The button is labeled "kill everyone (no negative consequences version)"

Already have one running! 😭

Well, plus a cough drop only lasts a few minutes and then I'm back to square one.

This is what I try to do, but then after a few minutes, my throat gets so dry that I cough myself back awake!

Genuine Q: How do you teach yourself to fall asleep with your mouth open? I have a cold, which means I can't breathe through my nose, which means it's 2:30 and I'm still not asleep despite taking melatonin, Trazodone, Unisom, AND NyQuil.

User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?

Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

Remembering the time I didn't realize it was 4/20 and made the mistake of trying to drive somewhere from my apartment one block away from Golden Gate Park

I'm sorry but we are going to need to reclaim the word "Stonewall" from the British. If you are going to be like this you can't use it, Americans only.

This Blink album came out when I was 13, and I associated it with the obnoxious boys in my class. Was quite shocked to listen to it now at age 38 and think "omg they're just babies." I felt almost maternal toward them!

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

holy shit, sending love to you both!!

(me after seeing any two guys in saffron robes) well well well

Evangelicals convert to Catholicism thinking it will give them authority over their Protestant friends and family, then are shocked to discover it actually gives the pope authority over them.

From the rooftop, shout it out, the answer is "Ready to Go" by Republica.

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

Why does he sound like an AI that thought "strawberry" was spelled with an X

happy anniversary to all who celebrate

none of them are people I know, they just show up in my Discover feed constantly, followed by posts from other people I don't know about how they're sick of all the pet death posts, followed by posts from other people I don't know about how we need to have compassion for the pet deaths

we're His

Frantically posting all the banal observations I've stored up before news of the next atrocity hits

I do think it's weird that Bluesky (a) has a dead pet algorithm that's (b) prevalent enough to cause dead pet algorithm discourse.

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It was a REALLY fun gift

They're making efforts to change it now, because they suddenly figured out in the 2020s that it may possibly be a contributing factor to the rat problem.

In New York, dumpsters are genuinely a step up from the old system of piling trash bags on the sidewalk.

Someone in a neighborhood group chat said our local park is getting the new "fancy trash cans." Known outside of New York as "dumpsters."

it's so rare to be truly seen and understood by another human being

That's God!

Calling God "the alpha and the omega" somehow sounds a lot less impressive when you translate it closer to the original intent as "everything from A to Z."

A picture of the kpop group BTS with Doug Martsch from Built to Spill poorly photoshopped into the background

BTS is great