EldritchFeminity

I don't watch Star Trek, but even I know that the first show was hated in its time for having a black woman in the main cast and would've been called "woke" and boycotted for the socialist themes.

We haven't even seen any real effects of the tariffs yet. The last time a US administration did this, it caused 10 years of some of the worst economic downturn in world history - the Great Depression.

Got you pushing too many pencils, Dillon!

I had a FedEx driver the other day tell me that they separate packages into multiple deliveries sometimes even though they're all being dropped off all at once for the same reason. Cook the metrics so it looks like they're making more deliveries in a certain timeframe.

Oh how quickly history forgets the horrors of the past...

Conservatives be like: "One day I'll be a lordship, and then people like me better watch out!"

Most items have at least doubled in price since then, so it's a good thing to point out. Hell, the price of Taco Bell has doubled since the 90s alone. College prices have risen more than 1,000%.

Add on that we also have more expenses considered "essential" today as well. Things like the internet and cell phones didn't exist in the 70s, and are incredibly important to simply keeping a job today.

They never said that everybody has a right to drive. The reality is that, at least in the US and similarly planned countries, cars are priced like a luxury and treated like a necessity by the powers that be. Anything that isn't driving a car is an afterthought.

I mean, I'd personally rather see an anime girl themed desktop than those weird statues rich people sometimes have in places like on their coffee table that are stuff like a woman in the boob + butt out pose with no limbs or head. That shit is just creepy looking. I know it's supposed to be reminiscent of broken Greek and Roman statues, but why do they always have to be posed and objectified like porn stars? At least with the anime girl, I know that I'm talking to an otaku rather than Hannibal Lecter.

Yeah, I can't tell whether they mean aesthetics > graphics or everything else that goes into a game trumps good graphics.

With the latter, I generally say that good graphics can't save a bad game, while the former I refer to as the Wind Waker effect. People complained about how cartoony Wind Waker looked after the GameCube graphics demo showed off a realistic-looking fight between Link and Ganon, but today Wind Waker is looked back on fondly for its art style that defined many Zelda games after it while many of the "realistic" FPS games from the time are looked back on as the "real = brown" era.

I think it's also the speed and number of connections leading to the topic change. I think many neurotypicals would jump from the carnival to the rodeo, or to the bee story, but they wouldn't jump all the way to wondering about wasps from talking about the carnival in one go.

From the outside, the topic change is so different that neurotypicals can't follow the connections.

Yeah, my personal experience is the opposite where I find myself having to outright block people because I generally don't have an issue until outright blocking them is needed.

It would be great to have a "mute post/thread/comment" option that just stops any reply notifications for that specific item of yours. That way you don't have to select specific people to mute/block and it doesn't affect anything outside of that one specific comment of yours.