I hate that more people and governments don’t use it.

Wow. Who knew he was an aspiring dictator.

Everybody likes the guy who offers them a stick of gum.

I am an “immigrant”. The kind that you know by looking at. I haven’t been stopped by the police in years, but I’d hate to not have ID on me in case somebody decides they wanna have a power trip or be a man of duty.

By the way, I’m not in the US.

I second that, but one of my wishes is to be able to go out without any bag and with nothing in my pockets. Especially with no ID.

I realized this only about two years ago. In my early thirties. And I can’t shake it off. Even with the help of therapy.

I’d say they do matter in any context. But it depends whose point of view we take.

It matters if something happens with your conscious decision or just as a side effect. It’s a matter of moral agency.

It’s like that Michael Scott meme where his manager is shaking his hand.

Yes but no. Motives matter.

Didn’t Americans really say no expensive gas?

Sometimes I say things that people misinterpret as me knowing very much. It’s always so damn frustrating.

The media is paid to ignore it. And people are too numb to react. Everyone is desensitized to everything that would have enraged them had it been announced all of a sudden. It’s like that poison conditioning. Taking little amounts of poison each time, with apparently no effect. But it’s destroying us on the inside.

I swear, the drama with these two!

Apparently nothing anymore.

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Biological warfare

So like Russia and Assad?

Lately I’ve been getting marketing calls with recorded messages.

And it’s absurd to even wish I didn’t need to have a phone.

A few years ago, I was with a few friends when we saw a cat with similar color pattern as the cutie here. I said look how beautiful it is, and they looked at me weird. I had forgotten about that.

At what point will “national security” of a nation stop being a good excuse for a few narcissists to do whatever they want to the world in the name of only a part of it?

I learned too late that if you say wrong things confidently enough, you can normalize them and get people to talk about them like they are arguing about which ice cream flavor is best.