My boss is the worst for this. We’ll be sitting on a call in our conference room and he’ll start clicking his pen. Or playing with his water bottle. Or slapping his lips. After seven years I haven’t committed murder yet, though.

Jordan Peterson as in “Being transgender is satanic ritual abuse” and “Transgenderism is a social contagion” Jordan Peterson?

Are you arguing in good faith or are you just a troll?

Yeah, the polycules I’ve met have all been hot messes that caused a lot of pain for everyone involved (and adjacent). At least a few have this attitude of “Monogamous people are prudes and need to open up, polyamory is HoW hUmAnS sHoUlD lIvE”. Maybe it’s just bad luck, but as a result I generally keep a bit more distance with my poly friends.

Not sure what I’m going to do when this hits my state. We passed our “child only” bill last year. I don’t live near a border and my job is strict in-person only.

I technically have the resources to move and have at least some job prospects, but there’s huge swaths of my community that don’t. Also, effectively outlawing trans existence in a state guarantees that no one will be left to vote for it, effectively pushing more states red. We can’t even rely on the Supreme Court to strike these down…

I’ve heard Minnesota is good, but that’s extremely far from me, and I have moderate-severe SAD so I worry that living that far north would be the end of me. Maybe I’ll have to go for “might be the end of me” over “will currently be the end of me”.

How well does this work? Like is glare / not being able to see an issue? How much of the wall color shows through, or do you have to have a special screen?

Related: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

I can’t imagine the pain of having your sight taken away, getting it partially back, and then having it taken away again purely by corporate greed.

While I disagree with your take that dandelions are bad, that’s a great mow job! How do you get stripes that pronounced?

Oh no, CrImInAlS. We’d better make sure only big corps can use this tech and legislate against individual use. /s

You good bro?

Blink three times if you need help.

Not a creepy-pasta per se, but have you see this one?

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31

This looks super neat, and would give me good reason to go down roads I haven’t before.

Pathfinder usually goes alright, but any mention of D&D 5e and all I get is "Ugh D&D 5e is so basic, have you tried ". I’m not judging your TTRPG system taste, don’t judge mine.

The only head canon that makes sense is that Palpatine drained her life force in order to bring Vader back from the dead.

The only head canon that makes sense to me is that Palpatine used Padme’s life force to bring Vader back from the dead.

Because the hour lunch used to count as working, IIRC.

There was literally an article either yesterday or the day before with the headline “AI being used to ban books in Iowa” or something to that effect.

Generally better, but it’s contextual. Someone saying with a surprised tone “It was pretty good” implies that it’s better than good and better than expected, and that the person might not have expected it to be good. Someone saying with a muted or dull “It was good…” would be worse than “pretty good” and implies that it was acceptable but disappointing or mediocre.

• The world: At war, on fire, collapsing before our eyes
• The world’s governments: Falling to fascism and right-wing insanity
• People’s rights: Slowly disappearing
• Capitalism level: Late-stage
• The future: Only going to get worse

But yeah, technology is why adolescents are unhappy.

I thought it was because turning the bird upside down makes it look like it’s dead.

It’s terrible that Linus defederated from dbzer0