But, and hear me out, if the people that were constantly freaking out and terrified all of the time were to chill a little bit, the world would improve dramatically, almost instantaneously.

We are in a period of time where calmness is the most vital thing for our leaders and for the people.

And if you can’t make it yourself, store bought is fine.

And of course, the calm trooper suffers from premature ejaculation.

It’s always the calm before the storm

I think the only charge that would stick is impersonating an Oblivion NPC.

I have never had my amygdala scanned so I don’t know where I sit.

I know I am very liberal/leftist as far as politics go, and I don’t really care about the differentials of definitions of those terms. It just means that I am anti-conservative and pro freedom, and I don’t care what the correct word for that is.

But, that being said, like, most of the time I’m pretty calm, but when I am not calm, it is very, very difficult for me to regulate my emotions, even as a full-grown adult.

I typically have to lock my body and everything to keep from reacting yelling and screaming and everything when I have powerful emotions.

I’ve gotten very good at that, but it is always painful and a struggle to not react based off of the emotions of the moment for me.

I’ve been saying this forever, but, like, these people really need to go back and reread Chicken Little. They’re getting Fox News, getting scared, and reacting based off of what Fox is telling them, and not what the Chicken Little’s are telling them.

The sky is not falling.

Take a deep breath, calm the fuck down, and chill. Everything’s okay. As long as we stop freaking out.

Not me being constantly told that I lack common sense when the reason why I’m being told those things is that I believe that people have value and should be treated with kindness by default, or that things can get better.

If your common sense does not include those things, I don’t want to have anything to do with it.

Not if you’re a police officer with the backing of a judge

Criticism is no longer enough. You need to go in and physically attack the people that do these things, and then, battered and bleeding, throw them into prison and fire them.

You’ll only have to do this like ten times and the rest of ICE will take notice that they can’t fuck around and violate constitutional rights.

Of course, they conveniently overlook the fact that no material is strong enough to withstand Superman’s maximum energy output, so there’s a lot of wasted potential left on the table.

So he ran 13 consecutive four minute and twenty something second miles.

That is nuts!

That’s actually a very good catch.

I didn’t think about the word antecedent, but I would say that there is a slight linguistic difference between an antecedent and a prosequence.

A prosequence is a sequence of events, whereas an antecedent doesn’t have to necessarily be a series of events.

For instance, in order to have a sequel to a book, you have to have the original book. The original book would be the antecedent of the sequel, whereas the prosequence of the sequel would be writing the first book, which led to the series of events that caused the second book to be written.

So every prosequence would be an antecedent, but not every antecedent would be a prosequence.

That being said, I am just making up words, so if the world disagrees with my definitions, then the world gets to choose what they prefer, because that’s how language works.

Just like the creator of the word GIF pronounces it as JIF, even though everyone knows its GIF.

I gave myself seven years because they’re typically only warrantied for five. It’s a new technology that basically puts an air conditioner on top of the water heater, and instead of blowing the hot air outside of your house, it shoves it into your water.

Even though it’s built like a tank, there’s always the chance of early failure because the system is far more complex than “electricity through resistive coil makes heat” like normal electric water heaters.

Yes, Vimes.

Nah, go hog wild on it. Eat an entire box of high fiber cereal and then go do naked jumping jacks.

I think that would be presequence.

Pro means on behalf of or forward, so a prosequence would be something that pushes the sequence forward, a prosequence would be something like, “you know there is a bomb that is about to go off, and if you do not dismantle it, your child will die. So you must attempt to defuse the bomb at the risk of your own life”.

The knowledge of and opportunity to act to defuse the bomb is the prosequence that has led you to this point.

It could also be something like you were walking by a gas station and your hand started itching, so you went and bought a lottery ticket and won the lottery. The itchy hand would be the prosequence that pushed you towards winning the lottery.

If you live in America, you should definitely check with your power company. There are a lot of initiatives that will give you $500 off a hybrid water heater which will decrease your power bills in exchange for a slightly larger upfront cost.

Mine cost $1,600 after the discount, but my power bill dropped ~$35 a month, and it spits out enough cold air that by having a fan in the basement I can cool my entire house throughout most of the summer without using my HVAC at all.

Which means that if it lasts seven years with regular maintenance, it will have paid me at least $35 * 12 * 7 - $1600 = $1340 to own this water heater.

It’s literally the *Vimes Boots theory in practice, but for water heaters.

Because I had the money to buy the more expensive higher quality item with new technology, I ended up getting to have more money in the end.

I mean, yes, but in this case, it’s really difficult to find human beings to experiment on. “Let me inject this experimental chemical into your tumors and see what happens” is not exactly what you want to hear when you’re fighting off cancer.

I think they only appear as part of a bargain in exchange for your magical energy.

So it’s not so much magical sex slavery as it is magical prostitution.

Given that in the 80s and 90s it was well known that Trump had ties to the Russian mafia, it may not be a Chinese plan, or at least not a 100% Chinese plan. It might be a coalition of China and Russia working to destroy America and American politicians being bribed into going along with it.

I understand liking AI stuff, but calling it art, I think, is deceptive at best.

I think art requires the intentional minuscule effort of a human being in its foundation. And AI is like other art that has been ground into paper mache and then plastered into the shape of something that resembles art rather than art itself.

While the case could be made that if a human being did that, that that would be art, the fact that a human being did not do it is the reason why it isn’t art.