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She trusts you to not slice her open, eat her insides, and wear her skin as a cost.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 05, 2022, 09:05:51 pm »
I drove through Indianapolis once, on a drive from Wisconsin to Kentucky, via Chicago.

I was glad it wasn’t my final destination.

However, yeah. Iowa is basically corn fields and wind turbines. I was moderately impressed by a bridge in Louisville.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: August 05, 2022, 08:58:51 pm »
It couldn’t happen to a cuntier cunt.

My favourite part of this was when he said he wanted to take back his years and years and years of harping on about how this was fake but the media wouldn’t let him, as though going “lol sorry” was good enough for the hurt he inflicted on these people.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: August 05, 2022, 11:11:40 am »
Can we not at least see the bright side on wages going up, even if it is lower than headline inflation?  Why is it always "Oh yeah but it's still useless... woe is us..."

Positivity breeds positivity, negativity breeds negativity...

Because wages increasing at a rate lower than the increase in prices is not a positive thing? If I get an extra $10 a week, but my outgoings have increased $15 a week, I’m out $5.

Positivity breeds complacency. Negativity breeds action.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: August 05, 2022, 10:27:35 am »
The incompetence on display from Jones' lawyers is astonishing. How can you accidentally give a digital copy of your client's phone with all the juicy texts and emails to the other legal team?

What was even worse (better?) is the lawyers for the parents told his lawyers they were sent the texts in error, and his lawyers didn’t do anything about securing it as privileged information, so the lawyers for the parents were able to use it in trial.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: August 05, 2022, 09:27:18 am »
I don’t know where you’re getting that “real” wages went up considering inflation is around 9%. That would mean wages rose >14%, which… probably would never happen.

The very next paragraph after the stuff about the pay increases, emphasis mine:

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Wage gains and benefit growth is great for households," House said. "But it's still trailing in comparison to inflation and it's making the Fed's inflation problem very difficult to control and bring down."

So yeah, real terms wages were cut  4% on average. People having more money means demand increases, which is only a problem when supply-side issues exist, such as now.

I also find it amusing that in a free market economy, people spending money is a problem.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Wiki-Warfare: Valhalla
« on: August 04, 2022, 10:35:40 pm »
I am looking forward to it. I really enjoyed the game and a half I played in for 1.1 before leaving for a bit. Hopefully we don’t burn you out!

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Wiki-Warfare: Valhalla
« on: August 04, 2022, 10:19:57 pm »
I’ll join too, yes please.

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One would hope there’s somewhere you can go and say “heh I’m struggling” to get refuge so you don’t have to stab yourself.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 04, 2022, 12:09:02 am »
There is a more specific depiction of autism in Elementary in some of the later seasons, though the character only appears in two or three episodes.

I thought it was tastefully done, but I have no real experience of it.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 03, 2022, 11:15:51 am »
I mean… easily in the sense that treatment is readily available, but you are messing with your hormones which can have side effects.

My mum had hyperthyroidism, and was given medicine to deal with it, but she was so unhappy with how she felt because of it she opted to have her thyroid removed. Admittedly this was decades ago and things may have improved since then, but be aware it may not be as easy as you think.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: August 02, 2022, 07:12:59 pm »
China does that. Hong Kong had a little bit of democracy, and it looked like that little bit of democracy was electing pro-China majorities a lot, but China still cracked down hard on that shit and now they don’t have democracy any more.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: August 02, 2022, 06:58:22 pm »
I guess I don't understand international politics at all.  It seems so petty.

I mean I guess I can see maybe how seeing someone come from out of town to have a meeting with your neighbor that you covet might seem threatening, but I don't understand why the response would be "we're going to threaten to destroy that neighbor's landscaping and house, and maybe kill their pets."

Like, why not do some cooperation instead of conflict?  I just don't get it.

Well, China doesn’t see Taiwan as a neighbour it covets, China sees Taiwan as China, so, as per your metaphor, they would expect the out of towner to ask permission to enter their property, who ignores them and visits anyway, and they feel as though they can get justifiably upset about it.

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Moths are hairy bastards so it’s easier for them to get dirty I would expect.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 01, 2022, 08:34:30 pm »
Well… words mean different things to different people, and to suggest that people getting bent out of shape over what you think is an innocuous use when it means something offensive is a bit silly.

Like… you can call someone a jock where you are and it’s fine, but if you go to Scotland and call someone a jock, expect to be confronted about it.

Equally so, words change meaning over time. Damn used to be a particularly strong cussword (you are literally asking god to damn someone to hell) but now it’s barely a cuss at all.

Just ‘cause you’re a stick in the mud doesn’t mean other people have to be :p

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