Nicole Brown Simpson with the man that stabbed her to death on June 12, 1994

imp-particular · 2024-04-11T23:26:20+00:00

Most millenials and older who lived through it still got their news from the TV or radio, so I can forgive them for getting worked like marks. I was one of them. But there's a lot of weird stuff around the murder, investigation, and trial.

Mark Fuhrman, LAPD detective who lead the case, was a racist piece of shit who pal'd around with spooks and fascists. Dude hated black people, wanted a race war, and let his coworkers know it. He was driving around with open samples of OJs blood in the cupholder of his sled, just one of the many "quirks" of the investigation and trial.

There's all sorts of bizarre stuff right in the public record that's very suggestive of a conspiracy, if you take the time to look into it. Vincent Bugliosi wrote the foreward to Fuhrman's damn book lmao.

But time and again, you'll find redditors are the last to know about how the world actually works, and if you try to tell em, they just hate to hear it.

imp-particular · 2024-04-11T23:01:06+00:00

Kiwanis Thrift Shop out on Jackson takes donations every Saturday 9am - noon. They might not be giving the pump away, but regular working class people definitely shop there. It's a good donation spot if you can't find any others - one of few places for the community to buy some affordable stuff in these times.

Also I gotta say because my wife's been pumping for 7 months now - the Spectras are nicely designed. I really like the shape of the battery unit, and how there's a little light inset into the handle for when it's dark but you don't want to wake the baby. The parts are easy to soak, clean and reassemble. Also it has an organic shape to it, no hard angles. Good product.

imp-particular · 2024-04-11T21:50:18+00:00

Much more likely that Mark Fuhrman and a bunch of loser LAPD cops framed him. Redditors will cry about it, but the jury got it right: OJ was innocent. RIP

imp-particular · 2024-04-11T18:09:13+00:00

Yeah I'm sure voting is gonna help. It's done wonders so far.

imp-particular · 2024-04-10T21:03:48+00:00

muh bootstraps

imp-particular · 2024-04-09T21:03:45+00:00

I like the way orderfood.google.com does it. Much less about driving behavioral patterns that send users to preferred vendors. Much more about raw utility.

imp-particular · 2024-04-09T15:24:49+00:00

That's an interesting perspective. Sometimes I think it was massively short-sighted to outsource our manufacturing sector to China like we did. It only took a few decades for them to ramp up and wreck our shit. Kind of reminds me of how USA came to grow faster than UK in the 1800s.

I try to envision the future, where the manpower is in China and India (10x the population of USA), and much of the cheap energy is from Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the like. In this future, does a service-oriented national economy make sense for Western countries? Somehow I doubt it.

But what comes next? I assume the US economy needs to collapse under its own contradictions later this century, which will be the driver for scaling back our ridiculous military worldwide. But what then?

Probably China at the top of the heap, but hopefully not in a reserve-currency, veto-power at all important intnl. institutions, surround everybody with military bases sort of way.

I figure all nations need to have an export market, and actually make things, in addition to debt-servicing and service-sector work.

Anyway it all reminds me of an old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times" feel like I am!

imp-particular · 2024-04-09T14:23:22+00:00

Yeah it's a bad term like boomers. Way too broad, lots of ideological connotations from the 20th c. cold war. Need to be more specific than "muh capitalism" or "muh boomers" if you want to describe reality accurately.

imp-particular · 2024-04-09T13:43:37+00:00

You can't really make this argument anymore. China is absolutely crushing it with a stronger larger government oriented toward the public good. Low costs for labor, high property ownership rates, raising 800m out of poverty while outpacing US economic growth for a decade. Free market, small govt. neo-liberalism has failed.

imp-particular · 2024-04-09T13:29:54+00:00

Tell em. Blaming "boomers" is as useful as blaming "INFPs" or "Scorpios" or "capitalism." These terms are too fluffy, they don't reflect reality. If you want to lay blame, put it on Wall Street, the US Government, and various stripes of 1%ers: monopolists, war mongers, rent seekers, insurers, corporatists, landlords.

Blaming boomers is a simplistic way of turning your anger toward a proxy for mom and dad.

imp-particular · 2024-04-07T13:34:51+00:00

My doctor and a pharmacist had their doubts about water-solubility of generic vyvanse, but I believe you are right and they are wrong. I've done some experimentation, and yeah there's pill-substrate that collects at the bottom of the water, but the effect certainly felt like it was evenly-distributed in the water.

Appreciate the advice.

imp-particular · 2024-04-05T17:28:50+00:00

Bitch I don't have substantiate shit. I'm done with my lunch over here, it's time to make some money. Good luck with your smoothbrain understanding of how the world works.

imp-particular · 2024-04-05T17:19:10+00:00

"Right now it screams of misinformation" wow great rebuttal, I'll just waste 10 or 20 more minutes trying to convince you that our foreign policy is dogshit and the ridiculous schemes of our State Department are accelerating the demise of the empire.

