Oh it’s definitely something like that. Trump may be dumb publicly, but he’s also blindly loyal to his own ego and wallet. He has a reason for this, whether it’s market manipulation or bribes, but he definitely has a reason that will serve him exclusively.

There’s also a vocal minority of just really pessimistic people on here. Politics I don’t mind as long as it’s a discourse about not only what is bad but what can be reasonably done about it.

I’ve been in several discussions where I add “look at community, we are strong together” and it’s immediately beaten down with “the world won’t change things are shit and always will be, be mad and angry about it, I’m mad and angry at you”.

It’s the internet, I’m not surprised. But I’ve definitely had to disconnect myself for a bit some days after severe reactions from people just to remember it’s just strangers on the internet.

It’s not all the time, but for some discussions that promote inclusion and understanding to be met with the hard “I don’t agree so you are human garbage” can be an awful whiplash sometimes.

I mean technically they spin to cool but also because they use the time it takes to rotate to unload and reload a round. Basically “1 fire, 1 move out of the way, 2 fire, 1 unload, 2 move, 3 fire, 1 load, 2 unload, 3 move, etc.” multiple reasons

As someone else put it. No dakka, just brrt. When you have 8 dakkas in sync, you get all the -kka happening while the next barrel is already Da-, so dakka dakka turns into dadadadadadddddddrrrrrrtt

Idk, I feel like if that was the plan it had the absolute opposite effect. All of my friends getting forced into tests that didn’t matter and getting suspended for getting beaten up made most of us realize that the school/govt had no clue what they were doing

Money I think is needed. It’s just an easy way to simplify transactions from person to person. If I need to pick up something I don’t have to carry around 3 chickens and a dozen eggs to barter for groceries, I just carry cash.

“Investing” however, is unneeded. There should be no real reason for people to purchase parts of someones business publicly and extract value from it. The companies don’t need the profit from rising stocks, they already have their profits. So all these snakes that buy shares and force companies to rip their guts and morals apart chasing “number go up” does nothing but enshittify products and companies until they’re too unstable to use.

If you want to keep loans, that’s fine, but then it needs to be private, and locally lended. Your lenders can’t provide more money than the local economy can provide and it only goes back into the community that made it. None of these faceless companies extracting billions from a community to some far off corporation.

I think the better language is “you can be drunk 16 hours a day” which, some people are, and they’re certified alcohol addicts. So shoving Instagram in your brain the same way is the same disease, different symptoms.

Not only that but “what would Jesus do” has a valid answer of “flip tables and chase money lenders with a whip”. The ideal of “love one another” is always welcome as well.

Don’t forget the voice for McGruff the crime dog got caught with 1000 pot plants lol

50lbs is an unhealthy goal. Both for your mentality and for your body. Health recommendations put about 2lbs a week as the upper limit on weight loss without health issues. Even people who are on weight loss programs and injections are told to stick to this amount as best they can.

As someone who lost 50lbs last year I get the urge to just “get it done” trust me. But it won’t help long term. Pick a routine, watch your calories, and stick with it. Success comes from progress, not quick fixes.

And if you want my secret tip, you’re gonna be hungry, but when you do eat, shrink your serving sizes, and wait. If you’re eating don’t make a whole meal (ex. Two pb&js, chips, and fruit) make a serving (one sandwich, or just the fruit, or a measured serving of chips, don’t just eat out of the bag), eat that and some water, and give it time. You won’t be “full” but the hunger will go away and you can keep going.

“So long and thanks for all the fish”

Zero tolerance era. Grade school (I think 4th?) I’m reading one of those books that’s just like “Medieval History” with a bunch of pictures and the history on what the items was. (I think this one was about spies or James bond or something). Kid comes up to me actively reading and says “I was reading that, you took it from me!” Basically escalates it to “I’m gonna fight you” and starts sort of dragon ball z style punching me in the stomach a bunch of times really fast. Parents told me not to let that slide and to fight back, so I cock back and punch him in the face. Right as the teacher walks through the door. I was in 4th grade, I didn’t deck the kid, but I did hit him. Whole deal, go to the office, explained what happened. “Zero tolerance, 3 day suspension”

Dad asks what happened, explained, got 3 days off school at home fishing and playing video games. Best time I had at that school, also completely broke my faith in that system, so win win.

In my experience unfortunately there’s been a lot of pressure to speed up even the regular work cycle. Myself and others are starting to have more and more complaints of things suddenly getting shoved in at the last minute, or having sprints get more and more packed/scattered

“All the engineers said my “screen door on a submarine” was “stupid” and would “sink the ship”, so I fired them and hired new engineers!”

• CEO of now defunct “Screen Door Subs Inc.”

Nah comparison is the death of achievement. You aren’t seeing the other hundreds or thousands of other people (like me) who are going through this going “Yeah idk I got nothin”. You were on the news, it counts.

His endgame is to feed his ego. Anything else is just an accessory to that.

Funny enough, those have actually been around for a while, I remember seeing them as a “smoking alternative” sometime around 2013? But pretty sure they were around before that. Also aren’t zyns or whatever still popular? Why not just stick with that?

Nicotine was bound to stick around though. It’s basically a “legal” mini-high and doesn’t have all the smell and cancer stigma (yet, pretty sure those things still ruin your lungs) that traditional burning cigs do. That industry wasn’t gonna fold without a fight.

There is a pretty big difference between our military and our police force at home. We shouldn’t be putting kids in the meat grinder because our president is a dipshit with Intel.

Nothing like letting the Taliban know “Oh yeah we are trying to take that back” on public channels so they can get everything nice and reinforced and ready for you and make it as much of a pain in the ass as possible.

Both are great movies, Cabin definitely is more of an “homage to the genre” while Tucker is a “comedy about the genre” but really good in its own right. Both still have a good horror theme to it but Cabin was more about touching all the tropes while still being a “standard horror”. Tucker and dale is just funny.

In very simple terms, it means that something is changing state so impossibly fast (“on a quantum level”) that we can’t tell what exactly that state is besides at the instant we check it. Exactly is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, because we can have an idea or an area, but not exactly. What that means in turn though is that by checking or measuring that state, we have interacted with it, therefore making the state we measured no longer valid for what it currently is now, or at rest.

Think of it like taking a measure of a water droplet, in the middle of a lake. You can say “there it is, those atoms are in that droplet and theyre this hot”. But the drop you measured is constantly mixing with the water around it. Sure, you measured the temperature of those atoms in that droplet, but if you try to measure it again you could get a different result. (It’s not a perfect example, but it gets the idea through)

Using your programming model, think of it like reading memory in memory that is shorting out. You can read it once, but there’s no guarantee that it will be the same value again next time you read that bit, because it’s in constant flux.