“We’re trying to keep her going as long as she allows. Then you look outward and everything feels more extreme—enforcement surges, outrage, and a culture that records everything. The American system has levers, but soft power is eroding. Some movements do not vanish; they age out.”
On a multiple-choice quiz show, the correct answer should exist among the choices. The situation was especially absurd because I am meticulous about this sort of thing. I reviewed approximately 110,000 Millionaire questions from versions of the show across more than thirty countries to confirm that my interpretation was correct.
“Aging isn’t just physical decline; it’s a narrowing and sharpening of attention. You lose people, you lose illusions, and some drives blunt themselves. But memory—especially smell—sticks around because it once kept us alive. What changes isn’t meaning itself, but how selectively we carry it.”
“Evolution shaped bodies for survival, not aesthetics. A penis isn’t sleek; it’s hydraulics. Context and consent matter more than anatomy. Humans aren’t the strongest primates, but we’re clever, cooperative, and adaptable—and a lot of our bravado is just beetle-level posturing with better vocabulary.”
“In use-of-force analysis, each shot must be justified independently. The only shot that might plausibly be argued as justified would be the first one, when the officer was closer to the front of the vehicle and could claim he felt in danger. The later shots followed after the vehicle passed.”
Greenland is not a fantasy chess piece. It is a self-governing territory within Denmark, and Denmark is in NATO. Article 5 has only been invoked once—after 9/11. Even imagining a scenario where alliance geography and obligations collide with U.S. ambitions should jolt people awake. A loud alarm bell worth hearing.
Rick Rosner: “Modern advertising learned that short beats clever when attention is scarce. Slogans compress into cues: they stop functioning as language and become reminders. Once a product is decent, advertising mostly says, ‘We are still here. Come get us.’ That is why it works.”
“When bad actors face no practical constraints, that is always dangerous. Language let us compress reality into symbols, freeing our minds to roam more widely. That same generalist power makes us adaptable—but it also means our systems can fragment when pressure rises. The slope does not always look slippery, until it does.”
“I set alarm clocks and scattered Legos across the carpet, then put the clocks across the room so I had to step on Legos to shut them off. The pain was supposed to wake me up. Instead, I stepped on Legos, turned off the clocks, and went back to bed.”
I started watching Landman on Paramount Plus, set in Texas's boomtowns, a modern tale of fortune-seeking among roughnecks and billionaires in the world of oil. Paramount Plus has decided to be the manly-man streamer. Taylor Sheridan seems to write about rugged people doing rugged shit and that seems the demo.
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