Been chatting with a few local PA friends about politics this week and the overall mood is one of complete apathy and disgust going into the midterms.
People often call me âextremeâ and say Iâm a âsocial outcastâ who doesnât âfit in with society.â
The society in question:
Just a reminder to those who attempt to invoke RenĂ© Girardâs mimetic theory or the Biblical concept of the scapegoat to shield groups from accountability for their destructive behavior: understand that you are fundamentally misapplying the metaphor.
In the Levitical law the scapegoat was an innocent animal upon which the sins of the people were symbolically laid; it was inherently blameless. Christ, the ultimate fulfillment of this archetype, was the spotless Lamb of God. He was completely without sin yet sacrificed for the iniquities of others. The structural integrity of the scapegoat mechanism requires the absolute innocence of the victim.
Therefore, the concept has zero application when you are pursuing justice against individuals or groups for real-world harms they have demonstrably committed.
Enacting judgment upon a guilty party for their specific transgressions is not "scapegoating," it is the administration of justice.
Do not confuse the sacrificial lamb with the criminal who is finally being held to account for the ruin he has brought upon our society and nation.
Go out for breakfast
>Foreigners everywhere
Go to a sports game
>Foreigners everywhere
Go to the bar
>Foreigners everywhere
Go to a concert
>Foreigners everywhere
As an extrovert, some of these blow my mind. 26% of Americans didnât go out for breakfast a SINGLE time in 365 days? 54% didnât go to a sports game and 51% didnât go to a bar/tavern even once? Even with the increase, 68% of adults didnât attend a single concert? Are there people out there that just donât do anything??
Scheduled a haul away for our old washer through Best Buy, but the driver was a no show.
>Call Best Buy
>AI customer support
>Get through to a person
>Indian, cannot understand a word she is saying
>Transfers my call to another agent
>Another one, cannot understand a word she is saying
>Puts me on hold for 10 minutes
>Hang up
Being miserable is a choice. You can't control many of the horrible situations we find ourselves in as a nation, but you can control your attitude and how you react to it. Give your miserable mindset to God, have some faith, and keep going.
Turns out the AI doomers were partially right, but the racists (as always) were 100% right. The AI (An Indian) apocalypse has arrived.
~70% of the internet was just compromised because of an Indian companyâs foolishness btw.
đš MAJOR SECURITY ALERT
8 certificate authority private keys have been compromised.
How bad is it? An attacker holding these keys could impersonate ANY website, including banks, exchanges, or Google, and potentially intercept sensitive communications.
The good news: Chrome, Firefox and Apple have already taken action to block the compromised certificates.
The bad news: Many apps, developer tools and systems may still trust them.
What you should do TODAY:
Update your browser, OS and phone.
Update desktop apps (Slack, Discord, VS Code, etc.) as patches arrive.
Avoid untrusted Wi-Fi until your devices are updated.
Only install updates from official sources.
Ignore any email offering a "certificate fix".
This is a serious compromise of internet trust infrastructure, not just another website hack.
Full technical details:
emudhra.we-have-a-problem.coâŠ
âElite human capitalâ strikes again
The unforced error by Vivekâs campaign is almost too surreal to believe. A total and complete misunderstanding of the current cultural moment with the Cornell case, the Lindsay Clancy case, etc. Maybe if he didnât run away from social media he would know this! Unthinkable that anyone on the campaign wouldnât though. Will go down as one of the biggest unforced errors in American politics.