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Last place I was at had birds nesting in the walls.

Told the maintenance guy, brought him in so he could hear them, and his response was ‘yep, not much we can do’.

He had the same response when I pointed out the black mold, easily visible all over the bathroom, and that the AC/heating unit didn’t even have a filter, nor a cover, and regularly spit out chunks of … presumably wall insulation.

Took em 6 months to finally get rid of the bed bugs too.

It’s wild how much ads ruin your load times.

And burn through your data cap if you’re poor and/or on a mobile device.

I want Klein Bottle Earth.

I come from a similar religious background, though my parents very obviously hate each other, never divorced, both constantly trying to get a middle school aged me to take their sides in arguments, traingulating everything, always, all the time, later escalating to trying to force various mental health condition diagnoses on each other and myself via quack doctors and institutions with dubious at best qualifications and track records.

I stopped talking to my family years ago, but if my ability to search through public records is accurate, it looka like my brother, his schizophrenic former FLDS cult member girlfriend and my mom rent and live in a two bed house in a suburb, and my dad lives in a trailerhome 60 miles away out in the sticks.

They want slaves and concubines back.

IE an actual traditional family, as very well defined in the Old Testament / Tanakh.

When you get to the New Testament, you end up with the uberconservative push for making divorce illegal citing Jesus himself.

Matthew 19:3-9

3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one 's wife for any cause?”

4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

7 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”

8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Notice how the presumption here is that only a man can divorce his wife, not the other way around.

The rule of Moses as understood by the Pharisee is that a man can serve a woman divorce papers, and that’s that.

What they can all agree on is women are second class citizens and should be subordinate to men.

Paul is quite famous for not permitting women to speak:

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

Strider’s gonna have a rough childhood if any kids around him his age ever play Half Life 2.

… Do… you mean cut the ‘bitter’ taste?

Because… somewhat ironically, if you’ve indeed made that spelling error, I’ve also found that a tiny bit of butter (actual butter, not margarine), a teaspoon, stirred until totally melted into the coffee, can give a much more rich and varied taste to what would otherwise be too bitter and… ‘sharp’, I guess.

Probably wouldn’t work so well with instant coffee… but I’ve always just gone with a darker roast of some kind, either grounds or beans that I grind with a cheap grinder, and then just use an old fashioned french press.

I guess I just prefer significantly more bitter and less sweet coffee than about 1/3rd of the people who’ve read this…

Oh well, works for me.

Fall damage from tripping down the stairs?

Starved to death?

Succumbed to poison inflicted by an enemy upstairs he already vanquished?

Back when I regularly drank coffee, I’d use a bit of this kind of stuff. A splash.

Still way, waaaaay too sweet.

Switched to a half gallon of wholefat milk in the fridge, used a splash of that instead.

Much better.

…

Most Americans I’ve known seem to think they like coffee, when what they actually like is a milkshake with notes, hints, suggestions of coffee.

One former roommate of mine thought it was completely normal for ‘a cup’ of coffee to be 1/3 coffee and 2/3 this kind of pictured coffee.

I remember actually vomiting one time I mistook her cup of coffee for mine.

Can someone put the stonks guy’s face on anakin, and a bear on mace windu for when the housing market/stock market crashes?

I was promised infinite growth, yet line not go up! This is unfair, outrageous!

Take a seat, young hodler.

Yep, I’ve certainly met and will continue to meet many priveleged, sanctimonious, manipulative fools.

And when their peaceful protest gets dispersed and peppered with gunfire by armed thugs with guns, I’ll just stand aside and watch, just like they’d want me to.

You and I will never meet.

EDIT: I gave you my personal experiences because you made a personal claim about me, that I am violent, that I want to kill someone.

Not because its relevant to the larger idea about guns.

You made it personal, you became judgemental, and gaslit met.

Yeah, you and I will never meet, I’ve suffered knowing far too many manipulative, sanctimonious gaslighters in my life.

Hope all your friends enjoy you victim-blaming them as much as I have.

I don’t even own a gun, but uh ok?

I’ve worked at non profits to house the homeless, for years. Could have made a lot more money in a corporate job, but I eschewed that in favor of doing actual good in the world.

I’ve been homeless, been robbed and beaten by people with guns, dodged a drive by shooting by 20 or 30 feet, been held against my will, without charges, by armed agents of the state for simply existing while honeless, been held captive by a madman and beaten for a week straight.

I have firearms training, because I grew up around guns, but I’ve never owned a gun.

I have martial arts training, and I’ve only ever used it to defend myself and others; never once have I instigated a random assault, but I’ve broken up a few.

My country is the most armed country on the planet, and it’s currently undergoing a fascist coup.

But please, do go on about the revolution your parents had, and the comfy, detached from reality moral structure its allowed you develop.

Tell the Ukranians defending their country how guns are evil and they should just roll over and accept assimilation.

Tell the Palestinians to stop resisting and just allow themselves, their people, to be wiped off the face of the earth.

Meanwhile, leftist demonstrations in my country have been terrorized by openly armed right wing militias and terrorists for years, been black bagged and arrested by armed secret police.

But I’m sure you’re quite fine telling victims of armed violence that they’re actually the guilty ones for pointing out the basic underlying fact that all politics and laws are only as meaningful as the monopoly on violence that enforces them, and that guns are the most common and direct tool in that trade.

Oh sure, violence is awful, traumatizing and cruel.

But if you think that you must be a child to mistake violence with reality, than I’d say that you are actually the one with the priveleged, childlike view of the world.

I agree that guns should not be fetishized, that that is a dangerous sign of immaturity, but guns are a useful and prevalent tool.

You can’t just wish them out of existence.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

• Karl Marx

When they kick at your front door

How you gonna come?

With your hands on your head

Or on the trigger of your gun?

• Paul Simonom

I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.

• Luigi Mangione

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

• John F. Kennedy

Politcal power grows from the barrel of a gun.

• Mao Tzetung

Counterpoint:

meta-ad-ception

Ads within an ad, about about ads.

Ah well, worth a shot.

Here’s my contribution to the ‘what the fuck are these things’ guesses:

Its a customizable, weighted D12.

You stick the coins into the slots, then do some kind of gambling involving dice rolls.

Part of the game is that as coins are added or removed, the weighting changes.

Hell, it could be that you take turns tossing the thing till its full of coins, thrower has to fill the hollow upward facing hole, as a way of anteing up, then just toss it again untill its empty, thrower takes out the upward facing coin, everyone takes a drink when it lands with a hollow slot face up.

The educated, literate people probably wouldn’t bother to write down the exact details of a low class gambling game, when literacy is rare and scrolls/books are expensive.

The things have reportedly often been found in cabinets and drawers alongside coins.

They vary in size… maybe some of the rather large ones could be commissioned as not a practical gambling die, but as an exxageratedly large one, as a trophy or ornament, like modern mall ninja swords or funko pops or something.

Possibly they could also serve a practical purpose for normal people and coin minters to check that their coins are properly sized.

Any… Roman numismatists here that can sanity check this, in terms of coin sizes?

Absolutely, putting a book down open face will fuck up the spine, and if done for a long time or repeatedly, the whole book will be deformed and maybe even fall apart.

That seems much more chaotic to me than dog earing a few pages.

Why would this be unexpected?

Proton already handed over the IP of a climate protester to authorities several years ago, while boasting that they had a no log policy.

https://therecord.media/protonmail-forced-to-collect-an-activists-ip-address-in-police-investigation

Every time, in the past few years, that I bring this up, everyone just acts like I’m setting an impossible standard and no alternative exists.

Proton has been shady for years.