People are just big emotional children, and if you suggest they shouldn’t eat so many burgers they don’t evaluate the facts, pros, and cons. They have a feeling and then blame you. And probably go on about how vegans suck.

I’m not a vegan but I try to eat less meat because come on.

The original Diablo I remember being more thoughtful and slower paced. I liked it. Diablo3 turned into just a brainless light show without much tactics. Less rewarding.

Is he saying that because he’s intentionally fucking up the US?

Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting ‘Liberal’ Teachings of Jesus

https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

There are other articles on the topic out there.

Some christians are scumbags, and too many people just accept them as such.

…what? With the exception of mage hand legerdemain, you’re typically very close to locks you’re picking. If it made an anti-magic field like 6" from the ring, that would be perfectly fine for picking the lock. Ring is on hand, lockpicks are in hand, magic lock is disabled.

if the ring permanently ends magical effects that enter its area of effect, that’s unusual and probably has a bunch of unexpected uses.

It it merely suppresses magical effects in its area, I guess the projectiles would briefly return to full size when in the anti-magic field, and return to small size afterwards? Doesn’t seem very effective unless you like point blank someone.

Yeah. I think DUI and other laws are generally good ideas. I don’t care that much if someone wants to do coke, but I really don’t want drunk drivers or people nodding off on heroin operating heavy machinery.

There also should be a lot more social programs to help people quit when they want to. And probably more honest education about how yes, even you can get addicted.

I get almost all my clothing from the thrift stores around here. Been working well. But I’m pretty average sized and not picky, so that helps.

The first one had a mode that made it just a turn based game, if I recall. Only way I could actually beat it

I hope I live to see all of them hang

“Mediocre white man” is kind of an overpowered class. You get huge bonuses to like everything, and you can put your points pretty much anywhere. Like, all checks against law enforcement are like roll all dice thrice keep best. Just for free. You don’t even need to actively join the faction, but if you do the bonuses stack.

More seriously, I’ve never heard anyone seeking out a mediocre white man on purpose.

I usually say that capitalism is a horrible monster. You can try to put a leash on it, and maybe it’ll pull your cart forward for a while. But it’s going to shit everywhere, and break free of the leash (or be set free by some idiot), and then kill and eat as much as it can as that is the indelible nature of horrible monsters.

It would be better to not have a horrible monster at all.

Take a lesson from all the police murders: “Musk assaulted me and I feared for my life, so I had to shoot him dead. Autopsy says he was shot in the back while running away and pissing himself? No, he was doing some sort of ninja spin kick. Body camera? Must have malfunctioned.”

Musk can’t testify if he’s dead.

Probably not related to nt, but “ask vs guess culture” was a pretty wild thing to read. Some people just don’t want to be direct.

Someone I knew, her whole family was very guess culture. She couldn’t just ask her parents to babysit. She had to be like "oh it’s really hard to schedule everything, and I have to go out later for this thing " and hope her parents would volunteer to babysit.

If she just asked, they’d possibly get upset. Or they’d say yes when they really weren’t available, because saying “no” was somehow unbearably rude.

It’s a whole mess and I, so far as I know a neurotypical person, hate it.

I mean … small talk is often like an initial authorization step or health check. You ping the server “are you up?” before sending your large payload. If the server is down or under too heavy load to handle your request, you probably want to know sooner than later.

The 14th amendment prohibits people who did insurrection, but none of it counts if people don’t enforce it.

Even if we did have an uprising, and won, there’d be maga hats for decades whining about how they did nothing wrong. The roots of this problem are deep.

I guess it’s part of my massive privilege, but I join all my work calls in my bath robe and don’t blur out the background. I don’t give a shit, and if you do you shouldn’t.

Facial expression and other body language sends a lot of information. It’s useful.

There are ways to stop it, but most people don’t want to do murder and risk their lives.

English. Some french, but not quite at a conversational level.

The Republican party is the far right. The Democratic party is almost everyone else- less far right, moderate, center-left, a handful of lefties. It’s not surprising they don’t have cohesion.

Also the American public seems especially stupid. That’s probably aggravated by decades of right wing media and insufficient investing in education. But maybe everywhere has a lot of stupid people and we’re not exceptional on this point.