TIRED: giving poor people $200/month for food
WIRED: giving a corporation that makes $60 billion in profit a $15 billion tax break because they promised to create 41.3 jobs in Ohio
"i mean that from the bottom of my heart" the bottom of your heart is just a dark pit where your sense of self used to be before it got replaced by a weird parasocial relationship with assholes who view you as livestock
> "Thereβs something mortifying about this spectacle: a grown man, supposedly a paragon of rational thinking, scratching around in primeval religious texts to terrify himself with superstitious prophecies, which the people around him entertain because heβs wealthy and powerful...β
The Venn diagram of people who shout βTHIS IS JUST LIKE 1984β and people who have actually read 1984 is two circles so distinct and so far apart they might as well exist in different and incompatible multiverses
Your grandparents bought a house on a single income. You have a master's degree and three roommates. But at least you can summon any song ever recorded in 2 seconds, so it evens out?
"Just teach critical thinking in schools" okay but have you met a school board? These are people who banned a book because it had the word "tit" on page 347
My prediction: the Trump admin and Apple are going to go head to head over device / iCloud encryption at some point in the next 18 months and the way Apple responds to that pressure will create a point of no return one way or another.
