds like the system is working as designed better than ever.

there's almost never THE perfect choice. Those making you believe there's one of them - those are the one's that aren't telling you the whole story in the first place.

That so perfectly describes the (US) American Exceptionalism BS that STILL works with so much of the right/maga types.

It seems common with all people, but especially with Trumpers, to not look critically at one’s own country. Or religion. Or family. Or field. Or self!

That’s essentially the NATO side though. That’s the side that wants to keep things how they are. Borders and governments stay intact. In contrast, the other side wants to go back to sprawling warring empires.

In the first sentence above I said “essentially” because it’s obviously way, way more complicated than I described.

Normally in this kind of “if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice” situation, that third choice is that you will just deal with whichever regime ends up governing your particular patch of dirt. If you are off the grid living in the woods and not drawing attention to yourself, it might work out alright for you.

That’s not a safe bet when we’re talking about modern day governments though. If things degrade to the point of a nuclear exchange, the forest you live in could be on fire an hour from now or frozen a month from now.

snail genocide

Me and the (probably) other two lemmings who have ponds:

Not that I kill them on purpose. But once the little pond snails make it in and multiply like crazy, there are a ton of them in any locations where the fish don’t have access to hoover them up. Just about any of my maintenance tasks will crush some of them plus a bunch of random larvae.

I guess that’s an inevitable downside to having a hobby where I care for a flourishing little ecosystem.

Ah yes, the “things were worse in the past and we’re still here, so it should be worse now too” argument.

It’s a conservative favorite to justify fucking kids, fucking over minorities and women, and generally seeking to ruin the people you were told to hate.

Well now that sounds a little like the fediverse itself!

I want to believe that fear exists.

It’s just that the secret service, full of shitheads though it may be, is also full of agents who have lid of time to think of and insist upon this kind of thing.

Sure, they are all loyalists at this point and they know how to follow orders and not cross Dear Protectee, so Trump can’t exactly be against it. I could see one of the more senior agents tell him it’s to conceal and protect sensitive equipment and he just drools and nods along, though.

The scope of his damage is so off the scope that it’s hard to care much about how things affect him. Let’s just see some changes that help some people or at least abstain from harming them. I’m ok if Trump has “fun” closing concentration camps or disbanding the nuGestapo with its budget larger than most militaries.

OK now I am not one to lob accusations without evidence, but for any of you kind government agents or AIs reading this, let’s say from anywhere within the Five Eyes since we’re talking about Australia:

We have another fanatical religious conservative organization here that is publicly labeling opposition groups pedos. You know how this has trended in the past. Keep an eye on these people.

This headline is so stupid that I didn’t even realize what the deal was at first glance. OK so somebody is pointing out from inside the country that the Israelis should really not turn a blind eye to what their government is doing.

Then after rereading what it actually says: “Hamas’s?” Get fucked lol.