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2 months agoUgh, I hope it’s better than the last car I drove, couldn’t set groceries on the seat or it’d trigger the seatbelt alarm.
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53·2 months agoOh, I’m not the thorn guy, he just doesn’t bother me like the conformists want so I’m catching strays, haha
Oregon also has roadkill salvage permits available!
Nah, the downvotes are from people who think they’re punishing a nonconformist.
But no one is finding roadkill and saying “oh man, I gotta get in on that”
Fun fact, there was enough public outcry in '16 for the state of Washington to amend it’s laws and make it legal to harvest roadkill for food.
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2·2 months agoDangit, I thought the internet was where nobody would know I was a dog
Without the voice inflection and body language of personal communication these are easily misinterpreted. A sideways smile, :-), has become widely accepted on the net as an indication that “I’m only kidding”. If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously.
Jerry Schwartz, 1983, Usenet
2·2 months agoIs it BlackForager? The “one of these is poison, and one is a snack” lady?
I did this once. She was an elderly half-orc cleric of Chauntea, and she died via TPK.
At some point, I’m going to retry my tortle druid who wanted to do abandoned dungeon monster rescue. I just need a DM who’s willing to play along.
I normally don’t kink shame, but I’m going to shame the hell out of this kink lmao
2·2 months agoPoppy seeds do it for me too
With how hospitals in the US can be, a lot of emergency rooms are too small and if they run out of beds, you just get to sit in the hall. It’d be nice if they gave you a discount for that.
3·2 months agoYou run into this a little bit with light fixtures too, weirdly enough. Because modern indoor lighting is descended from gas lighting, it was normal for people to upgrade old gas systems to electric by using the pipes as conduit. So now, if you need a replacement bit to fix your table lamp from Walmart, they’re measured in a mostly obsolete plumbing standard, Iron Pipe Size.
1·2 months agoYeah, my point is that one person’s utopia can be another person’s dystopia. Everybody wants to live in a better place, but nobody agrees on what “better” actually means.
Some people crave structure and order, and don’t want to lose that in favor of increased self-determination. Others see structure and order as constraining and chafing, and see increased self-determination at any cost as freeing.
Quite a lot of people also have a hard time viewing things long-term. IDK where you’re at, but a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck here, and I think they’re stuck in short-term thinking as a form of survival.
Like I grew up poor poor, with shitty parents to boot, where you have so little self-determination that you just straight up learn that making plans only leads to disappointment. Long-term planning is a skill, and when kids grow up with parents that raid the piggy bank for beer money, they learn that planning is useless and spending all your pocket change on candy is better.
Disagree.
Most people want to make the world a better place, we just can’t agree on what a better world would look like, and how to get there.
There’s a lot of people out there, for example, who think that the “right to self determination” is a bad thing because they believe humanity has an intrinsic self-destructive aspect. I disagree, but they firmly believe that a dictatorship is the solution and I’m being unhelpful because I don’t want that.
One of the hardest things I’ve been through in therapy was realizing that my parents really did think they were doing the right thing. They listened to the “experts” at church who told them that in order to protect their kids, they needed to hurt their kids. My mother dropped out of college when she got pregnant, and my stepdad is mentally ill, so neither of them were particularly well educated, and they landed in a cult.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, after all. People can be horrible and think they’re doing it for the greater good.
2·3 months agoSo, some of this is a bit of deep cut of Russian history, which is probably contributing to your confusion.
Here's my take.
I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
The artist would like to have a conversation, but the person they want to talk to is just repeating the propaganda they see on TV.
My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here’s my answer to your non-question:
The USSR fell in the '90s, and the artist doesn’t think modern Russia has developed in a good way.
Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!
Eight years is likely referring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ballet bit is talking about how Swan Lake played on repeat during the fall of the USSR, as a placeholder to keep broadcast airwaves available for use as emergency broadcast. Because it has been so completely tied to the idea of political upheaval in Russia, it’s recently picked up steam again as a sort of shorthand for calling for protest and resistance against the government.
Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his “Lake.” Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!
Grandpa was pro-USSR, the artist wants the empire to hurry up and fall already.
When it’s all over, you’ll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You’re clearly slightly depressed about something.
Once the USSR had fallen, a lot of people tried to deny their support or involvement with it.
The song repeats a few things, and the only thing left of note is that “Solovyov” has been a news anchor on Russian television since shortly before the invasion of Ukraine.
You appeared to be complaining that OP’s title didn’t match the article title, and I was only pointing out the article’s title has changed since OP posted.
My apologies if I misread.
That sounds absolutely ridiculous. What’s the point of needing less weight to set off backseat alarms? A gallon of water is only like 4kg and that’s enough to set off seatbelt alarms.