Fraudulently claimed, as in “people who aren’t supposed to get it”.

Yup. Look at the Palace of the People in Romania. Buildings are expensive to demolish properly, expensive to put up, so it’s easier to just leave them up if they are or can be made to fit a purpose.

Technically it’s a cipher, BUT it’s also perfectly constructed to work as a language (by making the cipher easier - vowels only get replaced with vowels, consonants with consonants).

It’s a real language, it’s just German spoken by a person with a head injury /s

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Many fundies, especially Prosperity Gospel folks, see God as a vending machine - prayer goes in, whatever you ask for comes out.

Soup kitchens and food banks are not usually looking for more food, but they’re ALWAYS short on hands. Food Not Bombs is also a good one if there’s a local chapter in your area. There are often tenant’s rights orgs out there that can use time, money, or expertise in legal matters (sometimes also just handyman skills).

Oh this was set up well before all that. UFC and Trump inked this deal back in, like, April as I remember.

This is their Blutfahne, their Blood Flag. It’s mythmaking - you just have to get people outraged enough and they’ll believe pretty much anything they’re presented with. I truly believe they had all this in the tank for when Trump keeled over (actually I think they were drawing this up before he nearly bought it in Butler PA), but martyrdom is a POWERFUL force, especially in a critical mass of people who are primed for martyr culture in the way the largely-white-supremacist-flavored American Evangelical communities are. The GOP is pissed that nobody successfully took a shot at Reagan, either Bush, or Trump I, so now they’re latching on in an attempt to get SOME gas on the fire before it burns out.

30-06 round like that, at double or triple that distance, will knock a full grown deer off its feet from the energy and put a hole the size of a fist in it. If it’s a hollow point round, double that exit wound size.

Usually you’d use a round of that caliber to hunt moose or bears. Many deer hunters think it’s overkill.

Bullets interacting with human tissue DO have a tendency to get weird, but the forces involved here simply do not add up as presented.

This is just wealth transfer to keep another AI company afloat. Most of them live and die on investor cash, and never turn a profit.

Every time you deplatform a group, it generally shrinks by about 10%. Keep doing it enough and eventually you have a group that’s JUST the diehards, and that group is generally so small that they’ll burn themselves out.

Bingo, it’s a Mafia boondoggle. You pay Company [exorbitant amount of money] to build an ever larger, ever more complex project so you can funnel cash to them without it looking like a gift. All Company has to do is have 4 or 5 guys be up on scaffolding “building the wall” a couple days a week to make it look like progress is being made.

Pretty much this. Even if your eyes are bad-bad, generally you can find a task you can do, even if it’s “go spread fertilizer on the crop beds over here” or “hold this metal down at this end while I hammer the other end into shape.” People with bad eyesight have historically survived in conditions nearly identical to what a commune of survivors would be facing if the T-virus decided to escape tomorrow or whatever, it’s not magic. Depending on the community you wind up with, you will have SOMETHING that you can do to meaningfully contribute even without eyeglasses.

I’ll also throw in Iron Sky.

They’re hoping celebrity endorsement will drive numbers up. ICE has, predictably, been having serious trouble recruiting - why else would they be offering enormous salaries and benefits packages to match?

It also doesn’t help that you have AGI evangelists like Yarvin and Musk who keep saying that the techno-singularity/techno-god is the ONLY WAY TO SAVE US, and that we’re RIGHT ON THE EDGE, so a lot of dumb fucks see that and go “well obviously this is like querying an average human mind which has access to all of human knowledge for the problem if superhuman jntelligence is right around the corner.”

I had to make these when I sold cellphones. So much sock money.

I still wish they would’ve done the Spiders, but as I understood it, even setting aside the “literally worst record in pro baseball” thing, there was some weird licensing shit.

Every one of these is always “Parent’s Rights Act” and the text is like “murdering your gay/trans 10-year-old is now totally legal”.