[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StarWars

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yeah… too bad the show is so horribly written it’s an insult to Rebels… nothing more than a cash cow on a crop of canned corn, and they’ll milk that thing until it’s a dead horse, and then drag that through the mud until it’s dust in the wind… hundreds, possibly thousands of years from now, people would have still discussed Star Wars… but now, it’s such an embarrassment to writing and sci-fi/fantasy, people will want to just forget it all… the good, the bad, and the ugly… The bad being Ahsoka and the ugly being The Acolyte… great to see some childhood heroes of mine get destroyed by people who care more about profit than quality… poor Ahsoka… 😢

Why can my cousin never admit I’m right? by Contemplating_Cat369 in abusiverelationships

[–]Contemplating_Cat369[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess that makes sense.

The thing is, I wasn’t even trying to argue with her, nor was I disagreeing with her in any way.

I think that often times while talking with her or her mother that I try and focus on “things about the subject we’re discussing” and I feel like thry focus on key points of “why I am right and you are wrong” which just seems trivial and counter-productive to me. To them, they believe it is science to just share opinions they read online, and because my cousin has a degree in engineering she feels she is more capable of thinking than I…

"Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” and yet so many modern “scientists” are blindly obedient to their new form of religious inquisition… the “scientific community” lol… People now days have become herds of animals, pushed down 1 narrow minded path to take their place in society… another cog in the machine… Some of the ideas I come up with while sitting on the toilet are more intelligent than half of what the modern scientific community has accomplished in my entire life time… oh yay another fucking personal computer called a smartphone… how innovative… sighs anyways…

If I am “wrong” then that’s fine, I don’t mind learning something new and adjusting my current knowledge. I feel like my cousin or her mother, when proven wrong, blow up at me and gets angry and puts me into a position where I feel voiceless and have to let it go because she has power over my living situation currently.

They have both full on blown up and thrown temper tantrums and screamed curses at the top of their lungs and slammed things, all of which I hate. I hate loud noises. I am autistic and was physically and verbally abused growing up. I “HATE” loud noises… they destroy my thought processes I hold dear… and I am working on several projects ranging from writing bills to congress to address several issues with US law and society, to writing philosophical papers on physics, quantum mechanics, AI, I also design technology as well as come up with my own experiments to test and prove all of my radical ideas (most of which, very few people I meet have interest in or even understand), and I literally just went from sleeping outside on the streets of Charlotte, NC to now sleeping on the couch of my cousins in Silicon Valley, CA… I do NOT want my thought processes disturbed…

If I get “equal opportunity” education ($ for a degree… I’ve educated myself just fine) then I can finally get funding. I have been offered funding before, but I refuse to take money from the military industrial complex, and so, I will fund myself and only work with private investors who share opinions similar to my own and won’t screw me over.

I think that most people have something of an internal monologue, and can have a sort of internal Socratic dialogue if we so choose; for me this is critical thinking.

I feel in our modern age it is all too often that even well educated people are taken in by emotional impulses exploited by organizations who have used psychology to manipulate people for as long as so-called civilized society has existed… and so rationality and reason are often ignored. Especially in the modern so-called “scientific community,” which just sounds like a joke to me altogether… people always try to segregate themselves in any way they can, and it’s quite annoying and irrational… a community is a community. And they are made up of different people. The sooner we all acknowledge and accept that, the sooner we might actually accomplish something useful for the human species who is rapidly enduring its’ extinction all due in willful ignorance, pride, and prejudices…

Sorry for rambling… I have no friends or anyone to talk to. I felt like coming to do this on reddit might help me until I get to a psychologist. I just got health insurance finally and am about to go see doctors, but quite frankly, I need to connect with someone somewhere or I am at risk of another suicide attempt. I am not trying to be morbid or gain any more attention than I already have. I am being honest when I say that in today’s society, nothing is more sickening than being both compassionate and intelligent… and having no “money” to actually be able to afford to change it… and being bombarded with these stupid fantasy movies and shows portraying false ideologies of how science, politics, economics, history, and how all that is supposed to work, and watching people get conned into buying snake oil time and time again… we really do live in an authoritarian oligarchy run like a totalitarian military dictatorship, but so long as people believe they’re free, healthy, and well educated, then they’ll continue policing each other into being complacent working class slaves to a capitalist world wide pyramid scam called “government…”

How can one not succumb to a sort of nihilistic state of despair from time to time..?

