I see what you did there…

First fediverse comment I’ve ever bookmarked.

Fuuuuuck me. I haven’t laughed like that for months. Thank you, internet stranger, I owe you a beer/joint/coffee 💛

Nope.

Three sentences and I’m out. This goes nowhere I want to go, thanks.

Some thoughts just shouldn’t be articulated, they should remain merely thoughts. This is one of those occasions.

They saw the McMurtry Spéirling and got jealous, how cute 😂

(The Spéirling can hold itself upside down on a flat surface)

That everyone else knows is pain in the dickhole to make? Yeah, works well, actually.

A Roman benchie?

I mean… Maybe… It would be a tricky make that would require quite a bit of skill to cast or bend, weld and polish.

Not an unreasonable hypothesis all things considered.

eSports at anything above “having a giggle” and WiFi network connectivity are mutually exclusive things.

Having any latency at all makes your lad about as much use as a one legged bloke in an arse kicking competition. He and his team should be on hardwired gigabit fibre, and that he isn’t should be seen as embarrassing for his institution.

For what it’s worth, I’m a simple home user (in the UK) and I have a gigabit fibre to the transceiver in the cellar, to a basic gigabit switch which routes to patch boxes in every room of my 150 year old house. That I can do that affordably and a supposedly professionally run institution can’t handle such is profoundly humiliating.

Perhaps try putting it like that to the powers that be and see how they react? 💛

“You can’t go around arresting the Thieves’ Guild. I mean, we’d be at it all day!”

All totally correct.

Now, the billion dollar question. What are you going to do about it?

Not about some things, no.

This isn’t your fault, but is because an awful lot of people are simply fucking stupid, and will read it at face value.

Other people then have to expend great effort to explain the details of why it was only a joke, to someone who can’t count to ten, with their fingers to count on.

This has to be done because fucking stupid people get to vote too, and they take jokes as serious info.

What the actual fuck is wrong with your “mother”?

I am aware that is no way to speak about someone’s family, but my dude… What the fuck?!

English (Traditional), English (Simplified).

Consider for a moment that other people may not be in a position to simply “find another line of work”. Perhaps they have dependants, or medical issues, or any number of other situations that could prevent them from being able to retrain into another profession, or even to be able to switch employers.

You’re in a very privileged position if finding another line of work is something actually sensibly achievable.

You run a hospital? An ambulance/paramedic service? A veterinary surgery? A live tissue courier service?

The menstruation sanitation crustacean station in the location of urination and defecation.

The menstruation sanitation crustacean station in the place of urination.

I bet you can imagine Russian soldiers in that position. Why not Americans?

There are plenty of places in the US where abject poverty reigns supreme, same as Russia. Factor in the ever present propaganda, and their fate was never their own, sadly.

I would say none, but the closest to desperation I’ve personally been was scrounging for coal that fell off the train to the docks when we as a family couldn’t afford to buy it. (No coal, no heat, no hot water, etc.)

I can imagine though, that watching my own children cry from the cold and hunger. Watching my own flesh and blood get thinner and weaker and being otherwise powerless to help them might make me consider rather strongly the paycheck offered by anyone at all.

That you apparently can’t imagine any scenario that would give you personally (and therefore by extension anyone else), cause to consider doing heinous things for money is bizarre.

Would that choice have been as easy if you had your own children to consider? Would it have been so easy to make your own children and spouse homeless too?

The point is everyone is susceptible given the right circumstances. The system is literally designed to create desperation, and to keep ratcheting that up until people relent.

By all means try and convince people not to give in. Support them and help them, try to ensure they don’t reach their breaking point. But don’t try and pretend that desperation to escape their given shitshow isn’t what drives a lot of recruitment.

Edit: I do deeply respect your strength of conviction in your own choices though, and I want to make that clear. You are an exceptional example, and one to be lauded. 💛

No, I’m pointing out the hypocrisy in you pretending to know what it is to be desperate, that you can judge others in such a position.

I ain’t justifying diddly squat.

Edit: For clarification, watching the fall of the American empire in real time is both amusing and enlightening. Hopefully, it happens fast enough that I get to see the end result.