I scrolled way to far for this. Lichess bs above had me questioning my sanity. If the Badger just lost that Rook, its only getting worse for them, otherwise…

They’ll toss them as soon as it returns “CITIZEN” on a brown-person they “just KNOW” is in the country illegally…

Honestly, $1billion is a surprisingly-low number/estimate from what I’ve been reading. Did they only COUNT trades by poor people? … or just the specific trades made as close as possible to the exact right moment?

There’s always going to be a “correct” trade made closer than any other to the right time, so this claim attached to such a low number seems like a distraction-at-best. The hundred-or-thousand-best trades for each event will show us several orders of magnitude more graft.

Honestly, I’m the opposite. Fools are the only company I’m fit for, but “smart” fools if I can find them, if that makes sense. I try to avoid feeling like the “smart” one, although that avoidance hasn’t required any effort for me among my friends for literal decades by this point.

Welp, you’ve nailed why I find it so ironic/hillarious when I’m told, at length and in excessive/invented detail, that I haven’t internalized/accepted my own failures enough.

Mind you, it almost never involves (even meta-physical)injury or inconvenience to anyone else, so there’s a lot of lip-flapping from people who can explain everything they have a problem with except for how what’s being complained-about is any of their business or problem.

I spent enough of my life believing I was myself toxic that I just doubled-down. My mental-health suffered, but we’re at a point like a stand-off. I have an exit-plan and conditions that will trigger or prevent it, and I hope she does too, but with medication and therapy, I mostly feel like I’m where I want to be. Without it, my relationship would be irrelevant next to all the un-hinged shit I would get up to anyways.

I myself am not all that attached to the truth so much as I occassionally have to remind certain people that trying to convince anyone of utter-falsehoods and “non-disprovable” gibberish is boring, wasted effort, or worse. There is no upshot to abusing those who love you, at least not on a one-way street, and modern society has places if you really want to play the stupidest-possible games of bumper-cars.

Psychopathy? Autism? BPD?

I stay medicated and too busy doing right by my family to dwell on it, but I have enough emotional depth that I sometimes wonder if I didn’t just decide to try to think and act like an unhinged psychopath one day(WAY before I met my wife…) in the hopes of avoiding abuse & despair. I’ll tell you this much: Whatever the case, that last part definitely didn’t work-out.

Love-bombing a love-bomber can get epic, but then there’s the fallout when the one drops the act and is terrified by the possibilities that: you weren’t acting, you were just matching their energy and can meet them down in the trenches before they can actually drag you down, and/or you knew what they were up to and refuse to be made to have a problem with it(see “weren’t acting”).

Now you’re stuck with a bait-and-switcher who cannot grasp that you might not be pulling the same trick they just failed to land.

If this sounds like a lot of drama and a massive pain, it is, and that’s why its not recommended over disengaging once you’ve realized what’s happening.

You new to greentext or what?

Real gaslighters LOVE the opportunity to further twist facts, or maybe its compulsion. Its better to either disengage entirely or focus on one or two key points their bullshit cannot change

Oh noes, I matched your energy and like a quarter of the words you’ve spent expressing it. I’m the bad-guy now.

Imagine going into nature looking for bad-guys.

JFC dude/dudette/whatever, calm down.

Does your hippy-ass even know what a camp-site police-call is? (hint: it’s not the one where law enforcement get’s involved, at-all) I’ll bet you hate scouting with a burning passion too.

I like my crickets chirping, frogs croaking, crows cawing, maybe even an owl hooting around sun-rise with a cigarette, an energy-drink, and a mild(or not) post-bourbon hangover. I’ll bet you have a problem with that too.

If that’s not the persona you’re trying to portray, realize its exactly what’s coming through in your comments.

You’re ego is sprinkled all-over the place here, and it looks a lot like self-fellation resulting in un-solicited jizz and excrement. I guess at least its bio-degradable, but you need a shower after this hike as much as any gym-bro, and likely smell worse for the lack of exertion-sweat to compete with all that “not”-ego.

Kill almost anyone besides those you are being told to kill, yes.

