Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

@auntyfa.bsky.social Don't believe him.

Yeah, as if I'm going to stand in line to open an account in a US bank, after the Administration let Elon take over the entire Treasury payments system in an afternoon. I left "X" b/c I don't trust it anymore and it's *free*. What do you think I'm going to do with my SAVINGS?

It's ridiculous how many times I've made an argument in my life that gets ignored until a man says the same thing, and suddenly it sounds reasonable to listeners.

I fall squarely in the "reason is the slave of the emotions" camp. In light of the backfire effect, where group identity trumps factual corrections, the fact that the neocortex evolved last and is painfully slow compared to the deeper parts of the brain, and being a gal, I'm skeptical.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

I think a theist has to see it as an either a test or a punishment. You gotta stray from god as all benevolent to embrace the latter explanation, however.

A four-panel comic called Instinct is Weird. In panel 1, a yellow warbler looks at a beautiful nest in a shrub and says "I made this for some reason". In panel 2, there are five eggs in the nest and she says "these are my smooth round children". In panel 3 an egg has hatched into a yelling hatchling, and she says "Oh no now it's loud". In panel 4 she looks distressed as five hatchlings now fill the nest, begging for food, and she says "help".

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Watching Flow with the boys.

How to get a cat to use his new cat bed

Always remember, some people are impossible to please.

Wait a minute, so you mean the push for cheap eggs in the first place and consequent pressures on farming practices, which in turn would encourage overcrowding aimed at mass production, probably played a role in the rising price of eggs? Meaning, in effect, we have no one to blame but ourselves?

I guess 3 bucks for dozen eggs is too high a price to pay for civil servants and government officials with integrity.

#PhilSky

Sadly, the belief that there is such a thing as simple answers in a highly complex world probably speaks to at least some of 47’s appeal. But yeah, it’s actually due to a myriad of factors both current and historic.

Yeah, stop dating philosophers. Source: am a philosopher.

@auntyfa.bsky.social How it started (2017) how it ended (2020).

The yip yips from Sesame Street.

Happy Halloween!

PSA for Americans and everyone else worrying right now.

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I almost followed someone new until I saw them finish a post with “buckle up.” Let that sink in. Heh, seriously though, both these overused expressions spark the same irrational rage as hearing a loud chewer while I’m trying to concentrate on my Wordle.