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You just don’t work hard enough or smart enough. Bezos said getting rich is easy. Give me $200 and I’ll show you what he meant, for just $1,800 more I’ll teach you the fastest way to get there…

That's a bad joke really. --still...

With nearly two million people behind bars at any given time, the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/US.html

Is there a better introduction to the American way of life? Who hasn't done a bit of time?

The economy can’t be as good as claimed. It doesn’t make sense. I’ve pointed out before that people have no savings, debt is climbing, and despite doing better than others with inflation things are still very expensive, especially where people feel it most, groceries, housing, transportation —health...

You may as well just say it’s Sunday, and security experts are worried.

Is it an admission that Biden did well? Is he saying cocaine makes him a better speaker?

The basic problem is that too many people wake up every day knowing how the world ought to be. You want one thing, and some other asshole wants another, and you're both producing bullshit just as fast as you can to get it. That's why the idea of freedom is so appealing, it promises to protect me fro...

Again, feasibility isn’t a problem for me. Honestly, I don’t even think about it. In my opinion the writer(s) just dropped the ball there. It was senseless given what we “know” about the characters and story up to that point. I do think the tech will be redeemed later when a more fitting use upsets ...

I finished season 1 of 3 body problem anyway. It’s got a lot of really fun stories and possibilities at this point. I look forward to seeing what they pursue. —still think the nano fiber bit was nonsense…

I don’t pretend to know about the feasibility of what was done, that’s not my complaint.

Nah, just didn’t like the senselessness of it is all…