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@blazera

An oath or legal affirmation can be made if what you’re saying is true and accurate to the best of your own ability and perceptions.

If you say something under oath with the intent to deceive or omit key information or evidence for any reason really, then this could be considered perjury, which is a crime under most legal systems.

If you truly believe you saw an alien and were completely convinced of that and testified that you saw one, yet your claim was found to be factually incorrect, you most likely would not be liable for perjury nor did you do anything illegal (in many modern legal systems). You would simply be wrong.

This could cause you to become an “unreliable witness” which might mean anything else you say or claim is taken with less weight, even in areas you might specialize in. For example, how much would you trust a cardiac surgeon who claimed they had frequent encounters with aliens from outer space?

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How are they measuring the costs here? Even fast-food burgers have significantly shot up in price.

If we go by raw ingredients, then healthy food can be considerably cheaper than pre-made garbage and fast food.

If we add the time cost of traveling to a grocery store, shopping, and then preparing the healthier food, then it could become more expensive.

There’s also the fact that most of the USA has absolute shit public transportation which increases the burden for people who can’t afford cars to get groceries in the first place. That and the time costs can be reduced with grocery deliveries, however. this might not be a viable option in all areas or work schedules; You want to be home when the groceries are delivered.

Then there is the fact that there are a lot of food deserts , especially in low-income areas. This can make it harder, if not impossible for people to even get healthier food.

Not sure where I’m going with my train of thought here…

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@0101010001110100

Yes and it’s over 100 years old and back when flash powder was used for photography.
https://time.com/5241498/how-you-think-you-look-meme/

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Heh, I almost dealt with this yesterday when I cleaned up my room a tad. Everything was scattered on the floor and in order to clean up things better, I had to shuffle everything around until I got everything put back away, albeit imperfectly.

This is one of those situations where ADHD people need to keep going and find a home for the displaced items, even if it’s back where it was before. In fact, I’d recommend putting everything back either where it was before, or close to it. Maybe just keep like things with like.

If you’re ADHD, you’re going to forget where you “reorganized” everything to and you’ll end up tearing everything apart looking for that thing you put away yesterday.

It’s not a perfect answer, but it’s better than leaving everything on the floor…

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new rule: triangles are the most sexy shape.

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@Zebrazilla

This fixed it for me. It was already set to English and didn’t think to switch it to something different and back.

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I play with the brightness/contrast/gamma until I can see everything.

It seems like video editors forget that not everyone is using a multi-thousand dollar display specifically tuned for video editing and most people are probably watching whatever on a cheapo Walmart special TV or monitor.

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I think a lot of people here are confusing liquid assets/cash and genuinely believe millionaires and billionaires have this as pure cash in their bank accounts.

In reality, a lot of the money is tied up in non-liquid assets like property, physical assets, and stocks.

Sure these wealthy people can sell their shares for example, but if they sell too many at once, it will drop the value of the shares.

This is likely why Elon Musk can’t afford to pay his bills. Not only is he a grifter and a loser, he’s likely extremely cash poor and doesn’t have enough liquidity to pay his debts. It’s unlikely he’ll ever admit this however.

Arguably, the majority of the money these billionares have is essentially speculative.

The more you think about how the economy works, the more you realize how much of a facade it really is. The stock market is a huge sham as well. Most stocks simply don’t exist and the amount of value manipulation that occurs is astounding. It’s all fake.

I think the sooner we begin to realize that the economy is one giant paper tiger and if we just start telling banks and other “money” purveyors that lock us into our flawed system to go fuck themselves, we can really take away the power from “the rich.”

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@TheCrispyDud

I looked through their post history and they’re a troll. I just reported a few of their posts.

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