You are right not to blame mental illness. It is human psychology being exploited. The same techniques a 'psychic' reader (or mentalist entertainer) uses, or that con-men and advertisers use to exploit quirks in human psychology.

A good article on how chat-bots use the same tricks as 'psychics' and mentalists.

The chat-bots are doing this same feedback, but turbo-charged and running on high octane it's not mental illness that all of us humans share exploitable quirks in our psychology. But too long down a rabbit hole can lead to a disassociation with the real world.

Trump has one clever trick to enforce this policy...

In slashdot tradition:

1. 1) Cut all funding to NIH.
2. 2) No funding means there won't be any funded research to paywall!
3. 3) ...
4. 4) Profit!

Thanks to New Mexico Tech, a school made famous by Mythbusters, birds aren't real!

The real life birds aren't real thing is even creepier.

Yes!

Always remember that the 2020 election was 'stolen', dishonest, unfair and full of cheating! (or maybe it was 'Stollen")

Also the 2024 election was fair, honest, with no cheating whatsoever.

Of course, this means that the election Trump was in charge of in 2020 was stolen and dishonest, but the election Biden was in charge of in 2024 was honest and fair.

Hmm... :)

Obviously, this is the whole point of influencers pushing the flat earth conspiracy!

The Earth is round, but hollow with the land of Argatha located inside at the center. This is the land of the Lizard people, as you can learn from the 1959 documentary film about a group of scientists who explored it. The 1975 documentary detailing a land forgotten by time also deals with Argatha. This records the experiences of team that wandered into Argatha by going through the openings at the poles of the globe didn't know about the lizard people's control of gravity through the use of crystal spiritual woo-woo energy, as this technology is more advanced that human primate technology. They thought they were traveling on a level path in the sea, but were actually traveling through a curved path of constant gravity at the openings.

After 1959 the lizard people started gaining power above ground by expanding their millenium's old monitoring program of us humans, the surface dwelling primate species, They did this because underground nuclear testing was seen as a military attack by the surface dwelling monkey race. The lizard people, along with their axis of evil comrades, the mole-men have propagated the flat earth conspiracy to hide that the earth is round, and hollow on the inside!

BTW, Kim Jong Un is the general in charge of surface operations for the mole-men. Have you ever seen Kim Jong Un and Hans Moleman from the Simpsons in the same room?

Every time you see a flat earth influencer, you now know that they are either a lizard person, a mole-man or one of their many mind controlled human robot-like propagandists!

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Here's a cool graphic showing the debris spread after collision. there are some good threads following this on various platforms.

Close. It would have a cabin in every closet. That way you could stay in the closet while using the rest of the cabin.

How often does this kind of robbery take place? Once in a while is a rare occurrence. More likely is after hour break ins where liquor and equipment are stolen. Cashless will not fix this kind of theft.

Balance loss of cash due to theft against the transaction fees credit and debit cards charge. You lose money on each transaction, every transaction. It adds up. I've lived in a number of sketchy neighborhoods in my lifetime. Cash only businesses are more common in neighborhoods where theft of money would be more likely. The customers are less likely to have credit cards, the business owner has a smaller margin and needs to maximize their cut by not paying transaction fees, and even taking higher theft rates into account cash only is better. If you've lived in these kind of neighborhoods, you'll be familiar with cash only mom and pop businesses.

Credit card only businesses are more likely to be catering to an upscale crowd, and located in areas where theft rates are lower.

Upvote for choice #1.

If you are determined to take away the 3.5 mm headphone port, then give me multiple usb-c ports.

This is a valid use case. Working at the desk, with the phone charging, listening to music. And, most importantly, not having another wireless thing to keep charged and keep track of.

In Illinois double hearsay is now legally accepted in a Court of Law. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.meczyklaw.com%2FArti...

I laugh at the puny $2 Billion lie detector industry! Homeopathy and "natural" cures is a $5 Billion dollar industry. Must be much better because is takes more money from fools.

Unless they are comfortable with lying.

In the 1980's Southland corporation gave up using lie detection as a pre-screening tool in selecting employees. They were actually selecting better liars, not excluding the dishonest.

Back then the majority of minimum wage jobs were performed by teenagers (like I was at the time). Funny thing about teens is that they aren't grown up yet. Teens don't have a great deal of life experience. That includes failure, and having their integrity questioned. When you question the integrity of a confident, experienced adult, they can handle it. Question a kid, and you make them uncomfortable, nervous, twitchy. They don't have the experience and confidence to handle it.

Unless they are already accomplished liars and are comfortable and experienced at having their integrity and motives questioned.

TL;DR, southland actually had an increase in employee theft thanks to their use of lie detectors as a employment tool. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewsok.com%2Farticle%2F203... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cia.gov%2Flibrary%2Fre...

Thank you. Informative.

Now I'm searching for an answer to another question...

Why does the Department of Energy have a genome institute?

That is a bizarre mashup.

Freedom of speech doesn't let you incite others to do human sacrifices , or to bear nuclear arms for you either.

I know, total bummer.

The good news is that freedom of religion does allow you to pray to your god for them to sacrifice and bomb others. not that she ever listens any more. I blame the internet.

They also closed the local post office. So there must have been evidence of something being shipped to the observatory.

It may have been physical evidence, or it may have been some kind of intelligence gathered.

I remember one incident when I-25 was shut down because of a shipment of radioactive rebar from Juarez.

A lot of the press coverage back then was focused on the environmental concerns. I was an undergrad at New Mexico Tech at the time. All of us science and engineering geeks immediately started thinking about the fact that the government must have had detectors for radiation installed at the borders, or along the path the truck traveled. I know that sound pretty standard to most people in the post 9/11 world, but back in the 1980's secret radiation detectors and surveillance were things that only 'evil empire' communist governments did. The good ole' US of A would never have secret detectors deployed in America! How naive we were.

Who knows what the evidence is in this case causing the shutdown, but the post office closing as well does point to something being shipped there.

BTW, many of you have probably heard of New Mexico Tech from either the VLA or, more likely, from watching Mythbusters. If you are a first responder who took a terrorist or bomb training course, it may have been at NMT. NMT was a great place to go to school. I could not imagine going to one of those universities most people go to where students are either partying or in class. We were either in class, building stuff, or blowing stuff up. Blowing it up in the name of research, of course!