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it annoys me greatly when people blame the depression of their kids on external things. "climate change", "social media", "the pandemic" and so on.

blame your own "woe is me" attitude and intellectual sloth of seeing the only solution in trading in your agency.

it is the responsibility of a parent to teach and guide their child how to deal with these things in a productive, peaceful way that doesn't force them to kill their light.

don't blame the problems, blame your inability to come up with a better way to deal with them and failing to teach your child to do so.

this one time you can't get away with handing off your duty.

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Now in Effect: Indiana Law Takes Additional Steps Against a CBDC

Last year, Indiana became the first state to enact a law that removed a central bank digital currency (CBDC) from the definition of money in the state. On Jan. 9, Sen. Eric Koch introduced Senate Bill 180 (SB180) to expand on that law.

The new law prohibits state agencies from accepting payments made with a central bank digital currency for any service, tax, license, permit, fee, information, or other amount due the governmental body. It also bars government agencies from requiring payments to be made with a central bank digital currency.

Additionally, under the law, state government bodies are prohibited from advocating for or supporting the testing, adoption, or implementation of a central bank digital currency by the United States government.

The House passed SB180 by an 83-11 vote. The Senate approved the measure by a 48-0 vote. With Gov. Eric Holcomb’s signature, the law went into effect July 1.

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/07/now-in-effect-indiana-law-takes-additional-steps-against-a-cbdc/
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@xianc78 Somewhere between "Secret Military Aircraft/Missiles" and Psyops. Ignore the gang violence, hey look it's an alien.
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@xianc78 I had a teacher who was an airforce pilot during Vietnam. Told us a story about how they saw a UFO, called it in over the radio, and it promptly got elevated to someone higher in command who told them to turn back and not speak about it ever again.

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Learning is good
Never stop learning
Try to be well rounded

You can do this better on your own today than at an overpriced university
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@mitchconner @marine @PurpCat @djsumdog @jeff @PNS @Flick I was on lots of different meds for depression and epilepsy throughout high school and they fucked me up hardcore. The therapy I had while on them was ass. Took a couple years after stopping taking them to feel normal again. Those high school years feel like a completely different person lived them, like I watched someone else's memories. It's really weird.

My best friend got his degree in pharmacology last year and has already quit. Says he hates the culture and doesn't want to be complicit in fucking people over because he's seen it happen in real time. I hope one day we look back on all of this and see what a monstrous machine it was.

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If covid showed anything, it's that the government could get 60% of normies to commit rwandan genocide-tier atrocities with a week or 2 or NPC programming
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UFOs are:

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the Twitter is sinking drinking game: take a drink every time someone is leaving Twitter leaves forever (comes back because nobody pays attention on other sites)
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Aliens / space travel 

A common argument against aliens visiting earth is that travel between stars is impossible because of the long distance and speed of light barrier

This argument is fallacious. We have no idea whether faster than light travel is impossible, or whether or not there is some way to circumvent space thru wormholes or something like that. We simply do not know how it could be possible

I'm not saying it IS possible, I'm saying we dont know either way

If you're up on modern physics you know that our current knowledge of how the universe works is extremely limited, we really have no idea what Black Holes are or how they work, we dont know how subatomic particles work, I think there's something like 11 competing theories of physics right now that seek to explain them and none of them are faring well against ongoing research

Again I'm not saying aliens do or could visit earth, but dogmatically saying its impossible is not "skeptical" but a dogmatic position following from faulty assumptions. An older an more technologically advanced species may well have figured these things out

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Actually deleting Twitter this time since it's just pure engagement farming now.
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