Is that you, Mr. President?
It's a combination of both.
When you're young, everything is new to you. Everything is literally the best or worst thing to ever happen in that sphere, because it's the only thing to have happened in it. You hit peaks, you hit troughs, and then everything else feels cheap, imitation, average.
I've had surgery where chunks of face are ripped out and placed into other parts of my face, rending flesh from fat and muscle, and reusing all three. The pain upon waking was amazing. Fascinatingly so. It surpassed agony and went right into dissociation. Nothing since has compared, despite years and years going by. Peak pain has yet to be surpassed. My friend's newborn child? The pain of starvation of milk being 2-3 minutes later than expected is their greatest agony.
Some things hold up to time, but many do not. Nostalgia wrongs you, and confirmation bias wrongs you. People like to remember that good, the forgettable is... forgettable. So when you remember, you're remembering the notable things. You ever notice that "best of the 70s and 80s" music has, like, 100 songs max on the playlist? More than 100 songs were written across two decades. Most of them trash. But you remember the good. Then you hear the good, remembering it, confirming your thought.
There's a lot of trash out there. But there always has been. Twenty years from now, people will be playing Despacito, Uptown Funk, and Happy as Best Of 2010s, and think that all the "was in top-200 for one week" songs in 2030 suck compared to them, forgetting those are literally the highest rated songs of this decade and they're comparing them to random side works.
Many things have been cheapened, but many others it is just your human nature failing you. It is important to distinguish which is which.
Economic deaths: Starvation, suicide, mental illness-related issues, alcoholism, drugs.
Non-economic deaths: Untreated illnesses due to not going to clinics when they should have out of fear of the coof, improper-mask-use-related respiratory diseases, riots.
Other factors: Elderly-subject ailments create a "reaping" effect that front-loads deaths. As the average age of Coof-deaths is 82, and the average age of death is 81, there will be large amounts of elderly deaths, but then no more elderly to die, so death rates in the coming year or three will be lower as a concequence of the reaping effect.
There is no doubt that the death rate will be higher from a reaping effect ailment and all those other factors. And not like Heart Disease went away during lockdown. The number should be higher than prior years. The question is if it will bounce back to normal, in which case virus deaths were grossly misreported, or bounce back to much LOWER because of that reaping effect, which is what would be assumed to happen if the virus was indeed reaping those over their estimated death dates as is reported.
Factcheck: False. Russia and China do not need to deal with "ZERO" of it. Several of their intelligence agents are forced to deal with it day in and day out while they take active part in spreading it through America.
"Breeders", such an insensitive term. Don't they know that some of you Front-Holers are infertile?
Yeah, "Front-Hole Owners" was my favorite dehumanizing term they tried pushing for women.
It overall wasn't bad. A LOT of peace deals were brokered. Compared to minor things like losing a vacation or letting one of your local businesses shutter because you don't want to support them, approaching world peace is a pretty strong "plus" side.
Be careful though, last thing you want is to be arrested for pot possession while protesting.
Auto-loading mechanical pencils can make errors ten times faster than standard wooden pencils. In some jurisdictions, we let children use these things! Won't someone please think of the children?!
I love science, it's the scientists who worry me.
That's sad. Mostly because the problem can fix itself easily, but few will make the leap: In places not dominated by identity politics, the only color that matters is the green in your pocket.
When I was a kid, many moons ago, my friend group looked like an after-school cartoon. A black woman, an asian woman, a white woman, a white man, and a native man. No one cared about race or origin. We were just that, a group of kids playing. It takes indoctrination in identity politics, to make that seem like a problem. There was no hierarchy, no oppression. The class was 35 people, there was no need for this combination to congregate. We were friends, we fit in together because of that simple fact.
It takes identity politics to make a group of people, bonding over something NOT tied to race, an issue.
Rust is very specifically oxidized iron. If you saw someone boiling water with a heavily oxidized and corroded copper-nickel kettle, and you said "hey mate, get a new kettle, yours is rusty", you'd be incorrect: Rust is an easy, quick-to-say scapegoat for degredation of metallic objects. There's a high chance the person will fix the problem, without ever having known the key core information about the problem and/or science behind it.
...But they still solved the problem.
It is easy to say "China asshoe", for sure, but not a lot of people do. Biden's policy is "kiss China's asshoe". Driving the influence of Chinese authoritarian communist dictatorship from North America would not actually address the problem, because as per Yuri Bezmenov, the problem is Russian in origin from a half-century ago gone wild without even their influence anymore, becoming its own beast, but if you DID drive out the existing fetishization of authoritarian communism in the name of "China asshoe"... The world would be a better place.
And as you said, if not China, others would take its place. If China disappears tomorrow somehow, somewhere else will take its place, including its place as scapegoat. And then we'll say "Zimbabwe is asshoe", or something, for the same problem.
Externalizing an internal problem isn't good, but if it allows you to address the problem when you couldn't when it is internalized, then it's infinitely better than nothing.
