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I watch these "interesting cooking" videos on YouTube and I’ve got to wonder if they’re legit or not.

Like, we all got fooled before by those like Tasty Food videos that had people wasting massive amounts of food for no fucking reason.

You can say your shit is fake as fuck.

Nobody gives a shit.

I will still watch stuff I know is fake because it’s fascinating and enjoyable to watch.

But I want to KNOW that it’s fucking fake.

Stop making fake videos that LOOK like people can really do that and putting them in the "real life people can do this in real life" video section.

You’re fake as fuck. Be open about it. There is a niche for your product. Stick to that niche.

Fucking clothing brands using AI "versions" of their clothing to show the buyer what it will look like.

Stop that shit.

• Get a mannequin or set of mannequins in the sizes you’re selling.
• Put the clothing item(s) you’re selling on the mannequin.
• Take some pictures.
• Photoshop a head on the mannequin if you want to.
• Bam. Marketing copy.

I want to see how the top hangs. How the waist sits. Are the openings flared?!?

Like, you’re minding you’re business and you wave your hand… and your whole sleeve kind of flops over itself. Or you roll the sleeve up and the material is so sheer and the flare so wide that the sleeve comes flopping back down in your way, usually when your hands are busy and you can’t roll it back up.

Seriously: People die from floppy sleeves.

Machinery can pull you right in.

That’s why I always thought the future was going to be robots controlled by human operators. // And seriously, I would prefer a cubicle or a personal space to work in rather than stood up with a group of others wearing VR goggles and powergloves.

There’s a lack of respect in forcing the employees to be on display like that.

What if you have a bathroom emergency while you’re standing there in a room full of other people where people will cut through the periphery to reach the cafeteria or something.

Every single movie, showing people standing in lines and rows in a big room. And the boss of the main character is happily showing them all of the amenities.

What the fuck, man?

I would assume that employees should be assured some amount of privacy. Especially if they’re operating robot bodies that are doing really attention-focused stuff.

That anyone can walk through that office and see them like that… It would make working there uncomfortable.

• You’re basically doing a workout, so optimally you’d be wearing workout clothes.
• You can’t wear makeup with the VR goggles. Not without wearing some kind of mask, maybe one that’s made so only your eyes are exposed to see. (Less radiation exposure directly on your face.)
• You’d want to wear shoes made for standing.
• Maybe you’d want a table to hold a bottle of water and maybe some refreshing mints to suck on.

Basically, I think most people would prefer not to be shown like that to the world. Better closed off in a room where the workers can choose whether they want the curtains open or not.

Maybe once and a while for prearranged photo ops, but otherwise people would choose not to be on display all the time. It’s exhausting.

Anyways, I watch cooking videos on YouTube. And there’s a set of videos that are seemingly easy to do, but I don’t know if the results will be as advertised. There’s a few seemingly questionable steps that make me have to wonder.

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Reading this novel. Most of the troubles in this one lady’s life are caused by her just not leaving her stepson alone.

Anything to do with the stepson and his life. All she had to do was stay out of it.

But she’s so terrified he’s going to come and take away her children’s inheritance.

Her fear and guilt and viciousness to live are her driving forces throughout the story.

She raised those children badly.

She was a bad mom.

It probably would have been better if there were a professional nanny to care for the children.

It’s not “natural selection” to have a massive clan family structure loaded with backstabbing assholes.

If you are making enough money on dividends to lay back and live a luxuriously free life… Why are you out causing havoc? Why are you being a demon for no reason?

She should have focused on raising her children to know how to make money. Instead of having them wait to receive everything from their notably quirky dad.

As though the board would sit back while the decision of one man could destroy their entire brand and crash the local economy.

I hope I don’t get arrested, but I baked pumpkin bread in the middle of the summer.

There was a can of pumpkin puree and all the other ingredients, and then there was me wanting to snack on something. And voila.

I made four mini-loaves of pumpkin bread. And they’re kind of delicious.

I added some mini-semisweet chocolate chips. I wish I had added some chopped nuts. But in all, pumpkin bread is delicious even when eaten outside of the autumnal season.

I plan on letting two loaves be eaten, and the other two will be wrapped and frozen for future cravings.

It’s the only thing I can do. I had to replenish the household supply of pumpkin bread 🤷🏻‍♀️

The world is currently a point of crisis. Thinking about the events taking place want to push me into a panic attack. So I understand that other people are under a devastating amount of stress. It’s too much for anyone to handle.

And so I recommend doing some of the things that make you happy. Fill your jar of memories with instances of quiet joy and contentment, so when everything seems bleakest, you can be a point of light for yourself and those around you.

A light shining in the darkness.

A candleflame flickering in the night.

A metaphorical inferno ready to burn at any moment.

~Harper Kingsley

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I was researching terra cotta clay to make my own chia pets, but you need a kiln. You’ve gotta get an oven that does like 1800°F (980°C) and 2000°F (1093°C) degrees if you want to burn your own terra cotta.

