Alien overlord: So, about this…?
Assistant: Helios… or Sol. It has many names.
Overlord: Right, was it the fifth planet?
Assistant: The third.
Overlord: Ok. And they’re called hallucinators?
Assistant: It seems a fitting term. They hallucinate when they dream, when they interact with many types of written language, when they watch, so called, visual narratives not to mention when they think about their future. It’s hard to tell when they don’t hallucinate.
Overlord: Right. So the recommendation?
Assistant: We steer clear of these crazies. We cannot have these beasts roaming the galaxy. We might even consider putting up a fence…
American World View?
Judging from certain comments from certain citizens of the US, one might start wondering if this is how they think:
Misreading
“The White Bros”?
(Oh, ok “The White HOUSE”…)
Ohne Drive
OneDrive
in German:
Ohne Drive…
Fun fact: When I tried to crop the image in Photoshop… it crashed… of course it did… 🤦
Speaking of the causes of Autism
A MAGA-free (as in, MAGA-explanation-critical) discussion about the causes of autism and the increase of autism diagnoses:
What I miss in this discussion is more secondary causes of the number of diagnoses. Like the distance to a diagnosis center or place to get a diagnosis (Austin/Laredo—mentioned in the video). I’d love to have seen more about other causes to go get a diagnosis, like increased demands in school, or, for that matter, aware parents wanting to give their kids fair opportunities in school and life… and whatever else might be explained by this type of reasons as well…
Needs head examined
Wants the Nobel Peace Prize.
Charges Ukraine for the weapons needed to defend against Russian terror.
Needs head examined.
One-Star Review
“Everybody in this book was failed people. They all had all these extreme problems, and whatever they tried to do, they failed over and over again. Except for the villain. He always managed to do what he wanted. Totally believable. NOT! All people in this story were dysfunctional incompetents and failed idiots! Steer clear!”
/Mary Sue
Consciously avoiding people using the term “subconscious”
A while ago I read an article where the author used the term “subconscious” and it miffed me.
In essence, it goes like this: Serious psychologists do not use the term because it is not possible to determine if the unconscious is above, below, left, right, in-front of, or behind us. You know, because it’s not a thing, and it’s not sent from the devil or hell, whatever Freud might have hypothesized.
The correct term is “unconscious”.
However, after being miffed a while, I determined that the term “subconscious” is good. It helps me weed out the pseudo psychologists that only wants me to think they know anything about psychology.
So now I think “subconscious” is a great word, and you should definitely use it if you feel like you should…
Unsuitable for Consulting
Customer: The system doesn’t handle virus infected files well.
Consultant: We’ll fix it with a virus cleaning add-on.
Customer: You mean antivirus?
Consultant: Nah, we’ll remove the viruses!
Customer: Oh… what’s the estimate for that?
Consultant: I’ll obviously pick an open source antivirus program and add a few lines, it won’t take long.
Customer: Let me get back to you…
Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use
Guns are used millions of times every year by law-abiding citizens in the US to prevent crime, right?
Wrong!
The above list of sources proves the following in regard to gun threats and self-defense gun use:
- Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense
- Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal
- Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense
- Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime
- Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense
- Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime
- Few criminals are shot by decent law-abiding citizens
- Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions
Talkwards 