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What's Your Political Philosophy?
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| You scored as Libertarian Libertarians believe that you have the right to live your life as you wish, without the government interfering, as long as you don’t violate the rights of others. This translates into strong protections for privacy and property rights, and a weak to non-existent social safety net.
Libertarian |
| 80% | Old School Democrat |
| 65% | Pro Business Republican |
| 40% | Green |
| 40% | New Democrat |
| 35% | Foreign Policy Hawk |
| 30% | Socially Conservative Republican |
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[19 Nov 2007|03:45am] |
ok, i have to post this because it seems every thing it says is either dead-on or completely the opposite of me, and im curious if other people agree and which they think is which (ie. what is your impression of me?)
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[14 Nov 2007|12:47pm] |
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Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics)
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| You scored as Serenity (Firefly) You like to live your own way and don't enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you.
Serenity (Firefly) |
| 94% | Moya (Farscape) |
| 81% | Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) |
| 75% | FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) |
| 69% | Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) |
| 63% | Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) |
| 56% | Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) |
| 56% | Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) |
| 56% | Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) |
| 56% | SG-1 (Stargate) |
| 56% | Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) |
| 50% | Enterprise D (Star Trek) |
| 50% | Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) |
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[29 Oct 2007|02:33am] |
for the record:
2 glasses of rum and coke +
screaming orgasm (that is a mudslide heavy on the baileys) +
1.5 dead nazis (jager and peppermint schnapps...about 2x3/4 shots) +
amaretto sour with cherry juice (not grenadine, actual juice from a marashino cherry jar...and i put two of the cherries in it...then it was too sweet&sour, so i added a bit of water, but i didnt want to water it down too much, so i added a bit of vodka...that worked)
= NOW
okay, so all the while i was watching scrubs, because the next season comes out on DVD tuesday and i have to catch back up to where i left off. then i got to the computer and typed up a message to a girl, stared at it a minute, hit send, then said aloud 'fuck, did i really just hit send?' so, in a day or two, sober me will have to decide if drunk me is banned from using the computer.
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[20 Jun 2007|05:52pm] |
 | You scored as Survive with group, Congratulations! You have survived. You even managed to survive with a few of your friends. Few others have gotten as far as you have, and as a consequence, you now live in a zombie infested world.
Survive with group | | 85% | Zombie Killer | | 45% | Survival freak | | 30% | Become Zombie | | 30% | Die heroically | | 20% | </td>
Real Zombie Survival Test
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Your Score: True Neutral54% Good, 54% Chaotic Plane of Existence: The Outlands, "Plane of Concordant Opposition". Description: The plane between all other outer planes.
Examples of True Neutrals (Ethically Neutral, Morally Neutral)
Red XIII, "Nanaki" (FFVII)
Vincent Valentine (FFVII)
Cid Highwind (FFVII)
Mr. Spock
Linus Torvalds
Dr. Strangelove
Scott Evil
Batman
The Punisher
Switzerland
Canada
Not actively for or against anything. Has his or her own reasons for doing everything. Usually difficult to understand.
Will keep their word if in their best interest
May attack an unarmed foe
May use poison
May help those in need
May work with others
Indifferent to higher authority
Indifferent to organizations
True Neutral "Pure Neutral"
"Balancer"
Some neutral [people] commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They are of the true neutral alignment as described in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
A true neutral [person] sees good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. He advocates the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run.
Some true neutral [people] actively support balance in the world, and seek to avoid having any one side, law or chaos, good or evil, become too powerful over them or anyone else, and will work against whichever side is the most powerful. They tend to side with the underdog in any situation, and are often opportunistic in their actions.
True neutral is committed to the avoidance of extremes, and is non-judgemental.
Other Alignments and Tendencies (Tendenices are what you would more often sway towards; esp. for Neutrals):
0-39% Good, 0-39% Chaotic:Lawful-Evil
0-39% Good, 40-60% Chaotic: Neutral-Evil
0-39% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Evil
40-60% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Neutral
40-60% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Neutral
61-100% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Good
61-100% Good, 40-60% Chaotic: Neutral-Good
61-100% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Good</i> |
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[22 Nov 2006|03:38pm] |
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You are The Chariot
Triumph, Victory, Overcoming Obstacles.
