This is part of the paradigm that brought us the alt-right.

That’s why you size-up your fries order. 🍟

ETA: If you think your GF wants dessert and is eying the lava cake ad, decide you’re going to get dessert. If she persists in her resistance, order the lava cake and two spoons.

Sometimes you gotta force being human on people who’ve been mask-on for too long.

For most definitions of supernatural, no.

I believe in unidentified areal phenomena, not that it’s ETIs or aliens, but that something’s up there doing its thing.

I believe in ball lightning even though we don’t have a model of electrodynamics that explains it.

There’s some weird shit out there, Horatio, that isn’t explained in our philosophy. I’m sure we don’t have all the answers. I just am okay with knowing we don’t know what those answers are.

As for ghosts, spirits, afterlife, etc. There’s strong evidence those things do not exist, just in the stark silence where there should be noise.

I do pretend that treating my cat well and wearing cat themed tees and keeping cat kitch does please the cat gods. 🐱‍👤

When I was just a lad looking for my true vocation
My father said "Now son, this choice deserves deliberation…
Though you could be a doctor…

…or perhaps a financier…

My boy, why not consider a more challenging career!"

Adolph Hitler: 39 known attempts
Charles de Gaulle: At least 31 attempts
Fidel Castro: Fabián Escalante, former chief of Cuba’s intelligence, stated that there had been 634 assassination schemes or attempts.
Josip Broz “Tito”: About 22 attempts

So, Fidel Castro by far… according to one source. That’s a mess and a half.

Hitler is 39 attempts known, according to Wikipedia’s list. There may have been unknown ones.

Can I get robbed by the movie guy, please?

It’s allegedly a documentary, not fiction. It should make sense from beginning to end.

Sounds like you feel the need to defend Kurzgesagt for sentimental reasons, and since they’re presenting themselves as a source for accurate information, that just won’t do.

Feel free to explain it in better terms. TBH, I watched the first half and quit in disgust.

The problem is when the contributors influence what the videos say, in contradiction to data.

Kurzgesagt’s video on +2° / +3° / +4° over the global mean isn’t going to be so bad video was conspicuous to me, and is in fact, based on fossil-fuel industry rhetoric, rather than climatology estimations (which tell us over +1.5° is going to fuck us, and is).

The phrase “I voted for this” has become a common thing for far-right supporters of Trump to say when something particularly brutal has happened to their political opponents.

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it, If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. – Lyndon B. Johnson, attributed by Bill Moyers

Like pleading with Hector not to fight Achilles, Cassandra has been warning about ALPRs for over a decade now, possibly two, that they were too intimate a search to allow law enforcement to use them without narrowly-defined warrants.

As with the Greek wooden horse Cassandra shouted was going to burn Troy to the ground, only too late we are seeing how such power can be used.

No one listens to Cassandra.

I became too crazy for my wife.

I was pretty crazy when she took me in (also hella creative and hella horny), but the COVID-19 lockdown did a number on me everyone, including me, and then I couldn’t get back into therapy because it’s impacted.

TMI

I haven’t been going to cafés since the great fast-food inflation hike, but that tracks.

When I lived in San Francisco, self-bussing was the norm. Here in Sacramento even the cafe wait staff look at me like I am crazy, unless I’m in a coffee franchise like Starbucks or Peets.

The simulated universe hypothesis is not impossible, nor is Azathoth’s dream (essentially the same scenario just in neurons rather than silicon or whatever). But even if the universe is purely material it doesn’t make us more or less real.

We’re tiny. If we vanished next century, the universe would thrum on not even noticing.

So there are no rules. You exist for whatever, or npt for whatever.

However, we assume every menace has agency (part of our survival programming) and we anthropomorphize concepts like death or time or nature. So you can assume we all have the agency of a rainstorm or a wildfire, and be fine.

I lost a lot this year, including my society. So I don’t have any real answers. I continue on in a leap of faith that I’ll see light again if I continue down the tunnel. Even if its an oncoming train.

Bezos has tens of billions, if not hundreds. He could support development of heat-resistant microchips, which would have countless applications.

I’ve never used AI, even when wanting to give it a try. There was either a queue or a fee, or must click-wrap agree to terms and conditions for free two months and I wasn’t going to do those.

I never did an NFT either.

Fixed but still funny.

I have fat in my freezer and am a total noob at stock making. The fat is leftover from a slab of pork I cut up into 8oz portions and froze.

I would like to hear / read more about this earth thing called stock, if you are willing to share.