“Does he really believe those strange and bizarre things?”
“He has a rumor-based reality perception… so, yeah…”
Executive Crayon
Why is Trump signing his orders with a Sharpie?
Because they felt the crayon wasn’t presidential enough…
The US attacking NATO
Wonder what USA attacking NATO over Greenland would look like? Pretty much like this:
The rest of the world likely gets to play the role of the boss…
Conspiracy Theory 101
Conspiracy theory 101:
- Come up with an outrageous conspiracy theory
(If you’re unable, there are a thousand-and-one online resources of the social variety to help you out) - Tell it to everyone
- When someone gets shocked, concerned or upset, take it as a “proof” they are in on it…
- Jump back to step 1 to double down…
Trump, the Father of Lies?
So, you feel Trump is like one of the characters in the Bible? I agree. He does lie a lot. And isn’t there a passage about the Devil being charming as hell and leading many astray? Yeah, the charm was before the election. Now you’re in the domain of the Father of Lies…..
Customer Service Success
Boss: It seems the new AI-powered customer service function is a success… people are actually upset when we step in to do some human interaction.
Programmer: We know, it’s a problem we’re trying to solve.
Boss: What? That they like to talk to the AI? Why would we want them not to?
Programmer: We based it off of a sex bot…
NATO Expansion
NATO Expansion According to Russian Propaganda
American: It was a while ago we expanded… let’s expand into… what country is that? Atlantis? Africa?
European: It’s Poland.
American: Yeah! Let’s expand there!
NATO Expansion According to the Rest of the World
Russia has Georgia for breakfast.
Poland*: HELP!
* Poland here represents any country sharing maritime or land borders with Russia from Turkey to Sweden, or for that matter countries sharing history with Russia….
Two videos on the Fermi Paradox
First drafts are shit
“The first draft of anything is shit”
Hemingway via Samuelson?
A short explanation: No writer will produce a perfect first draft. Instead, we do our best in the first draft and then polish (or reconstruct) in editing/rewriting.
So your first draft is totally allowed to be shit. Beautiful flowers grow from shit…..
Different
90% of people: It’s OK that you’re not exactly like me. I’m sure we can make this work anyway.
The other 10%: We can’t accommodate people being different. How do you think the world would look if we allowed everybody to be different? Get in line and adapt! … You can do it!
Talkwards 