Thing you do for yourself.

vs.

A sense of entitlement.

Like writing tourist ads for Nazi Germany.

Yes. Great point. But, can you imagine things getting worse quickly? I can. :(

Consider this a blessing. Where the US is going, you definitely don’t want to be.

“But company stocks are based on the value of a company’s holding and possible profit”

You are going to want to challenge yourself on this assumption. I doubt it’s ever been true. Edit: a minor factor for some at best.

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

1 is useful.

Self-sabotage. The words “Never Interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.” comes to mind.

Paywalled.

That’s the trick. Humans normalize anything and we seek novelty so the perfect life has to take in changes.

What a shithole country.

What a shithole country.

Is it weird that both options are horrific and dystopian?

Sometimes we should.

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

Hint: nobody wants to use Google’s either.

Tasty, tasty humans.

It doesn’t. The process is called bioaccumulation and is a function of how long the species live and as a predator, how much of food lower on the food chain they eat.

Sardines are safer than Mackarel because they don’t live as long and predate less. Mackarel are better than Tuna because tuna is a longer lived predator that eats more, thus accumulates more mercury. Dolphins are top of the food chain, thus have higher mecury levels.