And Obama hired that Doc while Biden was VP…

He wasn’t an upstanding doctor up till Trump took office, then suddenly Pablo Escobar

known speech impediment

He had a childhood speech impediment. Overcoming those requires a concentrated effort, which we become less able to handle as we age.

Here’s Biden in 2008

https://youtu.be/eOombKZSsj4?si=hYe3kh-wkM2iemtY&t=1424

Here he is in 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxOldhJ7Sw

In a way what’s happening now is a speech impediment, but it’s re-emerging as he loses ability in the same parts of the brain that handle critical thinking due to the normal effects of aging.

I’m just tired of so many people writing this stuff off. Like, it took 2 minutes to find those videos and show he hasn’t always been like this. He just couldn’t win until the only other option was trump. Even tho he was a much better candidate back then.

Quick edit:

Ironically something like the Havana weapon would actually cause this shit, it’s incredibly unlikely someone used it on Biden for the debate…

But it’s fucking 2024 y’all, who knows what’s real anymore I guess.

The employees in the joint suit, half of whom are minors (with one as young as 14)—allege that in addition to not being paid for their work, they were subject to racial slurs and Black employees were called “slaves.” They also claim that the minors were exposed to pornographic material while working on Ye’s new adult-film and pornography venture Yeezy Porn, and that Ye’s team was “directly and personally aware” of said exposure.

The employees state in the suit that Ye’s wife Bianca Censori sent an employee a shared file of “hardcore” porn for the Yeezy Porn platform, and that photos from that file were “openly disseminated” in group forums with the underage workers. The employees also claim they were threatened with non-payment if they refused to sign NDAs.

I’m not blaming the kids, but I’m 100% blaming the parents who let their teenagers intern for Kanye West.

That’s just insanely irresponsible and they literally aren’t fit to have custody. Like it’s shady enough for a legit celebrity, but Kanye?

and expecting your partner to kill for you.

Some questions are hypothetical or even rhetorical

And honestly on a deeper level there are reasons for women to suddenly go down these hypothetical scenarios related to safety, on a fairly regular basis.

There’s just too much context and subtlies that we can’t know for anyone to give a 100% answer on if a reaction like this is warranted.

I just really liked the idea that OP thought they were exaggerating the timeline with that, when they were still waaaaaay off on how baked in that behavior really was.

Modern life makes a lot more sense when you realize we really weren’t built for this shit. On an evolutionary timescale we went from taking a shit while walking like a horse to Star Trek in an afternoon.

It makes it a lot easier to let shit go instead of assuming the other person is fucking with you intentionally. Which ironically is another thing baked into our instincts. It’s safer to think someone you don’t know is a threat and is acting maliciously. Now a days it’s maladapted into road rage shootings because someone forgot to signal for a merge.

I wouldn’t judge someone who shows up to a campground at 430 am too harshly…

They’re probably running on pure lizard brain at that point.

Like, depending on your definitional of rational, there was/is a reason for this behavior, but it’s not like someone intentionally decides to do it. It’s just autopilot.

A lot of what we do is just autopilot and rationalizing it later. Shits crazy interesting, but we can’t really study it because it’s not ethical to just cut people’s brains in half for no reason other than to gain knowledge. And there was only a brief period it was a valid medical treatment for things like epilepsy.

Sperry performed another similar experiment in humans to further study the ability of the right hemisphere to recognize words. During that experiment, Sperry asked volunteers to place their left hand into a box with different tools that they could not see. After that, the participants saw a word that described one of the objects in the box in their left field of view only. Sperry noted that most participants then picked up the needed object from the box without seeing it, but if Sperry asked them for the name of the object, they could not say it and they did not know why they were holding that object. That led Sperry to conclude that the right hemisphere had some language recognition ability, but no speech articulation, which meant that the right hemisphere could recognize or read a word, but it could not pronounce that word, so the person would not be able to say it or know what it was.

In his last series of experiments in humans, Sperry showed one object to the right eye of the participants and another object to their left eye. Sperry asked the volunteers to draw what they saw with their left hand only, with closed eyes. All the participants drew the object that they saw with their left eye, controlled by the right hemisphere, and described the object that they saw with their right eye, controlled by the left hemisphere. That supported Sperry´s hypothesis that the hemispheres of brain functioned separately as two different brains and did not acknowledge the existence of the other hemisphere, as the description of the object did not match the drawing. Sperry concluded that even though there were no apparent signs of disability in people with a severed corpus callosum, the hemispheres did not communicate, so it compromised the full function of the brain.

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/roger-sperrys-split-brain-experiments-1959-1968-0

Eh.

It could be just her going thru possible consequences out loud. Maybe intentionally to drive the point home about what could have happened.

Like, this is some real shit that women do always need to be aware of, and men just never fucking think about, because we don’t have to.

OP could live in a super sketch area where this level of vigilance is warranted and this shit could be going thru her head.

Like from her POV OP didn’t take the risk serious enough to meet her, if he’s not willing to do that, her mind is running thru where the line is on what he would do. You zero into that by asking big questions. And again, it could be to try and set in the possible consequences.

