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Fair, but that would still make the answer obvious. People are religious because there is a god. If the question was how people could love a god that allowed for evil it would be one thing, but being religious just means adhering to a religion. IMO this is just more of another "how stupid are religious people" loaded question that doesn't really fit with the purpose of the sub. You can't really have serious conversation with someone who is just railing against something they disagree with. (10)

People are religious because they BELIEVE there is a god.Stating that there is a god as fact is not something anyone can do, because there is no empirical evidence one exists. Hence the concept of faith.I do truly believe that if children were not indoctrinated into religion from birth, religion would mostly cease to exist by the time that generation of children was dying of old age. I don't think the concept of a god existing is something that anyone would believe after the age that kids stop believing in santa if the concept was introduced after that age.My family was not religious when I was growing up, I never believed in Santa or the tooth fairy or anything like that. All humans are born atheists. They believe in god because they were taught to. Especially now with the technology and scientific understanding that we have about the world, explaining how the world was created by relying on literal magic is.... baffling.If it gives people comfort and they practice their faith... (-6)

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To each their own I guess turns out I have testicular cancer and it is not increasing my faith (10)

God is testing you. (-5)

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You didn't mention mention Christianity once which is really what this seems to be describing, especially with the capitalization on god. The true reddit moment here is me excepting you to have asked this in good faith. I was raised in an extremely religious family and can talk for a long time about it. I'm still very open to people having faith even though I don't myself anymore. I also did a lot of soul searching and research into other religions at various points in my life. I find the subject very interesting.Anyway, sorry for assuming you were genuine. Have a good one. (6)

You used so many words to say literally nothing (-3)

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Terrible terrible analogy (1)

But it's what you are claming. There is no physics because Isaac Newton kicked my dog.There is something I don't like in the universe there for any conclusion you wish to make.How can people drive Fords when cancer exists.How can Hampsters be kept as pets when cancer exists.What the heck does cancer have to do with the existence of Keven Smith?Why haven't you cured cancer! You must be evil. There is no way you exist.This is the dumbest logic. Cancer has no more barring on the existence of god then phyics does. Why do plains crash if there is a god. Why is there poison if god exists. Why do I have to wipe my own butt if god exists.There are really debates to be had about the existence of god, but this is just dumb. (3)

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For Christians, the answer is laid out in Genesis.Essentially, we live in a broken world rife with suffering. It's an inescapable fact of life, even if some of us are hit harder than others. This isn't in line with how God originally designed the world and humanity, or even the ultimate destination He has in store for us, but it was our own free will that led us to sin, which brings with it the wage of death.That isn't the end of the story, though. Jesus Christ was crucified and died so that humans could be redeemed. The word 'excruciating', as in excruciating pain, was derived from crucifixion, if that gives you an idea of how horrible of a death it is.If you accept that God became man and suffered the most horrible pain imaginable just so that we can be saved, you can accept a lot of suffering yourself, even if it's completely out of your control.Job explores your particular line of questioning pretty extensively. Honestly, some of it would be right at home in the lyrics of a Midw... (1)

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A truly loving god wouldnt allow this type of suffering, if god is real it is either indifferent or malevolent (-1)

You think that, and yet, God so loved the world that He sent His one and only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for our sins, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. For Christ did not come to condemn the world, but to save it.The world has chosen its own condemnation. Every day someone dies to murder. Every day someone lies. Every day someone blasphemes the Lord.And yet we have the gall to think we know the mind of God? Were we there at creation? When He placed the first animals, or first formed the Earth? Were we there when God separated the waters from the waters? Were we there when God separated land from the water?No. To say that we know anything, or to even think we know anything of God's plans is arrogance of the highest order.You ask why there's hardship, and I tell you because Christ suffered the worst form of torture known to man, as a living sacrifice. That we only might be saved. He knew many of us would rejec... (0)

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Since the advent of modern financial markets, bonds have always had the reputation of being conservative. The saying has been “Bonds would never make you rich.”

However, they would provide you with a moderate, steady, and dependable income.

This reputation was challenged in the 1970s and 1980s by treasuries yielding more than 10% in the wake of high inflation and the explosive growth in the high-yield market. In the decades that followed, yields drifted down in parallel with inflation, but investor excitement was maintained by a steady stream of capital gains (with the proliferation of ABS and MBS) as well as income.

