Where is my grip on reality (not socially comfortable consensus delusion, but reality) failing?

Pretty much. They’re going for the pithy, stolen witticism about ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’ the bald guy posted. People who care more about getting the dunk on ‘bad’ people than helping them understand are just being selfish.

Take the cat. Be the Cat Protective Services the cat needs. Then find real friends who aren’t so delusional they probably shouldn’t be considered legally capable of giving consent.

Not what he asked, but okay.

One of the grand, society wide problems (at least in the English speaking world, my experience with other parts is limited) is the way in which people, in an effort to avoid hitting people’s feelings, and to keep things simple for children, have stretched the word ‘friend’ to gloss over important distinctions between different relationships.

In order to avoid hurting people’s feelings, they point at a coworker who they share memes with over the company slack channels and say ‘friend’ even though they never speak outside of those memes, they don’t know anything about each other, and they wouldn’t trust them with anything more meaningful than a meme.

In order to avoid having to explain the difference between different kinds of relationship (which they quite possibly don’t know themselves) to kids, adults point at the kid their kid shares a classroom with and loves like a brother, and the kid who puts their kid through mild physical torture on a nearly daily basis, and calls them both ‘friend.’ How is the kid supposed to acknowledge the difference they have no words for outside of making hand waving gestures How are they supposed to teach their own kids the difference if they don’t learn it?

English has the words friend, buddy, coworker, pal, comrade, ally, mate, classmate, bunkmate, playmate, acquaintance, companion, partner, associate, chum, bro, and more, but because people are too lazy, ignorant, or socially anxious, they all end up as ‘friend.’

It is possible to think of time as a ‘line’ with events strung on it like flags/tags.

Some people believe there are points at which events seem like they could result in different outcomes, like flipping a coin. They flip a coin and it comes up ‘heads’ but they can imagine a world where the flip came up ‘tails.’

Some people even think both the ‘heads’ world and the ‘tails’ world are equally real, just that people in one cannot interact with the other. Both worlds continue forever.

These are ‘parallel’ or ‘alternate’ timelines.

It’s already captioned though.

Here comes heat wave Aaauughh.

That’s probably a joke for legal reasons but I have to wonder how often someone like Vance thinks the phrase, ‘One little push…’

Not until after the trial.

Never seen that anywhere before. I don’t think your ‘we’ is the same as our ‘we.’

If this is the simulation the entity that is running it is ineffably more complicated than you can possibly imagine with your tiny simulation of a brain.

Mmm…

Pepperidge Farms brand is owned by the Campbell’s Company. Here’s an article about how they’re embracing AI.

Also, what is that… what appears to be a baseball, but green with red stitching?

Second. Someone did the United Healthcare guy already.

In the same way a lot of bullshitters are. He’d say 105 things a week, many of them being mutually exclusive, and then when one of the random guesses happened to have turned out to be true, he’d crow and preen to say he was right and play a clip editing out the parts where he’d said all the other nonsense.

I’ll keep pushing people towards the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective’s Tooth Seal because it feels like the most advanced piece of preventative dental care I’ve seen in years.

Stopped stress eating over the quality of her future care home

Corporate monkey’s paw curls a finger: everyone now works 4*24 hr days per week, with 18hr of off time between days, and wages now being handled as overtime exempt salary positions paying on a weekly basis what you were paid on average per normal week.