I remember when I felt invincible, like the world is my oyster. It felt like yesterday. Even though I didn’t achieve everything that I hoped, I’m glad I was raised to just enjoy the journey.

Also, it’s “The Independent”. I hate their clickbait nonsense and I refuse to actually click on any of their articles for the last ten years. This is like the left wing version of Daily Heil in terms of bad journalism.

My job is also tough and more recently I felt despair because of pressure. But I remind myself that I chose my career because of good pay, which could improve once I leave my shithole company.

If money isn’t an issue, I would pick a more relaxed job. There is plenty of snobbery against blue collar jobs, but they are the most relaxed jobs I have ever had.

I think the Chevron CEO is feigning concerns so that oil companies won’t get a bad PR. Everyone knows they got record profits because there is talk of windfall tax after all.

Starbucks coffee is shite. The main reason many people go there is because of the image of status symbol, especially in many parts of the world. The chain also ruffled feathers here in Ireland for setting up shop everywhere, driving down prices of their coffee to force local cafés to close. Then, when local competitions are gone, Starbucks raise prices to extortionate level. For these reasons, I boycott Starbucks. Thankfully, what Starbucks did in Ireland was nipped in the bud, locals prefer their local cafés.

Besides, countries with older café culture rail stronger on the overgrowth of big coffee chains like Starbucks. For example, the coffee chain in Australia never became popular enough. Because Australians see cafe culture as being more community based, where they chat to neighbours and baristas, a habit picked up from Greek immigrants to Australia long before coffee chains took the world by storm.

Probably the angle and lens skewed the perception?

You beat me to it. These people who have no empathy to the most vulnerable are pure psychopaths.

I mean, why not introduce this bill during any of the 4 years Biden was in office?

bCoS wE dOn’T hAvE tHe mAjOrItY!!

It’s the usual and convenient excuse that Dems and their neoliberal fans love to use. As if not having a majority in either houses ever stopped Republicans! If the Dems are really serious as an opposition, which they aren’t, then they have to make popular choices-- the kitchen table issues. And not only that, actually impeach and imprison Trump. I think America has to go under a fully fledged dictatorship for Americans to actually know when they see one; kinda like Brazil imprisoning Bolsonaro for trying to overthrow the election, and they are not letting up at all. Because Brazil suffered from decades of dictatorship. Americans did not indict and arrest Trump because they are still arguing whether or not he’s a fascist.

This should be in Uplifting News!

The only thing hindering AI from taking 99% of the jobs is that robotic engineers still can’t create a robot with the same level of dexterity as human hands.

I find Claude to actually pushes back more than ChatGPT does. That’s why I prefer to use Claude. But of course, I still do due diligence.

Trump and co. aren’t even pretending, which is precisely what they campaigned for as “being authentic” and “telling it like it is”. Liberals, on the other hand, are pretenders.

Wages haven’t kept up for at least 50 years. Working hard and making savings alone is not enough to create a comfortable nest for yourself. Older generations and the younger ones who are instilled with that notion don’t realise that the old way is no longer working.

It’s not your fault, it’s the system. This isn’t to implore people to do investing, but this is a reason why I started doing investing. I don’t trust the system fed to us.

I love my friend, but yes, he’s been a bit ignorant on many things.

But still…don’t people inform themselves strongly before even thinking of emigrating? Even if one lives in a shithole and wants change?

You’d be surprised.

I’m not kidding when I say that my cousin wasn’t aware of the immigration crackdown in the US before migrating there with his then partner. My cousin was a sailor and probably either missed plenty of international news, or only focuses on our home country’s news, because of his constant travelling.

I’m not American, but I’m doing my part!

Hasn’t it been revealed that Epstein is coordinating with oligarchs to promote conspiracy theories to dumb people down?

I also want to say I noticed Americans seem to promote idiot kinds of conservatives like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk. I’m not conservative, but there are far more intelligent conservative pundits, such as David Frumm and Roger Scruton, who make more sense. Oligarchs promote idiot individuals to control the narrative which, in turn, control the masses’ perception of reality.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always thought you become what you hate.

That’s a good interpretation from the Chinese point of view. Ancient China is obsess with “heaven”. Their philosophy and mythology is chock full of reference to heaven, like the “mandate of heaven”.