Maybe possessions go off Final Fantasy Tactics rules. Too low a faith stat and magic does nothing.

Some kids were just too dumb to notice it or thought it was probably some kind of light.

Communist centrally planned economies suck. That’s how you end up with panicking factory and farm managers exaggerating their production to the state to not end up in the gulag. A better alternative could be petitioning the government for money to start a worker-owned co-op that produce things at quantities that people would actually want. Do that and keep the government democratic composed of different parties with socialist mindsets at their heart and things should be better for all without the baggage of authoritarianism.

Someone should Photoshop all the arches in the background into Arch logos.

A lot of the propaganda these isolated people are fed dehumanizes those whom Trump and the Republican party wish to target. These “victims” of propaganda shouldn’t be sympathized with or even pitied because they each have a conscience that they deliberately silenced in order to feel as part of something greater than themselves. Even if these people are somehow rehabilitated this time it’s very obvious they’ll fall back to the same patterns that got us into this mess to begin with.

The only effective way to break the cycle is to destroy the propaganda machine and force a change in the very culture and identity they’re a part of. You’re right these people aren’t a monolith, but you see some recurring themes like nationalism, Christianity, pride in ignorance, and toxic individualism that conservatives just know how to leverage to drive them into a frenzy.

Not some. All. We all got to live through his first term and the failed insurrection with the Jan 6ers. The fact they voted for him a third time is proof they didn’t care about any of that.

Depressing but not undeserved. These people have some less than altruistic reasons for electing the con man.

Old medieval pages look so fascinating. Too bad the letters are so beautifully drawn that I can’t even try reading what each word says.

The head of a related department at work kept bragging about his plans to make a brand new tech doc for months to the higher ups but the problem with that is he didn’t have enough people to back it up. Upper management wants results already but the guy has too much pride to say it’ll need to be delayed until the headcount climbs back up. Instead he’s dragging my manager and by extension, me, into his plans. Now I’m being forced to bail out the other manager while not having the background necessary to produce a good doc on time. It’s so bad that we’re having twice a week workshops to cover this shit.

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When an organization targets a metric, that same metric will then fail it eventually. It even happened to the Soviets when plant managers had to over report production or else face the wrath of the administration. I often wonder why management can’t just realize some things are better left untouched lest they break something.

Fuck off with Mariah Carey! At least until after Thanksgiving.

I am and it’s like that constantly. I’ll never see the bonus panels on SMBC comics because of it.

Why couldn’t you compare them? They’re both fruit.

Depends on what job you’re in. If it’s highly technical and niche you’ll have an easier time finding a better job. A competitor recently tried to poach me for a 50% raise but I turned them down since they didn’t have hybrid work available. Sometimes it’s better to stick with a job that offers things you value more than money.

Pay me and I’ll gladly offer a verbal beatdown.

I thought it would be like a hand in glove kind of thing.

Yeah but there were entire cultures that thought of the biochromatic breath to be their soul while others simply saw it as a kind of currency or fuel for their magic system. The world is very rich with different beliefs over the same thing.

Sounds a little like the fantasy novel Warbreaker, where the “soul” can be used to give life to non-living objects including corpses.