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A cold New Year and a Geo-political scene that is evolving

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Enter 20023 with this news…

This video tells EVERYTHING about what is going on. Please watch it.

"It is incredibly alarming."

Japan is a vassal state. Their constitution was penned by Americans. Their constitution even has a clause (Article 9) that states that Japan renounces its right to keep an army. Japan also holds the most US debt. They are a protectorate, and have been since their unconditional surrender.

But that doesn’t really matter.

Japan is now ear-marked to be a Ukraine-style wasteland.

Lithium Battery Storage Warehouse BLAZING INFERNO – in France

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A logistics facility which houses thousands of Lithium Batteries is engulfed in a raging inferno in Grand-Couronne, France.

The facility, run by Bolloré Logistics, has caused the evacuation of all people from the surrounding area due to toxic fumes from the burning batteries.

As of 4:10 PM EST here in the New York City area, we are receiving reports that the fire near the city of Rouen, has spread to a nearby warehouse housing tires. Plumes of smoke are seen for miles; emergency response teams are asking for additional reinforcements.

Cool Ad Photos of Proper Dispensing to All Carbonated Beverages in the 1950s

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Proper dispensing is final step which makes all your investments in soda fountain equipment and material pay out. Here is the correct way to dispense many of the drinks you serve at the fountain. Coca-Cola is used as an example, but the same principles apply to carbonated beverages of all kinds.

A set of cool ad photos shows the proper dispensing adding the customer-appeal of taste and quality to all carbonated beverages in 1954.

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A young Biden. A young Trump.

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Confessions From The Sociopath Community

 

1. It’s like everyone is a puppet and the world is a game. the rules are to manipulate the puppets in order to win the game for yourself. some puppets get in the way so they have to be removed others are more useful.

You gotta play the long game tho because you never know when someone might become useful again later. some puppets live some die, it’s just all part of the process. none of that affects me on the inside. Hack the system and achieve your short and long term goals. puppets are just part of the system.

Love doesn’t feel like a thing, it’s just usefulness of ppl. same with loyalty. It’s all temporary depending on usefulness of the puppet.

2. I feel like I don’t give a shit about 90% of things unless they’re directly affecting me. I find it really hard to relate to people and expressing my emotions because I don’t feel anything. Especially when consoling someone and you have to fake being upset too when deep down I couldn’t care less.

3. I spent a good chunk of my youth doing things because i thought they were right but i never really felt it, when i did a good deed i thought i was doing it to be nice but really i was looking for the reward of looking like a better person or maybe a physical reward like money etc, i dont believe now that selfless good deeds really do exist, instead i see selfish actions that can benefit others. When i study people i start to wonder if they are aware of this deep down and feel the same way or if they really think they are doing good, my mother is someone who goes out of her way to help people, i dont know if she realises but she is definitely rewarded with things like a thank you that makes her feel better or the thought that she has impressed someone, the thing i wonder is whether she is actively seeking these gratifications and is either aware of it or in denial about it or if someone can really just be a good person. I dont know if i’m just cynical but i think the normal people are just in this mental matrix, i think they are all sociopaths to some extent who have there human suits stuck on and we are just the ones that have woken up and have the understanding about what we really are.

4. We have spent our whole lives teaching ourselves to avoid detection and give a reasonable appearance of normalcy. I’m sure we’ve all had breakthrough moments of “oh, that’s how you perform a warm smile!” or “shit! you mean I’m not supposed to hold eye contact without blinking if I want people to feel comfortable loaning me money?”

5. Everytime I search something about psychopathy, sociopathy or NPD, I come across thousands of shit posts with huge bold headlines like ” How to avoid being in a relationship with a sociopath 101.” which usually follows with something like ” when narcs and other abusers go on ATTACK blah blah blah”. Ya’ll do realize sociopathy or psychopathy and npd have some huge differences right? Sure we are the bad ones but even then, it’s a disorder for god’s sake, stop victimizing yourself and stop believing that ya’ll are the “better humans”. Not every abuser is a sociopath or a psychopath and not every psychopath or sociopath is an abuser. Sure, there’s a huge possibility that your relationship with someone with aspd or npd (even bpd) can turn sour and toxic but we’re not monsters that’ll crawl out of the closet to ruin you. Please stop throwing the term around like a slang, being a sociopath isn’t funny nor is it a slang. Again, just because someone doesn’t give a fuck about your feelings doesn’t mean they have aspd.