However, once monetary easing hit its peak in the days following the Great Financial Crisis, high-quality bond yields fell to levels that promised very little income and at best modest capital gains, and it took a long time for yields to eventually recover to their historical averages. However, in the aftermath of the pandemic, massive government borrowing, inflation, and Fed tightening have all contributed to rising bond yields. But since over the past year, despite a winding down of pandemic effects, very steady economic growth, declining inflation, and a pulse in Fed tightening, bond volatility has persisted, with yields seeing sharp swings in both directions.

Indeed, since the Fed last raised rates on July 26th of last year, the 10-year Treasury yield has ranged from a low of 3.79% to a high of 4.98%. Statistically, this represents well above average volatility, and it raises some important questions for portfolio optimization (how to practically hedge). So it raises the question why bond volatility has risen, where it might go from here, and how investors should adapt to a world of more volatile bonds.

First, take a look at some key economic data and events for the week ahead. The most important economic numbers will be contained in Thursday's GDP report (keep an eye out for that). Business fixed investment, inventories and trade are all likely to detract from growth. However, the broad story appears to be one very modest deceleration from the 3.1% GDP growth seen over the course of last year to a 2.2-2.4%, while still running a little above the Federal Reserve's 1.8% longer-run estimate of the potential growth of the US economy.

Overall, it is expected these numbers to point to continued moderate economic expansion. Turning to the earnings season, with 14% of S&P 500 market cap reporting so far, the profit picture appears mixed, showing 70% of firms beating analysts' expectations in EPS, but only 46% beating on revenues. However, first quarter of corporate performance should be much clearer by the end of this week, since 158 of the S&P 500 companies are set to report over the next five days. Meta, ThermoFischer, IBM, AT&T and Boeing are set to release theirs today. Microsoft, Google, T-Mobile, Merck, Intel and Comcast set for tomorrow and Exxon, Chevron and Abbvie due on Friday. (Find your portfolio holdings date here https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/earnings , can't list them all 😴😴😴)

Investors will also be very interested in the translation of earlier CPI data for March into the Fed's preferred consumption deflation measures due out on Friday. Markets in general are pricing in that both the headline and core consumption deflation measures rose by 0.3% month to month in March, with year-over-year gains rising by 0.1% to 2.6% at the headline level and falling by 0.1% to 2.7% at the core level, that core inflation pressures are still easing, but at a glacially slow pace.

Just as financial commentators routinely say that we live in uncertain times, Michael Burry routinely says another recession is coming and Disney often claims the next Marvel movie is the best one yet, markets often claim that market volatility is unusually high. However, when it comes to the US bond market today, this is actually true. Looking at the Bloomberg aggregate bond index from January 2002 to June 2022, the average monthly return was 0.3%, with the standard deviation measured over a 24-month lag of 0.9%. That is to say, roughly two-thirds of the time, the monthly return was within a range of 0.6% to plus 1.2%. However, from July 2022 to March 2024, the standard deviation of monthly returns has actually fricking been 2.0%. A crazy amount for a piece of paper which basically does nothing but guarantee a coupon and a maturity payout.

In examining the causes of this volatility, it's easiest to start with what isn't causing it.

First, it's not due to increased volatility in economic growth. Over the past two years, the macroeconomic outlook has, if anything, become steadier. The unemployment rate has now been in a narrow band between 3.4% and 4.0% (literally all of rdrama.net) for 28 straight months, while real GDP growth appears to have settled into a steady, if somewhat strong, path.

Nor is it due to increased volatility in financial markets in general. This can be seen by the fact that equity market volatility has not risen nearly as much. Between January 2002 and June 2022, the standard deviation of bond market returns measured over a 24-month lag was just 27% of that of the equity market, as measured by the S&P 500 total return index. From July 2022 to March 2024, that ratio has been 37%.

Finally, and most interestingly, it's not due to greater volatility in inflation expectations.”

Measured on a monthly frequency, this expectation has stayed in a narrow band between 2.18% and 2.41% since September 2022. In fact, the standard deviation of inflation expectations measured in this manner has been almost 20% lower since July 2022 than in the prior 17.5 years. Think about it, not since the Invasion of Iraq and the global oil supply shitshow, has inflation expectations been so low.