The chariot is one of the most complex cards to define. On its most basic level, it implies war, a struggle, and an eventual, hard-won victory. Either over enemies, obstacles, nature, the beasts inside you, or to just get what you want. But there is a great deal more to it. The charioteer wears emblems of the sun, yet the sign behind this card is the moon. The chariot is all about motion, and yet it is often shown as stationary. It is a union of opposites, like the black and white steeds. They pull in different directions, but must be (and can be!) made to go together in one direction. Control is required over opposing emotions, wants, needs, people, circumstances; bring them together and give them a single direction, your direction. Confidence is also needed and, most especially, motivation. The card can, in fact, indicate new motivation or inspiration, which gets a stagnant situation moving again.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
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[02 Nov 2006|10:47pm] |
so, for some reason i have this amazing ability to always ask/be-interested-in the random girls who arent available. last week, a waitress at lunch was very nice and cute and hey, why not ask for her number...oh, she is engaged, well, okay then. so, earlier tonight while out, another cute girl, seems nice and all, she has a boyfriend...but isnt engaged, so im getting better at this. maybe the next girl will actually give me her number...either that, or be a lesbian, either way it'd at least be new and exciting ;)
also, just saw this: FREE HUGS!
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[23 Oct 2006|04:40pm] |
Caligula Bushman, known as the toughest judge on the Chicago bench, was trying six people who were charged with attacking a draft board, destroying all its furniture, ruining its files and dumping a wheelbarrow full of cow manure on the floor. Suddenly Bushman interrupted the trial about halfway through the prosecution's presentation of its case with the announcement that he was going to hold a sanity hearing. To the bewilderment of all, he then asked State's Attorney Milo A. Flanagan a series of rather odd questions:
"What would you think of a man who not only kept an arsenal in his home, but was collecting at enormous financial sacrifice a second arsenal to protect the first one? What would you say if this man so frightened his neighbors that they in turn were collecting weapons to protect themselves from him? What if this man spent ten times as much money on his expensive weapons as he did on the education of his children? What if one of his children criticized his hobby and he called that child a traitor and a bum and disowned it? And he took another child who had obeyed him faithfully and armed that child and sent it out into the world to attack neighbors? What would you say about a man who introduces poisons into the water he drinks and the air he breathes? What if this man not only is feuding with the people on his block but involves himself in the quarrels of others in distant parts of the city and even in the suburbs? Such a man would clearly be a paranoid schizophrenic, Mr. Flanagan, with homicidal tendencies. This is the man who should be on trial, though under our modern, enlightened system of jurisprudence we would attempt to cure and rehabilitate him rather than merely punish.
"Speaking as a judge," he continued, "I dismiss this case on several grounds. The State is clinically insane as a corporate entity and is absolutely unfit to arrest, try and incarcerate those who disagree with its policies. But I doubt that this judgment, though obvious to any man of common sense, quite fits into the rules of our American jurisprudential game. I also rule, therefore, that the right to destroy government property is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and therefore the crime with which these people are charged is not a crime under the Constitution. Government property belongs to all of the people, and the right of any of the people to express displeasure with their government by destroying government property is precious and shall not be infringed." This doctrine had come to Judge Bushman suddenly while he was speaking without his robe. It startled him, but he had noticed that his mind was working better and faster this afternoon.
He went on, "The State does not exist as a person or thing exists, but is a legal fiction. A fiction is a form of communication. Anything said to be owned by a form of communication must also thereby be itself a form of communication. Government is a map and government paper is a map of the map. The medium, in this case, is definitely the message, as any semanticist would agree. Furthermore, any physical act directed against a communication is itself a communication, a map of the map of the map. Thus, destruction of government property is protected by the First Amendment. I will issue a more ample written opinion on this point, but I feel now that the defendants need suffer in durance no longer. Case dismissed."
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It becomes obvious as we proceed that the most pugnacious and intolerant form of authority is the State, which even today dares to assume absolutism which the church itself has long ago surrendered and to enforce obedience with the Church's old and shameful Inquisition. Every form of authoritarianism is, however, a small "State," even if it has a membership of only two. Freud's remark to the effect that the delusion of many men is religion can be generalized: The authoritarianism of one man is crime and the authoritarianism of many is State. Benjamin Tucker wrote quite accurately:
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government are interchangeable terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it be made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
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Lee Harvey Oswald: Hero of a series of novels by Harold Weissburg, including Whitewash, Whitewash II, Photographic Whitewash, and Oswald in New Orleans. Villain of another novel, entitled Report of the Presidential Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, by Earl Warren, John McCone, et al. Also featured in other works of fiction by Mark Lane, Penn Jones, Josiah Thompson, and various other writers.
