One of my favorite scam stories from Dark Net Diaries is in one of the preambles and talks about an investment "advisor".

You get a call from them about a stock tip about a stock going up, and they are like, you dont have to beleive me, just watch it. It goes up.

They call back the next week with a new stock tip talking about how they were right and made so much money. Again, they dont ask for an investment, just that you watch the stock. It goes up again.

They call back the next week with the ask.

Turns out, they were calling 1000 people, 500 going up, 500 going down. They called everyone that they had a right prediction for the second week. Same process 250 up, 250 down. They again call everyone that they had it right for.

Such a cool scam.

Death panels are back on the menu

Converging is sexy, but the second I go to commit, Gallery is like, why don't you come peek under my staircase.

Which was then synced to the moog modular

Yeah man. When that kid starts asking questions and challenging the family norms, that's the teacher's fault for making their life harder. It isn't a sign that the parent needs to adapt.

Adapting IS a pain in the ass. Some parents don't have the faculties to do it. Some do, but don't after getting done with work. It is truely a generational trauma that the parent has to head off in themselves for it to carry to early aged kids.

Someone got their claws into MTG to have her come out as a dark horse candidate aiming to disrupt a JD Vance presidency. She would be the candidate in this scenario. She is being positioned to be the candidate that "saw through the bullshit and is on normal conservatives' side".

It very likely will work.

Good. Finally. Balls and spines and strategies were grown and used.

I kinda got into dinosaurs as a kid. Today, there are so many different collections of dinosaurs in various encyclopedias. My favorite from the new books is Micropachycephalosauarus. Just the idea that a little dino, like tini little guy, was running around headbutting things cracks me up.

Over on the nursing subreddit, some hospitals have been subtyping flu A and as of last week, the people that posted said it was not bird flu positive, it was the other "normal" strain.

To offer a refinement, if I can, redlining is adjacent to this highway abuse, so, easy to join them; same racially driven bastardry, different technique.

Redlining was a real estate / financial tool that kept certain homes on a map from having access to resources. Sort of like financial gerrymandering. It's kinda cool, in a privileged way, to see a city's ghetto map and a redlined map overlaid; there is little difference.

Anyway, I couldn't find a term for this neighborhood wrecking highway practice, but did find this article that goes into detail and links the book Dividing by Design.

The Roads That Tear Communities Apart https://share.google/6G6B8K9VNck1Cb0ZW

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

If you did them the other way, kerosene then cigs, well that would burn the parasite out, sure, but the host... well, it might hurt a little.

John Wick - Alfie Allen

Blue's Brothers - John Belushi

Rounders - John Malkovich

Swingers - Vince Vaughn

Pacific Rim - idris Elba

When the new struggles to be born, and the old refuse to die, monsters appear

Treat dogs like falcons. Play fetch with two balls or sticks.

I believe it's magic

Systemic is an important word to include. Systemic racism.

The strength of this move is the empty chair. It is one thing to not have town halls. That is easy to forget and go, business as usual. It is another to have a town hall by the opposing party and have it highlighted that they are willing to meet to discuss but your elected representative was not. It highlights the deficit instead of allowing it to be overlooked.

Would be nice to see some advertising campaign comparing representatives to dads that left to get some milk and never came back.

Legit. Seasoning is just creating a polymer on the iron to prevent rust. No different than the cast iron pans with ceramic coatings.

I don't think that the plot is my primary motivation to go see the new NIN music video.