I have a vivid memory of very carefully adjusting the slider on the barely visible logo for Dishonored 2 then repeatedly dying minutes into the tutorial level. Again and again I would die sneaking into this little room, what was happening? I turned up the brightness level and the little room was actually several times…

Just wait until you find out what police reform accomplished

In the hypothetical alternate universe where “Reform the police” isn’t some mealy mouthed nothing slogan previously used to give cops money for tanks, sure let’s go with that. But there isn’t another slogan getting millions of people on the streets and it’s impossible to fathom the people helpfully suggesting we try ch…

It doesn’t require any explanation you fucking clown. It means what it means. And no one should spend a second of their day worrying what conservatives will think, because they already labeled Joe a communist. Their culture war is in permanent over drive.

What we really need is a slogan that doesn’t mean anything, doesn’t scare anyone and doesn’t motivate anyone.

I think it’s kinda just find. I don’t really have feelings about the EU nods one way or another. My issues are I just think the story telling is threadbare, the characters are thinly written and the action is only okay. I keep skimming summary hoping it’s changed gears, but I don’t think it will.

There were these photos going around from an interview where he appears to have been painted the semblance of living tissue, but forgot his hands. And a later interview where it kinda looks like an oxygen mask smudged his makeup. So what I’m saying is I’m a Rudy got covid truther.

No. Intent is some magical concept that makes media immune from criticism. People get to imagine something better.

I can’t imagine investors giving him or resources, because it’ll end up in his pockets. I think I could see Alex Jones or someone else hiring Trump as an employee, maybe with some marketing to imply Trump is the boss.

I have a serious question, what can be done about Fox news and OAN? I don’t think any progress will be possible if a significant fraction of the country lives completely divorced from reality.

My hospital had to cut or eliminate most procedures and we’re losing money. I’m just in ultrasound research, but there’s a question of how much money will be allocated to us in the future and if the hospital will have to charge us more for services.

I’ve been following a journalist who’s been summarizing some of the court cases and he’s been instrumental in managing my anxiety. The journalist is Adam Klasfeld, but the framing is helpful. It does appear that the legal teams are putting in the bare minimum.

I mean, to be fair, their slogan was “fuck your feelings” not “fuck feelings.” They’re allowed to have meltdowns.

The Behind the Bastards episode is really good at covering Keith’s other claims which were always incredibly vague. “He holds numerous patents, started multiple businesses. etc!”

I did a deep dive after getting frustrated with The Vow and everything is really light on the early years. From what I can piece together Keith had experience running his Consumer Buyline MLM, the structure of which kinda made the skeleton of Executive Success Program.

I think The Vow is nearly criminal in how it failed to show how NXIVM worked. I think not having cult experts or an outside opinion really hurt The Vow. Given Keith’s “rape a baby” monologue, pointing out to Mark women in a wedding album not wearing underwear and Keith’s “fish hole - official” joke I’m certain Mark…

They try that and it fails. Reformed police are killing unarmed citizens every day. The solution is to take away their ability to hurt people.

They’re calling Biden a Socialist! It doesn’t matter what position any Democrat holds, because they’re going to lie about it.

Your comments on the subject have sort of been the missing piece to me in understanding NXIVM. The wealth apologia seems to have been the key teaching that got wealthy and successful people attending the cult, which in turn was a huge selling point in marketing the cult.

I think I like the take from Robert Evans, who covers a lot of evil people, is that we all have weaknesses that we might not even be aware of and there is potentially some kind of scam that could exploit that.