A lot of your posts make me feel like I’m missing a lot of very specific context.

The feds blackmailed and jailed some of the most respected members of the community. That’s kinda when it fell apart.

• Step 1: Figure out why you’re not doing thing.
• Step 2: Take steps to address the reason why you’re not doing thing.

Seems simple, and in a way it is, but in other ways it can be very difficult.

On step 1, I recommend first researching the term “maladaptive daydreaming”. Seems relevant to what you’re describing.

Bah! Ok, yeah. That’s super annoying. Hopefully they move uncharacteristically fast for you.

You sure deleting your cookies wouldn’t fix it?

Very possible it wouldn’t, but it’d be the first thing I’d try.

Just like there was no agreement the last dozen times he said they’d reached an agreement. I’m beginning to think the man may not be entirely on the level.

(/s)

Because white folks already stole everything else from Native Americans.

In my efficient capitalism?

(/s)

I was on a trip as a kid (probably… I dunno, 9 or 10 years old?) with my family. The hotel had a pool and the family brought me to have a swim. (They didn’t swim, just sat around the pool while I swam.)

It was just us at first, but soon another kid about my age showed up with no parents/supervision. He sat down on the edge of the pool at the deep end and dangled his feet. He conversed a little with me and my family, but otherwise was just there hanging out. He mentioned in passing that he couldn’t swim.

But then suddenly he was in the pool, thrashing and struggling.

My parents honestly had no idea what to do. One ran to grab the life buoy. I don’t remember quite what the other did.

But my swim lessons training kicked in and I did the thing. Jumped out of the pool, ran around to the side of the pool right where the kid was struggling, laid down on the ground next to the pool, and stuck one arm into the pool for him to grab. Worked just as well as my old swim instructor indicated it would.

Once he had me to hold him up out of the water, he was fine, of course. The rest was just a matter of helping him out of the pool.

It was after that that he revealed he had an ostomy bag and wasn’t supposed to be swimming at all, deep end or otherwise. (It was a hospital town and I got the impression he was in town to get some kind of treatment.)

We made sure he got back to his room safely and all.

That’s pretty much the whole story. I don’t know that he’d have died had nobody been there. And my bumbling parents probably would have figured a way to help him even if I wasn’t there. But he had a better chance of walking away from that by virtue of my (admittedly very rudimentary) swim lesson training.

And it was really dramatic being part of it.

LLMs aren’t capable of doing any better. The only reason you or anyone might think they are is because of aggressive marketinggrifting by the very few people in a position to profit by convincing the world LLMs are basically the main ship computer from Star Trek when in fact they’re more like ELIZA.

Username checks out.

If we come up with something in this thread, I’ll be here to corrupt its meaning by misusing it.

Why? Does fungus need a reason to give you jock itch?

Because Democrats are less petty?

Copyright is bullshit, but the only thing worse is assholes like Zuck getting away with what’s illegal for everyone else.

And even if the lawsuit wins, you know the fines are a) going to be paltry b) mostly not going to go to those affected… which is everybody, basically.

Just respond to everything they say with “sorry, I’m not into Pokemon.”

I can’t see your private or personal messages.

Same reason why The Matrix 4 is the best Matrix movie.

It’s downright laudable to “steal” from major corpos. Whether it’s ethical to steal from a mom and pop shop is an “it depends” kind of situation. (I definitely know of small local businesses in my area that are run by absolute shit-bags.) And punishment isn’t the right way for society to deal with antisocial behaviors among its inhabitants. (Not that stealing (particularly by a pro-capitalist’s definition) is necessarily “antisocial”.)

Pardon me while I go change my name to “Starbuck Washburne Atreides”.

There are definitely gas stations out there selling rotisserie chickens. I’ve never seen it. Never specifically heard of that being a thing. But there’s no way there aren’t any gas stations out there somewhere that are.