TIL I can’t read and apparently I voted for Trump

All you have to do to believe your crusade was good: ignore the fuck out of reality

Yes, allowing Trump to do exactly all the shit we warned about is so worth it. /s

It obviously cannot be both! /S

I generally advocate against these absolute recommendations like when people say “you need at least 8 hours of sleep”. Bullshit, some people need 6 or 7 and feel refreshed. But I think this post reads like you’re planning a very unhealthy lifestyle. I can say with full confidence that you will burn out and you will perform worse without enough sleep (and without enough downtime).

I recently read a great book called Do Nothing, which advocates for a better work/life balance. It points out that research shows that you need idle time to be healthy and happy. In fact, the idea of even working as much as we do now is only 200 years old, and it’s led to a sharp decrease in happiness and even productivity. Humans require downtime and relaxation, and those things will literally help you achieve more.

Throughout all of human existence until the industrial revolution, we’ve worked FAR less than we do now, yet almost all the technological inventions we benefit from today were invented and built with such a lifestyle. You’re not going to be more productive on that much sleep. It won’t even be close, you’ll be far less productive than you would if you rest enough to feel relaxation.

I expected a lot of this and worse. 3 more years of awful decisions remain though. That’s why I say it’s always worse than you think. Because it will always get worse, as long as he draws breath.

I think when people say the civil war never really ended, they’re right. It’s just been mostly a cold war for a few decades.

People who don’t care enough to think for 5 seconds

I think world leaders should have to pass a rigorous set of exams and so should their cabinet. It might be a pipe dream, but the world would be in a 90% better spot if that ever happened.

It’s almost like water is wet

I’m curious if this was a Lemmy user/scammer

Have you used AppImageLauncher? Gear Lever sounds like it, only much better.

And I don’t know how it’s controversial that a piece of metal is worth the risk of a dictator doing whatever he wants in retaliation. You ask what danger there is… this is like asking what a mob boss threat is worth. Giving him that literally changes nothing except it makes Trump look pathetic and desperate on the world stage. No one thinks he earned the award except the people who already think he’s God regardless of what he does.

“I deserved an award from some group semi-adjacent to you, but since I didn’t get it, you have to appease me personally with something else. And that will actually be good for America, because I am president of that country. Basically what I’m saying is that my personal feelings dictate global politics as long as there’s some vague pretense of a connection that I can make between the two unrelated things. Or not, I’m doing you a favor here by inventing such a connection.”

Not sure what you mean or why we’re getting downvoted. The physical token of the Nobel Peace prize means nothing in the hands of a thief. Not sure why people are pretending she had much choice in this. The toddler would’ve certainly thrown a tantrum had she refused and it’s almost certainly not worth it.

If anything, handing it over makes trump look bad for not only wanting it, but stealing it.

Yep, keeping him from humiliating himself with a token was definitely worth endangering herself and her country’s people.

That medal means nothing in his hands and everyone knows it. I can’t believe we’re pretending she wasn’t coerced publicly and that a “mind control machine” is needed

Yep, keeping him from humiliating himself with a token was definitely worth endangering herself and her country’s people.

That medal means nothing in his hands and everyone knows it.

We’re blaming her instead of trump…?

He’s a great example of why no one should be required to respect elders who don’t earn it.

This alone should cause an immediate invocation of the 25th amendment. It’s not the writing of an 8 year old, it’s the writing of a dementia patient.