It has been 11,182 days since it began.
The... they kept coming, and joining... and the seasons lost their familiarity... their very meaning... it became just a blurring vortex, an intensifying torrent of ever increasing ignorance and rage.
I ... can barely remember now, what it was like before...
11,182 days ... of September.
This is not a normal kind of human interaction, on the girl's part.
It very strongly indicates she is a spoiled brat, a narcissist.
If you think this kind of interaction is normal... well I see two possible explanations:
You are also a narcissist and that's why you think this is normal.
OR
You are surrounded by narcissists who have gaslit you into thinking this is normal, and you haven't had too many regular interactions with non narcissists.
Also, I don't see anywhere near as many total upvotes for 'she's into you dude, frost that cupcake!' as I do for 'this is the biggest red flag imaginable, let me write a short essay explaining why'
In fact, yeah, I don't see a single comment advocating the anon dive into her... affairs, over this.
Yep.
It is mostly just revisiting older news from decades before that... as would be reasonable when a newcomer to politics now seems to stand a reasonable chance of becoming President, might want to do a more thorough journalistic background check on the guy.
Leftists critical of Trump, back then, before even his first term, were ... you know, kind of worried about Trump having Hitler in his nightstand table, very, very obviously seeing him as a role model and source of inspiration...
And then they said things like ... is Trump a Nazi? Is Trump a fascist? This stuff is ... quite concerning, along with his bombastic rhetoric and extremely nebulous and fluid 'policies', that all seem to converge on a return to past greatness, hypermasculinity, racism, sexism... all very much in line with ... a populist, which historically very often leads to fascism...
And then almost every one else in the country dismissed that as hyperbolic nonsense, and 'everything/one you don't like is fascist' was born.
... And now here we are, evidently in the bizzaro clownworld timeline, where Trump is 'the joker, baby' all the Republicans are his brainwashed cult of goons, the Democrats almost all as well sane-washed the shit out of Trump untill way after it was too late... and, as is also predictable broadly by history, the leftists, with few exceptions, fought each other over idpol, purity tests and tone policing, effectively negating any coherent opposition.
... can't say I've ever had banana pudding.
Here's how you go to jail for debt:
Rack up a ton of credit card debt.
Don't pay it off, goes to collections.
If it's high enough, and you don't move to another state...
Collections sues you, you get a court summons in the mail.
You throw away the court summons along with all your overdue bill notices.
Congratulations, you now have an active arrest warrant, police will be at your location in... a few days to a few weeks, you go to jail, then likely prison for contempt of court, and when you get out, the debt collector won their judgement against you by default, any wages you try to get will be garnished, your credit score is absymal so you can't get an apartment basically anywhere.
... incredible.
Beans for you.
For reference:
May Day, A View to a Kill (1985):
May Day, Goldeneye (N64, 1997):
Strap him to hull of the next Starship IFT launch... if ... those are even happening, anymore.
Like, not to frame Bezos as any kind of 'good guy'... but at least he actually put his own life on the line to showcase how much confidence he had in the safety and reliability of his rocket.
The entire original comment chain that lead to what I replied to ... was all about playing word games with slogans, progoganda, public relations.
The law may be 'clear', but it is clearly bullshit.
It is absurdly deferential toward the rights of megacorps and hostile to the rights of consumers.
Laws are supposed to reflect and codify morals and ethics, arise from them... not determine them.
But, as we slip more and more into a cyberpunk dystopia of hypercapitalist megacorps being able to basically just buy legislators, judges and laws, it will become more evident that the government is just entirely a facade directed by them.
This whole article is about a lawsuit in America, you know, the land of the fee, home of the early and very expensive grave?
The place with the ongoing fascist coup that's dismantling all the government agencies that regulate corporations, after the richest man in the world just bought an election, and more recently openly tried to buy a state judge, and though he didn't succeed, will likely face no penalty for doing that very obviously illegal thing?
Also, as far as at least acquring a pirated game?
Its not that hard.
Now hosting them? Sharing them?
Yep, you're right, that's a bit more difficult... but hey, be clever enough to not get caught, and thats the same as being rich enough to write your own laws.
I know a guy who put magic mushrooms in his family's coffee maker.
After a month of hallucinations, his mom checked herself into a psych ward for two weeks.
Guy thought it was really funny when he told her what he did, after she got back.
Guy is now homeless (unemployed 26 yo was living with his parents.)
Every AAA game company's have been for 30 years and still currently are arguing this in courts all the time.
The actual public facing employees don't have to, but sometimes still do, though usually in an unofficial capacity these days.
AA / indie devs are more of a mixed bag. A few will openly say 'fuck it, pirate it if you can't afford it, idgaf', but the majority will denounce piracy if its relevant or if prompted.
I agree with all of that.
Maybe ... 5 to 10% of Dems, like Federal Congresspeople, State governors... are willing to meaningfully go against pro corporate policies... at least more than half of the time.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of psyop used to induce or intensify infighting among younger leftists, but I also wouldn't be surprised if ... there really wasn't something specifically aimed at doing exactly that.
I know Russia has been very successfully employing the uh, hyperreality tactic, just fund or assist or influence enough people who are bombastic enough in any political persuasion, publish and spread baseless nonsense all across the spectrum to just sow general chaos...
But I do also think a lot of it really is people just adopting a vocabulary generally shared by leftists and then using it to their own, individual ends.
The thing with the CIA's Simple Sabotage model is that it describes basically every social circle or work environment I've ever been in, or hear about from a friend.
General incompetence and ... wasting time over petty stupid bullshit ... just sounds like the norm in America generally, for pretty much my whole life... but maybe I have just had particularly bad luck with that.