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Of course! We force cigarette manufacturers to put the dangers of smoking on the package.

I can sympathise, but it’s interesting as one of the only books to depict a truly terrible person being summoned to a fantasy world. IMO it has quite the slow burn character arc over the series.

The solution is education not bans. This is crazy. Regulating social media access has some major privacy concerns, will make parents more complacent and will only cause kids to seek other more dubious means of communicating. It also places a major wall in front of the development of new social media platforms.

I know parents who successfully regulate their kids access to social media, games, tv, movies. Pushing this regulation is not the solution. Does more damage and will only make parents more complacent.

The key for any successful politically and economically equalized system… Is circular oversight. Committees arranged to observe and contribute to each others decision making. Shared and necessarily equal responsibilities.

You actually have an insane person leading your country. What are you doing.

Yes, ive had zero issues with it 👍

OST - Fav Song

• K-Pax - Taxi Ride
• Sunshine - Mercury
• Kingdom Hearts - Scherzo Caprice on a Theme of Never Land (piano)
• The Truman Show - It’s a Life
• Portal 2 - I Made it All Up
• Blade Runner - Tema Iubirii
• Jet Set Radio - Concept of Love
• Matrix Reloaded - Mona Lisa Overdrive
• Atomic Blonde - Major Tom
• Sucker Punch - Search and Destroy
• Titan AE - Cosmic Castaway
• Brigador - Solo Nobre
• Collateral - Hands of Time
• Hanna - Car Chase
• Oblivion - Wings of Kynareth
• Halo CE Anniversary - Cloaked In Blackness
• GTA 3 - Main Theme

The writing is excellent. I enjoyed examining all the mundane things in the world to read descriptions that always seemed to start from a novel perspective.

Here’s the description of a Wide Brimmed Hat; “The crown is crushed by wear into a hundred papery creases, and the brim is stained in the fractal signatures of sweat and salt.”

Problem: Seems like the point of this game is victory. The absence of defeat on all fronts. Victory in business ventures and creative undertakings. Victory in love and over other people. Political victory. Ideological victory. Hell, even sexual victory. Definitely a lot of object-based victories, too - having things and not losing them. One problem, though: not a lot of victors in sight. Everyone’s mostly losing. Why is that? And how do you not lose?

Solution: How not to lose? It is impossible not to. The world is balanced on the edge of a knife. It’s a game of frayed nerves. You’re pushed on by numbers and punitive measures: pain, rejection, and unpaid bills. You can either play or you can crawl under a boat and waste away - turn into salt or a flock of seagulls. Your enemies would love that. Or you can fight. The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.

Social rot causing systematic rot causing social rot?

“Hope they made a backup”

Duuun duh duuuuuun dun duhn… BUUHM

This rhetoric seems similar to that used by Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics. They applied ‘economic therapy’ to left-leaning economies in the late 1900s which involved rapid privatization of nationally owned industries. Negatively affected many otherwise healthy countries including England, Russia and Chilie.

The Shock Doctrine does a round robin of these events; highly recommended.

Project 2025 is about privatizing branches of government while citizens are too busy dealing with the fallout of economic collapse.

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