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There's two kinds of comfortably upper-middle-class people.

One kind makes a $600 mistake and says "well, that sucks and I'm grievously embarrassed but I'll live I guess?" and muses on how lucky they are that they can afford to be out that much money.

The other is like "Eh it's only $600".

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Gosh I can't wait for winter to end!

engage in forbidden sexual intercourse, the Gemara notes that Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: There was an incident involving a certain man who set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. And they came and asked doctors what was to be done with him. And the doctors said: He will have no cure until she engages in sexual intercourse with him. The Sages said: Let him die, and she may not engage in sexual intercourse with him. The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him. The Sages said: Let him die, and she may not stand naked before him. The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter. The Sages insisted: Let him die, and she may not converse with him behind a fence.

reject modernity (online r*pe academy), embrace tradition (the Beit Midrash telling a man to die)

And so I will circle around to my constant point: the instinct for a comforting aristocracy is endemic in the human populace, and the job of democracy is to ruthlessly destroy it whenever it appears. Not build a political, legal and moral (prosperity gospel) framework which fucking encourages it.

We use ours for a really fast, tasty lentils and rice (among many other things).

A neat trick: caramelize some onions or garlic in some oil in the bottom with the cover off, then add the stuff you wanna pressure or slow cook.

Like, if you're a SWE and in love with AI and LLMs, like...sit with the fact that the wider public is feeling helpless to the point that throwing a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house is seen as the only way to improve things.

Unsurprisingly I am an 00's Indie Kid (because I am)

Exactly one year ago today:

Reminder that there is empirical research to prove the “when the person speaking was 12” point. It’s called Reminiscence Bump and it’s literally from ages 12-14. psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-...

The most underrated edition by far. It just does a different thing.

(And the enemy HP balance is wrong; unless you have a table of power gamers things get real spongy at higher levels.)

the nonbinary rapper who frequently gets misgendered as a man: Mx. Sir-a-Lot

Oh, I thought you were complaining about the lack of tall men for more... prurient reasons. My mistake!

I just know how it restricts your options (at least here), because so many men are just *weird* about dating a taller girl, no matter how cute she is.

I will say that here in Ontario, there's no shortage of tall handsome men (assuming you like white guys with beards).

I have a friend who's 180cm and straight and yeah, wow, things are hard out there

I hear the Dutch are very tall?

What is it about 3E/PF/5E/PF2 that people love so much? (Again, other than "that's the game I started playing when I was younger".)

I know a lot of people want something that's just "3E but modern" - that's what's been driving most of mainstream TTRPG development since the controversy of 4E* - but, honestly, other than familiarity, it's always been hard for me to understand *why*.

* which was the best edition btw

This! But also:

D&D5E and PF2E took the system in two different and very interesting directions: both are definitely still in the lineage of 3E; both have (imo) similar complexity; but they have very different ideas about balance and power progression*.

* within the narrow band of what d20 can do.

I've been thinking about it. And I think there might only be three types of narrative game

1. Explore the Psyche of Man
2. Stuff Already Happened, And Now You're Here
3. Lesbian Bartender

The temporal myth is man. Reach heaven by violence. This magic I give to you: the world you will rule is only an intermittent hope and you must be the letter written in uncertainty.'

The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.

Congrats on a diagnosis! Sending positive vibes on you finding a treatment that works quickly!

you're finally free!

It's me. I'm girls.

Death of Emet-Selch from the end of Shadowbringers, except it's the bluesky logo with a hole in it showing the glowing axe behind.

Individuals who enforce e.g. patriarchy thoughtlessly can be reached (all the stories of dads who didn't understand sexism until they had daughters). Individuals who actually revel in cruelty can't.

If this dipshit can come around even a little, a lot of other people can too.

On one hand, lol, lmao.

On the other hand, everyone says "the cruelty is the point" but maybe what's driving many of these people is just petty personal cruelty and not a desire to see that cruelty carried out violently by the machinery of the state, and... that weirdly gives me hope?

Sometimes I got a problem with my reginos too, eyy 😉

I was never gonna give them money but I sure as shit aren't gonna do it now.

If Shantae is white what does that make Sky? Turbo-white? Double-extra-white?