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Gotta love when that happens

Smallville posted...

you guys ever heard this famous saying? What do you personally think of it though?

As a wise man once said: "Not an argument against atheists as much as an argument against foxholes"

Bravo TC

Haley Joe Osment should release his own diss track but have it ghost written by Kendrick for the memes

TheFuzz3451 posted...

Unfortunately, this is a time honored American tradition. Cops letting a fascist mob go wild against left-wing protesters. Cops and fascists are usually working together, and in fact there's significant overlap between the two. Some of those that work forces etc.

A tale as old as time

ROBANN_88 posted...

Please excuse my ignorance, but what's "sapphic oriented"?

I mean i can guess by context, but i've never seen that term before

A space for women who love women. Sometimes the term is preferred for more inclusive spaces for those that welcome nonbinary lesbians and bisexual women. Generally, I find these places are standard although what terminology they prefer is a bit varied

One of the things I find so frustrating about TERFs is how they seem to think the idea of trans women being acceptable within the lesbian community is somehow novel when lesbians have had a long history of accepting a variety of gender identities and non-cis women. There is a reason why lesbians tend to be the most accepting group of trans women despite what the media likes to portray.

So I'm a trans woman and recently a sapphic oriented board got invaded by a hate group because two trans women posted pictures of themselves outside having a good day together.

For the most part they just made the job of the mods miserable as they had to block all these people but eventually they broadened their harassment started attacking people through DMs and in other boards.

Received quite a few dick pics, really hateful comments in my posts and even weeks later, if I make a message on a private board, I risk these people saying pretty hateful shit to me.

I just needed to vent really. It gets tiring

What is FMLA?

Kradek posted...

It was actually, and surprisingly, in Pennsylvania.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash

Surprise surprise. Thanks for the info

This kid probably needs some extra supervision and definitely lots of court mandated therapy...

Texas child prisons are notoriously awful and even worse then the adult prisons with prison guards consistently being found to be child predators. Remember that cash for kids scandal? Pretty sure that was Texas too.

SwayM posted...

Completely different. See post #64

That didn't answer my question

SwayM posted...

Continues to laugh in Canadian.

Also, I tried a "pink" burger last year and it was fucking disgusting. My mind couldn't get over the texture, it felt wrong.

Do you eat your Steaks well done too?

DrizztLink posted...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming

Yes the instinct is less swimming and more "how to remain alive in water longer until I get rescued" instinct.

modena posted...

Same. I've seen babies swim. (I wasn't involved)

So fun fact, babies actually have an instinct to swim that we lose as we get older.

CyricZ posted...

https://twitter.com/arrisonjwarner/status/1783293522889875849

Can I get a summary of the last one? I don't have Twitter and I can't read it all

More liberal nonsense. What I wouldn't give for more Leftists in government

SwayM posted...

This topic is about burgers but good call, other food cultures can be gross too and I wouldn't eat any one of those dishes.

In Canada it's very simple. You just order a burger. They don't ask you how you want it done because that's an asinine question, the same way they wouldn't ask you how you wanted your chicken done.

That is a take. I might not live there, but I've been there and I've seen people ask for their food to be done to different temperatures before so idk exactly your issue was. You act like you are on a different planet or something

Burger, Medium to Medium Well

Steak, Medium Rare

Nothing funny to add really. One of the things that coincided with the end of the "golden age of capitalism" was when stock buybacks stopped being considered market manipulation (thank you Reagan) since then they have become just a regular part of doing business. Just giving yourself more money is legal I guess if you are rich enough and control a big enough corporation.

How much longer are these idiots in power?

Ban stock buybacks next

MaxEffingBemis posted...

Anyone else have any opinions on Pathfinder?

It's good if you like tactical miniatures combat. Vastly better then D&D if only because Paizo is an infinitely better company. There are much better systems but if you are looking for the closest thing to D&D, Pathfinder is it .

This poll option is terrible. Being gay/bi aren't really gender identities. Was the point to present options that aren't the thing you were trying to assess?

Tyranthraxus posted...

Pathfinder is definitely not a beginner friendly game. The huge downside of the 3.x systems that nobody ever likes to talk about is that it's way too easy to make a character that's completely useless. It was made by and for people who like to minmax the shit out of everything.

Not a huge problem with homebrew but a major issue for like everything else

The topic says it all. Increased demand for worker productivity increases stress and anxiety which increases blood pressure which leads to heart attacks and heart related issues.

I've known jobs that literally work people to death, that saw even their management team as expendable that they could replace. I cannot count the number of people at my last job that drank their stress away but I can tell you the number of people who died as a result of a heart attack in the five years I worked there: 6. But heart issues, heart attacks are not logged as work related deaths in the same way we track cancer related deaths because we don't think of them as being caused by the businesses themselves.

