SARGEx117 @ SARGEx117 @lemmy.world

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What a long winded way to say "I am a piece of shit who likes to see others suffer, because feel I am superior."

Either you stand to unfairly gain from the current system, or you're an idiot who not only listens to companies like Walmart tell you about "welfare queens" but buys it hook line and sinker.

Or you're a troll, I guess.

Because if you think what you pay in premiums is less than what you'd pay with properly managed universal healthcare, you're simply stupid. Not ignorant, stupid. Unable or unwilling to learn.

Next you'll tell me ALL tea is sweet tea!

Yeah, that's honestly what I've always figured. Gotta have Israel around as a shape and name on a map, otherwise sky daddy can't come home.

Did my union I joined when I got the job get me 15% more than the others already working there?

No.

Did I immediately get a little over 15% compared to similar job listing's in the area, AND more than 18% more than my previous job?

Yes.

Idk, the ones who decided they didn't like the borders they agreed to so they took it and started bombing schools, apartments, parks, and the like as "defending our land" when the locals pushed back seem pretty equal here.

I know a guy who REALLY needs glasses. Can't see shit more than 3 inches away without them. You can sneak up on him in broad daylight by walking in the open right toward him, he can't make out the blob until about 15ft away. Probably legally blind, but I don't actually know that.

He refuses to wear glasses while driving "because all the lights hurt my eyes".

So basically at night he keeps it between the white/yellow blurs and avoids the blobs headed toward him, and during the day he tries to avoid the colored blobs while staying on the gray/black smear.

Remember, you share the road with these people daily! Incidentally I'm all for mandatory 5 year retesting for driver licenses and a yearly one after a certain age. No, I don't think that's ageist or wrong.

ANECDOTE TIME: My own grandfather drove right up until he was moved into a care home, and he was having seizures and strokes intermittently. The last time I spoke to him before he lost access to his truck, he told me he had to ask for help getting back into the truck because his leg wouldn't move, AND he nearly took out someone's mailbox because he took a turn so wide he jumped the sidewalk and went into a yard.

When I get home, I'll work on making a normal printable version!

I have a few hobby machines that do special things, so I have it scattered into a few files to make it go from one machine to the next.

Read this as condescendingly as possible.

"akshyully I've been well aware of why casual content appeals to the casual audience. I'm a GAMER."

But seriously, yeah. Generic plots appeal to the most people because they're easy to follow. I've met a lot of people who hated "The Prestige" because "it was confusing as fuck" and "didn't make sense". I admit, I ve seen it four times now and I still caught something new on my last watch. But still. It's not exactly rocket surgery.

But I really did pull most of that campaign straight from a movieand they ate it up, talked about it like it was an 11 course meal. Instead of a truck stop hotdog with slightly too-green mustard.

Luckily we all lived within the same two blocks, so coordinating was easy. Toss your shit in a bag and walk for 180 seconds, you're there. It made scheduling much easier when you don't have to factor in traffic time.

I'm gonna disagree with you on the "you have to railroad them". There's a reason I put 6 months of work into it, so there was something to do no matter where they went, and most of it could be shuffled a bit for convenience, most of it had a connection in one way or another to another part, so if they wanted to follow a lead after clearing out the last dungeon there's a new quest for next session, or you can leave and start walking in a random direction until you find something.

I don't like filler, so no sessions filled with basically nothing but travel.

This campaign was met weekly, for 3 months. I feel like 10-13 sessions is pretty standard for a decent sized campaign. I don't have the patience for years long shit. In my mind "one shot" adventures are things you come up with for today only. 5 sessions is a "mini campaign".

I try to shoot for 6 sessions usually. That way if there's an issue with schedules, we can compress it to 4. If nobody has any conflicts, we can stretch it to 8 by adding in a couple surprises. Hash it all out in session 0.

A good DM knows when to use each type of adventure, and a good group will find what they all like together. Up to that point, we had all liked what we were doing, and aside from minor issues here and there, we worked out any problems at the start of each new adventure.

Except you're comparing LEGAL SYSTEMS with ORDERING FOOD

They aren't comparable.

I'm almost positive I could navigate ordering food from almost anywhere in the world, as long as I could speak their language.

But I don't for a second think I could navigate their legal system, and in quite a few cases from my understanding, I wouldn't be able to do anything at all as a foreigner.

Sure, it MIGHT be similar enough. But I'm not going to risk it, and I would prefer to at least ask someone with more local knowledge than myself. Probably a lawyer but if it's only passing curiosity, a simple question on a website will do.

I've had to explain how tax brackets work to my parents multiple times. And my mother was a math substitute teacher for over a decade before quitting because educational work isn't worth the bullshit for little pay.

I will always vote for increased education budgets.

Slow your roll, turbo, do you always get this shitty when someone asks a genuine question about a topic they aren't familiar with?

Real question.

And somewhere, the world's smallest gold plated violin shittily plays an off-tune medly of mediocrity.

That made me physically recoil, "quarter of 8" just sounds so clunky.

99% of the time here, it's just directly stating the time. Sometimes a Gen x will say "half past" or "quarter past" but not often anymore. I've never heard "quarter OF"

Your mom dun talk weird

My mother WORKS IN HEALTHCARE as the intermediary for the hospital network and the insurance companies.

She literally sees the Financials of people every fucking day.

And still she thinks socialized Healthcare would tank the entire US. I've shown charts, studies, anecdotal evidence out the wazoo (which is where anecdotal evidence usually comes from) But no, I can't possibly be right about this, it would mean someone who got stabbed will have to wait on 600 people with the sniffles to be seen by a doctor in 6 months. Because I guess in socialized medicine, triage doesn't exist? You can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into.

It's fucking baffling to me that the same people who would be first in line to blame ALL JEWS (and do so in a derogatory manner) for all sorts of things (space lasers, anyone?), but the MOMENT you bring up halting monetary and military aid to Israel, they get extremely defensive about it, like the mere thought of not supporting Israel is so un-American you might as well be a terrorist.

Hmm. It's been a thing for every union I've been a part of, but it makes sense it wouldn't be ALL of them that do it. I'm sure some just simply aren't large enough to do it like that.

"unprecedented"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...

You're literally partially making sure you still get PAID when shit happens.

Very good point, and I honestly wonder how common that knowledge even is.

Then again, almost all anti-union propaganda hinges on people not knowing enough about the subject to call it out. As with most propaganda.