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Capitalism: has killed people Socialism: has killed people Communism: has killed people Tsar bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb in existence: has never killed people 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@TheItalianPole I think I'll be getting off at midnight

My Wife talks about calipers like she talks about Chicago (e.g. like a pervert)

Watched The Art of Self-Defense; can't believe they made a better Fight Club

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I think, strangely enough, I've become more comfortable with the idea of people being evil, but simultaneously less convinced that that is so existentially meaningful or cause for intense reactions. It's a real concern, not to be brushed aside, but not to be made alien either.

@DralTor I am always on main

The phases where I consistently take prog always make me go wild

@AAliments Brainstupid

@Trunkulent go wild?

@lsv I'd actually quibble a bit on this more than the rankings: resource systems might not be so easily ranked independently from their game engine. E.g. I think Flesh and Blood's could not work any other way, and is in such a unique space that it'd be hard to say it's worse for it.

This isn’t a ranking of the games themselves (though Magic is still #1), but their resource systems, which obviously have a big impact.

TCG Resource System Power Rankings: 1. Lands 🏆 (MTG) 2. Gain 1 resource per turn (HS) 3. Resource deck to draw from (RFT) 4. Playing cards face-down (SWU) 5. No resources - rules constraints (YGO)

@LinkofSunshine It's crazy how often these things demonstrate that bigotry actually induces illiteracy

She cooked so hard I almost liked a hate tweet

@Lt_Amazil @elduuuui You surely don't mean?

@elduuuui Oh my god @Trunkulent I have made a terrible connection that my brain apparently didn't want me to make for all these years...

Shirley Henderson, quien interpretó a "Myrtle la Llorona"' tenía 37 años cuando hizo la audición para Harry Potter para interpretar a un personaje de 14 años. 😱 “El director de casting me dijo: ‘Hazlo… y no menciones tu edad’. Cuando me llamaron por primera vez para una audición, no sabía quién era Harry Potter. Pero mi hermana, que se estaba quedando conmigo, había leído los libros. Aun así, no estaba convencida de que pudiera interpretar a una chica de 14 años porque en ese momento yo tenía treinta y tantos”, contó Henderson a The Independent. “Fui a la audición vestida como una colegiala —camisa blanca, falda negra, coleta— pensando: ‘Esto es ridículo’. Hice mi pequeña actuación y me dieron las gracias. Pasaron meses y pensé que ahí quedaba todo, pero luego llamaron a mi agente, pidieron volver a verme y me ofrecieron el papel… Myrtle es una persona vieja en el cuerpo de una persona joven y, como es fantasmal, hay una especie de neblina. No estás mirando de cerca mi cara, así que pudimos salirnos con la nuestra.”

@catwthewires It'd basically be anything that's included in this: irs.gov/publications/p…

@Trunkulent hmmm. fair. thank you. i need to figure out what’s covered so i can properly calculate

does anyone have advice for how much to contribute to an FSA

@catwthewires FSAs are pretty great 'cuz you get to reduce income tax *and* medicare/ss tax, which saves on everything, down to the state level. One thing that's somewhat strange, though, is that it doesn't include insurance premiums, but most everything else will work.

@catwthewires Honestly, I'd say you want to contribute about the full amount allowed if it is close to your expected costs, but if the expected costs are a bit lower, you can probably safely choose that and re-cover whatever's left at year end.

@MinModulation Perhaps it would help if the Action Writing was actually clear and expressive instead of feeling like filler manifest

@MinModulation I don't mind doses of action when it sets the right mood and pacing, it'd have to be compared to the surrounding parts, but admittedly I blurred reading most of this and only perked up in the middle bit where *something* that invests you and is personal (the wizard bit) pops up.

Modern writing pushes for snappy, punchy, and *action-oriented* external text, as if drafting a future film adaptation. Words can always be cut out - but the judging criteria should be "Does this fit the Expressive Intention?", not "Is this a Minimalistest Delivery of InfoData?"

@OblomovCocktail Well it is unusually disturbing

@Trunkulent findom arc?

first trand day of visibility ive convinced a dude to venmo me money

@tokubirb Oh no that's my associate

@Trunkulent wtf you arent actually an elephant?

I was quite pleased