It happens to be true. We can brainwash ourselves into accomplishing great feats. What was that dumb book, The Secret, something like that? About imagining good things into your life? Take away the foo-foo and it works.

Keep telling yourself you will accomplish a thing, your brain starts working to make that happen, whether you believe it or not in the moment. It’s along the lines of talking someone up, granting them success they haven’t earned. Say someone has anger issues, telling them how nice it is that they’re always so calm makes them live up to that. Works a charm on kids.

Obviously you can’t win $1M on the lottery that way, no bending time and space, but you could say, “I’ll be in a position in life to make $1M.” Helps a lot if you write it down, lots, daily.

Always held that LSD works for so many mental issues it that it lets you take your brain out and rejigger it.

Nah.

Circular logic is a self referencing fallacy.

The Bible is true because the Bible says it’s true.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a thing that becomes true because of a belief.

I’m never going to get a date.

If one believes that, it will almost certainly become true. This works for positive beliefs as well.

I’m going to score a big job this year.

Telling yourself these things often leads to taking action to verify the belief.

Racist Field Trip gets me laughing fit to cry. Would have killed to be in the room when he was telling the story. Guys in the background about to piss themselves!

I think they mention it to weed out the liars. Insecure dudes will show up 6" shorter than advertised. (And woman 100lbs. heavier.)

I did quite well at online dating and I think it’s largely from having honest pics, and a wide variety of them, and having an amusing write up.

I’d move things around right-wing politicians to spell out “666”. This would be my full time job.

Got the idea imagining if every MAGA hat, flag, sign, etc., suddenly got a burned vignette edge with 666 in black gothic lettering.

I’m definitely the dominant one and have had sex with 50+ women. I’d love to try being the sub now and again, and I’ve tried, but the women I’ve slept with just aren’t into it.

Gods bless 'em, a few have tried, but none have ever nailed that “I own you and will fuck you any way I please!” dynamic. They want to be the one fucked any way I please. Maybe they selected me for my dom groove. No idea.

Job before last, HR actually arranged some fun shit. Being a cynical bastard, and having always hated HR, I was disinclined to go. But fuck me, it was always fun. Most events were during work hours, but the first one I attended was not. Takes some skill to put something fun together like that.

Not working out: Going from being completely flattened to the 4th largest economy in the world. Fucking failures.

Damn you’re smart! To let the rest of us know how smart you are, I have a few questions you can answer for us:

Explain how fewer young workers can produce enough in taxes to run the country.

Explain how a dwindling tax base will support the elderly.

Explain how to avoid an economic collapse as fewer and fewer people require fewer and fewer goods and services.

Some of y’all have the economic understanding of an angry 15-yo.

Namecheap is the best I’ve found, can’t see ever changing. The few times I needed support I got outstanding technical assistance. One case was wildly complicated, with the issue clearly on their back end, didn’t have much hope. Explained to a rep, on a late Friday night, she said OK and went offline for 10-minutes. FIXED.

Damned shame as he was one of the finest actors working.

Here’s the part where some numbnuts will stop to explain, “Not all Jews!” Yeah. We get that. But the Jewish state of Israel, which was founded as a safe haven for Jews, is genocidal as fuck. And who makes up 75% of the population of Israel? Could it be… Jews? Where do 50% of the Jews on the planet reside? Could it be Israel?

And for stating a few unarguable facts, I expect a ban. Maybe I could very sheepishly, on the down-low, suggest that only a radical, very tiny number of Jews are, perhaps, maybe partly, just a bit, guilty of genocide, or at least, are collaborators and supporters?

FFS, no one has the balls to say out loud, “Not a good look guys.” <-anti-Semitism

Sincerely:

GenXer who had always supported Israel and had less than zero beef with Jews.

Said it the day Broadcom bought them, they’re going to squeeze the smaller customers out. This behavior is by design.

^ This is about all their is to say on the subject. Russia can’t stop, period.

Part of which was stolen by the OS.

How did I have no idea Harrison Ford was in that?!

Two neighbors where over yesterday and I was pointing out the insect loss I’ve seen in just a few years. They both had their mouths open in shock. “Shalafi, I never thought of that.”

We leave the porch lights on 24x7. Used to get filthy with bugs and there were tree frogs and salamanders camping out all night. Now there are none of the above.

Water is created and destroyed by biological and other process. Here go photosynthesis:

6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight energy -> C6H12O6 + 6O2

I’ve made water to cure heartburn:

NaHCO3 + 2HCl → NaCl + H2O + CO2

Burning wood (cellulose):

C6H12O6 + 6O2 = 6CO2 + 6 H2O

And crash his wartime economy? Well, yes, he does have the choice of blowing his own brains out, but most of us don’t consider that a choice.

Lemmy is big on making fun of “forever growth”. But that’s how the world has always worked, there is no ideal steady state. We Americans are within a couple of years of slamming into the brick wall of “can’t buy shit”.

Nothing will save us but straight raping the rich for what they’ve done to us. And since they’ve bought and paid for all the mechanisms to claw back even a morsel, too late. There will quickly come a time when they can no longer be their own best customers. We provide the labor, value and purchasing power.