Yup, I also think of chess when I read it, so pawned - turned into a pawn, demoted to the weakest piece, etc. If I read owned, then it’s owned.

I don’t think domination is actually intelligent or smart.

On a related note, I don’t remember the best resources I’ve come across, but here’s something for a bit of an idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_error

Legally, there is the concept of contemporaneous notes in many countries. Meaning if you write something down shortly after the event occured it can have legal validity.

There is also hypnotherapy, EMDR, and other forms of therapy, where many people can access memories that they couldn’t. I was surprised myself how many memories I could access with EMDR.

I find the concept appears to be similar to meditation and lots of sensory information + association. How stuff felt, sounded, smelled, where you felt in your body etc.

Less related, but there’s also Method of Loci etc. to remember lots of very specific things

Sorry, hard disagree.

I also don’t want to argue. So feel free to say what you like about this, but I won’t respond. I’ll just drop some thoughts for consideration.

1. Cults don’t have to be religious, and even then there’s a difference
2. Harm doesn’t just come from being militant or political
3. The mechanisms of disbanding suck as much as the criminal justice system and states in general do
4. This isn’t just about the US

Jehovas Witnesses, Moonies, Scientology and so many more are still ongoing. Cult mechanism are literally some of closest stuff to brainwashing there is. They are malign. The followers are victims, and collectively this absolutely should be addressed.

Also, I am not offering any kind of solution here, I.e. to just go after the cults and disband them. As others have said it’s nuanced.

I really don’t mind the vast majority. Unless it’s really dumb, hateful or repetitive, I’m good. It’s just one more thing to scroll past, if I’m not interested. Though I do notice people with cool input running for the hills when the questions aren’t ‘exquisite’ enough and places can turn dull.

I’m not arguing against that, just drawing attention to what kind of ‘light’ they are given. It’s not like there are only two perspectives.

Walnuts, figs, honey, mozzarella, blue cheese, rucola and parmesan

Note to others. The quality of the links isn’t great. And there seems to be an authoritarian communist et al. bias. Cross-reference stuff, and consider biases.

That’s pretty cool and very kind of you. But I was exaggerating, though it does hit me more than it should.

But cognitively I know it’s usually not that big of a deal. Sometimes the way I communicated is an issue, or somebody interpreted it wrong, or they are having a bad day, being unreasonable, or I just straight up made a mistake. It could be so many things.

I find this article pretty useful for anyone who might struggle with this and rejection in general:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/08/stay-true-to-yourself-fly-closer-sun-what-ive-learned-from-50-years-of-rejection

Help, I want to report an assault!

Admirable. A single down-vote, even out of 200 and I take physical damage for the next few days.

How about knighting people who actually do real good, rather than rich assholes? Oh right, the people knighting them are the fucking monarchs.

The dumbest game I’ve ever played. Escaped into it as a kid on release and got addicted. Sure the initial journey to 60 was pretty magical. It was my first mmo, and I had played WC3 a lot before.

But my god, the dunning krueger effect, the toxicity, the community. Just terrible imo. And of course the utter unfulfilling time sink.
I’ve also been quite a competitive gamer, having played a lot of cs, dota and wc3 ladder, some semi-professionally. And WoW is simply not it.

I learned how evil Blizzard is, how addicted I can get to certain games, etc. yeah, the one word that comes to mind looking back at it is “stupid”.

LOL pretty much went the same path as you. Tried some other search engines (don’t have a searxng one though). And it’s only that IRC log. So, personally couldn’t find any evidence. But also doesn’t seem that important, since the concept appears to be the most important part.

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I hesitate to post both of these, because I don’t wanna get into conspiracy stuff. But both are not well known, and I hear a lot of it keeps getting deleted.

EDIT: The first one appears to be quite popular in podcasts and tabloids. So I’ll just say it’s an interesting mystery, where I have no idea what gets deleted and what doesn’t.

Many questions about the case of: Gabriela Rico Jiménez

Warning: pretty dark rabbit hole

And quite a lot of stuff pointing towards Ghislaine Maxwell having been a reddit supermod: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/

Aside from all the things that are instant turn-offs…

Being hopeful.
Also seem to get drawn to BPD

Sounds very psychosis inducing.

The ability to create black holes. Just wanna fuck around and find out.