https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRON-diet

I was expecting a totally different glad but personally if someone wants to die or you know their life is horrible then its perfectly fine. My dad unfortunately survived a really long time with alzheimers and if I could have gifted him dying 10 years earlier I would have. He died bed ridden with an emaciated body and hands permanently balled into fists that could not unclenched. Even baby food would cause him to choke if not careful and he could not even make a coherent nonsensical sentence.

I find this so stupid. Yes some people are not influenced by ads. I don’t shop at a food store due to its ads. I never saw an ad for a steamdeck or an acer laptop. I don’t eat fastfood now due to expense but the ads did nothing more than at best tell me of some new item which I might try. Im looking around my house and I can’t think of any ad that correlates to the stuff I own. By and large everything was comparison shopped for aspects I wanted vs price.

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It would not have been impossible but it would have been problematic. I mean he could send troops with the war powers act. Its possible but not really something he could realistically do.

yeah. I don’t even read good authors anymore. If I was I would not go for him. Heck I still have not finished wheel of time. I read all the jordan but not the wrapup by the other guy. I don’t want to spoil but when the main character did that whole significant thing. I swear that book was like 10 mins long as it jumped between like two dozen different groups.

It sorta depends. One of the toughest things is when im waiting on things and could be disrupted at any moment. So sometimes I don’t want to get into a show or video game which are my go to. I oftentimes try to get tasks done like dishes or laundry.

this gets into a completely seperate thing. He could not give them it without congress but the US only very reluctantly restricts commerce. Its a very different thing to say im not going to fund your war and im not going to sell you stuff when dealing with a long time ally. And no you don’t just throw away diplomatic relationships easily. If countries did they would have stopped having dealing with us in trumps first term.

oh books. I only saw the movie thing and I may even be mixing it up. I saw battlfield earth but honestly it was not good and I did not pay great attention so you are likely right on this. Honesly I geeked out on the whole scientology thing at one point as it was so wierd but like now I am hard pressed to put any effort into looking into it. Maybe in the cult sense as I geeked out on cults when I realized how mlms seem to run like one.

I actually feel one problem with the modern age, in america in particular, is this idea of everyone doing everyone for themselves. doctor, accountant, lawyer, mechanic, it guy, plumber, electrician. Initially gas stations pumped the gas, checked your fluids and tires, and would top you off as part of the service. no one did that stuff. if your tv broke you called in the tv repairman and you got your milk from a milkman. people were expected to know their jobs and not necessarily everyone elses.

yeah I took that as going after the “other”.

I for one find your explanation very fitting.

I know tons of people even 30 years ago that could not check the oil on their car and would call triple A or their insurance company for a flat tire. Heck I had a friend we practically had to beg to bring his car in for an oil change and that is just a number and calendar date to keep track of and most places put a little sticker to give you that information.

pfft. what do I care. /s honestly I think its more the stress of survival because at least in the us even if you are doing pretty well its setup so a few bumps can have you completely fall into poverty. You pretty much have to be independently wealthy for it not to and even then medical things could take you out if your on the low end.

whose bedtime was 11pm? By the time I could stay up till 11 it was pretty much at my own discretion

I thought the mission earth was basically the religion stuff. I don’t think it was making fun I think it was just how wacky everything was with his creation.

Well he thought it was a novel approach but the concepts are not completely new. He was trying to get it accepted into the psychological community before the religion and I whole heartily think he believed the initial thing and by the end I would not be surprised he bought into his own divinity. I think he sorta went howard hughes like at the end but maybe more with drugs.

what gets me is would the hamas attack and thus the isreali response happen without putin. Im very suspicious that he was not pushing on making more chaos globally to get our of the cluster fuck he started.

A sci-fi author who considered himself somewhat of a renaissance man created what he thought was a novel approach to psychology which was not accepted by the scientific community. He then made it into a religion to get it going and get tax breaks. As head of the religion he eventually was surrounded by sycomphant yes men zealots and over time he convinced himself it was real as a religion and was like its prophet holy man and expanded on it with sci fi elements that were only revealed to the cult memebers as it was run like multi level marketing where you buy the secrets of yourself and the universe. He died and like in any corpo cult the top ones are the most psychotic.

I mean thats like what. fourth or fifth grade. I can’t even relate to who that was. flashes of memory at best. got a little more coherent ones from junior high but even high school and college are a blur.