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The secret big plaque doesn’t want you to know is that all plaques are temporary and disposable, some just sooner than others.

Yes they will make him a new set of plaques, they often come in two unless you’re buying glass ones, in my limited time experience as an office admin a few years back.

You know, absolutely everything you wrote is spot on, zeroed right on the mark correct, as far as I’m concerned. Absolutely explains “why they’d want to shame them”. Truly, you translated human nature into the comment very well.

But…human nature is…well.

All that you wrote is what someone who is looking to make someone face and own their decisions and the consequences of their actions should do. But the reason why the poster you commented on is correct, is because the shopkeeper in the comic, by their own signage, isn’t someone who is looking to merely chastise to engender better behavior.

The other half, is actually dealing with those consequences. As you noted, the person who chose poorly has invited their consequences upon another living being, whether through willful action or unfortunate circumstance, doesn’t matter.

The person will need to learn, but the living being who is not the person, is actively enduring those consequences. The reason why they let you drop off babies at fire fighter stations without making you have to go in and sign a form, is because unrestricted absolution leads to more babies being saved.

When a person has an out, out of a problematic situation that they can utilize without furthering worsening their situation, they will take it. Note that I said without worsening, the sting of the original problem always remains as hook enough for self improvement. A person will have to eventually step up to fix themselves or they should be stopped, and discouraged, yes.

But if someone else is choosing to instead, rescue or protect or rehabilitate the collateral victims of the consequences of another’s actions, the most effective course is to focus solely on that which they seek to save, as the person who did the damage is not their responsibility and engaging poorly there, would result in less saving of that which they would protect.

Why do I think? The same reason every other issue that is not at all divisive in the face of decency is currently an emotional game of feelings over reality: It’s the easiest form of divide and conquer to effect the manipulation over the largest amount of people, which also provides the required length of cognitive dissonance to meet whatever selfish goal the pricks are using it for with very little upkeep after priming.

The rest of the pieces to make it stick are repeated ad nauseam on Lemmy by many comrades, many whom I would say I vehemently disagree on further finer points, but that’s the crux of it.

Capitalism is not human, and it does not lend itself to engendering human responses to human problems.

It’s not weird at all, and doesn’t even require conspiracy. Social clubs, sports clubs, religious sites, and schools.

The way the craven privileged bond and form their cliques, and how easy they are to influence during their early stages of teenage “I know everything”, spoiled rich brat version, are neither imaginative nor mysterious.

No matter how badly the chuds try to give their group chats cool names, they’re always either impressionable fucks trying to outrun daddy’s legacy to make their own, or already compromised by generational favor debts.

The most insulting part of Israel’s puppet up the ass of the world’s wealthy white men, is how fucking embarrassingly easy it was to size the fit.

You have arrived at the first of many questions for which the answers have been deliberately withheld.

The number for the rising tide to raise all ships is far far smaller than the current expenditures, but that wouldn’t deify the sociopathic strata that fled the Mandates of Heaven to grant us the bountless fruits of Capitalism.

There have been numerous studies, but this is not a question of math, it is one of will.

Have you ever heard of selfish altruism?

There are so so so many of these seniors. They made so many of 'em back in the day, the birth chart boomed with goddamn babies!

It is in the best interest of everyone in society south of 55 years old, that the 65+ year olds are taken care of by the State’s (if we must have a State, I guess…) social nets, and that they are robust.

Not just because time comes for us all, but because the rest of the system’s bullshit would prevent communities from caring for their own seniors without the younger members going destitute and burnt out on their now third job.

I don’t think you’re giving dirty Ben his due. He wouldn’t simp. He’d be OF’s most prolific collab talent in the Mature category, no question.

Don’t.

You remember how the waterpik floss attachment head had a little warning to never use past intensity setting ‘1’ taped around it that the other attachments didn’t?

Your face pores would have even less protection as the entries aren’t curved like where the teeth and gum line meet.

Hydraulic pressure injuries are not a fun way for physics and biology to interact, even when it’s just water.

