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Well, they have to say “we’re training a music AI” while slipping several million dollars into the pockets of the right people. Rich people don’t win legal battles by actually proving what they did isn’t illegal, they do it by discreetly paying people to say they did.
You can definitely make up some reason why this UFO would be able to match the Earth’s speed without requiring all of physics to be wrong, but it’s actually pretty easy to get people like this to believe that everything we’ve been taught is a lie to cover up some grand truth that’s being kept from us. It makes them feel smart and validates their common paranoia that world is against them.
It benefits the grifters leave these inconsistencies in because it weeds out the people who weren’t fully hooked, and makes the ones who do continue to believe more delusional, isolating them from their support network and making them more reliant on the grifter. I unfortunately watched this happen with my mom, who ended up dying after spending most of her money on random scams claiming to cure cancer because she’d been convinced that the conventional treatments were the real scams.
People always ask why I don’t turn my hobby into a job, and this is the response I give. If the thing I do to unwind from my job becomes my job, what will I do to unwind from my job?
I started making alarms for things a few years ago, and now I have alarms for everything. It’s great. I never have to worry about forgetting anything because at this point I make an alarm reflexively any time there’s a thing I need to remember in the future.
My wife doesn’t understand why I always clean every dish/pot/utensil as soon as it’s done being used, even before I sit down to eat. If I leave even just a stray fork to be cleaned later, I’ll just keep stacking dirty things to be cleaned with it later until I run out of dishes, run out of room, or both.
Yes, I am are aware that while publishing helps validate science, it is not infallible, nor is it presented as such outside of people who haven’t even tried to understand the process. There’s a pretty big gap between “all published ‘science’ is fake” and “all published ‘science’ is real.” that I, and most other rational people, fall under.
The people I’ve met who do their own “research” do so because they believe the scientific community as a whole is fake. They’d take great pride in not being published.
Honestly, I think this is a good thing. Sure, it means that I often don’t finish shows or games, but I also don’t care to, which suggests that it wasn’t important to me anyway. I’m being more true to myself than to the expectations of society as a whole, which I think is healthy. I usually go back to an abandoned franchise when I’m ready, anyway, even if it’s a decade or more later.
How does posting a quote from the aftermath of a school shooting constitute a real threat of a new shooting? It’s relevant because it was in the aftermath of Kirk’s shooting, it wouldn’t be relevant to post a quote of “we have to get over it” if you were trying to make a threat about a future shooting.
Sure they might have taken him in on the bogus, unfounded claim that he was somehow making a threat, but the real message they’re trying to send is that being outspoken against the rise of fascism will get you thrown in jail.
There’s no point in trying to explain the bullshit excuse, because it never mattered in the first place. The judge “thought” it was a legit threat because they’re just another part of the corrupt system trying to quash this kind of discourse. If anything they went after the former cop because they want to keep any others from switching sides.
They’re both PS2. Dark Cloud released soon after the PS2, as it was originally intended to be a launch title, but got delayed. Dark Chronicle/Dark Cloud 2 came out a couple years later. Both are amazing games.
Most of my favorite games are already on all the “Top PS2 Games” lists, but my absolute favorite video game of all time is Steambot Chronicles, which got pretty much no attention at all. It’s really fun, with nice cell-shaded graphics and a bunch of stuff to do from piloting a big customizable robot to shooting pool to excavating fossils to decorating an apartment to playing a bunch of musical instruments with unique rhythm minigame mechanics! There are a bunch of dialogue options, too, affecting things from minor shifts in how your friends talk about you to a complete alignment shift to the enemy’s side, which obviously leads to a few different endings. Regardless of what ending you get you can still do the postgame content, though, so you don’t have to worry about getting any kind of “bad” ending. I’ve played it more times than I can count, and just keep coming back every year or two.
My mom would send me a dozen or more conspiracy theory links every day before I cut contact.
I always hand wash old pyrex. They were designed before dishwashers were a ubiquitous household appliance, and so the finish can’t take the stress. Same with vintage pyrex mixing bowls - if you wash them in a dishwasher, eventually they’ll lose their finish and strip down to the paint, making them feel like a chalkboard.
Looks like someone had to put their q-tip on the first available surface for some reason, and somehow that surface was a step ladder?
I got lucky for sure. A lot of my friends in the office tried to keep working from home after covid and got let go. I just happened to time it perfectly where I asked a little later, after the higher ups got worried they were letting too much of the younger talent go by being so rigid with the in-office mandate.
I thought for sure they’d let me go when they found a replacement willing to be in the office, but it’s been years and none of the new hires in my department have picked it up nearly well enough to take over my responsibilities. I think it’s settled down enough by now that I’m pretty safe with my work from home exception.
As soon as I got a taste of working from home back in 2020, I knew I was never going back to the office. I bought a nice chair and built a good computer, and now I just hang out every day while working when I feel like it. I’ve come up with enough shortcuts and workarounds that I can do my job over twice as fast as my coworkers, though I’ll never tell my boss that. I do have OT sometimes, but I get paid well for it, and still rarely have to put in a full 8 hours of actual work in a day, even when getting an extra several hours of time and a half. People look down on hourly pay, but it’s way better than salary for times like those.
I think of good news during times like these like I’d think of finding $10 on the ground while watching my house burn down. We’re losing so, so much more than we’re gaining day after day. Sure, take some time to rest when you need it, but never take your eyes off the prize - we need to start truly preparing to physically fight back against the rise of fascism around the world, and we need to do it yesterday. Allow yourself a minute or two to be happy about good news if it helps, but don’t let it distract you.
Every time I meet someone new I think to myself “Okay, now, this time remember their name! Alright? Focus! Remember their name!” and come back to reality to realize I’ve auto-piloted my way through them telling me their name.
He originally wanted to call it the Spermy Long Legs.