My favorite version of this is that spelling bees don’t exist in most (any?) other language, because their systems are more intuitive and consistent, but with English, if you can consistently spell words they give you a fucking trophy and you get money for college

Granted, I’ve never done security for a billionaire CEO, but I worked security (including personal security) for well over a decade. And I can tell you without a doubt there is no security in security. Nothing we do matters, it’s all entirely for show. Now, at that high level CEO security detail type it may be different, but a security job is basically “be the one who call the popo,” and no one I knew in security, save one jackass, ever considered the job worth a damn to do anything over.

whistles whoo, doggy, that’s a lot of cowboy boots!

I’m in Tennessee, can you translate that into bullets per square child or bald eagle tail feathers, please?

My best friend is her cousin. He still hasn’t introduced me, and if she does before he does I’ll never forgive him.

That said, accumulation of wealth is bad, et cetera. But dolly is the absolute best of what that class can offer.

'murican here. Comfortable with the metric system, but not used to seeing number+m to represent meters, so at first I read that as “100 million” and was thinking you shouldn’t just burn the house down, but the entire fucking city.

Honestly, even if 100 CEOs or similar were mowed down I don’t know that I would think that meant we were headed any particular direction as a society, if they’re all done by a single person or group. Now, if many different unaffiliated people start making billionaire swiss cheese, even if it’s only 3 or 4, then I think we start to see a pattern at a societal level.

Of course, if that were to happen, they’ll take all the guns and start throwing people in reeducation camps and probably publicly executing sympathizers. Remember, the police exist with the main purpose of protecting that class. Any kind of class war is going to be met with overwhelming force that would rival any military conflict, and that’s before they start bringing in actual military if it got to that point.

Y’know, this comment started off trying to be playfully optimistic, and now I’m sad :(

I did not realize He did it twice! Did He use a whip both times?

Smoked a fag last night, in fact.

Wait, no, that was a pole belonging to one…

anyone considers

Yeah, not exactly. In Marxist philosophy there are only two classes, the owning class and the working class. If you don’t own the productive means of society then you’re working class. In reality, though, the vast majority of (at least American) people probably subscribe to a three class model, lower, middle, upper, without any understanding of political philosophy or Marxist theory, in which case doctors and lawyers would be middle-to-upper-middle class. Tech billionaires and national politicians would generally be upper class

Question, changing the OS on the deck, do you still get all the updates to steam and everything? Like, I’m a fairly surface level Linux user, with a steam deck. I run silverblue on one laptop, vanilla os on another. I don’t do a lot of tinkering in general. I hate kde on the deck. I prefer gnome as a rule, but kde on desktop is okay. On the deck it’s a pain in the ass. Gnome seems so much more suited to a smaller screen with touch controls. If I switched to something else, could I just get the benefit of having gnome without losing the set it and forget it benefits of steam os?

14 is actually very similar to my uncle’s hair. He wears a mustache, but it doesn’t grow hair right the middle. He also keeps sideburns that almost meet up with his mustache, but not quite. He also refused to trim his nose hair, and it constantly has snot in it.

He’s not my favorite uncle.

I had a salaried position working as a cashier at a fucking gas station making 20k a year. Salaried vs hourly is the not the great class war dividing line. Also, public school teachers are salaried, and I’ll be damned if I’m giving over the teachers to the guillotine.

I just imagine her staring directly into his eyes as she slots the ballot in a box, while he just repeats “Mum! No! Bad! Don’t do it! Mum! No!”

Basically the exact thing that happens as your cat decides the potted plant must be relocated to the floor from the counter top.

silly at times

That’s one I can’t do. I feel like I have to be stoic all the time in person, because I’m a big guy, and I’m unattractive so I have to maintain something to be, idk, respected? I have to really know a person before I can allow myself to be silly around them. My last “boyfriend” cemented that in, too. He dumped me and said he couldn’t deal with the “cutesy shit” took me a while to get past that one. Not the guy, so much. I felt like I had found something I never thought I’d have, and then ending it by saying that… Cut deep.

And I’m lucky on the friend front. I have a lot of long term friendships online, but I also have a few very close IRL friends, and I’m extremely close with my family.

Do you have anyone you can be passionate about things with?

I’m sort of the opposite, honestly. People tend to like my personality, but I get a sort of “villagers with pitchforks” reactions to my appearance. Haha. It’s incredible how judgemental the world the is, and how you have to meet so many expectations to get through it. Any little thing off in the wrong direction and you can kiss that traditional life plan goodbye.

What kind of things do you enjoy that you’re unable to engage in to have a good time?

Honestly, kids can be horrible little creatures. They learn it from their parents, all those little prejudices that the grown ups hold but hold back on to be polite or to fit into changing worlds, they get magnified in children who don’t know who and what and why, only that authority figures have taught them through their actions and the words they don’t even realize the kids are paying attention to.

I can. Been there. Couple times. My foster brother and I used to hang out with a bunch of other kids from ages 8-14, and whenever someone had a bright idea for a game like that, completely unprompted would come “but I’m not kissing Dharmacurious.” Shut fucking hurt. I never asked to play those games, never tried to join in. Would try my best to excuse myself before someone suggested a game like that. I didn’t have my first kiss until years and years and years after I lost my virginity, because I only ever did hookups with random strangers online, because I never felt like I was even capable of being desired in anyway other than a quick lay. Being ugly sucks. It truly, honestly does. I shower religiously, I brush my teeth (which, somehow, I still managed to get fucked in that department). Still, I send a picture online, blocked. I’m not an Incel or anything, I don’t think I’m owed a damn thing, it’s just the reality of the situation. I’m a fun, interesting person, with a good sense of humor, thick skin, intelligent, caring, loyal to a fault, and all the other things my shrink has helped me realize. But no one gets to know that, because there has to be some physical attraction for someone to want to get to that point. Can’t fault em for that. But being a bridge troll is lonely, and it sucks. And up thread someone suggested they should shower. That’s a fucked up thing to say, you don’t know their life. And I know green text=fiction, but this one rings fucking true for some of us.

My brother and I both became obsessed with I Will Survive around the age of 10/11. He’s a full decade older than me, and our parents still don’t understand why that happened with either of us. He’s straight, I’m gay. Gloria Gaynor is just amazing in general, and while we gays have claimed her (and her us), her music could, should, and hopefully will be appreciated by all.

I Am What I Am is just straight up queer, though. No reclaiming that one for straight folk. Gayest song ever, and it’s wonderful. Lol.

Did all kinds of these when I was younger. Caves supposed to be have been used to sacrifice someone, a bridge that they used to hang a witch in the 1700s, a tunnel a dude threw the bodies of his whole family into after killing em.