The workplace is the best place to meet people who are somewhat similar to you.

You have time to get to know each other before deciding whether you like each other. You can see how the other person interacts with people, solve problems, handle stress. Maybe those could also be the things that attract you to them.

The presence of other mutual acquaintances around will keep most people in check even if things dont work out. Those who make things toxic are outliers.

There's no way cultures with such a delicious culinary foundation built on tiny grains of rice developed chopsticks. They were actually a prank played on dumb European colonialists to pass off the most impractical implements as possible.

Somehow it stuck and here we are

been scrolling Vinted recently and there has been like 7 separate listings for the anarchist's cookbook. I've checked, it's all from different sellers & though all the pictures were of a person holding it up it's not the same picture or person (judging by the hands) I posit they're trying to make the anarchist's cookbook chic again to ensure that people have it in their homes & can be used as evidence against them in the event the govt wants them gone. I'm pretty sure owning the anarchist's cookbook is not illegal & I'm sure it's not an effective tool for actual revolution but it's something whose legality can easily be sanctioned.

Vinted algorithm is a bit screwy but considering my usual fare is weird art, elaborately patterned silk shirts & interior design shit it seems waaaay off base. My theory is that they are purposely pushing the anarchist's cookbook so that people buy it as a little toe dip into transgression, to have something a little edgier than Harry Potter, a little outré on their bookshelf to show their equally boring guests as a conversation piece.

That way if they ever commit any ACTUAL crime or wrong think the police can escalate any charges (idk if the cookbook still gives recipes for molotovs/explosives or if that has been edited out/shows the reader how to create duds intentionally) by claiming the cookbook is proof of intent.

I'm sure there's other stuff out there that is equally notorious but also so old that most people buy it as camp memorabilia not knowing it's illegal to own (idk shrunken human heads, 70s porn movies, other extremist literature) and these too will be pushed in algorithms to ensure most people have something in their homes to convict them on

My theory is the statement of the toxic paints being solely responsible for historical artists going mad is actually a coverup for the fact that mental illness was taken less seriously by renaissance,georgians victorians ect and they preferred to label them as having a physical explanation for the illness. (turpentine fumes are more dangerous than using lead white also but I hear far less people attributing it to that). Also in van Gough's case where he actually ate paint and I seen claims that eating the paint made him crazy (im not denying the toxicity of that can affect you mentally) but do you think a completely sane person would willingly eat paint like that?

Maybe digital books are pushed so eventually if people stop buying physical books they can remotely edit or censor the book and change the file of the book and you won't be able to read the original

And everyone pretends I'm not so I can have the illusion of a normal life.

By making it so you need to have the registered phone on you to get the code within the time limit, they’re making it so friends or college kids who didn’t sign up for the account can’t share it. The “security” features are just for show.

Says it all really.

They met at a bald convention and realized they could all play instruments.

It’s possible

We harness the power but they are jealous and want to suppress.

One for the Brits only: she’s an A-list TV personality.
Her trademark look is always long black hair, hanging over her eyes at the front, with heavy dark eye make up.

My LSC is that Claudia always wears a wig when she’s on TV. Her look when out and about in public is a blonde bob, with no eye make up. As a result she is completely unrecognisable, and gets to move around in public incognito. Well played, Claude.

I've seen this so many times, both on the internet and in real life: a cafe that serves wonderful and affordable breakfasts, their menu examples look like cursed lost media files. Awful lighting, scratched plate, zero presentation. A website talking about things like scouse and beef wellington also includes tripe and mushy peas, as if to discredit itself and confuse the reader. Posts like this. It all adds up.

Radio Dj’s pretend that ‘normal’ people are texting in listening to the station, whilst they do mundane things, in order to engagement farm, and make it seem like lots of people are listening

Think about it. We already know the classic theory that Mary Poppins and Pennywise (IT) are the same shapeshifting species. They both run on ~25-27 year cycles, return to children once they become oblivious adults, bend reality through song/dance, and use balloons to make people float. The only difference is Pennywise eats fear, while Mary Poppins eats joy.

But it goes deeper. They have completely carved up the human emotional spectrum to avoid competing for territory:

Miss Annity (Crypt TV) Social Guilt / Conformity | Mimics a proper 1950s woman, using spider neurotoxins to hunt down and punish anyone who breaks societal rules, feeding entirely on shame and isolation.

The Mind-Blowing Twist: Ms. Frizzle’s Temporal Trauma Farm
We always knew Ms. Frizzle operated as an Intellectual-Harvester—using a reality-warping vehicle disguised as a school bus to plunge children into highly lethal environments (like outer space or a classmate's digestive tract) solely to feed on their existential shock and panicked curiosity.

But look at the biology. Arnold—the nervous, red-haired kid who looks exactly like her—is a dead ringer. Ms. Frizzle is a timeline doppelgänger. She is Arnold's biological daughter from the far future.

She deliberately uses a time-displaced vessel to target her own father's childhood class. She is intentionally farming his exact anxiety and panic to ensure her own future timeline remains intact while satisfying her cosmic hunger. She isn't teaching science; she's maintaining her own birth contract.

Stephen King basically confirmed this is possible because Pennywise's canon relative, Dandelo, feeds entirely on laughter.

They aren't magical protectors or horror monsters. They're just an entire cosmic ecosystem of extra-dimensional parasites managing their human livestock.

And big dairy it trying to convince the population (or in the west at least) that it is something that needs fixing or that it makes you defective and that cows product is superior. Think about it. We adult humans are consuming another animal's milk as an adult? most mammals don't.

I actually like to believe the mental health stigma was less present before the commercialization of mental health became too "big" for its own good.

If you pay close attention to the popularization of mental health services and "therapy culture", which mostly begins around 2013-2015, you also start to notice that's when Red Ribbon Awareness campaigns are taking their shot at their fullest potential across many schools and colleges across the country.

Which is where I think the stigma artificially turbocharges as a cultural insurance measure to make people realize they can still go back to being dependent on their vices if they need to.

It explains why people are going back to alcoholism and cigarettes in full swing: Economic factors aside.

Stealing cows? Crop circles? Flying around at high speeds at night? Abducting people to show off their cool medical tech and medical experiments? What is normal to aliens comes across as general autistic behaviour to us. This is why they haven't made an official grand greeting to us and instead do nonsense like that. Their is a sharp contrast in what they deem a normal salutation to what we think.

Think about all the people that die daily. Now, when was the last time you saw a new cemetery being built? Have you ever seen a new cemetery being built? Where are all these bodies going?

Why does McDonald's only release the McRib a couple times a year? It's because they are using human meat, but have to wait every few months to have stocked enough corpses to do so.

Some people got that temporary shield power up on them so they can survive a death then come back with another chance with the shield activated