#buy false nails in bulk

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ok I'll go through each of these sections adding something: 1. If you are making your own patches (which is awesome and cool) then like try and use acrylic paint not poster paint, you can buy cheap acrylic paint but don't buy it too cheap, if you buy it too cheap it will not come out of the tube after like one use (UK heads talking about places like The Works) Daler-Rowney Graduate Acrylic will work very well and one tube will last ages. Make sure also to not use the cheapest brush, your finger will work better than a really really shitty brush. If you're buying a brush then just make sure to buy one from an actual art store and not "The Works", something like artdiscount.co.uk looks fine.

If you are still at school and have art lessons, why not sneak a piece of fabric in and use your school's supplies? 2. Spikes are kinda expensive! True! It's like £30 for 100 similar size ones on ebay. You can also buy a packet of nails and like stick them through fabric I suppose, it would look cool. Nails aren't super expensive. But all of these super sharp things are made of metal which can hurt you, like if you are in the UK your GP can give you a free tetanus shot, otherwise just make sure you keep any wounds clean with soap and hot water.

Something you can also do to make sure you are keeping yourself nice and safe is use leather to protect your hands if you are handling sharp metal. Note: pleather won't work here, but maybe a bunch of canvas will. You can get leather by filling in the form for free samples from an upholstery company. Just google "free samples sofa fabric" Or by finding some abandoned shoes and cutting them up.

3. Military surplus is still kinda cheap! Check out your local Milsurp places. If you want to order online from one, to make delivery cheaper order with some friends. Check out ebay auctions also, like, sure 2am will work for people selling things straight but you'll often get a discount on the auctions. Also if you are in the UK, check OLIO it's got plenty of people giving away free clothes. If you are in the UK you can also get free clothes from the people leaving them outside of closed charity shops. Charity shops have to throw away all those clothes, so like, they are free for you to do what you want. Charities can only take clothes in the charity box etc. 4. A lot of sewists are old and have developed arthritis, there's a lot of things out there to help people with arthritis do a lot of sewing. Like compression gloves, special tools like easy-thread needles, third-hand clamps so you don't have to hold the fabric weird, rotary cutters so you don't have to use scissors. Like there's so many.

I don't recommend fabric glue generally just because it's pretty shit, the reason why cheap factories use it is because it's cheap and it makes things look like they're attatched, it's just bad. If you find sewing on a patch hard, then just use bigger stitches. You also can make friends with someone who will sew it on for you.

Similarly do not try and make this easier by buying a handheld sewing machine for like £5 those are worthless, they do not work.

Also if you are trying to save money by buying dental floss don't bother:

That's about 600m of floss, £7.50, that's cheapest I saw

This probably isn't amazing, but you get 5500m of it and it will be better than dental floss.

honestly though you won't need more than this for a long time:

And this stuff is great. It's not very expensive to buy good thread and needles.

Avoid: small needles in a massive bulk pack it's more false economy, I don't like hemline needles either, or the ones in the white and blue pack. Test your needles by seeing how easy it is to bend them. Ones that bend super easy tend to be really bad for sewing. Cheaper needles also have worse holes, so your thread catches on them.

I recommend: John James needles

or pony needles

They tend to be comparatively easy to find and fairly cheap. If you need help threading a needle you can use these: https://www.jjneedles.com/buy-needles/general-hand-sewing/easy-threading-sewing-needles-sizes-4-8.html self threading needles, I've seen a blind sewist use them even.

If you can't afford a needle find someone who sews and ask them for a needle.

5. I would not recommend going into random household bins for fabrics, no matter how rich or poor someone is you will get mostly not fabric.

Places you can get free fabric: asking for samples from some places, asking charity shops if they have any they are throwing out, checking olio, asking friends and family if they have clothes they are throwing out, going into the bins of clothing shops to see if they are chucking things out, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7_eqNyIRl8 these sorts of public bins (big dumpsters) (note: danish video, but it is in english, but i don't think most people will find such good stuff, maybe checking in feb improves your chances, maybe the danish just chuck out so much good stuff)

My mum once got me a massive amount of leather from taking a pair of scissors to an old sofa she found, so that's also something you can do. I sometimes take apart old umbrellas I find but warning: that material doesn't hold up well over time. Especially if you do something like make an outdoor cushion. Might work ok for patches for a while at least.

if anyone sees this and has any questions about how to sew or make anything them hmu did you know you can make buttons out of old coins and fabric

I'm seeing a lot of people say that punk fashion is expensive and inaccessible, which is very wrong. here is a list of some ways you can make punk fashion easier, cheaper and more accessible for you, since that's... kinda the whole point.

others are encouraged to add onto this!! (just don't recommend corporations like amazon. not cool.)

1. patches!! you don't need to buy them. DIY patches are not ugly or boring. in fact, they are encouraged here!! DIY, in my opinion, is always the best thing to do when it is an option and is safe to do so.

2. speaking of DIY, spikes!! you can make them!!

cut the top and bottom off of an empty can. cut down the middle of the cylinder and flatten it, so it's just a flat rectangle of metal.

cut out a shape that is kind of a third of a circle, but around 3/4 of the curved edge is taken up by triangle shapes. (I'm not very good at describing, so here's a badly drawn picture)

roll it into a cone, leaving the 4 triangles sticking out at the bottom. this bit is optional, but you can fill it with hot glue to make it more sturdy, just be careful touching the hot metal. I tend to hold the cone by one of the triangles with a bit of fabric wrapped around my fingers for this bit. cut 4 small holes in your fabric in this kind of shape:

and put the spiky bits of triangle through the holes. fold the triangles in on themselves to secure the spike in place. boom. spike obtained. this is one I made and attached to a little piece of fabric to test this method out:

3. battle vests!! (like the base jackets). the best places to buy these are charity shops and second hand websites in my opinion, but if anyone else knows any better options, please reblog with those!!

a good trick I find works well on eBay is to filter search results to your country (or state? can you do that in the US? idk) so that a: fast delivery because local, and b: all the sellers of everything that shows up are in YOUR TIME ZONE.

why is this important? when people sell something for really cheap, it goes FAST. check eBay at like, 2am or something. all the scalpers in your area are asleep. grab the cheap stuff while they can't.

4. sewing!! want patches, but can't sew for whatever reason? I've heard of a lot of people with joint conditions like arthritis complain about the inaccessibility of patch stuff, and that does sound extremely annoying, however:

safety pins!! while they are still a little fiddly, they're much less work so you don't have to fiddle about for long. if you can, you could even ask a friend to help, since it doesn't take long at all I'm sure someone will be willing to help out!! (I know I would, but that's just me, and I love this kind of thing). safety pins on clothes are also widely considered to be a symbol of solidarity, so if anything, you're adding some extra love and meaning to your patch pants/battle jacket.

if that's still too fiddly, fabric glue is always an option. unfortunately this means you won't be able to remove/reposition patches, at least without leaving a massive patch of residue, but if you're ok with that then fabric glue is probably your best bet.

for people who prefer sewing: as for where to get the thread, I've heard a lot of people recommending dental floss, as it's apparently much cheaper and works just as well. I haven't tried this myself so can't confirm that, but I thought I'd share it regardless.

5. where to get fabric!! old clothes. rip em up. you don't need any kind of fancy fabric from the craft store. my patches are made of old jeans that I grew out of.

don't have any old clothes and you don't want to waste any good ones? I'm not sure about other countries, but in the UK, as long as you're not on private property (trespassing), dumpster diving is perfectly legal.

I definitely ;) do NOT encourage ;) trespassing rich people's land ;) to steal from their dumpsters ;)

or tbh it doesn't matter too much how rich the person is, since it's all going to landfill anyway. if it's in the bin, it's free game, but you didn't hear that from me. ;)

please add onto this where you can!! and if I missed something or got anything wrong, add that on too!!

[cupidcreates]

Love You Equally

Chapter Thirty: Missing Items

Part 3: Camera Setup

THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS NS//FW MATERIAL, VEIWER DESCRETION IS ADVISED

“What do you mean the camera’s didn’t capture any footage??”

