Why bother? Just hire some guys pay them whatever money you can raise and get the hired hands to hunt down the bounty hunters. They put on masks call themselves ICE and Bob’s your uncle. It’s the wild west again … just do whatever you want with a mask on and a gun. Everyone is doing it and it’s the only way to get things done because the government isn’t involved in anything anymore.

I was going to make fun of this thread by saying some dumb thing but then I noticed your comment … this is your thread now … my condolences to you and your family … and you should clear coat that section of the wall to preserve it forever … and if you ever renovate or change your house … carefully carve out that section of wall, frame it and display it as a family heirloom.

Sounds more like a new line up of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of those suffering from delusions of grandeur and acute narcissism

Because your dishwasher knows how drunk you are and is trying to tell you those aren’t fries and they’re not the microwave

Repetition … and repetition in multiple formats

Repeat what you want to remember
Repeat inside your thoughts
Repeat it out loud (either to no one or to someone nearby)
Repeat it with action … point, touch, move or just handle the thing or object related to what you want to remember
Repeat it by writing … write it down and note it

Then do the same things again and again … eventually over time, these things will get ingrained in your thoughts and actions.

Some processes take time to remember (like playing an instrument) but others take less time (like where are my damned keys!)

I guess this is the model that governments are using these days to try to figure out how to save democracy

Figure out first how to destroy it … then you can know how to save it

But I think they’re going a little overboard in the first half of that process

We were helping to move a friend from one house to another years ago. It was all rushed with little time to do or plan anything … we had to move truckloads towing trailers full of all their things and drive 400km to make a deadline. And we had to start by driving to them 500km away first! And it all had to happen within 20 hours … it was complete insanity. I ended up driving, packing, working, then driving again non-stop for about 30 hours to everything to the new house. And midway through the trip of hauling everything, we drove through the biggest lightning rain storm I’ve seen in years. The only way to keep things from getting totally soaked was to keep moving.

I remembering driving past the rain and weather and it was 4am and we were dead tired and couldn’t stay awake. We parked on the side of the road and I sat in my driver seat and finally fell asleep. Unfortunately, I was so full of coffee, sugar and food that I couldn’t really sleep … my body went offline and my brain kept racing. I started dreaming that I was still driving and in my driving dream, I kept pushing myself to stay awake and not drift off the road. In my dream, I kept dozing off and wandering on the road. In the dream, I kept scaring myself, held on to the steering wheel and bolted awake again … and again … and again. Finally, still in the dream, I fell asleep and as I dozed off I knew I was drifting off the highway at speed and I could see and feel the truck crashing into the bushes, the trees and into the forest …

I bolted wide awake back into reality, gripped the steering wheel like a madman and slammed on the horn and the brakes as hard as I could … I was still sitting quietly on the highway shoulder. My cousin in the other truck walked over and asked if I was OK and asked why I just sounded my horn.

I was so freaked out by the experience that I stayed awake for the rest of the drive.

The rest of us standing there just looking at them

A billionaire just causally announcing that he can influence, finance and promote an election using his money in order to get what only interests themselves … rather than in allowing democratic processes elect someone the people actually want and need.

… when you realize it wasn’t a mirror

I think I’ll use it as a ringtone or alarm for my phone … no better way to wake in the morning than to be terrified

… also, I didn’t notice that link … and now that voice will haunt my senses for a long, long time

Using his force powers to block his sense of smell … but for how long?

They mask because they know what they’re doing is wrong.

If what they were doing was right, moral, necessary and justified … they wouldn’t have a problem showing their face and giving their ID.

The fact that they mask up, and break dozens of laws just means it’s legalized criminal behavior.

Yes … unless the building owners are more sadistic and instead wanted pets literally on fire and smoking

Or even worse, the company not donating anything but instead handing over all the public donations pretending that it was their work that caused it. They give nothing but instead gain all the publicity and recognition … in the end profiting from charities and the good will of people

I’m not apologetic about it any more.

When any company asks me to donate i say no. If there’s a cashier or rep that gives me a look or says something … I tell them that their company can spare 0.0001% of their profits to give way more than all their customers combined. Don’t ask me who to donate to, I give to the charities of my choice when I can. Your company has way more free money to give to not just one charity but many charities if they wanted to but never do and instead choose to collect the money as more profit for themselves and their investors.

If you give your pets some little booties to wear, then they’ll let them smoke inside the building