That is such a hot temperature that I’m not even going to dare mess with it at home. That’s a dangerous amount of heat and I am not qualified for the task.

I did not take any pottery classes. I do not have a professional-grade kiln–

And when I say "professional-grade" I mean a kiln with as many safety features as possible that can be used to make as many types of pottery as possible.

–at home. I am a simple hyperchicken.

I recognize my lane and I stay in it.

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Of all the things techno-billionaires could give us, I don’t understand why so many of them publicly go the route of being hated by the masses.

You could be creating and producing many things.

You could be making peoples’ lives better.

In your hands is enough power to change the world. Or at least a big enough part to splash some waves in the proverbial "global economy" pool.

You know.

Doing some stupid shit and suddenly 40,000 people lose their retirement fund.

1,000,000+ people lose their medical insurance. Or at least the part of it they’re really going to need.

We need good dental insurance. And that IS medical related stuff. Preventive measures to stop someone from having organ failure.

Good dental health, good physical health, good bone health, good mental health, good…

why did they start separating everything apart. For what reason did they do that?

EVERYTHING related to your ENTIRE HUMAN BODY should be covered under medical insurance.

And Medicaid does not have to be so difficult.

Why do people have to give up dental health coverage when they move to your plan, but your plan is the only one that offers palliative-care levels of medication.

Like, people need dental care AND doctor proscribed medication.

A licensed pharmacist has to go to school to learn what medications should not be mixed with other medications.

If you take your prescription to be filled at a pharmacist, or if you just go talk to a pharmacist at their job, they will tell you what things should not be mixed together.

Pharmacists are not there to provide you medical care.

Do not go to your pharmacist with a gushing wound. Go to urgent care.

BUT a pharmacist that knows what all medications you are talking, should be able to tell you when you’ve accidentally created a death cocktail.

At the very least, they will raise danger flags to let you know you shouldn’t be mixing Pill A with Pill B and you should avoid grapefruit if you’re taking most modern medications.

Grapefruit is contraindicated for a lot of prescription medications. It can make some work too well, and others not work at all.

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My brain has been in spirals of late.

There’s a lot of fearful things happening.

And there’s nothing I can do about it.

The world is going crazy.

And at the core of everything is a gaping need for money.

Like, they’ve completely ruined the local economy and created massive fissures in the global economy.

And like, nobody knows why.

He just felt like doing it, so he did it.

That or he’s surrounded by people acting in his stead. He says a lot of the time that he didn’t know someone was doing something/had been doing something.

There’s a lot of things he says he doesn’t remember WHEN HE WAS CLEARLY NOTIFIED.

A real capitalist would realize that his people were fucking up and put a stop to it.

They are boot stomping the supplies the community needs to survive.

These are dudes that are head-wrapped around the idea that they are in a video game.

They are living like they think the simulation is real. That ALL OF THIS doesn’t really matter.

Because death isn’t real.

"If I do this one thing I will immediately go to super heaven when I die."

"I heard it from a guy in a hat and robe. So you know he was important."

I’ve played "Dante’s Inferno."

He’s burning in hell because some cardinal(?) told him and the other crusaders that the lives of people outside their ethnic group didn’t matter to God, so killing them would be all right.

And then it turns out God likes all people. And the cardinal was just some guy talking out his bung hole.

False prophets might not realize they’re prophets. They could just be profiteers.

And I wish people would stop living their lives like they’re in a video game.

And it’s like, they never seem to choose entertaining games. It’s all single-person shooters where you can maybe team up with other people.

One of those open-world games where a lot of people can choose to play out their villain fantasies.

You bust into another group’s camp and you destroy their beds, and they lose all the stuff saved at that base.–And it’s like, you don’t ask yourself why you did that. It’s a video game. It’s not real.

But when you do that stuff in REAL LIFE? Thinking you’re in the Matrix?!?

The best advice for someone taking hallucinogenic drugs is to remember "If you suddenly think you can fly, do it from the ground up."

If you suddenly think you’re in the Matrix, and the idea lingers in your brain no matter how hard you want to let it go.–You should still act like a normal human being.

What the fuck, man?

Why would you immediately start destroying everything around you if you think you might be in the Matrix?

Those a real other people connected to the Matrix.

They can be taken over by agents BECAUSE they are still connected to the Matrix.

When you kill someone in the Matrix, I think that person is just mind-wiped and entered back into the Matrix as a new person.

And if you think the Matrix is real and you still want to kill a bunch of people or just make their everyday life a complete and utter misery for no reason?

Then you’re a very scary person.

Having your mind-wiped means you are dead.

The you that you are. The set of memories and emotions all bundled together to make you will be gone if you are killed in the Matrix.

The Matrix is fake, but the people are real.

~Harper Kingsley

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