Now that the election is over, all the libs who said “now is not the time” are going to join PSL or some other organization working to benefit people, right?

BIG WATER. Biggest water we’ve ever seen.

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I think she wins solely because of abortion. Yeah, dems didn’t do anything to protect abortion rights, but they’re also not the freaks showing up to protest or bomb abortion clinics and harass women on the daily. “Not actively making things worse” plays well for people in a lot of circumstances.

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How was Rogue Trader? I haven’t played the other Owlcat games because they have overwhelming options and I’m not a tabletop enjoyer. I read Rogue Trader is a completely different rules system though.

me with a shy bladder skipping elementary school to play my shaman in world of warcraft: ele men no pee

Haven’t had trick or treaters in 7 years across 3 different apartments and multiple states. Just 1 fairy princess around Year 5 and had to scramble to find some stickers to give her. Everyone does the trunk or treat stuff now, which made sense for little kids, but is also sad because it turns it into a sectioned off activity that you drive to and then go home.

It’s not a co-op. They’re just relatively small and mostly hire senior developers who demand a higher level of respect and work/life balance. They used to only work on projects people wanted to based on consensus and personal interest. People floated between teams, you were free to convince people to work on your pet project instead, etc. They stopped doing that when they started on Half Life Alyx and talk about it in the design booklet because it also meant that literally nothing ever got completed since there was no direction and promising projects floundered from lack of support.

He’s also adamently a proponent and supporter of Transcendental Meditation and has converted half the actors he’s worked with. Which as an individual practice isnt’t a problem, but the organization behind it is a huge scam started by a predatory rolls royce yogi who Lynch personally knew. The same guy who made The Beatles leave India because he creeped on their girlfriends.

I half forgive him for this because I think he probably doesnt read literally anything on the internet and has had the privilege of the organization sheltering him from any of their wrongdoing. Unless a friend of his personally told him, he might not have any idea.

I got halfway through Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and now the game just won’t get past the loading screen anymore so I can’t finish it. I was having fun too. The game is pretty easy and not at all like a Souls game mechanically even though that’s a common comparison, unlike the Pinocchio game I still haven’t played yet. Fitting with the theme, the first difficult boss was Lu Bu where the game really expects you to know how to parry. I’ll try booting it up again in a few weeks and hopefully it randomly fixes itself after a Proton update or something.

We’ve been having wild swings where it’s like 30F one day and 90F the next day. Over and over. It sucks because you can’t put away the box fan, pack the heavy jackets, or whatever because you’re gonna need it all on different days of the week.

Use Thunder. Its on Fdroid. Or you can grab it straight from Github with Obtanium.

Just the one I mentioned that adopted the lifestyle in the last year, but they live in a different state. I’m unfortunately in a very un-vegan place for an extended period of time, so am unlikely to find many nearby.

After both being vegan for 5 years, my partner has gone back to calling themselves vegetarian and consuming dairy. Everything we eat shared is vegan, but too many inconsistencies piled up elsewhere and they never really adopted a fully animal-centric view. They buy leather, wool, etc but only second hand unless its a gift for someone else. In their mind the other person isn’t vegan, so theres a distinction if its not for their personal consumption. They’re against mammal breeding, but have a leopard gecko bought from a breeder, when the rest of our animal companions are rescues because they study reptiles and amphibians academically and breeders are some of the only reliable places to get them from. Stuff like that.

I’m not posting to trash on them, they’re still my partner and have been for almost 20 years. But its personally disappointing as I’ve felt more and more disconnected from everyone in my life due to ethical and ideogical reasons.

I think I have a harder time dealing with it because I’m nuerodiverse and my condition commonly correlates with “a strong sense of justice” or in other words an unwavering conviction once I’ve decided something is ‘right’ (which can become perverted justice just as easily). I’m glad we dont plan to have children, because like others in this thread mentioned, it’d be much more difficult to navigate. But I’m definitely interested in hearing how others deal with this disconnect while not just sabotaging all their relationships.

As for the weekly question, I ‘feel better’. Not physically, but emotionally and mentally, at least in regards to my personal actions. Spiritually as well, as I am a Buddhist and non-harm to other beings, but even specifically animals, is held as a moral ideal. I feel I am following in the footsteps of previous exemplary teachers from hundreds of years in the past, who advocated for veganism in even less practical circumstances than I am in.

I feel I can look at and interact with animals with a clean conscience and that my actions do have an effect on other, even if its not as strong as I’d like. One friend became vegan just by my jokingly suggesting a vegan pact for a weeklong trip we had after having discussions about moral ethics. Positive actions lead to positive self-perception that leads to more general happiness and fulfillment. On the flipside, more despair at not being able to stop animals from being killed and realizing how little other people care every time we talk.

BlueSky got like 100K new signups in a day when Twitter announced it would let all posts be used to train the Grok AI. Artists are starting to migrate specifically, but even a lot of my friends finally shut down their Twitter accounts. There’s extensions that help you find your Followed people on Twitter under their BlueSky handles. It sucks because it’s still a big corporate platform, but it’s at the very least better than Twitter.

I never played the Pathfinder games but a ton of CRPGs don’t let you do that still. I don’t even like D&D, I think the rules system sucks because it encourages specialization/roleplaying at the expense of fun.

A little tangential to your point because it doesn’t justify Israel’s actions or anything, but there’s a really good book I just wanted to share called Eternal Treblinka that explores the views of holocaust survivors in relation to animals, among other things. I imagine the person you talked with read this, but had some twisted takeaways.

“In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”

I think he was napping at the time, but she was a longtime smoker who insisted on Asmongold getting her cigarettes, even though she was on oxygen. That combination led to an accident that sent her to the hospital and she died later. I don’t like the guy at all, but I feel bad for him in that specific circumstance, because you’re stuck either being an enabler or exerting your will over someone you’re supposed to be supporting who is otherwise still capable of independent decisions.

Yea, I queued up one of the Xinjiang episodes the other day too. Pretty much any of them are good though and makes me really want to travel there again.