Stop the Idiocracy: Loss looms larger

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Loss looms larger

A dark-haired woman kneels upon a rocky, otherworldly landscape beneath the immense rings of Saturn, her face contorted with anguish as tears stream down her cheeks. Draped in translucent, wind-swept fabric that clings to her figure, she presses one hand to her chest while extending the other desperately toward the heavens, as though pleading for rescue or reaching for something forever beyond her grasp. Behind her, Saturn dominates the cosmic sky, surrounded by glowing nebulae, brilliant stars, and a constellation of luminous wheel-like discs marked with celestial symbols. Rich gold, violet, and indigo tones illuminate the scene, creating a dreamlike fusion of mythology, astrology, and space-fantasy imagery. The composition conveys overwhelming grief, longing, and emotional isolation against a vast and majestic cosmic backdrop.

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Study finds the pain of losing typically outweighs the thrill of winning in individual decision-making. {StudyFinds 29 June}

https://studyfinds.com/losing-feels-worse-than-winning-feels-good-regret/

The old cliché, "better safe than sorry," doth have some merit. Human beings are often more motivated to avoid loss than to pursue gain, and recent years have given Americans ample reason to be cautious — to put it mildly — about the future. That is not to say the public grasps the scale of the hell that awaits this crumbling nation — not even close — but I do believe the era of phony, Pollyannaish optimism is largely over in the former United States. Apart from intermittent gaslighting by Trump and his followers, of course. One moment they assure everyone that all is well; the next they revert to sky-is-falling rhetoric of their own. Such are the times in which we live.

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