Have you tried an activity you actually enjoy? I know that sounds a bit curt, but I gave up jogging for mountain biking and hiking, and now it is substantially easier to convince myself to get out and get started because I actually enjoy what I'm doing!

That shouldn't have been as revelatory for me as it was, but the current paradigm is that jogging, gym time, or other monotonous activities are what we should be doing, and that really just sucks the joy out of physical activity.

I am sorry to hear about your wife, and I hope for the best for you both.

High schools in many states are gearing towards various individuated pathways that cater to college and career readiness, rather than one-size-fits-all set of universal requirements. If your chosen pathway includes advanced maths, then they are required. Otherwise, not.

This is exactly the information I was looking for.

It seemed like the key points from the medium post were:

• Nebula creators don't actually own any of the company, but are promised a portion if the company is ever sold.

• They are likely funded by venture capitalists, and are masquerading as a form of co-op

• The sales pitch to subscribers is disingenuous because content creators are claiming to have 50% ownership, when they actually have 0%

I think you summed it up well. According to that post, they are a better option than YouTube, are friendlier to content creators, but are in serious lack of transparency

Sync is amazing. Not FOSS, but amazing nonetheless!

Insidious is a good word for it.

Though, I worry that we are not as resilient as you might imply. America left World War II with half the world's wealth, a healthy middle class, and was responsible for half the world's manufacturing.

As a result, even with all of that wealth being transferred, we were wealthy enough as a country that the full effects of the wealth transfer have not been felt in its entirety.

With The US ostensibly transferring into late-stage capitalism, and the consequential income inequality, I am not as optimistic as you in our recovery from despotism.

Little Bubby Child!

Not that I necessarily agree with it, but having listened to a lot of Alan Watts, he gives the impression that he somewhat believes in a just universe.

To him every experience and every challenge is an opportunity for growth, especially the most difficult experiences.

He posits a belief in a karmic universe, where every lifetime of experiences and choices leads into the next lifetime of experiences and choices.

It rubs me wrong, because that type of thinking, to me, stems from the childish belief in a just universe, that good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people.

Therefore, if terrible things are happening to you, then you must deserve it because your karma created your lifetime of circumstances...

What software is being used to create these videos?

That second link is perfect!

Skimming through it, I have come to the realization that it probably would not have affected my most recent conversations.

They were talking about it like Kanye fans talk about his episodes. They ignore the insanity and keep on enjoying life as if it never happened.

The immigration policies don't affect them, the coronavirus debacle is over to them (and largely blamed on Biden). The cronyism is looked at as part of politics

Roe versus Wade is the only one that directly had an impact, and now is taken as a fact of life.

I don't know what it will take, but I will keep the visual list of atrocities in my back pocket whenever the need arises.

Thanks!

Land of the Lost?

I feel like a good [Behind the Bastards ](http://www.behind.com/ the Bastards | iHeart https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/) episode is warranted for every president starting from Washington on down the list.

We could just make bullet point summaries of each episode

They could play Wolfenstein and Doom...

I'm familiar with the community, but it's almost the exact opposite of what I'm trying to find.

I followed that community when it was on Reddit, and it was a homogenized mess of snide remarks he made, blended in with actual terrible policy decisions. There was nothing concise about it.

We all know he is a terrible person, doing terrible things, but that is not apparent to most of the people I am encountering in red states.

I am looking for a practical list of tangible reasons why he is a contemptible president.

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

David Gravette's "shitty skatepark" series by Bronson's Bearings is another one I've been watching.

Along with NKA Vids Skateboarding , and, of course, Dan Corrigan's channel too

I appreciate the heads up about Roger. I just read the interview, but I didn't catch anything about him being a Trumper. His stance on platforming anyone, no matter how controversial, is pretty gross by itself though.

That part of the interview definitely had a Trumper vibe for sure. It had a similar ring to it as the out-of-touch comedians that complain about "cancel culture".

I've seen the Gifted Hater on Ben Degros's channel, and I wonder if that is who Roger was complaining about in the interview.

That Eetu part was sick, by the way!

Round 2 was what was up when I last had my finger on the pulse of the skate scene. It looks like Round 3 dropped shortly after, and I missed it.

I can't believe that fell through the cracks. I'm watching it now

I saw a couple episodes recently, and it's insane!

I wonder where that's going to fit in with the American skateboard community.

In current conversations, it is hard to point towards potential future economic policies when inflation and the cost of living was so extreme in the Biden administration.

In a conversation I had just prior to the election, one of his supporters commented to me "things were just better before Biden. I could afford groceries back then..."

You and I know there is nuance to this. Economic policies and infrastructure investment both have delayed effects to see the benefit, often not occurring until the next president is in office. That, and the fact that it's hard to hold corporate greed and Wall Street accountable without a super majority.

None of that helps to keep in your back pocket during casual discourse though.