When you look at more recently at data, CPI's are not doing much anymore. They have kind of bottomed. You being r-slurred, can argue that goods disinflation, which had been very powerful was the main driver of this disinflation trend. Well, no. That is over. Goods disinflation is arguably behind us now. And in some segments, you are seeing goods prices starting to rise again. The monthly core CPI was boosted by rents. Motor vehicle insurance was another driver, surging 2.6%. That was the largest rise since July 2020 and followed a 0.9% gain in February. There were also increases in the prices of apparel and personal care. But prices for used cars and trucks, recreation and new vehicles fell. Make of that data what you will. If you can match that to your portfolio company's earnings and cash out on expiring options, congratulations, you have just made your money like the big boy bucks in The Street.

But obviously, energy is still a question mark. And with what's going on in the Middle East and the most recent moves in rice, cocoa, oil, one can wonder to what extent there might be some pickup in energy inflation and consequently commodity inflation. And finally, and most importantly, obviously, services inflation is very resilient.

This is especially problematic in the US. US isn't China where you can just manufacture bullshit. Everyone knows that services inflation is very sensitive to the job market, to the resilience of the economy, to wages. And on this front, obviously, the job market across both sides of the Atlantic is very strong.

So, you know that the economists at the BLS and Fed think we have reached kind of a plateau.

But then, what is causing higher volatility in bonds, you ask incredulously?

First, Occam's Gillette. That this may be due in part to the huge volume of government debt that needs to be financed today. 20 years ago, treasury debt in the hands of the public was $4.2 trillion or 36% of GDP. Ten years ago, it was $12.6 trillion or 74% of GDP. By the end of last month, it was $27.5 trillion or 99% of GDP. It's quite possible that this extraordinary level of debt is straining global capital markets in a way that just wasn't the case 10 or 20 years ago, leading to more volatility.

This effect may be further amplified by quantitative tightening, which is having the effect of transferring treasury ownership from price insensitive buyers such as the Federal Reserve to much more price sensitive private sector actors. Moreover, this effect could be further increased by the general decline in dealer balance sheets in response to regulation, even as the overall size of the global bond market has increased. Second, higher short-term rates may be contributing to higher bond volatility.

With a normal upward-sloping yield curve, it's easy to assign investors to one of two well-defined camps. Those willing to accept some risk and return for better yields and potential capital gains would invest in long-term bonds, while those willing to sacrifice return for safety would stay at the short end of the curve. However, with overnight rates well above 5% and long rates significantly lower, many long-term investors may be tempted to tactically switch in and out of the short end of the market, adding volatility to bonds. Basically instead of hedging equities with bonds and credit with rates, they are speculating with your pension funds and having fun. (Let them have fun, bigot 🤬🤬!!).

Finally, and most hilariously, today's volatile bond market may reflect hypersensitivity of the Fed. Prior to the most recent inflation surge, Fed officials appeared to be relatively unfazed by small overshoots and undershoots on inflation. However, today we appear to be in an era of zero inflation tolerance on the part of the Fed. Consequently, a very slight overshoot in the March CPI numbers induced an immediate and violent reaction to the bond market, as futures markets almost overnight went from pricing in three full rate cuts in 2024 to barely pricing in two. Even if the inflation environment is relatively steady, any sharp change in expected Fed policy could add to bond market volatility.

Think about it for a second. We have reached metamarkets now. The market's expectations of inflation are tempered but since the Fed's inflation expectations haven't, so the markets are literally pricing in a quasi inflation derivative, ie the expectation of the fed's expectation of the inflation. This is your portfolio manager, Chris Nolan, and he's here to give you a lesson on markets called Inception. 😴😴😴

Then that brings us to the next question, that if, let's say, the Fed waits, is there a risk that given how strong the US economy has been, that there is a chance that inflation might actually slowly creep up instead of going down as it has done, let's say, last year? This is really the key risk here. And when you look back to, for instance, the 1970s, this is really what happened. (Already covered in previous effortpost).

But maybe the truth is, most likely, we have a very different situation. Most likely, the cyclical part of inflation is probably gone now. It has all but disappeared. And in many ways, the western countries are now left with the structural part of this inflation. Structural part, which is clearly the consequence of very long term factors on the economy, demographics, deglobalization, international wars etc. I am not a Political Economist, so I'll just say vote for Biden. Or for Trump. Or just have fun.❤️❤️❤️

Clearly, there's no evidence that Washington is going to reign in fiscal deficits or the regulators will act aggressively to deepen liquidity in treasury markets. While many still expect the Federal Reserve to cut rates later this year (pipe dreams), yield curve inversion could persist for a further year or more.

