Yeah, I mean in practice he’s dismantling the current empire. Really wish he’d do it properly though, with enough time for their now free vassals to get their own feet down.
Also really wish he wasn’t going for another empire more local, with all the Panama, Greenland and Canada stuff…
But it doesn’t really matter. As long as one uses multiple apps/forums, I.e different echo chambers, and touches grass in Wild West spaces from time to time, like reality, it’s all fine.
I think the effect of echo chambers is just altogether overblown, and also the natural inclination for a human to just stay in one place, not being curious to peek behind other curtains from time to time. The latter is one of the key traits of our species, we are just simply too curious to ever be completely taken by echo chambers. The individuals with less curiosity and more inclination to stay in place, not change anything, may have this problem more due to those traits. I.e. conservatives.
As long as ones curious and doesn’t explicitly communicate with other humans in one dedicated space, it’s all fine. It’s actively harmful to our psyche to be exposed to something like 4chan or Tate brothers academy just for the sake of not being in an echo chamber.
Oh man, whoever’s shielding him has some tight pants on. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of them
I suppose this is exactly why…
I’d think it this way: Get the training anyway, hold off buying if that’s morally (and understandably so) difficult.
If shit hits the fan before you get one and/or it’s otherwise too late, there’ll be chances of obtaining one in the middle of the shitstorm one way or another. Maybe someone friendly has one, but never got around to proper training? Good thing you did. You can help out and try your best to utilise it as morally but also as professionally and efficiently as you can.
Slightly more long term, you can assist training others, if using one on live targets still feels objectionable (and rightly so!) to you.
Learning the craft and proper handling will not go to waste, if it starts looking even worse than it does now.
It can be good, too, to help others use the things more safely and otherwise properly. May save lives. And you need not take any, not in defense or otherwise, if that’s important to you.
Little Fume Itchy-Nose and She’s a Jobby-Sniffer
Oh wow, this part of the wiki is either just a perfect match or a sign of trolling:
Fumito Ichinose and Shesa Jobisnifa, both anesthesia specialists from Boston who conducted a study on the effects of hydrogen sulfide gas, or “sewer gas,” on mice…
Fumito and Jobisnifa working with fumes, sniffing
I’ve no knowledge of US stores and all that, but as a general rule, I’d be extremely suspicious of anyone offering so much cheaper gas as a rule. Also, free flights? There’s something rotten almost always, when the deals sound almost too good. There are no free lunches (in capitalist societies at least).
Things have been very upside down lately on multiple fronts…