Thank you for restoring my sanity. I kept looking at that picture thinking ‘that’s one third of the thing almost, that can’t be right’ and wondering if I was being gaslit or not.

Everybody gangsta until the fireplace starts speaking and the Manor informs all present that it wasn’t even built until 89 years ago.

I am so looking forward to the rest of Bautista’s career. You can really tell he’s discovered a passion instead of just business pivoting.

I wish him nothing but the best health and graceful mental aging, because he’s well poised to nail those elderly person roles and I genuinely think he’s got the innate chops to be as good at 'em as say Stewart or McKellen, and just lacked classical theater learning. Arguably, wrestling is a form of theater though, and I think he’s learning and experimenting pretty good.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but that’s a lack of imagination on your part.

There’s plenty of reasons and situations and types of people for whom avoiding basic human contact at some point in the timeline of their lives, was both necessary and correct for them.

Not to mention the most glaringly obvious one; pain avoidance. The instinct to avoid the thing that causes us pain is as human as a light conversation ending in laughter, and both are equally valid things which may occur at the apocalypse itself.

Why the fuck is the AuDHD drive by audience taking potshot in a sentence equating it with creepiness and unwashed-ness?

Did one of us touch you in a bad spot or something else wrong with you?

It is time for a grim dark reboot of ReBoot.

Let’s see what Bob chooses to do after Megabyte offs Nibbles and Little Enzo Matrix turns into a real problem for Mainframe.

The point being, you don’t know who’s going to be good at something based on past performance in unrelated roles.

What’s surprising to me isn’t that the random promotion system works over the performance in past unrelated roles system…

What’s surprising to me is that you practically never see the only other logical conclusion used in the business world much.

Aptitude testing.

Demilitarization is just a (admittedly big on account of how counter to the long running paradigm it would be) single step.

The next 5 presidents will have a lot of work to do over the next 20 years…in the as of now extreme hypothetical thought exercise where the country is steered towards actually being an honest member of the global community.

This hypothetical can’t even happen as long as the fascism is on active display mind you, so that means it would have to be thrown back into the shadows (most likely imo) or finally fully eradicated (I fucking wish).

But after all that, the next 20 years of US history would need to be a lot of demilitarization, a lot less meddling in the affairs of other countries with the sole goal of “How does the US come ahead of absolutely everyone?” and a hitherto unknown for practically the entire country’s history period of “What do we negotiate to make a better world in which the US thrives because the world was made better?”.

In addition to a lot of work and money spent to recoup any semblance of soft power back, and a lot of loss in easy political wins.

The soft power can’t even begin to pretend to be restored without a lot of spending on public education and I don’t just mean schooling for children.

Extensive outreach to deprogram the ‘might is right’ and other assorted fascist/racist bullshit out of the population would be required, because it’s easy as shit for other countries to see when there’s no political will in the American people to force its leaders to carry through with something.

Fuck, I could stay here all day, but it’s also kind of depressing. It’s not impossible, none of it.

But the hurdles to fix this fuckery? Hella.

Maybe with some dragon gold hoards in the people’s Treasury, and some nice and fancy dragon scale armor, it would be easier. Grinding boss fights for XP tends to make the journey easier 🗡️.

That probably should be one of the earlier steps and sure would show the world some commitment.

Are you my former boss?

No theory needed. You absolutely can, almost trivially so.

Only real challenge(s) would be either owning the hardware capacity or renting from a neutral host to run the fake AI personality at/or near equivalent levels if you’re gonna unleash Titty SouthRisesWood in an autonomous form.

Maybe a lawyer with a sense of humor on retainer to respond to the frivolous demand letters if they eventually find out you’re behind it.

And that’s just if you want to fight AI with AI.

Anyone could copy the model the good ol’ fashioned way in Blender, turn on a voice changer or use non-AI TTS and get to uploading their protected parodies.

You’re welcome. You can grok it if you read what I replied to, and then use media literacy to examine the negative spaces in my response; namely if all I gave are examples of what a story nee–Wait.

You’re not being genuine, are you?