The AFU just took out a bridge inside Russia that is a main logistical conduit to the boarder region just to the west of the current incursion in the Kursk region.
#ukraine
Had dinner at a fancy restaurant tonight with friends to celebrate the wife's birthday.
I gestured across the tablecloth and felt a sharp pain in my pinky finger.
I then picked out what I thought was a glass shard. Then blood started to flow.
I fixed that fast.
We tracked down the shard.
It was a salt crystal.
Salt.
Life can be funny.
JD Vance, aka Vladimir Futon
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Another insight:
The Bible is a story.
This establishes a lot of beliefs.
There is plenty of irrationality in that story.
But that doesn't matter. The concepts are made tangible and abstraction is not required to understand the story. That's why it is so effective at convincing so many with such irrationality.
Imagine a world where journalists are replaced by robots that continually follow and pester politicians and the powerful with insightful questions, realtime fact-checking and unassailable arguments 24x7. And with empathy.
I'm not advocating for this.
But, it I can imagine this happening, it could probably happen.
Time for journalists to be proactive and own this creative destruction. Or else they will continue to be victimized by this trend.
Some people cannot work their thoughts abstractly.
Empathy requires some level of abstraction. Projecting yourself into someone else's situation is an abstract exercise.
The use of "story" is a way of compensating for an inability to use abstract concepts to make sense out of a situation.
These people are also highly prone to transactional ethics. 1:1 assessment. No concept of downstream consequences. That's why they are so comfortable arguing for horrible things.
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