Pedestrians have the right of way. Most of the other hills are survivable.

You just need to understand how to talk to them:

We bring the foreigners in, give them a first class AMERICAN education and then send them back into the world. They now are effectively a double-agent, preferring to deal with Americans in business, promote American superiority in the world by telling everyone what a badass they are for getting into Harvard, and have been indoctrinated on American values which they then seed into whatever population they are returning to. This is one of America's effective long term methods of world domination in action and it would be stupid to halt it.

And then make up some fake examples of it paying off big time.

This might just be my insomnia talking, but I thought a reasonable idea might be to call and reduce the available credit by however much is comfortable. For me, it would be fairly reasonable to reduce it by 50%. I assume they use some kind of magicians handshake to value their company based on how much potential credit is out there... Maybe it'd do nothing though. Anyone know?

When I see people out exercising I often get the urge to yell that they are doing a good job or looking great if I see them working hard. But I never do.

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I have found that any 'weird feeling' I have that effectively causes more useless and unnecessary things to be purchased is almost certainly been ingrained in our culture by some ancient and effective advertisement campaign. Giving cash is tacky, giving gift cards shows you care more; They should be able to guess what I want for a gift; Wedding Registers; Anniversary Gift Tiers (year of Paper?); Etc.

I don't even bother checking anymore when I encounter something like that - I just try to recognize it when some POS has mind fucked me by having previously brainwashed one of my ancestors and try to restore sane thought.

Any unease and obligation can be replaced with the certainty that Cash is always welcome and useful, at least for now. That said, if you have some true knowledge, or genuine interesting and an attainable plan then by all means act decisively.

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For just $1 billion down payment, I will build it in 2 years for half of that. I pinky promise.

I read a book that convinced me that anything I thought I 'should' do was completely optional. I did the 'had to's as I'd always done, and if a 'should' came up I did it if I felt like it and was able to not worry about it if I didn't. It was a pretty nice week. Therapist laughed at it when I told them, and that was the end of that.

My terrible idea is that the world move to an 8 day week. Everyone works (at most) 4 days on, 4 days off. School is 4 on, 4 off. Two alternating shifts. Its always the weekend for half of everyone and everything is always open. I guarantee a roomful of smart people will be able to tear this idea to shreds. We could invent cool new names for all the days of the week though.

I don't know, but I started realizing that nearly all of the holiday traditions I'd ever participated in originated by way of some well received piece of advertising. It's all a mess. It's all people lying to each other for power, influence, and resources back to the very beginning. The internet certainly allows for messages to travel and build to critical mass faster, but humanity and this behavior originated together, only the tools change.

I predict she will add the 'vote for referendum to stay in canada' to the 'vote for referendum to leave canada' number and say 'we must have a referendum, I guess. Aw shucks', just as she did to excuse this stupid referendum. And as long as albertans are arguing over this b.s., we aren't focused on some other rotten thing the administration is doing. Notwithstanding clause, etc. etc.

However it pans out, the big money's endgame is consolidation of wealth, making everyone below them noticeably poorer, and everyone else involved believes they can ride the wave.

Data centers that became worth running before the pop will have a change of ownership continue to run. Anything else will be gutted and parted out or dumped in a bin depending on the quality and skill of the vulture. It will be done with the least amount of empathy imaginable.

Someone more eloquent and knowledgeable then me made an argument about how the 'no taxes on tips' was going to be step one and then 'no limits' on tips would be step two which would lead to some unholy abomination of tax evasion for the already insanely rich. I don't remember where I saw that, though.

Ok, but when they do the movie can we get Matt Damon to reprise his character from the Green Zone who transferred to the navy in disgust after the events of that movie, and he gets to say lines like "I'm so sick of this shit", looking straight at the camera, while boarding fishing boats looking for drugs from 'sure thing' intel?

I didn't watch the end of that one, but I assume he lived to the end??

I would define one type of 'dumb' as people who upon learning they are making errors, refuse to apply any effort in improving. I have met lots. I am it sometimes too.

Another type of 'dumb' is ones that care nothing for others and cannot even foresee that caring broadly for and uplifting others is actually caring for yourself. I will also fail at this one often.

An asshole is often a deliverer of pure toxin where ever they roam, a jackass is one burdened with delivering unpleasant but often necessary information which is poorly received since they lack diplomatic skills, and a dick head is someone who forces their presence and opinions unnecessarily into situations and places where they are unwelcome.

She does realize she has a majority government and is fully responsible for the current status (whatever that may be)? If she is so incapable in doing her job that the relative quality of life has dropped to such a degree, perhaps she should deport herself into the sun.

What I think will happen, is that the wording of the referendum question will be a barely readable word salad designed specifically to confuse. Votes will break into three groups: 1) coached to vote for seperatism 2) large random group with poor, or even moderately good, reading comprehension and 3) Can read good and want to stay. I believe that was done with the previous daylight savings referendum question.

'nice watch!' then move in and quietly say "oh, hey, it looks like your barber missed a spot back there"

The access to the wizard's vault is an escape room themed after the wizard's life that the players learn of through advertising flyers.

The players will have to decipher clues placed in and outside the room, or interview NPCs, to determine useful facts about the wizard to solve the puzzles (names / # of siblings, favourite pet, first love, best friend's sister's name, etc.) - vary complexity / difficulty of research as needed. The wizard doesn't care if they get in the vault; the wizard wants fame, entertainment, or are appeasing a deal with some entity.

Some puzzles may have lethal/deadly penalties - but really fun ones, like having to reach into a hole for a key, object, or to pick a lock, and it exchanges that limb for that of a fire elemental with no inherent protection from fire given to the rest of the body (temporary or permanent as level dictates); a failed puzzle guess results in a suggestion that elf blood will definitely open this lock (it doesn't, but that must mean you need more, right?); or, just a bunch of dead bats that get dumped on them that later get animated from the dead or spider swarms explode from the corpses after 3 rounds (ghast bat swarm?).

Rooms that fill with water/lava/acid/rum/spikes are always fun. A book just filled with exploding runes in a variety of languages or that is in code and needs to be decoded first before they explode, each explosion larger than the last (book is always unharmed). Intermittent anti-magic zones (spells on even rounds only, temporarily for certain puzzles, spells create random effect of same level from an opposition school, etc.). They repeatedly find clues that point towards a need to kiss (escalate vigor and technique each time, require a certain number of spectators be rounded up, etc.) a statue in the town square, which has no apparent effect.

He re-stocks the vault often by hiring successful invaders for fun adventures that never require morally suspect behaviour of any sort.

I thought globally we could institute Highlander rules for billionaires. Legal to kill each other and the winner gets to keep all the money of the losers. There can be only one! And then, you know, there will only be one of them and that might just sort itself out.