According to some psycho-annalists, you don’t have an authentic self. It’s just a Russian nesting dolls of personas and identities that we show the world, but at the bottom is not our true self, but instead another mask we show ourselves.

I’m not sure about all that, but personality, persona, identity, and self are all concepts we use to understand our consciousness. So it would be a mistake to try and reify those concepts as though they’re a real part of you like an ear or a leg.

Pork is the protein of the poor. You don’t need land to raise them and you can feed them scraps and garbage.

Consider a goat or a sheep. Not only do you need the animals, you need access to grazing lands for that. You need wealth.

The best explanation for the taboo: elite snobbery.

Alcohol. Sometimes it takes 30 or 40 years to be effective. Not very good for murder, but wildly popular for suicide.

Basically to be anti-work would be to wish to remain asleep and unaware.

The right only offers three choices, take the red-pill and be racist, take the black-pill and hate women, or take the NyQuil and sleep like the dead.

This is dumb. If you don’t have any balls, how can you pee?

Just use a contraband cellphone. That gives you access to powerful encryption.

Hamburger Helper is one of the biggest rip-offs in the grocery. You get what? $0.50 of noodles and $0.15 of spices? You have to provide the beef and the milk.

I was a sucker for years buying those salad dressing packets before I figured out how to make my own.

It’s like every business is out to rob you if you’re not paying attention.

Ima keep this in my back pocket for when chuds ask: “why do we need black history”?

Stupid people destroy society? That’s not Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that’s Charles Murray. “Stupid people ruin society” is the “problem” to which Eugenics is the solution.

The purpose of humane executions is to relieve pain and discomfort to capital punishment supporters. It’s not a worthy goal.

If you oppose capital punishment, then you should prefer the most horrific and cruel methods because that at least forces the public to face the cruelty done in their name.

If Presidents are allowed to declassify documents with their mind, why cant they pardon with autopen?

After watching the latest Atun-Shei video, I’m using burger instead of bourgeois from now on.

Like many people of a certain age, I feel like I owe Monica Lewinsky an apology.

We learned about a study in Psych class where the researchers asked elementary school students what their favorite activity was. Drawing was the popular answer. So the researchers paid the kids $8/hr (even 6yo get better than Min wage) to draw. Then they would poll them again about their favorite activities. Guess what was on the bottom?

To be fair, abortion mostly effects young women. While Medicare and Social Sec touch the lives of nearly every American family.

If they make cuts, the backlash will come from the left and the right. Significant cuts would be an indication they’re not concerned with elections at all.

Dowd is right. There should be some kind of standard so you understand dosage. When I try an edible, I eat a tiny amount and wait an hour. This isn’t because I’m smart, it’s because I’ve had bad experiences with potent stuff.

I know how many beers or shots I can get away with. With edibles, it’s a gamble every time.

These devices are a great help to the elderly and disabled, and Amazon’s offerings are the least expensive. My buddies Mom can call emergency services from anywhere in her home with just her voice. I don’t think that’s foolish at all.

Yea, even after 48hours of 'Fuck 'Chuck content, what the President said was beyond the pale.

That’s some of the most totalitarian bullshit I’ve ever seen come out of 'big 'tech. I’m not even sure Joseph Goebbels tried to control metaphor. This is 1000X more granular than the CCP banning Winnie the Pooh.