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Mead posted...

How courageous of you to take this brave stand

It seems to be something you have a hard time wrestling with, so... yeah, it is? I don't feel like it should be but here we are

Personally I wouldn't share stuff from sexual predators even if it was a thing I agreed with, but that's just me. It might be excusable if the Lincoln Project was some unavoidable presence providing one of a kind insight, but they mostly just tweet takes a 15 year old could come up with and only have as much relevance as people who go gaga over those takes choose to give them

There's zero evidence of that

Besides that scamming and sexual predation are inherently bad, yes you should give a shit about learning who people you think you can trust really are

Imagine sharing a Lincoln Project post

Gentle reminder they are a neocon scam that spends a laughably small amount of their funds on political engagement, and one of the founders is a sex abuser

I'm curious how many people here are in their 30s now, I'd guess at being the predominant age group, but how can we know since you put 26-30 as option? Talk about a fail! Try to do better next time please

DragonClaw01 posted...

I love how no one even cares about the quality of 3d all stars, they are just worried that it is limited (even though it sold millions of units). Fear of loss is the path to the dark side my friends.

Or we're just adults and we can part with $60 once in a while

Yeah after remembering the limited release window, I'd say go with the first, but the other two are also some absolute must-owns if you have a Switch

Zeus you're the only person who finds the pretending to be the actual Greek god Zeus gag funny. Also the China hysteria really was necessary. Do you have CDS (China Derangement Syndrome)? Kinda weird to bring it up somewhere nobody else was doing it.

I'm sure you currently use zero products that are either owned by or made in China

Me today: Lol can you believe these 40 year olds here

I haven't benched in years since I last had a regular gym partner, the thought of doing it without a spotter terrifies me and I don't like asking strangers. Back then I don't even think I reached a full plate (135) but it's possible I might have been able to get through that for one rep. I probably weighed about 150 at the time, so at least it's almost body weight?

Now I don't even know if I'd be able to do 95 lol

No, it makes me mad that they're pretty much impossible to get. The one time in my life I have money to burn on a new console of course they aren't actually available

Zeus is quite possibly the dumbest person on this board. I don't think that anyone, left or right, really likes him too much. At least the shameless MAGAs with the "eff you" attitude don't try to pretend that Trump doesn't commit crimes or have an ego, they just don't care. It's a culture war thing for them. Then you got captain centrist over here trying to logically and rationally explain a bunch of shit that is just plain wrong, and really being like "yep this is the best guy we can put forward"

DirtBasedSoap posted...

yeah, Mario 64 fucking sucks now. Sunshine gets shit on so much but its still a billion times better than 64.

Sunshine has more polished controls (mostly) but it's structurally so much worse. Fewer levels, less variety to the level themes, less freedom within levels, less freedom to how you unlock levels, shadow Mario over and over, goop over and over, etc. Not saying that 64 lacks in dumb star objectives though

You can stay bitter all you want and waste your time trying to enjoy a game you never will. The game is already besting you because you're wasting your time, as I am talking to you, Lmao

Nope, and the "cool dude" part should've been a dead giveaway it's not me

Man I've been freezing my ass off in my home office this winter lol

I haven't lived here in summer yet, but should hopefully be nice then since I'm on the lower level

I'm sure I could make a really cool island if I actually tried, once I did a bunch of terraforming in April and then got five stars I was pretty over the major renos. It sucks how much time it takes you to move structures and I'm anti time travel

You're free to not care that major websites provide a huge platform for racist garbage, but if you're so "apolitical" maybe don't get involved at all. Telling people what they should or shouldn't care about is politics. You're still engaging it even if it's just to say that it shouldn't be engaged

The rooftop bar is cool, that's the kind of thing I lack design sensibility for. I basically just left it to the default three tier structure with some slight reshaping of the tiers. I can only work in big flat areas

Thanks for reminding me how dogshit my island is lol

"Apolitical" isn't a real thing. It's just a weight of how much contentment with your own situation can counteract having to face harsh realities. Well that works for some people but many people do not have a good situation, and they couldn't avoid harsh realities even if they wanted to. Plus even if you only care about your own situation, you have to be really delusional (or super rich) to look at it and be like, yeah, this really is the best we can do. I want things to get better for others and I think it can be done while making them better for me too! But it does require seeing some ugly truths.

I agree there are better things to do with one's time than yell at boomers on FB but the both sidesing of racism and anti-racism really makes me roll my eyes. Then again I'm posting this on a site that has like a thousand regular users so I'm a dumbass too

I'm shocked at the number of people endorsing multi-page resumes, in all the advice I've heard/read over the years, keeping it to one page was one of the most universal. Am I so out of touch? No, it's the PotDers who are wrong.

