Hegar

It’s just a lie. I don’t think it’s meant to hold up to scrutiny, it’s just meant to be repeated.

It’s a jeebus said so thing. Babies need to be baptized and sinners need to be sent to hell.

If your fantasy were remotely possible, mine wouldn’t be so appealing. Alas the rich are beyond justice of any kind.

China, CN is the two letter country code.

I don’t think you’re going to find much concrete evidence on what China does in secret to disappeared billionaires. It probably varies. Some combination of prison, house arrest and re-education are certainly likely. Most guesses probably say more about the poster’s thoughts on China than about China itself.

Incidentally, I desperately wish we could just shove musk in a secret prison for a few months. The amount of power he has is itself a threat to democracy, even if he wasn’t personally a dangerous lunatic.

Nations. As in centralized hierarchical states. Brutal killing machines all. It’s been what maybe 4-8k years of their bullshit and I for one am fucking sick of it.

Red No gender No appearance No size The table was the same color as our dining table, but that was the only property it had.

When I was an undergraduate, a friend of mine wrote a book review of the bible for the student newspaper.

The opening sentence was: “Not since Naked Lunch has such a boring book been saved by the constant barrage of sadomasochistic homosexual pornography.”

The sookie stackhouse books that got turned into true blood have such a fun premise but are appallingly written. A friend and I used to play the audiobooks at parties for laughs.

That sounds like depression, executive dysfunction or some other brain dopamine issue. No amount of lists or “trying harder” (😂🙄) is going to help. Speak to a doctor about it.

My favorite genre is what I can screechy women singing weirdly. I can’t decide whether my favorite part is the screeching or the weirdness.

I’d most recommend that other people listen to gamelan orchestras though. It’s like the sound of dancing rain.

Yeah the total number of SSNs already used would be higher than the current population, I would think. It didn’t seem to me that poster was trying to estimate SSNs used/left, just provide some important numbers as relevant context.

It’s been going since 1936 so ~90 years, and they reckon ~70 years left, so we have roughly 45% duration remaining. I’m guessing the rate of use speeds up over time and that has been accounted for, so probably we have more than 45% of the actual numbers left? I think I’d guess 450 million total used ssns.

Yep, another great example. When you have as few rules and as tightly focused a scope as lasers and feelings, every single situation the rules can generate is going to be on theme.

every ttrpg has had rules that can be exploited and abused

That’s true for games in the tradition of D&D/F20/Trad, but not all ttrpgs. Fewer rules, a tighter scope and more elegant design make it much easier to rule out the kind of bad interactions or edge cases that lead to rules that run counter to the game’s purpose.

My Life with Master, Fiasco and Fall of Magic are all games i’ve played, where exploitation or abuse of rules is just not possible. Unbound is a tactical combat rpg without any room for abuse of rules.
John Harper’s rules-lite DW hack World of Dungeons is probably too elegant for abuse to be possible.

That’s the first few that I can think of, but i’m sure there are plenty more.

Buying a 10 year old civic will always be more environmentally responsible than buying a brand new EV

I hear so few people talking about this fact. The middle and upper class don’t want to hear about any solution unless it involves buying status symbols.

Proving you’re morally superior to the poors is definitely the most important part of combating climate change.

I’m a hard determinist, so I’d disagree with the “you choose” part, but basically I agree.

You are whoever you are in the moment, there’s no fake self to hide behind and no real self lurking unrealized.

There’s no core real you, no true deep down self.

We’re social mammals and the immediate social situation were in is one of the many factors that determine our behavior from moment to moment.

Go running.

You know when you build something up in your head to be really awful, then you try it and it’s exactly that awful?

If they’ve already proven they can steal and lie, of course they’ll get VC money.

You know that feeling you get when you look into your dog’s eyes? The same parts of your dog’s brain became active, so they’re probably feeling similar emotions at that moment.