This kind of pro bono work could skyrocket a young, talented, obscure lawyer’s career!

Since I can recall.

I would search that system on my own, tbh.

Because they learn from their families, usually. I remember the uppercrust side of my family kicking dirt from a family member’s grave onto his second wife’s grave. So classy.

“Demonstrative consumption” is the word

Ostentation?

Parents sometimes can’t help not wanting to put their kids through what traumatized themselves. At least he wasn’t trying to force you to ensure it because he had to go through it.

Is this still happening? It was happening 45 years ago, ffs.

The BMA said its opposition to Palantir’s involvement in the NHS was a matter of good governance, not ideology. “If Palantir’s software is being used to target individuals in immigration enforcement and is being deployed in active conflict zones, then that’s completely incompatible with the values we uphold in the delivery of care,” said Dr David Wrigley, the deputy chair of the BMA’s general practitioners committee. He warned patients would be alarmed and could choose to withhold information from their doctor if they did not trust the organisation processing their data or there were fears about what the data might be used for. The Liberal Democrat MP Martin Wrigley said the interoperability between the data systems Palantir provides for health and defence was “profoundly worrying”. The Conservative MP Kit Malthouse wanted to know if a military could target particular individuals with particular characteristics by using Palantir’s ability to process a large pool of data. Mosley said: “We provide an enormous amount of control and governance to the organisations that use our software for that purpose to manage precisely the kind of risks that you’re talking about.” Malthouse said: “That sounds like a yes”.

Famous Zen teachers would just whack you with a stick or cut off a finger. bam! Instant enlightenment.

I believe it’s honest to give proper credit for the idea.

“Food security is more than having something to eat: It’s the comfort of knowing that by not having to worry about food, you can focus on your future,” she added.

I’m guessing the architects of the bill are fully aware of this and the bill acheives the actual goal. They want a desperate, schismed populace for a guaranteed supply of easily exploitable wage and chattel slaves.

Ultrawealthy do.

Maybe we value the wrong things. Maybe greed is a lack perspective, too much isn’t enough. Kind of like people who lived during the Great Depression or had parents who insisted no penny would be spent on bubble gum.

Something about being careful what you wish for.

Strangely enough, we are often able to see each other’s shadow (Jung), and not our own.

Like Schrödinger and his cat?

I know and believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

No we don’t. Some unforeseen cosmic cataclysm could happen as I type this and obliterate our yellow star. I don’t believe it will, and have faith it won’t.

Like we believe in colors but there aren’t. It’s just the way light bends, reflects.

I went through that for the same reasons. If it was under our caregivers, they went through their traumas that caused that.

A scythe can be used for harvest, cutting a path, or murder. Tools are neutral, intent not so much. And purity doesn’t matter here. I can have purely loving intention and rob someone of their own. Or purely base intention and something beneficial occur by happenstance.

They have a belief that “it doesn’t matter”.

Maybe the belief is that it does matter. Gotta grind beyond what’s normal or healthy for too-long-extended periods. Or be homeless.