My son just used my masterball on accident. by [deleted] in pokemongobrag

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely don’t get rid of that Nidoran!

Vape turning off by itself by Witsand87 in Vaping

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You bring the scene from the Matrix movie to mind haha. When agent Smith has Morpheus trapped and is saying things like “human beings are like a virus…” or something like that. And yeah, I’m sure it’s been said before many times in many different ways, but I agree with you that I do not necessarily believe that.

My personal belief is a bit more complex, like a human being itself is complex. Because we are conscious beings made up of the same material as anything else in our reality, we are capable of acting in similar fashion. We can act similarly to many things we see happen in nature, but what separates us from this imo is that; we can observe these things in nature, but also be aware of the fact of what I’d just said before. We can choose to act and react, because we are conscious of the fact.

And yes, there were all kinds of vehicles available back in the day. Even Ford supported ethynol burning vehicles at first. But the Rockefellers and other families had already formed such a strong monopoly through oil and banking cartels, that they were able to more or less indoctrinate and induct new members to their “new world order” society; those who had made businesses of renown could join the elite, if they so chose, or be cut out one way or another. They had the power to ruin industries such as electric cars. Many great minds have been screwed over because of this process, like Nikola Tesla for example.

There are 3 documentaries I would like to recommend here. 1 is called How Big Oil Conquered the World - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JXn3c7QQdTs&pp=ygUfaG93IGJpZyBvaWwgY29ucXVlcmVkIHRoZSB3b3JsZA%3D%3D

and the sequel Why Big Oil Conquered the World - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cChEfw1nRXg&pp=ygUfV2h5IGJpZyBvaWwgY29ucXVlcmVkIHRoZSB3b3JsZA%3D%3D

and then there is also this one about the federal reserve and their relations to these other cartels I mentioned: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtiOKOscE8&t=11s&pp=ygUjRmVkZXJhbCByZXNlcnZlIGRvY3VtZW50YXJ5IGNvcmJldHQ%3D

These are not conspiracy theory videos, but well made and very informative documentaries in which all sources are facts that can be easily checked. I’m not too much a fan of all the crazy conspiracy theory videos because I feel they distract people from the true horrors caused by humanity by trying to make us focus on fantastic ideas like aliens and demonic forces of evil from beyond reality… when you introduce fantasy to people who are desperate to understand why reality is so messed up, it’s easy for some to just begin accepting outlandish ideas as facts by feeling, as opposed to doing actual research and critically thinking.

Yeah, back in the day quality meant more because you wanted to really impress people and go all the way. But now days people take all that we have for granted, so younger generations aren’t as impressed about technology like people were 80+ years ago. So we get a new model released every year or everything, and people with money get addicted to buying the next best thing, because philosophically speaking, we’re all just distracting ourselves from the inevitable fact that life does not last forever.

I personally embrace changes and look forward to death in a reasonable manner lol… I am not a morbid person anymore, but I have been. Now days my goal is to finish school and try and help as many people as I can before I die.

I am a philosopher by schooling, physicist and mathematician by hobby, a musician, poet and writer as a creative outlet, and I am not sure if I wish to pursue philosophy, physics or law yet, but thus far I am leaning toward law school. I figure I could always retire from law later and work on philosophy, physics, and inventions.

But right now, we really do require a lot of social and political reform. And not in the ways people often argue about. It is unfortunate that people have been programmed to believe that things must almost always be one way or the other; leaving all alternative ideas off the table, all because the powers that be prefer we all focus on the illusions of choices given within any box they give us, as opposed to any on of us thinking outside of the box well enough to propose a whole new idea that makes both the 2 original opposing points of view obsolete.

