TheBananaKing @ TheBananaKing @lemmy.world

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You're always going to a chunk of political support by oppressing minorities, anyone considered 'other'. A percentage of people are always going to hate, mistrust and blame the out-group for everything wrong with their lives, and this makes them very easy to lead round by the nose.

Stoke enough hatred, and people will gladly give up due process, human rights and social equity in the name of oppressing those they see as the enemy.

And once you can do that, large corporations can exploit the absolute shit out of the population, way harder than they could with all those pesky laws, regulations, oversight, etc. They can use slave labour from the concentration camps, steal the land and wealth from the people they kill or imprison, and they can rewrite laws to suit themselves, secure in the knowledge that anyone opposing them can simply be disappeared off the streets.

A bunch of Americans pronounce it sen-tar for some reason that I've never understood.

sen-tor

As in taurus, which rhymes with torus.

Most of them are very conventionally-boring though.

Hear me out: pretty much all the goblin chicks from BG3.

Slimy, yet satisfying.

Sure, why not (assuming the girl isn't 15 or something)

Teenagers gonna teenager, and the best way to ensure they teenager safely is to give them a safe environment to teenager in and the security to know they don't need to sneak around.

Gothos, no.

I use dashes all the fucking time, mainly becasue I feel selfconscious about the number of semicolons I'd otherwise use.

I have a bajillion old (pre APIgate) posts on reddit, so perhaps some of the blame for the AI penchant for the things rests on my shoulders. Sorry 'bout that.

edit: :reads harder: oops, as opposed to normal hyphens. Yeah, nobody human got time for that.

how slow acting? As in months, or as in time to get the fuck outta dodge?

Ricin will kill you in a couple of days, was first extracted in 1888, and the plant grows in the mediterranean.

Only half of them are.

The rest are even.

Malazan / Discworld.

Just about any pair of characters would be amazing.

Like they're talking into a pickle jar.

Australian here.

You sound like a cross between a duck lure and a dog stuck in reverse.

Where do you think lawyers come from?

Depends on the pain.

If it's joints or ligaments, stop immediately. Coddle the shit out of them.

Muscles, treat them like dirt, get shit done.

I worked for a company once that installed a remote-activation killswitch in their drivers, as a secret weapon to force the customer to stay current on their maintenance contract.

The CEO was a fuckup however, and the code killed their system even without being activated - resulting in a bunch of angry phonecalls and some of the most egregious lying I've ever heard.

god, he was a piece of shit

Yeah, frozen puff pastry is a go-to ingredient. You just won't catch me making it by hand because as my grandmother used to say, bugger that for a game of soldiers.

My kid's 18 and thinks he's a fucking loser.

Croissants. Tasty and pretty, but a ridiculous amount of fiddly work with all the rolling and folding.

Ditto puff pastry from scratch.