Thanks for posting. A nice thing to read tonight.

Raising Caine’s FTW

Jung didn’t have much to say about self actualization I dont think. it was more Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. The term refers to what is possible after you’ve managed to take care of all your other needs, and what is left is to become the best most genuine expression of your possibilities you can be. Most people will never get their needs met and so actualization in its purest form will be elusive and fleeting.

Richard Scarry

What you’re seeing are her parents’ prejudices. You’re doing great.

We might get there early

If you watched for a while, every now and then you’d see a leg or a boob for a moment. Simpler times.

When this image was created there was no texting and everyone answered the phone. Source: old

The real question is, did you bake Saddam into that loaf or did you just shove him in there after it was baked and sliced?

Chicken of the sea and waffles?

It’s para social. The person consuming it feels as though they are part of a relationship. EFIT: like TV but more interactive.

Limited cognitive empathy is teachable in many cases. It’s not so rare.

They haven’t thought it through enough.

“And you ain’t in it!”

It does seem they’ll try to use his case as a deterrent to anyone thinking about following in his footsteps. I think they will be harsh and he’ll be made into a martyr. The religious imagery of Saint Luigi may be apt and more than just a meme.

There are many influences. One is pure resentment of elites as know-it-alls which propagandists amplify. A bit of Dunning–Kruger effect at the same time as people without specialized training can’t even comprehend what they don’t know. Another is how difficult it is to think probabilistically so that people can’t easily appreciate risk. And as more and more people proclaim conspiracy theories as truth there is peer pressure to confirm.

That’s called Complex Trauma or CPTSD.

And to shift blame

This guy wades