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How do Americans win their country back?
  • Yeah. Most people are probably experiencing the shock of what they thought the American people were vs what they are. It's hard to understand and accept.

    As foreigners, our views are heavily affected by things like Hollywood, celebrity and visibility to the "best of America". But the bulk of America is not that, at all. So the veneer is torn away and it's jarring to most people.

    The only positive I see in all this is that we get to watch the US get what they voted for. Pain can be a teacher, but I doubt they can learn from it. Any and all agony from this will just be the other parties fault, always. Too much venom and malice in the politics and too little earnest substance.

  • We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do
  • Trump and team don't need to win the election. They just need to make it tainted with enough irregularities that it forms the basis for the entire thing to be called into question. Even if that evidence is created by them. And this time they're more prepared for that outcome. They've had years to work on his scenario.

    The court cases and investigations will go on for years.

    Doesn't need to win a vote at all.

  • How do adults find happiness in life?
  • It seems that happiness is something in one's mind, an internal state. I've seen people happy who have very little, and the opposite. Happiness is therefore a perception. The mind is the lens through which we perceive everything, so focusing the lens at the right things and ensuring it's a clean lens are the right starting point to "finding" happiness.

    Cleaning the lens: Eat well, sleep well, exercise.

    These three fundamentals lay the foundation of a clean lens. If you do the above, you have created the best physical conditions for your mind. You are unfortunately a chemical creature, so the physical state of your brain is critical to all pursuits, including perception of reality.

    The next step is pointing the lens at the right things, stay tuned for our next episode!

  • Blizzard Co-Founder Left Because He Was Tired Of Fighting Bobby Kotick
  • Let me try.

    By creating a culture that singularly valued money and production over all other concerns, including the well-being of staff, Kotick created and cultivated the conditions needed for abuse to set in.

    And Kotick is the kind of sociopath that leads to this when other things are swept under the rug.

    Maybe it wasn't a line item on his payslip though.

  • Blizzard Co-Founder Left Because He Was Tired Of Fighting Bobby Kotick
  • Yeah, but Kotick was not really the real issue. He's a straw man of sorts, a target dummy, designed to draw fire for unpopular decisions.

    It is the board and shareholders who massively incentivized him into that behaviour. CEOs are brought in to act in the interests of shareholders, while also abstracting them away from blame and direct culpability.

    The goal of blizzard (and any other publically listed company) is wealth creation for shareholders via share price growth, not making games per se.

  • Dating in the modern world

    People keep telling me that dating today is a war zone, facing all kinds of challenges.

    Dating apps don't seem to be directly trying to help solve the problem as much as generate revenue. In fact, they are very directly motivated to not make great long term matches.

    Some people seem think that just getting out there and hoping for the best is the answer. Maybe that's true, but it's still very random. I was wondering about a hypothetical alternative:

    What if you could go to an agency of some kind get rated through a thorough evaluation process? Would that be helpful ? It's not perfect, and many things are hard to measure. But maybe it's a less random starting point and can escape the exclusively money driven approach of dating apps.

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