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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I have to agree, the people who made this video and the target audience they’re aiming for by dubbing over “fun, cool, upbeat” music is warped in a sick way. I know, I used to be one of them when I was a firefighter EMT. I had no feelings on the job. One time my medic partner saw a fatal incident where the medical examiner (coroner) showed up to the call, and my partner watched him finish up his ice cream cone while standing over a dead body. It wasn’t until I quit the fire department that I started to emotionally process what I saw.

    No matter who you’re looking at that got killed, you shouldn’t ever lose your humanity and trivialize death and killing like you see portrayed here. I’m willing to bet at LEAST half of the Russian soldiers there don’t want anything to do with the war, and they’re there by force, whether being drafted or because they were desperate for money. Have some respect for the dead. You don’t know who’s world you just destroyed, but they most likely had a peaceful life with a wife and family, just like you, but they had the unfortunate situation of being born in a tyrannical, mafia-like government who couldn’t value life any less.

    Bottom line… Don’t gloat or trivialize killing, no matter who it is. But maybe you have to watch enough people die in order to realize life is sacred and death shouldn’t be disrespected. Even if they lost their way and fell victim to propaganda. I can always tell who hasn’t seen real life and death by how they react to watching the entertainment industry trivialize real death and turn it into entertainment.










  • I’m very familiar with Florida’s rules about this. You can have a driver’s license just fine and not be required to pay anything. The scenario you’re worried about is if you have a driver’s license and a car registered and tagged (license plate) at the DMV. If you have a valid license plate and no insurance, the DMV either wants the valid plate back, or you’re forced to get car insurance, or else your driver’s license will be suspended. They do this to prevent uninsured people from driving around with valid tags (license plates), basically by getting insurance, registering the vehicle with the DMV to get a valid plate, and then canceling the insurance or letting it lapse, in order to “appear” like a valid driver.

    Additionally, if you have a vehicle in your driveway and no valid license plate, you can be cited by the local government’s code enforcement department, for having an unregistered (junk) vehicle in your driveway. I don’t remember exactly what the citation was for, but I’ve received one when I was young and first getting into the car hobby. I’m a car enthusiast and I have always had multiple vehicles, and have been told by my city I had to either register the car, get it out of view (I think getting it covered up with a car cover counts, but they really want you to put it in a garage), or get rid of it. Some municipalities don’t care, some care and don’t enforce it, and some do enforce this.

    Also, a car insurance company wants to know about every licensed driver in the household, because they could potentially be sharing cars with you. You don’t want to tell the insurance company that you have roommates or they’ll require you to add them to your car insurance policy, which will be very costly. If they somehow find out, just tell them their information is old and that the individual has recently moved out of the house.

    If you have any other questions or if I’ve forgotten something, let me know and I’ll give you the answer.


  • Just to add a little bit more, the best I’ve come to manually reproducing this effect on my own is through long bouts of exercise. Maybe it’s the same effect as the “runner’s high”. I used to be a firefighter and I’d experience a similar effect when I would spend all day outside doing PT (physical training). Come 5 o’clock, after 8 hours of exercise, everyone would be dying, and I’d be experiencing a euphoric boost of energy, and I’d help all the instructors clean up the training grounds. Whenever I’d stop, I would crash, hard. It’s possible for me to feel this feeling through exercise, it’s just impractical to devote 8 hours a day to exercise in order for me to feel it.


  • In theory, it’s fully under your control whether you experience this feeling or not. I have a degree in psychology and the best I can explain it is that the sleep deprivation alters your brain chemistry (kind of like antidepressants do) and it changes your perception of reality. The way I experience this effect so strongly, it almost changes me into a different person… an optimistic, happy, extroverted person. Maybe it’s endorphins being released due to your body being overworked and going into an emergency mode. It sucks that I eventually have to go to sleep, where your cerebrospinal fluid washes your brain and “resets” it back to baseline. If I could only retain that sense of enlightenment and hopefulness I experience when stay up so absurdly long, I know I would be a better person. I really believe it’s due to the altered brain chemistry, I just don’t know exactly what it is. Maybe it’s due to your sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the flight or fight (emergency) response that we have, which releases adrenaline, among other brain chemicals (neurotransmitters). Good luck in your pursuit of finding the answer, I’d love to know more about whatever this effect is.