BougieBirdie @ Bougie_Birdie @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Would you be as suspicious if it was a white teenager?

You betcha. Exploitation is equal opportunity.

Cause of death seems pretty apparent

Now who's adding conjecture?

We're obviously not going to agree on this

Sure, I guess I'm just deeply suspicious when a young minority dies while working at a Walmart and police rule out foul play without further comment

At this point I haven't even heard a cause of death. There's nothing to go on except for conjecture

Also I didn't make anything up. I stated my suspicions and allowed that it could be even be accidental.

But you have to admit it's weird to discover someone in an oven. Even if it's not foul play I want assurances that there's an investigation being made to determine how this happened and prevent it from happening in the future

If they're not releasing details then you've got to add something

Yeah, teenagers just up and die and end up in ovens all the time, nothing weird about that at all /s

Maybe there's details that aren't being shared, and I suppose you can't really rule out an industrial accident, but HMMMMM

Pastor, pastor
Pastor of muppets, I'm pulling your strings
Growing your mind and hearing your dreams
Listen to me, I'll teach you some things
Just call my name 'cause I'm on your team
Pastor, pastor
Just call my name 'cause I'm on your team
Pastor, pastor

I bought a bidet. Now I only want to shit at home.

It's like a paradox.

Well you try one way, and then if that doesn't work, you roll over, and if that doesn't work then rolling over again should do the trick

...I guess I better go do that thing I've been putting off.

No wonder people hate Clippy

Ah, I'm still waking up, so I must have misunderstood.

I hadn't considered political spending, but I didn't get the impression we were talking about super PACs. Those are abhorrent, and undemocratic.

My stance was that if a person wants to buy something that's stupid, ineffective, but gives them some small degree of hope and doesn't harm others, then they should be able to. However, I'm also of the opinion that regulators need to remove those products from the market because they're lying to people about their efficacy.

Ideally we'd be teaching people that snake oil doesn't work. But the current political climate suggests that Big Snake Oil has captured the regulation, so I don't see that happening either.

Are you defending snake oil? The pseudoscience con so uniquituously used to deprive the desperate from their money that it became the term used to describe "harmful bullshit sold for profit?"

Freedom of choice or not, I suppose you should be able to spend your money however you want.

But if someone is selling people lies under the promise of medical miracles, we need to throw the book at them.

I like this, everyone's happier when they're making out with each other.

Well, unless they're ace, but maybe then they're looking at each other over a loaf of garlic bread

Isn't chemistry all a matter of scale though? I admit it's not my field

I mean, if the cat pees on the rug and you clean it up right away, that's probably not a big deal. I imagine it's a different story if you're cleaning out a hoarder's cat colony in a poorly ventilated area and don't dilute the bleach because you wanted something stronger

Friendly reminder that using bleach to clean cat pee can fucking kill you and your cat

I mean, I'd be kind of surprised if it did kill you, but ammonia and bleach mix to make an extremely toxic gas

I haven't played the game, so I'm not sure how accurate my help would be. It would be helpful to be able to look at some tooltips from these skills. But to my eye this looks like a talent / build system that's fairly common in ARPGS.

My most basic assumption is that every so often you'll level up and be able to pick one of these skills. They'll provide some kind of effect which is tied to an active skill (Red, Blue, and Purple appear to be likely), or a passive bonus (Orange, Yellow, and Green I'd guesss).

The arrows are throwing me off a little bit because sometimes they point in both directions, and other times they appear to loop. Usually these might mark a pre-requisite skill, so if it shows [A] <-- [B] then that implies that before you can acquire A you must first acquire B.

If I had to guess, [A] <--> [B] implies either you can freely choose between A and B, or perhaps once you select A you must select B before you can select A again.

The loops feel weird though (notably in the yellow block). I guess that means that whatever skill you start with, you must then select clockwise from there.

There's a great variety in how games will implement this sort of thing, but in general there's usually a way to get a tooltip with a more complete description of what each thing does. Usually that would be by hovering over the icon, but some games include an encyclopedia of effects if they're particularly involved.

The order in which you acquire these skills often influences your playstyle. Some people are going to prefer to get abilities that seem powerful quickly, and other people like to strategically synergize their build. For my part, I tend to prefer acquiring passive bonuses that increase my experience/luck/currency to more easily game the system.

You seem like somebody who might have an answer for me:

A streaming service that I'm using lists the spoken language of the show, and I've often seen Spanish, Espanol, and Castilian listed. What's the difference between Espanol and Castilian - is it like a regional dialect? Also I'm probably misinformed, but I always thought that Espanol was the English word for Spanish, which makes it seem odd that the service would list both Espanol and Spanish separately.

Walter, this isn't a guy who wrote the Magna Carta, this is a guy...

I read the question as "why would you stop a transition to a dictatorship," and the answer to that is to stop a transition to a dictatorship. Like, duh.

But for real, I don't really have the answers. Things aren't that dire yet where I live, but the best time to start on mutual aid is yesterday - and the second best time is today.

I don't know that my handwriting is super consistent, but I think it kind of looks like Sour Gummy. Some individual characters maybe not so much, but I like the overall aesthetic.

I'm old enough to remember the chainsaw controller

Tabletop RPGs are such a great way to bring some life to a story that you're still workshopping. Sometimes I have an idea for a story I'd like to tell, and it ends up seeing the light of day at game night before I would commit to writing it.

It's great too because it's so collaborative. The life of the story is usually character-driven, so having other people play those characters goes a long way to giving them their own voice.

You also have a captive audience as a focus group. At least, in my group they're not afraid to tell me if I have a stupid idea, and they're always coming up with outside-the-box solutions that I never would have considered.

People are better when they work together.

Do you know if this is an accurate floor plan, or like a 'best of' drawing? I've heard stories about the place and it's wild.

Either way, I love it. It's a cozy little wimmelbilder of something awful