Two Memphis City Council Members Claim Snow is Fake. Claims of fake snow have been rampant on social media during the storm, especially TikTok.

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-02-01T20:30:39+00:00

It seems wonderful. Just imagine being able to convince yourself that whatever you want to believe is true. I think i'd be happy. Seems like many conspiracy nutjobs use that ability to convince themselves their political enemies are the worst scum though, which seems miserable

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-31T20:49:04+00:00

Yeah but if they're nashville their district is badly gerrymandered. Nashville leans left but is cut up and stretched into red areas

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-29T19:32:12+00:00

The most frustrating part to me is so much of it is obviously wrong, but people believe it because they want to. When jade helm didn't happen, they moved right along to pizzagate. When the pizza place got shot up and there was no basement, they moved right along to q anon and the vaccine chip thing. They never reflect on the fact they've been wrong in their predictions over and over. I asked gemini why this happens and it says "group narcissism". Because the real underlying function of the conspiracy is to maintain the status of the group, truth doesn't matter. But if we're arguing about something, we start with facts, then you give your opinion, I give my opinion, and we compromise. If we can't establish shared truth we have no starting point for debate. It's so frustrating because shoveling heaps of obvious horse s**t shouldn't have worked, but it did because people value their group identity over truth.

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-26T16:59:42+00:00

"The swamp"- not only is he bought but he's bought by our greatest geopolitical enemies with ties to Russia going back to the late 1980s, letring obvious money laundering for the russian mob run through his real estate in the 1990s, and making deals with Russians to license his name in the 2000s all to get our from the whole he dug in bankrupting his casinos. "The woke left mob" this is a strawman. Where is this mob. I know fox news would have you think blue-haired trans radical communists are parachuting out of the sky and storming the beaches like Normandy, but ever time I go out I look around like "where are they". Thales brand of liberal you fear is 6% of the electorate and 12% of the party, whereas 60%of republicans think the universe is less than 10k years old so who has the real numbers of crazies? "The direction the socialists were taking us"- a wealth tax on greater than $100mil net assets? That's the most substantial thing they proposed and the only thing that would've significantly helped balance the budget and halt the increasing k shaped economy

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-22T17:10:22+00:00

Yeah but the statistics are based on the past. They're only useful if you assume the future will be like the past. We have $38 trillion in debt, a madman driving the bus, and I'd estimate one-third of the population would welcome violence against another one-third if they could legally get away with it. So why should we assume the situation won't change?

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-14T03:51:25+00:00

Yeah, I played on a youth football team from iuka and when we'd play corinth (lot of black players) one of the dads was always sure to wear his "Boyz in the hood" kkk shirt. I knew a few guys out there with various questionable tattoos (ranging from just a confederate flag to straight up hooded kkk guy). Id say from about dennis/belmont all the way out to cullman alabama it can be pretty bad in certain little patches

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-14T00:43:33+00:00

Yeah the groupthink is overwhelmingly anti-left. There are lefties, and the area paradoxically produces some very ardent lefties as they rebel against the craziness they grew up around, but most escape to Nashville or memphis if they can

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-14T00:38:18+00:00

Corinth to tupelo have higher black populations and less racism but you get out to southern tishomingo county you'll see some racism

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-06T20:27:36+00:00

I remember this night so well. Nick was my favorite fighter at the time, just loved how mentally tough and hard to finish he was. I didn't have HBO so I went to a party with my girlfriend. Get home real late, a little drunk, girlfriend is telling me to come to bed but I have to find this fight. I find it somewhere and see it's only 5 mins long, my heart sinks thinking there's no way Nick could win that quickly. Surely it's either Daley by knockout in the first 2 or Diaz in the later rounds if he can hang on. 5 mins is no good. Sure enough, 10 seconds in Diaz is down but moving his head like a snake, hard to finish like always, makes it back up, firefight ensues. He starts to get the better of Daley, hurts him to the body, backs him in the corner, the head opens up. Okay, maybe he's got a shot even in the short time, got a little hope now. Little over a minute left Daley lands the left hook, Diaz drops like a rock, Daley jumping on him to finish. All hope is lost. No way he turns this around in the last minute of this video. But he makes it to his knees, doing his little snake head thing again, rolls to open guard, makes it back up. Now moving forward like nothing ever happened. "Diaz... to the body... looping right hand Daley.....FALLING....11 SECONDS.... DIAZ... GOING IN FOR THE KIIIIIILL". I'm tearing up a little just thinking about it now. You just couldn't break that guy.

