Wait a second, you mean “gamersplan.com” isn’t a reputable, well-researched paragon of journalistic integrity? I’m shocked.

Holy shit I’ve never seen Evangelicalism described so accurately.

This is pretty true and a I love it.

For all the ills of social media the internet has been an absolute godsend to musicians and music fans alike. We can find genres and sounds in clicking around curiously that most of us just wouldn’t have ever been exposed to without the internet.

FWIW I try to purposefully spend some time “exploring” music on YT, Spotify, and bandcamp, and I go out to local venues a lot. I’m a little older and having a wide library of good music helps me feel “in touch” with the world.

I have this site bookmarked, this seems like a good place to post it: https://www.gnoosic.com/

A big loaded potato is a pretty typical side for a nice steak and that definitely qualifies as fancy IMO.

I was always partial to Barth.

Make sure someone takes minutes so we can maximize our synergies and deliverables.

Oh shit I unironically like this.

Going off your comment I’m guessing you just became politically active in the last few years.

You’ll need to elaborate if you want to actually contribute.

I’m gonna have a little chuckle when Skynet comes online and decides eating billionaires is the most efficient way to fix all the problems.

This is a good analysis and a great point re: the wedge issues they use to divide us. God, Guns, and Gays. Things that actually impact a relatively small number of people, but that are central to a persons identity and so can be used to turn people (who might otherwise have a lot in common) against each other.

Bro look at Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan,

Better toys for your soldiers doesn’t mean you automatically win the war.

And still today, right here in this thread, you have obviously privileged people tut-tutting gun ownership. Urging their comrades to forsake any defense at all against rising fascism.

If the people in power get their way there are going to be camps for undesirables on U.S. soil in the next decade.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Get a gun (or two) and learn how to use them. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

Who’s going to sit in 15 hours worth of meetings each week if not the middle managers?

I can think of two specific instances in my life when wearing glasses saved me from serious eye damage, I’m sure there were more.

Anyone is free to spin up an instance, go nuts.

It was so disgusting digging all the gunk out with a toothpick, cotton swabs, and alcohol.

Optical mice were such a huge improvement everyone I knew (except the weird trackball guy) switched as soon as they became available and never looked back.

This is good advice, thank you for the reality check.

Just a little PCP, once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy