I’m losing track, but don’t they usually go good, bad, good, bad?
98 good, m.e. bad, xp good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad, so maybe 12 good?
Obviously I’m over simplifying and I skipped over 2000. But at least since 98 I feel like the trend has been pretty reliable.
It’s so frustrating to watch this regime try to kill the messenger. They are objectively wrong about so much. And get mad at the people who “point it out”. And so attempt to muzzle people who are factually correct. Which even if successful, is just going to mean they know less and less, and are increasingly wrong. Which will make them even madder, and muzzle more. Which will make them wrong even more. And so on. It’s the stupidest feedback loop.
It’s like they can’t drive, and rather than practice and learn, and actually become better drivers, they’re trying to change the roads themselves to accommodate their shortcomings. But they’re still going to be bad at driving no matter how much they change the roads. Meanwhile the roads are getting harder to use for everyone else. It’s only a matter of time until something really important catches fire and emergency services can’t put it out because the roads are all too fucked up.
I don’t know, tow trucks still use gas, so they may still suffer some knock on effects.
Happiness breeds self esteem, self esteem breeds confidence, confidence breeds learning. Education, confidence, self esteem, and happiness are all antithetical to fear and obedience. We’re much easier to rule if we’re stressed out. Plus, the real reason for return to office is real estate value. It has nothing to do with worker morale or productivity.
I bet he gets naked, covers himself in vegetable shortening, and jumps head first into an old well, never to be heard from again.
My personal, unscientific read on the CHE situation is that it’s mote likely a collection of common responses to anxiety/panic caused by being too high. I have no first hand experience though. But I can tell you that tye advent of things such as the Astropink Alien Brain, coming in at 500mg of thc in a single gummy, supports that we’re in unprecedented times potency and ease of use wise. That’s roughly equivalent to the THC of an entire eighth of flower in one go. I can easily see people biting off more than they can chew, so to speak.
Pretty decent timing with that orange bastard trying to leverage his office to assault among many others, Harvard specifically.
Smart people make things good, people forget what bad is, bad people take advantage of good people, bad people subjugate good people, good people do something smart, repeat.
In case, like me, you don’t/didn’t know:
The MOT test (or simply MOT) is an annual test of vehicle safety, roadworthiness aspects and exhaust emissions required in the United Kingdom for most vehicles over three years old.
The insidious thing about the small dick energy is that it isn’t about the efficacy of the unit. They don’t care that they “can’t” provide pleasure (which, let’s just not dig into that for arguments sake, but I would contend the existence of lesbian sex sort of contradicts the whole correlation of dick mass to pleasure output, let alone the whole can of worms that is all the other miriad of genital and gender configurations). They view sex as transactional, performative, superficial, and perhaps even competative. It’s all about them. Even if they had a supreme dick, they couldn’t weild it. They’re stunted, and frightened. They don’t understand even basic communication, which I would argue that sex is at it’s core, just a type of communication. That kid in class that mocks the topic because they don’t understand it and that frightens them? So they try to tear it down and belittle the topic? Those are the kids that grow up to drive these trucks, and evidently run nations.
The perspective I subscribe to is that access and abundance has outpaced the average persons ability to choose. By which I mean, their talent at choosing. An overall inability to make quality decisions. I would say the issue really grew some teeth in maybe the 50’s and has been accelerating more or less exponentially. The art of exploiting this inability to choose first starts getting real traction in the evolution advertising. Getting people to buy cans of beans and cigarettes was the larval form of a much more sinister science of mass manipulation. The internet definitely threw gasoline on the fire. And now no one knows what is quality, or true, or nutritious, or sustainable, or important. The average person is completely overwhelmed and operating on a low-level fight-or-flight type reasoning. Unfortunately I don’t think there is a short term solution. People need to start learning at a very young age explicitly how to not be a mark. Which is antithetical to the wealthy and politically connected people whose bread and butter is hoards of unscrupulous consumers of products and rhetoric.
Obama, of course.
He himself is a walking talking terrible consequence.
I’m not super familiar, but I believe it was based on a book?
15 - “It Ends With Us” Worldwide gross: $350,986,018 Reported production budget: $25 million
14 -“Twisters” Worldwide gross: $370,962,265 Reported production budget: $155 million
13 - “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” Worldwide gross: $397,378,150 Reported production budget: $160 million
12 - “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” Worldwide gross: $404,544,199 Reported production budget: $100 million
11 - “Gladiator II” Worldwide gross: $406,644,901 Reported production budget: $250 million to $300+ million
10 - “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” Worldwide gross: $451,100,435 Reported production budget: $100 million
9 - “Venom: The Last Dance” Worldwide gross: $476,368,152 Reported production budget: $120 million
8 - “Kung Fu Panda” Worldwide gross: $547,689,492 Reported production budget: $85 million
7 - “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” Godzilla in " Worldwide gross: $571,750,016 Reported production budget: $135 million
6 - “Wicked” Worldwide gross: $586,301,620 Reported production budget: $150 million
5 - “Dune: Part Two” Worldwide gross: $714,444,358 Reported production budget: $190 million
4 - “Moana 2” Worldwide gross: $820,990,553 Reported production budget: $150 million
3 - “Despicable Me 4” Worldwide gross: $969,126,452 Reported production budget: $100 million
2 - “Deadpool & Wolverine” Worldwide gross: $1,338,073,645 Reported production budget: $200 million
1 - “Inside Out 2” Worldwide gross: $1,698,765,616 Reported production budget: $200 million
I think the threshold may be: adapted from comic book equals hero movie; adapted from novel equals sci fi.
I’d rather have low T than low reading comprehension.
Bach on organ in general, specifically BWV 565 reliably makes me cry. Also Max Reger’s Introduction And Passacaglia In D Minor.
And then on the other end of the spectrum, I once got some really bad news while listening to Pantera, and now I’m afraid to listen to them out of superstition. But that’s not really applicable here I suppose.