Nor is there any sign that an inflation-scarred Federal Reserve is going to moderate their reaction to inflation news going forward.

In this supermeta scenario, bond market volatility is here to stay at least for a while, and as a pesky investor you may want to consider if your bond allocations are appropriate for the overall balance of their portfolios. In other words, fricking sell your current bonds and load up on the next offerings because I don't see rate cuts soon.

Sauce:

https://www.bea.gov

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/TextView?type=daily_treasury_bill_rates&field_tdr_date_value=2024

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/BeigeBook_20240417.pdf

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Your mum's shrieks when I was doing her

!r-slurs !math

@Proud_Mossad_Asset please effortpost sir before it's too old

After a lovely chat with the well dressed gentlemen surrounding my car, I have seen the error of my ways.

The intelligence community has our best interests at heart and are worthy stewards of the world order.

Serious connection or Gold Digger

As an older man, I often run into a huge number of young women who say they want an older man to have a relationship with, but turn out wanting a "sugar daddy" or someone to take care of them.

I have even seen advice here suggesting young women promise men s*x and flirt with them to get gifts and money with no intention of engaging in a sincere relationship.

Without outright saying "I'm poor, you're going to be pulling your own weight." how should an older man seek out and make connections with attractive women that may be younger or similar in age?

If you are a woman, what attracts you to older men that is not money and "stability"?

bitch got the poor guy fired.
i don't know what kind of visa he has, but high chances he gets deported if he's unable to find a job soon.
imagine getting your life ruined because you wanted to help other indian immigrants with groceries. pic.twitter.com/Cz5cwu0li6

— Liberal Conservative (@libconservative) April 23, 2024

!leafs !bharatiya !antibharatiya

https://twitter.com/libconservative/status/1782993767781564871

https://twitter.com/__spd_/status/1782707334923632697

https://twitter.com/libconservative/status/1782764381379645780

https://twitter.com/hunter_ppc/status/1782899316937691486

https://twitter.com/Hyperbalistic/status/1783081056591036673

Literally every argument online involving and always ends up with them referencing onlyfans

https://twitter.com/moza485214/status/1782848348422373586

https://twitter.com/paapi_billi_/status/1782665850916655230

https://twitter.com/UnfilteredSevak/status/1782895575437922736

>Reposting his own tiktok is defamation

https://twitter.com/Kordell43106375/status/1782818190759764339

https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1783135371439575220

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>Be Indian nationalist

>Still realise being sent to India is a life ruining event

https://twitter.com/libconservative/status/1783148896778113399

I used to be pro fro Cho but after she pathetically threatened to sue @TheGrillcast and then had her mental breakdown to quit the site only to come back not even 1 day later it was time to block her.

Well turns out she probably found out today that I blocked her and she had another manic episode.

!jannies get rid of her on your jannie team she has no business being a jannie.. in fact not sure why she's not banned after she leaked peoples phone numbers and doxxed a few rdrama users

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naw you're going to gain weight with my baby in your stomach. (-8)

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Ask if over weight? Hides body. 🤦‍♂️ (6)

You just sound horny 💀 (-6)

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Absolutely not. You are gorgeous. Don't let anyone tell you different. I notice you don't smile, you should, you don't need to change a thing. (-3)

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The validation seeking of women in this subreddit is insane. (2)

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Don't listen to this loser… you're not fat (-1)

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https://old.reddit.com/r/absolutelynotme_irl/comments/1cbpory/absolutelynotme_irl/?sort=controversial

We posting incel dogwhistles on here now?

Get help for your fetish

You will never ever ever guess what subreddit shes active in. She also posted this

They don't want you either incel

Racist incel losers

Seething roastie.

this is creepy and weird

Ive found if you just stay healthy and not be a racist frick, this is the best pulling years of your life, try not going down conspiracy rabbit holes and not being hateful, you'll be a fricking unicorn these days.

You hear about the shortage of ugly reddit r-slurs nowadays?

Passport bros need to get the frick out of my country. We're not some lesser race that'll pamper you for being a man child. If you go after Asian women because they're "traditional" that just means You're a racist misogynistic creep.

