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  • i mean

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  • ... or a better knowledge of your own anatomy and how angles work.

    Thats like 4 to 4 1/2 inches to get to the Z button.

    If your girlfriend can tickle your pickle, you should be able to uh, handle the plunge here.

    Just relax, and say 'Ahh'.

  • i mean

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  • Goldeneye and Perfect Dark both actually have a set of control schemas...

    Where you play with two of these, at the same time.

    As well as a number of different one handed configurations, that essentially make it possible to play those games with hands on the left and right prongs, left and center, or right and center.

    You may or may not find some of them wonky, but ... yeah, it was a perhaps needlessly versatile design, though also very innovative, though also a bit weird.

    I'm pretty sure it was literally the first home game console controller with an analog stick, an actual true analog stick, not counting joysticks with huge bases and a button or two.

    This is also the same era where the early Mario party games had minigames where you were supposed to spin thr control stick in a circle very fast.

    So uh, beyond that being terrible for the controller...

    A good number of kids figured out that you can just grip the center prong and then palm the stick, move it much much faster... but also tearing through your own hand and giving you blisters.

    So Nintendo stopped putting those kinds of minigames in Mario Party, and basically issued a health advisory telling people not to do that.

    https://www.cnet.com/culture/nintendo-offers-glove-to-prevent-joystick-injuries/

    ... Apparently they actually got sued.

    ... and offered to give the injured parties... gloves.

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • No it isn't.

    Be a better parent.

    Or, better yet: Don't have kids you aren't capable of raising properly.

    If this all sounds too complicated, you aren't a capable parent.

  • Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'

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  • No, we would not win an invasion of Taiwan.

    Realistically, no one would, it would probably basically result in either a nuclear exchange or some kind of mass infrastructure denial kind of attack, around many parts of the world.

    But uh, we only have usually about 3 carrier groups in/around China/Taiwan at any given time.

    And... our wargame scenarios only look maybe/probably winnable for fending off a Chinese invasion of Taiwan... if we have all of regional our allies to rely on.

    If they are all against us, we lose badly.

    China has more missiles and aircraft than we can hope to overcome without allies.

    If... we were going to... do, what, a marine / paratrooper invasion... of Taiwan...

    Where in the fuck would we stage that?

    Okinawa?

    You can't move the numbers of troops needed to do an invasion of Taiwan without a lot of people noticing... and we'd immediately become enemies of all the places we could launch the assault from, if we somehow did manage to move a few hundred thousand infantry without being noticed.

    Like, it took us around a year to move everything over the countries neighboring Kuwait and Iraq, back in the Gulf War.

    You can't just steam a marine invasion flotilla from Hawaii to Taiwan.

    Everyone has satellites. They'd see it. When we got near a staging port, world news would be going insane with 'wtf is the US doing with this armada?'

    This is why I said its like the dumbest possible thing we could do.

    We are pretty much guaranteed to lose.

    We could pull off something like that against smaller Central or smaller South American countries... not Taiwan.

  • Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead

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  • You are the one positing the idea the an underling clerk wrote it.

    I am the one saying its possible that did not happen and it was just written by, you know, the AG, the guy whose name is on the letterhead.

    The point of doing it advance is to have it ready to go when the time comes.

    And sometimes, plans change a bit, and he accidentally forgot to remove his early draft.

    This really isn't that hard of a concept to grasp.

    Our entire convo chain stems from me saying 'maybe it was not a clerk that wrote it.'

    You seem to be incapable of considering this, conceptually.

  • Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'

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  • The US could occupy any country on earth (maybe not China, without some Roman level war crimes)

    Hahaha, no.

    The US could invade maybe two countries with a GDP around 1/4 ours, and actually persistently occupy them for maybe a few years.

    Our economy is crashing extremely rapidly, we've functionally lost the ability to build new warships or aircraft in anything approaching a timely or affordable manner... and, because we have decided to tariff and threaten or militarily attack basically everyone everyone...

    All of our supply chains for a great deal of our fancy schmancy military tech doesn't work any more.

    You cant build complex guided missiles and computer chips and sensors that aim them or night vision goggles without access to a wide array or rare earth minerals, most of which China basically has a near total monopoly of.

    We don't have the native industrial base to build anywhere near everything we would need to, to actually autarkicly sustain our own war machine.

    ... we can't even feed or house our population at a reasonable cost anymore, our internal infrastructure is physically falling apart, and our cybersecurity is beyond laughably comprimised.

    There is no way this country would 'win' trying to occupy Taiwan.

    China + Japan + SK + all of goddamned SEA + potentially even Australia vs US = we fucking lose hard.

    We may be able to get away with some neo-Monroe Doctrine bullshit for a while.

    And keep funding genocides in the ME, and doing random airstrikes and spec ops shennanigans in poorer countries.

    Thats about it.

  • Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead

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  • This recent analogy is completely unlike the scenario we are talking about.

    You are talking about an independent bad actor who is making requests and attempting to do alibi construction via independent organizations that they are not a member of.

    The scenario with the pre-dated Epstein letter is potentially an 'inside job' kind of scenario, where the bad actors would be members of the organization that would be facilitating the crime.

    It would be more like a jewelry store owner hiring a stick up man to rob and then torch his place so the store owner can collect an insurance payout on his otherwise failing business.

