Disregarding the whole… eh… evil genocidal murderous villain aspect of this, I’d like to point out some numbers without comment.

77 million people voted for Trump in 2024. The margin of victory for the popular vote, which I know, doesn’t technically count, was about 2.2 million.

And we’re talking about 65 million people here.

If you looked at my Duolingo, you’d think I was pretty fluent in Japanese. But if you look at me talking to a Japanese person, you’d think I knew very little Japanese.

One other thing you can do is to set a daily alarm on your phone. The downside of the phone solution is that you can simply turn the alarm off and it just goes away.

But if you rely on cats, then you’ll at least have to go to where the treats are.

Since when have cops been good people?

Nobody is forcing you to mindlessly meme all the time. You possess a human brain that is capable of considering individual people based on your personal observation of their actions.

he’s not trying to fix the world

It was probably on my second watch of the anime that I figured this out. When he was killing FBI agents who were clearly good people.

One other interesting thing is that he’s not interested in elevating himself in the traditional way.

If he wanted to fix the world, and become super rich, he could easily do it at the same time. Because the people who are actually ruining the world aren’t the murderers that he killed in the story. The people ruining the world are actually the same people who have all the money. And he has the ability to control them. He can alter their wills if he wants to.

With the Death Note, it would be trivial to become the richest person in the world, but that would attract a lot of attention, so it would also be trivial to become a much less rich, but still incredibly wealthy person. And Light could have done that in a way that would be very hard to trace, if he wanted to. But he didn’t want to.

Light begins the story with a very biased view of the world, due to his father being a police officer. He’s quite authoritarian. He blames small time criminals and never really considers that there are societal and governmental reasons that they became criminals. Instead, he comes up with a very Machiavellian solution that people should follow the law because they’re too afraid to commit crimes.

My personal toiletries are mine. I don’t even let anybody use my nail clippers. (I do have an additional set of clippers just in case anybody wants to borrow mine.) It’s not about what’s gross or coodies or whatever. It’s about me being particular about the condition of my own stuff.

It might be your sleep paralysis demon in the shape of a cat.

My biggest beef with Sweet Home Alabama is, if people are ever singing along with it, or if they’re singing it at karaoke. I should mention that I live in the South, so these people singing it are from the South, and even though the song itself isn’t racist, the way these people emphasize certain lyrics, it sure sounds like they want it to be racist.

The whole thing makes me uncomfortable.

Also, if Cornetto did remove the chocolate, that person would probably have to go into hiding.

James seems like the least nerdy of the names that have common nicknames. Richard is another one that’s not nerdy.

First time I touched the internet would have been around 1990. I dialed up and connected to a BBS and it had a connection to the internet. I think it had gopher, and I couldn’t figure out what use it was at the time.

It wasn’t until the mid nineties that I really connected and understood what it was.

I mean, that’s right on the mark. The reason they called themselves National Socialists isn’t because they were socialists, but because they knew that their true beliefs were so abhorrent that they needed to lie about being socialists.

Elon Musk has been recently shown to have done the same thing.

I’d think it would be obvious that a country wouldn’t want to depend on a foreign country’s proprietary product when an open source alternative exists. Even if it’s not spying, what if the US forced Microsoft to put some kill switch on their products? Even if it doesn’t affect your most secure systems because of air gap, it could still cripple enough to cause huge problems.

There’s simply no reason to take the risk.

If I was running a government, I would strongly desire proof that all of my government software is doing only what I want it to. That means not only do I have access to the source code, but I also need it to be simple enough that my government teams can actually audit all of it.

Obviously, that’s not going to be feasible in every situation. There might be proprietary software that is protected from competition via IP laws, and some software is so necessarily complex that it would be really hard to audit completely, but overall, I find it shocking that any foreign government would run a Microsoft product when a feature comparable open source alternative exists.

I also over analyze everything, which is why I always remove my eggs from the right side of the carton.

The left side of the carton is always towards me in the refrigerator, and I also always have the left side towards me on the counter.

As a result my first grab out of the fridge is always the most stable grab possible.

The way I figure it is, the most dangerous time is pulling it out of the fridge when I don’t always remember where the eggs are and where I have to grab it from one end. I don’t want to be surprised by it being heavy away from me.

Once I have it safely in my hand, I no longer have to consciously think about how to hold it, as that can all be done unconsciously.

From the headline, it almost sounds as if they’re forcing the museums to let people in without paying if they have a doctor’s note.

But it’s actually a program funded by the city that pays for a limited number of people’s admissions if prescribed by a doctor.

Honestly, even if museums were being forced to forego admission fees, they’d probably be okay with it if it’s not too many people. It gets new people to come in who wouldn’t typically be in a museum. It’s almost like a doctor advertising for them.

This is the same market that tried to add blockchain to everything when that first became well-known.

Some of the biggest forces in the market are extraordinarily stupid people trying to ride every buzzword that comes along.

I don’t know about “executed”, but if you go by the Matchbox 20 song Kody, there might be some mental health problems.

Imagine wasting your life by worshiping the rich.

Everybody who has worked with Musk says that he has to be distracted when he goes to Tesla, SpaceX, or whatever, because otherwise, he’ll just cause problems for the adults who are actually working. He has no idea how to run a business, and basically just publicly lies to inflate the value of his businesses, and relies on the fact that there are no consequences for rich people lying.

Every semi-intelligent person who has worked with Trump says that he’s one of the dumbest people they’ve ever met.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and the actor who stays is just a random one of the Oompa Loompas.

Surely, you’d keep Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, which would fit the theme.

Or Edward Norton as the narrator, which would support the theory that it’s all a hallucination.