Conspiracies need to be small and self contained. The more people involved, and the longer it needs to hold, the less likely it is.

E.g. 9-11 being a government conspiracy with 1000s involved in the cover up? Likely false. George Bush getting info about an imminent attack, then having the info buried, since it would be useful? Far more plausible.

In this case, the elite standing in lockstep to cover their own arses is quite plausible. It also fits that the group is already too large to keep the conspiracy contained, and so information is leaking like a sieve.

I have both forms. The inner monologue voice is a common learned way of thinking. For me it’s a way of testing how things sound, before using it in public. It also formalises ideas for memory.

Below that, I have my mindstream. It’s the active amalgamation of ideas, images and concepts that forms my intellect. It’s difficult to map to language, since it’s not bound by language.

The inner monologue is useful, but not required for intellectual thought. In fact, it can be a detriment. It’s hard to process things, when you don’t have the language for it. It is, however quite useful for presenting ideas. An inner monologue lets you practice what you will say, and how you will explain things to someone else. I’m autistic, so I often need to preprocess what I am about to say. My inner monologue lets me test if it’s “socially inappropriate” (aka batshit insane) before it comes out my mouth.

I suspect both websites are maintained by the same team (assuming they are maintained). For one of the (supposedly) most technically adroit countries in the world, their ICT is truly crap.

Oh, it also only worked in native Chrome. It went weird in Firefox, and apparently also played up with chromium.

USA visa application is hellish.

Login is convoluted, and breaks password managers.

It has a global time out somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes.

On timeout, it lets you work, until you try and go to the next page, then just forgets you exist rather than saving.

You can’t save pages that aren’t completely filled in.

Some pages can take 20 minutes to fill in (it gets detailed, and you dare not mess it up).

Oh, and it breaks pasting into some boxes, so no prewriting it in another document.

As did the vikings. The long term results were generally an improvement however.

Looking back at the history of England. We have had wave after wave of immigrants/invaders. Each wave brought a period of tension. That period was followed by a period of innovation.

The new people, with new views means old ideas are re-evaluated. New skill, flavours and modes of thought became part of our culture.

Even our language improved. Part of English’s power is the level of nuance with word choice. A loft of that comes from melding multiple root languages in.

They are goons, but programmed goons. If you play to the programming then you will get their desired response. By forcing them outside their programming, they have to improvise.

The smarter ones realise shooting first is a bad idea, politically. The stupider ones just want out, and notice the smarter ones seem similarly inclined.

Staying within the programming is a lose-lose situation for the protestors. You need to get outside the patterns to get new results.

It’s also worth noting that this is a very American thing, not a universal one. Your police are very broken, and in desperate need of an overhaul.

For that to work, you need enough firepower to actually win. Anything short, and it will be a bloodbath, on your side.

By approaching while very obviously not being a threat, it jamms their training, and forces them to think. Once they are thinking, they likely REALLY don’t want to be the ones to start shooting at American protesters.

Kids can also be amazing and caring. They just need the context and understanding of what is going on. Toys like this help a lot in that regard.

It’s a love hate situation. For a lot of children, they will use play to process and understand things. E.g. “Helping” a Barbie with the problems helps them understand why their brother gets special treatment.

I’ve seen my daughter playing “classroom” with her teddies. It helps her understand better how school works, and what would be acceptable or not.

I’ll check it out, next time I get a chance to fire it up. Unfortunately, I hate the teleport mechanism of vr games. I love hurtling through the water. Unfortunately, that also makes me motion sickness. I’m slowly training myself out of it, but it takes time.

It depends how often you drive without the kids.

If you don’t always drop the kids off yourself, it’s easy to get half way to work on autopilot before realising you meant to drop them off.

Sleep deprivation is a weird thing.

As a parent myself, I’m now doubly amazed at how few cases of forgetting happen. It’s so easy to do, and your brain is reduced to blomonge by sleep deprivation.

FYI, the “baby on board” signs aren’t generally meant as “don’t crash into me” signs, but “assume the driver is drunk and distracted” signs. Having been there, I try and give them plenty of space!

It was even worse than that.

They were basically given the KSP1 codebase and told to rewrite it to be better. However, KSP1 was still being developed, and they didn’t want to demotivate the KSP1 team. Therefore they were banned from even telling them it existed, let alone ask for help or advice with the existing codebase.

I want to love it in VR. It’s taking me a long time to train my stomach to accept it however. It gives me SERIOUS motion sickness in VR.

That phase does end. The various vehicles allowed for exploration without returning to the surface, as do deep sea bases.

At the same time, I fully understand why you feel that way. The crunch is required for the fear to be meaningful, it’s not everybody’s cup of tea.

You’re on Lemmy, so I’m assuming you’re of a geeky mentality. If so, a local hackspace/hackerspace/makerspace would be a good bet.

On paper, my local one is a communal collection of tools we can all use. In practice however, it’s an excellent social group for fellow weirdos. We just also have some really fun toys to use, when we need them.

https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

It’s not fully inclusive of all of them, but a good starting point.

A mixed group would be better. It shuts down a lot of propaganda spins. It needs to be hard to spin as anything other than patriots Vs fascists (particularly not black Vs white).

As an Englishman, the IRA were fairly critical to the political results. They kept the UK government from running roughshod over the Irish political parties.

The IRA proved they were willing to cross critical lines (bombs aimed at large scale civilian damage on English soil etc). They also demonstrated restraint. They often provided warnings ahead of time. They focused on disruption not casualties. The underlying threat was clear however. If you (UK government) escalate too far, it’s simple to switch from a bomb aimed at destroying a high street of shops, to one aimed at killing a high street of Christmas shoppers.

The end result was that Irish politics stayed in the public eye, and the government took the safer path of negotiating in good faith. No-one was particularly happy with the results, but no-one was excessively unhappy with them either. Often the best you can hope for.

In short, the credible threat is required to keep all parties honest. Most smart governments will see an escalating trail of protests as part of that. Unfortunately, the current US leadership doesn’t seem that smart.