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If these fools challenged me to justify my job, and I could economically afford the risk of being fired for it, I would certainly tell them to suck my dick.
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It’s emotionally appealing of course. Hospitals might face sanitary or logistical challenges in some situations.
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Yes, we need a good pandemic and fiscal crisis to depress gas prices again. Ah the good old days.
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I’m puzzled about why tv makers put the motion smoothing stuff on TVs at all. I don’t think I know anyone who likes it.
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I loved my library growing up. It was not only where I found the books that transformed my life, it was a refuge.
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Their souls are black, so…
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I think you’re right that he’s not exactly fascist. He is authoritarian. And he is ALL about proximity to government power as the path to wealth. He leans hard into benefitting his cronies and the already wealthy at the expense of the weak. He is Louis XIV perhaps.
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This makes me think about Kahnenan’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” He models human thinking into “system one” and “system two” - in which system one thinking is fast, intuitive and incredibly susceptible to many forms of bias. The delay in response might be system two overriding system one biases.
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I don’t think of Russia as a colonizer like these others. What colonies did Russia have? What nations are russophone other than Russia?