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Heres the tantrum in text:

Anyone remember the Trump admin getting mad at India for buying Russian oil or even the Europeans?

Old school devices - fdma and tdma, think brick cell phones - used to have way higher transceiver peak power. Like 3-6W.

5G is about 0.2W peak at the device level.

Ambient levels of radiation from cell phone towers are about the same.

I don’t get - even if electromagnetic radiation were bad for you - why 5G would be worse than anything that’s come before.

Remember that buzz you’d pick up in speakers before a phone call or text message came in?

He’s absolutely trolling. He acts like he doesn’t even understand the positions he used to argue for. I think he leans into the fact that he’s annoying to throw his debate partners off kilter.

The scary part is that there’s audience for it. I cringe-listened through it.

Jacob didn’t take the bait, that’s why I think this worked. He just kept responding to everything like it was perfectly reasonable.

This is so obvious, it’s painful.

I remember bringing this up with my young colleagues about a decade ago (ending guaranteed student loans). They looked at me like I was a monster.

Broader point - I feel for this girl. I think the current culture can push you places sexually where you don’t feel good about yourself afterwards. Especially women.

I understand the argument that someone can over time clue in to the fact that they were assaulted. But her statements cast some doubt on that.

A few days after she sent this quote to one of the guys:

everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex and s— is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common,, I'm also really open minded tho, I luv you king.

Then in the eventual statement she submitted she said she took the ketamine towards the end so she could pass out and if the guys had sex with her while she passed out it would be rape.

So which is it? Did she come to terms with it afterwards or was she recognizing it in the moment?

Again - this is all circumstantial. But the circumstances aren’t clear and I can see why this case has already been dismissed once.

Pre-cum psychosis

This case is pretty crazy. From the furor I assumed the 7 guys must be monsters.

It’s really hard to know what happened in that room but - after going through more details than I probably should have - it’s very plausible the shame and ostracization she experienced drove her to the rape accusation.

She seems like she was completely fine with it and making very “sex positive” statements immediately afterwards. (Ie implying one prudes had issues with what they did).

Not saying that happened - but the facts can support it.

I’m of the same mind. They’re winning right now in some product categories (green energy, electric cars, etc). But outside of that - I wouldn’t trade their problems for ours.

I’ve watched (at least partially) 36 shows on the list.

My brother is a fair bit younger than me and has a large social circle.

Sports betting has decimated the finance of a significant portion of the guys he knows his age.

That hilarious

Sad sad sad. Elder abuse.

I’m inclined to believe it this time around (or maybe it’ll be in a couple of cycles from now). The damage is already done on rising prices. I think Trump wanted to avoid that which lead to the insanely lopsided MOU.

The only thing that would save him now is strangling Iran into economic submission. Question is, how long can Iran hold out?

It amazes me to no end that everyone doesn’t plainly see the answer to that question.

On the plus side - this gives so much insight into human group and social dynamics. I’ve learned a lot about human nature.

I used to always be a bit puzzled when I read about things like the French Revolution… didn’t quite compute how things could get that crazy.

Turns out the period that I grew up in was the aberration.

Stuff like this fuels “deep state” talk. I dunno why they need to do this weekend at Bernie’s act.

He had a long career - he’s only ruining his legacy by doing this. He’s not going to accomplish anything else.

I hate tipping, but I’m an over tipper.

I carry the weight of my race. Indians are notorious under/no tippers. So I feel the need to subvert expectations. Especially if I feel I got bad service, because they didn’t expect a tip. I know that’s rewarding bad behavior, but it makes me feel smug - so I do it.

The hard question is: when do you lose agency as a person?

A lot murder probably has neurochemical abnormalities associated with it. For example, if someone has extreme high testosterone and goes into a murderous rage - are they less culpable than someone with regular testosterone levels?

For someone that drinks and drives - the drinking impairs their ability to make decisions. So are they more guilty for drinking or decisions while drunk?

The depression is obviously real, question is - does it rob a person of agency?

This guy has an amazing talent for making expensive things feel cheap.