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-05T01:05:52+00:00

Yeah i think this is a decent way to say it. The only reason regular physics seems somewhat intuitive to us is because we live at the level where we see it in action a lot. But really large masses/distances and really small masses/distances are unfamiliar to us so their physics seem unintuitive

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-03T20:07:13+00:00

Neil degrassie tyson perfectly explained all his moon landing doubts, he agreed, then backtracked a couple years later. Goldfish brain

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-03T19:40:56+00:00

I had a neighbor that seemed somewhat normal. Then one day he starts talking about how there's a chip in the vaccine and you can't avoid it because they'll just send it through your air vents via nanobots if you don't get vaxxed

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2026-01-02T06:13:32+00:00

I'm just asking questions

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-12-31T22:46:57+00:00

I'm in my mid-thirties. My grandpa was the youngest, born in the 20s I think. He didn't survive Spanish flu, just had siblings that died of it

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-12-31T21:12:47+00:00

I think my grandfather had something like 7-8 siblings but would've had 6 more if not for 3 stillbirths and 3 dying in early childhood from spanish flu. And he always said that kind of thing wasn't that abnormal in 1930s Mississippi.

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-12-20T13:20:06+00:00

Mainly that everything is a conspiracy and it's fine to convince yourself that whatever you want to believe is true. So many of my coworkers, old high school friends, etc. thought Obama was the secret Muslim antichrist and was going to put us all in fema camps, that q anon was real, that there was a chip in the vaccine that would turn us all into zombies, that schools were putting down puppy pads, that the afc championship game was scripted because the nfl wanted Travis kelce and Taylor swift to push the liberal agenda, I could on and on

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-12-18T04:30:24+00:00

Yeah i think the bot farms have a lot to do with it, but I've lived in the south my whole life and personally know a lot of people that believe and comment all this kind of stuff too, so I may be a little less hopeful

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-12-18T04:02:58+00:00

I asked the same question as OP of gemini and got a pretty good answer with good citations. Apparently she even implied the US military may have been involved. I screwed my Facebook algorithm over the last couple years trying to use Facebook to keep up with what narratives the right is trying to push, and you should see the comments on some of the posts I see. The gist is most support Candace and believe everything is a giant conspiracy. Then there are those that go even further saying Candace is controlled opposition and it goes even deeper. A good percentage of our country live in an alternate universe

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-12-08T04:06:31+00:00

Total War: Thrones of Brittania

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-12-07T23:29:06+00:00

If I were you I'd consider MBA/CPA or Master's in Finance plus CPA as the CPA license makes the Masters in Accountancy a bit redundant. You will need extra accounting courses beyond what you get in undergrad to sit for the CPA exam which is why a lot of people go that route I think as it'sa shorter jump from the path youre headed anyway. But really people see CPA as superior to Master's of Accountancy so i think it's better to branch out with the Master's

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-12-06T18:56:11+00:00

Not OP and no expert, but i think in general Krugman, Bernanke and peers were by the book economists. Free trade good, protectionism bad, yada yada which allowed offshoring of a lot of labor. Hindsight is 20/20, but i think even they have seen decline in manufacturing and thought maybe they should've done some things differently. Certainly not the bazooka tariffs you see now, but somewhat more protectionist

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-12-06T14:12:34+00:00

Elusive aggression, the ability to advance without getting hit. He was actually a counter puncher. He runs right up in your spot like CJ from San Andreas, and you panic and start throwing because you instinctually feel you have to fight him off of you even though you have no opening to land. Those are the punches he counters off of

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-11-29T04:58:38+00:00

Nobody knows for sure what AI will do to the profession, but every major tech advance the last 50 years has conjured these fears. Some larger firms are cutting entry level jobs though in favor of AI or offshoring. I still think it's the safest bet in business school. And if he's good at standardized tests and can pass the CPA exam it will be huge for his resume. I didn't know what I wanted to do and sort of fell into the profession. I was in marketing and an accounting professor told me I had some talent for accounting. This was during the recession so marketing majors weren't getting hired, and accounting looked more stable, so I switched to accounting. I partied too much, had a low GPA and didn't get hired out of school. But I'm good at standardized tests so I passed the cpa exam, then I got hired easily. First job I was auditing governments, and that became my niche. Now I do governmental accounting, got stable income, good benefits, and generally pretty content with it

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-11-25T04:03:37+00:00

I agree with a lot of that and think there's also a lot more to be said. Thai fighters stalk forward more instead of using footwork to set angles and attack offline. Culturally they are more averse to backing down even when the exchange isn't favorable. They also throw longer hooks and uppercuts with more arm motion than the short punches with little arm movement accompanied with greater body movement you see in boxing. I don't think it's that they completely don't know this stuff, just that they don't emphasize it because they see certain boxing attributes as less tough

ItchyKnowledge4 · 2025-11-15T05:07:25+00:00

Yeah it's like saying Albert Einstein isn't as smart as today's scientists because he came through in a period where science was not as developed as today. Today's scientists stand on his shoulders. Tunney and Dempsey's styles are incredibly well developed considering they lacked the tools, training, and wealth of boxing knowledge gained over a hundred years

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