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Normally I'd say "that's not how it works" but given the shit we've seen it might in fact work

Crime, unfortunately.

Money laundering is done to "clean" illegal profit (hence the name). Say your business sells a bit of a meth precursor to a high school chemistry teacher for more than it would legally. You need a way to explain the extra money, and a way to explain where than precursor went.

Things that this won't protect: sex work, drug dealing, hawking stolen goods. Things this will protect: owning a building where you were unaware every tenant was a sex worker, running logistics company that some bad apples on the exact same routes always carried packages of cocaine, or selling artifacts smuggled out of foreign countries.

1500 hours in. I’m not even really that good at it

I suck at some of the games I have a lot of time in. But that's mostly because I learned to stop caring about how good I am, and just enjoyed them.

So I'm not the guy you are replying to, but I work from home. My kid is still young with an 830pm bedtime. 2 hours is easy, 4 hours is possible, 6 hours is too much.

I really only have to drive my kid to school and I usually have groceries delivered, but that's a luxury I can afford. Splitting the time up with his mother frees up a bunch of extra time (we're separated). A good chunk of time playing comes from playing something with him too. Pokemon, Minecraft, Lego video games. Sometimes he asks me to play one of the games I'll tell him a story about, which I'll oblige if it won't scare him (for instance Elden Ring and Path of Exile are out, but monster hunter and Helldivers are ok [the Helldivers one I don't get, you'd think for a kid who thinks aliens and skeletons are terrifying he wouldn't enjoy that one as much as he does. That one I also didn't intend to show him, he woke up one night and I was playing it and he thought it was hilarious 🤷‍♂️]).

I don't really want to do other things. I've been told that it's a coping mechanism because I was in that unhealthy relationship for 15 years. My personal view is that it's a coping mechanism of how boring reality is.

As the other comment said, more than a single year. But say you spend 6 hours on a game every Saturday and Sunday. Thats 624 hours right there. If you spend 2 hours every week day, that's 520 hours (1144 hours). I have about 2000 hours in Path of Exile. It came out in 2013, but I really didn't start playing it until 2018. But I played it off and on through 2023. Or about 400 hours/year. Throw in 300 hours of monster hunter, 500 hours of elden Ring, and factorio, and some other things sprinkled here and there and you get to the 1144 hours.

But admittedly I'm not always playing. Say I take a 15 minute break every hour. That's 221 hours I'm not really playing. Add on top of it times I take a break and forget that I left the game running. Add some time playing for days off of work, subtract more for breaks.

Regardless if the Republicans are active in the system or not, it would still take decades and restructuring of our system to regain any trust. We'd need laws and enforcement of them to prevent ideologues from wrangling power through already illegal mechanisms.

While we could do that at any point, you can count on Americans voting like drunk Puritans.

RFK Jr. has criticized fluoride

Yeah see, that right there is the only thing you really need to see that the ban is a bad idea.

If you're still bending reality, I could use more time.

I'm working on one project at a time.

But what needs to get done right now is a different story.

It's important to note that neither Peterson or Littman are psychiatrists.

Littman is a physician, but last I remember, she studied behavioral health and psychotherapy. Which is interesting because most doctors who have a significant interest in a field like she claims to have would have shut up a long time ago and pursued it through significant research after a couple of Ph D.s worth of work. But that doesn't make you wealthy, it just means that the one tiny thing you researched is right. She clearly would rather have money.

Peterson is just a grifting asshole with a psychology degree. Marketing is one of the most common employers of psychologists and he just does it for his own stuff.

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