Okay so you reached back 40 years and found an event where the government made 250 people homeless and killed 6 people.

Using a bombing raid.

Let’s see what I can find in the other column …

Oh look, a few weeks ago the government of Myanmar killed 30 civilians

So by reaching back to May I was able to find a massacre, in a country with a civilian weapons ban, five times larger than the on you found by reaching back to 1985, in a country with an armed populace.

Do you suppose they dropped bombs on these civilians?

So far thar’s two data points. Shall we continue one for one comparing the massacres of unarmed populations to those of armed populations?

In the circles I follow, it’s called The Ten Demandments

I learned this the hard way for myself.

I’ve lived on the street defending myself against violence, and growing gnawingly more hungry every day, and dealing with sleep deprivation from always being moved along.

I’ve also been a senior software developer at a company that broke promises to me, and I smiled and ate that shit for the money and also to “grow up” and be less naive and idealistic. Also, I started breaking promises to them too.

When I lived on the street I was happy and whole, despite the discomfort. When I was working that dev job I went to the hospital twice with stress-related issues I thought were going to kill me, and separately, shelled out over $7k on neurofeedback training to reduce my beta wave amplitude and cut down on my panic attacks.

That learned me good. I am done sacrificing my integrity for any material comfort. It simply does not work. My body was suffering despite the cushy conditions around me. I was uncomfortable in my own skin, and not in a trivial way. I was fucking ill from that.

Long story short, I realized the reason to stand up and face the cavalry is that it hurts less to die fighting than it does to die running away.

Have you asked him?

My bank account’s biggest limitation is my brain cycles.

We (US) could run the program from our embassy. Unsure how we’d help them get money though. Can the US embassy in SK permit people to work for US companies or something, to open up a portion of the market for these people to legally work?

I guess I’m not so clear on what portion of their fucked status is coming from law, what’s coming from culture, and what’s just the desperation of total poverty as a result of arriving with nothing.

Is it difficult because airlines and whatnot won’t carry them, or because the receiving country won’t let them immigrate due to being “stateless”?

Are they stateless in a way someone coming from Bolivia to the US isn’t, because NK’s outside of some globally-recognized state system? I’ve never considered this before.

May your microwave’s beep volume increase 1% per week indefinitely

A beer. I live in a movie.

It would be a very large undertaking to describe the changes since hidden breeding cycles are one of the things that separates humans from other apes.

Human women being able to choose when and with whom to mate, secretly, is one of the most significant aspects of what it means to be human.

Humanity is one of the few species whose evolution is primarily driven by sexual selection and not just the “I survived long enough to find a female so I reproduced” strategy we know of as natural selection.

Actually, since the placebo effect is well documented to have an effect, anything that induces the placebo effect is effective.

I understand how that’s inconvenient, but that doesn’t make it untrue.

“We believe this stuff prevents infections”

“Silly savages, it works but not for the reason you think. You see, it kills microorganisms, thereby preventing infections”

“That’s what I said”

“You didn’t say microorganism”

“I speak Aramaic!”

Have you been to Burning Man?

Right now it is a beautiful day in Denver.

My favorite charging spot had a car there when I arrived, but the driver walked up and unhooked it the moment I arrived.

No it doesn’t concern me. I have no illusions that the top of society is full of people with unfair power over me. And it’s relieving that the law finally reflects the reality of the situation.

The only thing worse than a nightmare is a nightmare with lipstick on.

Exactly! He needs to find himself a more compatible partner, but she’s lying and preventing him from learning this.

Supreme Court makes Biden a king!

See how that works?

Why?

How about: (334/365 … 335/366) years

I’m pretty autistic, so you’re not allowed to write this off as “people using magic communication I can’t understand because I’m smart” or whatever your model of the current situation is.

When a person says it is not a parent’s job to protect their kids, you already know what it means. It’s right there in your three bullet point.

• dont get into strangers cars
• dont let strangers into the house
• look both ways when crossing the road

If a parent’s job were protecting their kids, these would read:

• Don’t let your kids near roads or cars
• Don’t give your kids control over the door
• Don’t let your kids cross roads

Like, if I was given care of a dog for a week while their owners went on vacation, and my job were to “protect the dog”, I wouldn’t be putting the dog in any of the situations where its own choices were the source of its safety.

Are you ready to stop pretending that you don’t see?