The disbelief in Tamaki’s voice when Katsuki showed up to deliver the news later that day was palpable. Your worst fear had been confirmed; the cameras surrounding each and every one of your dorms had either been hacked to skip large chunks of footage, been broken just before the incident by some off-screen assailant, or had their footage erased all together. Any evidence you’d had of an intruder in your dorms was gone.

The school, thankfully, was taking the matter seriously and was upping security campus-wide. People in security uniforms patrolled the halls and streets of UA now, as well as stationed themselves outside the campus walls; community watchmen had been hired to patrol around the off-campus dorms as well.

Rumors about the cause of the increased security spread around campus like wildfire, but thankfully the administration was keeping tight-lipped on the whole situation; releasing an official statement that the increased security was due to concerns about drug movements through UA’s campus and out into the town. Most people seemed to buy it, and the fact that a lot of well-known plugs had cut back on their dealings only corroborated the story. The only people to know the truth of the matter - you, your soulmates, and your friends - weren’t keen on correcting anyone’s assumptions.

Needless to say the relief you felt when Saturday morning rolled around and you were able to get Yaoyorozu’s cameras from Jiro was immense. She walked you through the setup process and you spent the morning making the rounds to your soulmates dorms and housing helping them install the extra security.

Tamaki had decided to stay in his dorm for a while, to check it over and see if anything had gone missing in his month-long absence. You doubted there would be, as you were betting your stalker knew he’d been staying with you for a while, but you didn’t voice this opinion; it never hurt to be safe when dealing with potentially dangerous people. You bid him farewell with a kiss on the cheek and made your way through the winding hallways to Hitoshi’s dorm.

The door swung open the moment you arrived without you even having knocked, giving you the impression that he had been watching for you through the peephole. You stepped into his dorm and immediately noticed the drastic change that had occurred since you last visited him. Hitoshi was normally a very clean person, but now everything in his dorm was not only spotless but had at least a foot of distance separating it from everything else. There weren’t even books stacked on the shelf anymore, instead they were separated from one another by thin pieces of cardboard, colors alternating in a seven color pattern. No thought to space conservation, now if anything in his dorm was to be moved or go missing its absence would be immediately noticed.

“I uh- rearranged a bit”, Hitoshi said sheepishly from the doorway, closing the door and fastening his many locks, “I just wanted to be one-hundred percent sure I’d notice if something was missing or in a spot it shouldn’t be.”

“That’s smart,” you said as he crossed over to you, rubbing the back of his neck, “It can never hurt to be safe in a situation like this.”

“Definitely,” he said as you both moved into the living room, “Have you noticed anything else missing from your dorm since Wednesday?”

“No,” you said, discarding the cameras on the barren coffee table, “I’ve been keeping a close eye on everything but so far nothing has been missing.”

You sat down on the couch and Hitoshi plopped himself down next to you, flinging his arms over the back of the couch and letting his head roll back. You shifted to move yourself underneath his arm and laid your head on his shoulder. He pressed a kiss to your forehead and brought his knuckles up to brush against your cheek.

“I just feel like they’re trying to lure us into a false sense of security,” Hitoshi said with a sigh “Like they’re planning something big for us and want us to have our guard down.”

You sit in silence for a moment, allowing yourself to be soothed by his caresses. You wrap one arm around Hitoshi and squeeze him in a facsimile of a hug.

“I really don’t like thinking about that, about what they could be planning next,” You sighed, “It really terrifies me. Is that what you think they want? To scare us?”

Hitoshi’s frown deepened and he signed, pulling away from you and standing up, “It probably is what they want,” he admitted, “especially if Monoma is behind all of this, which I’m now almost positive he is. This kind of thing is just his style.”

Hitoshi looked down at your worried face and his expression softened. “Listen kitten,” he said, bending down and titling your face up to look at him “Whatever he’s got planned next, whatever happens, I’ll be here for you okay? We’ll all stick together through this and make it out alright, alright? I promise you that.”

You smile as he comes in to capture your lips in a chaste kiss, “I believe you Toshi, thank you.”

Setting up Hitoshi’s cameras took longer than it did with your other four boyfriends, mostly because he needed to constantly be in some physical contact with you. Brushing his shoulder against yours, running his hands down your arms or your back, planting kisses on your face and neck, or even stopping you mid-action to pull you into a hug. You didn’t mind the attention, but you also couldn’t lie that this was abnormal for him. He wasn’t reserved with his affections like Katsuki was, but this was borderline Tamaki-levels of attachment.

You discarded your worries about his behavior as a result of multiple stresses; the stalker turned thief situation hit right before midterms were about to start up again, so undoubtedly Hitoshi would be a bit more clingy at this time.

You really didn’t think much of it at all, that was until you moved to the bedroom and were promptly thrown onto the bed, camera and setup pulled from your hands and swiftly discarded on a shelf by the door.

Hitoshi climbed atop you and flopped down, covering your entire body with his own and making your breath rush out of your lungs with a sharp whoosh. He buried his face in your neck and pushed his arms underneath your body, wrapping them around you and sighing. 

“Doing okay, Toshi?” You asked, pushing your hands up his shirt and rubbing his back in small soothing circles. He lifted his head and peppered your face with kisses. Gripping you tighter and using his thumbs to stroke your sides.

“I’m sorry,” he said in between kisses, “I’m sorry for this whole situation. It’s my fault, I should have blocked Monoma the second he contacted me, now he’s trying to fuck around with everyone to get back at me and I just-”

You covered Hitoshi’s mouth with your hand and pressed your forehead to his. “Hey,” you said sternly, “Don’t you apologize for what he’s done. None of what he’s done is your fault. It’s not your fault you tried to allow him back into your life and he fucked it up. Nothing that’s happened can be blamed on you and I don’t want to hear otherwise, alright?”

You removed your hand and captured his lips in a heated kiss before he could answer, he moaned into your mouth and swiped his tongue across your bottom lip. He pulled away and kissed the tip of your nose.

“Okay,” he said pressing his face back into your neck and sighing contentedly, “Okay, I’m sorry. And thank you, kitten.”

“Anytime,” you stroked your hands down his back and gripped his hips. You noticed that Hitoshi felt much less soft than he had before, his sides were now toned and hard with muscle that would give Katsuki a run for his money. Apparently he had bulked up over the past few months, and you had to wonder what brought about this change.

“Have you been working out recently?” You asked while pushing your hands between your bodies and tracing his hip bones, no longer covered by a layer of softness but now sharp and jutting out.

“A bit,” he replied, gasping sharply as you bent your fingers (as much as you could with them being squished between the both of you)  and ran your nails up his stomach. “Katsuki goes to the gym really early most mornings and I accompany him on the nights when I can’t sleep and accidentally stay up all- are you trying to start something Kitten?”

You grinned cheekily as your hands found their way back down to his hips and into his pants, stroking the insides of his thigh gently while being sure to get close, but not too close, to his crotch.

“Perhaps I am,” you retorted with an evil grin, “what are you going to do if I am? Going to finish it for me?”

A deep growl rumbled from Hitoshi’s chest as he grabbed both your wrists with one hand and pinned them up above your head, puncturing the movement with a harsh thrust that flattened your hands against his thighs and brushed his clothed cock right against your crotch.

“Oh I’ll finish it alright,” he purred in your ear sending shivers up your spine, “But only if you want me to, kitty-cat.”

“Oh yes,” you replied breathlessly, “I absolutely want you to finish it.”

He smirked, “That’s what I thought you’d say,” he said and caught your lips in a kiss, nipping your bottom lip hard and thrusting his tongue into your mouth as you gasped. Using the hand that wasn’t pinning your wrists above your head he unbuttoned your pants and pushed his hand downward into your underwear, quickly finding your clitoris and using two fingers to rub it in small circles.

You shuddered under his ministrations gasping and moaning into his mouth as he applied the perfect amount of pressure to your clit. You squirmed underneath him, feeling your cunt getting wetter with every passing moment he massaged you.

Just as you felt the pleasure start to build he pulled away, moving down your body and pulling both your pants and underwear with him. You had just a moment to gasp at the cool air hitting your skin before Hitoshi’s face was buried in your crotch; licking once over you entrance and letting his tongue slip inside your folds ever so slightly before suctioning his lips to your clit and massaging it.

