Corollary: Those preventing history from being taught intend to repeat it.

Was going to post this if it wasn’t already linked. I watched this when it came out and was highly skeptical right up until the demonstration. It did exactly what she wanted and now I want one too.

Yep. It also leads to corruption if you’re not making a living wage. You’ll need to supplement your income somewhere, so why not do it while on the job and kill two birds with one stone?

It did what it needed to.

Now that the damage is done, they can pretend to have integrity again to convince people to believe them when they publish the next “miracle study”.

Do you know what happened to the gun afterwards?

Oh it’s copypasta! Lol - So cute.

Lol. Cute bait.

Someone accused of war crimes, so about as far from a civilian as you can get, too

This analogy is garbage. The “nicotine vape for kids” isn’t Balatro, it’s loot boxes. Balatro would be like candy cigarettes.

This is when you call them directly and tell them that. They can override the automation.

I have concepts of thoughts and prayers

They could also provide the cheaper alternative, generating revenue for the government, providing goods at a discount and forcing corporations to match prices.

Like that’ll happen, though.

We were so rough with them as kids. If I didn’t have a blister on my palm after playing Mario Party 2, something went wrong.

On a road trip, got food poisoning so bad that I couldn’t eat for 5 days, barely kept fluids down and was so weak that walking into an appointment, the doctor told me to go to urgent care.

They gave me an IV, did an ultrasound, and gave me some anti-nausea and anti-diarrhea meds, which barely helped. It still took 3 or 4 days before I started feeling better.

Insurance comes back with a 5K bill. They claimed that even though I had my regular prescriptions go through both before and after the trip, the trip claim itself was denied because it was “during a time when I did not have coverage”.

Took several months and phone calls of pointing out the before/after is approved without questions so there’s no way to claim I wasn’t covered during this one week. Every human I spoke to agreed with me, but it still took months.

Which aspect of reality is drowned out here?

“Guys, the iceberg wasn’t even that big. I’m as skeptical of the Titanic’s engineers as the next guy, but right now, my side of the ship is farther out of the water than it’s ever been. Wake me up when the ship ACTUALLY starts sinking.”

I’ve always understood it as “This is apparent to people who are familiar with the issue, but since I am not, I have to take their word for it. If I looked into the issue, I’m reasonably certain I would come to the same conclusion.”

Apparently that’s not how other people parse it, though.

Oh, I still do the $100.°/oo~~~~ in the numeric section too.

… Can you explain for my friend? I’d explain it to them myself, but I don’t want to make them feel bad for not knowing.

But that’s why you put the “and no cents ~~~~~~~~” at the end