I'd rather see the term defanged by our owning of it. A conspiracy theorist is not unlike what a Politburo Watcher was during the cold war era: someone who seriously studies the plans and hidden power structure of a mortal adversary. Except that everyone acknowledges that the Politburo was the Soviet's center of central planning. So there was not the gaslighting that one is subjected to in attempting to study the Cabal.
Mike Adams has a clever way of viewing it. Your libtard friend is a biological LLM undergoing constant update training.
There is a very wide divide between people such as ourselves who constantly want to know what is true, and how we know it is true, versus those who, when faced with an issue or topic, want to know what to think. This is sharply expressed in mainstream media articles where the form of the headline is "What you need to know about ... [the new thing of the week]". The media was especially bold with this approach when it came to Hunter BIden's laptop.
P.S. Hats off to you for your investigative tolerance. Not all of us have the patience.
Yes, a dead ringer. Also: Pierre Trudeau was a flame. Margaret Trudeau was as floozy. Who flew often to Cuba to party, for some reason that Canadians never questioned.
My first thought was the same. Did they take the jab? My second thought was are they being targeted by the deep state? It is alleged that the CIA can induce fast acting cancers on targets at will.
Or maybe try ordering a plain omelet, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee, and wheat toast, Jack Nicholson style.
Mind you, I don't understand why anyone would want to give up on potatoes, especially home fries cooked in bacon grease.
Once accepted, the Anthropomorphic Global Warming hypothesis (later Climate Change, to hedge their bets) carries an exceptionally strong hold on a person's mind. Religion does not readily dislodge. You can almost define the modern progressive not by communist ideology or any particular base of ideas, but by how gullible they are to government propaganda.
I am wondering how your friend reconciles the most curious of flip-flops. Why did Bill Gates suddenly turn into a Denier? Gates was a very heavy promoter until his sudden renouncement on TV. At his crescendo he made the case for a massive global project of stratospheric aerosol injection for the urgent purpose of increasing the Earth's albedo, or colloquially, "dimming the sun." The supposedly biggest, most urgent existential threat to humanity does not vanish just because you'd like to make a few dollars on AI compute centers.
Impressive work. You really put yourself into this.
TNBanjoMan (playing the Classic version) guesses Michelle and Col. Mustard, in the drawing room, with a cleaver.
That's really suspicious. I'm tempted to say he was lying to you deliberately so that you'll keep your money in their hands longer. Here you can read the IRS 401(k) resource guide - Plan participants - General distribution rules. It has sections on required minimum distributions, hardship distributions, and loan options. The official info lines up with what NotInFormation wrote.
His name is Bob? Now that's funny. Hold on... Oh, it's Bib. I looked it up on a fan wiki. So my guess was wrong and those thingies on his head are not brain extensions after all?
Now this guy... can write.
The modern American consumer economy rests on four great pillars of debt: the mortgage loan, the auto loan, the credit card, and the student loan. The mortgage finances the house you barely leave because you are working to pay for it. The auto loan finances the car you use to drive to the job paying for the house. The credit card finances everything your salary no longer covers after paying for the house and the car. And the student loan finances the degree required to qualify for the job needed to pay for the first three.
That dude in the upper right corner wiggs me out. He's got these two big bumps over his eyes, which I guess are to store additional prefrontal cortex. Then he has a large tail growing out of the back of his skull to hold... more gray matter? I wouldn't look forward to playing a game of 5D chess against him. He'd take care of me like Bantha fodder.
Yikes. I would hate for catsfive to identify as AshlandDog, or AshlandDog to identify as a night creature who meows, not howls.
On a serious note, Zach Vohries - "the Google whistleblower" - makes the point that there was a second reason large numbers of conservatives were banned from the internet in, what was it now? - 2020. The primary reason was to silence our voices during the elections plus Covid operation. The second reason was so that AI would be trained on material pulled from the web that is dominantly left leaning in its screeching. Rigging the data to reflect progressive views is what Google called, internally, "AI Fairness".
P.S. Fun Fact. It turns out that Yes, Virginia, Google did maintain a black list of forbidden search terms. One of those black-listed search terms was "cancer cures".
I get your outrage. Not being a finance wizard myself I'm not sure how exactly Fink/Blackrock would take our pension and retirement investments to fund the rapid AI datacenter build out, but if anyone is in a position to be so callous I guess he is.
I'm confused about your second sentence regarding distribution eligibility. I know the IRS has something called the Minimum Required Distributions table. It is an age-based schedule that dictates the minimum fraction you must withdraw from a tax-deferred account such as a 401(k) Plan or Traditional IRA. The starting age is currently 73. The rules says that in the calendar you turn 73 the IRS compels you to withdraw - or "distribute" - no less than 1/26.5 th, or 3.774% of your account, based on its value on January 1 of that year. The required fraction increases every year until the ripe old age of 120, when it reaches 50%, and stays at 50%. The starting age used to be 70.5. For younger frogs such as myself the starting age is set to be 75, assuming the rules do not change from here to then.
