I am fairly confident everyone I know IRL operates at stage 1-3? Where do you live, I want to move.

I don’t think it’s ironic, it just doesn’t say the quiet part out loud. Everything just works if they control the entire ecosystem, so if you want ‘sophisticated’ let us control everything and it will all just work.

Just watched that video. Holy cow…I’m speechless, thank you for sharing. That seems like a really cool show.

Oh wow, I know who he is but didn’t recognize him in the clip. I don’t seem to be able to recognize/associate people by how they look. Most people I’m close to think I’m lying or trying to be funny because I don’t know who popular people are, it would be nice to be able to recognize people.

Also, thank you for sharing the clip, I’m going to watch the full episode tonight.

What’s that guy doing?

Carpenter

Peter is Peter Thiel, not Trump. He will still be Peter’s puppet if Trump dies.

Holy shit. Over 1k people killed every day? How the hell do you maintain any kind of morale?

Right, but George Lucas already knew the story and he’s the one that named him.

Darth is dark in German. Vader is Dutch for father (Vater is German for father).

George Lucas actually named Darth Vader. The content in the movies is made up.

“Dark Father”; he was given the name for fairly obvious reasons by George Lucas I would think.

I’m a project manager for a team of IT systems, engineering, and infrastructure folks with just over twenty folks and my key purpose on earth is that I take one hour or less of their time once a week and by doing so they never have an email or conversation with anyone else outside of our team. I know enough to talk to any stakeholders and complete monthly status reports by simply knowing what is going on and communicating strategy to them. I’ve been praised heavily which feels very dirty being an individual contributor for so long in my career. I can speak the same language as everyone on my team spanning logistics, networking, systems, and software development but I don’t DO anything. I have major imposter syndrome as I near retirement so the praise is also appreciated greatly from them. It’s a really weird period in my career.

What does it mean if the sensation always seems to be “my finger is touching” vs “I’m being touched by a finger”? I feel like I completely understand what you’re getting at and it’s something I’ve never thought about before so I’m touching myself all over but everything feels like it’s being touched by my finger. I haven’t found a spot that feels like my finger is touching it yet and I really want to.