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What makes a cafe fantastic?

Evolution and the Evaluation of an Epoch   If you were to design a society that is as far as possible from the environment of our ape ancestors, it might look something like ours. It’s not merely that our society is out of sync with the environment we evolved to live in—it clashes. It cuts against our instincts, leaving open psychic wounds. The wounds are continuously agitated.   Some people feel nostalgia for the 1990s—Clinton, Tom Hanks movies, the first personal computers,

There are three uses of obvious lies by the state, and they're all on display here.

Polarization feeds on misunderstanding, damaging relationships and eroding democracy. The DEEPS hack can help. A Pew study from September 2023 asked Americans to describe the tone of political discourse. The word “divided” and its synonyms were chosen most, with “bad,” “messy,” and “chaotic,” also popular. Most Americans (61%) find talking to those they disagree with about politics “stressful and frustrating,” a worsening from two years prior, and such stress and frustration

What is the nature of this game we're born into, and what is our predicament as players?