While I was watching 28 Years Later the first time I couldn't tell if it was genius or stupid and insane. The second time through I realized that there isn't really a difference (but generally it held up much stronger and I liked it more.)

We have a training regimen prepared to make you less patient with all of our bullshit. This meeting is the first step, and it seems to be doing the job quite well.

A variety of interests can be a tool just as much as a hindrance. If you can position yourselves as more reasonable than another group (who you fundamentally agree with anyway), the two of you have real power by playing off of each other. Doesn't have to be intentional or direct. Good/bad cop works.

No you don't understand. Competition in the market means that you do whatever retailers say without any scrutiny or context. It doesn't mean they have to earn patronage or adopt better practices. (Right?)

There's nothing to handle. Bad dice rolls are part of the game. They drive the story just as much as succeeding does.

Very selfish of them to change the character of the neighborhood by adding color. Should have preserved the history of exposed brick instead of those beautiful floral murals.

Is Jeff Wise conscious?

Meeting with the President of the United States is already something that carries a lot of visibility and power. When that person is an idiot who listens most to the last person he spoke to, it becomes a different calculus. Also what legitimacy/endorsement do people really think Mamdani gave Trump?

I would prefer to be activated by positivity, but with how bad Hush was and how much it's lauded anyway for some reason, this is interesting. Potential sure, but thoroughly unrealized in the story.

We have a real problem of men being elevated as "smart guys" who are then assumed to have expertise in everything, random quotes of theirs bandied about as profound philosophy. See Richard Feynman.

I've his public seizures, he may not be all that tethered to material reality either. His mind drifts, communing with the dark gods that own his soul.

I don't think you're suggesting that Twitter is more real or it's the only way you engage with this. It's very true that vile fascism is allowed to fester in not particularly hidden online corners. The age of many federal staff separates them from the meaning and beliefs of, what may be the majority

This also means that conversations on Twitter aren't effective social activism. If you, a sane person who sounds well informed at all, reaches out in a professional way to a local elected official, you'll be surprised how much difference that makes for many of them. Government can respond.

Systems of power and elected officials are reachable and are subject to influence. Not just federally, but locally, where much of this plays out practically. Democrats existing in physical reality does silo them from the thoughts and discussions of many constituents.

I think this is generally fair, but that also the stratification of media keeps going deeper. People are self selecting by sites or platforms, different groups inhabiting entirely different spheres of reports, facts, and values. The solution (what works for me) is physical reality. Direct engagement