>>4815743
MMOs are mediocre games, they just figure out what I can see how it turned out to still be subscribed, but I don't remember.

>>4815743
you were struggling to stop sucking dicks i believe

>>4815744
Wisdom

>>4815424
Rasta culture is absolutely retarded and based off of ignorance and isolationism, while being incredibly racist. The only saving grace are colorful hats and weed.

>>4815586
Basically this, with women being borderline considered property

>Yfw bob marley died due refusing to undergo operable melanoma treatment due to what was basically rasta haram

>>4815586
Judging culture retroactively instead of using it as a historical placemarker? Sounds colonizer

>>4815871
Why would I want to give Dracula more money?

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. Get over yourself, you took advantage of a corrupt political system.

I do like guns though. Yay guns.

>>4815646
>>4815642
at the very least, we should default to neutral thingies until we are able to figure out their preference, either by talking to them or other colleagues.

if everyone wore their badges in a way that folks can read them, i suppose putting the pronouns on there could be useful.
maybe it'd be optional.


why do threads keep getting political?

>>4815876

>we should

no. my words are my own. they will not be legislated by mob or by state, much less at the demand of a tiny fraction of the population who are confused about their sex.

>>4815862
On a similar tangent and because it's christmas, there's an old Irish christmas song by the Pogues which very recently got some flak there for being derogatory.

In the part of the song, she sings
"You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot"
It's surprising it hasn't been brought under the spotlight sooner given the popularity of the song. Shane McGowan, local drunk and lead singer came out and said something along the lines of "This song is not about angels"

..And it was refreshing to note that there was no real public outcry. Nobody really gave a shit because A) It was a product of its time B) It's art and C) Like the lead said, the people depicted in the song are poor bitter hateful couple, to censor it was to censor the raw emotion.

I dunno.. I believe in freedom of expression without hindrance above all. If one wants to express hateful words or actions in songs, films or art, they should do so. But it should express and depict hatred, not incite it. Intent is key.

When it comes to he/she/whatever pronouns, along the similar idea of freedom to express, that one should be able to express whatever gender they wish to be without hindrance. But the caveat there is that they must give people the benefit of doubt. The line is drawn is when someone dictates to you what you should or should not be.

>i'm pretty baked, apologies if this is non sequitur

>>4815896

irreparable brain damage, permanent psychosis, i bet some burnouts wish that it had been lethal now that theyre in a padded room

>>4815896
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1129381/

If you lived in the area for a long time then go stir crazy and travel with money and died in another place in the World would you be there in the afterlife?
Could dying on the opposite side of the Earth stop you from going back to the place you know? I think it could.

>>4815479
u a cool dude, dude

>>4815860
I disagree with you on that. Alot of us are actually born with addictive genes it seems, then if becoming an addict, that drive to 'cop' is something other than ethic or moral. It's a chemial push to go get that drug. The chemicals in your brain mimic it as a dire need.

>>4815860
it is pretty hard to advocate for a junkie parent, but telling them to kill themselves still isn't the solution in mine eyes

>>4815897

its redundant because they are already killing themselves

>>4815895

>addictive genes
>becoming an addict
>chemical push

You're only a third right. The chemical push is real, but there's no such thing as an "addict" in the sense that they're a wholly different kind of person. You may remains a person, who develops an addiction, or a habit, or even a dependency. But even with an alcoholic dad from a long line of moonshiners, a crackwhore mom, and a chemical dependency on heroin, there is never not a choice to use or not use. When you're actually already high, that's one thing, but there is no scientific evidence to support the idea that being addicted robs one of their ability to choose. I don't believe that it's any person's fault that they become addicted to something, but it is one's fault if one does not accept help. Sometimes, help is easier to get than the next dose, but the choice is still hard. In that respect, although we should not judge too harshly for poor decision making- given the circumstances- it is always at least partly a moral or ethical matter.

