I remember avatar being really pretty, and then realizing as the credits rolled that if what they said about unobtainium is true, that it’s a room temperature semiconductor and that these are the only proven deposits of it, and that the Earth is a dying planet that needs unobtanium to stay habitable for billions and billions of people, RDA would probably just throw a big rock at Pandora and comb through the rubble. Us or them.

Can’t help but notice that the pattern here is that it shows what happens to the hero when exposed to their weakness. Which implies that your weakness is not butts but instead tights.

six two ≈ sick to

oi m8 u got a loicence fuh that’ VEE PEE ENN?

I must have shit luck because in my experience most therapists are terrible at their jobs and unprofessional to boot

Unless you generally make it difficult to keep a fortune at some largest possible size fortunes will continue growing. Maybe we tax $1T at 100%, I don’t know, but we are going to have to inconvenience some rich people if we want to stop living in hell.

I don’t think we need to topple the system to make progress. But they can’t keep that wealth and power if we intend to live in a better world. Letting rich people write policy is a bit like letting the fox guard the henhouse. I’m not saying off with their heads, but we should set a practical cap on how much one person can own and at a minimum overturn Citizens United.

You say that like we’re not trying to push politicians for walkable cities and healthcare and stock market reforms. Guess who hates all that stuff?

For once ADHD preventing me from completing a migration is a boon, I guess I’ll move back to keepass

Most of them are probably closer to novellas by word count, that’s a good point.

Bloodborne has a deep story but good luck figuring out what it is

It better be at least 51% visual novels

It’s a unique number assigned to every cellular device.

Without the industrial revolution I wouldn’t even exist; setting aside the butterfly effect of my parents never having met because they’re from different parts of the country for a moment I owe my existence to modern medicine, which would not exist without industrialization.

in favor but only if you primarily, ahem, “help” billionaire neighborhoods.

Rajneesheen’t

I gotta say I do miss having a president that could come out and give like an 8th grade level of explanation for shit. Not just “oh uhhh damn thats… no its fine probably”

Yeah I’m pretty sure the bible says to pass judgment upon your sister and refuse to patronize her business if she believes differently from you. Jesus famously refused to spend any time at all woth people who weren’t holy enough, thats why he got along with the Pharisees so well.

You realize you’re supposed to think Dante’s an asshole in that scene right? Like Kevin Smith literally gets in front of the camera and tells him he’s taking Veronica for granted. Dante is a whiny hypocrite who deserves to learn a painful lesson. That is the entire point of the movie. There are a lot of criticisms you can level at Clerks but celebrating slut shaming ain’t one of them.

I can think of a couple

• expectation management: sometimes call volume is genuinely high, and if you set a floor at say 10 minutes it only feels like a 5 minute difference if the caller’s actual wait time is 15
• engineering downtime to allow agents time to complete paperwork or catch up on emails
• make us all so annoyed with the process of waiting in line we welcome AI agents as liberators