My hypothesis is that people are generally more predictable than they themselves would like to be, but less predictable than businesses would like them to be, and a lot of modern business is about building guiderails to increase that predictability ("personalisation" a big part of this)

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Every week or so I find myself trying to grasp how fundamentally Ranked Choice Voting is going to change next year's Seattle Council district races.

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A lot of non-religious libertarians during that time period often saw themselves as centrists because they weren't Christian nationalists & saw Bush 43 as a dumb yokel. They've always been anti-government ideologues who want to strip mine the state for profit--just like post-Cold War Russia.

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Stand with Zelensky and against Putin. Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE. Stand with No Kings and against Meta. Stand with the people and against the oligarchs. Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.

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I have to admit that I have never denounced the Muslim Brotherhood.

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