I've worked two major jobs in my life and most of the time they don't even talk about the older one, or like half the stuff on my resume when I interview. Don't see why you'd need to list so many unless you're a serial short-term contractor or something

Gamefaqs is such a cool and fun website

It kinda sounds like he must work in a bad place. Though playing fantasy football is just office normie shit not "psychopathy"

RCtheWSBC posted...

Lmao uhhh. You sound like you're projecting a bit there

Like, I don't even want to go back to the physical office space full time again but the fact that you can't make your case without these descriptors says a lot more about you than your colleagues >_>

I kinda feel some of what he's saying, I find most normie stuff to be cringe/boring/unappealing, but I wouldn't put it the way he does. And I can still find ways to connect with people even if I don't share a lot of their interests

I just think it's funny you said that rural areas have basically the same cultural amenities as a city

But she likes living in the city for other reasons so she isn't one of those "lot of people", and it doesn't change that you tried to claim that rural areas have a similar cultural footprint as cities

I have to be on cam every day at least for stand-ups, or like it's an unwritten rule. I only feel comfortable turning it off for larger meetings where I don't speak. Wish I didn't need to at all though

This topic feels like it's inventing a problem that doesn't exist so you can get mad at it. I'm not aware of any push to get people back into offices and if that does happen it'll probably be optional.

You seem to be under the impression that khakis in the office are still common, so maybe you just work somewhere that's still in the dark ages. Having worked at a place like that before, I wouldn't want to work there from home either. A khakis office does sound like the type of place that would mandate people coming in for no reason after a year of remote success, I'll admit.

Lots of people don't have kids

argonautweakend posted...

I don't work a job where work from home is possible, but I could see being drained by constant work from home, meaning I sit at my own personal computer even more than I already do. I can see it being useful in some scenarios, like being really tired and shit, but I feel like an actual commute wouldn't be that bad. The idea of "going to work" in my bedroom seems like it'd get old kinda quick for me.

I have a dedicated office in my house and it's still draining. Well it's also where my personal computer is, but it's not the bedroom is my point.

Given the choice between full remote and full in office I'd go full remote, but at my current job it's looking like I'll be remote with the option to go in to the office. I actually have gone into the office a couple times but for now it's still not the same, no activities and it's only like five people. I don't know why they'd keep an office open but that's not really my business. I'm sure if they decided not to keep an office they wouldn't pass the savings on to me anyway.

I've presented other options like 20 times, if you don't think those would've made more sense, then I don't know what to tell you. You just seem to be taking the mentality that once she hit a certain threshold for you, all bets were off. Not only do I disagree with that idea in principle but I also think there were better de-escalation options before even getting to that point and I'm not going to keep rehashing them

Pretty sure the dude was agreeing with you, like basically saying "it doesn't look so brutal when you see why the cop did it".

I just don't get why in these situations people sometimes have a "the cop is always right" mentality. It's not right just because they have the authority. Even if it's by the book for police training there's probably something wrong with the book. I just can't take pleasure in someone's life being put at risk over a taillight.

I'd rather scrutinize the cops than the sometimes crazy and belligerent people they deal with, because a cop is supposed to know how to handle pretty much any situation, but you can't really know what's going through a civilian's mind or underestimate how little they understand about laws and talking to cops. This woman did not act smartly but unfortunately cops are trained to act like everyone is a threat rather than de-escalate situations, which is exactly what happened here. Dude absolutely did not need to draw a gun, nor need to tase someone on the ground. She wasn't going to go anywhere after she was out of the truck.

You don't shout expletives in rocket league unless you're on voice. There are quickchat options and a popular one is to say "What a save!" when someone lets a goal in. Also I doubt he plays shitty on purpose, he's just saying he makes fun of people's play even though he knows he's not as good as them

I try not to do that anymore but I've done it before so I get it. And also I think it's a little different in casual. I still like to spam but just stuff like "Wow!" or genuine compliments. And have to admit I'll revenge spam, it's very satisfying when someone what a saves you when you make a genuine effort, so you hit them back any time they get scored on

Watch it again, she makes one weak little sideways kick before she gets out of the car, hardly what I'd call "fighting". Resisting, sure, but just looks to me like she is trying to nudge the cop away more than actually attack him.

And the officer barely even tries to resolve the situation with a signature, he starts commanding her to get out of the car pretty quickly. It's dumb to drive away at that point, I'm not arguing that, but police training revolving around being adversarial and not giving people patience is a huge problem. It goes from asking for the signature to demanding arrest in like 30 seconds, pretty fucked up if you ask me

Mead posted...

