I think generally the same but there are extreme cases like murder where a person can atone all they want but shouldn’t necessarily be granted forgiveness.

Visiting Amsterdam as a Brit does typically make me feel ashamed of my fellow countrymen though.

There is also an idea in philosophy of science called “pessimistic meta induction”. Basically the concept is that science is a continually evolving process where we get increasingly accurate understanding about how things work. However since science progresses by falsifying previously held beliefs we can speculate that all of our current scientific theories are technically false.

Amazing how many subjects Chomsky wrote about. I think his review of BF Skinner’s Behaviourism might be his best work because it is so devastatingly well argued.

Try to live well and thrive in spite of the turmoil. Hold on to the belief that this crazy period in history will end and try to avoid getting dragged into arguments with people who have drunk the kool aid. There’s no need to engage with the bullshit if you can avoid it.

Arguably there is quite a lot of horror at the centre of My Neighbour Totoro (also Spirited Away but you didn’t mention that one).

The floating red shoes are a reference to a real life event in Japan that was in the news at the time where a girl had drowned.

Additionally, you could view the events of the film as taking place in the protagonist’s mind as a coping mechanism for extreme grief.

Regardless of whether the news is censored, you might just find that your husband has a different political perspective to you. Some people find that a dealbreaker but personally I enjoy having different opinions to my partner. It means that our beliefs get challenged (in a good natured way) and that one or both of us get the opportunity to change our minds from an initial knee-jerk take on any given issue.

Showing genuine interest in their personality and hobbies with eye contact. Asking questions about the aforementioned hobbies.

If you ever have the opposite situation, like say you are taken but someone has started flirting with you. You can either say you are spoken for or do the opposite of the above advice and talk only about yourself, adding some petty complaints about your life in general.

What I find as annoying than bots is real people copy/pasting their comments from ChatGPT prompts because they can’t be arsed to formulate/organize their own thoughts. It is just aggressively wasting both their and my time. Mindboggling.

Bring her and the boyfriends on Maury

Recreate the setup of Training Day and see how many people become dirty cops because they get finessed by Denzel Washington

The metal gear solid thing where you clone someone into two separate people but one gets all the recessive genes and the other gets all the dominant ones

Yeah it would devolve to being like people with freckles or something utterly superficial eventually

This is happening next year. It’s called the “enhanced games” or something.

In The Host (2007) they lobotomise the protagonist but he’s so dumb it doesn’t affect him

I’d be interested in this too. Maybe some synapsed stop firing if they are put to sleep for long enough.

Alternatively your mother might be gaslighting you.

delightfully devious

edit: hey I’ll give you 20k robux to commit a heinous crime on my behalf (on fortnite)

The phrase “in minecraft” must trigger alarm bells in some intelligence agency at this point

It’s similar to my surname with some letters changed. I’m also reliably informed from rap music that steez = style with ease.

Does anyone remember when the writer googled a recipe for their historical novel and copy pasted the first result - which turned out to be fictional from Zelda BOTW

edit: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/8/3/21352299/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-red-clothes-dye-traveler-gates-of-wisdom-john-boyne-google-search-results