Are people seriously so brainwashed with anti-Western and anti-Elon derangement syndrome propaganda that they're now migrating from TikTok to an even more blatant piece of CCP spyware, literally called THE LITTLE RED BOOK? This is really the most fucked up timeline.

Psychological therapy is a complete and utter scam insofar it's based on a pseudoscience ("psychology", especially "psychoanalysis"). Also, psychological therapy is not a scam at all insofar it's based on the simple fact that having people to talk shit out loud with is a basic human need for normal mental and psychological development and health. Just make some friends and stop wasting money (or even worse, getting drugged and dependent or the pharmaceutical industry).

Also to remark about this particular podcast: It took 51 minutes for Zuckerberg to begin to put aside the script Legal gave him and drop the first "fuck". Interestingly, it's when he's talking about how whenever he used to go on traditional media they would make him "look like a fucking idiot". The Rogan theory that you absolutely need these 2 or 3 hour long "conversations" to even begin to see through the façade all these billionaires and corporate types put up is once again fully validated, and that's Rogan's most important merit. View quoted note →

I've had the Zuck Rogan podcast running in the background for a while -- I never do that and I always focus on what I'm listening to/watching, but his droning and 90% fluff wording were simply unbearable. I did catch one point when he recognizes that the prevalent approach to censorship ("content moderation") is complete and absolute no-tolerance, and that the result of that is necessarily that innocent people will be punished unjustly. That's exactly where every single instance of "content moderation" ends up, especially if it's enacted by legal imperative through a desire to be "compliant". I was brought up in the liberal mindset that a morally just justice system is one that lets ten guilty criminals go, but never punishes an innocent. Those who insist on "zero tolerance" approaches, must also recognize that they're pushing for injustice. There is no way around it.

To me, this is particularly important. Euphemisms are an unnoticed source of evil and their effects on discourse and eventually culture and politics can sometimes be massive. For instance, the euphemism "gender" for "sex", which causes all sorts of ridiculous and harmful controversies, like the one about women and transsexuals in sports. Or more specific to the US, the euphemism "ethnicity" for "race", which holds even less water than the previous one. View quoted note →