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Might be the move to stay up, go to the one class I have today and then explore the parks downtown or wtv
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I relate to people with difficult family situations, though many have it much worse. Even as an adult, others- including parents- can badly hurt you.
If you are struggling in this way, you deserve to give and receive love. Please keep trying, even if you never quite learn how.
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There is no baseline of American childhood anymore. There is no longer an assumption that you had two loving parents. There is no youth culture anymore, because there is no foundation for it in a stable family. The new generations are fragmented, contradictory, and inconsistent for this reason, the loss of a common experience.
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Gene Wu is what we call a boba lib - a high-status Asian progressive who is soft on crime, for open borders, and exploits racial grievances to dismantle America which he says is defined by white supremacy and racism.
Unsurprisingly, like all woke Asians, he has nothing to say at all about America's geopolitical rival.
Wu goes way further. He was involved with the Houston Chinese consulate which Trump shut down in 2020 due to subversive espionage activity. His father has been linked to a group of former Red Guards from Mao's Cultural Revolution era who spout pro-CCP propaganda.
He is a fifth columnist and he is now the leader of the Texas House of Representatives.
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In the Finnish basic income study, women randomly given extra monthly income were less likely to get pregnant. Women whose husband/spouse was randomly given more income were more likely to get pregnant.
At least, that's what they reported, but the p values are kinda shit, so we can't really say. Intriguing pattern lining up with other studies of relative income differences within couples.
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Nothing will kill your faith in democracy more than realizing how monumentally fucking stupid the average voter is.
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In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. “Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column … Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, ‘Now at last you can read all the classics.’ … School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?”
In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated “summaries” of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.