6. Sociopathy takes away from the things of life that (I’m assuming) make it interesting. If your best friend gets engaged, you feel nothing. If your significant other gets a new job or a promotion, you feel nothing. If your sibling graduates, you feel nothing.

And I’m not saying “feel nothing” as in you feel ‘numb’ when good things happen to others, but more in the sense that events like those literally have 0 effect on your mood and how you feel.

This makes life pretty boring after a while, because the only things that affect how you feel are the things that affect you directly. And I mean, how many truly interesting things happen to each of us on a daily basis? I’m willing to bet not that many.

So from what I can tell, while NT’s might feel depressed or guilty every time they read the news/something bad happens to someone close to them, they also feel happy and excited when positive things happen to those close to them. Essentially, their emotions and thoughts are almost always being stimulated by events happening around them, good or bad. Meanwhile a sociopath is affected by neither; the only thing that could possibly make a sociopath’s day more eventful would be if something happened that directly affected them.

A sociopath’s world is a selfish one, and unless you have a wildly eventful and crazy life, that world can be pretty boring.

7. There are various cultural and personal reasons behind this assessment. 1. People tend to naturally demonise people with ASPD. I know it has been echoed into their heads by pop culture, and so it makes it much harder to be open about it. They treat it as if people with ASPD are responsible for having it. Which brings me to- 2. It is really lonely. People think being manipulative, or even having a non-emotional assessment of any situation is in itself a threat. They hate blatantly true people. And if you tell them such disregard is an outcome of your “sociopathy” it’s like a trigger word for danger. 3. You get bored when you don’t want to, really quick. Especially of people. You perpetually feel like you don’t fit in. And even if you are aware of your exact emotional state, you can often do nothing about it. This has made me crush so many relationships, simply because I was bored. Even if I didn’t want to. Something personal here- it is really regrettable for me. But I often distance myself emotionally as a precautionary measure so that I don’t end up hurting someone else’s feelings. And this has been getting on my nerve for a while now. 4. There’s trauma. Often unspoken trauma inside that rarely gets attention in the midst of all the ‘lack of empathy’ hysteria.

These are the ones I had personally been suffering with. I have both Bipolar I and ASPD so I think something may be on the BPD side. Even so, I have couple of friends who have BPD yet they experience a much more welcoming social structure. This is why I often do not even mention ASPD. At the end of the day, it feels like you are cornered. And that in any case is the worst situation for those on the ASPD spectrum.

8. When I do something wrong I get this anxiety that I’ll be caught and/or people will look down on me for it. I don’t actually feel guilt. I honestly think I’m above the law and should be able to do whatever I want but I know that’s not idealistic.

9. The way you feel about objects like the floor, walls, cars, trees, etc is probably how I feel about them, but I feel the same about people and pets as I do about inanimate objects: they’re useful, nice, can be something sentimental, or something to have fun with.

Pork Chop Casserole

“I cut this out of a cooking magazine, probably Taste Of Home and changed it to suit or our tastes. It sounds like a very flavorful way to have pork chops and to keep them moist. I haven’t made them yet but plan to make them and serve them over mashed potatoes, yummy!!!!! Note: This recipe also works great in a crock pot. My friend and I have decided that it is easier to just mix all the sour cream with the soup and broth in the beginning.”

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Ingredients

  • 34 cup flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 12 teaspoon pepper
  • 6 pork chops (3/4 to 1-inch thick)
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
  • 23 cup chicken broth or 2/3 cup dry white wine
  • 1 cup sour cream, divided (8 oz)
  • 1 (2 7/8 ounce) can French-fried onions, divided

Directions

  • In a shallow bowl, combine the flour, salt and pepper; dredge pork chops.
  • Heat oil in a large skillet; cook pork chops for 4 to 5 minutes per side or until browned.
  • Place pork chops in a single layer in an ungreased 13x9x2 inch baking dish.
  • Combine cream of mushroom soup, chicken broth and 1/2 cup sour cream; pour over chops.
  • Sprinkle with half of the French fried onions.
  • Cover and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 to 50 minutes.
  • Stir remaining sour cream into the sauce.
  • Top chops with remaining onions.
  • Return to oven, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
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To Die for Crock Pot Roast

“Amazing flavor, and so simple! No salt needed here. In fact, you may wish to use half the ranch dressing mix to cut back on the saltiness. Found this Crock-Pot pot roast recipe on of a website called www.recipegoldmine.com. It’s all the rage there, so I thought I’d try it.”

