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- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 weeks ago:
A ‘removed’?
- Comment on Orb 1 month ago:
More like incredibly aggressive. They are a type of algae after all. If you don’t keep a firm leash on them they’ll reproduce enough to drain all the oxygen and nutrients from an enclosed system like an aquarium.
Plant tribbles, if you will.
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 1 month ago:
For most of them, it’s because they truly, deeply believe that if they don’t convert you, you’re going to burn in hell for eternity when you die.
For most of the leaders of those sorts of churches, it’s because more people means more money for that new private jet they’re saving up for.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Does it make sense to nitpick how much they’re getting though? The fact that they’re being denied any bonus is shady as fuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Nothing sinister at all. It has a long and proven track record. Which you can check out if you don’t want to be low-info anymore. Doctors and dentists support it.
But there’s a subset of people who want us to go back to disease-ridden serfs, because when your teeth are falling out and 3 out of your 5 kids died young from disease and you can barely make rent, you’re too distracted to care what other people are doing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s only pros. It’s proven to prevent cavities in children and adults, much better than brushing alone.
There’s also the sad fact that not every kid is taught to—or sometimes allowed to—brush their teeth.
- Comment on Nothing more to be said 2 months ago:
Bark bark bark
Shoo, go sealion somewhere else
- Comment on lets join a cult 2 months ago:
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 2 months ago:
OTOH, if this is in the US, we are almost entirely at-will when it comes to employment; we can be terminated at any time, for something as petty as the boss not liking our socks, no heads-up required.
Here the two weeks notice is considered a courtesy, and sadly fewer and fewer businesses are proving worthy of that courtesy. It seems from the post title that this company did not deserve much respect at all.
- Comment on Calm down 2 months ago:
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 months ago:
It was a hate crime murder. Seems the US is a shit place for gay people to live to me.
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 2 months ago:
I agree. I think that’s why I like Kate Griffin’s Matthew Swift series (and the other novels she sets in the same ‘verse). The general rules of the magic system are explained, but the magic still feels wild and mysterious and… well, magical.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 3 months ago:
If we’re talking ‘young adult’ (which I think is a silly book classification group), the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede always gets my top pick—shorter, sassy, fun, with well-written female protagonists. (All her books are pretty good, really.)
Another of my top choices in the Fantasy YA category are the Tiffany Aching books by Sir Terry Pratchett. Great fun and Sir Terry’s wonderful brand of biting wisdom.
If you like the ‘kids go to boarding school, have magical adventures, save the world’ formula, Mercedes Lackey did a pretty good series called the Shadow Grail. Although the kids are older (and more sensible) than the Harry Potter protagonists.
The Castle Books by John DeChancie are another fun romp of a series. Younger me loved the idea of a castle filled with 144,000 portals to adventure. Although the technology in it is a bit dated—at this point in time, rather humorously so.
Gail Carriger’s book series are all a good read; my favorite she’s done so far is the Finishing Series. Not as much magic as other books on this list, but still a well-thought-out system. Her books are really more steampunk-fantasy with a sprinkling of magic on top.
China Mievelle doesn’t really write series, per se, but all his books are fun and well-written, with interesting twists and ideas. I’d say they are the very definition of whimsical.
If your requirements are ‘good books by authors as awful as JK Rowling’, well, that’s tougher, but fortunately David and Leigh Eddings decided to throw their hats in the ring! Horrible child abusers, but their writings are genuinely good, way better than what Rowling writes.
- Comment on That's it. That's the joke. 3 months ago:
When the ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ is a douche like this, it’s really not that surprising that women continue to be ignored.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It’s addictive. People get addicted to stress too.
The difference is hate makes you feel stronger and more focused than you really are. It gives you a target that’s not you, so you don’t ever have to face yourself.
- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 3 months ago:
This is intentional. They are doing this to force people to quit without firing them.
As a bonus, the people who leave tend to be the most skilled, and thus the highest paid, making their bottom line look even better!
Of course this also destroys morale, productivity, and long-term will probably tank the company, but as long as line go up now for shareholders/owners the ones at the top don’t care. After all, they’ll just walk away with their golden parachutes guaranteeing a safe landing.
- Comment on Pelicans will literally try to eat anything 4 months ago:
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 4 months ago:
Because then they’d have to deport most Republican lawmakers.
- Comment on Spider mech!! 4 months ago:
There’s no reason to be afraid of Opiliones. Their mouthparts are the wrong shape and too small to do harm to a human. Also, unlike spiders, there are no known Opiliones with venom. Their chelicerae are for grasping only.
- Comment on Appers 4 months ago:
Satire is indeed dead
- Comment on An Experiment in Recklessness: Trump as Global Disrupter | The global trading system is one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan to replace it 4 months ago:
They don’t want to replace it. They want to isolate the US and make the people poor and desperate, so the oligarchs and the religious nuts can break it up into their own little fiefdoms easier.
- Comment on What is your favorite movie? 4 months ago:
Blazing Saddles. Soooo many good lines!
- Comment on So this is it, is trump god? Will Republicans sacrifice their own well being to own the libs? 4 months ago:
Oh man this is perfect lol
I remember a meme circulating a little while ago that went something like, ‘People who change their opinions because they’re annoyed by liberals are weak-willed; liberals are annoyed by other liberals every single day.’
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 5 months ago:
Dang. You’ve gone from ‘that never happens (even though it does’ to ‘child labor is hilarious’. You just keep on digging, don’t you?
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 5 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
-Isaac Asimov
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 5 months ago:
Wait… just to be clear, is your argument ‘because only a few plants have been caught doing it, that means no other companies will?’
I want to be sure I have that right before I reply.
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 5 months ago:
You do realize several plants in the US have already been caught using child labor, right?
- Comment on Receipt checkers trigger me 5 months ago:
It’s actually down in most areas.
Broader claims about trends in retail theft have not panned out. Walgreens, for example, cited spikes in shoplifting as an explanation for falling profits and store closures. The claim has since been retracted. Target blamed theft for a rash of store closures. But an analysis by researcher Jeff Asher showed that, according to the limited data available, the stores Target closed in Portland and Seattle had less crime than stores that were not closing. Reporting by CNBC in September 2023 also cast doubt on retailer claims about the impact of theft, noting that “certain retailers” have “pulled back” from blaming organized theft as “a primary cause of losses.” In fact, to the extent it can be relied upon, industry data cuts against the idea of a recent national spike in retail theft.
- Comment on Why do people give their unwaivering support to autocrats? 5 months ago:
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.
-Sir Terry Pratchett