I don't buy eggs, so not directly.

I won some stuff in a church raffle when I was a teenager. Nothing remarkable - i think a suitcase.

I also won some sex toys from a charity raffle for repro rights, but some past partner took them. Not sure who, but I don't have them anymore.

Thinking about it for the first time now, it is funny how those are two very different contexts.

Seems like the lesson is "Don't bother doing non-violent protest. You'll go to jail anyway. Shoot a CEO, become a hero."

Would you rather reach in and pick an item from

Sack 1, which contains [rusty nails, angry scorpions, razor blades, one fun sized candy bar]

Sack 2, which contains [various candy bars, one rusty nail]

The US is sack 1 in this metaphor. People should improve the canadian system, but there's no reasonable take that they're at all similar

Things like this happening in real life are why I think some conservatives are legitimately, sincerely, deeply stupid. And a little cruel.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity

It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — "turn the other cheek" — [and] to have someone come up after to say, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?" And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, "I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ," the response would not be, "I apologize." The response would be, "Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak." And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis.

I don't know what can be done about this. Humans are tribal and facts can't beat that.

It's the only MMO I've played that doesn't routinely irritate me.

Pray to Saint Luigi for help

The laws exist because people wrote them. They can change. But some people would rather die than live in a more equitable world.

Well let me share with you the wisdom of age: often you can just ask someone what's up.

This also works on dates: you can just ask someone out. You don't have to go all in your head about it. If only someone had told me when I was a teen, alas.

How old are you?

Have you considered asking what's up?

Things that aren't Nazis might be a good stopping point

I (a guy) think I still have a small plastic off-brand Lego in my desk. I spent a weekend with my high school crush and we found a bunch of them and had goofy fun with them.

Last I heard she'd moved away, married a woman, and had a successful career in science. I doubt she thinks of me, but I'm glad she did well.

I don't accept the premise that it's "humiliating" for a partner to leave.

I don't accept the premise that them leaving is predicated on sexual performance.

I don't accept that f+f sex is inferior to m+f

I'm not even going to go on. Your world view is rigid and not healthy. Maybe spend some time with other people, if they'll have you. Get out of whatever manosphere hole you've fallen into.

What about a dead billionaire?

If someone shot musk or zuckerberg dead I'd be like "That's good. That's an improvement."

Fucking Hell NY Times can you please just not be a myopic piece of shit and actually call a nazi a nazi. All of this enabling hang-wringing pearl-clutching nonsense is part of how we got in this problem.

The other day I had a galaxy brain thought: Imagine if people cared. Just cared a little more. Things could be so much better.

Like, litter. Imagine if people just cared a little more and didn't litter. Whole problem just goes away.

If people cared a little more and just canceled their netflix when the price went up (or they did other nonsense), maybe things would change.

But I'm told I have impossible standards and people cannot meet my expectations.

Did anyone want this? MMOs are kind of passé. There's a couple big ones still kicking around (WoW, Guild Wars 2, final fantasy) but there's a huge graveyard and hospice for all the others.

If americans were on average smarter and better informed, then we wouldn't be in this situation. I don't think the majority of people will understand what's happening. They'll blame the jewish space lasers or gay frogs or whatever instead.

It's fine. Could be better. Could be a lot worse.

I mean if you want to keep running bleed against a boss immune to bleed go ahead, but I'll probably switch to an occult infusion.

And yet when someone's like "the GOP is an existential threat and we should treat them accordingly" it's all "you're being alarmist" and "murder is a crime"

I hope every member of the GOP chokes to death alone and removed from everything they ever loved.