logicbomb

Nancy Mangione.

This edit is done so well. Very believable.

In the original comic, she is asking for money to go to the circus, and the last panel shows her and the banker at the circus together eating ice cream.

Uhhh, I have already spent too much time doomcatching up with my family. That's the original reason I had to quit Facebook about 5 years ago.

The 14th Amendment states that people exactly like Trump have a "disability" that prevents them from holding office, which can be removed by congress. It also states that congress has the power to enforce it. The criteria for this disability is listed in the amendment.

The moment that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court swore in Donald Trump as President, while Congress refused to enforce the Constitution, all three branches of our Federal government conspired to overthrow the US Constitution.

If we don't even follow the Constitution, then we are truly a lawless country.

I guess you could then infer my comment to mean that they were the type of person who wouldn't be able to achieve such a goal, even with your conditions.

Certainly I wouldn't be the sort to write such a comment!

BTW IIRC, the Death Note can only control people's actions for a limited time. Something like 20 or 24 days.

For some unknowable reason, I am reminded of this exchange in an X-Files episode about a psychic who could supposedly predict people's deaths.

Psychic: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation.

Mulder: Why are you telling me that?

The Death Note doesn't control the actions of anybody except the people named in the note, and if the condition cannot be fulfilled then they simply die of a heart attack.

So you'd have to be a truly terrible person to make that one happen.

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

I remember when Musk bought Twitter and then immediately started trying to save money by literally just turning off services to see what breaks.

That actually wouldn't have been the stupidest idea if he had done it in a test environment rather than production, or even if Twitter was a small website that didn't mind downtime. But he did it in production on a huge site that people relied on being up, so it actually was the stupidest idea.

And now he's bringing the same stupidest energy to government. No investigation. No calculation. Just a toddler who has been put in front of a lot of switches.

It's not just sports. It can also be intellectual pursuits.

Look at the kids who are in the top tier spelling bee competitions, and then look at their parents, and tell me whose dreams are coming true.

Same thing for a lot of child prodigies. A lot of child prodigies suddenly become less "prodigious" the moment they move away from their parents.

Same goes for so many different things. Child beauty pageants are another famous example.

Obviously this doesn't mean all of the kids who do these activities are being pushed by their parents. Some of them are self motivated. Some are not.

I personally suspect that the belief that money is real is problematic, psychologically.

There are all sorts of experiments that show we treat money in our minds differently from most other things.

A famous example is that many people would think nothing of taking a ten cent pen from work, but would be abhorred at the idea of taking money, even ten cents, from petty cash and just keeping it.

An experiment has shown that, if you give people the chance to cheat for money, or to cheat for tokens that can be immediately exchanged for money after the experiment, they will cheat more for tokens, despite the fact that at that point, the tokens are technically a type of money.

So, this sort of thing makes me suspect that beliefs about money also influence our ethics and our mental proclivities. So maybe people who believe money is more real are more likely to hoard it or to have gambling problems.

I do believe them when they say that they're totally self educated.

The other thing about being self educated is that they probably didn't get their IQ measured by any sort of formal test. And informal tests usually top out in the range of 140 to 150.

That means that it's less likely that they're flat out lying. It's more likely that they either have a high IQ or they cheated on the test by taking it repeatedly to get the best score.

"But," I can hear you object, "there's no way that this idiot has a high IQ." Believe me, there are plenty of people with high IQs who are also idiots.

"Like a printer, but for yarn"

For people who don't think printer ink is expensive enough, yarn!