Just about anything is traceable. The trick is making it not worth the effort.

I’ll say this: Grabbed a free month of Prime through Google Play. Went to cancel it before it charged me again and I had so much trouble figuring out how I decided that I couldn’t be the only one and ended up Googling it.

You couldn’t quit in the Google Play Store. It wasn’t even listed.

It wasn’t any form of subscription or listed as a membership on Amazon.

You couldn’t end it by following QR codes or links supplied to you on Amazon itself.

It wasn’t in your Amazon profile or Google profile.

The ONLY WAY to cancel it was by scanning the QR code, following the link, clicking on a “Contact Support” button, clicking on another button under “Help Topics” that said, “How to end your Prime Membership”, and finally you were taken to a page where you could actually end it. Obfuscated like a motherfucker.

The wild part is it didn’t hurt. I don’t remember any pain at all. Just an intense knowledge that something was very wrong and I needed to get away as quickly as I could. But like no matter how hard I tried my body would not listen until that signal I mentioned hit my hand and I let go.

I was also surrounded by people and not a single person noticed.

But yeah, Iiii wouldn’t repeat the experience.

Electricity. Hand curled around it to grab and got rooted. I still remember the sensation of my repeating mental command to “LET GO” feeling as if it was slowly travelling down my arm. Weird is a word that comes to mind.

Sooo I can cause what honestly feels like a small and constant electrical current flow through any part of my body. If I center this feeling on my chest it is easily more prominent than anywhere else with my head being second. Extremities are dead last. If I am hooked up to a heart monitor I can make it freak out at will. Any location I focus it on tends to want to tense up.

I like to tell people this is the result of me grabbing onto a metal item when I was younger that was still hot. Couldn’t let go for a solid 6-10 seconds, can’t say exactly how long. What I am able to do feels very similar.

@dogsnest Thanks for the heads up.

OP thanks for posting this.

Donated what little I could. Free access to information is absolutely one of the most important things we as a collective can support.

Specific? Not much. We’re too late on this one. What we can do is stop bickering and slap fighting in a corner and come together to help ensure people like this are held accountable more often. It’s a road we need to walk, not a single instance or single situation that will help solve the larger systemic issues.

Mine too comes from a place and person who does not have the power to deliver proper punishment, as an individual. Collectively, we do have a voice. We just have to use it correctly. Not just for this, for all things we view as evil. By speaking as one.

There are times those of us who aren’t total psychopaths are also a bit too lenient.

Looking forward to the sudden, definitely inexplicable, price increase of specific hardware at about the nine month mark.

Animals are still animals. It isn’t dishonest to say that we should respect them and their space through understanding and recognizing their behavior. Don’t allow your love for an animal cloud the basic judgment that every animal may have its moment. Don’t be afraid, just be aware.

Whoaaa hey hold on, I agree with this completely. The U.S. Government does use religion to coerce and convince millions that their way is the correct way.

It just doesn’t involve aliens…yet.

Well…it does, just not the type we’re talking about. Cause if you’re Right, you’re right apparently.

Look man, the problem with arguing with these people is that they are hard stuck. Biden could tell us exactly what the issue is, take his entire staff to Gaza, put on an apron, and begin filling bowls with soup, and people will be like, “HE ISN’T GRABBING A GUN AND FIGHTING BACK”

It’d be funny if it wasn’t so tiring and sad.

I’m sure there are siblings and family members who act on these impulses. I do not feel it’s common. The most common amongst this rare situation would probably fall under actions done while under some influence, with hormones through the roof.

What you’re likely unwittingly basing your belief on are sexual taboos. Incest isn’t a popular(arguable) category of porn because of the incest itself, it’s popular because of the taboo and excitement that comes with committing an act you shouldn’t. Someone who has these desires is not an inherently bad person. Even acting on a consensual interest isn’t a bad thing. None of this is evil or malicious. What it is to me is an act that has an underlying reason for existing. And I’d make a bet that many of the people who seriously consider incest as okay have:

1. Convinced themselves over time

2. Have trauma in their past that could be tied to that belief

It’s even possible that this is in some form a Paraphilic Disorder. Whatever the reason, I urge all individuals who are victims of their own minds to seek help if they can. Most of us never realize the weights we carry until we are given permission to take that weight off.

Reddit has never accounted for a majority of people and, I’d argue, tended towards specific types or characteristics of individuals. With a smallish percentage of users being active enough to post a majority of content.

I don’t mean to be that person, though it may be worth your time to not rely on a single point of information to base opinions. It is up to you. Just know that I was fairly active for 12 years on Reddit so I do have some idea.

Why do you think incest between siblings is common?

I’m arguing both sides here in different comments.

You’re right, logically it seems silly at first glance. The basis of nearly all our laws is “If harm to another, then some harm to you.” So if close relatives, a Brother and Sister in this example, were to be each other’s Prom Dates into the late evening, and no one knew they were related, do we actually hear that tree fall in that forest?

Probably not.

So thus they have harmed no one.

So why?

I think because collectively we have an innate understanding of who we are closely tied to by blood we base our laws off the majority rule. At a glance there is nothing wrong with the act. I’ll even argue it happens far more than we know, though also far from being common.

So then it becomes a question of culture. Laws exist as paths that guide a society. Without it the very significant number of people who could do something because they have a different moral code, but don’t because they want to follow the law, would then be free to act without restriction. Besides, as I said in another reply: It is less about others in this case and more about the two doing the act and the potential to bring in a child who should never have had anything to do with it in the first place.

Anyway, I’m interested to hear other arguments. No reason we can’t discuss either way. Though I doubt it’ll bring some great revelation.

There is a scientifically proven, significantly increased risk of a child born with severe complications when the offspring of two close relatives. These reproductive complications are less about harm to others and harm to the parents, which there is VERY likely to be trauma, it represents a rare moment where the child is the focus, even after birth.

This argument is the basis for so many of the discussions surrounding the controversy of abortions in too many States. So apart from a very real genetic predisposition to not go around and have more family with family, we as a larger society have decided that it is fundamentally wrong. This doesn’t even touch on why a Brother and Sister is having sexual relations since that is probably a whole book on its own.

Most people aren’t attracted to their family members. They may be able to recognize if their Aunt or Sister or Brother or whatever are attractive. They may even be attracted to them in some small degree. However, the move from small admiration or attraction to giving themselves a pass to follow thru on that attraction likely has its base elsewhere, which I won’t go into.

Anyway, my thumbs are tired.

The best way to think about it is whether a provision within a non-compete makes sense to a reasonable person. In other words: Is it unreasonable? A likely not enforceable provision would be “cannot work for a competitor in the same State” due to how broad and how restrictive that provision is to the old employee. A court would look at that, at the industry, and pretty much every time say that the old employee cannot be reasonably expected to move themselves and their family out of State for a new job.

Gotta be purely logical though. Just because it’s bullshit doesn’t mean it’s unreasonable.

Always check with a Lawyer first. This is not legal advice. I am yelling from a rooftop into the air.

ahem

Non-compete agreements often have tagged on bullshit meant to sound scary! A lot of that bullshit cannot be enforced and can be ignored with impunity. In fact, there is often legal precedence to back this up. NEVER assume signing a contract means you are stuck by its terms as the contract must also be legal in scope.