    And then the jewelry store owner has a drafted up version of the insurance claim paperwork that is dated to the day before the actual robbery and arson took place, because the stick up man he hired has to delay 24hrs at the last minute.

    So then the robbery/arson occurs on the 10th, the store owner goes back to his insurance claim draft, moves the date forward a day, saves it as another file, then submits that to the insurance people.

    ... but, a subsequent law enforcement investigation into the entire thing finds that the jewelry store owner actually forgot to delete the old draft of the insurance claim, dated to the 9th, prior to the robbery and arson.

    Writing the report in advance makes you look guilty even if it wasn’t murder

    Correct.

    The document with the August 9th date we are talking about was not actually released by the AG office.

    It was discovered to exist during the subsequent FBI investigation into the entire event/affair.

    As in, they had this drafted up, you know, oddly, suspiciously, but did not release it publically, because that would indeed have been odd, strange and potentially incriminating... but they also forgot to delete it.

    Which, by your own logic, makes them look guilty.

    Yep.

    Uh huh.

    That's... the entire point.

    From the article:

    The document released by the US Department of Justice in the latest set of the Epstein Files describes Epstein being found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in Manhattan, where he was declared dead.

    However it is dated Friday, August 9, 2019, while prison records and official document show it was not until August 10, 2019, that a corrections officer delivering breakfast found Epstein unresponsive in his cell.

    Here is the document that actually was released to the public, dated August 10th:

    https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/statement-manhattan-us-attorney-death-defendant-jeffrey-epstein

    And here is the seeming early draft of it, dated August 9th:

    https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%25208/EFTA00013180.pdf

    ... these links are both in a high level comment that our own conversation descends from.

    Please familiarize yourself with the actual details of the case, detective.

  • Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'

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  • And potentially also SK, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, etc.

    It really would be like the dumbest possible thing the US could do.

  • Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead

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  • Well uh, as per my last email:

    ... sorry, lol.

  • [meme] New SUVs getting bigger and bigger: child seats now mandatory for drivers

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  • Goodness, 4' 11" certainly is short!

    Not to, like, height shame or whatever, but yeah, thats... just literally they would have needed a booster seat and like pedal extensions or custom pedals or something, to drive a modern giganto-truck.

  • Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead

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  • I would say "you'd be surprised" but you evidently are also a corpo or ex corpo, so... no, you wouldn't be.

    Yeah, most of your (ex)coworkers are in fact devious, petty, self-centered idiots.

    Yep.

  • Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead

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  • ... evidently the concept of planning a nefarious act is... a novel concept, for some.

  • [meme] New SUVs getting bigger and bigger: child seats now mandatory for drivers

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  • The point is roughly the same as the point of Rogaine, or Viagra.

    The entire market demo of modern 'trucks' is shooting for 'make driver feel like big fancy manly man.'

  • [meme] New SUVs getting bigger and bigger: child seats now mandatory for drivers

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  • Danke!

  • Absolute disaster, RAT backdoored through WINE. Assistance with Docker

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  • That all sounds like a pretty good diagnosis/evaluation to me.

    You got got by somebody.

    But do not spend any more time trying to investigate with the aim of like, determining the culprit.

    You need to act defensively.

    See my other comment.

  • Absolute disaster, RAT backdoored through WINE. Assistance with Docker

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  • Take the smoke break.

    You're not nuts.

    But most people think you are, because they are morons.

    You do actually have to calm down though, or you'll end up in a psych hold, which is probably highly undesirable if you now no longer have immigration type paper work.

    Think of it this way:

    You are a crisis management and resolution reaponse team of one.

    Seems like everyone else involved in your network, wherever you are living, is an idiot, as well as the cops you've talked to thus far.

    Sounds like you're probably also making backups and records of everything you can, which is good.

    Now, what I would suggest is to do an inventory of what kinds of documents you lost, which can be replaced, which can't.

    The ones you can get replaced, start the process of getting them replaced.

    Calmly.

    Put out whatever the equivalent of a credit freeze is wherever you are, for... basically everything.

    Banks, any kind of ID that's tied to you and/or your physical address... you're gonna need to contact all of them, try to explain what's happened, tell them you've already contacted law enforcement, give them a name or number of something so they can liaise, and also take you more seriously.

    Again, you have to do this calmly.

    It also probably would be best to show up to as many of such places as you can, in person, to explain things, with the physical IDs and such you hopefully/presumably still have.

    Again, calmly, cool, collected, resonable.

    ... This is all gonna take a while to iron out.

    A marathon, not a sprint.

    Eventually, what would probably be ideal is getting new bank cards, new/updated IDs, new phone number... but do not try to change everything all at the same time, otherwise their own internal systems will flag you trying to recover from an identity theft as you potentially doing fraud.

    You can come out the other side of this ok, but you must maintain your composure.

  • Couldn't have said it better

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  • Ow my brain.

    Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?

  • it's a long distance relationship

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  • Shhh you'll upset the quantum mystics that need to believe magic is real!

  • Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'

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  • Oh my god.

    That really would be the cherry on top of this goddamned clownworld timeline.

  • [meme] New SUVs getting bigger and bigger: child seats now mandatory for drivers

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  • Do you know if the name has some kind of double or joke meaning, in German?

    Uh, nicht spreche deustch, or something.