I was about to say, like, the coloring of the shirt made it look like she was wearing a bra, which made the messaging about going braless kind of seem… stupid?

Apparently, in the Lakota tradition, it’s pretty common for everybody to stay asleep in the funeral home on the night before the funeral.

It’s kind of like a mixer for the recently departed.

I have what I believe is a fair criticism of online feminism, in that as a group they tend to exist in some sort of “victim complex oppression bubble”.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe women should have equal rights with men. I believe that we should not live in a world of oppression and fear and in as much as is possible we should all work together to accomplish that.

Disclaimer aside, my issue with this is that nothing is ever good enough. If you mention something that is good for men In an online forum, some feminist will come along and shit on it. If you mention something that is bad for their enemy of the moment, they will come along and say it is not bad enough.

The only thing that they cheer is when people that they hate suffer.

And when you take a step back and look at it as a whole, that starts to shine light on a portion of the conservative hate engine.

Since nothing that they ever do will be good enough for them to get positive attention and approval from the online feminism engine, then there’s no reason for them to try to get that approval and instead they will do mean things and say mean things and be hurtful people in order to get attention.

Don’t get me wrong. It is still definitely their fault for doing bad things and hurtful things and being shitty people in general, but it is not like feminism as a group is innocent.

When a group of people achieves power, and then refuses to acknowledge people outside of their group, and actively attacks and antagonizes people outside of their group, it is normal for people to retaliate.

To put it another way, a lot of the insane bullshit you’re seeing online is like yin and yang. They’re chasing after each other’s tails, they’re antagonizing each other, and their making life miserable for everyone not inside of their circles is a natural consequence of both sides inability to see the loop they are stuck in.

It is not a single person’s fault or responsibility. It is a natural consequence of groupthink.

If there is a real enemy, it is the people who, like me, took a step back and saw it, and realized that they could utilize this for political or financial gain.

So, this is my opinion, but: if you are hating people that you’ve never met,

or interpreting things that other people say in the worst possible light and responding with vile poison,

When other people thank you and upvote you for how good you were at saying the mean thing to the bad person,

then you are complicit in the system

You have become a cog of a machine of ideological hate

that is being monetized by news companies and advertisers

to sell you things

that you don’t need in order to be happy

And that not only will never make you happy, but will ensure that you and everyone you know and care about will be sad for the rest of your lives.

The dude has been doing cocaine for like the last 55 years.

He probably hasn’t had a sober day in longer than most of us have been alive, And eventually, whatever dark magics it is that sustains him will fade. And we will never think of or hear about this guy ever again.

I have a friend who went through something pretty similar, ended up spending ten years alone except for when people would come over to see him.

Eventually he pulled out of it and is married now, And if everything can work out for him, then it can work out for you too.

And also, like, don’t worry about your opinion of yourself and thinking that you’re gross, because it really doesn’t matter. Like, the things that you’re concerned about are never the things that other people are concerned about.

If you are clean and somewhat presentable, everything else can take care of itself. No matter what you look like or what you think you look like, there is going to be somebody out there who sees you as the most attractive, beautiful, desirable being on the planet if you give them the opportunity.

I remember pulling out new towels from my high school gym and them being already dirty.

Then why the hell were they always so fucking dirty looking?

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Because of this reply, I went and double checked myself, and it turns out I said the phrase backwards. I did not change the meaning, just the order.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Where+ignorance+is+bliss%2C+'tis+folly+to+be+wise

There’s this concept called circle of influence, which is basically what things can you actually do about the things that you know.

99.9% of politics are outside of any of our individual circles of influence, And news profits immensely off of sharing every single bit of misery inducing sad and dreadful knowledge they can peddle.

So if it’s outside of your circle of influence, then feel free to completely fucking ignore it, because you can’t do a goddamn thing about it, and knowing about it only makes you sad.

Like the saying goes, where it is folly to be wise, ignorance is bliss.

That being said, if there are things that are local to you, or things that you or your friends are passionate about, that are inside of your circle of influence, take the energy you would have spent being sad about the stuff you can’t do anything about, and direct it to the things that you can do anything about.