You shuddered and cried out as he sucked and massaged your clit, his tongue swirling around it in a way that had you seeing stars. Every movement bringing you closer and closer to your orgasm and just as you felt yourself nearing your edge he pulled away once again. Moving off the bed and over to his nightstand and retrieving a condom from the top drawer.

You propped yourself up on your elbows as Hitsohi climbed back on top of you, undoing his pants and kissing you allowing you to taste yourself on his tongue. He leaned into you, pushing your back flat against the mattress again as he rolled the condom onto his cock and prodded your wet entrance with his head.

“Are you sure you’re okay with this?” He asked, pulling back to look you in the eyes, “I want to make sure you’re alright with this before I-”

“Listen here,” you snapped, grabbing his face with both of your hands, “you’re not going to eat me out like that and not fuck me after it, alright? So please.”

Hitoshi hummed and caught you in another kiss, “Only since you asked so nicely, Kitten” he said, “But you need to let me know how you’re doing okay? Say yellow if it’s too much and red if you need me to stop all together, alright?”

“Yellow?” You asked as he sucked a hickey into your neck, “A-And red?” 

“Mhm,” Hitoshi hummed against your neck, moving one hand up to your breast and pinching your nipple lightly, “I need you to communicate when it’s too much; Green is good, Yellow is pull back, and Red is stop all together, you okay with that?”

“I-” you cut off with a gasp as he jerked his hips once and pushed the tip of his cock in and out of you swiftly, “I-I’m o-okay with t-that, y-yeah.”

“Are you sure Kitten?” He taunted, pushing the tip in again only to yank it right back out of you, “I don’t want to do anything you’re not ready for-”

“God Hitoshi,” you groaned throwing your head back against the pillows, “Just fuck me already, please.”

Hitoshi took a moment to suck another hickey into your neck, pulling away only when the mark was sufficiently purple.

“As you wish Kitten,” He whispered in your ear before slamming his entire length inside of you.

Your back arched off the bed and you nearly screamed at the sudden intrusion. Hitoshi gave you no reprieve as he immediately set a back breaking pace, gripping your hips hard enough to bruise and impaling you on his cock repeatedly. You gripped the headboard and braced yourself against the onslaught, every thrust sending the head of Hitoshi’s cock directly into your g-spot. You wrapped your legs around his back and used them to push him even closer to you, forcing him to stay close and deep inside of you. Hitoshi removed one of his hands from your hips to press his thumb back into your clit, circling and pushing it with a practiced skill.

Your eyes rolled back into your skill as you took the pounding of your life, your orgasm fast approaching under his ministrations. It wouldn’t be long before you reached your peak, you grabbed his hips to keep him as deep inside you as you could, causing his movements to become harder and faster as he couldn’t pull away.

“Color,” He gasped out, “color, baby, how are you doing?”

“Green,” you all but screamed, “Green, green, green, please don’t stop I-”

You cut off as a particularly hard thrust sent you careening over the edge, orgasm hitting you with such force that stars flashed behind your eyelids and your whole body tensed.

Hitoshi groaned as you clenched around him, moving his hand back to your hips and fucking himself into you at an erratic pace, all semblance of rhythm forgotten as he chased his orgasm inside of you. One final thrust and and he stilled, shuddering as he came just moments after you.

You both collapsed with a huff, panting as you both came down from your post-orgasm high. Hitoshi peppered your face with kisses and slowly pulled himself out of you, leaving you feeling empty and sore.

Eventually Hitoshi spoke again, “A-are you okay Kitten? What color?”

“G-Green,” you stammered, bringing your leadened arms up around his shoulders and pressing a kiss to his cheek, “I’m so so green.”

He smiled and pressed a soft kiss to your nose, “I’m glad to hear it,” he relid.

You both lay for several moments longer, enjoying each other's embrace before you suddenly remembered why you’d come over here in the first place.

“Didn’t we have a camera to set up here?” you asked.

“We did,” he replied with a chuckle, “But I wanted to be sure we didn’t catch that on tape. Be a bit awkward to explain if we had to go through the footage in front of the administration.”

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Fae to Fae || Lydia and Jax

TIMING: Current  PARTIES: @inspirationdivine, Jax, NPCs (as played by @whatsin-yourhead)   SUMMARY: Lydia follows a suspicion that leads her to correct assumptions. Jax is less than forthcoming after their last encounter, and Lydia has no bargaining chips left.  CONTENT: Non-con mention (regards to fighting against their will), Torture mention 

Lydia’s heart grew colder as she had the cab pull over. It had started to when Remmy’s so called friend hadn’t been anyone Lydia knew. They’d walked up to her door, taken the bagged brains, and walked off. Trusting a gut instinct, Lydia had called a, and had them follow the man carefully, as he’d dumped the brains in a nearby trash can, and then he’d driven here. The ring. That wasn’t Remmy staying with a friend, it was them staying in their own personal hell. What if the reason they’d been staying azway was due to severe injuries? Or worse. Jax came to mind as Lydia approached the main entrance, where people were already slinking in to see the evening’s performance. 

Danny, as people called him, hated being an errand boy. He was blessed with both the ability to walk in the sun while being an undead creature and the ability to contain strength some could only dream of. When he was ordered from his post to go to some woman’s house and pick up the package there, he had done so dutifully, if not begrudgingly. The only instructions were to toss the package and come straight back. And so he’d done just that and now he was standing guard when a woman caught his eye. Jax had given them all descriptions of her, both in and out of her glamor. And he’d been right, she did come back. Danny put his hand out as he approached. “Can I help you, ma’am?” he asked in a deep voice.

Lydia had been ready to join the throng when a man approached her. Not fae, nor any great source of talent that she could feel. She paused with a smile, tucked her hair behind her human sized ear, and shook her head. “Oh, that’s rather generous of you, sir, but I’m rather alright. I’m going to see the evening’s entertainment.” Well, at least for a moment. Then she’d be looking for Remmy. Just to check if they were alright. Her mouth became wet as she looked at the man. No, they definitely weren’t alright, and this time, she was going to drag them out of there no matter what. 

Danny had dealt with many-a rowdy patron, arguing angrily with him to let them in. Throwing punches, kicks, even biting sometimes. But as an upior, not much really moved him. “Sorry, but we’re at capacity,” he said, staring her square in the eyes as another person walked right by the two of them. His hulking body blocked her path. “Bosses orders.” Whatever this woman had done, Jax had said to not let her back in until he gave word. And whatever Jax wanted, Jax got. Danny wondered if this was about the zombie and the witch from the other night. But he wasn’t paid to think, he was paid to guard. 

Lydia’s eyes narrowed. “I don’t like being lied to,” she replied curtly, before trying to step around him. As his rather large, bulking body blocked her again, Lydia stomped her foot, glaring at him. “You aren’t at capacity. Let me guess, your boss is Jackson?” 

Danny raised a brow. The foot stomping, the curt voice, he’d seen it all before. Was she gonna ask for the manager next? “Oh, so you do know him,” he replied, reaching out a hand and pushing her back, “then you’ll know you’re not welcome here. Strict orders.”

Lydia jerked backwards, and a couple people glanced at them, noticing the scene being made between the bouncer and her. She might have pushed him back, if mealtime had been closer and if he didn’t stand nearly twice as broad as her and as tall to match the set of his shoulders. She looked around, for another option, although spitting on him was looking more appealing by the minute. Where on god’s green earth was Remmy? “Well, that’s rather contrary to what he said last time we spoke. Do you know what changed his mind? We had ever such a good time.”

“He said you took something of his,” Danny said curtly back. Words weren’t his forte, but he knew how to speak sometimes. “So he took something of yours.” The people filtering in where beginning to stop and gather, wondering if they’d get a free fight out here. Danny wasn’t opposed, he didn’t mind hitting a woman. 

“He knows better than most I couldn’t take anything of his that he did not freely give,” Lydia replied, although her breath hitched in her throat. He’d taken Remmy. Right under her nose. Lydia looked around, met the red glinting eyes of a man who looked hungry and eager. She swallowed and took a small step back. There was no way to sneak in. She’d need to buy a glamour from a witch, and who knows if Remmy had time for that. He’d taken them because, perhaps, of her. Lydia curled her hands into fists so tight that her acrylic nails threatened to cut her palms. She wouldn’t lose them. Looking back at him, Lydia looked him up and down, biting the corner of his lip. “Is there anything I could do to persuade you to let me in to have a word with him?”

