Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

If you're going to make a bullshit overgeneralization, it's best to invoke a word with a very cloudy meaning not at all relevant to application.
Say "X is all about power"
Don't say "X is all about electricity"
Say "X hates us for our freedom"
Don't say "X hates us for Taco Tuesdays"

My worldview:

gat dangit
Now I have to learn about this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dempster%E2%80%93Shafer_theory

The jury had to kill Socrates because he mistakenly took democracy seriously. He thought that any individual would have to be accountable for the high domain of political rationalization. He thought any schlub in the agora should be able to give an account of truth, justice, nobility, and so on. He refused to route his questions through the appropriate social technologies that Athens' oligarchs had provided to diffuse this accountability: the priests, the mystery cults, etc.

Everyone who thinks s/he is an exemplary communicator is mistaken.
Communication is not an arrow and audiences are not a target. Communication is a reciprocal process that brings the behavior of multiple people into a sustainable flow.
The only way to be an exemplary communicator is to have some method for addressing millions of follow-up questions. People on the top address these questions through staff, technology, etc. People on the bottom address these questions face-to-face.

The first rule of Grievance Club is Who said you get to make the rules without checking with me? That is SO typical of you -- I bet you don't even think about NORMAL people like ME. If anything, *I* should be telling *you* what the rules are. Except they wouldn't be rules. Actually if I were making the rules of Grievance Club they'd be completely chill guidelines or suggestions and if people like you applied them wrong or even if you tried to understand them as rules I'd have you shot.

You think the politicians are in charge? You look at this and you tell me we're not being punished?

@xtaldave gat DAM

Cheat code to Bergsonianism:

It's really remarkable that Starbucks won the reputation for being a good third place when it has industrial machine sounds about as frequently as, say, your average tire place.

Most non-Americans can't even find Arizona on a map!

I'm going to have the Paris effect if I ever get to Erfurt:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/erfurt/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Erfurt

87.3% of non-US Americans can't find these on a map, but Cosmic Industries will be looking at early election results from these states:
Absaroka
Delmarva
Deseret
Madawaska
South Georgia
Westsylvania
Winnecone

THREE of these are on the EAST of the Central Time Barrier. ONE is on the WEST. Figure it out yet?

Want to understand the way tomorrow's election will go? You need to study this map and consider its relevance to the Central Time Barrier.

Here's a hint for eagle-eyed election wachers:
https://www.southernliving.com/east-coast-vs-west-coast-butter-8606853

TWO things that non-US Americans may not understand:
1. Why Election Day comes right after Daylight Savings Time this year
2. The function of the Central Time Barrier in the US

Comment below if you understand the relationship.