@FreyaMeansLady
Fascinating!
I think there is something about "satisfaction" in that experiment.

My current struggle: drug addiction.

No, not with me, but how to unpack why it is "bad". I'm trying to model its impact on a city. Here in San Francisco it's a huge issue.

Community impacts:
Society's degredation?
Government cost?
Economic overhead?

Personal:
Lowered potential in career, relationships and personal goals?
Increase in depression?
General unhappiness?

Thoughts?

@Alt_Human
From The Hill:
JUST IN: Jan. 6 panel plans to release criminal referrals alongside final report trib.al/lkPLoGe

"At press time, Musk had been spotted in his office assembling an advent calendar of every person he planned to fire in December in the hopes of making them last."

Elon Musk Worried He Won’t Have Enough Twitter Employees Left To Fire On Christmas Eve

https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-worried-he-won-t-have-enough-twitter-employee-1849870554

@BreakingNews
That 'arc or the moral universe' bent just a little more just now.

@Marlowe2
Amen!
And when it supports authoritarianism I call it Christarian.

@WayneEdH
Russia is such a horrible country.
NPR's article: WNBA star Brittney Griner has been freed from a Russian prison https://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141503355/brittney-griner-freed?sc=18&f=1001

@Museek @Alt_Human
We do live garland around a large mirror in our hallway and the fireplace mantel. Fills the house with pine scent.
Very nice.

I bought fake garland on Etsy to put around the living room window. Easier to put up and is far enough away so you can't tell it's fake.

We also do a real tree. But, it's for the ceremony of purchasing it with friends. We wear our ugly Christmas sweaters and take a lot of photos.

At the root of most of our problems:

- We don't understand the problem

- Our mental-model of the situation the problem lives within is too simple or completely wrong

Ian Bremmer's take on Zelenskyy's "Person of the Year" recognition: https://youtu.be/Bt7me_eG7EQ

@Fat_Old_Hippy @MrGoat
Amen!
A well-done video when music videos were just starting.

@AkomoCombine @MrGoat

"Controversial" is quite a wet-blanket of a word when dealing with those characters.

Warnock wins!

Even though there is still 36% of the votes to go, DeKalb County in GA sure doesn't like Herschel Walker!

Just drove by Twitter HQ.
Lights are still on at the top floor.

@Render
Thanks for the update.
As I understand it, the Rs have railroad repair crews always on standby to fix destroyed tracks. Probably an unexhaustible resource.
But locomotives are limited.
What if, instead, the strategy is to disable/destroy the locomotives?

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