Danny watched her, expecting some sort of physical reaction, some sort of physical outcry. But all she did was clench and stiffen. Not that he minded. As much as he loved fighting, sometimes he just didn’t want to deal with it. “You’ve got his number,” he said, repeating what Jax had told them all to say, “you can reach him that way.” Though they all knew the only offer Jax would give would not be one someone would want to take. He wondered how far this woman would go. Would she take a deal?

Lydia smiled, just for him, hoping to catch his eyes, to appear not imposing when she stepped forward but flirtatious. “I’ll try that, but I’m sure you have more influence than I do. A good word from you would mean ever so much.” Flashing her brown eyes at him, she pulled out her phone, and called Jax, immediately putting it on mute so they could all listen to him ignored her. When the voicemail message beeped, she hung up. “Sounds like he’s away from the phone right now. Do you think you could tell him I’m here?”

Danny ruffled his nose. Now she was being flirtatious? He wasn’t the smartest man, but he understood a play when he saw one. How many people had tried to seduce him to get in without having to pay or to get by being banned. He frowned as he listened to the beep. “Sorry, ma’am,” he said with a shrug, “strict orders. He’s busy right now.”

Lydia sighed, her facade dropping, as she walked away from Danny to call Jax again, and again, and again. She waited until a large lampade passed between her and Danny, and then tried to sneak past him in the lampade’s shadow. Either Jax would pick up, or she would get in. Lydia wasn’t letting him take Remmy from her. 

Jax wasn’t busy at all. Sitting in his office, he watched his phone ring. Once, twice, three times. Desperation was so gaudy. Finally, he picked up. “Hello?” he asked into the speaker, as if he didn’t already know who it was. “This is Jackson speaking. Can I help you?”

“Hello darling,” Lydia replied, clinging to the shadow of the lampade as the joined the slowing queue to get into the building. “I’ve heard from your bouncer that you’re rather a sore loser. And that you have my asset locked away all to yourself.”

Jax bristled a little. “Lydia,” he said, but this time there was no gusto in his voice, no false bravado. He wanted her to know he was done playing around. “What would ever give you that idea?” he said, tapping a pen against his desk as he spoke into the phone. He glanced at the security camera feed showing on one of his computers. “Danny’s not the smartest tool in the shed, the boy tends to run his mouth.”

The lampade gave Lydia a bit of a sideways look, but she just smiled up at him. She was itching to peak around them to see where Danny was now, but if she did that, of course, he would see her. Keep calm, that was all she needed to do. All this sneaking and trickery was not entirely up her alley, but she wasn’t doing too badly, was she? “Then why don’t we talk to settle this ourselves? Surely you wouldn’t take someone from me just because you tripped up your words?”

“If you set one foot inside my establishment, Lydia,” Jax said, spotting her there, behind a tall, shadowed man. “I’ll make sure those pretty eyes of yours hang somewhere everyone can see.” Eyes narrowed, he prepared to alert Danny if she didn’t stop moving. “I don’t know where Remmington is right now,” he said, and it was the truth. He had an idea, but they could be anywhere below his feet, “and frankly, I’m offended you would accuse me like this. I offered you nothing but help, and you repaid me by taking my words.”

“Now that’s rather dramatic,”  Lydia replied, coming to a hard stop. The lampade looked at her again, and she just waved goodbye with a smile as they went inside. Shit. “You shouldn’t have given them, and especially in such a haphazard fashion. Besides, help is a rather generous word don’t you think. You might not know where Remmy is right now this second, but they are in your building, aren’t they?” 

“I’m a dramatic man,” Jax replied, humming softly. “I thought I could trust you, cousin, but I see now I was wrong. Which is exactly why I’ve told all of my bouncers to keep you out.” He twirled the pen in his fingers. “Until I can trust you again, you’re not welcome here. And if you try to get in, let’s just say, if Remmington is here, I can make their stay rather...unpleasant. I’m an accommodating man,” he said, his voice low, “I’d hate to have to change that.”

“I see,” Lydia replied, chewing the inside of her lip. The crowd was quickly thinning as they went past her. How did he see her? He wasn’t anywhere nearby, she’d feel him, so maybe a security camera. Maybe it was Danny, talking through an earpiece. “I’m under the impression you’ve already made their stay rather unpleasant. You won’t damage one of your star attractions, Jax. You told me as much before.”

“Well, it’s the wrong impression, I’ve been nothing but patient with them,” Jax responded. It was his truth, after all. And that’s what mattered. “And let’s not twist words, cousin. They’ve not been staying here. They came to me by choice.” He let that sink in a moment, before speaking again. “All good things come to an end. How fast or slow that happens, well...right now, that’s in your control.”

“Your definition of patience is different to mine,” Lydia replied coldly. She could hear the anger simmering at the edges of his voice. Last time, his threats had been like raindrops, a risk, but not really a problem. Now, Lydia could almost feel the knife in his tone. “Why not twist words when you so freely twist intent, You piece of shit.” Swallowing, Lydia stepped away from the entrance entirely, back to near Danny, heading back to her car. 

“So it seems,” he said with a bit of vitriol in his voice. Jax stopped fiddling with his pen and sat up. He nodded to another man standing in his office as he watched Lydia move away from the entrance and out of his field of view. He would make sure she went to her car and nowhere else. “Is that not what we both do? Twist words to our own advantage? Tell me, Lydia, why did you really call me? I want to hear you say it.”

“I already told you, Jackson. Remmy is my asset as much as they are yours.” Lydia replied, her spine prickling as she looked back behind her. She was being watched. “I know you have someone impersonating them online, that they arranged an elaborate hoax to hide that fact from me. That the individual in question works here. So I’m hardly clear on just what you want me to say.”

Jax sighed. “You never did have any interest in this place, did you,” he said, but it was hardly a question. They both knew the answer already. “What could make you so attached to one zombie? I hardly know your life, but people don’t usually go to such lengths for an asset. You can’t even feed off them. I suppose I just wanted the truth, but I know, now, that I won’t get that from you. I hope you have a good day, Lydia. And don’t show your face around here again, unless you’ve had a true change of heart. I’d hate to make things worse than they already are.”

Lydia bit her lip, having forgotten that particular twist of truth. She was back by the rink, ready to call an Uber. Ready to stick her head on a pillow and scream. She opened her mouth to make a promise before buying it back. She wouldn't send any wardens after him, because they'd kill her first. She couldn’t send Orobas after him because he’d make an inescapable mess, and might harm someone in there she cared about. She had no influence in this violence-oriented world other than wealth, and Jax wouldn’t bargain with her twice. “Yes, darling, I heard you before. Eyes on strings, terrible consequences to Remmy. Don’t worry, I’m leaving, and I promise I won’t be back. Just so you know, you will regret this, and you know what? You’re the reason people don’t like fae!” Lydia hung up, if only so that she could have the last word. 

Jax was satisfied with the phone call. He didn’t need to say anything else, anyway-- he was sure he’d gotten his point across. Lydia would not be back, but he was sure someone would be. And he’d be ready. His eyes made it back to the security feeds and he watched his two newest captives idling in their cells. It wasn’t hard to see they were talking, plotting. Which meant it was time to take action. To break them. He leaned forward and zoomed in on the cell next to the zombie’s. Yes, that would. He knew just what to do next. He knew just how to break them.

Her tiny victory rang hollow as Lydia hailed a cab, casting one last glance at the entrance to the ring before crumpling into the front seat of the cab. She balled her hands into fist and screamed. Her voice cracked and she screamed some more. Besides her, the cab driver just stared at her, his eyes bulging. He felt like a washed-up actor who had given up in his twenties, for good reason.  “Uh, miss, you okay?” “Not at all,” Lydia snarled, looking at him so sharply it could have cut him, her cheeks embarrassingly streaked with mascara. “Are you human?” “I-uh - yeah, what else would I be?” He stared at her even longer, his mouth gaping like a fish. In the building behind her was the most monstrous fae she’d met in a while. In that same building was Remmy, trapped because Lydia hadn’t prepared them properly, hadn’t helped them right. “Uh- I don’t think I wa-” “Great,” interrupted Lydia, “Because I’m feeling rather peckish.” 

