Last night I found a giant cockroach in my office. Heard a rustling in the plant next to my desk, thought it as just a harmless moth, ignored it. Then I heard it again skittering along the floor, looked down, almost lost my shit. Was disgusting.
I have no fear of most insects, even help ease spiders out the door gently without killing them, but roaches are truly horrifying to me, especially giant ones. You can’t even kill them because of how sickening it is to hear the crunch and see their filthy guts spill out.
So I naturally got my 13 YO and her friend who was sleeping over to check it out, and they screamed their lungs out which gave me a good laugh. Then the three of us strategized on what kind of bowl to get and how to slide a piece of cardboard under it to throw it out onto the balcony.
I was able to get the bowl over it, but my daughter insisted *she* hold the bowl onto the cardboard as we shuffled it along the wood floor and lifted it over the ledge to the balcony, wherein it escaped, but luckily it went out instead of in, and I slammed the door shut.
Good times!
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I know people are upset about the communist mayor winning the primary, but Cuomo really shouldn't even show his face in public after killing all those people and writing a book! about his leadership before the truth about the deaths came out.
Guess the “Trump’s a warmonger, it’s WWIII” mania died down? Netanyahu owns him and will force him to send troops into Iran? Ring a bell, or already memory-holed?
Fuckin’ crickets in my feed.
The counter narrative is the new narrative. Stay frosty af.
Groupthink is near-term adaptive, medium-tem adaptive, long-term highly maladaptive.
Many swap peer consensus for truth and of course don't realize they have done so -- after all they tell themselves it's the truth!
This is socially adaptive behavior -- go along to get along -- but in the long run you get rekt, e.g., fiat over BTC or taking Pfizer's latest.
When narrative and reality diverge, most will stick with narrative until they have no choice.
*The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.*
LOL — people were telling me TDS wasn’t real! This is *after* war was averted.
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Expecting all the pundits crying about how Trump sold out his base to the warmongers, that he's owned by Israel, to memory hole that hysterical episode entirely!
My feed this morning is even more full of TDS! It’s almost as if people are now pissed he didn’t go to war against Iran because it undermined their priors, and the cognitive dissonance is bothering them.
Rip Trump all you want for the shitcoins, the free speech violations, the lack of accountability re Epstein and covid — those criticisms are deserved,
But people wildly underestimate how propagandized they’ve been for the last 10 years and even longer — how someone like Trump (a man with gaudy taste, who openly boasts, who eats McDonalds and DGAF) is not of the class of people who should be president.
The entire educational system has instructed you not to be like Trump, and a lot people went into debt to get the status boost, to learn the right way to be, and they fucking hate it that this dude, this perma-tanned asshole with the McMansion of all McMansions, the white gangsta-rapper of sorts, is now running the show and doing a better job than the self-deprecating, well-mannered “adults” in the room who they aspired to be.
I suspect people will be even more pissed if there’s a lasting peace deal between Israel and Iran. People virtue signal their concern about the Iranian people or the Palestinians all the time, but that’s mostly just as fake as the missile exchanges we just saw the last couple days.
