Yup, I agree with your points. It’s where I landed too. I always just try to see it from the perspective of people who like the hallucination theory.

It’s like the Ferris Bueler was in the head of his friend and wasn’t real theory. At first glance, kinda explains a lot. But it’s absolutely not true, and the are breaks in the movie that would happen if it were, additionally the director said that wasn’t true straight up.

But people still believe it. I try not to antagonize, but to show how unlikely that theory is to hold up.

People all collectively forgot that that was the piece that made America great in the 50s.

I don’t think that was the takeaway from the American Psycho book. There’s a lot of unknowns that the author leaves up to the reader, but at no point did I get the impression the whole thing was a hallucination. It can go a lot of ways from an interpretation standpoint, but there is no definitive ending in either the book or the movie (I believe the movie is even made more ambiguous on purpose).

There’s just as good of a chance that he killed everyone and got away with it because he’s rich and powerful (a satirical characteristic of 80’s “power” businessmen the book was trying to expose).

Most assume he killed at least the prostitutes, because there are callbacks and some police records indicating that in the background. It’s only very slightly questionable if he killed his peers/business associates.

Here’s an article that breaks it down from the movie standpoint

I’ll call out an excerpt from the end:

A popular theory is that Patrick did in fact kill everyone he copped to in his phone call to Harold, including all the ones we saw with our own eyes — that is, except for Paul Allen. This theory is most likely the closest to the truth when we take into account Paul Allen’s vacant apartment, with no signs of Patrick’s murderous rampage to be found. This theory would also explain Harold’s claim that he just had lunch with Paul Allen, so there is no way Bateman could have killed him.

On the flip side, another theory is that Patrick killed everyone, including Paul Allen. We do know that Patrick has a vendetta against Paul Allen, yet another pretentious yuppie with a superior business card. It is also possible that Harold had lunch with someone he thought was Paul Allen — we know how common it is for Bateman’s superficial crowd to mistake each other for someone else.

Both primary competing theories on the movie are that he killed almost everyone, or everyone. In the books it’s similar, even less ambiguous that he killed at least several people.

I would say the less popular and less supported version of the story is that he hallucinated everything. It’s kind of one of those theories that makes sense, but the “facts” in the story don’t add up and force a break of character. It also fights against the narrative of the author who was intending it to be a satire of the power-mad, power-hungry, grab-them-by-the-pussy businessmen of the 80’s, and what they could get away with.

I know everyone’s exhausted by politics, but truthfully, people like trump, the playboy “billionaire” tycoons of the 80’s was who Patrick was supposed to be emulating.

And we all know trump could shoot someone on 5th ave and get away with it at this point.

Looks like the author knew their stuff.

They’re working on it right this very minute, as we speak.

They will not believe the report. False flag. Etc.

Yup, same, I’m enjoying learning German this way now

It feels that way, but that is correct. Here’s an article that helps to understand a little better. Usually there’s a buffer between Democracy and Monarchy/Tyranny. In the case with Trump, went straight from democracy to Tyranny because they elected a monarch who was also a tyrant.

https://www.history.com/articles/what-are-platos-5-forms-of-government

This was first proposed in “The Republic” by Plato writing down Socrates’ arguments.

Right, so, here’s my quick hack on my youtube channel for how to get an hour of rest prep time in 10 minutes:

• First, grab a monster energy drink.
• Chug that fucker.
• Using your sped up cognition, focus really hard on not having any activities.
• Your brain should be firing neurons roughly 6-7x faster now, so you can probably get like an hour of intense no activity focus before you sleep, in just 5-10 minutes now.
• Go to sleep
• Vibrate

We need to bump this up to the top, thanks for the heads up!

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The Germans have gone through their MAGA phase already though, so the hope has always been they’d have their shit sorted if it happened again. Here’s hoping that proves to be true.

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No, it’s engineered.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

Turkey?

The hospital. First aid is really just short for First Responder Aid.

It includes things that a first responder would do to stabilize someone so they can reach an actual aid station, like a hospital or medical encampment.

We don’t call that second aid because that’s not how we think about prioritizing things.

First responder aid is the unique side of things that needs to be called out separately, as it always has a role to play, even in a hospital setting. The people who arrive first administer first responder aid until you can be triaged and seen at the appropriate time to reduce the greatest risk to the most people. Which may mean you go to the back of the line, or it may mean they move you up to the front in a triage situation.

None of those are mutually exclusive.

Which most software engineers can