I have some around my house because I switched all of my cables to usb-C. I bought a six pack on Amazon.

No, just a topper. Less expenses and most people can keep their current mattresses which is better for the environment.

(I’m with you just brainstorming, lol)

I’m a veteran.

PTSD from combat and gun stuff.

I call the crisis line due to PTSD episode and panic attack.

Cops with guns drawn show up to determine if I should be committed against my will.

I have to fake my way through a panic attack to convince them I’m fine.

They believe me and leave me alone.

I wonder what the next steps are.

Fuck cops.

“Portion Craft” is supposed to be Potion Craft unless they have released a game about properly portioning meals for people.

I’m glad they are calling this out publicly. It’s helpful to know which awards aren’t worth considering.

This is a troll, or somebody so rude that they would give a passive aggressive answer like that. Either way it is worthy of being ignored.

The fact that the US government can hide or withhold information from its citizens that are not state secrets is mind-blowingly immoral. We need a fucking constitutional rewrite.

Look at this guy moving the goal posts. I travel through time all the time but now I have to be stable?

Fear.

I went down that rabbit hole when I was trying to understand why the far right was interested in supporting Israel while simultaneously being anti-semitic and working alongside Nazis. Most people in the middle or left don’t understand how crazy this is. Many members of our government are literally trying to enact some biblical nestradamus bullshit to bring forth the end of times as described in the book of Revelations.

I’m a liberal Jew so it took a lot of reading to understand what the fuck they wanted end times to come for, but I guess it is so that they are then saved? As a non-Christian this seems weird and obviously cult-like but here we are.

I’m a big guy and the burger king whopper Jr meal was my go to when I worked near one.

I don’t understand how the police can prevent public information from being released. They are just government employees and that is the people’s information. If it’s not classified due to national security reasons or a specific foia reason then this should be released without question.

I would bet there are reasons other than aesthetics at play. That’s the kind of paint you would want to use on your house in the Arizona desert, but I imagine driving by a bunch of houses with 99.9% reflectivity at the wrong time of day would be blinding.

Optimistically, this may be the discovery that leads to our future when everything looks like an iPhone.

100% is for me and my friend who tried it. I know how to lucid dream but I haven’t done it in 10 years because it is exhausting. I’ve never met anybody who actually knows how to lucid dream who hasn’t stopped for the same reason. You never hear of anybody doing it constantly.

For those interested, I just summoned something to read in my dreams. Magically operating a newspaper wasn’t enough to clue me in but not being able to read it was what made me become lucid. It took about 2 weeks of practice before I was getting more aware in my dreams.

Ah! I was wondering how such a seemingly simple hose had a corner on the market. Apparently it’s not a simple hose at all!

Watch out every company I deal with. Even my utilities can’t give me an answer of where the extra fees are going.

If I am a small business and I advertise one price and sell it for another. It’s called bait and switch and it’s illegal. If you’re a big company, they have to write special rules for you I guess.

It’s illegal to “collect” this data on US persons in the first place. Like fundamentally constitutionally a problem.

The US government has paid a lawyer to say that it is not collected (even though it’s sitting on their servers) because it is not in human readable format. But they can change that and grab your data at any point. You become a protester or somebody who is politically disadvantageous? Well they can reach into their history of " not collected" data that they have… problem solved! Oh, a family member was killed by a murderer? Sorry we can’t look in the database of information that we have to find out who it was. That’s a secret…

Welcome to the US department of Veterans Affairs.

Remember all of those guys with Gulf war syndrome whose doctors told them they were faking it until they killed themselves? Ends up. They were exposed to nerve gas and doctors aren’t trained in that. Oopsies!

The same is happening within the VA today. Too many of my friends have killed themselves.

Border patrol agent Manual Alvarez IV got qualified immunity for assaulting me while I was in handcuffs between being booked and being interrogated. That certainly wasn’t part of his job.

Also, I was found not guilty because you are allowed to protest the separation and detention of children at the border. So it wasn’t part of his job to arrest me either.

Qualified immunity. Now that racist, fuck is just in a different part of border patrol training and leading the other agents. This is how poison spreads. This is why all cops are bastards. You either pluck these people out of the system immediately or accept that you have corrupted a system.

I agree with you and have studied this from my role as an intelligence official and former interrogator. The lawyer who prosecuted the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials stated that the real problem wasn’t the evil but the apathy of the masses that allowed a few evil people to do big evil things.

The fact of the matter is that human reactions to certain information are well known from our centuries of study of propaganda and marketing and psychology. At this point it is easy for the government to manipulate messaging so that the people are misled enough to allow evil.

It is the simple stuff and even smart people are influenced by it over time. It is a well studied phenomenon. No one is immune. For example, Trump saying that he has the most transparent government ever while specifically taking away rights and doing things in secret.

The propaganda tool has been efficient for our governments, especially since the advent of the internet. Also, keep in mind that roughly half of the population has a two-digit IQ. Some people will never admit that they are dumb and therefore will never admit that they have been deceived.

The fact that US citizens are scared to stand up to their government because the government police will abuse them shows where we are as a society. We are deeply fascist and the illusion of democracy hasn’t been functioning in Congress for quite a while. The illusion of the checks and balances has worn thin as well.

So I agree with you. Our society is diseased. But it’s not necessarily the faults of the individuals.