It's only when companies do shitty things on top of that does it penetrate the zeitgeist. That last company, after the death of their employee, refused to pay out his overtime and was the subject to a massive class action lawsuit. They lost but the business kept on keeping on. While overtime is now paid, the reason for this person's death was never addressed.

Every business I've ever worked at is obsessed about productivity, and it is literally killing people.

Like to date or to manage your relationships?

This topic is pointlessly mean

Idk, but I would live deliciously.

Do you go to Pizza places and buy the Burgers?

Seaman_Prime posted...

Last I heard, they sent some Pinkertons to a customer who got their stuff too early, no fault of his own. Just some fun card game stuff.

Worse then that, the guy gave it to his friend so they went after his friend and threatened him and then stole his stuff.

1. Cost
2. Power Creep
3. Content Bloat
4. Really Really Terrible Developers (they hired Pinkertons to steal from someone and threaten them)

No, I find them insufferable and often support bigotry..

Vicious_Dios posted...

All I wanted was a price-check...

Maybe if you did more then lukewarmingly call me a hero during COVID you would get your price-check quicker

I can't count how many times I've heard this story: Gets hired for a new job, shows up for orientation, everything is ok, Day 1 they learn their job is not what they signed up for, their equipment is inadequate and their expectations are ludicrous.

Companies lie all the damn time to get people to come work dangerous or inadequately staffed positions and then throw them away if they don't meet their standards in an instant. Meanwhile, a person has to quit their previous job with the promise of an increased standard of living only to realize that they are now stuck in their new abusive job until they find a better one.

Companies leverage their monopoly on wealth to ensure that individuals are reliant on them and cannot easily escape. It's literally abuse. If an individual did this, it would be a crime. It is a crime. You can't just lie to people under false pretenses to manipulate them to do what you want but businesses can just do that because that's how absolutely fucked the system is.

Cartoon_Quoter posted...

I'm 50/50 on whether AEW just tells Oklahoma to go fuck themselves and never go back, or go back constantly and dial the queerness up to 11 each time.

I hope they go with the second. Like just have a huge 5 minute makeout scene with Kenny O. and Bryan Danielson in the middle of the arena uninterrupted before they start wailing on each other again. Seriously fuck Oklahoma

Actually get told that by my wife a non-zero amount of time

Foppe posted...

Republicans made Fandom buy GameFaqs just so they can silence the last thing that prevents them from winning?

No one said that.

Foppe posted...

...how does Republicans win just because you cant post a political thread outside CE on a dying websight?

Republicans benefit from misinformation and shutting down discussion. That's why they label everything as political so that they can control what gets talked about. There is a reason why conservatives always cheer when political discussions get shut down and that's because they know they can never win those

rynobot posted...

Only idiots thought this was about fairness in sports.

I think it stems from the human desire to take people at their best not realizing that large portions of the population are gaslighting the other parts to such an extent that the other half is convinced they are the crazy ones.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1cc43739.jpg

I've been reading a lot into trans sports ban lately and the more I do the less I feel like it has anything to do with "fairness". The more time passes by, the more research done, the more support that trans women don't have any significant advantages over cis women the results seem to suggest

https://www.outsports.com/2024/4/12/24091267/transgender-athletes-study-research-science-sports-governing-bodies/

But then you come across things like... banning trans women from playing chess or darts or fishing or fake wrestling and... it's all transphobia. It always has been.

https://www.si.com/wrestling/2024/04/17/oklahoma-commission-takes-issue-aew-trans-wrestler?utm_source=reddit.com

Of course they do, gotta make the line go up TC. How else do you expect them to keep shareholders around if the line doesn't keep going up?

Wild topic

pinky0926 posted...

Hey guys, we've brought in a consultant to help us fix the serious underlying structural, operational and cultural isues in our organisation.

They don't work in our industry. They're not a professional in any of the things that we do, nor do they have any of the contextual experience to understand our problems. In fact they have no expertise in any field at all, actually.

But we're paying this person a lot of fucking money to look at our company and fix it. Everyone tell the consultant what you do for a living.

That's because consultants are good at one thing: making line go up.

They don't have to know anything about your business, they just need to know business.

HylianFox posted...

As we all know, Perfect is the enemy of Good.

>_>

Are there people here who believe that or is that just an online conservative gaslighting thing

C_Pain posted...

The leggings trend is both a blessing and a curse.

How so?

Shorts, skirts, jeans, suit pants if you were a professional. Dresses.