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Cake day: April 15th, 2024

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  • Having read all of this a few times and thinking about each thing being talked about, there is one thing that comes to my mind: discounts

    I remember when I was little, there were certain places like the movie theater or certain venues that have a “partnership discount system”. They would treat groups of people with under a certain number of people as a singular individual, more or less, or favorably in certain aspects. They’d make the whole experience this way. If you showed up with a friend, you’d get more out of the experience than if you showed up on your own. Probably how the occupation/client aspect mentioned would work. So there are small social engineering tricks I’m sure which can combine in a contrived way to make a system that entices the middle of Maslow’s needs to be fulfilled.

    Something like that in of itself just requires privately enforced discretion.


























  • Eccentric meaning the example that would be considered the most foolish or far out. I didn’t know a better synonym if the word eccentric doesn’t work. Most skeptics would understand the use of the word eccentric, but to give an example, the other day I met a little kid who couldn’t understand why the moon is invisible during its full moon stages and why it looks like a cloud, and the little kid said she thought the moon was just a cloud which has turned into rain during the new moon, only to evaporate again. But of course, this is a little kid, so in this case it’s not unnatural.