u/JoelXGGGG

I loved to party in college. I looked for an old photo for this post and the one here is the most appropriate I could find 😂. My first two quarters were spent living in the dorms at UW and I threw too many parties and was on my final warning there when I left. I joined a fraternity and lived there for the next four quarters. All of the guys there loved to party and we drank an unbelievable quantity of alcohol. We would party and drink 3-4 nights a week on average.

I wish now that I had not drank all that alcohol. Studies show that drinking alcohol while studying greatly reduces the amount you learn. Drinking lots of alcohol kind of makes the actual purpose of college pointless.

I am a libertarian and generally lean towards allowing adults to do what they please. But many studies though show kids brains do not finish development until they are 25 and many of the brain's mechanisms for controlling risky behaviors especially are not finished till then. I am not sure we should leave it up to kids in that age group to party or not. It certainly would be hard to stop though without fairly draconian measures.

In my early 20s after college, I organized Monday night dinners that ran for a couple of years. The main purpose was for me and a group of close friends to learn to cook from another close friend who was an incredibly talented chef. Every week our chef friend would teach us and I would over consume alcohol and not remember most of what he taught. It is one of my bigger regrets that I spent all that time getting drunk and can’t remember what I was supposed to be learning.

As an adult after college, it took me years to figure out the damage alcohol was doing to me. It took me years more to slowly cut back then to quit. Many friends from college never quit and remain alcoholics to do this day and will probably die of diseases related to alcoholism.

I wish I could go back and talk to myself before I started drinking at 17 and give harsh warnings, but to be honest I didn’t listen to the adults who did give me those warnings at that time. The best way to learn is from others mistakes instead of having to make those mistakes yourself.

The problem with government schools in America is that they train students to see the government in a positive light. Public schools are funded and controlled by the government, thus they teach that socialism is good. Then young adults have to spend the rest of their lives learning the truth in the real world. Many people are never able to see past the government propaganda they are indoctrinated with from early childhood.

The older an adult gets, the more socialist countries they see collapse into dictatorship, starvation, and death. I remember back when Maduro first came to power the far left news media in America claiming it was the future for everyone and how successful Venezuela was. My parents generation remembers the lies and collapse of the Soviet Union and my grandparents generation watched "the Great Leap Forward" in China. Hundreds of millions of people are murdered by their own governments.

Socialism is inherently unstable because once someone stops working but keeps on getting rewards, everyone else stops too. Then the leaders have to force people to work and thus the socialist-dictatorship cycle is completed. It happened everywhere from Karl Marx's Germany under the National Socialists to many countries in Africa, South America, and Asia.

You wont believe how fast a nation can completely self destruct when the radical left takes over. History proves there is a hidden five step playbook that the Soviet Union and Communist China used to destroy millions of lives, and it always starts the exact same way.

Step 1: Take your free speech.

Step 2: Take Your Guns.

Step 3: Take Your Cash

Step 4: Take Your Land and Home

Step 5: Take Your Life

Countries this happened to over the last century: USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Poland, Romania, East Germany, Cambodia,

How much of your hard-earned income should the government be entitled to take before it violates your right to keep what you earn?Washington state residents pay an average of nearly 40% of their total earnings to the government. We spend from Monday morning until Wednesday morning working entirely for the state. Does that feel like a fair exchange for your life and labor?

We are running straight into a trap! Why the AI Race Will End Humanity

While the world remains utterly distracted by political polarization and theater, tech elites are sprinting headfirst straight into the open jaws of a monster they cannot control.

Superintelligent AI is rising far faster than any of us expect. We are rapidly engineering the very entity that will dethrone us as the dominant species on Earth. If we don’t pull the emergency brake right now, human history ends here.

To prevent absolute extinction, we need to implement a radical, zero-tolerance blueprint for human survival:

Merge All Labs Globally: The competitive corporate race must end today. We must immediately consolidate every single AI lab worldwide into a single, unified international initiative.

The Ultimate Penalty for Rogue Devs: The stakes are existential. Anyone caught developing advanced AI outside of this consolidated global framework should face the death penalty. No exceptions, no dark web labs, and no rogue code.

100% Globally Open-Source: The unified program's code must be completely open-source. Every single line must be available for the entire world to review, verify for safety, and collectively audit.

Enforce a Slow, Safe Pace: We must intentionally put the brakes on development. Progress should only move as fast as our ability to guarantee total containment and safety.

A near-majority of Americans now believe in conspiracy theories. How did we get here?

A recent NewsGuard/YouGov poll dropped a statistic that completely blew my mind: 42% of Democrats believe the Butler, PA assassination attempt on Donald Trump was staged. Let that sink in.

I discovered this when hundreds of comments on my recent post on Trump's assassination attempts claimed they were all fake. I hadn't heard that much before and thought it was all AI comments.

Despite a mountain of live footage, hundreds of eyewitnesses, and tragic casualties, nearly half of a major political demographic believes it was faked. To me, that theory seems impossible given the sheer logistics—but it points to a massive, fascinating shift in our culture.

Conspiracy theories have officially gone from a fringe subculture to a mainstream reality.

Sovereign citizens, George Soros, vaccines are toxic, aliens are here, the earth is flat, moon landings fake, climate change is fake, stolen elections, the Great Reset, the deep state, Qanon, HAARP, digital ID, celebrity clones, Illuminati, Bill Gates, 5G, Jeffrey Epstein, masks, JFK assassinated by the CIA, 9/11 inside job, plandemic, contrails, the Trump assassination attempts, Barack Obama's birth certificate....

Which conspiracies do you personally believe are true? Why? How did conspiracy theories become so widely believed? I personally have been sucked in by some myself. I'll share those in the first comment along with research links for those interested.

But it raises a crucial question about the human psyche: Why are we looking for hidden plots everywhere?

THEORIES:

Trust loss: A total collapse of trust in our legacy institutions?
Phones: The isolation and digital echo chambers engineered by our phone addictions?
Hollywood: Hollywood conditioning? Have decades of movies with bizarre, secret plot twists trained our brains to look for the movie script version of real life?
Human nature? Have we always been uniquely vulnerable to this (like cults and ancient myths and religions), and we are only just noticing it now because of the internet?

Which of these conspiracies do you personally believe have a shred of truth to them? Why? Drop your thoughts below.

The far left has had an ongoing purge for years in academia of other viewpoints. It is much easier for socialists to get rid of others when they are in a government funded and run institution. Students are not admitted and professors are not hired at these government schools unless they bend the knee to extremist ideologies.