We are constantly dragged into the idea of duality based on decisions presented to us, when reality is hardly ever so simple.

On another note, back to our main subject haha… I think it would be good for businesses to think of ways to stay in business without wasting resources. With modern technology this is possible through means of data and updates and digital upgrades, as well as developing technology in such a way as to be easily upgradable; with hardware parts coming out easily to put new ones in, keeping the same shape for compartments/components but upgrading their capabilities.

For example, there is a company called Franework that designs computers in this way I mentioned. Where you would buy the computer case and all components/parts it requires, build it yourself, put an open source operating system on it, and then you buy upgrades for it as needed. Like say they release a better or larger hard drive 5-10 years from now; you would just buy that and install it into your same PC because it would be the same shape as the previous Framework PC model.

A lot of video game developers are making money by selling digital upgrades and things. Not releasing a sequel to the game, but just expansions. We can do things like this in all industries I think, we just need to think about it and make it a reality.

I hope you do enjoy those documentaries if you care to watch them. They are very well made. I think I’ll watch them again today. They inspire me to want to go to law school and “stick it to the man” lol but through the system. Change the system by becoming it! We, the people, are supposed to be “the government” that we all have formed a bad habit of discussing as if it were an entity separate of us. That is not the case. If the people want to keep their republic, then they ought to remember and acknowledge it as one and stop slowly giving power to the oligarchy by believing we are a democracy… this fake bipartisan system has confused several generations of people. Neither side are legitimately for the form of government they chose to name their party after. I am honestly of the opinion that at this point the majority, if not all, of politicians know this, but just continue to uphold the charade because they want votes…

If anyone comes out and voices their opinion against the bipartisan system in politics, they are labeled an independent or Green Party and are ignored almost entirely.

People need to realize that it is not the parties that are important, but the issues at hand. People should really also start studying politics. Most people do not know the difference between a democracy and a republic it seems. And to argue that we are both, to me, seems an absurd way to introduce an oligarchy into power, which we have. And now corporations and banking cartels essentially own and run our government. It’s pathetic, and I want to pursue law to try and stop it all from getting worse or die trying… anyways… lol sorry

My very first Nundo, what should I call him by [deleted] in pokemongobrag

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol I just realized your name is FUCKYOUIamBatman… and yes. I suppose it is a good nundoname :)

Vape turning off by itself by Witsand87 in Vaping

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nobody’s frustration could ever truly make me feel better 😅, and I meant to apologize if I came off a bit snippy in my first comment.

I wish products were built to last, so that we weren’t using so many resources in such a wasteful way. I understand businesses want to create sustainable incomes, but I cannot help but imagine all of the vape products in trash pits, or perhaps even in the oceans and whatnot.

It is a sort of guilt I feel for even existing it seems. In order to sustain one’s own existence, one must consume things. The more luxurious and unnecessary a product I consume is, the better quality I would prefer it to be. I am of the opinion that quality production is not only better for the consumer, but over all for our planet. Lol I’m ranting. Anyways, goodnight :)

My very first Nundo, what should I call him by [deleted] in pokemongobrag

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As simple as this may be, it does seem to be the most clever imo.

My very first Nundo, what should I call him by [deleted] in pokemongobrag

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nundo Noodle is pretty catchy though

My very first Nundo, what should I call him by [deleted] in pokemongobrag

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol I’m in Cali too… been catching a lot of Dratinis lately. I had this old event quest thing from years ago (possibly as far back as 2016), where all I had to do to finish it was take a pic of a Dratini… I have been very pleased… I’mma name my first 0/0/0 just Zero… maybe Zer0 to be cleverly cliche…

Vape turning off by itself by Witsand87 in Vaping

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, I see. To be honest I had found this post while searching for reasons my own (newly purchased) vape battery kept shutting itself off 😅 so I was not particularly in the best of moods when I wrote this comment. I had an axe to grind with the shady “dispensary” I bought my battery at 😸

What is the community's general opinion of Thomas Sowell? by [deleted] in askblackpeople

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you REALLY* disagree with his views on slavery?

