I would not agree. Every metric is subject to Goodhart’s law, approval ratings is no exception. Putin has (allegedly) maintained an approval rating well over 50% for his entire career.

I’m not saying he wants to do right by his constituents, I’m saying he wants to be told he’s a winner. Trump is a narcissist. He’s all the other terrible things because at the end of the day he needs to feel liked. He will only do things that he thinks will fill that void.

He had to defend TikTok to win over youth votes for the election.

Now that he’s pres again, he knows that in one year it will become very apparent that he can’t lower grocery/gas prices, and isn’t willing to take action on home prices, the deficit, AI, or wage inequality.

So instead he has a list of things that will prop up his approval rating, because that is the only metric that actually matters to him. Right now that seems to mean keeping TikTok, and annexing new territory (even if that just means renaming the Gulf of Mexico).

To the wealthy, volatility is opportunity. Yeah, the market will go down for a while, and later it’ll go back up. Billionaires will cash in both ways.

In Anomaly I feed them all to my Harbinger Trees for more bioferrite!

But if I had any cannibals, or my Ideoligion didn’t dislike corpses so much, I would probably do things differently.

Keepass is

• open source and free
• just uses a file, so you can sync it wherever/however you want
• has a browser plugin with autofill if you’re into that
• is supported on all platforms
• database lives in an encrypted file that you put wherever you choose