Wait, your tinnitus stays still? Mine is basically a symphony made for people whose favorite music is hearing tests.

I hate the idea that you shouldn’t freely provide joy to those around you for the sheer satisfaction of making it. The mammonite brain rot runs deep in a lot of people unfortunately

I want to work a reasonable amount, and have enough time and money to create for my own pleasure if I so choose. I don’t even mind content creation in theory, I see it no different from writing or doing art. It’s the constant pursuit of more, more, more, both status and money, that gets to me. I want freedom, security, and comfort.

Personally I prefer the “classes should feel comparably powerful/capable” model to simulationism. Since we aren’t going full locked tomb and saying that mages are all basically chronically ill, I extend it to martials are folk hero strength. A mid level rogue should be capable of Robin Hood level bullshit.

It’s nearly their entire fucking power budget, and they’re not even a great class!

If they impede your breathing you’ve definitely gone too far. Until then to your taste

And you don’t need to make up a holiday for it, it’s already multiple. You can celebrate Labor Day, but if that’s a bit too red for ya it’s also Beltane, but you’re more than welcome to the more secular version of May Day. It’s really just a lovely day to call off work and enjoy the halfway point of spring, ideally in nature with loved ones

Fine, then he’s too creepy to run Pennsylvania, and I assure you that is not a cool and normal place, despite what the Sheetz would have you believe

I think it may be more that they were the first generation to really be targeted by a disposability culture. The world they were born in was such that tv repair was a job and it was expected that if your small appliances broke you’d fix them rather than assuming it’s just not financially worth it. And their great grandparents had lived in a world where middle class people may have a few nice things that were hand crafted and meant to be passed down in a sort of poor person’s version of wealth.

So as mass production and upward mobility skyrocketed in the 20th century, it makes perfect sense that the generation born in the middle of it would not really get that the fact that their parents and grandparents had boxes of “valuable stuff worth a fortune” despite never actually having a fortune or anything close to it means they didn’t, they just had mass produced imitations of what once had been reserved for the wealthy.

Today all items are disposable because consumer goods are either too cheaply made to last a long time (furniture) or too complex or hostilly made to be able to efficiently repair compared to the labor and materials to make a new one (electronics)

Yes but I’m not cooking for 12

In this context aesthetic means “aesthetic[ly in line with me/the situation]”. It means big mood, but for style.

I see where they’re coming from. It’s a common demand straight men make of women while our culture sees body hair as very masculine rather than the biological element where testosterone is one if several reasons a person may have very thick body hair. And there’s a hypervigilance at times when it comes to cis partners of trans people because enough members of our community have been burned, especially those who date chasers.

That said, having known my fair share of gay men, yeah I wouldn’t jump to transphobia. Especially if you’re kinda twinky.

For some reason a Lucy Parsons quote came to me while reading this:

Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.

Now, I don’t agree with her there per se, but if these people want the poor and infirm dead well then maybe the Haymarket widow has a point

It’s also important to note that each of the Apostles literally did it. They abandoned their property and families (some were married with children) and they followed him. The command to sell everything, give the money to the poor, and follow him is something this man could see was possible because 12 people there had done it.

If anything I’d say your example is less that religion is inherently a tool of the state, but more that if you gain enough influence without destroying it the state you oppose will teach your corpse to dance.

Yeah I’ve met some priests, monks and nuns, some had even taken a vow of poverty. Non-ordained Christians? Of course not, who has?

Because I’m not interested in having a profile picture and idk even what it would be

You’re not a bad person, she’s more correct, but this is a change in language in process. The bad person thing is to lash out against others doing it as some have.

Also, good on you for actually listening to gentle correction from a friend. That’s something a lot of people struggle with and lash out against

Exactly, the experience of religion is felt internally and through community. As someone who went Christian -> atheist -> pagan, I can say I do understand both sides. Atheists are right to say that without evidence religion shouldn’t have any power over non-believers. Religious people are right to say that for some people religion serves a role that would be missed without it.

On issues of religion, even as someone who’s been pagan longer than she was an atheist I generally side with the atheists. I grew up watching Christians try to prove Christianity despite our denomination (catholicism) having the doctrine of non-overlapping magesteria, which basically says that anything science can prove belongs to science and where religion contradicts it must be taken as metaphor or flowery language. I’m far better served by freedom from religion than freedom to use religion as a cudgel, just as all minority religions are.

Yeah Chicago bar pizza is excellent. Also the Midwest as a whole likes square cut thin crust pizzas as local treats. Except Michigan where Detroit style is deep dish but for some reason it’s considered cooler