CeruleanRuin @ CeruleanRuin @lemmings.world

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Okay, sure, but voting on a single issue is what fucking morons do.

Sounds to me like those are shitty safety limits then. Fix your nuke plants, Japan. You'd think this would be a priority after the last time.

Okay, but what do you like about it?

Why do so many people go online and think it's suddenly normal human behavior to walk into a room griping about something?

Temper your expectations and it's perfectly enjoyable.

Nah, it's just incredibly rude and obnoxious to imply a person is a sex pest just because you're too lazy or incompetent to spend ten seconds on a search engine.

George Carlin is a goddamned philosopher saint compared to the turdlet you named. Educate yourself, man!

Whatever you think of the results or the implications, it's hard to deny that it is in fact interesting. People downvoting you for saying so ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Carlin's great wisdom is in understanding that how things are is the greatest joke of all.

One of the 20th Century's greatest popular philosophers.

Unlukely, given that false widows build 3-dimensional webs with a more irregular look. This looks like a type of orb weaver.

Shithole state.

You're imposing an enlightened modern viewpoint onto a universe with explicitly different rules. In Middle-earth, there actually IS such a thing as absolute evil, unredeemable and not possessing what we would call a soul, and the orcs are plwced firmly in this class of being. Their sapience is not relevant to the morality of killing them when they are evil.

I understand that this doesn't map onto the real world very well, but the real world also doesn't contain immortal beings who are within a few degrees of separation from the creator Eru Ilúvatar himself, who have literally spoken with either him or his greatest servants the Valar. It's hard to deny the rules of good and evil when you have them firsthand from the creator of the universe.

My point is simply that you have to define the frame you're arguing within. If your frame is the real world, then you are correct and orcs should be treated the same as any other living being. But if your frame is the subcreation of J.R.R. Tolkien, you must acknowledge the stated realities of that world.

They are constructs, imitations of life, animated by the evil will of Morgoth and his foul apprentice Sauron. They're no more people than ChatGPT is people.

Orcs aren't people and I'm not afraid to say it.

Now that time travel, branching timelines, and wildly different variants of characters and worlds are an established part of the MCU, they really should just lean into the loose canon philosophy that Doctor Who has embraced.

That is, something is canon if it is useful to the story you are currently telling. If it contradicts that, then it is still canon, but took place in a different history that has since been altered or superceded by what's happening now. Or it was a different timeline altogether.

Just tell good stories, and people will forgive canon slippage.

I suspect that this decision was made in an attempt to stem the bleeding. Marvel's new stuff has not been consistently well-received, so they are appealing to nostalgia as they move forward with their multiverse plans.

A campaign setting based on a fantasy-skewed View Askewniverse would be fun as hell.

Oh look, another article in 2024 about that one episode that takes place in 2024. What an original think piece.

Depending on what you're using it for, your best bet might be a compact set like this or this.

There are various types of universal "female" style wrenches, but nothing I've ever seen for the "male" type that requires different bits. A set with integrated bit storage is probably as small as you're going to get.

Assuming those programs still exist by the time you get to that point.

If the oligarchs continue to get their way, those programs will disappear. It doesn't serve them to have a class of people whose labor or income they can't exploit.

Because the system isn't designed to work for even the upper middle class, or even the comfortably independently wealthy. The system is designed to continue diverting all of that hard work's rewards towards the wealthiest tier of wealthy.

Nobody is safe from this vampirism, not even those who would call themselves rich. As it is, wealth will always siphon down to the parasites at the bottom. We've all been fooled into thinking we're at the bottom of a pyramid (or, if you're lucky, somewhere in the middle), but it's really just a funnel, sucking everything down to a single point.