In any sane country, sure, but we’re well beyond that at this point.

Yes.

Fresh off of reading Either/Or and it’s clear to me that all Nazis and Nazi adjacent dumb fucks are aesthetes. Enjoy the ironic handle.

Maybe it’s just in my own family, but ADHD in childhood has largely been a precursor for manic depression / bipolar disorder, and it seems very likely to me to have a genetic component. It affects everyone descending from my dad’s side of the family to one extent or another, and I could completely see where it came from in the flesh when my paternal grandmother was alive.

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There might be more than one person in our heads.

But of course. Not more than one person, but certainly more than one part, right?

If you ever have meditated or attempted to meditate, you see this immediately. There is the portion of you that is trying to get you to concentrate on your breath or mantra, and there are the meandering parts of your mind that are more susceptible to moods and drawing your thoughts to other things.

The same thing goes for reading. Sometimes you’ll be passing your eyes over the words on the page but most of your mind has vacated the premises.

There’s also things like instances where you drive to a place where you used to live or used to work.

There are different processes running for certain, and the mind isn’t a singular thing, but ultimately I’m not sure that anything is. I don’t think that any of this says much definitive about free will though.

Even if that’s true, there’s a bootstrap paradox with that though because the decision was still made in the decision making part of your brain. So what made that part of your brain make that decision?

“AI artwork”

Nope, sorry. It’s not art and no work was put into it.

I saw something about being approved for “up to 100k” for a car loan. 100k for a car? Man, this country is fucked.

Stopping the weaponization of the Justice Department (41% to 21%)

This point alone is so obviously bullshit that it’s likely just another one of their attempts at crazy making.

In addition to “going too far”, he’s also too far gone.

Note that the one at the top is a non-resident of the area coming in from somewhere else to protect property from people

And the one at the bottom is a chapter of locals protecting people from federal agents

I’ve read articles saying that abolishing ICE now has popular support, and other ones saying that it is much more difficult to unwind a carceral state than it was to put it together in the first place. But ICE is uniquely open to being made irrelevant via presidential order. All a president would have to do is use the vast power of pardon and clemency to pardon people for crossing the border illegally.

Immediately afterwards, ICE would have nobody to arrest or harass and no job to do.

In addition, the “bad hombres” could still be deported, but only on the back of other crimes they committed.

He did similar with sexy chat bots but did that also.

Yep people want to still think that this is just a bump in the road. During Trump’s first term, I thought that there was a glimmer of hope there that this could be true, but Joe Biden’s administration proved that there is no going back. It was a pleasant four year reprieve from waking up to a fresh new hell every morning, but at this point Trump and his associated chaos and fascism are back.

Marxists of course predicted this the whole time but I was holding out a little hope that they were wrong. They were terribly, disastrously correct.

Easily could change and the state could put together an escrow account. It’s “UNpRECeDENtEd” but WTF isn’t nowadays besides a congress full of spineless do nothings?

Trump discovers a new level of loserdom daily.

I wonder if the name Ecco has to do with John C. Lilly.

I have to say it’s probably the only way you’ll ever get any kind of bulk rename out of a Microsoft OS.

In these trying times it helps more than ever to run an OS that sips rather than slurps that precious ddr5.