Blister packs aren’t a problem, they save lives. In a moment of weakness it’s easy to grab a handful of pills from a bottle. Often by the time a few pills are removed from a blister pack the desire to continue diminishes. Pain in the ass? Sure. Problem? Nope.

Is that a thing? I’m in Canada and I’ve never seen a duplex sell as a single house. If you could find it that would be a pretty sweet deal

Or buying a duplex and renting half of it

That’s just buying two houses to rent one though

Haha funny you mention that I went to edit in to add my contribution but I guess I quit without sending.

This has been a really interesting post. After going through all the amazing films I’ve become hopeful (probably unrealistically) that with the prevalence of not only CGI but now “AI”, we may just get lucky enough to see a practical effect renaissance. There’s a charm and soul in practical effects that’s lacking in CGI, and completely missing in AI.

Check out the M4 fan edit. I recommend this at every opportunity haha. They cut down the entire extended trilogy into a 4 hour film, covering only the events in The Hobbit novel. One of the many adjustments they make is colour correction, which really helps with the “unfinished” feel you’re talking about. It’s incredibly well done, and aside from a few janky cuts is the definitive version of The Hobbit movies imo.

I smoked for 20 years, 20ish cigs a day on average. For me quitting was all mental, using logic. Every time I tried and failed was the same thing: “I feel like I’m finally ready to quit”, then back at it a few days/weeks later. I was always waiting for the day I was ready for it and kept telling myself that day was coming.

4 years ago I was finally honest with myself. I’m never going to be ready. I like it too much, that magic day is just never gonna come. That’s when I realized that if I quit, the only way I would quit is when I wasn’t ready for it, and if I quit when I’m not ready, today’s just as good a day as any other. Logically I’d never be any more ready than I was that day, and if I didn’t quit the day I realized that then I never would.

Haven’t touched a cig in 4 years. Crave it every day though haha.

Which brings up the fact that an invisible person would be blind. Pretty useless power.

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This entire conversation is based on what the op asked. Would the 99% take what the 1% has. You suggested they couldn’t take it, I suggested they wouldn’t have to they could just cut them off. The entire premise is based on the 99% standing up and uniting. It was an interesting question dude, no need to be insulting.

Wen you’re accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression. And that’s just for us regular folk. These people live a life of luxury we’ll never understand, and they never get told ‘no’. So yeah, as dumb as it sounds, when you’ve lived a life getting everything you ever want finding out you can’t have that smoothie can have an effect.

I’m not saying that first smoothie would be the trigger point, but the idea is lack of access. Cut off the new sewage drainage from billionaire island. Cut off deliveries of any kind. They’re used to lobster and caviar at the snap of a finger. Kraft Dinner will be unacceptable. Lock them in their utopias and see how long they last.

How long until their smart homes break down and they can’t bring in IT to fix it? These things can absolutely have an effect.

I don’t know where you got your definition of capitalism “results in economic singularities and infinite wealth for everyone”, but it’s wrong. The West is currently in late-stage capitalism, which is always the outcome of a capitalist system: wealth and power gets consolidated into the hands of the few, while the many suffer.

The term “leftist” can best be described politically, as supporting the political left. The problem with that term currently is that it’s used to define non-political ideology as well, like social aspects such as empathy/sympathy. I’m unsure where you stand when you call yourself “leftist” so it’s hard to say if your definition can mix with capitalism.

Fundamentally, in my opinion no, enjoying capitalsim is supporting a system that inherently causes inequality, wealth gaps, and the concept of profits over people, which are the opposite of a standard definition of “leftist” beliefs no matter how you define it.

My question to you is, would you still blindly support capitalism if you were one of the many who didn’t benefit from it?

When you have 10000 people to 1, a lot can be accomplished with some organization. You don’t have to get to them on their islands if you take back the mainland. Cut them off. Eventually they’ll run out of supplies, and since they’re used to getting whatever they want whenever they want, they’ll run out of something they’re accustomed to getting within days.

Haha appreciate the kind words thank you. I’m Canadian so it didn’t affect any understanding, just sounded funny. Sean Connery made the sh lisp work for him but I don’t imagine he could have with a th lisp.

English speaking actors/characters with a th lisp tend to be stereotypically nerdy/child like/adorable kid types, characters that are meant to be cute or sympathetic, but not to be taken very seriously.

As far as mirroring, I’m an artist as well so I learn visually the best. Seeing my mum make the correct sound and then how I made my incorrect sound made me understand completely.

It’s not something I often think about, but I am proud to have corrected it myself. My parents were looking into speech therapists after I brought it up but I wanted to see if I could do it myself first. I still make a sharp whistle at times which I suspect stems from maybe “overcorrecting” my teeth/tongue placement early on.

My tongue protruded between upper and lower creating the “classic” lisp, not the “cool” Sean Connery sh lisp haha. Didn’t even know I had it until some new kid in school made fun of me in grade 6.

I remember I came home and asked my mum if I talked funny and she reluctantly told me I had a lisp. I asked her to hold her mouth open with her fingers to see her teeth when she made an ‘s’, then show me how I did it. Once I saw the difference I understood to keep my tongue behind my teeth and just made a conscious effort to correct it every time I spoke for months.

I have an overbite so it was challenging to land the bottom of my top teeth on the top of my bottom teeth, but after a few months it became habit. I’m a freelance voice actor now haha.

ICE has already detained and assaulted over 170 citizens, let alone all the people in the US who are there legally. You’re a fool if you still believe the US gov’t is only going after “the bad ones and the criminals”. This is systematic escalation and normalization of detainment. I mean, even Joe fucking Rogan sees it for what it is, and that’s really saying something.

Could be, but it was a lot of conscious work too haha

I’m not a speech therapist but I did train myself out of a lisp in grade 6. Does that count?

I used to live across the street from a guy who had his Xmas lights string up permanently and would screw/unscrew each bulb.

The years of buildup to you getting 300B before 2016 would alter the course of history though, making all your knowledge useless after you’ve amassed whatever amount changes history. You’d be hard pressed to make financial gains before you’re 18, so you’d amass 300B between 2010 and 2016. At some point early on you’d draw too much attention and change history enough to have no idea what’s coming.