Yes, incels and just angry, bitter people everywhere! For a good time, go to a relationship sub and ask for basic relationship advice for an easily solved problem, like how to communicate to your boyfriend that you don’t want to have sex, and watch your post go down in flames.

I’m the same way. I take like a quarter hit and I’m alright. The whole puff? Gone for hours.

“Fiscal conservative” was always just a reputable seeming veneer for “we’d rather let poor people die than tax the wealthy at the same rate as everyone else”.

You just listed out the reasons I stopped at MSc! I’m all of those but only like half as much.

Shamelessly purloined from YouTube:

The Legend of Zelda: The Missing Link

I just respond with a hearty “yeeearghhhh!” and continue the conversation. The coworkers that know get it, the rest think I’m a lunatic.

I agree to an extent. I feel the difference is it’s popular in conservative culture to do things simply to “own the libs”, even if that behavior is self destructive. Actions primarily meant to harm others celebrated simply because they hurt others shouldn’t be condoned.

If the pursuit of a more just and equitable society results in the tears of fascists, misogynists, and/or racists, I’ll gladly bathe in them.

That’s actually an urban legend. Most of it was shown again by the NFL back in 2016 after they used various incomplete sources to patch the majority of the material back together.

The bit about the tape has a grain of truth to it. A man found a copy of most of the show in his father’s attic, had it restored, and wanted to sell it to the NFL but the two parties couldn’t agree on a price. The man and the curator of the organization which restored it both had watched it. It was then kept in a vault due to its value.

It was recently shown to the public by the organization that restored it, so I’m assuming it was never purchased by the NFL. Bummer for the finder.

Edit: I haven’t watched all of this, but it appears to be on YouTube. Grab a copy before the NFL finds out!

For anyone else interested, here is an Interesting Wikipedia read on the composition and properties of toco toucan beaks.

Toco toucan beak

Same here. I’m in a position where I’m liable for over a thousand people if any become hurt or die due to my negligence. If I fuck up badly, I could do serious jail time and never work in my industry again. Plus I had to attend university for eight years.

People can waltz in with no education, complete a training course of just a few months, and become police officers, able to kill or harm others with significant impunity.

Do what I did: never write it! I put as much on my resume but not once has an employer verified my education. I could put anything!

Oooh, that looks awesome! I’m not op but was browsing for ideas. Thanks for the recommendation.

I remember seeing my ex used to cause a spike of adrenaline and a feeling of dread. Last time I saw her, a few years after we split, I barely recognized her and didn’t care once I did.

I see it now! Thanks for the nudge.

I’d wager they meant Walt Disney.

The pale blue dot photo always makes me tear up. We’re so small and insignificant in such a grand universe and I’m crushed that I can’t explore it.

It is wild to remember we’re all descended from fish. I mostly refer to our primate tendencies (listen to a kid scream and tell me we’re not descended from apes) but a lot of our parts, like our skeletons, are highly modified fish parts. It’s crazy.

Other tissues can become fossilized but it’s less common as the conditions need to be just right. That’s how we know some dinosaurs had feathers and what their skin texture was like.

Cambrian genera like Hallucigenia completely lacked bones and we have numerous fossils of them from deposits of shale. That’s how we know what they looked like: tiny Lovecraftian horrors.

Standard lefty fare: get rid of the surprisingly small group of people who ensure we don’t benefit equally so they can skim increasingly large amounts off the top of our very existence while providing little benefit themselves. What that looks like is pretty contextual. I’d prefer a non-violent, gradual transition of power, but telling a bunch of entitled sociopaths they don’t get to leech off the world because they popped out of the right crotch historically hasn’t been an easy or friendly process. They get real pissy.

Incrementally, people can band together and just oust their economic and cultural oppressors. A fun, somewhat related example is ROC USA, a non-profit that helps residents of manufactured home parks collectively purchase the land they previously rented. More generically, workers cooperatives are democratically controlled, worker owned businesses, so anything that benefits the cooperative benefits the workers. If someone’s job is made irrelevant, they’re moved to another position and the increased efficiency/income benefits all workers, not a parasite class that is paid simply for buying an imaginary portion of the company. Workers co-ops are more common in Europe.

So basically, we change how we do everything and either wrest power from the hands of the few or start doing our own thing that economically stonewalls them. I’ve always wanted to start a non-profit grocery store!

I agree with you, 100%. I absolutely would, just not without compensation. I’m a big ol’ dirty lefty. I believe if we lose jobs to increased efficiency or automation, all society should benefit, not just the rich, and those who have lost those jobs shouldn’t just be kicked to the curb as they so commonly are.