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Excerpts from:  What's the big deal about Corellian star ships? "Sure, I can imagine some of the best star ships were made on Corellia, but aren't there other ship building planets in the galaxy? It seems unlikely that all the best ships (both alliance, like Princess Leia's ship, and Empire, like Star Destroyers) are made in the one place." One answer The CEC megacorporation When people say "Corellian ships", they don't mean "ships made on Corellia", they mean "Ships made by the Corellian Engineering Corporation". It's a massive corporation that has existed since before the current Republic and the Empire, and has made a plethora of highly popular lines of starships. The CEC doesn't produce exclusively on Corellia, but it's where their headquarters are stationed. Imagine if Apple had called themselves the 'American Phone Corporation", people might have wanted "American phone...

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I can't write it any better than this, so here's a great article on the loyalty program scam:  Bullshit!

I am avoidant. I see the influence people have on each other, how a subtle word dropped can spin someone off onto an entirely different train of thought, not always constructive. When doing creative work, this is energizing. When collaborating, it gives rise to new ideas, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. But I see it all too often not being used for constructive purposes, and despite my attention to this, I fail too often to have a constructive influence on others. I let myself get carried away with my opinions and often speak without thinking first. I see people's patterns of behavior, as we all do, and I see my influence on them. I can and have let this awareness cripple me socially. I am afraid to speak my mind, especially when I'm in a conversation involving opinions about why things are the way they are. A lot of the content on this blog is here because I want or need to get it out, but fear to speak directly to people because my opinions about the sta...

File this one under the "if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" Again, it's great to have a blog no one reads. Ten years ago last week I was forced to change how I lived my life. Before that day I wouldn't think twice about going out to a happy hour with friends or coworkers. Alcohol is a very effective way of getting to know someone. It's widely known that alcohol decreases inhibitions, so you could say that when you get drunk, your reveal your real self. You could say that. It's not true, but that's what I thought. It can also be freeing, especially if you're repressed, afraid to be yourself, crave acceptance and fear rejection. Freeing is the wrong adjective for avoidance. I was on the upswing of a successful career, so I was living it up. I was thinking, saying and doing things I shouldn't have and it led to some real problems. In retrospect, these were things that I needed to think, say and do, ...

Continuing the theme from a previous post on Tweedism... "I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating." Now that the election is over, I can share this reason why I don’t vote, and won’t until Citizens United is gone and these Tweedist money primaries no longer exist. You may not agree. You may think I’m an idiot or part of the problem. But I have yet to hear a compelling argument against this truth, and as long as this corrupt system continues, I won’t waste my time. “There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got... because the owners of this country don’t want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The poli...

I stumbled across this a few months ago. I’m hesitant to share on Facebook, because sheep. This may be the answer to why we have a gun violence problem: poor livestock management. Happy livestock don’t shoot each other. But someone once said, “don’t believe everything you hear, and only half of what you see.” I had to research this video further. There was a comment that identified the author as Stefan Molyneux. The actual author’s account doesn’t appear to be connected, but contains similar alt-right shit. This is a good opportunity to stress the importance of critical thinking. Evaluate the soundness of your beliefs, and inoculate yourself against all propaganda, not just that of the state. Be informed. Think for yourself and question authority. Apparently this dude is alt-right. I find it unsettling how much of their propaganda I have to consciously fend off, but those are thoughts for my shadow work. Regardless of the politics of the author, or the person identified in a comm...