Finally I'm justified in doing everything via a GUI.

Basically just a tour group!

Back in the before times, in the long-long ago when work-from-home wasn't a thing, I had a job in an office and often we would have meetings about stuff. Whenever I was the first person to arrive in the meeting room I wouldn't bother turning the lights on, I'd just go and sit at the table and wait for whoever was next to turn the lights on. Why would I need lights while I was waiting? Nobody else was there, there was nothing to see or interact with.

For some reason people found it weird and creepy when they'd be the next to arrive, turn on the lights, and see that I was already sitting at the table. But then they started to get it and go along with it. I remember at one point each subsequent person also decided not to turn the lights on when they arrived, and we ended up having the meeting in darkness.

Yeah. This is the abusive drunk standing outside the door declaring "I haven't had a drink all day, I've changed, baby!" And begging to be let back in.

Good on you for spending the day sober. I hope it's the start of a new life and fervently wish you well. Still not letting you back in.

Could also be that he wanted this Dana White, this Dana White said no, and so now Trump is trying to pretend like nobody said "no" to him because it was "just a prank bro."

What a surprise, Trump doesn't like people telling him "no."

I think you can stop at "let the headlines focus on him". That is literally all that he cares about.

The tricky part is that Germany was beaten in a war and had external forces standing over them forcing them to clean house. That's not going to happen to the US, so there's not going to be that sort of house-cleaning happening.

I'm not struggling. It's not my responsibility to put any effort into this at all. I'll trust America when they've fixed the things that make them untrustworthy.

Which unfortunately includes their electorate, so that's going to take a while.

I agree with point #9 wholeheartedly.

No, this has nothing to do with agnosticism. Unless you're using the word in the "I feel vaguely wishy washy about all this and don't want to commit to a position" sense. Not its original technical meaning but popular these days.

"Unconscious force" just sounds like physics to me.

Sure, but only by consensus. We make words up and they are only useful if most people who hear them give them roughly the same meaning.