The more I think about my comment the more I think it was wrong. Perhaps even dangerously wrong.
Yes, the political, healthcare, cultural, and scientific response to Covid was bonkers.
Scientists are still ardently refusing to utilize scientific method and tools to learn anything about the origin of the virus. This is so patently self serving that it should disqualify the entire cohort.
But, here is my point. Conceding every bad thinking and action around the pandemic does not mean that every preceding moment in history is necessarily bunk. I think it is dangerous to wholesale throw the baby out with the bath water because we will be left with no perch from which to seek to understand anything. This sort of deconstruction serves chaos, not knowledge and understanding.
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9/10 6pm cst
USMNT V NEW ZEALAND
Do you have the idea already? What’s the gist? The background mythology?
I read a follow up study on orangutan vocalization a while back.
The initial research into orangutan vocalization speculated that meaningful communication was taking place.
One scenario was the vocalization that a member of a troop emits when it has lost the group.
The follow up study that I recall recorded and analyzed the sounds in this situation.
The conclusion was that the orangutans are not really communicating. Rather, the lost animal shouts in fear and the intact members of the troop carry on shouting amongst themselves normally. It might happen that the lost one hears the others, but the “speech” is not directed at achieving that outcome. Might be like one lost orangutan mournfully shouting his name, “Bob, Bob, Bob.” Over and over again. While the rest of the troop merrily shouts their own names “Jane” “Mike” “Chris” “Sue”.
Internet communication can be similar to the discourse of orangutans.
The USMNT needs more options than Pulisic. He is really good. But no one can do it alone. We need more players who are at peer level with Pulisic (skill and stature) so that they can draw fire and create deception to open up opportunities.
Canada 2 US 1
That sucked. Not only was Canada better at soccer, they also excelled at
all the BS gamesmanship that makes the game so infuriating (fake injuries, time wasting, and the like).
I think this is as solid of an effort at cliche sports casting that I can muster.
Go USMNT!
Yes. It’s a low pressure mid cycle match against a concacaf team with a stand in coach and only a few top players reporting.
Despite all that, this game means a lot. If the US can win (better yet, convincingly win), this team may finally turn the corner and take the next step.
A loss? well? I am afraid the “talented but no grit” label will sink a bit deeper into the minds of fans and players alike.
Shame is a killer.
Way more lethal than failure.
I know it, although I’m ashamed to admit it ;-)
The self-sovereign rallying cry. Arghh! Freedom! Self sufficiency! And independence! And self-determination! And isolation! And self-importance! I am so powerful in my own mind!
“They don’t know self-sovereign I am” 
I have seen some posts brimming with regained optimism after trading X for nostr. Freedom from the algo! So peaceful. Less anger and frustration. Better, more authentic conversations. And so on.
And it’s true. There is so much capture on algorithm driven media. Creators captured by cultural thought leaders and audience, audience captured by feeds, advertisers working overtime to capture everything. And the whole thing bound together by a digital system designed to keep you in lockstep engagement.
So, for now nostr feels sincere in comparison.
But… and I hate to say this…I don’t think it will last. The algorithms are honed on our biology, our human nature. The organic human version of the algorithm is here already and the bots (human and digital) are fast followers.
As nostr gets busier this will inevitably accelerate. There simply isn’t time to sort through all posts and evaluate them on their merit.
Maybe we should have a periodic purge in which all profiles are deleted and we have to reintroduce ourselves anew?
Anyway, the end is near. Enjoy it while it lasts!
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Personally, I hodl best (happiest, most confidently) when I have other financial ducks in a row.
If it were me I would prioritize house situation.
If governments are successful in bringing X to heel, I worry that they won’t need to come after nostr. Governments will have a pretty solid grip messaging and will be able to dismiss and marginalize anyone else as fringe/radical/dangerous/irrelevant.
Nostr is important without a doubt. But I’m not sure that abandoning ship on X is a smart move.
9/7, 3pm cst
USMNT V CANADA