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Ingredients

  • 1 (4 -5 lb) beef roast, any kind
  • 1 (1 1/4 ounce) package brown gravy mix, dry
  • 1 (1 1/4 ounce) package dried Italian salad dressing mix
  • 1 (1 1/4 ounce) package ranch dressing mix, dry
  • 12 cup water

Directions

  • Place beef roast in crock pot.
  • Mix the dried mixes together in a bowl and sprinkle over the roast.
  • Pour the water around the roast.
  • Cook on low for 7-9 hours.

Optional tweaks:

  • 1. Use onion soup mix instead of ranch.
  • 2. Add one cup of red wine along with the water.
  • 3. Add potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, celery and onion 2-3 hours before end.
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For 32 Years, This Japanese Chef Has Been Making a Painting of Every Single Meal He Eats

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Itsuo Kobayashi was in born 1962, and lives in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. After having worked as a chef at a soba restaurant and at a supply center for school meals in Saitama, northwest of Tokyo, until he was 46 years old, Itsuo Kobayashi began having difficulty walking due to alcoholic neuritis. Since he was about 26 years old, he has made detailed illustrations of and written down his thoughts about the food he has eaten.

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To do so, he allows his memory to be inspired by the notes he has been writing about his meals since he was 18 years old. In his bedroom at home, in addition to his drawing materials, his bed is surrounded by seashells and crab legs from the seafood he has eaten, as well as by disposable chopsticks, unused condiments that come with packaged meals, and other items.

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Although Kobayashi frequently orders take-out food that is delivered to his house or asks his mother to bring him take-out meals, because it is difficult for him to go out, he is still very creative. For example, he has made a series of drawings of hands holding chopsticks and he has produced more than 1000 drawings.

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What stands out is that all of these drawings feature an overhead perspective so that all of the ingredients of the food Kobayashi depicts can be seen. Furthermore, in the blank spaces in his compositions, the artist writes the names and prices of, and his opinions about the food and the ingredients he portrays. He adds positive descriptive words about his subjects, such as “delicious,” so that he may provoke good memories when he later looks at the drawings.

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Russia produces first nuclear warheads for Poseidon super torpedo

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Russia has produced the first nuclear warheads for the Poseidon super torpedoes to be deployed on the Belgorod nuclear submarine, the Russian News Agency TASS reported on Monday, citing an unidentified defense source.

“The first Poseidon ammunition loads have been manufactured, and the Belgorod submarine will receive them in the near future,” TASS quoted the source as saying.

Putin announced Poseidon in 2018

President Vladimir Putin first announced what would become known as Poseidon in 2018, saying it was a fundamentally new type of strategic nuclear weapon with its own nuclear power source.

In the 2018 speech, Putin said the range of the torpedo would be unlimited and that it could operate at extreme depths at a speed many times that of any submarine or other torpedoes.

“They are very low noise, have high maneuverability and are practically indestructible for the enemy. There is no weapon that can counter them in the world today,” Putin said.

The Poseidon, or the Ocean Multipurpose System Status-6, is a underwater unmanned vehicle that can be launched by a submarine. According to Popular Mechanics, it can travel up to 6,200 miles at speeds of 56 knots (Just over 100 kilometers per hour).

It is said that the torpedo will position itself over a mile off an enemy coast, in water that is at LEAST 1 mile deep, and detonate a warhead that is said to be one-hundred-megatons.

This warhead will cause a Tsunami wave in the ocean, that will, in computer simulations, create a wave one-thousand, five-hundred feet tall, that comes ashore and destroys the entire coastline for several MILES inland, covering it with highly radioactive water, leaving the shore, and several MILES inland, completely flattened and so radioactive it cannot be inhabited for DECADES.

In the case of the United States, such devices, detonated several miles off the eastern coast, would wipe out almost all major cities.   There would be no warning that it was about to detonate, and no time to escape the Tsunami wave.  Millions would perish.

4 People Reveal What Borderline Personality Disorder Is Like

 

1. Borderline Personality Disorder isn’t being cute and ‘clingy’ and ‘adorably needy’. Being with (romantic or otherwise) someone with BPD isn’t akin to taking care of a pet. BPD isn’t an ‘aw it’s so endearing that they need me so badly’ type of thing.

