Oh I've been there for 30 or so years now. It is and isn't unfortunate I guess. Just sometimes I feel like a contrarian asshole around people. I usually just have to keep my mouth shut and opinions to myself.
I don't know a ton about the religion. I always kinda rejected it when we were forced to go. From my understanding without doing any research right now... Basically it's their version of the rapture. 150k or so of their "chosen" disciples will get into heaven and the rest are said to have heaven on earth. Which the "worldly" people (as my grandmother referred to them, people outside of Jdub's) would be wiped off the planet. So not far from other crazy Christian fantasies, just with the added flair of shunning your own family members if they leave the organization.
hahaha so accurate. I was born without fingers and grew up as a Jehovah's Witness. They'd tell me I'd have fingers once the "new system" comes along with all this other made up garbage. Parent's divorced around age 13, mom got dis-fellowshipped and shunned. Once I was old enough to take Earth Science and learn about the universe and age of everything. Something finally clicked like, "oh they're all full of shit."
Never looked back. I guess the unfortunate side effect is, I don't believe in anything at all anymore.
That doesn't make it better. So she paid money to somehow get seated at the same table as Putin and Flynn. If you find yourself at a table with that asshole and you don't relocate, you're asshole too.
People don't even look at AI generated photos for more than a second. "Oh neat, next." SO much wasted electricity for instant garbage. One decent AI image has probably a 100+ shitty ones that are just wasting GPUs and hard drive space. When those drives are full and old they dump them and then fill up some more. A mountain of invisible shit wasting our resources.
I'm pretty sure they technically are but no one cares enough to stop their sale. Obama banned "vape flavorings targeting children" which all of them seem to be. I've only seen them for sale in vape/tobacco shops. Places that get regulated, like gas stations, aren't carrying them. At least around where I am in the USA.
Steam requires devs to place it right before the system requirements if they use it. Pretty big print, pretty easy to find. You can see it plain as day on the Black Ops 6 page.
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