[mysterious-prophetess]

Top Five Academic and Publishing Scandals of the last Decade

So, I’ve seen people do stuff like this, a round up of sorts and the 2010′s were an insane decade to be alive.

So, I thought I’d compile my personal favorite publishing and academic scandals

Note: This will concern only things that were actually published or a scandal to do with Academia. The Rose Christo incident with the infamous fanfic didn’t have the biography make it to print so it’s right here as a Dishonorable Mention. No sources, because this was a home-grown tumblr disaster (much like Dashcon). 

So, 

#5 That Book that Used Scammy Tactics to Become a Best Seller Before Anyone Ever Even Read It.

Remember that time when Handbook for Mortals used shady tactics to make it look like it was selling better in pre-sales than it actually was? I barely remembered it, but then as I was adding in our Dishonorable Mention, I suddenly had the thought of “remember that...” so here it is at #5 since this book was actually published, and it was allegedly terrible. It has 3 stars on Amazon, but with its past, I can’t even trust that.

I didn’t read it. I had, and still have, better things to do than to read subpar fantasy that tried to be the next Hunger Games/Harry Potter/Divergent. 

It turns out, if you have wealthy enough collaborators, or people who know how to game the system by which the NYT Bestsellers’ List operates, you too can buy and cheat your way onto that list with a terribly written book like these guys.

What’s even more ridiculous was there were already talks of a movie version and this unknown writer turned out to be, surprise, an actress too! And guess who’d be playing her own main character in the movie? The author! So, once this was unraveled as being a bulk-book-buying-cheat-tactic-to-get-on-the-NY Times-Bestseller-List, they lost their rank and were completely off the list. The movie is also toast, I think, since it would have come out in 2018. We’re now in 2020.

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#4: That time Bethesda Plagiarized Dungeons and Dragons.

That’s right folks. Bethesda, who cannot catch a break after their hilariously disastrous launch of their ongoing garbage fire, Fallout 76, were in trouble whenever they released a TTRPG module for an Elder Scrolls game that was suspiciously like a previously released Dungeons and Dragons adventure...because it was very much ripped off from the D&D book.  

There were articles highlighting just how they did this and how blatant it was. 

Some articles would do a side-by-side of huge chunks of the text and, yikes, that’s some obvious copy-pasting.

Suffice to say, they yanked this e-book down ASAP. (x) (xx) (xxx) (xxxx)

#3 That Time a Youtuber Turned Professional Games Media Editor Plagiarized for Most of His Career and Only Got Caught After He Plagiarized the Wrong Person on a Very Public Platform

So, yeah. There was a review last year for a game called Dead Cells (published by Motion Twin). On July 24, 2018 a smaller Youtube channel called Boomstick gaming would upload their review to the game. Then August 6th, IGN’s Nintendo editor would post “his” review up and Deadite from Boomstick Gaming, who was actually a fan of IGN, noticed a lot of eerie similarities between the reviews. He did a side-by-side video comparison (here) and it looks like a case of barely even changing the words around after copying someone else’s homework. As an English major, this is a clear-cut case of plagiarism. IGN agreed too, as did most of the internet. This reviewer had fans who still believe in him even after he’s been proven a plagiarist but, no accounting for taste am I right? And this would have been the end of it....had he just accepted his fate and just slunk off into the dark recesses of the internet. 

But, then he had to provoke both Jason Schrier of Kotaku AND the Internet in a now deleted non-apology video to “looking as hard as you’re able, you won’t find anything.”

Yeah. That didn’t end well for him. So, people went digging and found a shitton of evidence he was a serial plagiarist. No shock to me, because plagiarism is never something a plagiarist ever does just “once.” He’d ripped off his fellow IGN reviewers as well as forum posts and articles from other publications. He also plagiarized a resume template. Now, when you use one of those, you’re SUPPOSED to mimic the style, put place your own information, right? Well, he didn’t even do that.

Link to YongYea, a youtuber who covered the topic in depth. He has his videos on the topic in a playlist. (x)

#2 The Professor Who P-Hacked His Results to Pieces

Now if you don’t know or remember who Professor Brian Wansink is, he’s a former faculty member at Cornell who rose to fame with his papers on nutrition and people’s eating habits. I’m still not entirely sure how a guy whose degrees were not in nutrition OR psychology ended up being the face of this field that seemed to have a lot more to do with nutrition and psychology, but here we are. His degrees were, in fact, a B.S. in business administration from Wayne State College, an M.A. in  journalism and mass communication from Drake University, and a PhD in Marketing-Consumer behavior- from Stanford. In a move that one might call pure hubris or just complete and total social ignorance, he made a blog post that started to bring eyes on his work. Thanks to the efforts of other scientists (Like the Skeptical Scientist) and Heathers and Brown as well as the computer programs GRIM and GRIMMER, it was found the man who was cited over 200,000 times was a fraud. As of now 17 papers have been retracted and 15 have been corrected. He is no longer employed at all by Cornell, resigning a disgrace to his field and his former place of work.

The only reason he managed to get so big was he was able to make his so-called science digestible for the masses and able to give his works palatable titles. Ok, I’m done with the food puns. He was a superstar (even worked with the previous first lady on her health initiatives), which is why his fall is also meteoric. This is why you don’t torture your data into false positives, folks. Also, he’d target science journals that weren’t as prestigious and therefore wouldn’t have as rigorous a peer-editing process, allegedly. 

His actions have brought thousands of papers into jeopardy and destabilized his whole entire field because nothing he did was reproducible and that’s already a huge problem in science. 

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And.... now for the worst Academic Scandal of the 2010′s....

#1 The College Admission’s Scandal

Because despite Wasink’s damage to his field (because now there are literally thousands of papers who cited him in jeopardy), and two separate cases of Plagiarists on this list, I really can’t help but feel this has to be one of the biggest College/Academia scandals of ALL TIME. Sure, it’s old news now but I’m recapping it because that’s what this list is for. So, A bunch of wealthy people who wanted their children to go to prestigious universities wanted a guarantee that just buying a new wing for the library/science buildings/etc wouldn’t get them. You know, the normal way the super rich buy their children’s ways into schools. Instead, they went to this guy Singer whose group masqueraded as a charity (and that’s what got their asses nailed) and facilitated bribery, cheating, and deception. They caught one of these parents who’d gotten their children in with Singer’s plans for a different crime, and he offered to squeal on Singer and his plot for leniency with his other charges.

Singer’s plan usually involved bribing coaches to get these undeserving students recruited for sports teams (and therefore displacing an actual athlete who should have gotten their spot) as well as having people alter SAT scores and other deceptive actions. 

It’s unknown if, at this time, any of these children of the 34 charged parents, actually managed to graduate with degrees from any of these institutions. However, those that had any of these students have to now decide what to do with them since these admissions are now verifiably fraudulent. Some are going to whole-sale kick them out or “cancel their admission” and others aren’t speaking up, and one has already decided the student gets to stay. Because they might not have known what their parents did, and its possible for the ones whose parents DIDN’T have them fake athleticism to not know what their mom and dad did. Hell, even most of the fake athletes might not have known thanks to reports of photo shopping their faces onto uniformed bodies. I do not know if any of these children were in on what their parents did, thought I suspect some might have been, but that’s merely speculation on my part. At the end of the day, it’s up to each affected university to carry out what they wish to do next.

The fact they made donations to a fake charity (and therefore skirted the tax man) are the reason they’re REALLY in deep shit. You don’t deny the IRS its money or the IRS will come for your blood. Just ask the ghost of Al Capone. 

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So those are my top 5 Publishing and Academic Scandals of the past Decade. 

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Nov. 20, 2019: Columns

3,152 American children died from Polio in 1952

By KEN WELBORN

Record Publisher

This week's column title is certainly not a typical tone for the beginning of my column, but it is on my mind. 

At our Rotary meeting on Monday, the focus was on the Rotary program Polio Plus, which, for the past 20-plus years has been a major focus of The Rotary Foundation, the world’s largest  private foundation. 

