Neither are guilty of anything more than surviving.

What the fuck are you doing trying to create scenarios where you can blame the workers? This is exactly what the ownership class wants, for people to create bullshit purity tests that further divide the proletariat. There is no ethical job under capitalism, nothing that can be done without a drop of malice, because our system has been designed to maximize cruelty.

This is a pretty negative outlook, and an unhealthy one. If your childhood trauma is impacting your current life, coming to terms with what happened and growing past it is absolutely a valid option. It will take time and personal effort, and you have to want to make the change, but it is possible.

Note that coming to terms doesn’t have to mean playing nice with the people who abused you, or even having any communication with them at all. It just means finding closure, forgiving yourself, and moving forward.

yo why is the guy packin?

The requirement isn’t that vampires need to hear you say “You can come in,” it’s that you need to extend them a formal invitation and lower the barrier that protects your home. Theoretically, you could lie to the vampire, but they’d probably notice your barrier and wouldn’t get fooled.

…you do have a barrier right? You properly consecrated the ground before moving, drew the sigils, and cleansed all existing evil spirits? 'Cuz otherwise, any old spooky creature will probably skip the pleasantries and just get you.

See the problem is that if you run out of money, you die shortly thereafter.

You’re watching the collapse of an empire. The citizens are getting desperate and scared, those of them that don’t realize or understand the situation they’re in even moreso. What you’re seeing isn’t driven by malice, it’s just too difficult to care for others now. A lotta my friends struggle to pay rent every month and keep food in their mouths. We walk around with the knowledge a stranger could freak out and gun us down at any moment. Is it any wonder that they are numb to violence, numb to threats, even numb to the fear of death?

Once you get that numb and hollow, you cut what’s extraneous away and focus on your own survival. Americans are, broadly speaking, panicked animals. The worse things get, the more panicked and desperate they’ll become, and the less they’ll care about standards and morals in the pursuit of survival.

If I was very desperate and my current job no longer sufficed, sure I’d hop on OnlyFans or FeetFinder and give it a go. The problem I have is more one of laziness. I like showing off my body, and spend a good amount of time cultivating parts like my ass and thighs to look attractive. The limiting factor is that I don’t have anyone to hold a camera. It’s a lot of fun to model, it’s a lot less fun to setup a camera/mic, create a scene, and actually take 30-40 pictures/30 sec vid clips. If I had to do it for survival, I could, but I prefer just sending simple thirst traps to fwb.

So the joke here isn’t sampling, it’s the idea of being “featured” on a track. Idk Khaled enough to know if this would be too extreme an example, but imagine a lesser known hiphop artist making nearly 100% of a song. Then Khaled comes in, does a few whoops and hollers, maybe a few bars, but the song ends up on a Khaled album. The lesser known artist is credited as “featured” on the track, even if it was mostly their work.

100% believable and 100% pointless. So much of that money is basically being wasted on their digital art team making technically distinct assets for each game. They all have to be exceptionally high quality, because Call of Duty is a AAA franchise, but do any players actually care if their sniper rifle looks slightly different if the numbers and mechanics are identical?

Feel like all of CoD’s successful competitors have figured out that FPS players don’t really give a shit and will happily play the same client on the same maps with minimal updates year after year, but Acti-Blizz is addicted to reinventing the wheel each time even though they’re reusing the good maps.

At least in recent memory, it was Dragon’s Dogma 2 teaching me that I could pick up and carry downed party members by having one of my party members pick up another one and bring them over to me. There’s so much that’s possible in DD2 that just isn’t in a typical videogame, that throughout the entire experience I was mostly learning niche interactions from my other party members instead of my own experimentation. It was a really cool experience, and felt way more impactful then a text prompt just lecturing me about all the mechanics the game has.

Hell if I know. My hometown was a sorta nexus of misery like Derby though, and I’m the only one I know of from my graduating class that actually got out. So I’d guess they’ve either already died in Indiana, or are on the path to dying in Indiana, and I couldn’t imagine a worse fate for them.

because the goal isn’t for more transparency in their service, CTA is mismanaged trash rn. It’s to have less transparency, so less people realize that the delays between trains still have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, and likely never will.

Nah I’m usually high af whenever I post anything, so I just let everything I post stand as a monumennt to high me.

C’mon, you can’t say no matter how its cooked. You sure I can’t interest you in some fried asparagus with a cheese-based sauce? Yeah, any nutritional value you’re getting out of them is pretty much ruined, but who cares.

This is almost way too nice.

America was founded by businessmen who fancied themselves as a new aristocracy, and religious zealots who were such assholes they could no longer co-exist with Europeans.

Right but our country just elected a fascist who wants to install himself as dictator for life, so how do we actually move towards implementation of any of those things considering neither are supported by the ruling party or the corporations that have fully entrapped our government?

Better find out the answer to that question quickly too, because it’s coming for your country next.

What do you mean? The people who benefited the most from the collapse of the Soviet Union are the people still in power. I’d argue they did an excellent job setting up the Western hegemony to worship billionaires and empower themselves.

What, did you think the U.S. was going to do something good with that power?

Why do you think Americans gave up on cable? It wasn’t because of sports, we still love those and go through way too many dogshit streaming services to watch them. Our shows are so trash even we don’t wanna watch them.

I dunno, seems pretty good for queer spaces and shitposting, but I guess .world doesn’t know much about either.

It’s She’s Electric Girl for the 13th consecutive year! Wow, what a winner, can’t wait to see who takes it next year!