@WashedOutGundamPilot I dated tiny women before (5'0 range). They don't stay tiny forever, which is not why we broke up, and people do make jokes about the large height difference.
@blaaablaaaa@Hoss@olmitch This post from over a year ago is probably part of it too. But to be real, systemic failure can't be allowed to happen. If it does, the functional people will rebuild their own stuff without the parasite class. America has enough resources we could literally become a fortress nation with zero dependency on foreign countries.
@MK2boogaloo this picture makes me think it's weaker. My brain thinks of this in terms of concentration so 7-10 Dilaudid börgars = 1 morphine börgar according to this chart.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@Tony@koropokkur Gas station coffee in a busy area has one thing going for it, which is that it's almost always very fresh. I'm talking 20 tops at some of the busier places. They'll usually use prepackaged stuff, but sometimes you can luck out and get a local place that has a local roaster connection. It's almost always some corporate supply chain preportioned stale bag though.
@sickburnbro The closest TV show I know of that sort of checks these boxes is "Bluey", but even that's not really showing the provider aspect to my knowledge.
It's really funny how poorly thought through the antitheist position is. If there was no outside force (real or invented) to "control people", there would never be civilization. Higher ideals do not manifest themselves without a functional framework, and if they did they'd be the equivalent of gods. Either you're looking at ideas as some type of esoteric occultism a la Jungian archetypes or you're cutting the bs and recognizing the obvious. Sad and small minded opinion tbqh.
@Bad_Banner@alex@rher@teratology I would be hesitant because what the hell are they putting in there to make it grow and live? At least animals have a complex system that filters and breaks things down; most things are reused for other things and what isn't gets biologically filtered. Would they have to put a fake kidney and fake blood to make it work? At what point is it just a cow in a jar? It has no mouth and it must scream.
@tyler@thatguyoverthere If we taxed it, mega corps would be hosed or at least have to play fair. They borrow right now to buy things they have cash for and then interest paid offsets their profits along with depreciation on the purchased goods. Chickens eventually come home to roost, but you structure everything for most favorable means (long term capital gains) and you offset whenever you can. It's incredibly lame.
@Umlaut@chris Sorry friend but countercultural slacktivism feels good. I get to say the truth and offend people who are... offended by the truth. You're probably right though.
Formerly BowsacNoodle. Distributist. Interested in philosophy and meta critiques. Eastern Rite. Myer's Briggs says I like to argue. I try to debate in good faith and assume the same from you until proven otherwise.