As of this writing polio is on the verge of being wiped out for all time with less than 100 cases active worldwide.  Very soon, Africa—the entire continent—will be certified polio free.

As we talked about polio, many in the meeting, including myself, were old enough to remember what our parents called "The Polio Season" in summer when fear of polio was on everyone's mind.  It could be transmitted by water, and many public swimming pools were shut down.  My mother, Cary, would not let us go to the Smoot Park Pool in those years. We would play in the creek, but not in any contained water source.

Then, in 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk, working at the University of Pittsburgh, developed a vaccine against polio that passed enough tests to be deemed safe and effective, and the polio shots began.

I was 6 years old in 1955, and in the first grade. We were all to meet at the cafeteria of the North Wilkesboro Elementary  School on a Saturday to get our polio shot. 

I was a skinny kid who had already had enough shots to know I didn't like them—even in my bottom which had at least a little bulk.  The polio shot was to be in the arm, and with my last name beginning with a "W," I was way back toward the end of the line of about 400.

I heard the squalling and crying from those before me. The nurse looked like a giant, in white from head to toe, and carrying a needle that scared me to death. Stick and wipe, stick and wipe, on it went. Mind you, I was not accustomed to my mother, Cary, making me do much I didn't want to do.

But this was different. Way different.

This was the difference between being healthy and crippled. Between life and death. This was one of the times that my mother held firm—she was far more scared of polio than of hearing her baby boy cry a bit.

When it came my turn, that nurse looked seven feet tall, and that needle was dull as a nail—or so it seemed to me.  I did cry, and squall, and my mother held me close and rocked back and forth—a feeling I will never, ever forget—and soon, sure enough, all was well with my world. 

And, it is with a historical note that I want to end this column. 

Dr. Jonas Salk, the man who perfected the first reliable vaccine against polio, the worldwide killer and crippler of children and adults, was a true humanitarian hero—and never made money from his discovery.  He refused to patent his drug.  When asked in an interview with famous broadcaster Edward R. Morrow, who held the patent on his polio vaccine, Salk replied, "There is no patent.  Could you patent the sun?"  Jonas Salk ran the Manhattan Project of medicine.

 I still get cold chills thinking about those days—and that great man.

More than they can afford

By AMBASSADOR EARL COX and KATHLEEN COX

Special to The Record

Less than a week ago, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hamas, and other terror groups, fired more than 250 rockets into southern and central Israel.  The attacks caused relatively few injuries, but damage to Israeli property was significant.  Israel's Iron Dome defense system intercepted an estimated 90 percent of the rockets which were headed toward populated areas.

This renewed violence came as Islamic Jihad vowed to avenge the killing of its leader, Baha Abu al-Ata.  The IDF, along with Israel's intelligence services, identified al-Ata as a true senior commander of the terrorist group known as Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. He was responsible for most of the significant rocket and border attacks against Israel from Gaza in recent months with more being planned.

Israel is under no illusions.  Egypt and others have been busy brokering a cease-fire however Israel knows that any truce is merely a tactic used by PIJ, Hamas and other terror groups to buy time in order to restock their arsenals and strengthen their forces.  Knowing the international community is on their side, the goal of these terror groups is to provoke Israel beyond choice into taking serious, retaliatory, action.  While attacks may cease for a short while, their violent intent to destroy Israel and her people will never cease. Stalling for time, terror groups such as Hamas which operates in Gaza, shamelessly admit that truces are merely an opportunity to accumulate more lethal weapons from the Iranians for future confrontations with Israel.  PIJ, Hamas and others are working hand in hand with Iran in the north.  Collectively, they are waiting for the right time to strike Israel in a massive attack from both the north and the south.  The desire for the ultimate destruction of Israel is part of the Arab - Palestinian DNA.  Hatred for Israel and the Jews is bred into Palestinian children from the moment they are born. Murdering Jews is seen as a praiseworthy goal which comes with handsome rewards.  By training young Palestinians in the art of mass murder, seeking out opportunities to inflict the greatest harm on the greatest number of Jews, Israel must be on constant alert.  It will take generations to wash the desire to murder out of the minds of the Palestinians.  Not only must Israel be on constant alert, she must also be ready to act ... defensively and decisively.  

Having lived in Israel and having exhausted three passports traveling back and forth, I know from experience that all Israelis regard war as a last resort to be avoided if at all possible.  Israel’s rather passive responses to acts of war and aggression by her hostile neighbors only emboldens them to perpetrate additional acts of terror.  Thanks to Iran, PIJ, Hamas and other terror groups are rapidly gaining access to weapons and projectiles which have greater accuracy and longer ranges.  This greatly changes the stakes for Israel making it essential for Israel to get tough.  Yes, the U.N. and other world leaders will falsely accuse Israel of "disproportionate response" but one of the principal obligations of any state is to provide security to its citizens. The residents of southern Israel have been living long enough as refugees in their own country.  While rocket attacks against Israel do not make news every day, they do occur almost every day.  Jewish residents living in the south find themselves and their families running to bomb shelters at all hours of the day and night. To be tough, the choice need not be full scale war, but it must be convincing.  It's time for Israel to fully demonstrate her muscle. Radical Islam must be made to understand that the price for attacking Israel is very costly.  In fact, they must be made to see that it's more than they can afford.

[weeklyhumorist]

Modern Day Mysteries for the Scooby-Doo Gang

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“The Netflix Phantom”: The gang discovers that one too many family members are using their shared Netflix account at a time, foiling their movie night!  But just as Fred gets out his credit card to add more people to the viewing plan, the gang realizes that if they’re all in the room together…who could be the culprit using the account? And is this phantom really watching Adam Sandler’s Murder Mystery when the new season of Stranger Things is available? Like, zoinks, man! The Phantom’s taste in movies is almost scarier than the Gang nearly finding out spoilers online!

“The Fake News Fright”: A mysterious article pops up on Facebook, claiming vaccines are dangerous. Shaggy’s already shared it three times, ruh-roh!  Velma hurries to find some informative Vox videos, but it’s too late: A hot take by anti-vaxxer Donna B. (an account with a turtle in a party hat as a profile picture) is up to seventeen likes and counting. Can the Gang stop the spread of false information in time to save herd immunity? Or will a villain from behind the mask of a computer screen cause widespread disease in America? And how in the world is Scooby the top commenter on the Food Network Facebook page when his paws are far too big for the keyboard?

“The Detox Tea Drama”: When Daphne’s Instagram account (33K followers as of this morning, thank you very much!), publishes some problematic ads for a Detox Diet Tea company, Fred optimistically buys thousands of dollars worth in hopes of bulking up at the gym.  But to his surprise (and only his surprise, if we’re being honest), the supplement has no effect. Now the gang has to prevent Daphne from being cancelled and develop some brilliant PR strategy for her brand, all while exposing the fraudulent Detox Tea company. Meanwhile, Scooby and Shaggy eat a comically large sandwich as hungry, cardio-strong gym patrons engage them in a long-winded chase sequence that continues even through commercial breaks!

  “The Haunted Air BnB”: It’s a Sherlock crossover episode this week as the Gang heads across the pond for a star-studded Saturday morning special! Fresh off the plane, Velma beelines to a local pub to get wifi on her smartphone, while Fred and Daphne stumble upon a string of haunted AirBnBs being investigated by none other than British national icon Sherlock Holmes. Will Fred overcome his jealousy and be able to work with Sherlock, despite seeing this chiseled, animated version of Benedict Cumberbatch shamelessly flirt with Daphne? Are the ghosts in the AirBnB paying customers, or simply squatters claiming housing rights? Seriously, how is AirBnB even legal with the limited amount of protections in place for both consumers and hosts?

  Meanwhile at the pub, Velma does a few quick Google searches and pieces together the identity of Banksy almost immediately, whom she promptly invites out for a pint and a discussion on social protest through art. And Scooby and Shaggy, of course, angrily learn that Yorkshire pudding isn’t real pudding at all!

