With exception of 90s kids who work on the Corporate Campus. Stunted growth exists.

The princess was fought over by the prince because she came with a kingdom. Fun structure to play with.

If you haven't, seeking out the pre-Disney versions of stories is a fun experience. Helps color what these stories were intended to convey. Inferred by reading a few variants of them. Then comparing to what Disney produced. Provides a useful snapshop on the arrow of time. What direction your childhood was being nudged. Then once you know this, you can decide where you wish your human operating system to be nudged there. Or you walk away with a picture of what the cauldron of storytelling actually looks like, with a newfound ability to dip modern events into that cauldron to construct useful storytelling narratives of your own doing.

Popular Tales of the Norse. And Blue Faerie Book are a couple of them referenced by Tolkien in On Faerie-Stories.

Grueling series everyone needs to read at least once.

It's easier to eat the cancellation and Stalinist show trial now before all the neighbors are taken. Your neighbors pick you back up as soon as the fickle energy gets bored and moves on to the next goring. It's harder after your neighbors have all been taken and it's just you now. You can be a Trotsky and the new world never arrives for you with callous disregard for all your dreaming. As soon as transfer of power hands off to Stalin, you, the person who knows how to organize the street protest, are the first short straw drawn to discard with. You're no longer useful. That radicalism is now a threat to the new princelings, the same princelings who had backed you a moment ago.

Better to build success skills. Use an operating system based on reciprocation and being useful to friends, neighbors, and community. It's slow and boring. Less emotionally pleasing work grinding out useful skills. You have nice things in your surroundings to show for it. Can actually enjoy the small things and leave more than you had behind for your children.

You may be in the education system right now and feel something doesn't feel right. Feel the compelled speech and games played to lie about the current thing of the moment to avoid harassment by peers. Gulag Archipelago is the book for you that lays out and explains your future. How that system always unfolds. Yes. I'm writing to persuade. With empathy. You deserve better systems, not assigned a mental prison as your operating system.

Detecting the inverse is going on. Education has dropped and redefined language with deep meaning. It was going on when the Inklings, Tolkien and CS Lewis writers club, were producing their works. They've got some comments deriding the erosion of language. CS Lewis more openly attacks the urge that leads to this in That Hideous Strength. JRRT is superior dialogue. Those of us today are less accustomed to it.

For concrete example consider the rewrite of the Hardy Boys books in the 1980s. The publisher edited to reduce the grade level of the writing, stripped literary elements such as suspense, turned it into a more action emphasized experience intended to match pacing of action television shows in that era. This sort of major revisions have occurred little by little over the last hundred years. What kids are receiving in school today is far more stripped down than kids received 100 years ago.

Reading older works from that distance means much of the nuance is lost. You do not pick up on the references or the connections baked in.

If this is a system it's worthwhile to upgrade over time to non-plastic alternatives. Over the course of a lifetime it's good for metabolic health to reduce interactions with plastics. I like glass. It's an impossible task to avoid. We're all in this together. But we can mitigate the damage done a bit in ways that benefit your children's and grandchildren's epigenetics.

Suppose you didn't do anything at all or filled it out incorrectly. When you sit down with your tax preparer at the end of the year they will make the correction. May involve waiting for a refund from wherever you overpaid. Inconvenience of time but ultimately a minor administrative correction.

There has to be a way to process ingredients even further. Why cook the apple. When you can put it through six machines to create an apple paste simulacra. The more energy used in a system the more velocity in the money as it whips through.

Space is round. It eventually travels around and comes back from the other side.

Some reframes that are helpful for some.

• Alcohol is poison. If alcohol is your thing, try a Whoop fitness band or similar tracker. Have peers who visually being able to see this helped them quit and stick with it. Others who got stuck on the idea that 'Alcohol is poison' every time they took a sip, and broke habits that way.

• Is that really who you are? Your human operating system is the story you tell yourself that guides your behaviors. You can write your own. If you do not write your own, usually someone else writes one for you. Your operating system can be a useful tool. Or a mental prison. There's no lock on that prison. You may see this applied in AA or NA by a sponsor. After being prompted to share your story they may hit you with that question, "Is that really who you are"? Can nudge someone into considering the question and re-writing their story into something more useful. A narrative running in the back of your mind works. This is what the military is doing with the Navy Seals Creed, useful example of one framework you can author your own.

• Systems are better than goals. "I'm not going to drink all week" is a goal. After a week, cool! I did it. Now what? That empty feeling afterwards is the place your goal used to be. Instead something like "I exercise 30 minutes every day" is a system. Every day you wake up with a new goal useful for motivation. This is the lever in your brain to create endless motivation. You can run as a system of subsystems, which through repetition become habits. One of those systems can be continuously roll bad habits into a slightly less bad habit. Over time this 1% better every day compounds into huge behavior changes.

Call me not a fan of waiting for some governance solution. I prefer my storytelling narrative to include nobody is going to do it for me, better to just start putting force behind the things I want for me. While we talk about funding maybe we can brainstorm more ways to take the edge off.

Assume the services providing that care have become cartel frauds. Learning to convert that service into a bottomless money printer. What happens when the money printer runs out?

My opinion is the money printer is currently broken, the subsidized skimming from the pool in good times has hit an impasse due to dicey economic conditions. The system has a big rock stuck in it. System needs a creative destruction and rebuild.

