Just a couple of random facts about the 140-foot dish @ Green Bank.

1) The upper part - dish and its transit - weighs as much as a WWII destroyer.
2) That same upper part rests on a single ball bearing that floats on a thin film of oil between it and a half dozen or so hydraulic pads.
3) That ball bearing is like three…

I’m Chinese myself, and... yeah, it’s kind of obnoxious, but I’m also kind of numb to China pitching a bitch about everything. This seems like a really petty thing comparatively.

When I’m driving my sportscar 100 mph, then I have to speed up to 150 mph to avoid being harassed by the highway patrol: this is why it is so hard being rich and white in America today!

Oh noes a rich person has to pay taxes in an accurate manner? Doing shady crap with ones finances might be investigated!? How unfair. 

To an entitled sociopath, it’s harassment.

to people who have lived their whole lives not having to do so, it is.  

Con artists have a blind spot, and it’s themselves. They simply assume they’re “smarter” than their marks, not realizing your brains don’t mean a damn thing once you’ve pissed off the wrong person.

In a bizarre and deeply disturbing turn of events,

So the Qanon folks and the sovereign citizens are coming together. I suppose it was bound to happen. Sure, their particular bizarre conspiracy theories are not remotely compatible with each other, but when has that stopped anyone.

I’ve lived that disaster, too, except mine involved my eldest sister being murdered and fed to pigs, allegedly (for legal reasons) by my mother’s half-sister and half sister’s husband. Then there was the kidnapping of my niece and nephew, and then watching another sister devolve due to PTSD, and... Yah. You’re not…

Yup. And movements like QAnon feed mental instability.

I have a sister in the same situation. We know she’s been involved in the deaths of two people she called “friends” but there’s nothing legally there to take action. We have been able to keep her kids from her, but it doesn’t stop her from constantly trying to have more babies. The last time I talked to her, I…

You can trust me, a random anonymous internet commenter whose username references 1970's British popular culture.

Yep. My dad always walked up to the line, but he never crossed it with police. When he saw they could cart his ass away, he shut up and got obedient real fast and then wait to lose his shit later. 

I’m sorry. I also have experience with a mentally ill, dangerous person and I only felt safe when he was incarcerated, but the sentences aren’t long unless the crime is violent. Living in dread is traumatic.

It’s enough to make me rethink my membership in the Angry Paranoid Delusional Hypocrites Club. But if I do that, who can I trust?

I know it’s funny to snark on this situation, but I’m related to two immediate family members who are mentally ill but do not fit the strict legal criteria for involuntary treatment and/or commitment. (I suspect that’s the case with Petrie-Blanchard.)

Pendergrass, Hallett’s E-Clause co-founder, is pinning the blame for Hallett’s death on the “deep state,” instead of what seems to me to be an example of the worst that can happen when one preys on vulnerable people who have fallen down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole

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