CoffeeJunkie @ CoffeeJunkie @lemmy.cafe

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There's a lot or fishy things about that day. SS was...incredibly incompetent....but the photo op thing wasn't their idea, at least it appeared that Trump was arguing with them to stand up & break free. SS surrounding him didn't seem to approve of photo op.

Then there's the shots that rang out, and the casings on the roof. SS cleaned up the shooter's corpse, the scene very quickly & they would not answer how many casings were found on the roof. There were 8 shots, IIRC? Then in follow-ups, they were pressed "how many casings were found on the roof?" And they never fucking answered. You can watch them continuously deflect. They must know, they have the answer, they don't want to say. Answer the goddamn fucking question.

Very. Fishy. Indeed.

I also wondered that, but honestly man there's almost no fucking way. 😂 That was a very real bullet, that went through his ear, and killed the man behind him. Combine that with all the different random-ass factors others have mentioned with the ludicrously small margin of error. Turn your head at just the right time or fucking die.

Combine that with the shooter being a random child that looks like he had fetal alcohol syndrome, that's the "man" carefully staging a very near-miss shooting. 🥴 I mean FFS, look at his face. I wouldn't trust him with a complicated McD's order, let alone shooting at my fucking ear and not killing me. 😂

The only way it was staged was if you could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump was very willing to die & become a martyr, which frankly I think he's not against if it came to that, but it's very clear the man loves life/living. Trump doesn't want to die.

One must entertain the notion that maybe this was intentionally perpetrated to bring about those laws, disarm the general populace.

Could have been a lone gunman psycho.

Could have been a planned event, psy-op.

Will need to know which states, precisely. Because I don't think that's how anything works. This is a pure fictional hypothetical with made-up rules.

It probably isn't hard to buy a black market gun, though; the laws don't seem to stop the lawbreakers. Look at Chicago. 🙄

Mmm idk, personally I know a selfish POS that killed himself a few years out of college. Then again: every rule will have its exceptions.

It appears that CHIPS was kept, but revamped.

I'd have to look into it more, but my gut tells me the CHIPS act & 'Build Back Better' was filled to the brim with pork & bullshit. You'd have to parse through, line by line, and take out all the shit. And hope all the changes get passed & implemented, and of course you're still touting the worthless name of a project that your people hate that you didn't even create. Or just blindly trust your opponent's judgment calls & let it roll through, based on "just trust me, bro". Nooooo thank you. Why bother?

With stuff like this, it tends to be easier & more expedient to take it behind the shed & shoot it. Replace it with your distinctly different, branded equivalent.

However. If this is true, it appears that Trump didn't fully raze the CHIPS act & merely revamped it, is taking credit for it. Like you said. CHIPS must have been pretty true to cause.

Probably just lean super heavily on Taiwan, and Taiwan is also pledging to build a chip factory in the US. Georgia area, IIRC.

Batteries fucking suck. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em....but they're always saying we're on the cusp of an exciting new battery technology. Lately, they're touting the idea of better, more efficient sodium batteries with all organic components.

While obviously it has a ways to go to reach working parity with lithium, there are also some big pros when it comes to safety & the ridiculous availability of sodium. If we can switch to sodium batteries, China takes a fucking massive hit.

Well, then broadcasters might be beholden to the whims of the government. Certain content might be promoted, and other content suppressed.

Fellow Zeducation viewer

.......I mean......personally I'd be down for it, I really would, especially if it's made into idk some kind of luxury experience like bathhouse/coffeehouse with WiFi. Idk just dress the shit up out of it.

But I think with all of America's social issues & gender fights, random bullshit problems we create for ourselves, it would only be a matter of time before someone, somehow, is discriminated against. Files lawsuit. Sues the ever-loving shit out of the bathhouse. Bye-bye bathhouse. Between the "gay" stereotype & the sue-happy culture, your sentō is all but doomed to fail. Unfortunately.

Unless you could lawyer up & make a sentō that is somehow impervious to ridiculous, frivolous lawsuits.

It wasn't men (or COVID ) that gave rise to the term "loneliness epidemic". This issue is older than you realize. I lived through this, I would say mid 2010s this issue was being discussed (but only occasionally) based on men isolating in the late 00s, early 2010s and/or killing themselves. Deaths of despair & such. "Male loneliness epidemic", "loneliness epidemic" were solidly PRE-COVID TERMS coined by the researches studying these men. Men were "doing the thing", it was prevalent enough to get noticed, and they're like hey, this is weird, this is happening a lot. It's an epidemic.

This is a 2017 Harvard blog post...article...thing. 'The power and prevalence of loneliness'. It mainly deals with old people but especially concerns men. While I don't see the term in the article itself, it popped in a search as: "The epidemic — and health dangers — of loneliness".

This is a 2018 article from Church Leaders (lol), "The Epidemic of Male Loneliness". Basically word for word.

Psych Central Dec 2017, epidemic of male loneliness

The Walrus, 2018, epidemic of isolation among young men

Stanford, 2017, Loneliness Epidemic talking about men

April 2018, male loneliness epidemic

March 2017, HuffPost

March 2015

December 2017

Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc....etc. Just do a web search specifying article dates & you will find a plethora of male loneliness epidemic articles well predating the start of teh covidz.

I think woke mind virus is more modern, probably making the scene during Trump's first term somehow. I can't quite remember.

I would argue terms like "epidemic" & "pandemic" are simply building on older terms used to describe social phenomena. Like "fever" has been used in that context forever.

Getting the consoles into the eager hands of people that actually play them & don't sell for profit. 🙂

Idky you got downvoted, you are correct.

These metrics are very much public, sometimes bragworthy/touted, and yes while technically a little creepy it does effectively deal with the scalper problem.

I hate shit that must connect to servers & cannot be played offline. As Louis Rossmann says, this begs the question -- do you even own what you bought & paid for? Or is it a license they can take away next time you come online?

I love Nintendo, I also have so many fucking gripes about Nintendo, but that's not one of their flaws. I have always been able to play all their stuff offline with no problems whatsoever. 🙂 That should be the norm, but it isn't, and Nintendo is exceptional in this regard.

Yes, if your battery posts are corroded to shit you just stick that thing on there & twist it around, rub up & down, and it cleans the crud off.

Once the battery post is clean & connection made, I'd recommend a protective spray or even a nice, thick layer of petroleum jelly. Keeps it nice. 👌

It shouldn't affect their operations much at all, but it might act as deterrent for people to join up or continue. Or keep evidence just hanging around.

It's hard to fully cover your tracks. Even harder to deny when you are successfully traced, then you are found to be in possession of things related to the crime. Like Luigi....wtf...he kept the 3D printed gun, he kept the manifesto, I mean step one you dump, destroy evidence.

And at lower prices! Idky they feel the need to talk shit now, they don't have much to stand on. 🙄

Sorry about your car! I hate that.

In an age where people are prone to feeling isolated & alone, for various reasons...this, unfortunately, is filling the void(s) in their life. I agree, it's not healthy or best.

No, I basically get the same read as OP. Idk I like to think I'm rational enough & don't take things too far, but I like my car. I like my tools, people just get attached to things we like.

Give it an almost human, almost friend type interaction & yes I'm not surprised at all some people, particularly power users, are developing parasocial attachments or addiction to this non-human tool. I don't call my friends. I text. ¯°_o)/¯