This is not a conspiracy theory, because I'm not proposing a conspiracy ( Read more... )

Last weekend was my Alone on Purpose weekend because I thought this weekend I would get zero Time to Self, and I expected this zero Time to Self to be challenging, yet rewarding, because I'd get to see people I care about who I didn't see nearly enough during Quarantine. If I'd known I'd be getting Time to Self this weekend, I would've scheduled ( Read more... )

Somebody just called me their "God of the reasonable certainty"

It's dice all the way down, babe,

humans have been repeatedly whiplashed by technology for two centuries now, and the beatings continue to speed up

“We also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China’s only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.” -- Senator Tom Cotton (R ( Read more... )

how an artist wants to bring Truth to the struggles on the Left, but that’s not what the Left wants from their artists

others have also shown me the way ( Read more... )

When I was growing up, National Geographic magazine was a wonderful thing to behold.  I requested repeated annual subscriptions to the magazine and its spinoff publications as birthday or Christmas gifts, and my grandparents were happy to oblige.  We stored stacks of the magazines like they were books, and I'd repeatedly revisit them for research ( Read more... )

I know I can sound uncompromising here in my LJ when I write about politics, especially where politics, poverty, and the environment intersect -- my Green Communism and/or my Zero Population positions.

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With respect to the environment, looking just at the most prominent environmental issue of the day -- global warming -- the underlying reason or ( Read more... )

When I put this phrase into my search engine of choice, it returns a list of sites that unironically instruct you in how to choose your own reality.

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This is literally what the Internet, as shaped by the search engines and the social media companies, is training/allowing people to do.

Whatever it is you want to believe about reality, that ( Read more... )