2025.08.15
"These intuitions don't even begin to resemble reality." According to Warwick Cairns, the author of How to Live Dangerously, kidnapping in the United States is so rare that a child would have to be outside unsupervised for, on average, 750,000 years before being snatched by a stranger. Parents know their neighborhoods best, of course, and should assess them carefully. But the tendency to overestimate risk comes with its own danger. Without real-world freedom, children don't get the chance to develop competence, confidence, and the ability to solve everyday problems. Indeed, independence and unsupervised play are associated with positive mental-health outcomes.we live in such a culture of fear! like it's just this liability mindset - what if something goes wrong and it's my fault? (honestly on a personal level that's one of my biggest subconscious struggles)
Our administration in a nut shell:
Violent invasion of the capital, police officer killed, dudes in masks in camo w/ ziptie cuffs vaulting chairs in the chambers?
"pardons for everyone!"
subway sandwich thrown at a cop... crack down! law and order time!
So... DOGE helps makes some of the biggest job cuts in decades. And somehow the deficit still gonna be bigger?
Dude. Reckless job cuts and throwing tarriffs around on whims is no way to make a prosperous country.
I had two dreams over the past few weeks... I hate when I wake up and jot down just enough notes to sort of remember it, but then it turns out it's hard to understand or explain why it was so funny.
One involved a webcomic in the dream, some bird that thought it was pregnant? and they gave it a Papier-mâché head to placate it somehow, and it contentedly rolling it about was like the punchline of the webcomic.
Then another one, I was like... an android? it was in some group and there was like bruce wayne hoping no one figured out he was batman, or something. And the joke was I had a button that said in a commanding tone "Listen To Your Batman!" and it was awkward as he had to slip on a cowl or whatever.
Anyway.