They get points for correcting, but not enough to warrant praise.

“We’ve been promoting gambling to children for years, and not a single one of us thought that was bad until a Youtuber with a large following pointed that out to us. So we stopped.”

Should be read

“Someone with the reach to hurt our bottom line spoke up”

This video by Northridgefix always stuck with me because most of why his business grew is because he spent so much Google ads that he made enough money to then move to a strip mall by a major road all while making YouTube videos and taking mailed in work.

He has another video looking for new employees because he had too much business.

He did think she smelled bad. That was hilarious

Are you getting info from OKstupid blog posts and Tiktokers?

Interesting, but effective way to tell us you’re being brain washed to hate.

Queer leftist person with a trans partner and I have a Mexican name in a red state.

I really, really, REALLY don’t want to need it.

I dread the day I might need it.

I’ll probably just die. But I wanna believe it’ll be on my feet if it comes to that.

As a pro gun pro hunting guy

Do you actually need to depend on venison for food or do you choose to?

Personally, I think hunting is a good way to stay mindful of the food chain and what it takes to eat meat. If one is going to eat meat I view this as the most ethical way to do it.

But its not necessary.

Unless you’re doing the whole process yourself (which you might be) then its not cheaper than purchasing meat. And also its not better for you health wise unless you have some sorta allergy to beef. I guess its more lean, but truthfully I’d rather have smaller portions of fatty meat for flavor and health benefit reasons than more frequent lean meat.

I’d personally prefer to keep my ability to obtain protein myself if needed and the easiest way to do that is with a gun, but I have been looking I to bow hunting because that feels more ethical environmentally and in a lot of ways safer than explosion tubes that I hold next to my face.

So I guess I have two questions. Do you need to hunt? Do you need a gun specifically to hunt?

Its something I’ve become quite judgemental of

“Loyalty” “ungrateful” “respect” “drama” and “hustle” are words I associate now with assholes who have nothing going on in their lives and are certainly the problem.

Its been so nice not being exposed to that pointless negativity thanks to deleting my Facebook.

Marketplace is just a continuation of our failed consumerist system by letting us recycle trash that should never have been produced but we justify because its “thrifty”

I was also thrown off by that.

I thought “damn died after only 1.5 rounds of sex. That’s rough buddy!”

Where’s my god particles without windows at?

“I’m very privacy focused which is why I use Apple products”

Is such an annoying and real thing

I recommend

“SPQR” by Mary Beard for a good comprehensive book on Roman history

If you prefer chronology for some reason

“The origin of empire” by David Potter is really good

Also “Inventing the Renaissance” By Ada Palmer

I went to college for this shit and these books, while very long, do basically smarize everything I learned on these two subjects. So I’ve saved you probably $10,000

You would love reading any Roman History book and then “Inventing the Renaissance” by Ada palmer.

You’re right. It really does feel like were in the death throws of the republic of rome and the Empire is forming.

Which, naturally, will fall eventually and will likely turn into a nationalist nostalgia and inspire a Renaissance.

You should also be aware that most modern authors have 1 boon and 1 bane. Their boon is significantly more evidence than any other surviving roman historian ever. Their bane is that they will have Tue biases of our modern issues.

Its my favorite thing how much historical interpretation gets done through the eyes of a contemporary. Historians love to go on and on about not having bias, but their human so they do. A good example of this is Edward Gibbons “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” which revitalization our modern tradition of Roman History studies. Unfortunately (or fortunately if you’re like me and wanted to study intellectual history) this whole series is often used as a criticism of the British Empire in the 17th century.

Of course a lot of it is good enough roman history, but whole stories within the book are complete fabrications. There is no evidence that they happened to Emperor X or Province Y, but the series of events and the alleged public disapprovals of them do match up with the events of his contemporary political moment for which it would have been illegal for Mr. Gibbon to criticize publicly.

And this means of using nostalgia around a long dead empire to affect contemporary politics is what happened in the Renaissance.

Ada Palmers book she effectively (and very accessibly) argues that the Renaissance was more or less just a massive propaganda campaign since by no measure was the “Renaissance” better or worse than the middle ages. In fact the span of the “renaissance” is so grand that it often includes the middle ages or it doesn’t depending on where you want to believe the renaissance started which is constantly redefined.

This is one of those things where my 6+ ft height is a privilege.

I have never even dreamed of putting my feet on the dash.

Not really interested until I can use it via api.

The AI bubble hasn’t popped so free tiers for basically any AI is better than Lump which is just running other better models anyways.

In fact if the point is to spite american companies(you should), you should just over use free tier american AIs since it costs them lots of money.

Yeah I’m not doing it for the energy savings I’m doing it for personal comfort.

If I was really concerned about energy use at that scale I would simply not use a computer.

I had taco bell for lunch and ramen for dinner. So maybe today is a bad example

Look I love my mom.

But one of us has a therapist and a taste for new interesting foods. The other has anger issues when the food isnt Banquet Turkey in gravy with boxed mash potatoes.

That’s so funny. Rip those poor idiots HAH!

I have helped my neighbor across the halls kid with his gaming PC.

Couldn’t tell ya her name, but the dog below me with a heart problem is named Sophie, the neighbors down the hall have cats named Mink and Stink, and a few buildings down there’s a lady with two huskies one named Pogs and the other Skips (Skips has 3 legs)