  “The Mystery of Malaysian flight 370”:  As the Gang’s successes begin to stack up, media pressure pushes them to take on one of the biggest mysteries of the decade:  the disappearance of Malaysian flight 370, which went down due to unknown circumstances in 2014. Fred finds a clip of 60 Minutes that pretty much covers all the theories, and quickly takes credit for the information (since after all, he did find the clip, and that should count for something, right?). The Gang urges Fred to compose and send an email to WhiteHouse.gov sharing his “discoveries”- hooray, another mystery solved! Everyone hops into the Mystery Machine to celebrate and go bowling, except Velma- that wet blanket- who says something like, “Okay, but can we solve the mystery of where my glasses are? Guys? Hello? Are you still here?”

“Velma’s Political Philosophy PhD Dissertation”: That’s right everyone! The Gang’s going back to school! Velma’s dissertation is all about solving a mystery- the mystery of how to implement social contract theory in a modern, free, and moral society!  How can we perpetuate a just and responsible relationship with our government, assuming they are credibly elected by and for the people as endowed by a social contract, without unnecessarily impending on the liberties our country was founded upon? Is the rising trend of neo-liberalism a satisfactory manner in which to maintain a market democracy leading to a standard level of justice and legitimacy in a civil society?

  “Come on Scoob, let’s go find a vending machine to shake down. Politics don’t matter to dogs, anyway!” declares Shaggy. (Yes, of course the gang came with Velma to the library; They’ve been running through the shelves and playing quirky music, begging other studying patrons to chase them).

  “A rog? Rhere?” says Scooby.

  Velma sighs heavily and makes a note in her paper’s margins: “Maybe we should only let the educated elite vote…”

“Scooby-Doo, where are you? And Find Kony, too!”: After the White House reads Fred’s poorly written email and miraculously believes a man who purchased thousands of dollars of Diet Detox Tea did indeed discover reasonable evidence of a mysterious plane crash, the Gang embarks on a government-sponsored quest to hunt down and capture Ethiopian child army leader and global terrorist Joseph Kony.  “Now we’re agents of the US government?” cries Daphne. “Jeepers, what if I break a nail?”

Velma passes her a stack of feminist literature she brought onto the plane ride, as well as some books on modern psychology, imposter syndrome, and (oh, what the heck),  a copy of Rachel Hollis’ Girl, Wash Your Face.

  “What are those?” says Fred, pointing at the books in Daphne’s lap. “Big…comics? Where are all the pictures?”

  “….They’re- they’re books,” says Velma, truly afraid for the first time since all this mystery stuff with the Gang started.  Velma unbuckles her seatbelt and searches the plane for an emergency parachute, strapping in. Yes, she’s winging this skydive, but she’ll take her chances. Wherever she lands, Velma will start a new life. Live off the Earth. Anything to get away from these Godforsaken idiots.

  Speaking of, where are Scooby and Shaggy, you ask? They forgot to get on the plane! The airport food court had a Del Taco and a Taco Bell, and they’re still elbows deep in the Dollar Menu, trying to decide which is better.

  Suddenly Shaggy looks out the window, chalupa all over his scruffy face. “Did Velma just jump out of that plane?” he says.

“Rehehehehehe!” replies Scooby. Shaggy sighs. It’s times like these he can’t help but begin to resent his canine friend. Maybe he’d be closer to Velma if Scooby wasn’t always around, demanding attention in such a controlling manner. Shaggy studies the Great Dane that has somehow become his closest confidant, a creature that drinks out of a toilet bowl. Sometimes, late at night when he lies in bed, Shaggy can’t help it. He wonders if Scooby could be a figment of his lonely imagination. A companion he dreamed up out of the desire to be noticed, to be loved…after all it’s been years since he’d felt the touch of a woman. Three long years.

“The Scooby Snack Attack:” Who took the Scooby Snacks from the Scooby Snack jar?! A timeless question- but with this time, with a few simple reviews of home security footage, the Gang can see Scrappy Doo is the culprit. “And I would have gotten away with it, too- if it wasn’t for you meddling kids, and the Ring Security system smart doorbell (available now for three-payment installation with promo code SCOOBY at checkout!)!”

Modern Day Mysteries for the Scooby-Doo Gang was originally published on Weekly Humorist

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You already exist in a simulation run by AI – its easy to see if you look

You already exist in a simulation run by AI – its easy to see if you look

The Simulation Theory – And Other Considerations

There is a hot topic in the world of philosophy – it regards the question of how likely is it that we live in a simulation, or will? But this question might be a false premise – you already live in a simulation within your own head. You exist in a simulation the heads of those around you. You exist in a simulation of your buying habits being projected by corporate and digital entities. You just don't get to experience any of the other simulations you exist in other than the one you observe through the lenses of your own eyes mounted in the body you inhabit.

This question spans studies of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, economics, noetics, psychology, quantum physics, and spirituality. It is also, seemingly unknowable. We imagine our ability to model reality in 3 dimensions with HD graphics, but really… this won't be how the simulation starts, if it hasn't already started.

Lets ignore the question of if we already live in a simulation – for a moment, consider what the leading objectives of humanity are at the moment. The largest tech companies in the world are seeking to create artificial intelligence capable of reorganizing itself to be more effective – and the reason isn't so that we can have a fun conversation about the nature of reality and the path to living your best life. We’ve created machines that are as good or better than the worlds best players of those games. Chess, Go, etc.

But the game being played in this case, is a game called, “get dollars” and the rules are quite simple – get dollars. What's playing out is a race to teach machines to model human behavior in dollars, and accumulate them, where the game board is the credit card in your pocket, and the screens you interact with. They are also looking to beat you in the chess game of your life by influencing your reality by invitation or by taking control of your television or computer display for a moment to flood you with advertisement to influence you and change your decisions. How can they pump products into your house while sucking money out of your wallets more effectively to create a better machine that can accumulate dollars more effectively? Are these really the parameters that we can get behind? Is this really the paradigm that humans can afford to agree to when we explore AI?

We have been told that the dollar, and money in general, is a technological gift that facilitates your ability to make transactions occur between individuals. Once upon a time, if you wanted milk but only farmed chickens, you’d need to go talk to someone with a cow and trade some eggs, or meat for your milk. What a barbaric existence, in a world where we need and want cheap, calorie dense, salty, fatty, carbohydrate configurations in fun shapes we can eat with our hands delivered to us with as little human interaction as possible. We’re saving up so we can retire and pick up gardening and canning again, after all. How am I going to save enough money to pay off my student loans so I can wake up on my own schedule and feed chickens with my coffee in the morning, if I don't work long hours and get Cook Out delivered at midnight in a tiny apartment for the bulk of the prime of my life?

Even using this almighty dollar as the measuring stick – we can see some disturbing trends that look great on paper. Health expenditure and mental illness are on the rise. The GDP is higher because of it. Progress, no? Isn't that what an AI optimised for profit would think? No one is out there in the private or public sector claiming that our per capita expenditure on healthcare needs should be reduced, but why would they? There is an epidemic of drugs on the streets of the world – what should we make of that? Presumably, the quantity of prescription drugs on the street would have to be originating at these pharmaceutical companies in one way or another, right? Sales, sales, sales. Prosperity is the GDP increasing. We are all operating as a collective mosaic of dollars exchanged for chemicals and chemical experiences – whether that's apples, insurance, movie tickets, or counterfeit dark web xanax. More crime means more expenditure on lawyers, bail bondsman. For-profit prisons mean more arrests and convictions increase the GDP. Drugs are progress. Policing is progress. Mental illness is progress. Sickness is progress.

Fortunately, there are other things that increase the GDP. Growing food increases the GDP, as long as you sell it and dont share – Gardening and self reliance decrease the GDP. Having a family, reading books as long as you paid for them, having services like Netflix and Tinder – these all increase the GDP. The thing is, what you’re always doing is trying to buy more happiness with your dollar. But more sinisterly, we’re also buying security to hedge against our fears with that dollar. This takes many forms, from products purchased out of fear and what might also be the same as purchasing a product out of hope – and these products are often the same.

Im sure if you had some profound experience, that would be interesting to you, but from the perspective of how dollars and decisions transform the world around you – you can be modeled as an individual in our society with a credit score, spending behavior, income bracket, and family and social network influence. The AI that we are developing in the private sector will only care about these things. Unless your experience has a dollar value, its unlikely that its going to be modeled into the things our first AI thinks it needs to measuring – that is to say, in the beginning we will live in an AI assisted world that measures everything in dollars – if we don't, already. Thats all AI needs to understand for you to to exist in its current calculations – the details about the experience are for you, the dollar value of the experience is for the machine.