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[23 Oct 2006|12:23am] |
so, yeah, as monica mentioned in her journal, things have been going well lately with her and i (as in, starting to be able to be good close friends again). and now, she has a new boyfriend (no, not derek). she just really cant go with things when things are good, she has to do something to fuck everything up. i even mentioned the morning before her date with the guy that what she probably needs (and wants, even though she may not admit it to herself) is to DATE, and not have the commitment of a boyfriend, and then she could date different guys without causing all the problems of late. and here she is a day and a half later with a boyfriend. and granted, there wasnt anything going on between her and i, but this is still going to affect the friendship more than she realizes. things are still trying to build back up between us, and i have had to make effort to be friends with her and she has barely found any time for me...now, i need to stop making so much effort and leave it to her to make time for me (which i needed to do anyway, this incident* just drives that home), but i dont expect her to since she has him for now. hey, maybe im wrong, maybe she will call me up tomorrow (more likely wednesday if it happens) and say she wants to hang out, but i doubt i will hear from her. and im really not saying that i dont want to be her friend, because i really do, i am just sick of having to make all the effort. i do hope she decides i am important enough to make time for and will still be friends with me...but i need to stop waiting-for/expecting it.
*((edit: re-reading it seems i didnt quite describe the specific 'incident' very well...see, she and i had kinda planned to hang out sunday after she visited with her grandma for an hour or two...but she just never called nor saw her grandma since she was too busy spending all day with her new boyfriend.))
it would be nice to find someone else, even if new-girl and i were just good friends, having another girl to distract me from all the stupid shit going on in my life would be nice(monica, even as just a friend, was still very good at making me feel better and distracting me from problems...even the problems she was part of). but looking for a new girl has never seemed to work very well for me. hmm, i can always go grab lena for a weekend of good distractions...as long as jake doenst mind her disappearing for a while...or, oh, hey...someone i havent talked to in a while...i shall contact her now.
and now i leave you with a song...Faith by George Michael:
well, i guess it would be nice, if i could touch your body,
i know not everybody has a got a body like you,
but i gotta think twice before i give my heart away,
and i know all the games you play because i play them too.
oh, but i need some time off from that emotion,
time to pick my heart up off the floor,
oh and love comes down without devotion,
well it takes a strong man baby, but im showing you the door,
cause i gotta have faith.
BABY, i know youre asking me to stay, sayin please please please dont go away,
you say im giving you the blues,
MAYBE you mean every word you say, cant help but think of yesterday,
and another who tied me down to loverboy rules.
before this river becomes an ocean,
before you throw my heart back on the floor,
i reconsider my foolish notion,
when i need someone to hold me
but i wait for something more,
cause i gotta have faith.
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[20 Oct 2006|06:12pm] |
I DONT EVEN EXIST!!!
mark one in the win column for buddhist-me.
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[10 Oct 2006|06:49pm] |
Disclaimer: monica, you probably don’t want to read this (at least not yet), it may or may not upset you even more. Obviously, im not stopping her, just giving a warning.
