Can’t speak to the Birch comforter’s quality, but recently I got my first set of really nice sheets too. If you’re patient, you can find some Frette sheets for surprisingly cheap on one of their sales.

I had to save up for it, but I’ve always slept poorly and wanted to go all in on the new bedding. Maybe I’m crazy, but I think it was worth the money.

https://birchliving.com/products/organic-pillow

This pillow right here. You can smush it into different shapes and it mostly stays. I’ve made a little crater in the middle for my back sleeping, then I can roll onto the taller ends when I sleep on my side.

The right ideologically represents consolidation of power and conformity. The left ideologically represents distribution of power and freedom of expression. All of those things lie in a balance, and all are necessary for a functional society. That balance is the big problem. When one ‘party’ is focused on unifying behind a powerful person regardless of the broad reaching implications of that accumulation of power, while the other ‘party’ is focused on wrangling different ideological groups towards the overlap in the EDIT: Venn (not vent. Thanks autocorrect) diagrams of their interests and goals, you tend to observe a relative ‘difficulty in organizing’.

Of course, there are other viewpoints that would disagree with this analysis.

Fantastic show that I’ve been recommending left and right since I saw it a few months ago. It goes further than you think it will, and I believe thats what really elevates it from a story about AI to a story about ‘humanity’

I was out playing board games and planned on catching up on the debate tomorrow. Did the onion do their own thing I need to watch too?

Adding to the smoky mountain suggestion, the Gatlinburg area has a lot of fun touristy places to go. I haven’t seen the Apple Barn mentioned yet, but they and Cruze Farms Ice cream are both top notch dessert places. And I’ll 2nd The Local Goat for some good food.

Unfortunately, that’s all come at a cost of destroying and destabilizing billions of lives. I’m not disagreeing that a lot of people have benefitted from that. Competition - which is what capitalism is when you distill it and ignore all the inside ball that corporations and governments play - generates new ideas and promotes the ones that generate the most capital. But it also leaves a lot of people behind. And for now let’s just ignore the idea that there could be anything else as noble as the generation of more capital.

In the US, wealth inequality is only getting worse, with homeless populations and food scarcity continuing to grow and things like access to healthcare and quality education on the decline. And there are areas of the world that have been radically destabilized by the US to retain that position of dominance and prosperity.

If you look for a nation with the current / recent, per capita record for ‘lifting people out of poverty’ you’d have to give the medal to China. Do I think the way they’ve done things over the last few decades is producing a healthy society? Nope. I’d much rather live in the US than in China. But I don’t think the US is producing a healthy society either. We’re all just screwed up in our own ways, fighting for resources and acting like our way of doing things is ok because it’s what we are indoctrinated into from a young age.

The US focuses on generating capital as a metric of success because it enables geopolitical dominance and prosperity for just enough people to keep the wheels rolling.

But that’s just my perspective.

I just got an Apple TV and I’ve been struggling through the setup. Connecting all the accounts, logging into everything and updating everything. I would think by now there would be some way to link accounts and have things manage themselves better.

Every now and then I remember how simple things felt back then. The internet was new and exciting, we didn’t even have cell phones yet. Technology was built with innovation. In some ways we’ve fallen a long way from those days.

Well this is huge. So many good things could come from this

THATS SOME DAMN FINE LITURGY BROTHER. AROOOOO

Great trailer. It really shows off the game and piques interest without giving too much away. I’ll definitely be checking it out.

Based off the tiny amount of info I have about him, I hope he doesn’t gain any more traction.

From the tweet pictured above:

1: The most basic understanding of history shows that asserting that others must conform to your religious beliefs is dangerous. That’s one of the reasons the US is supposed to have separation of Church and State.

2: Intersex people exist. Biology is complicated. This point displays ignorance of rudimentary human genetics and experience.

3: Also stupid. Define flourishing. Egregious profits for a few people at the expense of the majority? The world is not flourishing right now but since the target audience isn’t currently personally dealing with the problems being worsened by the fossil fuel lobby, they can buy into this garbage.

4: ‘Reverse racism’ is a stupid concept. Racism is discrimination based on race / skin color. Conflating that with systemic or institutional racism is just muddying the waters and making people define their terms before even being able to start a conversation.

5: Duh? Mixing in simple, obvious points like this almost serves to make the others sound reasonable if you aren’t paying attention.

6: Parents are responsible for their children. The State is responsible for…well different things depending on your political beliefs. This is a complicated topic that could hardly be addressed in a tweet, let alone a single bullet point.

7: The nuclear family is in many ways a byproduct of industrialization, and the successor to the extended family unit which was the ‘Western’ standard. It marked a shift from purpose to rote productivity. Is that a ‘good’ thing?

The entire presentation shows a platform defined by generation of social animosity. Placing the beliefs of other Americans in the position of ‘other’ and priming an audience to identify with the ‘in group’ and see other Americans as their enemy. I hope as more of the youth gain a political voice, that kind of rhetoric will die out.

I also didn’t want to give Fox News any clicks because I have strong personal feelings about Rupert Murdoch properties after discovering all the lawsuits about Fox’s lack of factuality and the way they talk about their viewers, so apologies if I missed anything covered in the article or miscategorized this guy and his beliefs…but the tweet seemed pretty definitive.

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