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"Magic penis my eye!" Ouch,

Maybe devolution is a side effect of playing 100’s of hours of video games every month. Think of it as a modern incarnation of the boob tube generation that watched 6 hours of tv every night. Not saying that has to do with any long time XI game player.

There is a reason why, long ago, schools would not accept wiki as source material or citations in research papers or essays. For awhile various reporters and writers did when making on their reports. Until they also got nailed by the lies and false entries in wiki. Wiki is a good idea in theory. However such things depend on the the idea of human intelligence, reflection, discussion, rationality, and all the rest. However humans are stupid. Selfish. Unintelligent. Ruled by their passions and demands. Easily manipulated. Will believe and promote anything that appeals to their base instincts. And are fully enamored by their self-righteousness. You might get one in a hundred that overcomes this. But thats it. And no matter what they do, it all amounts to nothing. So occasionally they say to hell with you other 99 while sooner or later you will destroy yourselves. Then we all get to pick up the pieces and try again, unsuccessfully. And thus the world turns.

Nice try. For others there is no left only far left. Even middle of the road people are called far left by various right leaning strangers that don’t have a clue what others think. Free country however so think what you want while everyone else doesn’t give a shit what that is. Todays logic: they don’t think like I do, therefore, they are all far right/left.

Best to read the source document, in this case from the DHS, and not website 'explainers' attempting to steer you towards their insistence of what the 'truth' is. And in this case, your link is 'explainers' linking to other 'explainers'. They tend to cherry pick and spin the pickings into pushing their agenda. Gotta watch out for spinners spinning the spinners. https://www.dhs.gov/tvtpgrants Middlebury's Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) Type 1: Raising Societal Awareness, Type 2: Media Literacy and Online Critical Thinking Initiatives, Type 3: Civic Engagement $699,763.00 Over the past decade, video games have increasingly become focal points of social activity and identity creation for adolescents and young adults. Relationships made and fostered within game ecosystems routinely cross over into the real world and are impactful parts of local communities. Correspondingly, extremists have used video games and targeted video game communities for activities ranging from propaganda creation to terrorist mobilization and training. Game developers in general–from small, independent studios to billion-dollar multinational corporations–have lagged in awareness of how extremists may attempt to exploit their games, and how their communities can be targeted for radicalization. This joint project from the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Take This, and Logically seeks to develop a shared framework for understanding extremism in games. This includes the development of a set of best practices and centralized resources for monitoring and evaluation of extremist activities as well as a series of training workshops for the monitoring, detection, and prevention of extremist exploitation in gaming spaces for community managers, multiplayer designers, lore developers, mechanics designers, and trust and safety professionals. That should be a no brainer especially for the cesspool and toxic hate filled console sphere that we all know very well and avoid. And that the developers do little about. Facebook is a poster child and makes the news for various shit. Activision and gaming social media? They are just games and not worthy of our attention. Then again, social media in general wasnt looked at much. Until we tracked down the first suicide bomber or killer that was recruited via social media. Isis was pretty good at that remember and the world knew nothing. In this case the explainers decided to throw in a whole section about first amendment rights. They also decided to throw in Biden and 'white supremacy', since both are the current buzzwords de jure, when neither were mentioned in the source. Again... spin to push their actual agenda onto you. Pick a couple convenient parts to lure you in then pivot to their agenda and what they really want you to read.

Yup remember that one from long ago. Still just as funny.

Does it come with croutons? "Waiter! What is this fly doing in my whiskey soup!?" "Getting well pickled."

Meh When it comes to CoD news, I am much more interested in what Microsoft will do with the franchise. Not that I am going to buy anymore CoD titles.

BTW, its pronounced "kyu-pee' (as in 'cupie doll') not "koo-pie". I figure the English spelling of 'cupie' is trademarked somewhere. As to what cupie dolls have to do with mayo, no clue.

So you have a single royal family that is under some semblance of control to one degree or another. Could be much worse. You could be like the United States. With a good number of filthy rich families without such controls that actually do run the country, just without the 'royal' moniker. The royals are not 'required' to pay taxes. But from what I understand they do anyways. However much it is. Dont know. But here in America? Where everyone is eligible to be taxed including rich families? Doesnt mean that they do, and if they dont have to, they wont volunteer any. That is simply anti-American. We all celebrate not paying taxes. Perhaps a very cynical view. I guess you have to live in a country entirely dictated by the almighty dollar. I dont think I've heard the expression 'dictated by the almighty pound'. Maybe there is such a phrase, dunno.

Never built one but had thought about it. Just didnt see much of a benefit.

Guess everyone will have to start saying ‘god save the king’ now.

Condolences to all in the UK. But yes, interesting times ahead. I dont know how it works but how long between the death of a sitting monarch and the coronation of a new one? I'm sure everyone with a mouth... or fingers to type with... is going to spout who the next one should be.

1840? And here I was thinking that homes built in the 80's were 'old'.

Aint nobody taking away my gas powered camry. As it is, never know I could always say bye-bye to California.

And I fully expect rolling blackouts today.

North vs South? Is there a Mason-Dixon of mayo?

May Graham Chapman rest in peace.

Seen that before. But it still got me.

Even after reading it Im still not sure what the nudity thing is supposed to deal with. It didnt say anything, I think, about the practice of coercing actors into doing nudity or sex scenes. Which of course happened all too frequently for a long time. Then again, with all due respects to Sean Bean, porn is most of the time choreographed... usually by men... telling the 'actors' what to do. Both before the shoot and in real time. Its a business like any other.

The question though is whether or not you will try and rekindle the flame. Maybe try and take her out to dinner and treat her to her favorite food and drink.

The most amazing thing is that still after 45 years (OMG Im getting old!) this song is still so highly recognizable across so many countries after many others have faded into history. From a movie that most of Hollywood thought was going to be a failure. The industry hated it. The audiences loved it. And the rest is history. New documentary series on Apple+ about the history of ILM. Interesting stuff and recommended viewing.

These two should have won the Nobel Prize for their advanced and painstaking research into The Big Bong. They proved without a doubt that there was more than one Big Bong.

How many people in the world truly understand Einstein’s theories of relativity and quantum mechanics? How many people go 'huh?' when they are explained to them? https://www.learning-mind.com/illusion-of-time/