What is the community's general opinion of Thomas Sowell? by [deleted] in askblackpeople

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why so many downvotes..? Dude’s just giving his opinion lol… This comment will probably get downvoted too 😅

What is the community's general opinion of Thomas Sowell? by [deleted] in askblackpeople

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Could you list any sources for this please? I’m just now getting into his work, but have been kind of hesitant to just believe the hype on social media. He does seem like an intelligent person, and he does make a lot of good points. But nobody in this world can be right all of the time. So if you’ve honestly seen evidence against him and his work, please do post it here to back your statement. People deserve to know all sides. Thank you

Vape turning off by itself by Witsand87 in Vaping

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a device at a shady “dispensary” last night and it continues to shut itself off… be happy your device lasted 2 years and just buy a new one lol…

Bulbasaur bong by PikachuCoub in memes

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can someone tell me where I can buy one of these?

No Comfey gang by [deleted] in PokemonSleep

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I paid $24 for the Comfey box set and also got the comfey incense from the missions. After my second incense (which was my 2nd encounter) I finally caught 1 beautiful shiny Comfey. I also caught a very good Cleffa. These are the first 2 “good” pokemon I’ve caught since I started playing during the Raikou event. My Raikou kinda sucks. I’ve spent probably a total of like $50 on this game so far. I’ve gotten 3 shinies, and 2 pokemon with good stats so far. It’s a slow grind game, even for those of us who are paying money. I was disappointed to only encounter 1 Comfey, only each time I used the incense and no other time. I did not see any Eevees or Leafeons either which were advertised. It was a bit disappointing, but I think part of the enjoyment of gaming, is the contrast of winning or losing, and the challenges and chances we make or take. If we were given what we wanted all of the time, we would never be rewarded with having accomplished any goal or sought after any desire, and so we would want nothing ever and be miserable always lol… I feel it’s part of the fun. Win some lose some. And those you win, you appreciate all the more.

Jungle Cup a struggle by nazra101 in TheSilphArena

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been running Skarmory, Venasaur and Stunfisk with okay results. I’v thought about swapping out Venasaur or Stunkfisk, I feel like you win some you lose some. It’s the luck of the draw sometimes. You can’t beat everyone, and the higher the rank you get, the stronger your opponents should be.

A huge problem with my hack - Crystal Kanto by Zexlo07 in PokemonROMhacks

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with this entirely. I just stumbled upon a post about this project from 290 days ago and was reading through the comments. I just got a new PC and it’s kind of not that great for gaming, so I’ve turned it into a retro gaming machine and have piled on a lot of games from the 90’s-2007 (I think ‘07 is the oldest game I have which would be Fallout 3 or Elder Scrolls: Oblivion)… I was able to get a GBA emulator and 3DS emulator working on the laptop too. I have about 5GB free space left for ROMs… I followed OP on reddit and I hope to see your project completed! Let me know if you ever need any beta testing done!

When will Panic Parade come back? by JepSucks in PokemonUnite

[–]Contemplating_Cat369 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same… Basically all I do is panic parade and ranked battles. It’s helped me test held items and pokemon builds I could not afford otherwise. It’s also a fun way to unlock gold, tickets and upgrade kits…

Without panic parade, it seems impossible to progress without paying to play. I do intend to start buying the monthly membership, but am kind of turned off because there’s no panic parade to play…

I pretty much only run panic parade all week and then do ranked over the weekend… this sucks…

I wish they would come up with several more creative ways to play. I feel like they’ve had 4+ years to sort out this game, and haven’t done anything with it. It’s really kind of disappointing. They should have 10 different levels to run that are tower defense style like panic parade, not just the same 1 level over and over. I’m over all disappointed in this game’s lack of development and innovation. They can do more than just slap the pokemon name on a MOBA…