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Also Liberal Elitist didn't you say once that your dad was a mad scientist complete with wandering into the forest to eat weird plants and document their effects? Also gosh, you sure know some interesting people. Though I have to agree with Reagan that stripping people of their freedom is immoral and should be reserved for only the time where you can absolutely prove that they are a danger to society. Also, I believe in witchcraft, but Satan is a Christian figure and that directly opposes what witchcraft is aboot so that confuses me.
You have quite good memory. Yes, my father is exactly like that, and I know a bunch of strange people. He really does do that. I guess maybe the reason there are so many strange people around me is, I'm in sort of an economically depressed part of the country in upstate New York and all the NORMAL people left here a long time ago... this area was having a long-term economic depression locally even during the 90s economic boom. So the town I live, Binghamton, in is kinda full of odd and strange people. And since I'm a little bit weird myself (inheriting this from my somewhat weird parents), this makes me kinda a magnet for other weird people, while people who are a bit more normal aren't as likely to befriend me. I guess us weird people tend to associate with our own kind... regardless of what physical race we most closely resemble.
If you ever saw an episode of the Big Bang Theory TV show where Sheldon was experimenting to see how much ground-up moth he could put into some food and have Leonard still eat it without noticing it was "mothy"... well then you know what my dad is like... kinda. Except my dad isn't quite as weird as that Sheldon character. My dad might be a mad scientist but he's only slightly mad... he fits in very well with ordinary physicists and physics professors. They tend to all be slightly eccentric... if you ever look at a physics teacher catalog to see the kind of stuff they're interested in you'll see what I mean, physics teachers have quite a childish side and a lot of stuff in physics teacher catalogues is toys. As one example you can look at this physics teacher catalog:
https://wardsci.com/store/catalog/category.jsp?id=PM10354946. It has some funny stuff in it and some toys, although the physics teacher catalog my dad gets in the mail every month has much more interesting stuff in it than that one.
Oh and as for the young woman I know who thinks her dad is Satan but also believes in witchcraft... well she isn't Wiccan or anything, she's a lapsed Catholic who was brought up by abusive step-parents and mostly the stuff she does with witchcraft is ouiji boards to hold seances and talk to the dead and other spirits. She does believe her dad was probably Satan since her birth number at the hospital was 666 and nobody really knows who her biological father is anyway. But she isn't really a Wiccan or neo-pagan type, she's more like a Satanist... not the LaVeyan Satanist kind, I'm talking about people who actually believe in the Judeo-Christian Satan and choose to follow him instead of the Judeo-Christian God (LaVeyan Satanists don't believe in Satan, he is just a metaphor they use, mostly for shock value). I wouldn't consider her a full-fledged Satanist though, she just thinks she was born as the spawn of Satan and that there's nothing she can do about it. As for why nobody knows who her biological father is... well that's what happens when your biological mother was promiscuous and had many partners and didn't keep track of them very well... I'm trying to avoid slut-shaming here, slut-shaming is sexist. She also had rather an abusive upbringing after her mother got married to a step-father who was more than a little violent towards everyone else in the family, and they moved around often, from one state to another, around the country. Traumatic childhood experiences often lead to mental illness, as has been well-documented.
... and back from my reply to FinetalPies to the topic everyone else is discussing now ...
As for the question that was raised about compression formats I would suggest the standard .ZIP container format using standard Deflate encoding. Also I'd suggest using
FileOptimizer (currently at version 6.80) to get the file size of your .ZIP files optimized as small as possible.
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