CRowles3
@chuckr3.bsky.social
Comic shop owner, comic book artist (just barely) layabout
So imagine you don’t do the work to find your own blind spots. Your mind doesn’t change because you get your worldview confirmed regularly.
Now understand that that is the majority of people in the world.
Now understand that that is the majority of people in the world.
January 22, 2026 at 1:55 PM
So imagine you don’t do the work to find your own blind spots. Your mind doesn’t change because you get your worldview confirmed regularly.
Now understand that that is the majority of people in the world.
Now understand that that is the majority of people in the world.
It is the human condition to accept your own world view and agree strongest with those with worldviews close to your own.
I would love to think I don’t do that, but of course I do. I catch myself and I try to stay informed - but it’s work and I know I fail sometimes.
I would love to think I don’t do that, but of course I do. I catch myself and I try to stay informed - but it’s work and I know I fail sometimes.
January 22, 2026 at 1:55 PM
It is the human condition to accept your own world view and agree strongest with those with worldviews close to your own.
I would love to think I don’t do that, but of course I do. I catch myself and I try to stay informed - but it’s work and I know I fail sometimes.
I would love to think I don’t do that, but of course I do. I catch myself and I try to stay informed - but it’s work and I know I fail sometimes.
To an extent we all are fed curated content. These people are bombarded from a single source and only told what happened (from one viewpoint).
The other thing is they would have to admit they were wrong (or that their “enemy” was right) and that takes a lot of mental effort to accept.
The other thing is they would have to admit they were wrong (or that their “enemy” was right) and that takes a lot of mental effort to accept.
January 22, 2026 at 1:55 PM
To an extent we all are fed curated content. These people are bombarded from a single source and only told what happened (from one viewpoint).
The other thing is they would have to admit they were wrong (or that their “enemy” was right) and that takes a lot of mental effort to accept.
The other thing is they would have to admit they were wrong (or that their “enemy” was right) and that takes a lot of mental effort to accept.
Honestly, they just lack a work ethic. Back in my online chatting days (pre-texting) I talked to people in England and even though it was barely 7pm they had to go to bed. Lazy.
December 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Honestly, they just lack a work ethic. Back in my online chatting days (pre-texting) I talked to people in England and even though it was barely 7pm they had to go to bed. Lazy.
The “round earth” conspirators go all in, don’t they?
December 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The “round earth” conspirators go all in, don’t they?
It’s my fault. I only just recently learned of your existence.
My wife and I are going to their stage show in New York in a few weeks.
My wife and I are going to their stage show in New York in a few weeks.
December 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
It’s my fault. I only just recently learned of your existence.
My wife and I are going to their stage show in New York in a few weeks.
My wife and I are going to their stage show in New York in a few weeks.
Tee all know they aren’t going to release them, right? Or they’ll release innocuous ones, hide/destroy the rest.
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Tee all know they aren’t going to release them, right? Or they’ll release innocuous ones, hide/destroy the rest.
Unregulated and under-regulated capitalism benefits them and can warp the view of these individuals as the heroes and not the problem. They “figured it out” instead of “they found a way to cheat”. (3/3)
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Unregulated and under-regulated capitalism benefits them and can warp the view of these individuals as the heroes and not the problem. They “figured it out” instead of “they found a way to cheat”. (3/3)
I still believe most people are trying to be good, but a significant portion (psychopaths, for example) will corrupt any unregulated or weakly regulated system at the expense of anyone but themselves. (2/3)
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I still believe most people are trying to be good, but a significant portion (psychopaths, for example) will corrupt any unregulated or weakly regulated system at the expense of anyone but themselves. (2/3)
There’s a point I believed in the innate goodness of people, and libertarianism was beguiling because the idea is you remove the constraints of regulations and seemingly oppressive laws and let that goodness shine through. (1/3)
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
There’s a point I believed in the innate goodness of people, and libertarianism was beguiling because the idea is you remove the constraints of regulations and seemingly oppressive laws and let that goodness shine through. (1/3)
It’s the mountain that can become insurmountable if the poop keeps piling up.
December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s the mountain that can become insurmountable if the poop keeps piling up.
I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but “like a bull in a china shop” always makes me make a short mind movie.
What’s yours?
What’s yours?
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but “like a bull in a china shop” always makes me make a short mind movie.
What’s yours?
What’s yours?
How could I know your favorite idiom?
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
How could I know your favorite idiom?
Maybe that’s how m ivanka meant it … “don’t trust my dad’s denials, guys!”
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Maybe that’s how m ivanka meant it … “don’t trust my dad’s denials, guys!”
… but they probably won’t, and the cycle continues after the holidays. Is it really better to make that many people suffer more than they will with unaffordable healthcare?
I’m all for primarying every candidate all the time, though. Its dumb incumbents are often run unopposed.
I’m all for primarying every candidate all the time, though. Its dumb incumbents are often run unopposed.
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
… but they probably won’t, and the cycle continues after the holidays. Is it really better to make that many people suffer more than they will with unaffordable healthcare?
I’m all for primarying every candidate all the time, though. Its dumb incumbents are often run unopposed.
I’m all for primarying every candidate all the time, though. Its dumb incumbents are often run unopposed.
I really don’t get this take .. “caving” or “surrendering” … it’s a CR until January, SNAP gets an increase, federal workers aren’t fired and get their back pay. Real people were going to have food insecurity on a scale we were not prepared to handle. Republicans have a chance to address the ACA …
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I really don’t get this take .. “caving” or “surrendering” … it’s a CR until January, SNAP gets an increase, federal workers aren’t fired and get their back pay. Real people were going to have food insecurity on a scale we were not prepared to handle. Republicans have a chance to address the ACA …
You’re probably right, but I know enough people looking into the abyss of not having financial assistance or a paycheck from government work going in to winter that this brief respite (til January, right?) is going to make their lives a little easier.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
You’re probably right, but I know enough people looking into the abyss of not having financial assistance or a paycheck from government work going in to winter that this brief respite (til January, right?) is going to make their lives a little easier.
To be clear, I don’t think the Epstein files will be as clear and criminal as the rumor mill is claiming.
But congress has a lot to do, and if they drag their feet after a CR passes it will look bad on the Republicans.
But congress has a lot to do, and if they drag their feet after a CR passes it will look bad on the Republicans.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
To be clear, I don’t think the Epstein files will be as clear and criminal as the rumor mill is claiming.
But congress has a lot to do, and if they drag their feet after a CR passes it will look bad on the Republicans.
But congress has a lot to do, and if they drag their feet after a CR passes it will look bad on the Republicans.
Oh that’s not true, they got the republicans to pinky swear they will address the healthcare issue.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Oh that’s not true, they got the republicans to pinky swear they will address the healthcare issue.