Like, her wanting to know what level of commitment he has to her safety. I doubt it was extrajudicial executions in her mind, and more Liam Niessons style rescue as a rhetorical device.

For a woman a partner who values their security and safety is important both on an instinctual and sadly still practical level. They have a lot more threats then the average dude will ever think about, especially when young and in the dating stages of life. Even married men sometimes don’t learn about it till later when they have kids their responsible for.

That’s legitimately not gaslighting.

And gaslighting is 100% real thing, but I always think of this Rick and Morty clip now when someone brings it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFM5E93NOF4

Instinctual survival habits.

If you asked them why, they likely couldn’t give you an answer, or they’d rationalize one on the spot without realizing it.

We have millions of years of evolution telling us it’s better to be grouped up to sleep, and just a couple generations at most for recreational camping etiquette.

Instincts will always wins that battle

Fucking public freakout weirdly broke a lot of news for me back on Reddit.

George Floyd, the protests, crazy trump news, Myanmar… Strangely what sticks out is the Target fire extinguisher lady on a rascal that ended up being parodied in Atlanta. Like, I saw that shit live completely accidentally.

It was crazy how before something had a chance to hit the news, someone already had a full video (sometimes even with context) posted.

The user base was terrible at times, and likely is now again. But there was a period when so much crazy shit was going on, that it actually had rational takes the crazy was diluted enough.

It was just nuts to have a random Livestream up, and see huge national news stories unfolding live or at least immediately after filming.

I don’t think people realized how all that shit lead to political engagement in 2020, people were fucking pissed and motivated.

OP is 100% making a list…

things that people would find fulfilling and choose to do irrespective of what incentives may or may not be on offer

Again, people already do that for free…

Just with people they choose to.

So either you’re advocating for sex slaves who feel obligated to do so with anyone, or it’s just still normal sexual/romantic activities.

So. In your eyes…

Are they having sex with everyone that asks?

Or are they only having sex with people they want to for no money, like literally every other human?

Because the more you talk, the more it’s feeling like you want a society with public sex slaves.

If there’s no sex, why are you calling them sex workers? In your example, it’s just sympathy dates?

Seriously, none of what you’re saying makes sense. And I know this is a sub for ideas that aren’t thought out… But still bro

There’s also just the personal fulfillment aspect,

Yeah, that’s the reason lots of people have sex for no money…

Like, if there’s no money changing hands, it’s not a free prostitute, it’s just someone willing to have sex with you

It doesn’t make any sense to still call them a prostitute.

What?

A prostitute that isn’t paid…

Isn’t really a prostitute are they?

I mean, probably, yeah that’s a safe bet.

But I meant you replied to me and said one thing, and someone else replied to me saying the exact opposite.

But yeah, you seem to know what you’re talking about and I was curious. So thanks for answering my questions.

Yeah, but their battle passes never expire, and you don’t have to spend real money to get one.

They never expected it to go viral, they budget to go at least a year of story driven campaign and they probably made enough to pay for that times 10 already.

They don’t need to nickel and dime the user base, if anything they can sell less premium shit.

So?

I hate how every game want to compete for current playtime.

I got way more than money’s worth out of this game, but I haven’t played in over a month. I hope that when I go back to it, there’s still a playerbase.

But like, the developers planned for at best to get 10% of what they did…

If they dropped that extra 90%, I don’t see why that should spell the end of the game. It’s the playerbase the game was designed for.

There’s just this weird “first or worst” mentality with a lot of studios. I hope this game is just given the room to stretch it legs over a decade or so. Something people might not always keep installed on their console, but still download once or twice a year to get some games in.

Games like that can be a success. Just because a lot of people burnt out doesn’t mean they’ll never play again.

It’s just games like that don’t maximize investor returns. They want to churn out hits that people play exclusively for 3 months then drop, only to buy the new one next year.

The two main Haredi (Ultra-orthodox) parties are significant part of Netanyahu’s coalition, and they have always had a disproportionate power compared to the Haredi population because almost all Haredi voters vote for them.

100% not trying to be a dick, because I appreciate the insight.

But is there a typo in there?

Or are you saying that the population will always just vote for the party because of shared religious beliefs…

Even though the party acts against those beliefs?

Like, I’m not trying to argue if that’s logical. I’m American, we have far right abrahmic extremists too that unironically support trump despite him pretty much doing the opposite of their religious guidance at every chance. No judgement on that, I’m not asking you to defend them.

I’m just asking if I’m understanding you right about what’s going on. Because I don’t understand how the Ultra Orthodox party can have “disproportionate power” over their own voting base.

Except in the context that they just vote for whoever their religious leaders tell them to without question or thought.

But also, a lot of shit has gone down since 2016… Those numbers might not be up to date

The vast majority of Hareidi Jews are Zionist

So as a larger community, they’re hypocritical and support the genocide in Gaza.

But some fringe members are actually non-violent and against the genocide of their neighbors?

That makes sense.

But the other person just claimed the opposite:

Most ultra-orthodox Jews are actually anti-zionists

Which is what confused me.