as alive as you need me to be
Welcome to hyperreality, enjoy your stay!
Also, there is no way to leave.
To your last point:
Oh yeah, I am of the strong opinion that everyone should need to fully redo their drivers test, written and practical, every 5 years, hit 60, every 3 years, hit 72, every single year.
There are way too many idiots who don't know how to drive, and driving is such a ... multi faceted skill that requires so many of your body processes to be working well... and basically all of those start to nose dive after a certain age.
Yeah, let that happen to some other guy.
Either you unionize, you leave, or your ethics aren't worth shit.
"Can we sell this for money?"
Thats it.
The entire problem is that there is no attempt at regulating any part of the entire production to consumer process, and cops sure as fuck ain't gonna be able to pull over and ticket everyone using them, even if they are technically illegal in your area.
Sometimes the void cat has to equalize the reality pressure between the many realms it walks in simultaneously.
Welp, that's a new facial expression in my book, never seen quite that one from a cat before.
Yeah, driving at late night... especially with more and more people using billion lumen hyper UV headlights?
Basically, its the old starfield screen saver, but with the those starburst patterns.
Extreme brightness/contrast difference between the lights, and everything they are 'rendered on top of'.
Double or triple polarized lenses do cut it down a bit, but god help you if you don't have them.
I was getting my pupils dilated for the optometrist to properly measure the extent of my astigmatism.
Had never had that procedure done before.
...As I am leaving, with eyes blurry as fuck from being dilated...
Receptionist tells me if I leave now, I might be able to dodge rush hour.
... I wish I could have actually seen the expression on her face when she said that, but I couldn't.
Due to being temporarily legally blind.
From the procedure that she had just-
sigh
So yeah I made it about two blocks in my car, said NOPE, and just fucking sat in a parking lot for something like an hour, till I could fucking see again.
American health care just literally is a sadistic joke.
Gunshots By Computer, Saul Williams / NiN.
Welcome to Year Zero.
He has other videos where he goes into at least some detail about:
- the idea of an underpowered rifle round
- the idea of a nearby shooter with a handgun
Basically, uh, neither of those make sense with the publically availablr evidence, and also, neither of those are part of the FBI's story.
Here's your simple explanation:
We have the autopsy report now.
The bullet entered Charlie's neck from the right side, around the jawline / neck / under the ear, did damage as it moved laterally left and vertically down to a number of his neck vertebrae, kept travelling through down to about his left clavicle, severed his corotid on the left side, bullet remained lodged in the shoulder bone after travelling a bit further past/through the corotid.
The FBI story is a 30.06 round from basically dead center in front of him, elevated, hit him in the left neck, and then... made no exit wound, and also remained lodged in his shoulder.
This is completely impossible, a 30.06 will blow apart a moose's femur at the range Robinson supposedly was shooting from.
That would have resulted in a chunk of Kirk's neck the size of about a large orange being wholly blown off/apart, he would have been half decapitated, the entire backdrop of the whitr tent behind him would have been covered in viscera and blood.
What entirely does make sense is that it was instead a 5.56 out of some kind of AR-15, from on the roof of the building to Kirk's right.
Kirk was not shot from the front.
The gushing neck wound we saw was basically almost an exit wound: the bullet broke the skin from already being inside of Kirk, but managed to not itself exit his body at that point, instead, getting lodged into his shoulder, actually almost exiting it again from within the shoulder, but not quite managing to.
The gushing neck wound was not an entry wound.
As to ... what actors actually did this?
Well, the FBI is obviously covering this up. There are many, many, maaaany aspects of what they are saying that are either obviously false or inherently contradictory with other things they are saying or other existing evidence, there's too much for me to try and recap here... stop being lazy and watch some of this guy's vids would be my suggestion, lol.
The entire FBI 'investigation' is a giant mess of fuckups, so... yeah, they don't even care to pretend they even need to follow any actual rules, you know just generally.
They obviously faked an incriminating 'love letter' text exchange between Robinson and his... roommate/lover.
Like, its laughably obvious as a fake.
You are apparently positing some kind of outside help or planning or encouragement/grooming for Robinson... there's no evidence for that that I am aware of, not even purported evidence, from anyone.
Please remember the FBI has been purged by Kash Patel of all non MAGA diehard loyal personnel, and that Kash Patel is literally a former conspiracy theorist podcaster who is stonewalling the release of the Epstein files, go look at him having screaming matches in recent Congressional hearings.
Remember these same people telling us they gave us an unedited, raw video from Epstein's cell block... and it was immediately apparent that was not true?
As to it being Russia or Israel, uh, well, whole lot more evidence poitning toward Israel.
Kirk was feuding with Israeli donors not long before this occured, and he snubbed them, said he wouldn't take their money anymore, couldn't keep supporting them as vehemently.
There are records of these conversations, a lot of the right wing media sphere has been arguing over them.
Then, ... before anyone prominent had actually accused Israel of killing Kirk... Netanyahu himself issued a statement denying that Israel had killed Kirk.
So... that's kinda weird.
Nobody knows the identity of the shooter on the building to Kirk's right... but he's been captured in video from the event, so... yeah.
The Trump ear shooting isn't weird if you know how guns and bullets work, but almost no liberals or leftists do.
That shot was an actual lucky fucking break for Trump, an extremely light graze... and other riunds from that shooter killed and wounded other people in that crowd, behind Trump.
Bullets spin very, very rapidly.
They are also topologically rough, at a small scale.
Basically, imagine a spinning drill bit, or cylindrical rod with sandpaper wrapped around it.
Now, trace the length dimesion of the bit/cylinder as the bullet trajectory.
Now, have that graze along the top of the helix of the ear, maybe digging a mm or less into the actual skin/flesh of the ear.
