Decent men don’t leverage suffering for profit.
Norin
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What's your definition of a wealthy person? Sure, Bezos is rich, but where do you put the threshold?
Someone for whom the normal and inevitable experiences of suffering (illness, death in the family, natural disaster, etc) have no real economic consequences.
I think it depends on the sport. Then again, I only watch 2 real sports and 1 fake one (wrestling).
Football: absolutely better without audio commentary.
Baseball: it depends. The local broadcast guys can be pretty good for a lot of regular season games.
Wrestling: commentary is part of the TV experience, but not every commentator can be Taz.
Deep Space Nine: “The Visitor”
My head went to the exact same place.
I’d also add that every muppet kills it in their respective roles.
I read all Charles Dickens books in Gonzo’s voice!
Teaching people to be compassionate out of a promise of reward was always a terrible idea. No society has ever really rewarded kindness.
We should be teaching young people that compassion is an act of rebellion against uncaring systems and always has been.
Geez, NYT, how’s the boot taste?
I have no doubt they’d try.
But, other people in his party will try to fill the void too, and none of them or his kids have the horrid charisma that he does.
If he lives that long.
Despite all the shitty AI pictures of him with abs, the guy is still old as fuck and in terrible health.
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I’ve been thinking for a few years now that, since no one with power ever seems to know what they’re doing, there’s something about power itself that makes the person who holds it selfish and incompetent.