This ability to enhance intelligence already exists in fragments. It is every piece of technology created to enhance your ability to influence the world around you. The phone in your pocket already tracks you location every moment of every day in one form or another. Having one allows you to find any service, product, or information available anywhere in the world. It is possible to change and reconfigure your life at any moment to something dramatically different, every moment, of every day. And yet, we are predictable. Creatures of habit. Self programmed meat computers running the same subroutine carved into our neural pathways in the pursuit of happiness and fear of despair. It seems that the intelligence we’re receiving and interpreting in the world is largely artificial – but our capacity for intelligence is certainly increasing. The only real question is when will a human stop needing to be a cog in the gigantic network of humans and machines currently working together, and how many more are there to replace?

We’ve already merged with technology in a primitive form – every decision in the economy on the planet uses a machine to help, even if the choice ultimately resides with a human, or perceived to be so. Every machine is networked to each other by way of human hands and minds. Are we making the machines better to make ourselves better? Or are we already being controlled by the machines to make them better in exchange for a chemical drip in our reward systems? They are both true – the questions are only who/what is in charge of who/what, and does it even matter anymore? The difference is that technology is rapidly evolving compared to humans – the growth rate is never going to slow down as long as we keep getting better at creating newer, faster, technology. But if the driving force of that technology is to accumulate more dollars, and so, be able to transform the world more effectively to suit our needs – we should probably stop thinking about how to accumulate more dollars and address what we agree to be “our needs”.

Making sure that we can model a reality that addresses our needs is potentially the most important thing we can do, considering the speed that we are being influenced by the technology that we’re creating. On the largest scale, data is being collected by companies all the time to figure out what needs to happen in order to make you a better customer for them. The very location of the shopping cart and the color of the check out button is being optimised to convert your habits into sales – and it's being done more and more by machines each day, rather than people. If the objective of these technologies is to increase sales, rather than provide us with a better life, then we might be in for a troubling future that might have already manifested in a troubled present.

To summarize what I'm trying to drive home here – you already exist in a simulated reality. When that simulated reality began is more difficult to nail down, but a digital representation of who you are already exists in the databases of governments and private institutions. Every day, that representation is rendered is greater and greater detail in an attempt to predict and influence your behavior to suit the entities that own these databases. At some point, the simulated representation of yourself is so accurate, or skewed, that it will manifest events in your life that you’ll have no control over – where are the limits of the scale of these events? The products that you’re exposed to, the music you are played, the movies you watch are all being curated by algorithms to elicit a response from you. At what point is the simulated version of you driving your reality more than you are? The simulated version of you that exists currently doesn't have eyes to see, but it probably has a photographic memory that's better than you are. Every photo you post or place you drive is being remembered in order to better model who you are. The simulation already exists in terms of credit scores, bank balances, ability and willingness to spend – AI is already tinkering with your reality, though it only understands you in these terms. Is the question even do you live in a simulation anymore? Your real and tangible world is tethered to a simulation of your behavior that changes the opportunities and experiences being presented to you on the menu of life.

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These playful creatures are good for areas lacking space.When you get your cat seems to have a brand new carpet is by playing dead.Here are 5 successful tips to get into a regular basis.One trick is to determine the reasons why cats scratch to its grooming habits.If you sew, you might consider training it to surprise your cat at home, you might never see her again.

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Everything You've Wanted To Know About Beauty

TIP! Give your hair, and your blow dryer, a rest. Your hair and scalp can suffer immensely from the heat that is applied by the hair dryer, straightening iron and curling iron.

Many believe that you either look attractive or you don’t. But that isn’t really the truth. What you’ll read here can help you be more beautiful. It takes more than genetics to be beautiful.

TIP! You can protect yourself immensely from the sun by using sunscreen. When you are comparing different brands and types of sunscreen, you should look for products that contain healthy skincare ingredients and antioxidants.

Try air drying your hair as often as you can to avoid heat damage. Between the curling and straightening irons and the hair dryer, you can put entirely too much heat stress on your hair and scalp. If you must use a blow dryer, set it in the lowest, least damaging setting. Minimizing heat damage will help keep your hair in good condition for years to come.

TIP! Keep your skin cells turning over with exfoliation. If your skin is dry or highly sensitive, you can exfoliate your face anywhere from one to three times per week; any less and you are missing out on an opportunity to reveal healthy skin cells underneath the top layer.

Apply Vaseline to your cuticles weekly. This is a great way to help your nails get longer. It helps your nails and the skin around them to look shinier and healthier, too. You should see results immediately.

TIP! If you want to emphasize and play up your gorgeous hazel or deep green eyes, look for colors that will bring out the flecks of gold and green in a way that almost looks like candlelight. Some suggestions are purple, silver, and light brown.

Practice regular facial exfoliation! If you have sensitive skin you should exfoliate a few times a week, if you do not do it enough you will not remove enough skin cells to get to the good skin. This will make your face appear more radiant and fresh and will prevent buildup of oils and dirt.

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TIP! Regardless of any other measures you take to improve your skin, you need to stay hydrated. Water will keep your whole body, including your skin, hydrated.

If you want to restore the shine to your hair, you can actually use baking soda! Mix a little bit of baking soda in with your shampoo. Next, wash your hair as your normally do. Your hair will soon look shiny and healthy.

TIP! You can add all the color you want to your eyelids, but if they are red they won’t look their best. Always carry eye drops with you.

If you feel your face is too square, soften the angles with a creamy coral or rose blush, applied lightly and blended well. Use the blush on your cheeks, applying it with your fingers. Then fan it out toward your temples in a soft, tugging motion.

TIP! To keep your skin looking fresh and flawless, make sure you drink plenty of water each day. Wrinkles, dullness and dryness are the result of inadequate water.

Choose a warm toned tinted moisturizer to perk up sad winter skin. Apply the highlighter with a makeup sponge, dabbing it on your brows and fleshy part of your cheeks for a dewy look. Don’t add to any other place on your face though.

TIP! Try to exercise every single day. Daily exercise will help you stay healthy and look fresh and young.

Always get rid of old makeup before laying down at night. Use a makeup remover, soft washcloth and water that is warm. After this, wash the face normally. Make-up left on overnight will certainly clog your pores and most likely lead to morning break-outs.

TIP! Avoid shimmering blushes unless you have perfect, flawless skin. Blushes that incorporate shimmer draw attention to flaws like acne scarring, bumps and moles.

A sharpened liner, whether for lip or eye, works best. This keeps them clean and ready to use. To sharpen them easily, put them in your freezer for roughly 10 minutes.

TIP! Avoid caffeine when you are getting serious about your beauty routine. Caffeine has been found to make you look older and more tired while also giving you the jitters.

If you want to feel fresh and look flawless, you should drink a lot of water. Skin suffers when dehydrated and looks dry, dull and wrinkly. Drink the recommended amount of water every day to keep this from happening to you. Use lemon or cranberry juice to flavor your water if you dislike plain water. You’ll look radiant in no time.

TIP! Use kitchen sponges as a scrub in the bathtub. These will work the same as a beauty scrub or loofah, and you can save money by buying in bulk.

Do not take hot baths or showers. This makes your pores expand, which allows skin oils leave. You are more likely to wash away the oils you need. Warm water will eliminate this problem and help you keep your skin beautiful and healthy. Your energy bill will go down as a side effect.

TIP! The worst thing that could happen when trying false eyelashes is discovering a glue allergy. To test for allergies, dab a wee bit of it on your arm.

Rejuvenate skin by gently rubbing it with a dry, soft bristled brush prior to showering. Not only will your oil glands be stimulated, your skin will remain moisturized for longer. Brush in a circle from the feet up and then shower with mild cleanser.

TIP! Add some Epsom salts to your beauty regimen. You can use Epsom salts for a laxative or to soothe your sore body.

Sometimes people think you are either beautiful or not. If you don’t have a ton of confidence, this article will show you that you have the potential to be stunning. Think of the great things about yourself, and there won’t be time to fret about being a little less than perfect.