BPD is a mental illness that is a conglomeration of several different tendencies and it’s not easy to diagnose. You don’t just decide you have it, just like you don’t decide you’re depressed because you had a bad day, or you don’t decide you’re bipolar because your mood changes quickly sometimes. Believe me, you don’t want it.

 

BPD is turning nothing into everything, is knowing you’re being irrational and not being able to stop regardless, is suppressing breakdowns for fear of being abusive or of manipulating the person you’re talking to into having to take care of you when they really don’t want to.

It’s thinking someone doesn’t care about you anymore because they made a new friend. It’s automatically registering new people as a threat. It’s a fear of abandonment and rejection that’s damn near omnipresent. It’s being able to shift from ‘I love you so much!’ to ‘I don’t give a fuck, I hate you, I don’t even want to talk to you’ and back at the drop of a hat.

It’s finding identity in a drastic hair change, and then feeling unsafe and desperately trying to fix it before you have to go out. It’s seeing someone you adore and trying to emulate them because you have no idea who you are. It’s waking up and trying to be a new person every day. Go vegan, go goth, go hipster, go glamour, cut your hair, change your makeup, gain weight, lose weight, and never feel quite there. Ever.

It’s comprehending ‘love’ as ‘pity’ and wanting to rip yourself apart if their tone is all too casual when your friend or love interest is returning compliments or affection. It’s regretting saying anything about your mood and desperately trying to turn the conversation around while simultaneously NEEDING to get it out. It’s wanting to bleed yourself dry as opposed to cry in someone’s arms because, at least then, they don’t have to clean your wounds for you. They won’t hate you. They won’t be annoyed.

It’s the constant battle, every time you get upset, of, “Is this worth being sad about? Is it worth talking about? What is more abusive, talking about this or hiding it? If I tell them I’ll bring them down and I’ll guilt trip them and they will resent me and it will all be my fault. If I don’t, I’m a disgusting liar, I’m manipulative, I’m untrustworthy.”

It’s wondering if you’re faking your symptoms. It’s disassociating and feeling like a ghost for days. It’s feeling like you aren’t real, and then wishing you weren’t. It’s fear, a lack of self, and about a million different thoughts running through your head at all times. It’s trying to live for the people you love as opposed to yourself. It’s feeling suicidal and then feeling bad for feeling suicidal because, whoops, you’re being manipulative.

 

 

2. Today, my S/o went to work. He texted me after and told me he made a work friend that he found out he knew from a high school club (they competed against each other apparently).

He shared this info with me to bring up one of those “small worlds” moments, but I couldn’t help but wonder if it was a girl, if they flirted with him, etc. I thought, what if he starts to like this person, thinks they’re better than me and leaves me? I rationalized these thoughts quickly but I’m not proud that I even had them in the first place.

Then he told me he was gonna start his drive home. Sometimes he’ll call me on his drive and tell me about his day. He didn’t today, so I asked if he wanted to, and if he didn’t feel like it, it’s okay. (I always make sure to do this, I do not want him to feel obligated to talk to me).

He didn’t answer because he was DRIVING. Rationally I know that’s why. But my brain is mean, and a bad thought I had was that he was sick of me, probably saw my text before he started his drive, and ignored it because he thought I was being clingy and annoying. I thought, maybe he’s thinking about that person he knew from work and doesn’t want to talk to me and ruin it. He clearly hates me because he didn’t respond.

I RATIONALLY know none of this is true, but the thing with BPD is, you can objectively know one thing, but feel the emotions of another, and not be able to stop it. It’s like you see yourself about to crash but there’s nothing you can really do to stop it from happening.

Then, he gets home, sends me a snapchat of his cat, and he hasn’t responded to my text. Rationally, I know he probably walked in, saw his cat, started to pet her, and thought, oh, my girlfriend would like to see this, sent me a video, thats it.

But my mind was convincing myself that he is ignoring me because he thinks i’m annoying and is trying to prove to me that he doesn’t care about my texts by letting me know he’s active on other social media. I figured he was afraid to say no to calling me on his drive because he knows i’m sensitive and I’ll be very sad if he rejected me in any way, so he doesn’t want to deal with me being emotional and burdening him. I started to feel like a massive nuisance. So I texted him and told him he can say no to me when I ask to call if he wants to.