>>4815885
If you conflate intersubjective norms with descriptive claims about the world, you might be a̙̰͎͍̰̜̫ͥ̔̍͂ͯͭͧ͟ ͇͖͜ṱ̿̆̾͡ȑ̷͍͍̹̻͈̜̑̚ȗ̪̭̥̣̖̈́ͥͦ̂̒͘s̲̠̖̿̋̓̋̚t̺͚̟̘̼̟̎̎͑̂̓̔ͅě͔̜̟̙̉̓̇d̬͔̼͟ ̛̦̈́ŕ̺͘e̟̰͎͌̈́ͅț͎̝̭͛̆̇̋ͯ͂a̗̞̼̼̜̖͉̅i̻̬̤̣̰͉ļ̳̝̤̺̫̦͑͐ͧ̚ͅe̳̖ͬͤͦ̑̊́r̨̎̓̚ ̩̟̱̪́n̄e̻̤̥͚̱͖̰̿̿͐̈͊̊a͉͚͛͂̂̇̐̑r̩͈ ͖͖̪̱͎͠y͙̖ͩ̂̚͡ơ̖̖̟̙͔̱̈ͬͬͪ̎ͫͅu̵͉̳͎͔̜̼͊ͅ

>>4815888
You know using lots of buzzwords doesn't make you sound smarter right? It just makes you look like a jackass.

>>4815885
Haha what the fuck is my phone even doing

>>4815893
It seems Google is interpreting the Zalgo text as Vietnamese and translating portions of the page

>>4815882
I use youtube-dl to get the files and Shotcut to edit and convert them. Works pretty well IME

DICKS EVERYWHERE

>>4815887
Why not just use genyoutube to download them without having to run command lines?

>>4815890
I use it in Python, so I really just have to feed it a URL and hit Enter. I'll check that out though

>>4815863

Or are they? How are you so sure they aren't in jail? How do you know YOU aren't in jail? Am I in jail?

>>4815867
>>4812431

>>4815863

wtf? i said to go outside. why are you replying "go outside then" to me who said to go outside? am i in jail?

>>4815867
Jails are a myth. Think about it, if you were really in jail, how would you even be able to tell? You wouldn't.

Honestly OP if you want to make money from videos you need a woman, or to be a woman. Nobody wants to watch some dude bitch, it's way easier to get a woman to do it and people won't even care what she's saying.

Maybe you could hire someone, pay them a bit for their time and then pocket all the money you make

>>4815595

What if OP dressed up as a woman to get even more clicks from tranny haters?

>>4815612
Underrated idea

>>4815660
Hmm, yeah. Maybe he could choose an "out there" kind of name like "TrannyChickHatesGames" or something.

OP just needs to create the most outrageous channel he can think of. An outrage machine that perpetually generates something for people to hate-click.

>>4815844
you guys would be better of doing something different then sticking with what u got at this point. Just try something new FFS. America is stupid LOL

>>4815844

>shiny new government agency

Would it be unreasonable to just cover everybody under a reformed version of Medicare?

>>4815850
I dunno man, you were getting on me earlier in the thread about vague solutions, that's pretty vague.

The problem is that reform still hinges on the legislators. So again, in principle, yes, but in practice I very much doubt it would be that cut and dry.

And to reiterate, I think universal healthcare is a good idea, and I hope to see it as a right for every American within my lifetime, but I don't think right now is the time to be doing this level of upheaval.

>>4815768

>Fix the corruption in the system before you try to give it yet more authority

This is exactly what I propose. Ending gerrymandering, ending first past the post, instituting proportional representation, and imposing strict limitations on the ability of corporations and private citizens to financially influence elections would decimate right-wing power in this country. Putting candidates on an equal playing field would give the American people a real choice in government and would probably result in the election of the most left-wing government in American history.

You see, that's why we don't have those things. The rich and powerful want to stay rich and powerful. Democrats and Republicans alike. They will never willingly make the concessions needed to be made for America to really be a democratic society.

>>4815772
Because the deficit actually doesn't matter that much. Printing money by itself doesn't result in consumer price inflation so the government technically can just print money, probably as long as it doesn't exceed its tax base or fiscal sources of revenue in doing so. Democrats are right not to bring up the deficit because deficit spending is one of the only things keeping the capitalist mode of production in operation. If the Republicans actually succeeded in limiting fiscal spending they would crash the entire economy, because these high government expenditures are now inextricable from the market.

>>4815831
you can get a degree in shit like industrial systems, electrical, hvac, all kinds of technical stuff. you can then hand this degree to employers looking for technicians, maintenance techs, skilled workers, and they will generally react favorably since you've skills in something relevant and don't need training from the ground up.

nursing and emt work can also be found using a relevant degree. there's all kinds of shit you can do if you opt for practical stuff instead of like arts or something.

>>4815833
some grading scales that takes you from B to A.

