A most ironic end to an emotionally numb life.

It’s not so much I would say I have trouble explaining it but rather I don’t have a single way to explain it since the occupation doesn’t have a name, at least in the English language, so I end up having a bajillion equally valid ways of crash coursing about it.

I wish I knew what to wish for.

There was a stringed guitar-like instrument excavated from ancient Maya sites that, when plucked, produces the sound of a jaguar, almost like you were playing an electronic organ. Probably more of a novelty though than something you could use for a musical band.

You aren’t imagining things. People got caught up in the weird details, the fact that the plane meant for the white house just happened to not reach its destination (even though George W. Bush who was president at the time was in Florida anyways), the supposed untrustworthiness of the US government (staging terrorist attacks to garner support for things wasn’t even a new feature among American agencies, though all confirmed proposals had been rejected by the president), the fact this resembles something out of Nero Caesar’s playbook (which would make the whole thing kind of well-established at this point), and the fact that Osama Bin Laden’s response message to Americans was “released” just before the next election (almost like they were trying to then garner support for an election).

Seek out reasons to conspiracy-theorize though and you will find an Achilles Heel one out of ten times, and people here conjure them at a megafactory’s pace. Raising an eyebrow towards the conspiracy theorists is the fact the circumstances from the Middle Eastern perspective that led to the attack though, as well as the fact there even was direct acknowledgement by Osama Bin Laden and later their hosts in Pakistan at all, make it so that, even if it had been American agents who carried it out, it still might as well have been carried out by Osama Bin Laden by some form of proxy/tribute (in other words, his nation made it impossible to say they hadn’t looked forward to overseeing it, and from a war standpoint it would have been an act of war in a way either way, plus there are the witness accounts of the plane passengers, like we should ignore those), and it skews matters that both planes and buildings in New York City were not built to code (absolutely every liberty was taken even considering the more lenient building code at the time, for example the stairs were like motel stairs and the anti-fire system was inadequate), which throws a wrench into discussions of architectural physics (of note, I consider it odd people use physics to determine the suspects, that’s more of something that merely makes one wonder the “how” about something we all know physically happened).

Rule of thumb, when people go about this, I would think one should think in terms of a court of law. You’re a prosecutor making a case against or in favor or a suspect. Are you going to say “look at the physics of something that clearly happened, that doesn’t look right” or “but Emperor Nero did it” or “the person I’m accusing has a track record” or “some things seem awfully convenient”? Maybe you would, but that’s you, and testimony would become your nightmare. Also note that I’m sure nobody is saying agnosticism isn’t completely possible, even though people would think “alright, either you think they did this or that person did it”.

Talos

Aww <3

I was talking with someone about this since I have thousands of pictures and they used them to test an AI made specifically to find reflections in large groups of pictures at a time since my sus self apparently seems to inspire the most investigation, and they remarked the only unforeshadowed thing they saw in them (aside from the fact my age in each photo can vary drastically) was there was a photo of a stack of hats, and behind me in the reflection on the china cabinet glass was a mouse on the floor.

Same.

Is it common to find metal objects willy-nilly in bodies of water that attach to magnets?

Don’t you need a door for keys you find to be functional on?

What about Roosevelt then? He got voted into serving four terms before he established a term limit. This was two hundred years after anyone thought to add term limits, because the issue of voting people in for more than two terms had never happened before.

Or John F Kennedy, whose face defined a decade the same way Princess Diana defines a decade in the UK? Or Ronald Reagan, who almost any American can quote? Or Barack Obama whose likeness was plastered on the walls of schools everywhere in the nation even despite orders not to impose on faith or political groups.

I mean, Mount Rushmore is a thing.

The megacity from Judge Dredd.

Yes, I wish I spent more time with her.

She passed away a while ago.

I’ve had many things I’ve changed my mind about this year, but they’ve all been related to past and ongoing wars. Currently there are six of these going on and it’s easy to think you won’t lose yourself in the immersion when just reading about them, let alone participating in them.

Oh… I thought they were saying the CIA weren’t experts in finding potential assassins.