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  1. Vegas64

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  2. @DDD Dad for an old guy, you represent us well. Your gif and response game is 20 years younger than you, at least. ++++rep
  3. I said this Friday after seeing the picture of the kid in his bedroom before we knew anything about anything and I'm going to look into being an FBI detective now:
  4. I go through a 16 and 17 year olds phone from time to time and I 100% agree. Suspiciously (or, er, suss) there is a lack of ngl, lowkeys, and weird abbreviations that don't even seem to be about saving time typing out the full word like, js, fr, lk, etc.
  5. Israel was brazen and we cosigned the document. How you can't see that means you aren't following or you are being dishonest. Now, to whether in the end it will TRULY matter-- hard to say. The emergency meeting of the region just wrapped, I expect we would have been behind the scenes kissing rings and rears and apologizing profusely for the last 72 hours, so maybe we can just take the slap on the wrist, lost a couple aura points to Qatar and KSA, and rebuild it later, idk. But I don't think it happens again (I don't think we let it happen again, that is to say) and I think Trump gets to keep the Qatari AF1 and we all collectively move on, because as the bonesaw should have told us out back, geopolitics in the Middle East calls for a lot more broken eggs than the usual omeletes.
  6. Joe Rogan was a big fan apparently (I did some searches of his videos) and it does seem he was quite the wit. The english accent is always worth an extra half point too when it comes to public intellectualism IMO.
  7. Qatar is one of our best allies in the region and we have a great relationship and a rather substantial military base and presence in the region thanks to Qatar. Their continued friendliness is an asset and to brazenly burn relationship equity is foolish.
  8. Are we dutifully lionizing Hitchens as an orator? Serious question because the only thing I remember about him was his writings; his book(s) and his prolific essays. I remember him being a wonderful writer and his Vanity Fair pieces, but can't say I actually remember any debates or oral vehicles. Granted he was firmly in pre-smart phone world I think or definitly in nascent social media/video era.
  9. What seems to be (from outside looking in, you can tell me if I'm way off base), but it seems to be this is a teen male dominated thing (e.g. incels, groypers, gamergates, etc.) and it's not very typical for teen girls to get wrapped around the black pill dystopia chronically online axel.
  10. Yes I think we had knowledge. I am inferring that from these provable facts: This summer we defended against Iran's bombing in Qatar. We have the defense technology to shoot down. Last week we did not defend against Israel's bombing in Qatar. We (still, 4 months later) have the defense technology to shoot down. It logically follows that we, in some form or fashion whether explicitly or tacitly, a) had knowledge and b) allowed for it to happen. If Qatar wasn't pissed, that is what would be weird.
  11. You can't be serious. That is not correct.
  12. I mean I literally said that it's like crowdwork for a comedien-- complete with an imbalance of power and rhetorical and logically flourishes. That's why I said "literally".
  13. But it's also part of being active in a teens life and understanding where they are putting their time and energy and sort of foolishness is going on. To be fair, I did plenty of foolishing things in my day (as I am sure you all did) but this is the flavor of foolishness and arguably the results and consequences of teen foolishness has never been more dire and unhealthy. This stuff can intersect with the "why are kids so intolerant" discussion tbh.
  14. And 6-7 is fairly self-explanatory if you've ever spent 10 minutes around any teen for the last 6 months.
  15. That’s literally exactly what I said, right?
  16. I’d heard of lookmaxxing because doing the mewing chin thin became irl meme ( a la 6-7) with even normie teens. my grandson told me the one common denominator with incels is male height. If you are tall, even if you are an awk teen, they hate you and call you Chad and tall boys look forward to the glow up.
  17. Dear God, I'm sorry. But yea, we checked our teens phones every other day. They got sneaky, but generally hard to get into a bad rhythm and pattern that truly radicalizes you when there is a monitoring protocol in place (and cell phones and laptops where checked in before bed in a central location).
  18. I believe you because based on another post were you put us on to some underbelly and subculture stuff, you seem like a guy who is in the know.
  19. Maybe we are saying the same thing, but....there is a floor salary/price that comes with autonomy, mastery and purpose generally and hourly wage roles don't qualify generally.
  20. same with the bold, and I agree, it definitely felt like what he did was akin to comediens who do crowdwork. He clearly retained a position of power and advantage and had tools of the trade (rhetorically and logically, speaking) to move the debate as he wanted. I think the reason he was so good was because he was articulate and an excellent communicator (and quick thinker). I saw one video where he drew an even more provocative distinction in that he's not university or college educated and they, the bumbling speakers were. But these are kids and he was an adult with heavy experience speaking. ETA the parallel to crowdwork and what he was doing:
  21. Short term, sure. Automony, mastery and purpose (AMP) seem to be the long term "nutrition" that motivates us; money (generally more external) motivations seem to be more like sugar, short bursts of satisfaction that go away over time. https://web.archive.org/web/20121014122304/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-reviews-drive-the-surprising-truth
  22. Studies have shown that's not exactly true.
  23. Now do climate change / sustainability policies... just kidding not the thread for it, but it's the same thrust of what you are saying. And because these things are seen as corporations perfomance, like I described, it's a signal to not take it all that serious and just wait it out until the winds shifts again. The only thing that really matters is the 10-Q
  24. Because I hadn't been touched by the algo before he died, i searched out a bunch of short form videos and from what I can gather, he was basically a really articulate (truly) thinker and speaker who reasoned with logic really well extemporaniously (at least, relative and compared to young college students) and defended his conservative positions well.
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