Going outside and watching sunrise is this meme in real life. Whenever I do roll out of bed and get outside to watch sunrise, the animals are having a party. Birds going nuts. Deer running across a field. Hard not to feel some gratitude. And incidentally the wavelengths of sunlight on the horizon anchor all of your biological processes, fix up when hormones are expressed that optimizes every other activity for the rest of the day including improving mood. Hate that it's an ideas my grandmother would recommend. If you're ever experiencing what you think is depression, try out sunrise. Feels like it works.

I don't think you mean that. We are working from a different set of information and observations. If we were working from that same set opinions would collapse in agreement.

The human brain takes information and has a photoshop snap-to-grid like feature. We pair information received with the closest information we've already seen, and generally sketch in ideas about anything missing between those points. It's that missing fill-in-the-blank part that causes comedy sitcom experiences.

You've identified what it feels like when there exists a gap in relevant information. A new information can feel like it doesn't fit world view. This sort of cleavage gets us to the common experience of society experiencing 'two movies playing on the same screen', where some look at information and see a completely different story than others do. Usually because they see that information from different perspectives.

This is the 'why' behind your university recommending teaching best practices of start a class with familiar from the prior class, then build on the new information. This primes which piece of prior information to attach the new information to. And explains a tool that can be applied more broadly in other areas as well.

Since about 2010 he has walked on egg-shells. Behaves like a man with so many skeletons in the closet he lives in daily fear that if he doesn't mouth support for power structures all those skeletons will be used to strip him to poverty.

It's funny how Eminem the boundary transgressor turned into a milquetoast good boy eager to support any direction political winds are blowing. Went from punk rock to a stuffy 1950's corporate trope.

Bans don't particularly make sense until you begin to get an understanding of what percentage of the participants are there under duress. Trafficking. Pimps using their girls to try and manipulate other girls into it. Use of drug addiction as a coercive tool. Becomes slimier the more you're aware of the bad outcomes of all involved.

What in the gnostic/hermetic contortion is 'subjective age'? Sounds like a mental prison to kick open a pandoras box of child abuse.

No. The flu vaccine begins production a year before flu season. What is used that year is based on prediction a year out of what next seasons flu will be. Ask your friendly finance guy how accurate prediction models are as you throw a dart into the future. Historically the prediction has a poor record with actual experience.

The treatment should match the risk. If you are older or at increased risk for other reasons, well maybe doesn't hurt offers some chance at benefit. You do you.

Space wedgies is a better term for this phenomena. Better describes how the quantum foam gets into the void.

Gifted requires applying your talent. Find that sweet spot between impressive and achievable. Complete smaller projects asking how to do the bigger thing. The projects ramp up toward the larger activity.

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Engineers are not equal to corruption. You're describing unethical management decisions.

Coming from the perspective of a decade in corporate.

Not in my experience. Grounding methods for thinking on how things work forces you to connect ideas anchored in reality. You do not get the wild unreproducible takes seen out of the Humanities, where they are happy to manipulate their data to fit the story they wish to tell. Engineers on average have a skill-set that allows them to adopt new fields that can produce things of value at a faster rate than most.

Car dealerships have voluminous research related to this on what makes prey accept a used car when they wander into the kill box.

Turns out pattern recognition of emotion-laden language and aggressive shut-down of open dialogue associate those behaviors with frauds and charlatans. For some segment of the population, turn up the volume to 11 and they will comply. For others they have the opposite reaction and you lose them forever.

This is the way of the COVID experience. Landed the segment of the population who turn to news for cultural and emotional guidance. Lost the actuaries, engineers, and statisticians who tend to live in the messy data and crunch the numbers looking for deeper analysis. Those with professional experience, or have seen a fraud or two, intuited deviation from sound methodology.

Cutting corners for expediency through emotion-laden messaging comes at too high a cost to be useful. The strategy destroys trust and reduces overall acceptance. You can goose the difficult process of communication by using these tactics in good faith. The cost is you signal a potential fraud, regardless of your intentions.

Characters written into CS Lewis books depict this. Surprised on revisiting Chronicles of Narnia the characters are flawed and through some failure have a redemption arc. Think Edmund in the first. Eustace in Dawn Treader beats you over the head with the theme. The mouse Reepicheep beats you over the head with contrasting the idea of cowardace by contrasting characters against his embodiment of courage.

I've been happy with landlords. But was always the kind of tenant that tries to leave my environment better than I found it. Useful in repairing minor issues.

> This is a really narrow take on the use of the term Nazi. Many of the actions of the current GOP bear a striking resemblance to the policies of fascism.

You know this take is wrong.

The East German Stasi labeled your neighbors fascist to justify use of state power to oppress the people. It is always the same.

The frame is wrong. Democrats get the same label when they speak out of turn about policy they disagree with. Meanwhile policy is indistinguishable from the worst roll-up of power that took place under Bush-Cheney.

There's a fascist in the room. It's the one holding the power to send law enforcement to your door, close your bank and social media accounts, and have Gawker-tier Inquisition harass your neighbors and friends while calling you the Nazi. Your family and friends and neighbors are good people. The ones who will stand next to you when misfortune strikes. Stand in the way to protect you from that same inquisition.

The correct frame is top-down authoritarianism vs whether the taxpaying public get a voice. The bounds of that conflict overlap all partisan orientations.