That doesnt really have anything to do with what happens in this video. She could have kept discussing things with the officer but by flatly refusing to talk to the officer and rolling up her window with the intent to simply drive away, she didnt really leave the officer with many options.

Why didn't the officer tell her she can fight the ticket later on? Or tell her "If you don't sign the ticket I'm obligated to make an arrest"? Why did he just jump into trying to arrest her? Why didn't he warn her about the taser?

ReggieTheReckless posted...

not gonna watch an old woman being tased

what did she do

Pulled over for having an uncovered white emitting taillight
Officer tickets her for $80 on a first offense because she admitted it had been like that for six months
She refuses to sign the ticket and the officer doesn't really explain much, just says she's under arrest then drives ahead a little bit
After getting pulled over again the officer immediately draws a gun and shouts at her in the car she's under arrest
He puts the gun away and pulls her out of the car, she resists a bit
She is on the ground, officer tells her to put her hands behind her back a couple times then pulls the taser out and fires it immediately

You are entitled to your opinion and maybe I would've enjoyed this video myself nine months ago but it seems like a huge blind spot to me now not to look at this video as more than "bitchy person gets what's coming". Not all rules of society or the standards for enforcing them really make sense. People in positions of authority make questionable decisions all the time and we shouldn't trust that they do the right thing just because they have authority.

Yes and you'd most likely be justifiably outraged over it. So I'm not sure why it's different just because it's a dumb Karen and she didn't die. If we continue to treat this kind of thing as standard operating procedure for police then don't be surprised when black people continue to get killed by cops

Exactly... endangered an unpleasant but unthreatening woman's life over 80 fucking dollars they weren't going to get or do anything with anyway. I don't see how you don't see how that's fucked up. You even said yourself to imagine if a black kid did it. Whenever that happens, it's always "the cops escalated it", "resisting arrest isn't a real crime", etc. Not sure how that doesn't apply here too, it's okay if nothing too bad happens? She still could've been killed or seriously hurt by the taser, or seriously hurt from being thrown out of the car forcefully

It's dumb that it's arrestable to begin with. If they can mail you a ticket from a blurry photo of your license plate why can't they mail one with your plates, driver's license and insurance information? Why even write tickets for a first offense that could be taped over in five minutes? Cops love to pick on people for minor shit and then make it worse. Yeah she's an asshole but if you can't deal with people being rude you probably shouldn't be a cop.

Tasers can kill people by the way

Mead posted...

imagine if some young black dude tried this shit

Yeah, exactly, that's why it's scary that it gets to that point with anyone. I can't say the woman is blameless but I saw the cop basically call for her arrest the second she denied the ticket instead of trying to explain it more (I still don't get why they can't be mailed since red light cameras do just that). Then he pulled a gun immediately after the second time she pulled over in what looked like an area that was not easy to drive off. Then tased her when she was already on the ground without explicitly warning her that he was going to pull the taser out.

I didn't really watch anything post tasing btw so maybe she is really crazy but just the lead up to it makes me mad. Nobody likes dealing with cops and they make things so adversarial that most people aren't going to have a cool head unless the cop says like three things to them and drives away

I don't know man pretty fucked up to get tased (which is pretty dangerous on an older, overweight person) over essentially what was just a broken taillight. She's a bit entitled but I find it hard to call this "satisfying". Seems more to me like a perfect example of why cops suck. Pulled her over for some minor bullshit (she should fix the light but white headlights from opposing traffic/rearview mirror are way more blinding anyway). Gave her an arbitrary ticket because she was rude to him/gave up some honest information about having it for six months that she didn't expect to be used against her. Escalated the situation and looked for the first excuse to make an arrest, draw a gun, etc.

They probably wouldn't have gotten the $80 anyway if she complied, it wouldn't be worth jack shit to them if they did get it, and he ran all her info so they probably could've sent some subpoenas in the mail or something

Cops are dumb trash bullies

OhhhJa posted...

Because he's a fucking psycho

Well there are more "normal" people than duckbear that collect info too, but maybe not at that level

Dating sites are just a way to kill time for me and hope for the outside chance that something happens, but I think they're really difficult if you're a man and try not to think of them as representative of the real world. In real life, I'm not good at dating by any means, but I'm at least alright at building a rapport with women and making them laugh and stuff, which is kinda hard to do on dating apps where you're essentially prescreened for your looks first.

Not saying this to justify insulting women or anything just kind of rambling

I think it's fine to want to keep some basic sense of appearance (until it gets to the point of vanity). Like for example even though I've been working from home I'm not the type to sit in sweatpants all day cause it makes me feel like an unprofessional slob even though no one sees

Is this satire

Nobody here is cool, you automatically are uncool by virtue of being here