Chances are, since this is a 15 year old, that they’re going to stick with the default install of Windows. Not a lot of people start off with Linux.

That being said, I would also recommend the AMD processor over the Intel processor just because it’s a better processor and why not, Especially if it will make transitioning to Linux easier and the future should the kid choose to do so.

Trust me bro, a few hundred more billion dollars worth of R&D spread out between 37 companies that keep taking turns to buy each other out in hopes of making a trillion dollars on some slop somebody vomited out of the dark recesses of their souls over the next 59 years and it will get better I promise trust me bro

Probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to do something along the lines of stating upfront that “if anyone in the company does anything to offend you, please report it to the appropriate channels. You’ll have our full support. We’re here to get work done, not to make people feel bad”

You’re not likely going to say by accident something they haven’t heard before, or to offend them in a new and novel way, But establishing and occasionally reinforcing the fact that they don’t have to tolerate it, that putting up with abuse is not part of their job, and that they have the boss’s backing at the same level of the non-LGBTQ employees should they find themselves being abused or offended, would probably go a decent way in minimizing the risk of something actually bad happening.

Fortunately, Ralph is functionally immortal as the rolling concept of Ralph gets re-instantiated every single time a new hand touches the beacon.

He may be afraid, but his fear will only end when the human race does, or when his concept has been completely removed from our memetic lexicon.

It’s more like conservation of karma. You get a thing you wanted at a price you weren’t prepared to pay.

Trying to follow those guidelines, I would guess the list would be something more like:

1: Nothing changes, the only difference is that if you would otherwise put on more body fat than you currently have, the excess fat gets turned to horrible uncontrollable diarrhea that hits with no warning, so now you have to be on a diet for the rest of your life or else you’ll shit yourself in public.

2: Has to spend the rest of your life eating more than you burn as any weight you lose would be permanently lost, which will eventually kill you unless something else kills you first. This is computed by your original weight, so even if you would be fine with 800 calories, you must consume your current maintenance calories every day for the rest of your life. (See: Steven King’s Thinner)

3: You are unable to purchase anything. Every transaction fails. If people do not feed you out of the kindness of their hearts, or failing that, you are unable to barter for goods and services, you will die of hunger and exposure to the elements.

4: You get 5cm taller. People start telling you how much they liked you the way you were and that they feel lesser about you now that you’re taller. The new people you meet often comment on how hot/sexy/great/beautiful you would be if only you were a little bit shorter.

5: You become super strong but your bones and tendons can’t keep up. Using your super strength is pussyfooting with permanent disability.

6: No, yours is right. “you can not feel anything but happiness - no pain, anger, sadness, nothing but joy” Banger. Spot on. No Notes.

7: Have many followers would be worse if it was just a cult of people who follow you everywhere you go. The only time you can be alone is in your own home, until they realize they can just break in.

8: Forget your ex lover but they forget you too. You eternal sunshine of the spotless mind each other

9: A lot of money but the people you love die. <- This was one of the original monkey’s paws, iirc.

I’d pick 459 if I could put the 5cm on my ding dong.

1 is much better all around, assuming that they mean you “instantly drop to an ideal body fat percentage” and not “all of the fat on your body disappears forever”

Yeah, “Don’t gain weight from eating” would mean that any dieting you do would be permanent. You lose 1 oz, that 1 oz is gone forever.

Super easy to lose weight that way, but also, potentially risky in that you could unintentionally diet away all of your body fat and not be able to replace it.

Even if you’re a consistent overeater, you’re going to have days where you can’t hit your target and lose more weight.

Sounds more like a curse than a blessing.

You’d be lucky to make it to your mid 60s unless you started out very overweight and didn’t try to crash diet your way to “normalcy”.

Dang. That’s crazy. I guess the good part is I can intentionally unclog the adenosine receptors in my brain so I wouldn’t have to sleep anymore, At least until I can fashion an iron lung for myself.

The ability to control all matter at the subatomic level.