I refuse to listen to anyone saying this wouldn’t work when we already have an example of it working in Australia.

“It’s impossible! Let’s just hand-wave away all the times where it was shown to actually be pretty fucking possible and straightforward.”

China is about as socialist as my shit is a bouquet of roses.

It’s capitalism. It’s always capitalism.

Time was invented by clock companies to sell more clocks.

To play devil’s advocate, an issue arises when there AREN’T more verifiable sources. If someone makes an outlandish claim like “Billy Joel used to wash his ass with crisco” and cites a dubious interview, it’s hard to find a source that definitively states Billy Joel DIDN’T wash his ass with crisco. Even worse, is if there was an actual, verified instance of one time where Billy Joel washed his ass with crisco. That may have been the only time he ever did it, and it may have been done as a joke or something like that, but now we have an interview saying he did it regularly, and an example of when he did. Now it’s a lot harder to disprove.

I feel gross defending Republican talking points, now I need to go take a shower. Maybe wash my ass with crisco.

Self censorship makes me feel like this is a made up, BS story posted by someone for internet clout.

If I made a meme talking about jumping from the top of the empire state building and said you’d fall 100ft before hitting the ground, people would be justified in saying I have no idea how high actual empire state building is; and that is a hell of a lot closer to the actual answer than your estimate of 4000 years.

I mean, it does look like horse manure; but as someone who really likes pistachio’s, I’m a fan. I wouldn’t call the ones I’ve had “mealy” and the price hasn’t been that crazy. Maybe you just tried a shitty version of it?

I like how the meme actually disagrees with the US being terrorists.

95% of anime writers, artists, and fans need to spend like a solid month in horny jail.

Straight into the garbage.

Rant time. Lunch breaks are a fucking scam. Hear me out.

We’re made to believe that a mandatory 30 minute, unpaid, lunch is somehow a victory for workers rights. Tell me, do you really feel like you’re taking a break from work in those 30 minutes? Or are you still thinking about work? Are you still in “work mode”? Well guess what, that’s 30 minutes of you thinking about work and not relaxing that they are stealing from you. Your workday isn’t 8 hours, it’s 8 and a half hours. That 30 minutes isn’t really yours, it’s not enough time to get anything done. You don’t agree? Go get drunk during your lunch break. Oh what’s that? You can’t because you’ll face consequences at work? Well gee, sounds like that time doesn’t actually belong to you then if you’re not free to do whatever you want.

It used to be a job was 9-5. That’s 8 hours. Total. You either had a paid lunch, or you ate on the job. But it was PART of those 8 hours. I don’t know about you, but if I’m not getting paid for it, I don’t want to be at work a second longer than I have to. I’ve had a few jobs that let me work through lunch and it was great, I could keep working and eat at my desk and I was out of the door 30 minutes before the rest of my co-workers. Jobs that force me to take a lunch are BS. I don’t need 30 minutes to eat a sandwich, and the remaining time is NOT relaxing. I don’t get to unwind from work. I am instead filled with rage that I’m just wasting time, not getting paid, in order to uphold the illusion that the company “values our time”, when really they’re just holding us hostage.

Mandatory, unpaid, “breaks” are just a form of wage theft.

Yes,

Multiple self-checkout kiosks

But

Less than half are working for some reason, and the ones that are working are all full because everyone is waiting on the one employee to come by and clear the screen because the machine detected a weight discrepancy, or an item was accidentally scanned twice, or they tried to use a coupon, or any of the seemingly 1000 different ways to cause the machine to freeze up and force you to interact with the one employee in the area.

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What lawsuit? What are you talking about?

To me, life=consciousness is just too simple of a definition. Is a sponge conscious? How about a plant? How about a single bacteria cell?

I feel there is a difference between something making a choice in their actions, or merely reacting to external stimuli. That line is blurry, and there’s a lot more creatures that fall on the conscious side than we used to think, but there are definitely creatures that don’t. You’ll never be able to convince me that something like a jellyfish or a salp is a conscious creature.

That is a fair point. There are still examples of multi-year expeditions without any stops for resupply, such as antarctic expeditions of the early 1900’s, but they are a lot fewer; and many of those didn’t turn out too great.

even the most adventurous human adventures in history have been measured in months, we’ve never displayed the will to commit to years for what would be a token mission.

It’s laughable how wrong this statement is. Someone else already posted about Magellan and Lewis & Clark, but there are SO MANY more examples in history. An expedition taking several years was the standard for centuries. One measured in months would have been considered pretty short until around the mid 20th century.

I like that we’re back to calling these kinds of things “Expansions” and not DLC.

Do you know what a meme is? Or do you just like using that word for anything you make?

I don’t recall SNW having any significant backlash. Were you not interested in that one?