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Apple Zone / Re: Newage Sewage Scum

« on: May 09, 2013, 09:11:54 pm »

The problem (I think) with exploiting the placebo effect is that it's based on misdirection and deception which raises ethical issues. Is it right to give people not-painkillers and charge them for painkillers? And how do you advertise it?

"Would you like morpine or tapwater and a cock and bull story while we saw your leg off?"

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Apple Zone / Re: Hyperbole and a Half: motherfucking UPDATE

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:20:42 pm »

Awesome seeing her back. 

And thought provoking as always. Now I'm wondering if thinking everything is pointless bullshit and nothing is necessarily depression, or if everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Pretty sure it's the latter where I live. 

Everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Until YOU decide differently. One of the keys to unlocking depression, for me, was when I had that "I like this but it's doesn't mean anything" trainwreck of thought, turning it into "it means something to me and that's all that matters"

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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII

« on: May 09, 2013, 05:24:12 pm »

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

Never laughed so hard or heard such an accurate description.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Split from Freedom in Houston

« on: May 09, 2013, 03:27:15 pm »

As an aside what the fuck is a "mulatto" anyway? Other than it's in the chorus to Teen Spirit I never heard the word before.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: So, RWHN, it appears your predictions of doom are contradicted

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:58:31 am »

Holy shit a politician showing signs of hypocrisy and getting off light when busted? Surely this has not happened before in the history of ever. 

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Split from Freedom in Houston

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:51:24 am »

It thinks it's smart and tries to prove this by acting like a total fucking retard

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories

« on: May 08, 2013, 01:58:26 pm »

But she claims that she and other class members will continue to lose money and Denny's will "retain proceeds of its ill-gotten gains" unless the court orders Denny's to remove the claw machines and other games of chance from its restaurants.

Bottom-of-the-food-chain level of willpower. These people are supposed to be exploited and conned. It's what they're for.

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Apple Zone / Re: ICONS OF HATE

« on: May 08, 2013, 11:28:29 am »

you think switching to Mac will solve your rage?

No.

But I will never give microsoft another dime, after this shit.

Follow Microsoft's and my example and steal your OS?

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Disney to trademark "Día de los muertos"

« on: May 08, 2013, 11:20:47 am »

https://www.change.org/petitions/walt-disney-company-stop-trademark-of-dia-de-los-muertos

I haven't done verification of the veracity of the process, but, lol what?

Disney does this shit every time they make a movie.

You do realise this is viral marketing 101, right? Disney have no interest in copyrighting or trademarking anything other than Mickey's ears which, imo, they're entitled to. They want people outraged that they would consider copyrighting things because if people are outraged they talk about the film. Then it'll come out Disney were never intending to copyright anything and what had in fact happened was that someone in the press department "got the wrong end of the stick" and the film gets another free mention in the press and social media.

Personally I'm all for it - less environmental impact than a poster campaign.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: So, RWHN, it appears your predictions of doom are contradicted

« on: May 08, 2013, 08:53:49 am »

I feel I should also point out that, despite RWHN's pretensions to the contrary, being on a county-level committee for Maine's southernmost county (aka Northern Massachusetts) means he counts for dick-all statewide. Most folks east of the Kennebec really couldn't give two shits what some pompous inflated nanny-state twerp from "down south" has to say about anything.

No, that is someone elses coalition, not mine.  She is the one who kicked the asswipe out.  The two of us have been more or less leading the charge against this bill. 


And I chair the statewide association of preventionists, and sit on two other state level boards.  So I'm county level AND state level leadership.

I'm positively starry-eyed. And wicked impressed.

Will you sign my tits?

Fucking yoinked! You have no idea how many people are going to get that said to them from now on

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Apple Zone / Re: Some good news, for once. Or at least better than bad news.

« on: May 07, 2013, 12:14:55 pm »

I'm just glad they're alive.

As for the sicko, well, his life has just become a tragic series of misunderstandings.

I would dearly love to interview him.

I think the entire Cleveland PD is fighting over THAT interview.

I actually mean, I would like to interview him in order to understand him, and try to comprehend what kind of person he is. I've tried to do research but psychological profiles of people who engage in human trafficking are pretty much nonexistent. But with millions of slaves in the world, mostly female and predominantly underage, there are obviously enough people like him to make it a thriving industry.

We are powerless against that which we do not understand.

I used to get in a lot of arguments because when something totally fucked happens my first response is not "hang them up by fish hooks through the nads and let the victim's families play pinata on them with a chainsaw made of spiked dildoes" or words to that effect.

I'm much more of a get inside their heads, look at their upbringing, kinda guy. 

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Apple Zone / Re: This game is awesome!

« on: May 05, 2013, 03:02:29 pm »

You have ... The Horn?

 

THE Horn?

 

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: So, RWHN, it appears your predictions of doom are contradicted

« on: May 05, 2013, 02:17:15 pm »

Yeah, you've hit me with your best arguments, based on all sorts of studies and statistics and charts and graphs. I'm not even verging on convinced. Thing is, I've never studied, charted or graphed it but I have lived it. I was that kid that got into pot at an early age, as are most of my friends. None of us miss those (insert statistic here) IQ points or whatever twaddle your observers came up with this month.

You believe your point is valid. I know it's not.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: So, RWHN, it appears your predictions of doom are contradicted

« on: May 05, 2013, 11:58:56 am »

But if I were here just shouting my opinion on the internet, instead of inserting myself into the process, I definitely would be having zero influence.  But I'm not trying to be influential for the sake of saying I'm influential.   In fact, my gf had asked me if I went to testify to have it on my resume, and I bristled a bit.  Of course not!  I testified because I truly believe legalizing marijuana is bad news for Maine and they need to hear it and now it.  This isn't about padding my resume, it's about trying to stop bad shit from happening.

It's bad shit in your opinion. The overwhelming tide of majority opinion is that it's a good thing. A really good thing. It'll reduce the negative impact prohibition has on millions of kids lives, for one thing.

But hey, you do what you have to do.

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Apple Zone / Re: This game is awesome!

« on: May 05, 2013, 11:47:17 am »

I'm currently at 608HP and level 8 sword. I lob a clone in and then use invulnerable and I can get him down to 500-odd hp

is there any way to take those fucking boots off?