If someone did a horrific thing and then told me they weren’t as guilty as their boss I’d be fairly confident saying that if their first priority was to justify their actions then they can also get absolutely fucked.

The US was never really that against them. Their motivation in WW2 was not nearly as morally perfect as they like to pretend.

I’m not going to go refind the examples, but there have been stories about things soldiers do that are definitely not ordered by anyone else. There can be a level of cruelty at times that is completely on the individual and they cannot always hide behind “I was told to”.

Yea, because that was a deflection and not what we’re talking about. You said that the US has stood for diversity but at every stage of its existence it has stood on the backs and necks of minorities and has struggled to even admit that it has a problem. Even the last admin was ok with Israel wiping out every Palestinian man, woman, and child and sure that’s across the world but if they’re chill with genocide that sets the bar LOW. And buddy have you SEEN how they disenfranchise minority voters? The gerry-mandering maps are fucking WILD. They don’t give a fuck about the people who, to them, are just cheap labour.

Also I live in Canada which beat the US to gay marriage by 10 years and is where many black people escaped the US to. We are far from perfect but at least we had a female prime minister for a few months and a brown guy with a turban leads one of our three major parties. We also have a huge homeless problem but at least they have access to healthcare, and as far as surface-deep things like restaurants are concerned we have just as much diversity in our cities as the US does(and just as much bland, franchised nonsense out of the cities). French is our official second language but the US only has English despite all its Spanish speakers and the fact that a lot of it is straight-up old Mexican territory.

Ok but how does any of that make it good? That’s being relativistic and we can do soooo much better than that, can’t we?

Do better than jerking off terrible people who are only “totally awesome” because they’re not as bad as some of the other options. Nothing is forcing them to be like that so they have no excuse, and the rest of my original point still stands that your opinion based on what you enjoyed to consume as a tourist is laughably out of touch.

That’s a lot of copium. The US has never really been a diverse place where everyone is equal, it just has very good marketing, brand recognition, and fairy open borders so people tend to move there. Plus with the world speaking so much English it’s fairly accessible.

A lot of the times that you see non-WASP culture in the US it’s just stuff that a tourist might enjoy like cheap food, music, and art, or landscapes that are actively being destroyed by weak governments. So yea, maybe the people who are there and struggling can put on a good show but that doesn’t make it a good place.

The first black person to go to public school is still alive and she’s not even that old. Being gay is still dangerous outside of cities(and even within them sometimes!). There are two different rule sets for white and coloured people that are clear to see. The rich are never punished for their crimes and that’s even when the Democrats, the best they can offer, have all the power to do something about it. They aggressively export regressive ideals to other countries, too.

It’s always sucked.

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“Robot arms!”

Because they lost their limbs in an avoidable industrial mining accident because safety was too expensive.

“But look at ‘em!”

Bruh.

Ah, common mix-up, you’re thinking of boinking.

To myself: “it’s a joke it’s a joke it’s a joke…”

Yelling: “THE OTHER STATS ARE THERE TOO LIKE INTELLIGENCE AND STRENGTH! CHARISMA ISN’T A “POWER” AND MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY DUMP IT BUT…”

I dunno, of course there’s rizz as a stat. Strength is how well you bonk and charisma is how well you talk. You don’t need to be able to lift what you character can and charisma can reflect more subtle things that, even if you could irl, are harder to work into a game. That said, even with -1 I regularly get through conversations because my DM rewards good roleplaying by not making us roll for everything.

Sorry for the ramble.

Do you have to ask? Why do you have zero desire to share anything with your friends? Dry isn’t the word I’d use, but “bothered” sure is. You text like you want them to piss off and you want them to know it without saying it.

Trumps actions have directly impacted this, though. He loudly and proudly halted efforts to get bird flu under control and his tariffs will absolutely raw-fuck the entire country in a million ways including when it comes to the prices of gas because he’s literally put a tariff on it.

This isn’t complicated, keep up or shut up.

Except for day’s you’re sick, stuck inside, etc. Then when you get older the walking would be harder but you still gotta breathe. Plus you can still work any job you’d like since people do like to keep busy, and since it’d probably be more of a passion thing you might be hyper-focused and forget to get your walking in for the day. All the stuff I’d be doing wouldn’t have too much walking involved.

I’d take breath, it’s already more money than I could ever spend so why not make it passive?

(I will defer to you as you have the greater experience but I’d like to offer my experience)

As a 6’5” person I’ve noticed that, when I want to apply force(non-combat, anyway) that it can be more difficult for me when something at an average height is below my center. I don’t have the advantage of pushing off the ground, it’s only weight unless I crouch and a shorter oppenent can crouch as well, forcing me into a more uncomfortable position to get even with them. Even if I bring a sword up high to crash it down all that does is leave me wide open so it seems a niche case.

You don’t need to hit the head to take someone out of the fight and a low attack, I imagine, is harder to block than something more at torso level. Especially if, as in Anakin’s case, you’re midair, but of course that’s not exactly common normally haha

So I guess it isn’t that I don’t believe you and more that I don’t fully understand. There are a few scenarios where I could maybe see it but you don’t need my entire train of throught barreling through your station unsolicited haha

What the fuck is this racist garbage? OP are you ok/are you fucking serious?

The player handbook isn’t a problem, no one reads that thing.

Often times it’s because other people are using it. Those people can’t use iCloud but I can use Google Docs and stuff. Hell, my MacBook can hang with my phone but my own PC isn’t connected, either. And then after that, are you really gunna expect most people to use and manage two different systems?

I use iCloud for photos, Safari on my phone and laptop because they’re connected easily that way, and have a few important documents on iCloud as well like all my stuff for job applications or sheet music so that I have access if I need that stuff elsewhere. And yet I still have Google drive for some things and use Google Sheets because it’s easy to share.

Not understanding why someone might not go all-in on a specific brand is more of a lack of imagination on your part than some failing on theirs.

Ok? What’s your point? Time to start chippin’ away, I guess.

That douche bag CEO isn’t gunna get his life back and so on top of the reviews we got:

• One dead asshole, hell yea.
• That one company rolling back their decision to charge even more for anesthesia.
• A whole lot of people learning even more about how fucked up healthcare really is.
• A bit of an uptick in class solidarity
• One step in the right direction.

Shut the hell up, is what I’m trying to say.

The first sip of Coke is weird even if it’s just been a while. Dude must’ve felt crazy. I wonder if old formulas were more relaxed(besides the cocaine).