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Ah yeah I picked a different upgrade

There are some where the True/False logic breaks down and it becomes neither true nor false, or introduces paradox that makes it unsolvable.

I've had a lot of fun playing Blue Prince. You gotta write everything down meticulously.

The only issue that I've consistently run into is the logic puzzles of the Parlor Room. It starts out fine but about mid way into the increasing difficulty the logic just breaks down entirely and the puzzles frequently become unsolvable so you just have to guess which box has the gems.

Sure, but how would they connect the two of us? My Gmail account wasn't at all connected to my time at that practice, and there wouldn't have been a way for google to know that he was seeing me specifically.

Every time someone comes out and says that the phones aren't secretly listening to us, I gotta tell this story.

I was at one time practicing therapy in a University. We did charity work, and I was providing therapy to a homeless man. This homeless man did not have a phone, or any electronic devices of any kind. We kept in contact via email, and he would use library computers in order to connect with us.

While providing therapy for him, the only electronic devices in the room are a batter operated digital clock, a battery operated voice recording device, and my own cell phone, locked and inactive. Nothing but my cell phone is connected to wifi or internet of any kind.

During session one day, he started talking about wanting to move to another country. We hold our usual session, with plenty of talk about moving to that country specifically. Once the session is over, we say goodbye and he goes on his way. I go back to my desk, and within an hour or so, scrolling on my phone, I'm getting advertisements for flights and vacations to that exact country. I had never gotten advertisements to that country before, or even for much travel in general.

So how do we explain it? The most common answer is "Oh, well he used his phone to look up flights and stuff, and google detected that your phones were near each other, and must have assumed that you would talk about it."

Except the other man did not have a phone, nor did he have any way for Google to tell that he was near me after having looked it up at a local library. There was no way for Google to be able to tell that he was coming to our office at all unless it was reading his emails, and even then, it couldn't know that he was talking to me specifically, such that I would get the targeted ads and none of my colleagues would.

Nobody can give me an explanation for what happened other than my phone was actively listening to the conversation. I'm definitely open to alternatives, I promise. Nobody has been able to explain it.

I'm with you on it. And you can't even have an honest discussion about Breaking Bad with anyone because if you say you didn't like it you're just dismissed out of hand.

I work 988 and other crisis lines. Whenever people ask me "How do we raise awareness? How do we reduce suicide?"

I answer with "socialized Healthcare, strong worker's rights, defund police and increase funding for home assistance and mobile crisis, " and on and on and on.

I mean, I'm a millennial in mid-thirties and I'd never heard of anyone actually doing a party like this either, so even in the 90s/00s these were things that seemed like 'stuff they used to do before'

I think the argument was that if your parents are not naturalized citizens, then that means they're not 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof'. So like, if the parents 'owe allegiance' to their previous country then it makes the kid a citizen of the parents' original country, and not the U.S.

But it's all actually bullshit to try and justify not wanting brown people to be U.S. Citizens tbh.

I saw a person trying to all caps "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" screaming that this specific clause somehow is the piece that excludes birthright citizenship because something something loyalty to other countries?

Republicans winning elections makes the Democrats more money than winning elections by adopting popular legislative positions.

This gives "the fuckin loser on the playground that thinks he's hot shit, goes to start a fight and then screams no fighting no fighting!! before the person can hit back."