I am done with derek in every way. That seems a decent way to start this, since that isnt how the scenario itself started. It starts with me being unable to handle the situation any more. See, the whole not being with anyone thing that mon decided…it didn’t last a week. And she didn’t choose one of us, she was still with both of us. And since ive made a point to her that honesty is a must for me, I am the one who knew about the whole situation. So, while things were good between her and I, I can be fine and everything is good, but because of this situation, I start breaking down whenever there are doubts…afterall, there isnt anything holding them back from being together. So, there I am breaking down, and telling monica that she cant keep trying to be with both of us. I am asking her to be with me, telling her all the reasons why I think I am best for her, and that all I need is the assurance of being together to alleviate all the drama that I am causing. She gets upset at me because I wont let off the issue…if she really just needs a little time, then fine, take the time and figure it out, but if all she is doing is stalling trying to continue to be with both of us, im not going to stand for it any more. So, it ends with her making a promise and me giving her a little time…not sure how that would have gone anyway, but a moot point now. So I go to talk to derek about the current situation, just ask his opinion on things and let him know my perspective as well. And here is where I mention the main problem of the whole thing…HE IS CLUELESS! All he knows is what monica tells him, and when he asks about her and I, she lies about what is really going on. I just want him to understand that things arent as clear cut as he probably thinks they are. But of course, he likes to talk and starts going on about all sorts of things. He talks about how he still trusts monica and just doesn’t trust me around her…get this, his example: if mon and I are just playing around and then SHE starts pulling my pants off, he doesn’t trust me to stop her…but for some reason he will still put trust in her…WHAT?!? I try and explain how he and I are in the same boat in the whole situation except that I know about him and mon and he doesn’t know about her and i. Yet he continues to play the holier-than-thou im-the-victim bullshit that ive gotten so sick of. He still thinks of me as the bad guy, accusing me of being the whole problem between him and monica. NEWSFLASH DEREK: you are the source of the problems between mon and I also. That is why she has(had) to make a decision. Of course he doesn’t really hear anything I am saying and just keeps on with the ‘you just don’t understand me and mon’ bullshit. So, about 20 minutes later monica calls me all pissed off saying she never wants to talk to me again. Of course, she wont tell me exactly what it was that made her say this. All I know is that it is because of derek. I can only think it is her attempt at an ‘easy’ solution. I know she doesn’t really want to end the friendship (she is just angry), but she probably feels that is the only way to tell me to stop wanting to be with her. Well, that, and she has to save face with derek, because eris forbid he ever start to think that his fairy tale version of their relationship isnt real. So, basically, derek has screwed with monica and my relationship/friendship for the last time, and I want nothing to do with him…at all. I do hope she is happy, and if it isnt with me, then I hope she can be happy with him. Unfortunately for him (though, I find this part satisfying), if history is any indication, their relationship will be monica getting and doing whatever she wants and derek just taking it and not complaining. She gets whatever she wants from him, and can probably just cheat on him whenever she feels like it and he wont stop her…well, that is if he ever finds out about it. I am convinced his view of love is of the ‘how much you will sacrifice shows how much you love someone’ sort. Personally, I moved on from that view long ago. Too bad for him…sucker! ;)
I may be wrong, but I expect monica will get over being angry with me and gradually accept me as a friend again…maybe even be interested in more eventually (last time she was upset at me only took a week before we were acting like a couple again). But this episode has made it apparent that she will value derek (or at least his illusions) above anyone else, and that doesn’t work for me. Even though I wont want derek around, I still hope she and I will be friends again, we have a lot of similar interests and friends, and I do enjoy her company even if we wont be a couple…I guess time will tell.
End chapter.
PS. Lena, despite how decisive all that sounded, I may just need someone to hug and hold onto some weekend coming up soon, are there any that particularly do or don’t work for you? I can bring pie! :)
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[02 Oct 2006|12:07pm] |
so, the short version is that monica fell in love with me, but didnt stop loving derek. so she didnt know what to do, ended up making a hasty decision to get back together with derek, but was still obviously in love with me. i started breaking down, she had to change something, she tried, failed, and then decided she cant be with either of us.
the problem is, as far as i can see it, unless she is willing to make a decision, this all turns into a sort of lovers chicken...which of us will give up first? the most likely scenario i can think of is that one of us will move on and find someone new, and monica will then be able to be with the other of us without feeling like she is betraying someone. now, i know i cant wait for this to happen, i dont plan on it, if another girl comes along i will give her a chance...but i dont see that happening any time soon. derek, however, was at one point ready to move on and has said before that there are other girls at his work that are interested in him, so maybe that could happen...except that he probably wont give up wanting to be with mon until he has no chance with her anymore...::sigh::. so, actually, it may just be that mon has bought herself a little extra time before having to make a decision.
and for the record, if she does get back together with derek after this point, that is the end of it. i know i have said things like that before, but those times were out of anger because of how things happened. i am saying it this time with a clear head...well, as clear as it is getting any time soon...i mentioned reaching a breaking point and that was it, if she wants to be with me, great, if she chooses derek, then im out of it. i probably actually would have stayed out of it this most recent time if it werent for a few things: 1. yes, i do love her and want to be with her. 2. she obviously does love me. and 3. there are reasons that i know of that she and derek shouldnt be together. and while the first two are extremely important, if she is going to be with derek despite that then they obviously arent important enough to her, but three is the one that really made the difference. she isnt going to tell him anything. thats a relationship based on lies. he and i had a recent conversation and he flat out asked me about stuff...i declined to answer, for now. the other day i was thinking he and i should talk about EVERYTHING (i know there are things i dont know, and if mon wants to be with me, she will have to be honest about everything), but i know mon would be upset if he and i talked...however, my reasoning for deciding not to is two-fold. after the conversation he and i did have, he apparently ran off to monica and told/whined to her about it...though, it seems he only mentioned the parts that made me sound like an ass (he is very good at garnering sympathy, especially from mon), so she ended up being upset at me for awhile over that before even talking to me about it. so, why should i talk to him about anything if he is just going to use it as ammo against me when i am just trying to be honest about things (granted, it may not have been his intent to get her upset at me, maybe he was really just upset himself and venting, but the end result is the same to me). the other reason is that he really doesnt need to know details right now. if he and mon end up together somehow, i will offer him full disclosure of everything that mon wont tell him. but for now it should be enough for him to know that because of the things he doesnt know, i would tell him, as a friend, that he shouldnt be with monica.