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It's not a secret code or anything, there's a Know Your Meme page (albeit a very sparse one) for "In Minecraft Threats". This is hardly eldritch juju lingo.
"In minecraft" is a meme that originated I believe on YouTube, but it could honestly have been any major social media site. Many people got banned for voicing violence or threats, even indirect hopes for pain of others, like "get in a car crash" (not "I am going to crash your car", but an indirect act of god) were, and are, enough to be banned in many social media sites. One wise ass caught himself making a threat, and added an addendum: "I'm going to kill you... In minecraft."
Which is perfectly fine, you're just discussing game mechanics, so no bannings. Which led people to do anything in minecraft as a threat. "I'm going to force-feed you poison... in minecraft.", "I'm going to push you into a pit of lava... in minecraft."
Long story short, "...in minecraft" has been used as a meme to evade Terms of Service of many websites while uttering things that could be conceived as threats.
On this website, however, there's a large number of nerds, so I assume they're actually talking about minecraft. It's a fun game. All about building and creating, industrializing and whatnot. Good theme.
You're missing like four layers of tax evasion.
An art dealer buys ten works from an artist for, like, ten grand total.
They sell one to another art dealer for 100k, then buy it back for 100k: 100k profit, 100k loss, 0 tax on both sides. But now it has been sold multiple times at that price, so clearly, that is fair market value. Then, they donate all 10 art pieces to a charitable organization, like ActBlue. They claim 1 Million in donations. ActBlue then sells the painting to a museum for 2.5 Mil, because it was a "charity" drive so it was mildly overvalued. But as a charity, they pay no taxes on this gain. ActBlue, of course, then funnels the money to the DNC, as per their charitable organization mandate.
The Museum curator then claims administrative expenses for handling this 2.5Mil painting pile, the money sourced from the government.
There's your cash flow list. The artist gets near nothing, the middlemen get massive tax deductions, and the money all funnels back into Power's hands.
If something fundamental doesn't make sense, it probably doesn't make sense.
Remember, at one time, we assumed the orbits of planets had little loop-de-loops in them, which required a huge number of theoretical things, because we had a flawed base assumption of geocentricity. Phlogustion is another one, we thought the universe was cooling down at some fantastical rate, but then counteracted by some inner flame, not so much.
At its core, physics is "simple". In the same regard that fundamentally at its core, the internet is a pile of 0's and 1's. Little, basic, reasonable rules, which add up together to make complex existence.
But models predicted planets in our solar systems, we knew orbits didn't make sense, and so measured out reasonable assumptions of planets and even comets, based on heuristic indirect observation. Dark Matter is a placeholder, or it should be, on par with "gravity well sphere somewhere way out near the Kupier Belt" placeheld exoplanets.
For viewership context, for a screening of the Phantom of the Opera, I've seen 50k people waiting.
I've seen people who react to anime openings, who get orders of magnitude more people waiting on a premiere than Biden. Biden's remarks as an inbound potential leader of the not-so-free world (and at the least an ex-Vice President) ranks about 1/10th as popular as "Reacting to all Naruto openings" by some rando.
"We know it is highly unusual to have 827% voter turnout for the electors, but much like voters, it happens, I guess!"
Fun fact: Jesus said that the rapture would be soon. He said soon not as in "Y2K", but as in while the people around him were alive.
Every generation since then has believed that any minute now, boom, rapture.
Every generation since then has been wrong.
Maybe you will be right. Who knows? But billions have been wrong making the same assumption, maybe you should, you know, actually follow the teachings of the bible instead of waiting on a salvation that may not come for millenniums to come. If you missed the train because it did happen 2000 years ago, you better get making this place a better place, because you're stuck on it. If it hasn't happened yet, what would God say upon that Day, God who left this Earth with us as the custodians, if you let everything fall apart because you were fatalistic about some rapture?
"You could say I'm putting tax dollars back in the hands of the people, if you get my drift... Tax Dollars is the name of my penis, you see." Would have been better than "I was hacked!", literally anything would be better than "I was hacked", the only thing transparent about his governing is his lies.
If there isn't a suspension bridge, it isn't worth building up for.
Only if you tell other people how to do it, you're a counselor, now.
"Time", an interesting word. By postmodernist intersectional standards, it's a White construct. Source: Smithsonian Museum.
Greenpeace and the ALF conserve things radically. Wordplay, I know. But it is entirely possible to be radically conservative. "Those who change, die. Progress is regression, any who seek to alter the world shall leave it." would be the mantra of such a person.
They're also postmodernist. A philosophical movement dedicated to the destruction of understanding and knowledge. Core to that, is to degrade and devalue language as a concept. Definitions are vile to them, because a definition solidifies value and meaning, when their entire existence's purpose is to remove value and meaning from life.
Unfortunately for her, pretty sure the proposal to repeal Civil Rights in Cali failed. Even places that drink SJW Corp on the daily (look it up, it's a real thing, San Jose Water Corporation) thought it was too big an ask.