If it's all propaganda and nothing happened, then why the fuck is China so draconian about preventing any and all conversation about it?
I mean, if it was all made up lies, certainly they would want people talking about the truth of the matter, rather than banning and prosecuting anyone who dares mention that it was anything other than a normal day.
Now, some people might see this and easily be able to tell that something stinks and clearly there is something they are trying to cover up. We call this "Not having the critical thinking skills of a dead goldfish"
Do they? I mean, I'm sure some people do. But some people also think shoving chili peppers up their anus is pleasurable. We don't go around saying "People now think shoving hot peppers up their ass feels good.", because while it's technically true, it's disingenuous considering how few people fit into that category.
This is the answer. Cocaine says fuck all your social anxieties and awkwardness, you are going to have a passionate conversation with those around you and it's going to be hella engaging.
It is the greatest loss of human knowledge that we know of. Certainly the largest in the last 4000 years. It puts the burning of the Library of Alexandria to shame. Entire civilizations, and the sum of all their knowledge, gone. Wiped out. Practically erased from history. The Aztecs had a full writing system and a long recorded history, all burned to ash by the Spaniards just for the hell of it; only scraps remain.
Do we even have a CSAM problem on the internet? Like, I'm sure it exists, and should (hopefully) go without saying that CSAM is 100% horrific and disgusting; but to me, it's not exactly something that I see running rampant. It's one of those things I feel like you would have to intentionally go looking for on the deepest, darkest corners of the Dark Web to find.
I just keep seeing all this anti-privacy legislation come up in the name of stopping CSAM. And yea, again, 100% in agreement that CSAM is awful and those that create/share it deserve hell. But... Haven't we already kind of taken care of it? I know the majority of these legislative arguments are BS anyways, and the people arguing don't actually give a shit about kids online, but the arguments don't even make sense anymore.
As a parallel, take bigots who argue against LGBT rights. Their arguments are usually disingenuous and clearly pushing an alternative agenda; but even those lunatics have stopped trying to claim the reason for their hatred is because gays are all diseased and full of AIDS, because most people are well aware that, not only is AIDS not limited to gay people, but AIDS itself is far less of an issue than it was in decades past. Like AIDS is still a terrible disease, but we kind of have it under control at this point and it's silly to talk about as if it's still a crisis.
Do we even have a CSAM crisis that warrants any of this? Even in the heads of those too dumb to realize these things aren't about CSAM at all?
Shrooms might be out of your system, but there can definitely be after affects that come about hours after you think you're "done" tripping. Anecdotally, it happened to me. Took some shrooms with friends one day, had a great time, came down without issue. Later that night (roughly 16-18 hours after the trip) I experienced something that broke my psyche for a while.
I won't go into details, but I 100% believed I got sucked into a horrible alternate reality and was trapped. I wound up jumping out an open window on the second floor to "escape" and had a full on psychological breakdown. After several days of ego death, I decided it had to have been residual effects from the shrooms, because I just don't think I can accept the alternative.
Granted, that is not a full 40 hours like this pilot. But before my experience I would have told you it's not possible to have hallucinations from a psychedelic hours after the trip had ended. Psychedelic's literally make new connections in your brain, it's not like those all just disappear when it leaves your system.
Part of me agrees with this, part of me thinks that these people are too far into the weeds to know what's possible. Change brings chaos. And when you're at your stressful job with a shitty machine that you are constantly trying to keep running, eventually you reach a point where the thought of turning off the machine is unthinkable.
From an outside perspective, it seems obvious. The machine is bad. We should get rid of it and try something different. But that concept is terrifying to the people who work on the machine. Turn it off? But they've spent years learning how to work with the machine! They know how to sometimes get the machine to do what they want! If they replace the machine with something else, what if they can't figure out how to work the new system? Maybe someday they can replace the machine, but right now? In the middle of everything else? No, no, far too risky. Best to try to keep working with the same old machine.
Ok, but only to an extent. Prisoners 100% get fingerprinted. Not sure if they collect their DNA too, but I wouldn't be at all surprised; to the point where I already assume they do.
I'll keep telling this story as long as it remains relevant:
A few years back, I picked up AC: Black Flag in a steam sale but never got around to playing it. Well, recently I've been trying to clear my backlog so I decided to install it and give it a play through, because honestly the game seems like it would be right up my alley.
Unfortunately, if you have not played the game on Steam before, there was an update at some point that makes the game unplayable. And I don't mean it's lagging, or there are graphical issues, I mean the game won't fucking launch. It will ask you to log into your Ubisoft account, and then once you do, nothing happens. If you launch the game again... It will ask you to log in to your Ubisoft account, and the issue repeats. Apparently this is a known issue with no fix. If you've previously played the game on the PC you're using, it will remember some settings and launch. But if it's your first time? You are SOL.
I was ready to dismiss it all as a joke, but Epstein's brother came out and said it wasn't about Clinton... But, pointedly, did NOT say it wasn't about a blowjob.
So while I'm pretty sure he didn't suck off old Bill, it's potentially true that he did give someone a blow job.
Lol, it's a bill dude. That's how bills work. The bill is called The Epstein Files Transparency Act. There is nothing special about this bill that would make it go straight from the House to the Justice Department. It still has to go through the Senate and be signed into law by the president before it takes effect.
You fell for the bait. And I get it, you're probably scrambling now, looking up the actual reality of the situation going "No... No, that can't be right... If that was how it worked then all this would be meaningless, and if this is all meaningless then why would every news site and social media board be talking about it as if it wasn't? People would have to be complete, ignorant, fucking idiots for that to be the case..."
Literally every wireless controller I have ever owned that used rechargable batteries could be plugged in while I was using it if it started to die. I would bet that 99% of wireless controller users have a power outlet at least somewhere near where they sit to game.
My cutoff point was when he started screaming at the old guy for blowing bubbles.