The system is built on eternal growth. Slowing down is not an option.

#ExploringPerfumeNDB Two fails today. Which is a good thing. Because that means I don't want to buy bottles. These are mostly all samples or travel sizes I'm testing. First French Defense and second was Delina. French Defense top notes include dark cherry. Realizing I don't like cherry, at least on me. And Delina - VERY sweet rose. Again, at least on my skin. I am craving something dark and deep. Need to go and spray Tauer's "challenging" Oudh over it I think. 😊 I am so NOT a sweet girl. :)

@alisynthesis
i will do the same. except the basement part. (I'm in Texas where basements don't seem to exist)
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We are social animals. When the herd exhibits general acceptance it triggers something in our brains to do the same. It is why billionaires are funding data centers to flood social media with the opinions and leans they want the public to have.

I can’t remember the researcher name, but among the many studies on this topic there have been a swath done in public waiting rooms with confederates (the name given to actors working for researchers). This is a reproduced experiment.

Waiting room. Smoke starts to trickle out of the ventilation system. How long til someone leaves? Turns out, it’s more likely for the room to clear faster if the confederate gets up sooner and leaves. Then the standard cascade effect happens as the herd takes the hint and everyone leaves. In some cases, it gets to the point where the room becomes hazy and people don’t leave til the confederate initiates.

None of life is a single variable scenario, but it’s worth digging into the variables known to influence us as people.

Learned helplessness is another item I believe is more relevant today than at the time of the now illegal, though famous, experiments performed on dogs.

If it’s propaganda, it’s for the left. Reminds me of The Patriotic Blonde on Twitter. She posts stuff that’s right-wing on the surface, but the kinda things that seem meant to make conservatives take a step back.

“I LOVE Trump, but (reasonable objection). Why can’t we (do reasonable thing) instead?”

People rage about her and I’m thinking, “If I wanted to subvert conservatives, this account is exactly how I would do it.”

the guard has been waiting years for someone to ask that

@FlyingMarmot BUTT!

Same thing used to happen with reddit giving sites the hug of death lol

It’s unfortunate but kind of expected.

No no no, silly. It’s PHP, remember? P H P

Ohh custom emotes!😮​​

I've been thinking about copyright law again, because I'm an insufferable dork.