Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)FC
Posts
0
Comments
41
Joined
3 mo. ago

  • My Rollerblades should be here Wednesday! Last I had a pair I was probably 17, but I started playing Bomb Rush Cyberpunk (spiritual successor to Jet Grind Radio) and was instantly hit with the urge to get back out there.

  • I see your point, but I'd be cautious of underestimating them.

    Regardless of their own shortcomings, they have more resources than virtually anyone else on the planet to compensate for them. They certainly have teams of incredibly smart, and incredibly well paid people scheming for them.

  • Long, somewhat related story:

    Many moons ago I was at a club and was dying for a smoke, but you had to leave the club and go through two sets of lines and ID checks to get to where I was hanging out on the second floor. Well, they had a giant outdoor balcony, but the area was walled off by a line of plastic chairs. My drunk, fiendin, ass said, "fuck it", shuffled a chair out of the way, and snuck off to the corner to smoke. Well, what was one or two people who noticed me and did the same, soon turned into a packed balcony.

    Regardless, my little act of rebellion seemed to get the attention of a "tallish" girl in heels who started chatting me up. About 3/4 through my smoke, the bouncers finally catch wind that there's fifty people on the balcony, and start angrily shuffling people back into the club. At this point, I ask the chick if she wants to dance, and she accepts.

    Kudos to her for lasting as long as she did, but thirty seconds into grinding her ass on my stomach, she gave up trying to dance with me and walked away without a word, never to be seen again.

    I wouldn't even consider myself short (1.78m, 5'10"), but it was a humbling moment at the time.

  • I too have a no soliciting sign, though I don't think anyone has ever walked up, read it, and turned around. Instead, when I open the door, I mention the company they represent should start doing literacy tests, point at the sign, and tell them to get the fuck off my porch. I know that ignoring them is an option, but so is throwing rocks, soooo....

  • What they say: Small government

    What they do: Spend massively on police, military, and surveillance while pushing laws that dictate personal behavior (abortion bans, anti-trans legislation, drug criminalization).

    What they say: Free market

    What they do: Hand out subsidies to corporations, give massive tax breaks to the wealthy, and block labor protections.

    What they say: Traditional values

    What they do: Use "tradition" as a smokescreen to resist civil rights, suppress diversity, and enforce a narrow Christian nationalist vision.

    What they say: Personal responsibility

    What they do: Blame poor people for their conditions while defending corporate bailouts and generational wealth hoarding.

    What they say: Rule of law

    What they do: Apply it selectively—crack down on protests they dislike, but excuse insurrectionists and lawbreaking when it suits them.

    What they say: Cautious to change

    What they do: Rush radical deregulation and culture war laws through state legislatures while blocking any progress toward equity or justice.