Take that nature! We know who’s the dominant species!

Yeah, I can’t even enjoy The X Files anymore after learning about this. The evil conspiracy is real but it has nothing to do with aliens

He was an amateur radio operator who picked up some encrypted signals from a nearby air force base.

Rather than admit they were just encrypted transmissions the USAF created a program that convinced this man that aliens were real and he was being pursued by the government, including sending Men in Black to harass him and hiring a woman to believe everything he said.

He died in a mental hospital, estranged from his family and suffering from paranoid delusions.

I used to think MiB was a fun movie until I learned what the USAF did to Paul Benowitz.

You can buy cable modems cheap, too. No reason to use their crap at all.

Private jets, for one.

Also yachts.

There’s evidence that being wealthy does indeed change your brain

When I worked for a major database company they made me take annual training to explain that I wasn’t allowed to buy sex workers for potential clients.

I don’t scream into a pillow. I just wake up at dawn and have a panic attack until I have to actually move.

That sounds like a “them” problem that I’m to “me” to worry about.

Got it. No therapist it is.

He’s going for the martyr angle already. Shame…

o7

Does getting health care mean leaving your basement?

If so, young men aren’t doing it.

Hell, I leave my basement frequently and don’t want to get health care because I’m sure it will bankrupt me.

If someone callled me an ambulance I’d fight them because I don’t have ambulance money.

They also invented NASCAR

Is this some boobah stuff I’m too kiki to understand?

Y’arr, matey, I got ‘em all from The Bay

There’s so.

Much.

Damn.

Pod racing.

I don’t know German and that’s what I assumed it meant.

“Ooo, we can fly a bomb in a straight line so the Spitfires can have target practice.”

“Ooo, let’s bomb England but kill more people building the bombs!”

“Even better, let’s build a big fucking gun that gets bombed all the time!”

I know what it looks like when engineers are wasting management’s time.

Totally agree. And I’d add that the first trilogy had no budget and was looking to prove that sci fi wasn’t kid stuff. They had to embrace constraints that didn’t exist when Lucas did episode 1