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This landed nicely upon my lobes and associated apparatus.

Sadly, I suspect most of these clothingless emperors feel shame in some extreme/profound ways and it’s a huge part of what motivates them (VP, DJT, KJU, BaA, etc)… And they’re too often over correcting in ways too wicked.

Wait, there’s bath photos? This thread of yawns just interest spawned.

Im sure he’s feeling bolstered after meeting today with China’s Xi.

It would’ve been quicker had you just said, “No.”

Oil execs who didn’t want to cut off supply to Europe with winter coming “Join or die.”

Absolutely, and it's more or less always been the case with humans (and I hypothesize, non-human animals) for as long as time itself. We're rather tribal, naturally seek others who confirm our preconceptions / remind us of ourselves, and it takes conscious attention focus to avoid splitting everyone into "us" and "them" buckets. With that foundation as the background, many humans are then quite easily drawn to specific narratives even when they're self-evidently false, even you and me who are otherwise rather rational and introspective. The internet has just supercharged it. In the before-times, we had to find these like-minded morons members of society in our own local village or town with maybe a few hundred people. The connections would only occur after chance encounters once or twice yearly at the local feed store or fuel pumping station. Now, however, we can find them on every corner of the oblate spheroid earth... nothing more needed than an internet connection, and the underlying software is actively pushing the connections which further amplify this tribalism and speed its growth. Then, corporations who build and manage the algorithms prioritize engagement, attention, and time focused within the app or in the community. They're financially incentivized to lock our minds into their worlds for as long as absolutely possible because it generates advertising dollars, and so they amplify the most attention grabbing content... which, as you surely have seen, is often the most extreme, most outrageous, and most disconnected from empirical reality. News is boring. Fighting and drama are fun. Humans are pretty simple in the end. Add to that "bad actors" and nation states who maintain their own power and wealth by convincing the masses not just of specific untruths, but of the idea that there's not such thing as truth and truth itself is an impossibility... and we land in the state we're in now with wars, and election denial, and climate change denial, and basically anything else that distracts us like cats to catnip instead of focusing on real problems that require our collective efforts and attention or from focusing on the cronies and crooks who want us focused on anything BUT them. Things will likely get worse before they get better now with deep-fake video technology and easily deployed bots and troll armies... but I do have a lot of faith in our younger digital natives who are aware of these challenges and organically building a societal immunity to much of it just with how they engage together. Their "mental immune systems" are more familiar and better experienced with these mind viruses and better equipped IMO to stamp them out than generations past.

Do you know what a false dichotomy is? What makes our position what? In what way?

Special, like in a short bus kind of way?

How do you know? Do you know what a nonsequitur is? What makes our position “central,” and what do you mean by “our position?”

How is that relevant?

Which evidence?

Before… time? A direction… before space? There is no north of the North Pole. There is direction before space itself. There is no “before” time itself. You basically just told us that you agreed because a unicorn told you to. In other words, you just preferred that answer. It aligned with your preconceptions and felt more psychologically comfortable. That’s fine. No judgment, but answer this: What… for you personally… would it mean to “know” anything at all? You sound solipsistic, even nihilistic… and nihilism isn’t love of Cleopatras Nile, more an annoyance that subtracts the smile. They actually sorta do when viewed through the prism of a weak minded adolescent whose mommy doesn’t love him and who’s bored of masturbating so is trying get a rise out of others online to feel a false sense of power and superiority, much like a pathetic booger eating troll

Shed like fur from a dog falling to the floor, not a small structure used for storing garden tools

I recommend drawing it with fat crayons and glitter

There is a 3rd option: Involuntary dismissal from the community

Pretty much everything you just said is wrong

Please elaborate

Why?

I presume you mean the observable universe, which is 93 Billion light years in diameter, as the spatial size of the entire universe is unknown

Which one?

I sincerely hope the validity of this view persists even in the face of the attrition that’s coming soon with winter, driven mostly through critical resources like energy and food, both of which Russia can clamp down upon rather fiercely if they feel backed into a corner.

Thank you for sharing. Now, will you please address the request for supporting evidence for the claim you DID make and not continue evading by asking me for evidence of claims I did NOT make?

It may be hidden amidst all the self righteousness and moral outrage so maybe I just missed it, but I see nothing there which addresses the point I made. Yes, and I notice you have still failed to provide a citation for that despite a direct request to please do so.

What are the main bullet points in your outline?