Many such cases.

Right, so there’s very few middle management or C Suite jobs, got it.

A rubber ducky is cheaper and not made by stealing other’s work. Also cuter.

I like my Pixel phones, so I dunno what about it is supposed to be a joke?

My 3a still works. Wish they wouldn’t have removed the headphone jack from later models but the 7a has been fine.

Usenet.

I imagine it’ll be pretty ballpark after they bargain it down. You start higher than you need to in these negotiations.

Nope, they really don’t. You may have to engineer a cooling station.

Wew lad but can you ever tell this is .ml.

So, thought experiment for you. What do you need to overthrow a government and oust a bunch of rich assholes from power? Well, you need power of your own, right? You need loyal comrades.

And say you actually manage it. Chances are it was tough. Some didn’t make it. But now you’re sitting on all this wealth and power. Are you just going to give it back? To who? What if someone abuses it?

You’re the one who did the work. You’re the one with a vision for the future. And now you have these loyal comrades and surely they deserve something for their sacrifices and hard work?

And so it goes.

Anyway, it’s less about Communism as a set of ideas and more about what power does to revolutionaries and how that mixes with the local culture.

Or the CIA made it all up because Mao and Stalin et al did nothing wrong. 🙄

And nothing of value was lost.

This is an eminently reasonable ruling and I’s appreciates yous

Not a meme, just an opinion over a picture.

Oooh, I think I can explain this. Conservatism demands adherence to a an extremely homogeneous model of living. They’ve constructed this giant house of cards that relies on it. Accepting deviations from these norms calls into question a variety of foundational conservative beliefs. They effectively can’t question the status quo else everything falls apart.

The only option for them is to make LGBTQ people an unacceptable, dangerous other. Because if queer folk are normal people who just want to be allowed to exist, if there is no sweeping gay agenda, if maybe they read their holy book wrong … they’ve been behaving like assholes, for decades, for no good reason.

Their core identities would take an unacceptably heavy blow, so they have no choice but to double down. Well, that’s the case for the ones that care about internal consistency.

Some of them just want an excuse to be cruel to a group too small to fight back.

We have a self inflicted real estate speculation problem. Housing can be a good investment or it can be affordable, but not both.

We evolved anxiety and they evolved flight. I’d be smug too.

They don’t have a meaningful level of free will from what I understand. That’s part of the process of creating them. They only act within certain boundaries or else resort to raiding and eating… everything. And everyone. Occasionally each other.

Their entire species was created as a magical weapon. The funny thing they’re really supposed to represent the cruelties of industrialization. Tolkien was not a fan of what England did with technology.

Are you ok? Because I wouldn’t be mainlining that much doom.

Parasocial relationships and extremely niche content. Many girls will do specific roleplays. You want a girl to fart on a cake while calling you James Baxter? Someone will. Hell, someone probably specializes in it.

Thinking about doing this for my parents is giving me an anxiety attack, thanks OP.

With all the historical windows bloat that’s not surprising lol