Nah. We'll stay. And women love us in your country. Seethe

Enjoy it but the fact you can't pull girls in your own country is pathetic 😆

It's not pathetic. Average men are repulsive to American women. I'm Average so I can't pull. Fortunately I don't have to. I can just travel and pull in Asian countries

It's pretty fricking pathetic man it takes like no effort to take care of yourself and go outside and talk to the opposite gender 🤦‍♂️

Cope lmao, American girls are easy af

They are easy for Chad. I'm not Chad. I have no game. And I don't need it. I just go to Asia. They are slimmer and better looking with more pleasant personalities anyway. Everyone wins

Asian girls will still leave you the second they find a guy who doesn't have a dog shit personality, you're gonna die alone and it's completely on you

I haven't experienced that. Projecting your reddit brainrot onto asian women doesn't really work in reality. Dating in Asia as an average American man is paradise. No amount of downvotes, insults or snark can ruin it

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You actually just have a warped view of gender and it leads you to believe lies about women. Youre living a fantasy in your head bro. "Chad" isnt real and there are girls that like average guys. You need therapy my guy you know an incel just went on a stabbing spree at a mall? This line of thinking is unhealthy and there is help available bro. There are vastly less differences between the sexes than youve led yourself to believe you just need some actual exposure, and to stop surrounding yourself with people spewing hateful, unscientific rhetoric. Its not about insults or snark your idealogy is harmful to yourself and the world around you. You are making your life harder on yourself, not women, not "Chad", but you alone. You are the maker of your own destiny. Youve got serious self hatred that youve projected onto women, now you think all women hate you and are out to get you. No you need to love yourself before you see yourself as lovable, because you are, you just need to escape this mindset and focus on the right things.

Nice buzzword waterfall. But it has no bearing on who I am, how I live, or the reality of most men and women in America openly admitting that dating and finding a partner sucks. You can't gaslight the entire world into thinking American dating is totally great and only wierd incels have a problem. Everyone can see its terrible all around. Therapy and using the right terminology won't fix it. Men traveling will at least improve their experiences

Its not a buzzword waterfall its facts. Its funny because the incel playbook is just regurgitating words that incite emotions rather than reflect facts "chad" "stacy" "x pill" all words with no scientific or sociological basis that are tailor made to trigger lonely men's emotions. You are parroting grifters my dude, grifters that make money off of lonely men. Who you are or how you live have no impact on reality, that dating statistically isnt as grim as you make it out to be. That there is no science to back your feelings up. Then there is far more you could do to improve your dating odds, which you reject. Your fragile emotions regarding women do not care about the facts. The fact that you can date, but you don't. The fact that your emotions are being taken advantage of by grifters. The fact you can go outside right now and see average looking dudes dating smokeshows. And the fact that people that share your mindset are causing harm to the world. Read some science and stop getting in your feels, make some change in your life and quit blaming other people. Once again, you are the maker of your own destiny. And if your destiny is that of a weak man who sees himself as stuck with society stacked against him with no way out, then thats weakness. Your weakness, your intrinsic self defeat and preassumed failure, thats why you arent getting laid my dude. Because you believe youve already lost, because grifters told you you already lost and you believed them.

Most people aren't scientists and don't use science in their daily discussions of dating or culture. All your demands for statistics and scientific sources for casual statements about dating sound spergy and insipid. Chad is short hand for tall good looking charismatic popular guy who easily gets women. People don't want to type all of that out every single time so they say Chad. This is how language develops and it's not proof of incel pathology to use or understand what it means. All your walls of text about my inadequacies have no affect on reality whatsoever. You are wasting effort and convincing no one

Ok well i just hope you get better lol

You hope I die a painful slow death, at least be honest

I really don't, I want you to go to therapy

Men in therapy are miserable, broke from the bill, and STILL celibate. Men who travel solve the problem instantly. I wouldn't wish therapy on my worst enemy

the memer's barely disguised fetish

I have a feeling the majority of the commenter's on here are the type of people who see a white guy with literally anyone who isn't a white girl and thinks it's some colonization fetish or incel bullshit 🙄

lol white girls just simply can't stand it when all of the attention is not on them

@Dramamine @BWC PING RELEVANT GROUPS !grillers

So basically someone told her to protest so she did, like an obedient

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40126958

There is a large amount of creators on the platform that live off their content and eCommerce enabled through the platform. So it disappearing overnight would severely impact people who have a majority of their livelihood through the app.

