I mean, after that last Robin hood movie that had Jamie fox in it I’m unsure I can go to a Robin hood movie ever again. Just like…

Just… physics wasn’t just a suggestion, they took it out back with a shotgun. Some of those action scenes were just so laughable. Like, bolliwood was more grounded.

I have been voting in Minnesota since 2009, I have never been called for jury duty.

Meanwhile I have a coworker who has been called 5 times in the same time span.

I do not understand how this is possible.

I feel like the proper response by the genie should be “yes, you’re right, what’s your first wish?”

I think so.

How high the priority should be is a debate worth having, but space has many ways to wipe out a planet. Having two planets, having a permanent space station, could go a long way to increasing survivability.

Not only that, building in a vacuum, building in zero G, even building things under great pressure, all can allow us to build new materials with brand new properties.

Also, being able to sustain a small group of people somewhere completely contained an inhospitable can be utilized on earth to feed people at home, or recycle water at home.

That’s kinda why I liked DC20 reducing it all to strength, dexterity, intelligence, charisma. Attacking uses whatever is the highest Stat.

Just, super simple and let’s you make a wider variety of characters.

Probably dump it all into my mortgage.

I think that would actually give me the most bang for the buck.

… that is an unbelievable number. As in I literally don’t believe it.

That would be pretty much 100% of all non Mamdani voters according to the election results.

If these guys voted instead of threatening to move, Mamdani probably wouldn’t have won.

You know, I’ve seen arguments that we’ve just gotten better at testing, and that clearly our environment is causing autism…

But I haven’t seen the argument that the world has gotten better at connecting people with autism. Like, maybe dating apps, online message boards, and video games help people who don’t connect socially… connect socially. So what was previously a detriment to pass your DNA now has a crutch to help it happen.

You can’t! You’ll infringe on Nintendo’s patent!

Better would be a shower with a skeleton that turns and shrieks. Then if the open the door again that’s when the guy with the chainsaw answers the door.

I get lots of compliments on my username. Came up with it in the 90s and I feel like it aged well.

I drink with friends, I don’t smoke but I do hang out in the smoking areas though.

I wouldn’t say it’s unusual. Can’t say there was much peer pressure to get me to start drinking. It just was an easy conversation starter. “Whatcha drinking?”

I think it’s also one of the reasons smoking starts so easily. It’s a really easy conversation starter. Gotta light?

It’s not bad that the next generations are doing it less, but it does suck that they haven’t been replaced with a new conversation starter.

music video that plays with this idea

Well first, this is not as achievable as you think.

Marrying into money means meeting a partner with money which means spending money. You think they’re gonna hang out at the local bowling alley? Like genuinely, just use this motivation to network and look for a job without linked in. That would at least allow you to make gains of either gender.

At the very least, you should multi-task. Makes you look less like a gold digger too.

Second even if you find a perfect partner. Unless they are rich rich, if anything happens you become a widow with no job history. You think a 21 year old with no job experience sucks? Try a 48 year old with no job history. That partner is going to be a single point of failure and even if you love eachother deeply, they will die someday, and it’s not guaranteed to be when you’re 90.

Also others have hit on this but you are betting on a partner. You have two competing interests, you don’t want a monster, but you also want to be taken care of. Be… be very aware that the people you would be most worried about, are looking for someone with your goals, persuading someone to have your goals, and are gonna try to raise your need for safety, and lower your expectations.

In some ways… being honest with your goal can almost be ringing the dinner bell to a monster.

I once had a study partner who was raised like that. We were scheduling our first after school study session and trying to figure out time. I shoot out sunday and he goes “nah I have church, wait don’t you have church?” “nah, I’m an atheist”

dude vanished. Three days later I notice him trying to like… hide in a hoodie towards the opposite side of the class. I walk over, worried I offended him or something. He basically tells me that he can’t interact with satanists and I just go “look, if you don’t wanna interact with me, don’t. You don’t have to hide in a corner or try to avoid me. If you wanna draw the line at just existing in the same room, ok then.”

To his credit, he did try to have a study session with me after that, but I had to end it early. The dude was so on edge, it was like he was convinced I was gonna stab him at any moment.

Years later he contacted me to apologize out of the blue on facebook. Went completely off grid traveling the world. My guess trying to compensate for just how little he knew of it.

I’m actually planning a twoshot of DC20 next week. So hopefully I will be able to do just that.

From everything I’ve been reading I’ve liked quite a bit, hopefully it works just as well in practice.

Not a movie but 18 episodes, Arcane is full of massive, massive feels.

Hits multiple times in different ways. If you want the full gamut of emotional.

I think it’s a good thing to try and explore how easy or hard it is to build this. It can all translate into building something entirely local, building things at higher quality for less money, or even building things in times of quarantine, trade embargoes, or just lower tech areas.

I never made the rules. No swearing in school was always the rule.

Seems absolutely nutty to ban “love that for you” but apparently fuck is fine? No swearing is not up there.

Spent my whole High School career being passive aggressive, because swearing was the bridge too far.

If you can’t even be passive aggressive you may as well never leave your front door.