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Technically, the early 2050s. So there’s still time.

He had him consider all the animals first 😬

While my own similar rant would have been only meant in play, this is how I feel about both o’ y’all. It’s a fucking soda. Gonna just go all the way and call sweet tea a coke too?

Mine went with commode as well, and my 70ish aunt is the only born American I’ve ever heard insist on calling it a buggy.

@Kid_Thunder, mind if I ask the general era you were growing up? Because I’m a millennial from the triad and we say soda. Soda pop in elementary, but I’m not sure whether we picked that up from media.

It would be interesting to work out around when the shift happened.

I figured I had worse things in my history and my personal TSA agent deserved to see this too, but nothing comes up except weird non-porn crypto stuff, a fully-clothed Shadowheart, and a magazine cover with muffins on it.

Don’t let this be my legacy.

Oh, I’m sure at least one of us will be packing

Goddamnit. It’s not mine either.

You know? I’ve never had the good fortune to be familiar with the series and it’s on my wishlist now for later. It IS more modern than my usual tastes, but heaven forbid I play something new and find out I like it. Seems like there’s spoilers in the third for the second one, though…

That said, my favorite part of this photo is they actually tried to do the math. If time = distance ÷ speed, the earth has a circumference of 24,901 miles, and the fastest snail’s top speed is 0.03mph, they would encircle the earth in 830,033 hours. So I suspect this snail cheated and hitched a ride at some point, likely near the end when it got tired, but did most of it on foot

Not that this happened, but there absolutely would have been at least one suspicion. Nobody doesn’t have an accent of some sort, and he’d have no way of knowing how accurate his pronunciation is all the way from Italy among other Italians. Everyone thinks they sound good til they hear themselves on a recording. His only way out would be to say his family is italian-american but he doesn’t know the language very well. He might think of that. He’s also on 4chan, though.

However, Americans are highly curious about others as a rule and the women reportedly thought he was at least ok, so someone would have asked where he was from regardless of what he sounded like. And then he would have been stuck playing 20 questions about a randomly chosen region he isn’t familiar with and hoping to god whoever he’s talking to isn’t from there.

You forgot tortoiseshell, which is both famously prissy and named after a pattern

That is definitely chrona and that is definitely patty, but I do not remember this episode for the life of me

You’re talking about transcranial magnetic stimulation?
You know, that hadn’t been on my radar? I appreciate you bringing that up and forcing me to have a better understanding of it. Looking further into it, there doesn’t seem to be enough literature at the moment to be certain and it’s not currently FDA approved for my specific case. Severe depression, yes. Psychosis is a relative contraindication as of last year – i.e., “exercise caution, but go ahead with it if the benefit outweighs the risk.”

Which would be the question, for me. I’m not certain, in my case, whether I would be labeled as so bad off that I outweigh all risk of making it worse. Could see it happening because god does hate me and maybe I just don’t realize how bad it is, but I think I’d likely just go back to being prescribed varying medications forever until we all grow old and die.

The position I’m currently in is, each successive psychotic break a person has causes a tiny little percentage of brain damage. So do antipsychotics if you keep taking them. That knowledge makes it feel like a question of the rate at which I desire my brain to rot rather than an If, and I don’t think I really can be more sedated than I am and remain this barely functional.

So I’ve really been holding out for the US to take notice of Australia’s recent approval of psilocybin, which doesn’t seem to have anywhere approaching the negative effects while still acting as a successful medication. I got all excited over it and everything.

You know, I think I would try TMS if it were offered to me, yeah. What’s the worst thing that’s going to happen, I’ll turn into myself?

You come off like the kind of person who would laugh at a hanging, and by your own metric, I would be forced to label you inhuman on that basis. I’m going to refuse because otherwise, we’re just playing No True Scotsman with our own species. The biggest problem with people is that they are people.

The one singular treatment that doesn’t worsen other already unmanageable symptoms or cause measurable brain damage is only available in Asutralia gang 🙃

Guess I’ll just go fuck myself

they are not human beings capable of thought or reason.

Not that I don’t agree entirely with everything else you’ve written. The left routinely has this severe problem where they’re unable to acknowledge people for who they are and out of natural idealism convince themselves that if the opposition desires something harmful, it must only be because they don’t understand they’re doing harm.

Therefore, all one must do to combat evil is to go, “nooo, stop, you’re going to make someone sad!” and after that doesn’t work, they’re out of ideas so they just keep trying the golden rule over and over.

But holy shit, dude. They can be vicious. They can even be dangerous enough to pose an unacceptable threat to life. They’re still human.

Normally I would say dub or nothing because I simply can’t read that fast without missing what’s onscreen. But for this show only, I’m going to say subs, if for nothing else then because closed captioning includes Boomhauer’s lines.

Also, from everything I gather, fluent English doesn’t come off to me as being a common thing in Japan. I’d love to be incorrect, but I’ve heard repeatedly that they mostly fall off again after high school and that their educational system looks down on errors so much they basically won’t even risk asking questions, so they shrink from practicing verbally in front of actual speakers.

So the guy in the photo is a freeaboo

Mad because America still has access to trees, huh.

More seriously, the coastal county near me has seen 15 hurricanes make landfall in the past 35 years. Of those, 9 have been a category 2 or higher. You guys in your latitude get little tornadoes and some half-hearted shaky-shake that barely even registers, not earthquakes and hurricanes.

Unless your windowless, single-story house composed of 8in. of reinforced, perfectly uncracked concrete comes with an identical roof like a bomb shelter, I would strongly recommend weathering it out with whichever distant family member will take you. Anything above a Cat. 1 can just rip the ceiling off and stone in an earthquake stands a chance of aerating your skull, for all the expense you put into building it.

Brick in particular is fucking terrible for this. This is one of the reasons every now and then, you’ll see a stone building totalled while a wooden one down the street sits untouched. Wood’s pretty flexible and natural disasters are weird.

Also, lol you live in a fancy oven you can’t even renovate and you’ll be dead long before I am

I’d give it 3-4 years. Maybe five if they’re sturdy, but not a decade.

And yet, we continue to live directly, knowingly in the path of multiple hurricanes every year instead of simply moving. I always thought going into the construction business around the Outer Banks must be a money cheat.

Eat shit, sir or madam.