I think these solipsistic assholes believe that's someone else's problem--their goal is to get theirs, now. Tomorrow's demographics are a problem for tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

They don't believe the pitchforks and torches will reach them on their islands.

So sorry, Imani!

In related news, "Americans are divided" stories will continue until one side or the other has unanimous support

I don't think there was filming (but who knows?) but they definitely took advantage of medication. One of them defended his actions and got angry when his wife stopped taking meds so it wouldn't keep happening.

It's changed my perspective on a lot of things.

In the last two years, two friends have separately told me their husbands did this when they were married. That was horrific enough, but I had no idea there was a shadow network of men trading ideas and videos.

I missed this when it came out. WTF???

I think it's PE and a pervasive PE mentality in business. PE is about taking what others have built and extracting value. They don't have the patience (and perhaps talent) to build value on their own. Seems like most business leaders are this way now.

That's the article of faith that holds the system together. Whatever the price is--for goods, labor, capital, whatever--it's "correct" and if you disagree you're just arguing with reality.

How do we know? Well, see there's the market and it sets the price...

The Constitution: The Law of the Land as long as enforcement is convenient.

"The Doctor is the one on the right. Great Physician. The best. Some people tell me I'm better, but that's not true. Or maybe it is. I could be the Greater Physician, when you think about it."

A lot of these people only believe in 3 specific Jesuses: baby Jesus for Christmas; Jesus on the cross to give them eternal forgiveness; and Revelation Jesus for their fantasies of apocalyptic vengeance.

They don't pay much attention to the walking / talking Jesus.

Narcissists test people to see what they'll put up with. Those who don't tolerate the bad behavior get harshly attacked, and the tests keep escalating because it's not good enough to pass a test already passed.

Trump seems to be testing his followers weekly now.

I've learned to always be suspicious of people who hold others to a debt that they didn't agree to pay. It's usually manipulation from someone who doesn't have better arguments.

Building a business is hard.

Extracting money from one that someone else created is easy.

Destroying one that someone else created is the easiest of all.

There probably won't be a lot of laudatory books on Trump's strategic genius.

Seems like Iran learned the lesson and announced that they got everything they wanted from him. They're both stating their own maximal positions as if the other side capitulated.

He's probably never dealt with someone pulling his own stunt before

Exactly the kind of heroics the Framers intended when they passed the First Amendment.

I watched the Red Letter Media 7-part video review of The Phantom Menace about 15 years ago, and it does a masterful job of explaining why the movie is such a disaster. I'd been trying to find something salvageable in that film, and there really is nothing about it that works.

His "I don't understand legal payments vs. illegal payments" schtick really sheds light on that whole $50,000-in-a-bag thing.

If you can't tell if you already won, you did not already win.

Well, she did put those three titles in the order of priority.

Drones are definitely concerning but so were the new anti tank weapons and counter-battery radar coming online 30 years ago. We adapted tactics and technologies then and modern armies will do the same.

Good on you. We should all be taught this lesson in middle school. Would have saved me a lot of stress over the years.

It took way too long for me to see this obvious truth. There’s a whole class of people who see themselves as The Players on the stage and everyone else is a supporting role or a bit part. And they’re happy to sacrifice the latter.

These people think the entire world is inside their computers.

And Blackbriar is the secret program in the Jason Bourne series that manages assassination operations.

Not sure which is the worst of the lot though.

Survivalist LARPing

If penmanship is the main goal and we aren't worried about the opportunity cost of spending time teaching useless skills to students, why settle for cursive?

Calligraphy is much prettier.

Thank you. I hated it from the moment it started. One contrived ridiculous scene after another.

But did Palmer say anything as stupid as Musk at USMA saying that to avoid AI turning on us we need to make it curious because a world with humanity is more interesting than a world with not humanity?

They shared that clip online.