If you don’t have the poverty scar on one, or both, of your arms, I don’t want to hear shit about what you have to say on the topic of poverty.

If you don’t know what the poverty scar is, and you live in the US, then I will just assume you’ve never actually struggled, nor been around those who do.

Boy oh boy, I can’t wait to use Libre Office Writer and have the exact same issues, but only half the features!

So you think she tied herself up with regular old zip ties? Based only on that?

Wet-ass Bussy

I know where to buy regular zip ties for like bundling things or securing wires, but I gotta be honest; other than online, I don’t know where I would go to buy zip tie hand cuffs. Do you?

My cutoff point was when he started screaming at the old guy for blowing bubbles.

Idiots and people with lead poisoning aren’t inherently evil. They’re just fucking stupid.

Couldn’t even make it through the 1st episode. I got about half way before I decided it wasn’t for me, just too much second-hand embarrassment.

Does Lemmy have a way of blocking sources?

Or the unbreakable glass from the 80’s that was phased out because we can’t have lifelong durability in consumer products anymore.

This is late, but I’m leaning toward 1 being the case. My prediction is that she will slowly grow more comfortable with the Hive over Season 1. She’ll start thinking that maybe it’s not so bad, and maybe things would be better if she joined. Then in the last episode, someone (maybe the pirate lady) will have their link unintentionally broken and just immediately start screaming and begging for her help. That will be the Season Finale cliffhanger.

I mean this in the most delicate way possible…

Do we even have a CSAM problem on the internet? Like, I’m sure it exists, and should (hopefully) go without saying that CSAM is 100% horrific and disgusting; but to me, it’s not exactly something that I see running rampant. It’s one of those things I feel like you would have to intentionally go looking for on the deepest, darkest corners of the Dark Web to find.

I just keep seeing all this anti-privacy legislation come up in the name of stopping CSAM. And yea, again, 100% in agreement that CSAM is awful and those that create/share it deserve hell. But… Haven’t we already kind of taken care of it? I know the majority of these legislative arguments are BS anyways, and the people arguing don’t actually give a shit about kids online, but the arguments don’t even make sense anymore.

As a parallel, take bigots who argue against LGBT rights. Their arguments are usually disingenuous and clearly pushing an alternative agenda; but even those lunatics have stopped trying to claim the reason for their hatred is because gays are all diseased and full of AIDS, because most people are well aware that, not only is AIDS not limited to gay people, but AIDS itself is far less of an issue than it was in decades past. Like AIDS is still a terrible disease, but we kind of have it under control at this point and it’s silly to talk about as if it’s still a crisis.

Do we even have a CSAM crisis that warrants any of this? Even in the heads of those too dumb to realize these things aren’t about CSAM at all?

AND WELCOMED TO THE JAM!

I mean, he probably won’t fly commercial passenger flights anymore, but there’s a good chance he could still be a bush pilot in Alaska.

Shrooms might be out of your system, but there can definitely be after affects that come about hours after you think you’re “done” tripping. Anecdotally, it happened to me. Took some shrooms with friends one day, had a great time, came down without issue. Later that night (roughly 16-18 hours after the trip) I experienced something that broke my psyche for a while.

I won’t go into details, but I 100% believed I got sucked into a horrible alternate reality and was trapped. I wound up jumping out an open window on the second floor to “escape” and had a full on psychological breakdown. After several days of ego death, I decided it had to have been residual effects from the shrooms, because I just don’t think I can accept the alternative.

Granted, that is not a full 40 hours like this pilot. But before my experience I would have told you it’s not possible to have hallucinations from a psychedelic hours after the trip had ended. Psychedelic’s literally make new connections in your brain, it’s not like those all just disappear when it leaves your system.

Part of me agrees with this, part of me thinks that these people are too far into the weeds to know what’s possible. Change brings chaos. And when you’re at your stressful job with a shitty machine that you are constantly trying to keep running, eventually you reach a point where the thought of turning off the machine is unthinkable.

From an outside perspective, it seems obvious. The machine is bad. We should get rid of it and try something different. But that concept is terrifying to the people who work on the machine. Turn it off? But they’ve spent years learning how to work with the machine! They know how to sometimes get the machine to do what they want! If they replace the machine with something else, what if they can’t figure out how to work the new system? Maybe someday they can replace the machine, but right now? In the middle of everything else? No, no, far too risky. Best to try to keep working with the same old machine.

In the ranking of helpfulness of comments:

-Providing a source

-Providing an explanation

-Just not commenting at all

-Making a snarky reply that contains no useful info and tells people to look things up themselves.

Who do I tell? Their answering machine? Their poorly paid staffer who has to answer calls?

Maybe I should just go talk to my front door knob, or quietly whisper my complaints into a pillow. It would accomplish the same thing.

Lol, it’s a bill dude. That’s how bills work. The bill is called The Epstein Files Transparency Act. There is nothing special about this bill that would make it go straight from the House to the Justice Department. It still has to go through the Senate and be signed into law by the president before it takes effect.

You fell for the bait. And I get it, you’re probably scrambling now, looking up the actual reality of the situation going “No… No, that can’t be right… If that was how it worked then all this would be meaningless, and if this is all meaningless then why would every news site and social media board be talking about it as if it wasn’t? People would have to be complete, ignorant, fucking idiots for that to be the case…”

And now you know why I’m going bald.

The alternative global language is Mandarin which is even more of a mess