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What’s the Point of a Drop When Everything’s a Drop?

What’s the Point of a Drop When Everything’s a Drop?

Scarcity is humanity’s great motivator. This has been true forever, since back when we were basically apes: The most important resources—food, shelter, mates—were the ones that were most in demand. Shortage meant value, and being attuned to value meant staying alive. We learned to focus on the rare thing at the expense of what was around it—psychologists call this “tunneling”—and to prioritize avoiding loss over gaining rewards. It was typically smarter to fight for something everyone else wanted than to waste time looking for something else. That animal wisdom is a reason our species survived. It is also a reason that, in late 2025, you could find a grown adult—a person who lives in the kind of material plenitude our distant ancestors could never dream of—in a Starbucks parking lot before dawn, desperately seeking a coffee cup shaped like a teddy bear. You see, this coffee cup was available only as a drop. Generally speaking, a drop is just a slightly different way of releasing products. Instead of making goods at the rate of expected …

For Trump, everything’s a “hoax.” It’s pure projection

For Trump, everything’s a “hoax.” It’s pure projection

How many times do you think Donald Trump has made use of the word “hoax”? The investigation into his ties to Russian operatives during the 2016 campaign? A Democrat hoax. The coronavirus? A Democrat hoax. People having trouble affording groceries and housing? Affordability — the very concept of being able to afford the bare necessities in life — a Democrat hoax. The Epstein files? A Democrat hoax. His record two impeachments? Can you guess? Yes, the first, for his “perfect phone call” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was a hoax and the second, for inciting an insurrection, was yet another hoax. Has anyone written a children’s book, “The President Who Cried Hoax”? Because we know Trump is forever psychologically projecting and, thus, talking about himself without realizing it, we understand that he is forever admitting his guilt by using the word to undermine the legitimacy of investigations against him. Related Trump’s favorite excuse in 2025: “I don’t know” It’s interesting that Trump makes use of an old-fashioned term like “hoax” (not to mention “witch hunt,” another favorite) on the regular. Dating back to the …