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  • In English it should read something like, “shoot dead an assailant(still not really ideal) or shot an assailant dead(to death preferably).”

    The mechanics of the title aren’t quite right. While most people will infer the correct meaning, some unnecessary jokes will be made by someone as you can see.

    The way the title reads now it would be interpreted as cops shot the, already dead, corpse of an assailant that died by some other means possibly unrelated to the police.




  • No not full stop. That’s not an equivalent comparison at all and it really disturbs me that so many people agree with you. What an egregious oversimplification.

    A crime is a crime. I’m not saying oppression gives a get out of jail free card. Hurting an innocent person is still wrong, but being afraid of an unknown person who is a member of a race that is predominantly cruel to you? Understandable. Calling out that race for bad behavior is also acceptable, wouldn’t you agree? As a member of an oppressed race you exist in a world not too dissimilar to the movie “They Live.”

    How can you know who is and isn’t your ally? It’s safer to assume they aren’t.

    There is a lot of nuance to this very complicated subject.







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    The exhausting part is one of the benefits to me. I slept like shit for… My life… Until I was diagnosed at 30. No more uncomfortably restless legs, no more doing mental gymnastics trying to figure out a good way to fall asleep.

    It’s not that they are fun, it’s that I can’t have real fun without them. Best I can do is find a way to be comfortably distracted from the feeling of not accomplishing anything that I know won’t be satisfied by accomplishing things.

    Without the pills dopamine becomes the estranged aunt the family doesn’t talk about but is severely missed.




  • Hadn’t really thought of it that way before. I’ve considered the possibility of an exterior source before but not that it might have something to do with sleep.

    These days I’m more leaning to consciousness being the result of some convergence of our neural architecture.

    It’s like asking the question of, “where’s the user environment of a computer?”

    Well, it’s in the RAM… Except it’s also streaming through the CPU, oh also it’s on the monitor but that isn’t what it actually looks like, however it actually originates from the SSD.

    None of these individual components matter in a truly meaningful way without all of them. It is the same with the brain, take out any part of it and effectiveness is diminished or outright bricked.