Superficial wound, but in an area of the body eith a very high concentration of capillaries and thin skin = rapid onset of fairly profuse bleeding.
It also does not = a chunk of Trump's ear getting blown off and then magically regrowing, which is apparently what a bunch of people seem to think happened?
That, to me, is a conspiracy theory, given that... a light graze causing bleeding... is... extremely simple and straightforward... but only if you know more about firearms and gun wounds than what Hollywood and videogames 'teach' you.
We don't need to go tinfoil hat with that one, we need to realize the current head of the FBI is a tinfoil hat incompetent MAGA nutjob shock jock, thats who's in charge of investigating Kirk.
The goofy shit around Trump's near ear piercing wss how the whole event was cobbled together very rapidly, and security from the Secret Service and local police were confused, uncoordinated and ineffective, which ... yeah, that's some bullshit, but it's a way lower tier of bullshit than the obvious coverup the new FBI is conducting under Patel.
Again like... Patel's whole thing was screaming for the Epstein files to be released on his podcast, prior to becoming head of the FBI, which he has literally less than 0 qualifications for.
Then Trump gets elected, now he reads those files and goes 'oh fuck, my boss is a major pedophile, my whole thing was that only Dems are pedophiles, fuck fuck fuck' and then begins nakedly lying his ass off about that.
Patel is a Q Anon nutter.
Thats... thats our head of the FBI.
Please stop giving investigative deference to the organization, it isn't due any anymore.
That's unironically already been happening in Gaza for years now, and will now happen everywhere Palantir is used.
Eh, not all furries are so bold, but I see your point as well.
You almost certainly have bumped into a furry if you've spent a fair deal of time in Seattle.
They... just... aren't always wearing their fursuits, corporate tends to frown on that.
Its a neighborhood of Seattle.
They famously historically LGBTQ+ neighborhood, that also has a lot of music venues, bars, nightlife, etc.
Its also where the uh CHAZ/CHOP momentarily existed, after Cap Hill got tired of being abuses by the local police force, barricaded/seiged them in their own Police HQ in the district, and forced them retreat from it entirely, in the dead of night, after literally burning a bunch of documents that would have proved they were knowingly breaking the law in their own 'riot control' actions, destroyed a bunch of their own computers too.
Anyway, I brought it up because the OP specifically mentions Seattle.
It was originally named 'Capitol Hill', because it was built with the idea that it would seat the actual Capitol of Washington state... but that ended up being built in a different city, Olympia... so... the name still persists, despite kind of being a misnomer / confusing.
Sure!
You'd probably have to watch more than one vid from this guy's channel at this point to... get the whole picture, but here we go:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zTbaj8DNE3I
Thats him going into the autopsy, and how the described wounds and injuries are just impossible from a straight on 30.06 shot.
He has another video debunking two common but impossible theories, one being that Kirk was wearing body armor and the shot some how deflected 90 degrees (he was not wearing body armor), another one that ... apparently some people were saying his lapel mic exploded or was a gun itself, also bullshit...
He goes through a bunch of stuff.
He is also apparently personally going to various places to document No Kings, ICE protests... I have not watched those videos... but it should be pretty obvious that this dude is your actual stereotypical angry Republican with a Gun...
And in this video, at least the first couple minutes...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HRs138gtWV0
He says something like 'No wonder everyone is pissed when all but maybe 3 of your politicians are comprised by Mossad', which is a bit hyperbolic, but not really wrong, hooray AIPAC, and also ... seemingly genuinely, shouts 'Release the Epstein Files!' while marching with the No Kings rally, not being antagonistic to anyone there.
So... yeah. At least some of the '2A' crowd is indeed getting fed up with Trump/MAGA's bullshit.
But I've really only watched his specifically related to the Kirk assasination videos, so, I have no clue what the totality of his politics are.
But but... this is just one guy, and there are a good deal more than just a single "ex-sf gunbro guntuber dude with shades on in his truck twitter profile image" type person who is on youtube, making videos going into how the FBI's Kirk assasination story makes no fucking sense, and who are quite pissed about how obvious these lies are.
In fairness to them, a lot of guntube, gunsexual youtubers, are clinically dissecting every aspect of Charlie Kirk's assasination.
Long story short: Tyler Robinson is almost certainly a patsy, there was almost certainly a shooter up and to Kirk's right, from nearly 90 degrees, thats where the shot came from, it is physically impossible that the damage seen, and reported in the autopsy, was caused by a 30.06 from almost straight in front of him.
Almost every single detail about the scenario as presented by the FBI is completely impossible to make work all together.
A lot of guntube is very, very pissed about this, they know the administration is blatantly and obviously lying to them and everyone.
And no, I am not going to bother arguing the validity of this with any more idiots who know nothing about firearms, these guntubers are correct, I am just pointing out that... there is actually some motion there, from the 2A crowd.
Well its been a while since I've been, but the Unicorn hopefully still has deepfried Snickers, uh, going to the Wild Rose as a dude is always... an option, lets say... aw fuck, they cancelled taco tuesday, apparently... and one of the original owners passed this year =(
Yeah I guess I'm a bit past my bar cruising prime years.
More or less, just avoid anywhere flooded by college kids, and you'll probably find somewhere that matches your vibe.
Welp, thats entirely fair.
Yeah... we're kinda all completely beyond fucked these days, over in the US.
I guess our death rattle will at least serve as the most extreme season of reality TV that's ever been created, so... woooo for that I guess...
I was unfortunately super busy with work, did not live within walking distance of any optometrist...
... and despite telling multiple friends and family who had had this procedure done before, none of them mentioned anything about it to me, oh and no medical staff anywhere in the entire process between telling me I should have this procedure done, to scheduling that procedure...
...none of them told me that the procedure makes you legally blind for ~1-2 hours either.
I am glad that you knew this was a procedure that required planning for.