Fox ‘news’*: anything I disagree with is terrorism, trump isn’t a bigoted idiot tanking the economy, there’s no class war, we’re just entertainment not news 🤡

Never showered in the rain?

If https://web.mnstate.edu/stutes/Econ411/Readings/civil.htm seems like what you’re looking for the author has writings of his own and others in the references at the end.

No idea of this particular instance, but there is a general idea of a shibboleth as a normative indicator someone is a member of a group by common tradition or custom or something not done by taboo. The way you say a word, react to a sneeze, count on your fingers, pronouncing it sequel vs S-Q-L, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shibboleths

100+ and ads on the lock screen seems greedy to me

My fuck censorship knee jerk response is Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits or Blood Meridian or some dime store pulp noir Raymond Chandler

A few more actual possible recommendations might be Judge Dredd/2000 AD, Burning Chrome by William Gibson (collected short stories), or most of Philip K Dick and Kurt Vonnegut Jr use dystopian tropes but you’d have to scan for adult content when choosing.

Extreme centrist

The requirements for justice includes truth (objective facts of reality not merely opinion or belief or rumors) for accountability, attacking education prevents an ability to evaluate if something presented confidently as truth is truth. It’s a fast track to corruption and injustice.

Putin, Trump, Erdogan, etc style of extreme right wing populist propaganda is to attack truth and prevent justice by weaponizing ignorance. They’re spreading a firehouse of distracting lies, for example staged attacks against people representing their beliefs on facebook and twitter, to a public who is at least in part unable or unwilling to critically evaluate facts of reality from propaganda lies. Another more general example is if you’re not aware of confirmation bias and how it’s used and works due to a lack of education you are going to be much more susceptible to it’s effects when used.

People aren’t necessarily getting dumber other than some temporary dips due to toxic environmental things like lead in fuel or maybe some effects of toxicity we’re not aware of yet, It’s just the people who were already susceptible to fascist rhetoric & con artists are being indoctrinated against education as either unnecessary or harmful, which makes them easier to continue to mass propagandize to with more methods that have fewer rules platforms need to follow compared to older mass media propaganda like newspapers or network TV news.

I like the physiological side effects of reading books and long form articles like being able to hold focus longer and easier, slowing down to consider things instead of jumping to reaction, exercise my imagination, etc. Also maintaining a habit of reading before bed to reduce screen time before and keep a somewhat consistent bed time. And lastly reading text books, fiction, comic books, etc a mix to get a mix of entertainment and education.

A few I enjoyed from the current decade are Pentiment, return to monkey Island, and twelve minutes

Open it up to 2010s and you’ll include The Wolf among us, the walking dead, Kentucky route zero, Sam and Max devils playhouse, etc

One of the few books I’ve stayed up all night to finish the first time I read it in high school, definitely worth the read.

Alt: Lester Freamon, character from The Wire played by Clarke Peters who had the ‘glasses down the nose let me school you’ look down perfectly

/s is an interesting addition and could use a glyph

Pancakes are flapjacks if they’re big and silver dollars if they’re small, but in the picture I see crepes.

Orchard farming, just add more tree

The obvious troll is obvious, easiest block

Everyone who isn’t with us is against us, but yeah not a cult

Set the bush on fire, toss a bucket of water on it, drink the hot bush broth drippings

Yeah, and there was a similar plot line I think in the comics in infinity war 2 where something similar happened to Gamora but she was actually >!trapped inside the soul stone and they went in to break her out !<

Dropped my toast butter side up, I’m a magic man yup

Probably just times I scared myself getting hyped up to hear or see something, haunted basement as a kid, alone at night in an unfamiliar forest, etc