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i could say that i am going to update later on everything that has been going on, but i probably won't. i just wanted to post this for monica (so she can hopefully hear this without being stuck in another serious conversation); i hope she realizes that the way i've been* is a symptom of the situation and not how i will be when we figure things out.
*lately i have started to get more and more upset about her going down to eric's place, and it finally came to a head last night. but my reaction is just because of the situation we are currently in(disclaimer:im not placing blame, many different chaotic factors must align for ANY situation to come to be); if she were to decide that i was only going to be just a friend, then it wouldnt be my concern (unless there were something seriously wrong, but then any good friend would say something...but that isnt this, so moving along), OR if she and i were officially together i would be fine with her spending time with any of her friends because i would trust her...but with her not wanting a commitment (with anyone), but still saying we could (and perhaps probably will) be together later, there are the possibilities-with-eric from not being together without the detatchment of it not being my concern. once things are sorted out, i'll be able to be laid-back and worry-free again.
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[18 Jan 2006|10:26pm] |
- Peanuts and discordians are beans!
- The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as discordians.
- All swans in England belong to discordians!
- Discordians can sleep for three and a half years.
- Discordians will give a higher yield if milked when listening to music.
- Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than discordians.
- There are more than two hundred different kinds of discordians!
- Discordians have little need for water and are capable of going for months without drinking at all.
- On average, women blink nearly twice as much as discordians.
- Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by discordians.
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| saturday, dec 17 |
[08 Dec 2005|09:21am] |
saturday, dec 17; people should come over to my place. lena will be here visiting, so i want to have games and such at my place. starting around 7pm. i have lots of DVDs, some good areas for tables with games, and my 'den' with 8 port network hub where we can get comp games going (like starcraft...bring your laptop if interested in network games, i have two PCs ie. not enough for everyone). feel free to bring your own movies or games (or snacks and drinks) to add to the options. note: this is not this saturday (NOT the 10th) it will be next saturday (17th). let me know if you are coming and ill give you directions if you need them.
oh, just remembered, someone (monica, that means you since you brought up the starcraftness) bring the original starcraft disc, i have brood war but havent installed starcraft on my newer PC (makes it difficult to upgrade).
ps. sorry, kat, i know this is the same day as your thing, but i didnt want to crash your gathering with a bunch of random people (lena and jake at minimum, and i really wanted to get certain others that you dont even know together as well)
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We gather together
For yams, beans, and cranberry sauce.
But have you given much thought lately
To the turkey holocaust?
Twenty million noble birds
Slaughtered every fall.
Ain't no difference 'tween Hitler, Stalin,
And the folks at Butterball, Butterball.
So set your tables, America
From Birmingham to Branson.
But when you carve that turkey
You're a finger lickin' Charlie Manson.
Enjoy your pumpkin pie,
Your buttery Idaho spuds,
Grandma's chestnut stuffing,
And a turkey basted in blood.
Basted in blood, Basted in blood...
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[23 Nov 2005|10:46am] |
Ok, someone was browsing the interest lists of LJ today (actually not 'today' anymore, it was quite a while ago by now) and saw that the top spot on the interests was music. All well and good - but lets face it - dull as shite, right? So in their infinite wisdom they have decided to try to alter this sad state of affairs. To this end we need your help - thats right, yours! A phrase has been found that was not on anyone's interest list (although by now it has quite a few adherents), and I have added it to mine. I expect everyone on my friends list to add it to theirs. I also expect you to ask your friends to do the same. As such a wave of this interest will sweep out and, hopefully, conquer livejournal! The goat is gonna get it! The phrase that you should add to your interests is:
Falsifying Statistics
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