That would be our corporate overlords wanting to keep corn farmers employed. It’s not like we have bottles of it at our table. Companies just put it in everything since it’s cheap, and since we don’t have an effective government that stops capitalism from killing us, it gets put in everything and we die from heart disease.

Okay. So this is going to sound weird. Not a book recommendation - but rather a video game.

Thought it’s about as non-fiction of a game as you can get. And it even talks about creative tools and the philosophy of what inspires creators.

Its called: “The Beginners Guide”

You can find it on Steam, and it’s about 2 hours long. It is basically a narrator walking you through some video games he liked playing from a certain artist that disappeared. He just analyzes the decisions the artist made in the game and why before moving you, the player, to another game from that artist.

Most of the gameplay is very limited. Just walking and looking. Almost like you’re going through a museum that itself is a work of art being described to you by someone who appreciates it.

There’s a couple of clever twists, but when it comes to finding yourself creatively again, it certainly helped me.

Admittedly I’m a writer, but trying new experiences is what gets me creatively working again. This one certainly did it for me, and thought I’d at least recommend the same.

Well said! And same! The hate is entirely manufactured imo. Anyone with eyes can see that Bitcoin increased in value from .001 cents to $120,000 between 2009 and 2025. In that same 26 years what did the stock market do? Ride a rollercoaster of bullshit. The value of crypto is literally better than anything else in the last 2 decades, and that scares the people who control the fiat system outside it.

Bro. I feel you. But you have to embrace the fact that Crypto is both a blessing and a curse. People certainly use it in scammy ways - but they do the same with dollars and physical currency.

So people hyperfixate on how crypto can hurt them instead of how they can be helped.

Crypto 100% can replace banks, savings accounts, the stock market, and pretty much every centralized financial institution that has already been captured by billionaire interests.

But you aren’t going to get people to hear that if you just complain about them fixating on the bad stuff.

Talk about what’s good about Crypto enough, and people will definitley come around.

Agreed. And if it wasn’t clear, I think Trump is an idiot. He sees everyone but himself as an enemy, including a vast majority of the country he is President over. He’s not saving the economy in our country - he’s working exclusively for himself and dismantling it for his favor.

The defense money discussed in this meeting is very likely going to Trumps family or friends (like the literal 2 Billion his son recieved from Saudi Royalty) As our economy is very much on its way to another great depression, including the corruption and needless Tariffs that caused it last time.

Everyone that works with Trump gets ass fucked, because the only thing he wants is fealty and self enrichment. There is no benefit towards our country or citizens in his actions, just himself.

At the very least, the leaders of NATO understand this, and sucked his dick over this deal just to make sure the US didn’t leave NATO as Trump has made very clear he gives no fucks about. Without the US’s military backing, NATO is at immediate threat of hostilities, certainly by Russia who wouldn’t hesitate to push past Ukraine and into Europe as Putin has made clear is his goal. The leaders of NATO are simply making a deal with the devil to avoid literal hell.

It sucks you have to deal with those consequences, but at least you have a government that isn’t banning abortion to kill more of your people through sheer ignorance.

Yep. But the point is Donald doesn’t realize his dick is getting sucked by someone trying to get a favor out of him rather than just because he’s such a swell guy.

He’s a narcissist. All he sees is compliments, not the clear manipulation behind them.

Give Trump praise, he’ll do exactly what you say. Which is why he thinks Putin is his best friend. Putin is just using Trump as a convenient idiot that’ll do anything asked as long as Trump feels he’ll be complimented by it.

All he has to say is something like:

“Oh Donny, at this time your big hands and strong will are our only hope. Won’t you please bomb Iran to protect the world and become it’s hero?”

And that’s all it takes to start WW3. And Trump would post the message thinking it’s a compliment.

You are 💯 correct, and impressive you know the details!

The funniest part about it all to me is that AT&T bought Warner / HBO in 2014 - 2017 for 80+ billion at the height of Game of Thrones popularity (after winning an antitrust lawsuit against the merger).

Then season 8 happened, and in 2018 AT&T immediately sold Warner / HBO to Discovery where they merged into the David Zadislav Hollywood cluster fuck they’ve become.

The branding then unbranding of HBO to MAX was after the Warner Discorvery merger. They just have no idea what to do with their IP as they have no experience making or working in the creative industry.

Well said!

I would honestly like to see a reference to whatever study you’re quoting. Because all the data I’ve looked at clearly shows the US getting hit harder by COVID than anywhere else.

We’re #1 in both infections and deaths. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093256/novel-coronavirus-2019ncov-deaths-worldwide-by-country/

Over 100 million cases of it have been documented here, with over 1.1 million deaths. This also places us at the second highest of per capita deaths in the world under one country: Peru.

Our COVID death rate accounts for 1/6 of the total world deaths from COVID.