Won't someone think of the poor zoomer influencers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127055

Banning TikTok will cause an entire generation of Americans to lose all trust in their institutions. Whatever vanishingly small influence China may or may not have through TikTok---still completely unproven innuendo---pales compared to the absolute public relations coup that would win were it banned. If you think cynicism is bad now, there will be zero trust in the democratic process and the rules-based order were this to happen.

Fellas is democracy gonna die because nurses can't twerk on TikTok anymore?

Reportedly escorted off for having a tantrum

British Muslim Influencer ‘Ali Dawah’, who has over a million YouTube subscribers, only permits his wife to communicate with him by writing on a whiteboard pic.twitter.com/75LnZ1Ijn8

— ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 (@kunley_drukpa) April 21, 2024

It's so infuriating to watch yt men do things like this because the world was obviously created by a woman!!

!moidmoment !atheists say it me y'all: ALLAH IS A WOMAN. ALLAH. IS. A. WOMAN. Periodt!!!

It has always been the folly of conservatives to start admiring arab rape apes who worship a pedophile that married Aisha at 6 and raped her at 9. Oh, if only we were backwards savages who waged endless war and forced female children into sister-wives 3 at a time. pic.twitter.com/bqhU3W5wWm

— Josh (@XJosh) April 24, 2024

british table just stiffed on a $250 check. close the borders.

— brecht apologist (@madisontayt_) April 23, 2024

https://twitter.com/madisontayt_/status/1782686622959489105

https://twitter.com/keymaraes/status/1782744437472346153

https://twitter.com/JackDunc1/status/1782828861312385507

https://twitter.com/ParagonDeku/status/1783046694894014563

First of all I'm going off on information about Krayon (sister toucher) that was already divulged by Carp and FroCho

This from the post here: https://rdrama.net/post/257327/apparently-the-user-who-dropped-users (Archive)

And this from the comment here: https://rdrama.net/post/257327/apparently-the-user-who-dropped-users/6185775#context (Archive)

So what we know know is that Krayon (sister toucher)'s allegedly named "Grant Simmons" and 952-378-7642 is his phone number

So we do a little reverse phone look up using https://www.numlookup.com/ for his number and we get "Patrick Simmons" who has the same last name. Probably a father or uncle or brother?

Area code for 952 is Minneapolis/St-Paul

When you do a search for "Patrick Simmons Minnesota"...

You get articles about some dude in St Paul who has a history of abusive behaviour towards his girlfriend stabbing her and setting her on fire killing her

Article: https://www.twincities.com/2022/03/16/woman-killed-in-st-paul-had-incredible-spirit-friend-says-in-fundraiser-for-3-daughters/ (Archive)

Simmons returned to his Bloomington home, set it on fire and drove away, the complaint said.

Co-workers went to Simmons' residence and discovered him parked nearby, and they flagged down police who were responding to the area. Officers arrested Simmons.

He had blood on his clothing, his face was covered in soot, and his facial hair and eyebrows were singed.

Simmons told investigators that Goodermont “was a witch and he did this to stand up for the babies being killed and sacrificed with witchcraft,” the complaint said.

He said he threw gasoline on Goodermont and lit it with his lighter. Police asked where he got the gas and he replied, “I got the gasoline at my house. So, yeah, it's premeditated.” He said he burned his house “because there was paranormal activity going on there.”

Last summer, Simmons was the subject of a petition for civil commitment and a court document said he was hospitalized for psychosis and receiving treatment at the time.

No attorney for Simmons, who is being held in the Ramsey County jail, was listed in the court record as of Wednesday. He is charged with second-degree intentional murder.

And if you really noootice they have the same hair colour, curly hair, facial structure and features:

We know from the articles that Patrick Simmons did a murder around March 2022

And Krayon (sister toucher) was texting FroCho using that number around September 2021 (Source: https://rdrama.net/post/14661/the-autists-last-sperg-krayon (sister toucher)-sister - Archive) when she was forced to post his "manifesto"

And based on his DMs to the jannies he seems hyperfocused on his daddy

So in a nutshell:

• phone number he texted users on this site from is registered to a Patrick Simmons

• area code shows Minneapolis/St Paul in the state of Minnesota

• googling "Patrick Simmons Minnesota" gives you articles of some guy murdering his girlfriend by stabbing and setting her on fire

• same hair colour, curly hair, facial structure, features

• same brand of lunacy

• Krayon (sister toucher) having daddy issues based on his DMs to the jannies

• timeline fits

!metashit

Please disprove me because

🇦🇷‼️🚨 SUBBED: Protests against Milei’s reforms break out!

