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“Now I need a fake ID to rent ultra-porn!”

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I apologize because I did not mean to make any sort of personal attack. If it came across that way that is entirely my fault.

If I can clarify in hopefully neutral terms, what I meant to say is that believing with certainty that 7 billion people are facing violent death within a generation or two cannot be good for anyone’s mental state and that sort of doom weighing on a mind will likely cause it many problems. It was not intended to be an attack on you, mainly an observation on the idea from my very limited point of view.

Again, if you think initiatives that are seeking to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion are about hiring people exclusively based on race or gender, you are absolutely wrong.

The reason that diversity in the workplace is actually valuable is because it leads to more doctors asking "hey, why is it that black parents and their infants are almost 3 times more likely to die during childbirth than a white parent and their infant?" The way that we get from where we are to a world where that question is asked more frequently and a solution to that problem is sought more rigorously is by asking the similar question "why are only 5.7% of doctors black while 12% of the nation is black?" and seeking a solution to that problem; and, this is very important though it seems like you already understand this part, hiring someone because of their race or their anatomy does not solve that problem in the slightest and only leads to new problems.

Solutions to the problem of too few black doctors include primarily things like proactively recruiting from locations with a higher percentage of black residents, or eliminating unconscious biases from resume reviewers by removing the name of the applicant from the resume before it's reviewed. These initiatives have never and will never be about hiring more people based on certain biologic characteristics, but about breaking the cycle of racist and sexist systems that make unqualified white men more likely to be hired than a very qualified black woman.

This is not forced diversity. If you think it is then you never actually learned what it is you're arguing against.

Edit/Addendum: I don't care if this is anarchy chess. If you're going to argue against initiatives seeking to increase diversity and equity, then you better fucking know what they are because you currently might as well be yelling into the void about how you hate it when people put motor oil on their meatball sandwiches because nobody fucking does that.

If you think Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion projects have ever been about hiring people simply because of their race or gender then you actually have zero idea what it’s about.

DEI initiatives have always been for investigating the root cause of proportional discrepancies in representation in a certain group and fixing that problem. Proportional representation discrepancies are a symptom of much bigger problems and half-assedly treating the symptom obviously does absolutely nothing to solve the problem and only introduces new ones.

Walking is probably the best way to get to know a neighborhood or city or town.

It fucking sucks that so many streets are designed to put pedestrians in danger

Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland was my absolute favorite GBA game as a kid. It’s extremely linear but so well put together

I don’t see how you can possibly be certain about this. The push to fight abortion rights and the constant bitching about how people aren’t having enough babies to maintain the workforce undermines this theory.

Unless you’re completely convinced that this is the future and the reason for it, I’d strongly suggest against stating it so certainly on the internet. Asking a question about it or stating it as a possibility given certain factors makes sense, but the way you said this can’t be good for your mental health, or the mental health of the people who read it.

If the point of this one is to emphasize how no one lives your life except for you, that’s great and all but holy shit there are less depressing ways of getting that across.

Humanity is a social animal. If you live your life under the guidance that loneliness is omnipresent and companionship is merely an illusion I strongly urge you to rethink the way you go about your days. Find people to talk to in person and do things with them.

I think capitalism and the ruling class has desperately tried to convince everyone that they are alone because if the working class sees themself as one body the ruling class is fucked

I love party games like these

I just wish my friends did too :(

I’d argue modern letters to the Christians are everywhere, but it doesn’t matter. Even if Paul were currently alive and nearing 2000 years old people would find a reason to ignore him because what they believe in is definitively not Christianity.

Gojira wrote a song about Great Britain once

Ah, but you see people in the 1920’s had to fight for their immune defense to polio the old fashioned way. People in the 2020’s were handed theirs on a silver syringe and are, therefore, wussies

How am I supposed to enjoy that?

I believe you can configure it to record the desktop as well

The good answer is to create some kind of perpetual motion machine.

The cool answer is to create some kind of roller coaster that just keeps going and going

The fun answer is to create some chaos. Put one behind a door or something and the other in some unexpected place.

How thick are the plates? Are they bendable? What happens if you bend one of the portals? What happens if an object goes through a bent portal?

o_O

In the Valve-developed Sixense Razer Hydra expansion, you could smoothly glide a portal along a wall. Not sure if that makes much of a difference.

Username checks out lol

Brainrot is a very unique kind of joke. To old people, it’s funny because “haha kids are stupid.” To middle-aged people, it’s funny because it sounds like a meme and that on its own makes it funny. To young adults, it’s funny because it’s an ironic meta joke that’s funny just because it’s supposed to be funny even though it really isn’t funny. To teenagers, it’s funny because “haha old people are stupid because “haha kids are stupid” so let’s play a prank on old people to make them think we’re stupid.” To kids, it’s funny because it’s funny to teenagers.

So I dunno take your pick. Also marketing and sales people can be notoriously up their own ass and out of touch (see the Wendy’s “memer” commercial) so who knows why they do things