God it’s going to be kind of true, we still have some hidden chambers to crack into and they probably have some “ancient knowledge” but the knowledge is going to be like “did you know our king is actually descended from the gods?” And “you deserve to be buried with these slaves, remember, only certain people go to heaven!”

Like the ancient secrets they consider important are going to just be nonsense to us.

I’m wondering if it’s why I don’t get so much as a rejection email for many of the jobs I’ve applied for. It always feels like submitting an application is just tossing it into the void but this study seems to corroborate that.

Yeah, people talking about proportional representation seem to turn a blind and eye to the Senate, which has had principled socialists and libertarians in its seats. It’s not a healthy state of affairs, but if you wanted to send a message to the Democrats theres a proven way to do it in house and Senate races, trying to make big swings at the presidential level is just idiotic and betrays bad faith.

Idk what you mean, those all seem like pretty major spoilers.

Idk where you get your info from. There is sound science, not just anecdotes, about the benefits of drugs for enhancing cognitive performance. Like I said in the comment you responded to, it doesn’t cure dementia or anything.

I think it’s propaganda that tells people stimulants just make people “more jittery” or “appear anxious”. Then if people take the drugs they can rationalize it by saying, “oh if I was normal then maybe stimulants would just make me anxious, but cocaine actually helps me focus and get my work done, or calms my nerves.” Which is true for everyone the first many times they try stimulants.

Cancer says maybe

No, the drug Olympics gives them downers too.

Cucumber is the best for thirst, yellow is the best for hangovers, orange is good sports drink. Dark blue can suck a dick and the rest are fine.

I think it’s always been a fight by producers to reign in the power. Right now there’s a huge shakeup to the industry and almost no one has figured it out so the industry falls back on “safe” money tied up in producers and companies. If anything this shift should be better for independent creators as the Internet allows for more of a democratization of resources so it will probably swing back.

Also, I think this is probably a classic problem of confirmation bias, cause we have plenty of studios producing cheaper movies, A24 comes to mind. A lot of great directors and writers are taking risks on high-budget streaming series, people like Apple, Amazon, and HBO are throwing wads of cash at 1/2 season flops that are cool ideas, some of which hit big.

On top of that, we look back with rose-tinted glasses at the “glory days” of film when directors had more power than studios etc, but I would bet a lot that pound for pound the industry wasn’t nearly as proportionately experimental as it is today. Maybe we’re in a lull compared to recent years (maybe) but overall the trajectory is pretty steadily upwards.

You didn’t answer the question.

How on earth would what I said imply that Al Jazeera knew that October 7th was going to happen lol. There’s been threats of war between the two for decades.

If Elon musk got cancer and spent 5 years fighting it before succumbing to it people would claim that it’s mysterious circumstances.

They don’t make you smart or cure dementia, but used sparingly and at the right moment they can make you act at your best for a few hours.

I like the take that science fiction and fantasy is just a better form of fiction because you could take literally any fiction story about a mopey 30 year old who has to take care of their sick parent and a science fiction story has the potential to write an equally compelling story except this time there’s a killer robot on the loose or they’re on Mars or something.

All good stories are human stories, even science fiction. There’s nothing inherently better about setting your story in the “real world”.

https://youtu.be/ql5_q_33wqY?si=S04ScBNiNe5ecI1p

I’m sure al Jazeera would have said the US has been trying to prevent an Israeli-Palestine war before the conflict happened. We can see what happened with that.

“Queen fans” is a perfect double entendre here.

I will be returning mine (the steering wheel desk)

Lol

Wife wants coke, a brick of hash, bottle of pills, some meat and some sausage. Kid wants a sandwich and some ciggies.

I never thought about it but #2 is probably a huge one. They see their local business man make it through COVID with 3 false PPE loans and feel they missed out. Or they hear about the corrupt construction company owner in their town and they don’t blame them they just want to get a piece of the pie and they don’t know how until they’re told about sovereign citizenship.