Xariphon @ Xariphon @kbin.social

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I'm interested but I'm not sure I have the brain cells for this right now.

How many of those 353k pay a living wage and have decent benefits?

Too much depression and anxiety to work, not enough to get approved for disability. And bureaucracy is an anxiety trigger. Fun, innit?

Should've

If she hates it then maybe stop?

My wife and I do this, mostly because we're both often doing stuff in the house, but also want to send each other cat pictures, which don't demand an immediate response.

They did it in Dr. Stone.

Kangaroos don't but platypus do.

You say simplified, I say dumbed down.

But yeah 4e didn't say an especially high bar.

4e was D&D for people who would rather be playing WoW.

5e is a watered-down anemic shadow of 3.5.

I mean, it's also objectively true, but "leftist" and "true" align more often than not.

I'm just here for the Konohana Kitan wallpaper.

That episode hits so hard if you think of the idea that Picard sacrificed basically everything for his career. He never married, never had a family or settled down on some backwater planet.

And then for a lifetime - in 27 minutes - he did. He got to have the life he never got to have.

It just. My soul hurts for him. I still don't know if it's sad or beautiful or both but that episode tears my heart out every time.

This. Sorry that was less than clear.

Can we stop extending "just a kid" into ever older years? Society already years anybody under 18 like they're the same as a goddamn fetus. Human life expectancy being what it is, we shouldn't be treating people... not even like they don't know anything but like they couldn't even conceivably know anything for fully a third of it.

Don't apologize for telling the truth.

One of my regular readers was doing some kind of geology thing there for her college studies and shared it with her team.

I can't link without doxing myself, but it was a civil rights political essay at a time when I was far more involved in activism than I am now.

I think Bjorn the Fell-Handed might still be more coherent though.

Something I wrote has been read on every continent.