I find the fixation of randos(most of us, apparently) on assuming “you” is referring to them and only them off-putting, myself. I can be having an on-going conversation, start a sentence with “you” and get interrupted by a third-party going “WHAT!?” …

I’m such a paragon of getting this right, and a successful parent, that it happens in my own house, when they know good and well I’m capable of shouting names across the house at volume sufficient to make the whole neighborhood understand what I’m saying, so why do they assume a barely-audible “you” from two-rooms over is meant for them? Is it me?

For your second point: That’s precisely why I default to addressing counter-arguments to the collective “you”. Can’t expect anyone to digest the arguments if every scathing word anyone might not like is addressed to specific individuals. I won’t pretend to be happier and more content with having to make such arguments than anyone else should be, and if anyone wants to claim a specific piece to take personal offense to, that’s their perogative.

I do try to lay out a path away from such outcomes, but the road involving any concessions or self-reflection is narrow and treacherous versus the highways full of land-mines that somehow look more inviting. Apparently the “toll-gate” hands you a beer and a blind-fold with pretty flowers on it or something.

/end-rant/pontification: I myself am lost in the woods, and the land-mines are really pretty some days.

We already reconciled, thanks.

Not to back-track everything I just said, but the fact its only the crazies and greedy mercenaries firing the bullets is itself almost as bad as all the dead kids resulting from all the inaction on the part of the rest of us.

I applaud no part of this incident more than I do that NO kids were harmed this time, admitedly that’s basically a USian miracle. Thirteen bullets and no kids taken out? US Military stats over recent decades call that “not even one for thirteen shots?” SLACKING.

They seriously went from supposedly avoiding civilian cassualties, civilian casualties equals terrorism, to “one dead terrorist, we promise that one was a terrorist bad bad man, is worth a hundred dead civilians”, but you or I are supposed to be upset about bullet-holes in the home of an elected official, and we should feel bad that our country-men are so un-couth.

Am I supposed to recognize your name or something? I don’t see any mod-flair, but even then “look at my name” is a weird flex outside of pay-per-plate donor parties and, say … Epstien Island.

Oh wait, you think it matters that they only doubled-down on your take, didn’t author it, and you yourself haven’t bothered to clarify your own vague-booking. Sorry kid, the conversation moved on.

Okay, so I went and changed “you” to “they”, twice. You happy now?

Yeah, leaving just the note. Maybe smashing a window?

… but if they had called out just the gun-fire, my earlier reply might have needed such nuance. As it is, they called us out for … doing anything at all? Damaging some property? Boohoo. How the property damage was done is immaterial, besides “guns bad”.

How dare the constituents infringe upon the state’s monopoly on violence?

If I personally went over to shoot an Iranian child, would I then have standing to engage with the man who ordered my tax dollars be utilized like-so as an equal? Mind you, AI data-centers, subsidized by my tax dollars, were literally used to plan the deaths of those children.

Thanks to media fear-mongering, including “why so many GUNS!?” storries, my daughter could easilly feel so terrified as Iranian school-children, and no government officials’ children are entitled to feel any safer. Their parents have the power to stop the threats and killing with a vote. I’mma forgive a citizen for realizing strong words haven’t changed those votes, but some bullets in a wall-or-roof-or-tree-or-whatever might. Didn’t even have to kill or injure anyone? Raytheon may want to sue for missed profits, as their products went un-utilized in this particular “Pro-active Freedom Dissemination^TM” but I call it a fucken’ bargain.

13 bullets don’t cost anywhere near as much as a missile by the way, tens-of-thousands wouldn’t. Sorry, I slipped into “lives=who-cares, but money, what about the money!?” elect-a-critter-speak for a minute.

“Un-related”: Did you know you can make your own shoulder-fired guided-missile for $97 now? Just putting that out there. The problem is NOT the levelling of the playing-field, its people looking at the side that took non-lethal actions and demanding “wHy vIoLeNcE?!”

LEGEND

Not saying the shots were super-necessary, but let’s be real, somehow these elect-a-critters forget that their addresses are public-record, and it shows.