@sapphire FBI: why do you want to join the FBI? candidate: to earn CP FBI: ... candidate: of course I will use it to shut down free speech sites, and to debank and deplatform the enemies of the regime. FBI: you're kind of open about your desires, aren't you? candidate: it's good blackmail material! You can trust that I will never betray you! FBI: you're going to go far in this organization
@EssentialUtinsil@Oven_Operators_LU_88 >they lost everyone lost and everyone won. Israelis got their shit kicked in and had their AD humiliated and now know they can't bomb Iran without a lot of pain in response while not getting nearly the amount of support they expected. Iran got hacked, infiltrated, drone-swarmed, betrayed, repeatedly lost air superiority to Israeli, and had (everyone believes) a ridiculous stealth bombing of a target they knew was getting attacked. The US completely failed to generate internal support for war with Iran, something desired for decades, and probably instigated the whole conflict and now has a seething resentful ally for it.
@Escoffier Iran's not refusing that hard when it bombs US bases in the region. The most likely route from here is the US calling this an unprovoked attack and escalating. If there's a deal like the B-2 bombing suggests, then it's more likely a ruse than a real deal and we still get war. If there's no deal, we get war.
Our Delivery General is en route to your location! Operation INFINITE BURRITOS has begun! Your hunger will be glassed, we will give you Tex-Mex until the rubble bounces!
Language is for communication and not backpatting and morale building. Just communicate. You want people to feel better about their jobs, do something to actually make the jobs suck less, don't change the words about it.
@pernia@nyanide >I went out for a walk that passed over a bridge >at the bridge, I noticed a guy just standing there, looking over the water >this isn't a very scenic spot, but it happens >as I approach, the guy climbs onto the railing >my first thought is: he's going to jump and try to swim - it's not a very tall bridge >my second thought is: it's also not very deep water! He'd definitely be horribly injured! >my third thought: oh yeah this is a suicide attempt >I start running while shouting >I shout: PERNIA WANTS YOU TO KILL YOURSELF >the guy does a whole-body jerk at my words, and climbs down >I get to him >guy: "did pernia say that?" >me: "yeah, pernia says kys. fucking kill yourself." >guy: FUCK PERNIA. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THAT IS. >guy stalks off, muttering angrily thank you for your service
Imagine if Harry Potter had very generous licensing, with Harry Potter-themed games all over Steam and itch.io. A Zachtronics game about casting Harry Potter spells An alchemy game with Hermione as the protagonist A yaoi visual novel with an off-site adult patch about Slytherin side-characters. A Harry Potter tower defense.
There are 1000-chapter webnovels like this already. There are billions of words of HP fanfics written by 12-year-old girls online. If not for lame Disney protections you would be flooded with this stuff everywhere else.
counterpoint: in the HP-fangames timeline you would have more effective filtering and tagging and would never see this stuff anyway. Steam couldn't avoid making this feature more effective because people would complain so much.
@coolboymew JBL makes some flip (Philippino?) bluetooth speakers with good volume and battery that I use sometimes. There is a useless feature of establishing a mesh network with other such speakers, and they cost $100, but I've never had any complaints and they're convenient enough that I don't bother with technically more impressive speakers as much.
@coolboymew FLIP # is the product name, probably with no intentional reference to South East Asia. You can probably get one in a mobile phone store as the cheapest speaker option on display.
On reflection it's easy to see why. Take Megumin. Who else would go out with her all the time, watch her cast Explosion, and then carry her home? As a soloist, or in any other party, she wouldn't get that kind of princess treatment. Or if she did, she'd rightly find it incredibly suspicious. It takes a bit of trust for a girl to exhaust herself to the point of not being able to walk, in the presence of a man.
And Kazuma is this trustworthy isekai-protagonist harem leader WITHOUT being a lecher or a self-sacrificial white knight. He's got normal interests and normal male interests. A very balanced character.
@foxcat@sun_eater >loli is kids >furry is animals >MLP is cute cartoons that aren't even real don't think about them this episode: the writer's barely disguised fetish
@LukeAlmighty stage 0 is "oblivious", when you are not even in denial because you are not aware of any need to deny the thing. Now that you've gotten the advert, the denial phase can begin.
@lardmotel used more as war fodder in the last year? It's a 10% drop, which is probably about the % of Chinese people in Australia.
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of nothing>We've let the bad optics of a cop smashing the shit out of someone with a stick get in the way of rational policy. Thousands of police encounters that end in death that didn't need to. Give the cops back their beating sticks. Save lives, a big stick is an actually reliable but non-optical alternative to a gun. A female cop can't even confuse it with a taser ... a female cop also can't effectively use it at all, which is the non-Rodney King explanation for why cops have shit like bola guns that fail to deescalate ahead of lethal force.
How about this: give male cops big sticks, and give female cops big *electrified* sticks, and then the joke about female cops can be that if she beats you down, it won't hurt as much but it might stop your heart.
@oshy lore from the year 2055: American children carry the Japanese alarm from Loli God Requiem, but instead of releasing an audible sound it triggers the explosive device that every pitbull gets along with its rabies songs.
@mischievoustomato@mitchconner legends say that, before the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965, there were no black people at all in the United States
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.Splitting words so as to break the force of the laws; confounding names so as to change what had been definitely settled; practising corrupt ways so as to throw the government into confusion: all guilty of these things were put to death.Keep your safety in mind and don't make loud statements for which you might go to the places not-so-far-from-here, because there you will help no one.