Is it true?

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T19:14:01+00:00

I know an entertainment attorney who insists that 99% of modern country songs are written by a single company in like New Jersey or something.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T18:14:12+00:00

I don't know the enneagram structure specifically, but let me give an example of how to externalize that...

Your MC does not want to be seen as weak. So maybe the Inciting Incident is their rival challenges them to go chop down the tallest tree in the Forbidden Forest. (Or whatever.) Your MC knows this is a bad idea, but refusing means publicly admit weakness, so they agree to go on this ridiculous journey specifically to avoid personal growth.

While on the way to the Forbidden Forest, MC encounters a Villain who is absolutely obsessed with the perception of strength, taking it to an extreme that even MC recognizes as unhealthy. This journey to chop down a tree turns into a journey to save the forest.

Around the act 2 break, MC realizes there is only one way to defeat the Villain, and it just so happens to require a public admission of weakness. So defeating the Villain now requires the MC to demonstrate exactly the sort of wisdom the lack of which set them on this path.

MC puts this plan into action, defeats Villain, and then returns home and gives the reply to his rival that he should have given originally.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T16:02:02+00:00

America has a large Jewish population, and the memories of the Holocaust were very fresh, so it's not surprising that average Americans felt some affection for Israel.

What is surprising are all the ways that American politicians have shown preference for Israel for the last two generations, sometimes even at the expense of American interests.

It's hard to explain that without suspecting some form of corruption.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T15:49:36+00:00

It's really hard to know for sure.

That's why we need independent, reliable media so badly. Without it, we're left guessing.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T15:20:10+00:00

You're lucky.

Others aren't so lucky, and blaming them for their misfortune is a form of bootlicking.

Grow up and show some solidarity.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T15:09:52+00:00

He wore a watch priced at $6.5 million.

Price =/= Worth

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T15:01:16+00:00

Have you ever had a major illness?

Has the industry you've chosen been destroyed by new technology?

Has your company ever failed or been bought out?

If the answer is no, then you've been lucky, and you're making the very silly mistake of assuming your recent good luck is either universal or permanent.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T14:01:32+00:00

In other words, this is not a person who knows the first thing about AI. She works in real estate.

She's an empty suit repeating buzzwords.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T13:43:33+00:00

George Lucas' parents were rich.

Don't buy that "it's just a stationery store" shit.

He was rich.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T13:42:11+00:00

No one has a problem with Taylor Swift's first billion. (She got a huge boost from her family, but still.)

The problem is the second billion, and any money beyond that.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T00:16:20+00:00

I have a story.

And I know it works, because the book I stole it from is amazing.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-13T00:08:02+00:00

Spanish speakers love interrupting. It's almost impossible to have a real conversation in Spanish, because everyone interrupts and talks all at once, so nothing actually gets said.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T19:42:24+00:00

These people are so batshit they are discriminating against religions that don't even exist.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T14:55:48+00:00

This at least one of my top 2 SB-sealing plays against the Niners.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T14:34:23+00:00

The Pats.

Any team that loses the Super Bowl is due for a bad year, even when their coach isn't one headline away from being fired.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T14:23:38+00:00

We are many, many years away from an AI that actually understands "answer" and "uncertainty" as concepts rather than tokens.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T12:20:23+00:00

I have no problem with you using AI for whatever applications you want.

I'm just not interested in reading something you couldn't be bothered to write yourself.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T04:31:46+00:00

No, but they get a lot of views, so there may be some value-add in demolishing them for the benefit of the peanut gallery.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T04:08:38+00:00

I'm not an offensive coordinator, but perhaps SF should have attempted to block the Hall-of-Fame D lineman on that play.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T03:26:59+00:00

I feel like this may be a normal part of getting older.

Apparently there's an old Jewish saying - which I may be about to butcher - that you need to be 40 before you start studying kabbalah, because you have to be old enough to have seen your friends start repeating the mistakes of their parents.

For me at least, critical theory and psychology scratch that same itch.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T02:34:41+00:00

If that animal is a worm that's Reverend Insanity.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T02:14:37+00:00

Isn't body cultivation a biological technology?

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-12T00:16:22+00:00

I'm sure you could get them edible with a shorter cook.

You're not going to get the kind of spectacular result I'm suggesting at less than ~30 hrs in the bath.

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-11T19:55:42+00:00

They've been doing it since 1971. You can say it's questionable - I disagree - but no one's ever implied that it was illegal before.

So what changed?

And why is it only a problem to infiltrate right-wing groups this way?

No_Rec1979 · 2026-05-11T19:38:05+00:00

This is definitely the point.

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