BillyClark

A few days ago, I did something that I thought would 100% keep me from sleeping. It wasn’t cringey this time, just a big mistake that I should have known better than to make.

But I had a plan and I carried it out. During that day, every time I thought about the mistake, I just tried to let it go, similar to what I practiced in mindfulness meditation. But I was having a problem doing that while just doing my normal thing, so I tried listening to an audiobook. I thought that would engage my mind enough so that I couldn’t make such a strong memory of my mistake, and it all seemed to work.

Anyways, for most people who don’t have serious trauma, I think this is a problem you can work at and improve your sleep.

In Japanese, the common word for star, “hoshi” also refers to planets. So, clearly, this comic was translated from Japanese.

Amazon Prime Music already had a major enshittification in its past. It used to be that it was essentially a catalog of music that you could listen to and make playlists and such. Then they changed it so that you couldn’t exactly listen to the songs you wanted to, and instead you had to listen to the Amazon playlists or stations and your only real controls were the shuffle button, as I doubt the “like” button really did anything.

To be fair, there are problems with speed cameras that we’ve seen in the US, so probably similar problems exist in Canada. For example, they’re often outsourced to private companies, and there are privacy and accuracy concerns. Local governments with access to speed cameras can make a lot of money from speed traps, and so they have a financial incentive to make the road harder to drive on, when they should be making roads easier to drive on. People sometimes see speed cameras and slam their brakes, which can cause all sorts of problems.

Usually, the better way to control speed is to design your roads to naturally be a certain speed. Some ways you can do this is by controlling the width of the lanes, the length of the lines in the lane dividers, and the curve of the road.

The exit polls showed that Beto won the vote for the Senate race among native born Texans. So despite all the bad stuff people say about Texas, it’s really all of those immigrants from other states that are ruining Texas.

And Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in Texas. There’s a good chance that if he leaves office, he’ll be arrested by federal authorities soon afterwards, you know, if there’s not a corrupt person in the White House. Paxton was impeached by the Texas legislature unanimously.

So, Paxton has kind of shot himself in the foot by being so openly corrupt. Hopefully it will be enough.

Realistically, a platform where you can delete your own questions so that they disappear for everyone isn’t the best platform for technical support communities. But a platform where you can’t delete your own posts is not the best platform for for a lot of other things, like privacy.

Two use cases without overlap seems like a good argument that there should be two different platforms.

There have been cases where tap water was so polluted that it could be lit on fire, so it’s not quite as impossible as you probably think for there to be a “water fire”.

Well, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. They’ll say left side, right side. Front, back. Locals, people who traveled from far away. Guys, girls.

It’s just a way of increasing audience participation. Maybe the audiences in Europe are just naturally more fun, and so they don’t need all of the prompting from the stage?

There’s our perp, boys!

Whenever I see this sort of thing on TV, where they call out the criminal from fairly far away, and then the criminal inevitably has all sorts of time to run, I always think, “There’s no way police actually do that. If they just walked up beside the person first, it would be much harder to run away.” But I don’t know. Maybe police do it in real life, too.

I don’t think there’s any link to Europe, unless I missed something

Maybe in Europe they don’t do that thing at concerts where they ask only part of the audience to shout out?

Although I’m guessing they do that in Europe, too. My guess is that the person asking for an explanation just doesn’t go to concerts like that, and so they think it’s an American thing.

I know nobody here would, but if you put water on a grease fire, depending on how much oil there is, it will explode in a huge fireball.

This is because oil floats on water, so the water almost immediately sinks under the oil, but then, because of the heat stored in the oil, the water will also boil almost instantly. Because the water quickly turned into steam, it also expands quickly, which is an explosion, and all of that burning oil on top of the water will be flung in all directions.

That’s why you should never put water on a grease fire.

Also Yoda.

Trump never does anything, not even things that are part of his official duties as President, unless there is a quid pro quo, specifically, something that benefits him personally is involved.

I just find it ironic that so many people are willing to do all of these corrupt actions for Trump and as far as I can tell, they receive almost no benefit. In fact, for lawyers there’s a correlation between working for Trump and being disbarred.

Trump would never in a million years do anything like all of these sycophants are doing. I am sure that Trump thinks they’re all complete morons.

It uses two upside down nines because if it only used one upside down nine, it would say that it was exit 69, and everybody would be stealing the sign all the time.

Maybe the standard deductible increased so much that everyone can use free services to file the EZ version.

Edit: Article blames the decline completely on AI tax services.

The last time I looked, there were also legal casinos using a similarly transparent schtick.

What they do is that you don’t directly win money from gambling. Everything is presented as if it’s related to a sweepstakes, because sweepstakes are a legal version of gambling.

It works something like, you can pay to get entries in a sweepstakes, and I think you can even gamble with your sweepstakes entries to try to get more entries. Then because you entered the sweepstakes, you automatically win, and the sweepstakes pays out in fake money like gems. Then you can also gamble with the fake money. Finally, the casinos will buy the fake money from you using real money.

I may not have gotten this explanation exactly right, but it’s in the ballpark.

I don’t know what you read, if it was actually truncated for you, but there is an entire article. It’s just that the article’s actual content is “Did you know Steam has porn? Here’s a few porn-related Steam anecdotes.” The part specifically mentioned in the title, though, is just like you said, it has no more information than is in the title.

I think they are saying that more information on that topic is in the linked non-free Bloomberg article.

I’d say it’s their most effective direct tool.

But if you count indirect tools, I think the propaganda out there is more effective. There are school districts where somebody on the school board encountered a bit of propaganda, and then before you know it, the school district is choosing on its own to censor their own libraries of things like LGBTQ+ materials.

You’re technically right, which as we all know, is the best kind of right.

I do think that most people’s brains gloss right over the logical contradiction and act as if it said that nobody said “anything” rather than “nothing.”

But that is not what the meme actually says. Now that you’ve pointed it out, it’s obviously wrong.

That guy he’s arguing against, Parker, basically debates against random MAGA people for a living. I think I saw a comment from someone on one of these videos that he debates people for hours a day.

The thing that I think he’s exceptionally good at is rattling off a bunch of surprisingly relevant facts like he did in this video. I’ve seen many other people try to quickly rattle off facts in a debate like that, and they almost always either stray off topic or end up exaggerating so much that it’s become a lie. But somehow Parker manages to avoid those things.

Anyways, my point is that you’d have to be crazy to try to debate against Parker without knowing at least a few facts to support your point.