It felt like an eternity. However, when I came back onto the blog, I found that it had been only a month. A month. When you think about it, that has been what 2025 has felt like. We are only seven months into the year. A little over half way through, and it felt like January was so long ago. Yet, not. Living in Los Angeles, January felt like months packed into thirty days. In any case, a lot has happened in a month that made me change thought processes.
Originally, I was going to let this take a backseat to focus on things.
As it always happens, once you move away from some things to focus on others, things happen that keep pulling you back. Trump and Musk are having the world’s most public break-up, and Musk isn’t dealing with it well. Especially, since his bread and butter incentives were cut out of the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
AI is running technology firms and leading to layoffs. Unemployment is going to increase by the end of the year. So many companies are pushing AI on to their customers whether you want it or not. Microsoft is airing commercials that illustrate that they can do it all for you. Yet, they can’t seem to produce an update that doesn’t fuck up your system.
Social media is abuzz with people cheering that SNAP and Medicare are getting reformed, which is politician speak for kicking people off it. Then another group doesn’t care because they are not on it, but will discover how closely personal insurance is linked to Medicare when their premiums continue to rise. People would rather believe what some nobody says on TikTok versus some guy that went to school for this.
That was short of a reason
People are stupid. Dismissing what professionals say because “they are bought” is like thinking Trump doesn’t need money. There is so much evidence to the contrary, but people will believe anything than challenge their own world view.
When I was an evangelical Christian since I was eight until I turned fifty. I used to consider myself a “defective Christian” at times. For simply entertaining the idea that my Christian worldview wasn’t correct.
However, whenever I started to question my own faith, I was either scolded (being told I wasn’t a true Christian) or just told to read my Bible. I have a logical mind, but when I would listen to it I’d stop myself. “No, that is the world trying to tell to question God.” The more and more “religious” people never provided me any real answer, I came away with more questions that I had answers. Even reading the Bible created more doubts.
I am on a mission to civilize.
There is a lot of tech that is pushing this “doubt reasonable sources” and it works for them. It makes them money and keeps people on their services. Somehow we think billionaires are for the little guy when the opposite is true. Mark Zuckerberg is pushing so much on AI because he is running out of ideas to keep his social media empire relevant.
Musk doesn’t gives a shit about the debt. If he did, he wouldn’t have cut all those jobs. He is losing federal funding for Tesla and because the AI moratorium item was removed from the final bill.
I’m tired of people buying into this shit. Years ago, I created a platform and am deciding to us it. So, I know what I said, but I’m changing my mind. If you don’t like it, think about why you don’t. Is it because it triggers you? Have you ever thought about why things trigger you? Maybe you should.
Not learn the truth about things that trigger you. Learn about why are YOU so triggered by things that don’t objectively impact your life.
I’m back.