"Oh hey, does anyone else have concerns or questions about x project or know who is handling this (even though i have thoughts not questions and know exactly who this is)? I have this absolutely conniving and needling curiosity to make whoever's life this is miserable, in the most passive aggressive way imaginable. Anyhow, a heap of professionalese and deliberate microaggressions to sign off.

Kind regards, the person who makes their job their whole damn identity

P.S. Please understand that this war of attrition I am staging will cause an outburst from my target, and that I will be clearly in the right by maintaining professional composure when my hostile assault elicits a tantrum response from said target making them seem paranoid and in need of personal reflection."

I would say if it doesn't pop then it's past usability. Honestly, there are use and use/freeze by dates for highly perishable items that should typically be adhered to (especially if derived from animals like milk, meat, and to an extent eggs). Then there are "best by" dates and "best if used by" dates which refer to "freshness" and these are at best estimations of when quality in terms of texture and taste MIGHT begin to diminish but are more often a way for manufacturers to cycle new product to the shelf.

Plex. If they set up a free Plex account and you setup a plex server, you can share whatevr pirated goodies you have with them. This requires an old laptop or pc (ideally dedicated to mostly just this purpose) being on all the time on your end. Anytime they visit plex they can tab over to your or whomever’s server and browse movies in a netflix type interface. A Plex server is pretty damn easy to setup, basically just download, install, and point plex to whatever folder has shows or movies. Also, Tubi, Pluto, and Plex have a surprisingly good amount of content that doesn’t require any piracy.

*if you wanna get fancy you can add a couple of apps that automate dling and adding stuff to your plex library, like sonarr for shows and radarr for movies, and then use overseerr so that your friend can request to add or automatically add things to your server without having to do any pirating themselves.

I have considered about doing this and when the thought occurred to me i checked my fw version and saw that it was the recommended one. I turned my wifi off in the event that I would want to jailbreak but then hesitated last minute when i read some comments about the ko reader interface being almost too feature rich as to make navigation and other changes text and menu heavy. This post has me reconsidering

The extended substance to Descartes is broadly the material, whereas the thinking or res cogitans is the thinking substance. How to bridge the immaterial mentality of thinking as a causal force in the material presented a problem for him and was difficult to bridge in this conceptualization of the full human: the mind body problem. The split subject in Lacanian psychoanalysis refers to in part the "mirror stage" of psychological development, where the undeveloped infant first sees it's own image in a mirror and begins to recognize it's own incomplete self image (only seeing of itself without the mirror its legs, arms, perceiving its clumsy motor skills, etc) compared to the ideal subject reflected in the perceived-to-be complete "other" in the mirror, which is not first recognized as itself but an ideal form which seems to be superior and complete in comparison. This is furthered by the imposition of language or in Lacanian terms "castration" which is essentially the imposition of a defining, limiting, prohibitive symbolic structure by way of language which creates a separating or splitting of the self independent of the flesh and blood, now extant in the symbolic and signified sense. There can be no unification of the split self, which is the underlying source of the neurotic or psychotic, with the former responding to castration with repression and the latter responding with a complete rejection of the prohibitions circumscribed therein. This is a vulgar understanding but how I interpret it.

Fuck em. Don't do them any favors, and let them entertain us. I hope we absorb a ton of their mental bandwidth

Ok, dismiss everything. My point is that there is a ton of data points which should raise eyebrows of researchers, and to dismiss with such certitude in the face of unanswered/unanswerable questions is just as unreasonable as being credulous with every conspiracy theory posited. Your conflation of people troubled by these data points and questions with the fringest of conspiracy theorists reeks of unmerited condescension. A more reasonable position would be to state your personal feeling on the matter but acknowledge that there are unknowns and unknowables and certain evidence that make any sort of confidence one way or another impossible at this point in time. Instead it’s “this is just UFO shit” and I was surprised this is your take.

This is your take? I mean, the insider trading stuff is pretty heavy evidence that people knew ahead of time. People with money and resources to act on this foreknowledge. And the case that we are presented with by the commission is, well, a story of people close to important state actors conspiring to commit the crime. The state dept story is a conspiracy theory, even if truncated, obfuscated, covered-up, that is still what they presented us with. Oh yeah, and that many in the intelligence community knew of the attackers presence in the US, others knowing of an impending attack, and the attackers being closely related to Saudi intelligence, ya know, the intelligence service buttresses with US technology and training in close partnership. But yeah, just like “UFO’s”.

Some folks are presented with facts which should cause alarm and suspicion but instead reel and dismiss, and I can only point to a lack of intellectual curiosity, ideology, or a motivated viewpoint based on a perceived in-group’s general opinion which steers then into taking the state department position, and that of the Atlantic Monthly. “Actually it’s all chaos and accident, and our pattern seeking brains project meaning onto events which are random.” I’m nit saying that’s your position, but it is a common refrain to dismiss real conspiracies, and reminds me of Parenti’s take on historians who talk about “the reluctant US empire who rose to the occasion at a critical juncture to bumble its way into global dominance”. Like, no calculation or conspiring required.

As if these shit hole leaders are braying at every opportunity to make money dropping bombs. Just god smiling on them I guess. Nothing to see here.

“Those damn bike lanes, affordable apartments, and light rails.”

Your comment is perfect. I starred it for later access

This. I also remember being told that Morales was the equivalent of a dictator, that they don't agree with the politics of the interim government but it's complicated and we just need new elections that preclude Morales running again.

Pretty sure this is from a few years ago when Jorge Ramos was using his status as liberal darling after getting removed from a Trump rally to springboard into making up bullshit stories about Venezuela and pushing for the recognition of the one true president, Juan Guido, also to the delight of liberals