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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • Trump worries about the crowd when he is doing something unpopular but that popularity doesn’t control his actions directly. The end result is protesting his actions is the most effective way to stop things like nuking Iran.

    The way this entire thing works in America is that the House of Representatives gets to speak for you. You don’t tell them what to say and often money will corrupt them quickly beyond any interest in what they should be doing - but - for a few years the new ones try to listen to the public.

    On the other end is Trump and the Republicans who control the House and Senate. Without the House the heinous acts and laws don’t pass. He needs the House to stay in control.

    We, The People, don’t get to say “stop the war” but we do get to stop the economy and that will stop the House, which will stop the war.

    We are doing our best to be the peace we want to see in the world and it starts by not being violent. It will take time, like the Republicans took 20 years to be able to be so openly fascist, so clearly it will take time to undo the damage.






  • The Daily Wire is the streaming service for steaming right wing piles of “content” from Ben Shapiro and that Boring guy. It is a service built around desperation to watch something MAGA says isn’t DEI garbage. But it’s unique garbage in its own terrible way.

    The daily wire has such a consistent reputation as last with the common idea and a very weak grasp of presentation that even though Johnny Majors is getting work, it will not last and does nothing for his career.

    Both will fade into obscurity.




  • When I published my book “Deep Work” 10 years ago, I argued that email and instant messages were degrading our ability to concentrate on hard mental tasks. I recommended putting aside long stretches of time for uninterrupted thinking and treating this cognitive activity like a skill that you can improve through practice. The term “deep work” quickly entered the vernacular, and I started to hear people and companies use it without even realizing its source.

    An opinion article hyping someone’s own work. Gross self aggrandizing. This kind of shit immediately removes my faith in the author’s intent and the article’s purpose. They should make their point without citing themselves.