“They buy used military planes for $600,000 but have no money for canteens.”

What do you think? pic.twitter.com/8WTp65BZoY

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) April 24, 2024

She should talk more like this

https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/1783049915800736108

Cute twink.

THERE WAS A point in the not-too-recent past where gaming was considered a hobby mostly targeted at teenage boys. Back when Tomb Raider‘s Lara Croft became a major magazine centerfold and E3 gaming expos were more famous for their booth babes than actual games, it was the norm for the industry to cater solely to the interests of pubescent young men. In recent years, strides have been made and, despite pushback from a vocal minority, technology has brought us to the point where women in video games can actually look like, well, women rather than cartoonish, gun-toting facsimiles of Jessica Rabbit.

But every so often a game comes along that eschews modern sensibility to utilize all of the industry's greatest tech in service of a clear vision: What if video games made you horny?

PlayStation's newest action title, Stellar Blade (out April 26), is that game. It's also many other games, ripping pretty much every major idea from this era's most popular releases — and anime as a whole — to create perhaps the thirstiest game since Dead or Alive gave up the fighting genre to become a beach volleyball sim.

Does that make it a bad game? Not really. Video games aren't a monolith; they should be as open a palette as cinema or any other medium. But does the gratuitous, male-gazey focus help make it a good game? It certainly makes it a hilarious one.

The basic plot of Stellar Blade feels like a stock anime narrative. Earth has been destroyed by creatures named Naytiba. Humanity as we know is mostly extinct on earth after the umpteenth apocalypse, with survivors living primarily on an off-world colony. To wage war against the grotesque monsters on the planet's surface, society's vaguely defined leader/deity figure Mother Sphere dispatches platoons of Very Sexy super soldiers, the exclusively female Airborne Squads — dubbed Angels — to clean up the mess. Of course, they're instantly wiped out save for a sole survivor, Eve, who serves as the player-controlled protagonist.

Let's get this out of the way: Eve is not a character. She's a vassal onto which overly sexualized violence is projected. What consists of her characterizations swings wildly between whatever scenario she's placed in. Sometimes, she's a completely helpless fawn in need of rescue, completely devoid of agency. Other times, she's an unstoppable killing machine who can pull off gravity defying displays of viscera against behemoth abominations without breaking a sweat. Sometimes, she's over it all and moody. Others, she's a nurturing messianic figure helping bring humanity together by solving their day-to-day struggles.

In another work, these dichotomies would make for a conflicted, humanized character. People are complicated, after all. Eve is not. Her POV is always driven by what's most convenient to move the current scene forward and her only consistent trait is that she's perpetually naïve and curious about the central mysteries spelled out before her. That, and she is half-naked by decree.

Since her public reveal, Eve has been the latest in a line of video game heroines whose over-the-top design is a point of contention. Comparisons have been made to Bayonetta and Nier: Automata's 2B, a sexy witch and sexy android, respectively. And while 2B has a logical reason to be totally devoid of personality (she's a robot), the comparison to Bayonetta is unfair. Bayonetta, ludicrously designed as she is, isn't just sexy, she's sexual — having ownership of her looks and mannerisms in ways that ooze self-esteem. Eve is a blank slate, a doll to be played with and dressed up, literally.

And while that's inherently sad, it at least makes for an unintentionally funny dissonance throughout the entire experience playing Stellar Blade. Checking off all the boxes of modern game design, the game apes practically every type of action beat found in famous games — but with boobs! There's a sequence mid-game that's ripped straight from Uncharted 2 where Eve must escape a dangling train car as plummeting debris and freight rain around her. Where Uncharted made this into one of the most harrowingly cinematic scenes in the series, here it plays like a porn parody as the camera shifts almost exclusively behind her rear for full-frame up-skirts while she's pelted comedically in the head

Imagine trying to drive home a poignant narrative beat where you're informing a young girl that her missing sister is dead, only for each reaction shot of Eve to focus on her breasts, swinging autonomously with jiggle physics run amok. She's standing still!

