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I suppose it's only fair and fun if the devil gets to play too.

I just read Leo's last two blog posts. It begs the question then; how do you beat the devil? Is it possible to be dedicated to truth and succeed in business? I look around the industry I work in and see deception and systems exploitation everywhere. In filmmaking, in order to get anything made (and therefore to be employed) you need to exploit government grants, tax incentives, cheap overseas labor, race to the bottom contracts, and so on. It's kill or be killed, it seems that if you don't participate in this system and out exploit other filmmakers, you have no chance of creating something great. Is there any examples of businesses or projects that have been successful while sticking to truthful and honest core values? What did they do differently? My thought experiment led me to the conclusion; create a new market. You have to refuse to play in the same game as the devil. You have to refuse to engage in the same market, refuse to use the same exploiting tools, refuse to compete with the devil's product. Is that correct? Or am I being overly nihilistic here?

Because they give him what he wants. It's really that simple. Elon's character is not that deep.

We are one step closer to the first McDonald's franchise on Mars. Fuck yeah.

Spoilers man!

Yeah, you have to fuck a dude. No way around it.

Enlightenment is a construction.

It's way easier to wreck the economy than to improve it. And correlation ≠ causation. Whatever the economy does under Trump might not be strictly because of him. Unless it obviously was his fault with the over aggressive tariffs. Don't change what you do just because Trump is in, unless the tariffs directly affect you.

People can share similar opinions. Shocking, I know. I often use his language because I know you know what it means.

Most who voted for Trump don't have the capacity to admit when they are wrong. They can't handle cognitive dissonance. Staying quiet only enables such people to bury themselves deeper into ignorance. Calling out Trump doesn't save those people; it's saves the vulnerable people from falling under the spell.

Trump and his Imps don't share your hippy sentiments. They will fuck you. If you stop calling the devil out on his bullshit he will fuck you and the world harder. If you were in the jungle, you would let a jaguar slaughter you with this attitude. We're all one man, let the jaguar have some lunch!

It can be a biochemical issue. When I occasionally struggle with depression / no motivation I have vitamin deficiencies. Get a blood test if you haven't recently.

Well, if you ever discover such a universe please let me know. But you will never find it because what you are cannot exist in it. There can be no humans in a universe without death.

You're welcome to grow wings and fly whenever you like.

How would you create a universe without death? Seriously think about it, what would you have to change in the universe? How could you do it without affecting other aspects of reality in a massive way? It's a mistake to personify God, like it picks and chooses what it wants to create. God is not a being, God is a system. And God doesn't use workarounds or avoid certain results within it's system.