Poor guy just calmly explained to me that he didn’t see my texts because he was driving, then came home, saw the cat, pet her. It was that simple. It was that simple for him, and for me I went on a whirlwind of intense emotions where I thought he hated me, was going to leave me for somebody else, that he was purposely ignoring me, that I was an emotional burden and he’d be better off without me.

And it’s only noon. lol

 

 

3. Having BPD means having a good day and doubting your diagnosis. It means feeling like you are a manipulative bitch no matter what you do or say. It means deciding on a drastic hair or style change to finally find yourself. It means your “happiness” being entirely dependent on how much attention you get from that one chosen person. It’s turning something “minor” into something world-ending. It’s turning nothing into everything and everything into nothing. It’s like sitting in the passenger seat of a car and watching the driver crash into a tree without being able to do anything to stop it. It’s losing the will to live over a late reply to a text. It’s losing your shit over a casual response. It’s constantly analysing everything you said, every gesture you made, every look, everything you didn’t say, everything someone else said or didn’t say, that eye contact they didn’t make.

It’s when asking for help feels like you’re a burden. It’s feeling alone and misunderstood when you’re the centre of attention. It’s a constant battle of questioning whether your reaction was appropriate considering the situation. It’s excusing mistreatment from others, because you think you probably deserved it. It means forgiving the unforgiveable because being alone is worse. It’s the constant battle between lightness and darkness, and the fear of what’s to come.

It’s constantly being scared of losing those you love one way or another. It’s constantly asking yourself if this will be the last time they forgive you. Maybe they’ll wake up one day and realise they can do much better than you. It’s feeling like you are constantly duping people into liking you, because you’re never quite yourself. It’s hating every part of yourself, even though you don’t know which parts are real. It’s the constant struggle of wanting to end your pain, but not hurting anyone in the process. It’s the urge to cut yourself, because it feels good to feel a different kind of pain.

It’s filling yourself up with goods, food or drugs to feel like you’re not an empty shell and never succeeding. It’s realising that every compliment or every bit of positivity gets lost immediately in that black hole inside of you. It’s having an all-consuming need for re-affirmation every second of every day, because people change their minds. It’s blaming every single thing that goes wrong in your life or in someone else’s life on yourself. It means never being relaxed because there are about 100 thoughts racing through your head at any given time. It’s getting used to pain and still being overwhelmed by it every single time. It’s always caring that little bit too much.

 

 

4. BPD is when you have a love-hate relationship with the people closest to you; the world; & yourself.

BPD is when people walk on eggshells around you because they don’t want to trigger you, but at the same time you walk on eggshells because – you’re afraid of them leaving you.

BPD is when you struggle to regulate your emotions and need/want so badly to tell someone, your favourite person, your love-hate parent, or Reddit, because you just want so badly for someone to understand and calm you down –

But BPD is also when your therapist tells you, “Your dependency on others and inability to regulate your emotions is unhealthy. You need to self-soothe. Be able to be your own person. Individuate. Stop depending on others. Emotionally. Financially.”

Yet deep within you, you stare at your therapists & the world and think, “But do you really understand what I’m going through?! Do you really think I don’t want to be normal, like you?”

It’s when your therapist tells you, “I don’t know how to help you anymore,” & then you tell them “But please, this is what I was afraid of,” & then their response goes, “It’s okay I’m still going to look after you,”

It’s the reality when people tell you, “You just need to find your purpose. Find your sense of self.” – Yet you wrestle because you’re always lost, you’re always searching –

You’re searching for belonging. Stability. Acceptance. Normalcy. Love. Self-love. Confidence. Friends. For people to stay.

You do want to know who you are; You do want to figure your purpose in life;

You want to be happy.

You just want so badly to be free from the 5-9 symptoms –

You don’t want to feel all these anger; then sadness; then a glimpse of hope; then back to, “Life is too hard, it’s too painful, I can’t deal,”

It’s when you feel like you’re a burden to the people around you; You want them so badly to understand you; to understand this dumb mental illness,

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Reading that last section makes me think I have BPD, despite that my psychiatrist did not diagnose me with it after our one-time diagnostic appointment.

Severely codependent? Check. Hyper introspective over everything? Check. Second and Third guessing everything I do and everything I say? Check. Having no solid foundation for my personality and life goals? Check.

I can relate to these people pretty well, their written experiences are reminiscent of mine.