Same here. I get nauseous playing most first person games so I miss out on a lot. The only thing that sometimes helps is if the game lets you slow down the camera movement.

Is it true they paid people to see it? It might be a joke, but I heard they were giving out free tickets plus $50. And people were required to stay for the entire film in order to get the money.

The article stresses that baby boomers worked hard for their money, but they didn’t really work hard. They just worked. Boomers were in ideal work situations that many of us can’t even imagine.

It was possible for them to get decent white collar jobs with just high school degrees. And they got decent pay and good benefits that everybody talks about, but today we work in skeleton crew situations where one person is forced to do the job of multiple people.

There are often situations at workplaces today where four or five people will quit, and they don’t rehire anyone to replace them. They just expect everyone to take on more and more and more responsibility.This did not happen when baby boomers were working. There were ample people working.They had large staffs and everybody had specialized jobs.

Boomers often worked in very relaxed workplaces that operated at a much slower pace than the workplaces we have to deal with today, and some of them would even drink at work socially during lunch. They got long lunch breaks. They had a lot of these types of daily benefits that we can’t even imagine.

Of course, I’m overgeneralizing a bit. It wasn’t like this for all baby boomers and some of the trade type work like in factories or plumbing or repair stuff could be kind of grueling. Restaurants were always an exception too. I’m mainly talking about white collar, middle class jobs in offices. These jobs were in abundance too. They didn’t have to fight for them the way we do.

So pardon me if I roll my eyes at how hard the baby boomers worked. Some of them did, but a lot of them had it pretty easy. They were literally spoiled by their parents and their society, and that’s why they act like such selfish brats that are unwilling to sacrifice for their own children.

My two favorite films of hers were Nightmare Before Christmas and Best in Show. She was a treasure.

Hilarious. Just needs the Shout spell.

There was a study done that discovered people with vivid imaginations would imagine they were doing a certain task that they needed to do, and their imagination of doing it was so powerful that their brain checked it off as being done. I wish I had the citation for this, but I can’t find it.

So you get the satisfaction reward for accomplishing your tasks without actually doing them.

I think this mechanism explains some things.

Sugar too. delicious delicious sugar

In reality, it’s going to screw so much stuff up and do so many things you don’t want it to do, that you’re going end up spending a lot of time just correcting all the mistakes it makes.

And when you’re not fighting to stop it from doing more things you don’t want it to do, you’re going spend your time worrying about what it will do next that you’re going have to fix.

And unless you pay for the most expensive phone and the most expensive tier of service, they’ll probably dumb it down on purpose and your life is going be hard.

She’s a keeper. You’re lucky. She’s letting you know what irritates her, and how to avoid aggravating her again and also providing a way to make it up to her. This is the way to a harmonious life.

I love mosaics and this is a stunningly beautiful one. I stared at it for a really long time.

I don’t know much about it, but people online have been talking a lot about how expensive it is now to buy memory. They were saying that it’s so expensive that doing pc gaming wasn’t really going to be possible until the prices came down. Is this not the case?

If they’re so desperate to get people to switch, why don’t they sweeten the deal? The PS5 console is still too expensive. It’s ridiculously expensive for an older console. They could at least include an extra controller or other accessories.

Instead, like every other evil corporation, they’re about to use the stick on us by making things worse to try to coerce us into buying something a lot of us can’t afford.

Me: Is there milk?

AI: You’re absolutely right to ask if there is milk, you’re not crazy, you’re not paranoid.

Me: Why did you bring up crazy and paranoid? I’m just asking if there’s milk.

AI: I’m using a psychological manipulation technique called presupposition.

Presupposition refers to the underlying assumptions that must be accepted for a statement to make sense. It operates subtly, influencing how people interpret information without their conscious awareness. For example, saying, “I know you’re busy, but can you help me?” presupposes that the listener is indeed busy.

Presuppositions are powerful tools in persuasive communication. They shape the listener’s thought process, guiding them to conclusions without direct assertions. This technique is often used in advertising and political discourse, where implicit messages can be more effective than explicit statements.

Well, sharkfucker420, I think your time has come to be the hero this world needs.

That’s pretty much exactly what the Antichrist would do.

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Don’t let them bait and switch you with an apartment.They might show you an apartment that’s in really good shape and act like that’s the one you’re gonna get, and then they give you a different one that is not in good shape, so make sure that the apartment you’re looking at is the exact apartment that you’ll be getting.

Also, don’t skip this one, talk to the neighbors. I know it’s awkward and you’re not going to want to do it, but it’s really the best way to get information. They will tell you how things actually are.

“The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (1984).

“The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.”

Did anybody call the St Paul police? Were the police already there on site? What is happening to residents when they call the emergency number? Are the dispatchers telling them what to do? This is missing from the news story. Why isn’t npr asking these questions? Where are the police?

Why are the police in Minnesota, in this case St. Paul, why are they not doing anything? Couldn’t they at least require ICE to produce a warrant, and if the police would put themselves in between ice and these innocent people and ice had to arrest or tried to arrest the Minnesota police that would totally change the game, wouldn’t it?

Could you imagine how insane that story would be? It would make the trump administration look really awful to have to justify police officers being arrested by ICE. There’s never been a better opportunity for the police to rehabilitate their public image.

At the very least, the police could be there recording what’s going on. In this particular case, they could have documented how ice took this guy out to the middle of nowhere and were taking his photos.

Ice would be behaving very differently if the police would get involved and be willing to get arrested, that would be the hero cop. The police unions would get involved and it would totally change the game.

If just one good, hero cop put himself or herself in between ice and an innocent American citizen that police officer would become famous, and they would be known and written about in the history books for bringing America back from the brink of totalitarianism.