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Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

Not-so-random thought:

I'm seriously beginning to wonder if my mental impairment is worse than I'd previously thought, and it seems to be getting worse.

Sorry, all, I'm done talking about my health issues, mental and physical.
 
Sometimes when I lay in bed, I do this really weird thing. I pretend that this is the first time I’ve been in my own bed a long time. I pretend I was a prisoner or a refuge somewhere where I had to sleep on a cold floor. It kind of helps me appreciate the cozy and fall asleep easier. Sometimes I take advantage of my situation so to ground myself I do weird stuff like that.

I also sleep with my arms crossed around my neck like a dead person. :alienblush:
 
I wonder if any of those who are freaking out over this "OK hand gesture" BS even realizes that it hasn't got jackshit to do with racism - 4Chan made the whole thing up. :guffaw:

It didn't, and yes, the rumor was started as a "joke", but that "joke" is, unfortunately, becoming reality.

I looked into it after I noticed a LOT of people posting the "OK" hand gesture 3d models and prints all over Facebook and then my cousin posted a picture of Keanu Reeves doing the "Circle Game" in a pic with a small boy. Read what you did, and went on.

It's resurfaced, but this time it's becoming real.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll

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Whether those people are "trolling" or not, they know what it means, so therefore it means exactly what they're thinking.
 

Thanks for that link. I think I understand now. (And it seems that by posting my last message, I played right into 4Chan's hands... :sigh: )

Here's another good link: How the "OK" Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture

An excerpt:

ADL said:
It is important to realize that the “OK” gesture is a nearly universal hand gesture and most usage of it is completely innocuous. Even when used as described here, the fact that white supremacists, the alt lite and many Trump supporters all use the symbol means that one cannot assume that anyone who poses with such a gesture is intending or exhibiting an association with white supremacy. Only if the gesture occurs in context with other clear indicators of white supremacy can one draw that conclusion.

Side note: I just noticed something else - I can't actually do that gesture! I just tried it, and it looks like I'm doing drunk shadow puppets. :lol:
 
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I got an interesting fortune in my fortune cookie today: If you want to win anything- a race, your self, your life- you have to go a little berserk.
Now I have to figure out how to go a little berserk without having to cough up some bail money. :devil:
 
@Gary7 , my apologies, this took some doing to try to track down, and reddit didn't make it easy. But as far as I can tell, reddit does not allow external hotlinking to their image host:

reddit said:
Image hosting is for images within Reddit today.

To be fair, that was written two years ago, but if the policy has changed, I couldn't find reference to it. Based on this, I am converting your image to a link. However, if you know that this has been changed and they now allow third-party hotlinking, please post or send me a link to the policy, and I would be happy to reinstate your image.
 
Can’t believe I never thought of this before. I just need to find an Australian that can send me tonight’s lottery numbers and all my problems are solved!
Or, you do an Australian a big favor and provide them the numbers. ;)
 
Pretty sure I've just solved the time travel "Paradox".

Suppose backward time travel were possible (which all known evidence points against), if you combine it with the "Infinite Universes" theory that says that each decision you (or anyone or anything) creates a new, parallel universe, the idea that going back in time and killing your own grandmother before you were born or stepping on a bug millions of years ago therefore wiping humanity from existence no longer creates a paradox. The moment you committed one of those acts you've created a new, parallel universe. You still exist in the universe you left, the one in which these things did not happen, you just now also exist in a universe that you would not have existed in. You've created and traveled to a universe that would not have existed without you.

No more paradox.
Ummm... yep. Figured this years ago. The real interesting one is, instead of BILLIONS of parallel universes, what... would cause two or three to merge?

Hello, Mandela Effect.

Yeah, Australians got it tough, not living in the present and all that.

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Quick - first word that comes to mind: "the _______ will lie down with the lamb."
 
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