The game's creators have gone on record that Eve was intentionally designed to be pure cheesecake because, frankly, players controlling her will spend the bulk of their time seeing her butt as she runs. Look, that's their prerogative, but it stands out starkly when every female character, from iffy-aged NPCs to a cherub-like engineer also resemble waifu pillow designs. It's more than a little unsettling when the team's hacker speaks like an adolescent chimney sweep garbed in a dominatrix's swimwear.

And the men? All but two of the game's male characters don't even have faces, instead opting for cybernetic enhancements or flat-out robot heads at all times to complement their tactical windbreakers and military pants.

Again, this isn't to say that video game characters can't be designed to be sexy, but when a world and its characters are as flatly written as they are here, playing it straight doesn't do anything justice. Taken at face value, the story of Stellar Blade is fine, if tedious. But viewed ironically, it makes for one of the best comedic games of the last few years.

Make that an action-comedy because Stellar Blade is, after all, mostly about action. There, it shines. Pulling from games like Nier: Automata and various soulslikes (i.e. resembling Dark Souls), gameplay focuses mostly on meditative, carefully timed combat that pushes players to tightly parry, dodge, and execute lighting fast bloodletting with both swords and firearms.

It's not all perfect. Switching between standard melee, heavy-hitting Beta Skills, and time-sensitive Burst Skill reactions is fine enough, but switching to gunplay proves more cumbersome. There's plenty of times during boss battles where it isn't even worth swapping for long-range weaponry as the clunky shift between mechanics leaves Eve open for strikes. Guns don't load quickly, and it's as if the enemies plan their next move while the player is stuck frantically selecting an ammunition type in the drop-down menu. Don't even start on the fact that expended ammo doesn't regenerate if you die, requiring a trip to a shop kiosk after every failed attempt.

It's a shame because the shooting mechanics feel great, with Stellar Blade being one of the few PS5 exclusives to lean heavily into the tactile feedback of the DualSense controller. Wrestling with an adaptive trigger to pull off the heavy click of a shotgun shell burst would feel great if it weren't such a liability. But the DualSense features extend throughout the whole game, with noticeable shifts in vibration that really sell the tangibility of this world, whether it's Eve's high heels drudging through sand or clacking against metallic floors.

The game looks great too. Aside from whatever weapon's grade processing power is dedicated to make Eve's chest physics so mighty, the visuals actually utilize the PS5 to create a vibrant world that feels next-gen, which is nice when even major games like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth failed to deliver more than soulless husks for character models as of late.

The issue is that there's very few times when that visual polish gets to shine in the environments, many of which lack diversity. There's sunken cities and urban ruins, creepy underground facilities, and occasionally some truly spellbinding sci-fi settings, but the bulk of the game disappoints by dropping players in barren desert and wasteland for long stretches of pseudo-open world fetch questing.

This draws back to the fact that the game, created by Korean developers Shift Up, doesn't really know what it wants to be. It begins as an eerie, sci-fi flavored take on the soulslike, before immediately dropping the veneer for canned exploration in desert environments that resemble Horizon Forbidden West's apocalyptic natural terrain more than anything. There's a special layer of irony there given how that game has recently become an online punching bag for having the gall to star a heroine who looks like a person, rather than an airbrushed avatar, to which some view Stellar Blade as the anti-woke answer for people looking for more titillating character design. The jury's out on whether that's intentional, but “sexy Horizon” this ain't.

Otherwise, Stellar Blade is a serviceable action romp that occasionally broaches greatness, all set to the strangely hypnotic ambience of jazzy K-pop ballads. That, plus boobs.

Copying and pasting because it's behind an ad block. I had no idea it was this long. I didn't read past the first couple paragraphs. Jesus getting this in to the post was a nightmare. How many words can these cute twinks write. Death to journos.

Why would I ever defund the police when they’re about to help these spoiled children face consequences for the first time in their privileged, antisemitic, $80,000 a year tuition lives? https://t.co/keQYENaEz4

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 24, 2024

"I absolutely believe that Palestine should be free."

Piers Morgan gives his view to Crackhead Barney, the ambush interviewer who tried to get Alec Baldwin to say 'Free Palestine' in a coffee shop.

Watch the full interview: https://t.co/SqcPRwoViO@piersmorgan | @CHBAF pic.twitter.com/6XZxSvb4jR

— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) April 24, 2024