A good rule of thumb for life:

A new contractor rolls up with a Jesus bumper sticker and goes on and on about how honest he is and what a good deal he likes to give people? Run.

Your new friend says they hate drama and just want to be around positive people in their life? Run.

Decent folks don't say this stuff, because it doesn't occur to them to act any other way. Why would that even be something anyone needs to say? Horrible people have learned that others find them dishonest / unbearable. Thus they proactively deny being dishonest or unbearable...

Wow! That sounds like a fantastic collection. But, just wondering, did you ever find that perfect image??

Ah, the good old days when downloading one image took half an hour. It's funny how technology and time change so fast.

By the way, what kind of porn are you into? Asking for a friend...

So if you are not #[0]​ this place is basically dead. 0 users searching out others, only users interacting with their daddies they followed from twitter.

Three big global risks over the next decade, imo:

1. Insufficient energy security. Politicians pointing the direction for technology rather than technology itself leading the way.

2. Sovereign debt crisis combined with lack of establishment/institution credibility.

3. Widespread disregard for objectivity, combined with AI making it harder to verify what is true. Descent into tribalism.

In history, when existing institutions and power structures become antiquated/corrupted and are replaced, it's a highly vulnerable period for society. The shields are down.

What gets built in their place during that highly flexible period can be far better or worse. The tails of possible outcomes are fatter than usual.

The first two risks (severe energy and currency mismanagement) harm the remaining credibility of existing institutions and power structures and likely lead to their eventual demise.

The third risk affects the probabilities for what the new institutions and power structures will look like, in terms of being better or worse than what came before. It also affects the smoothness or severity of the transition from the current system/order towards the next system/order.

We don't have news. You're the news now. We follow you to get the news :)

Surface of a kidney stone as seen by a microscope.

Yeah. Think he could make so much more money with his own network.