>>4815827
Yeah, except I successfully argued a missed point on a test and actually got the A on my own merit without needing to spend good boy pity points earned from being the teacher's manslave after class:
>>4815799

Sucks to suck

>>4815842
What the fuck? Who the hell gets 90% at a degree level course? Over here 70% gets you a first, and most people don't get near that at all

>>4815758

If there's no cops most people revert to becoming robbers within due time. My source is the great railroad riots of the 1800s. Cops were paid such shit back then and so less invested and trained to be lapdogs that they ended up joining and protecting looters from the army.

>>4815765
The railroad workers didn't become robbers in the railroad strikes, they were reclaiming a portion of the wealth they had created.

I'm a weed dealer in portugal.
Right now there is a bubble in the market.
First they were awash in hard drugs.
Then they changed to decrim and the whole market disappeared as a result as the demand dropped to near 0.
Now tourism has really started here and people are coming in droves
Portugal is still a soft drug tourism site, but as more places legalize and decrim less people will come here. Eventually it will be impossible to sell weed black here unless your very established.

Eventually the western world will move down the path of decrim and legalization. I feel like also it will just be accepted in the places it's illegal (weed is actually illegal for the most part in amsterdam for example its "Gedoogd" accepted in dutch so no one actually gets in trouble for it).
So I forsee a day in the US where you can openly smoke in a public park and no one gives a fuck despite it being fully illegal.

Maybe its different where you're from but in my home state (Florida) if you're chilling alone in a park smoking and reading a book bothering no one, some concerned christian mother will come and get up in your business or call the cops.

I think america will lag behind the rest of the world in this trend but eventually be forced to follow.

Side note, mexico is now debating legalization (or was it decrim, some one correct me), It would be hilarious if drug crime in mexico more or less stopped because of this and then like quadrupled in the US because of their backward laws.

>>4815761
This is true and we have prisons as fucking bad as the third world too. Imagine getting busted for having a joint and then getting stuck in Riker's Island with murderers. It doesn't "reform" anybody just gives prison owners a steady income and lets cops strip away more of our rights.

>>4815760

go away moleman, no one's gay for you.

>>4815549
If your point is, "they're not that different from one another so their differences don't matter and they don't exist", you're a retard.

>>4815760

>>4815606

they can never back it up. give them even the most basic scrutiny, the logical loopholes, the countless failed examples in history, nothing registers. they still think theyre entitled to what they never earned.

>>4815103
The worst thing about the future is the absence of wildlife.
I hardly see ny hedgehogs anymore.

Sad stuff

>>4815146

Ive seen badgers come back in huge numbers, so many foxes where there never was any before, got a bunch of rats that live in our wood shed, pidgeons, crows, tits, robins among others are always landing in the garden to bathe and eat.

If there was more wildlife back in the day i'd be constantly walking in animal shit. Maybe you live in a city or something. Plenty of wildlife in my town.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/12/frog-vs-snake-photo-nice-shot/

>At the time, O'Neill was convinced the frog was going to die. Puncture wounds dotted the frog's tongue and, with the snake still viciously wriggling, she assumed the amphibian's unusual meal would be its last.
>But in the morning, the frog was still there. Green tree frogs were a common sight for O'Neill; she'd even seen one crawl out of her toilet after it presumably swam up her pipes, but she recognized this one by its massive size. Picking it up, she said it filled both her palms.

>>4815009
battletoads are memes
they're also not frogs

>>4815634

>I don't know how to paint

It's not complicated lad. You don't know how to hold a thin stick, dip it in liquid then rub it against paper?

>>4815649


Yeh but how long until I aquire the skills I need to make my hypothetical graphic novel? 10 years? 20 years? Forever? I won't know until I try and it's such a pain in the ass to try

>>4815664
Imagine if you'd started ten years ago
Imagine ten years from now if you start now

>>4815634
Check the history of the Mona Lisa.
It's really not that extraordinary of a painting, it rides on a huge amount of hype for weird non-art reasons, and then after knowing that you get a different but deeper appreciation for it, in how malleable peoples' aesthetic values are.

So how to pitch THAT? No clue mate. Be Marcel Duchamp maybe.

>>4815663
what is dunk

>>4815723
what you put in doughnuts

>>4815711
you're an absolutely flatminded fucktard if you actually think that me saying that I just don't bother to pathetically scrutinize every single pixel of a pic I downloaded to enjoy is somehow straw clutching, methinks thou projects too much!

>>4815807
you're not even following the conversation correctly.
whatever man, enjoy your uncanny valley dolls.