There is another age at play, which is 59.5. Once you are older than 59.5 you can withdraw from an IRA without penalty. If you are younger than that then the IRS levies a penalty on your tax return (the jerks).
Bringing my point home, as far as I am aware no law prevents you from taking out money from your 401(k) at an earlier age. I think you're fine. On this one you can let go of the hyperventilating.
Scott Kelly was subject of a biopic A Year in Space. Nice family guy trains real hard and achieves his childhood dream kind of heartwarming documentary.
He's someone you want to like. But as with you I've become suspicious, especially with respect to Mark. Astronaut -> Senator -> Seditious Six. That trajectory does have the hallmarks of having been a CIA groomed asset from an early age. I do not know this, but also would not be the least bit surprised if the CIA injects astronauts into the program.
Besides, every tell-all book I have read from escaped Freemaons admits that they are well practiced in presenting a wholesome family face to the outside world.
Because we have done the unexpected.
Answer, after a two day think. We broke their military encryption.
That number again. A lazy google search returns: "McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle: While primarily a fighter jet, the F-15 has an operational service ceiling that exceeds 65,000 feet."
During Trump's first term I remember an interesting Trump comment from the Oval Office desk, about Elon. "He has to do what we say. We've given him so much money." Considering his family's history and his early life, I don't think Elon started out on our side. Somewhere along the line he got flipped.
Remember 30ish years ago when everyone would see the starving Somalian children on TV and in their junk mail? Was that a scam too?
I do. And further back in time when it was centered around Ethiopia. Sally Struthers was often the sad face on TV pleading for donations.
Now that the operations of NGOs have been seriously exposed, I think it is fair to suggest that the flow of money went: TV viewers -> NGO -> Africa -> CIA -> corrupt government officials & warlords. Billions of dollars never made a dent in halting starvation of African children.
What do you think are foreseeable next steps in starving the hydra? I mean in literal actions, not allegorical. Some: the Abraham peace accords reshaping the Mideast. Attacking the election fraud enterprise, especially the electronic voting machines. And constraining the operations of the Federal Reserve, towards its eventual elimination.
When I was a kid I thought it was just an entertaining show with guess-the-price games. (Though why contestants had to run screaming down the stairs to take their place in the qualification rounds seemed wildly over-the-top to me.) When you become an adult and understand more how money works the lightbulb clicks on. It's a one hour long platform for paid product placement commercials. No wonder why the show has lasted an eternity.
Do you have memories of Janice, Dian, and Holly? Maybe not. For boys becoming teenagers they were the real prize of The Price is Right.
I'll add a bit of history. The concept of Flow, or Flow State, as a psychological operating mode dates back to a software engineer working for Microsoft named Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who, and this goes back to the 80s and 90s, designed video games. He developed the theory that well designed video games were highly addictive because the users entered a state of flow that they wish to stay engaged. Professional athletes also report a similar state of being when muscle coordination is locked in and play is going well. Here is a link to a free pdf of his 1990 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
A Green Beret applying the concept to America First momentum is a new twist for me. I like it.
Do prior corrections stick across sessions, or do you have to repeat the scolding?
I get where you're coming from. But some time ago, one fine day, the light bulb when 'boink' in my fuzzy brain. Those famous $10,000 toilet seats and $90,000 bags of 1 cent bushings? Don't assume it's payoffs to some dirty corporal. The overpricing is one of the ways the military funnels money into off-the-books black projects.
Not in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania it does not. Research the Pittsburgh Left. A traffic maneuver, not a political wing. Every red light is opportunity for excitement.
For those wanting the précis, the author assures us "low-information MAGA" that we are being squeeze-played by the Money Cartel in an orchestrated Hegelian thesis/anti-thesis/synthesis setup. With Trump playing us for fools as the Thesis.
(Edit: make that the anti-Thesis role for Trump. He's supposedly marching us straight into Fascism.)
That Trump will be installed to insure the division of the Right in the coming crackdowns. ... Trump’s lips will twitch, “I have to do it to save the country!” “It’s for national security!!” “Its for your safety!!!” By God Almighty, it is for the children!!!!”
Far too many will march in lock-step and cheer for the real loss in-practice of their very own freedom as his strings are tightened to a fascist soft-shoe dance.
This crap, again? I do not log onto GAW for this.
And, how so much I hate his kind of writing. Flowery drivel is drivel squared.
The multi-decade training exercises are soon to go active again on the political stage. The acting (and professional wrestling) rehearsals are nearly over, the (s)election near complete, the players will soon take the main stage again for another act, and the curtain will be thrown open... We should believe what the marionettes say, as the strings on the corners of their mouths are tugged. At the same time,,, we-damn-well-better be looking directly at the source of the tugging from the rafters of the theater... To do otherwise is failure before you even begin to see.
Well if we're talking about Obama having picked the wrong country to be President, definitely. He shoulda picked Kenya. Eventually he'll wish he never left Kenya.
As for picking the wrong rogue state to supply nuclear materials, is there a better/worse choice? Shoulder shrug.