tankiejerk is also acceptable.

Whelp. I did catch a clip of is voice on the YouTubes and yeah, I do agree even more he is based in the US.

I don’t remember a time where they attempted to pretend. It’s just recently they started getting heavy with the site wide bans though.

You sound extremely intelligent and informed. With that, I am super curious how you stay informed about the world. What news sites do you frequent, for starters?

He has audiobooks? For reals? OMFG.

The points you originally called out weren’t really much to say he was from the US. The additional information you gave was enough to convince me though. Thanks for that!

Frankly, only an American can be this obsessed with CIA.

The first paragraph seemed very subjective. The last sentence sold me.

However, I dug a little bit into Kremlin propaganda about CIA propaganda, and whooo boy! It starts to get interesting really quick: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000402720002-8.pdf

(That link could be CIA propaganda about Kremlin propaganda that’s about CIA propaganda… How deep does this go? Every time “propaganda” is discovered, they just add another layer, it seems.)

I have been using 6ghz for about a year or so now and I found it to be quite fast. MLO can be super weird sometimes and seems to get confused, but it works. (It’s probably just a driver I haven’t updated.)

I think your phone is trying to tell you all the things at the same time. It’s like when you ignore the check engine light for long enough, your car just turns all the indicator lights on simultaneously.

Maybe change the oil in your phone every once in a while?

Is the “big D” actually an American? I haven’t really tried to look up any history on the dude.

Yes. I was able to fake being Irish for a bit to a group of English folk. (It was just an alcohol induced joke at the time, s’all. They were either a few pints in or I did really well. Dunno.)

People are just people and there is probably a word or phrase for “gullible” in most languages.

The Internet would be great if it wasn’t for all the other computers attached to it.

Effort vs Reward vs Ability vs Inital investment

In most cases, think of this kind of thing like a legitimate business. Same concepts. I’ll grade a few scenarios based on what I have seen over the last 20 or so years. (The ratings are arbitrary and just trying to explain my point.)

Do you have the means to rent a botnet and phish a few million people for lots of credit card numbers? Can you manage that kind of data, test all those numbers and maybe end up just selling that data? Low Risk/Moderate Reward (“Selling shovels” analogy is probably a better scheme than actually renting the botnet, IMHO)

Could you setup a “call center” in India and run a scam ring like an 8-5 business? Are there enough people you can hire to do this work? That requires training, infrastructure and time. You also may need to “work with” law enforcement to ensure your scam isn’t busted by legitimate cops. Moderate Risk/Moderate Reward.

Are you part of a small group with an insane amount of skill that has the time to pull off an extortion scheme against a Fortune 500 company for a few million bucks? High risk/High reward

Those are all normal scenarios above and it’s based on profitability and initial investment. Risk/Reward is always a balance.

(Sorry. I pulled a “wHellll aKshUallY” when you said it’s not worth the time for the small targets.)

There seems to hundreds of studies on that and there seems to be a fairly uniform “Yes” and “More than you would guess”, etc.

Here is one: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/ADR-220062

It’s all about presentation, my friend. If we are going to make our millions off of this product before it starts to roll off of people’s TikTok feeds, we need to move quick.

If we repackage PVA into a sales point for preschool nostalgia, we got it made.

Polyvinyl acetate would probably give a better texture and has been kid approved for decades.

Still, I am super curious to see if actual gelatin would work, so thanks for computing the ratios for a (theoretically) stable product.

If a solution for the bean-to-glue ratio can be found, I am also fine with that.

This seems to be from the TikToks, so no. Not real.

One of these things is not like the other…

It’s the guy pointing at something completely random.

B is for Buy n Large (and billionaire) your very best friend.

Gender neutral phrases are supposedly “woke”.