They go hand in hand. Narcissistic personality disorder plus antisocial personality disorder is what makes them so charismatic.

If buying isn’t owning, shareholders are boning.

Flawed sampling methodology

The higher… the fewer.

I metamour gnome

Looks don’t matter but you have to also believe looks don’t matter.

I legit thought they were referencing ICE

Oil reserves got low enough that the stock market was about to react. He’s only capable of looking at short term consequences and running out of oil reserves would have an obvious, immediate effect.

Are you sure you didn’t stop when you became a billionaire?

Bet.

Backalley developer

See, everyone? The market will provide jobs for all the junior devs that get laid (off) because of AI.

This post is nonsensical. Your illiteracy might have undermined your propaganda campaign today.

I got blue and my brother got red. To this day he’s still a little bitch.

In the Star Trek universe, there is an episode in which the ship travels to primitive world (Mintaka III) and the crew accidentally reveal themselves to the humanoid people there who are similar to bronze-era humans. The Mintakins think the captain of the ship (Picard) is a God because he obviously has powers they cannot comprehend. He rejects their beliefs that he is a supreme being and in the most beautiful ending possible, they listen to logic and believe him. But the climax in the story hinges around whether or not Picard can prove to these people he is not a god before he and the crew have to leave, leaving the peoples’ imaginations to run wild with what “God wants” from them. They almost murder someone, believing Picard is angry at them for something the person did.

The point of the story is to provide a scientifically feasible explanation for humanity’s belief in gods as essentially aliens who visited long ago and were unable to prevent humans from letting their imaginations run wild with tales of what the gods do, how powerful they are, and what they want from the people on earth. Over the course of thousands of years, there is no limit to how our imaginations can bend such an experience, twisting it into the culture of the time of the visit and adjusting over time to fit more and more into the development and history of societies.

But it doesn’t take a visit from aliens to start a religion. We have all seen things we can’t explain. Schizophrenia exists. Con artists manipulate reality to steal from people. Psychedelics exist naturally. Once-in-a-generation storms cause mass destruction. There are so many possible explanations for gods other than omniscient, all-powerful beings.

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I’d file that one under soft power abdication but there’s validity to discussing individual stupid decisions under that umbrella

Art of the Deal chapter 2 is about leverage. There is no concept of soft power, so we’ve abandoned it. This includes USAID. This will be viewed in hindsight as the single biggest mistake we made.

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