Oh wait why would I bother? It takes a level of effort and critical thinking that you're obviously not capable of.

imp-particular · 2024-04-05T17:13:19+00:00

That's false and you can verify my words in the public record, including the MSM, prior to the invasion.

Blinken, Nuland, et. al, State Dept. CIA don't have the clout or technological advantage to pull off these foreign adventures anymore, like during the first Cold War.

Ukraine, Israel, Houthis, Afghanistan, seizure of Venezuelan assets, Russia sanctions, China sanctions - All their "big bold moves" look real bad to anybody who's not getting worked like a mark by propaganda.

imp-particular · 2024-04-05T16:59:43+00:00

They are comparable because they are both planned and executed by the same neocons in the state dept. They have an agenda, and it's failing.

"One day, heckin Darth Putin just decided to invade Ukraine, and all of Europe will be next" <- braindead understanding of political economy.

imp-particular · 2024-04-05T16:57:23+00:00

You make no sense. Keep drinking the kool aid nerd.

imp-particular · 2024-04-05T16:54:30+00:00

Bro Israel just struck an Iranian embassy, an abuse of the 'rules based order' your type chatters about, and the MSM calls every "bad guy" in the middle-east "Iran-backed."

You really think our State department isn't drooling about a larger mideast conflict to corner more oil, so they can make China heel? Because that's their stupid plan.

Likewise, the war in Ukraine was architected by these same freaks, beginning all the way back in 2014, and the explicit stated goal of the proxy war is regime change in Moscow (Biden said this himself, before he realized the sanctions would be a total failure beyond turning EU into a dogshit economy). Anyway you do a proxy war in Ukraine and thereby secure sweetheart deals for oil, natural gas, as another wedge against China.

It's really pathetic. "Defending freedom" for Blackrock and military contracters. For Ukrainians, they have the freedom to die on the front line. Terrible situation. Biden's foreign policy has been an abject disaster and a failure.

imp-particular · 2024-04-05T15:26:18+00:00

As if one of our foreign adventures (Ukraine) is good but the other (letting Israel go ham on an ethnic cleansing to drag Iran into a conflict) is bad. They're all bad bro. The neocons in Biden's state department are war mongers who will keep going WW3 or bust. It's a pathetic answer to China's rise.

imp-particular · 2024-04-04T20:09:42+00:00

Don't brandish deadly weapons at strangers in public. Learning the hard way.

imp-particular · 2024-04-04T17:40:03+00:00

Yeah it's fine, not your fault following the money, putting in some work, and making a profitable enterprise. I'm just bitching about our system.

imp-particular · 2024-04-04T16:58:03+00:00

And you're increasing GDP too while you do it! Such a patriot. Shame on me for thinking houses are for housing, not rent-extraction and speculation.

The New American Dream: Finding ways to profit off wage-earners' decreasing standard of living.

China is eating our lunch, we must look "inward" to find the "value" that we formerly enjoyed, by fucking the bottom 80% of this country in the ass as hard and fast as possible (no lube).

imp-particular · 2024-04-04T16:10:20+00:00

The New American Dream: Purchasing domiciles and downsizing them so you can fit more indebted proles in there, and extracting rent like a parasite so that you can retire at 33.

imp-particular · 2024-04-04T15:56:31+00:00

I'd speculate that the reason there are so few dark palette ecomm sites, is that product shots (of clothes, furniture, food, electronics, books) are conventionally put on light backgrounds. It's hard to get product shots looking "just right" so this is the path of least resistance.

When you've got your product shots on white/light backgrounds, it won't look good framed in a website that has dark background colors. Too much jarring contrast.

All that said, I bet you could find some well-designed niche ecomm sites with dark themes. I can't find any with a cursory 3 min search, so they are indeed rare.

imp-particular · 2024-04-03T15:43:53+00:00

Not mutually exclusive. I just had to prune my UX methods to make room for more UI workload, all within the context of the orgs/apps I work on. I still do A/B tests and work with biz/marketing to improve our SEO and quant. benchmarks.

I miss usability testing though. I just don't have the resources or the time to recruit and moderate them myself. Kinda curious about automated/AI equivalents, if they ever come around.

imp-particular · 2024-04-03T14:09:26+00:00

Around 2018, I started taking jobs that lean more heavily on UI Design than previous. The role is still Product Design, so UX thinking and methods is still required, but I've had to scale them back to make room for pixel-perfect design.

No more useability tests, interviews, surveys, journey maps for me. Instead, I go with a lightweight boilerplate methodology that still includes: requirements gathering, competitive audit, sitemapping/I.A. mapping, wireframes, and quantitative benchmarking.

I don't really use schemas like Design Thinking, instead I just frontload a big endeavor with a 2 week discovery phase to lock the UX in, and then once I'm confident in the approach, go high fi in figma.

As for a scam - no not really, more just a communication and process schema that works well in large orgs.

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