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why would he walk around with the everything cops need to arrest and convict him though? the crime was clean, is the same person who committed a clean and well planned crime going to be walking around with the murder weapon and a manifesto placing him both at the crime scene and giving him a clear motive?

few days ago i said "someone will be arrested and tried for this, will it be the person who actually did it, or someone who has the misfortune of looking kinda like the guy". so far it seems it's someone who got unlucky because, quite frankly, the evidence seems made up

alright fuckers let's go over this again (and spread the knowledge please, it baffles me how it's apparently niche info)

your sleep is on a cycle, each cycle is ~90 minutes, you need from 4 to 6 consecutive cycles to get a good night's sleep, that's 6 to 9h (how much you need depends on your body)

now here's the kicker - if you wake up at the end or the beginning of a sleep cycle, which is when the lightest phase of sleep occurs - you'll feel nice and refreshed.

but if you wake up in the middle - during the deepest phase of your sleep cycle - you'll feel like a fucking zombie and are quite likely to promptly turn off your alarm & go back to sleep and not even register that action as a memory because most of your brain is still asleep

this is also why you can't really have a 40 min nap that leaves you refreshed, you can either have a refreshing <20min nap or a refreshing ~90min nap, anything inbetween will make you feel more tired as your mind now has to wake itself up all the way from deep sleep

so yeah, sleep in ~90min increments, my personal sweet spot is 7:30h

i'd highly advise against doing that if it ever happens to you, especially with a high profile case like this one.

chances are someone will be found, arrested, and tried for this, it'd be an incredibly bad look for the police to shrug and say "we don't know" - will it be the person who actually killed that CEO, or will it be a scapegoat who just had the misfortune of looking like him and nobody could confirm their alibi of "i was at alone at home watching movies"? Interrogations can last a long time, the longer one lasts the more likely a false confession is to happen because the person just wants the questioning to end, not to even mention the multitude of techniques used by interrogators to get into your head

yes, contact a lawyer immediately, just in case, but don't go around announcing "this is me in the photo but i didn't do it pinky promise, i was watching movies that night haha, no sorry i don't have a habit of telling everyone i'm going to be watching movies, no none of my neighbours saw me that night i was alone"

nahhh, even charlie chaplin landed 20th in his own look-alike contest

and he maintains a near monopoly because Steam is just a great platform for gamers, as Gabe has said:

Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.

and he's right! i almost never pirate video games because of their price, i can wait for a sale, there's a billion other games i can play in the meantime

when shit like Epic takes years to implement a shopping basket, and still have yet to recolour their payment page so it stops flashbanging gamers across the world, Steam doesn't even need to try very hard to be the best. The biggest changes on Steam in the recent years are what - updating the UI aged ago? adding a points system so people can get silly profile decorations as an additional reward for buying a video game? Steam has created a platform so good all they need to do is sit back relax, and think of what other sprinkles colour to add to the ~~cake~~ pie?

Steam has competitors, but the difference is Steam is for gamers, and most of their competitors is for money

god help us all if that ever were to change, the second Steam enshittifies the internet will implode

you cannot know which one is which when you see a person shoplifting

if you snitch on them, there are two outcomes:

• whoever organised the crime of stealing baby formula doesn't get their daily quota from the person they told to do it, and either helps or punishes the person desperate enough to go and do the actual shoplifting for them. You helped a corporation avoid theft

• a baby goes without food, and an already impoverished parent is financially, legally, or socially punished. You helped a corporation avoid theft

is it worth it to possibly make a mother cry as her baby goes hungry, to try to help a corporation?

there was nothing short of death that would stop that man from continuing to deny the right to live of millions of people. Money rules the world, do you think even if found guilty of genocide he'd face prison time? Do you think even if he was, miraculously, put in prison he'd go some place else but the most luxurious prison available for the shortest amount of time possible?

How many million dollar bottles of champagne do you think he drank with the money that he denied those who put their lives in his hands? Is that not a celebration of their deaths?

How is it wrong, to feel satisfaction that he finally met the fate he wrote for himself?

the people we oppose have been widening the wealth gap, shrinking the middle class, and pushing more people into poverty. And in America - not having enough money means you, or your loved one, dies.

That particular dragon was in charge of denying as many insurance claims as possible without getting anyone too ravenous for his blood. He was playing a game with people's lives, eventually he was bound to lose. His true cause of death was greed.

Unless you're a billionaire who hoards wealth, you're no dragon, and nobody cares about you until you step out of line of being an obedient money cow

skill issue

i feel ya, believe me, i do. best of luck!

high intelligence can and will make it harder to detect learning difficulties & mask life struggles. Because despite the genetic learning disadvantage of adhd/autism, things get averaged out by being smart. You can also find coping strategies easier and just figure things out on your own

also adhd evaluations always look for signs during childhood, and if you are smart enough of a kid you won't struggle in school despite not being able to focus on regular learning like everyone else - the consistency of symptoms is pretty much half the diagnosis and having those symptoms be invisible to everyone but you complicates things

most tests (apart from self evalutations) don't really test for things like regular life struggles, and if you only recently started being able to see your symptoms (that were previously masked by high intelligence, and only now you realised something was off about it all) it could lead psychologists/psychiatrists to belive it's something else - like anxiety or depression (both of which can also be caused by adhd so that makes stuff even more annoying)

if the sentence "oh you have so much potential, if only you applied yourself" has been repeated in your childhood as if on a loop, and now makes you want to cry and/or smash things, you're probably like me - and the above is how my diagnosis went

i don't get angry at things that don't affect me lol

i do worry for steam's future, it's only this good because "Lord Gaben" has made many great decisions, it may not be a democracy but a good "dictator" is often more effective than a democracy. But what happens if/when Steam goes to shit for whatever reason? the internet will implode