This is the real answer. I mean some compromise is normal and healthy in a relationship, but for the most part everyone just do what you are comfortable with and find people who are good with that

I like it, although I want want to see the mushrooms being somehow mobile/able to follow the gecko for this. That seems mutually beneficial for all parties involved

Looks the mushrooms are feeding on the gecko

I mean yes definitely fucked but also I'm kinda here for it. If shredded garments become the new prefaded jeans you won't hear me complain

Amazing. It's telling that I'm at a point politically where I think this might be an improvement

I don't know the details of this specific protest but I will say, media is notorious for underplaying participation in these things. We've hosted protests of 500+ people that got described in the news as dozens, or 5000+ that gets described as hundreds.

Depending where you live some lifeguards have more training than police, so naturally they are more qualified to make drowning decisions

This is a really cool link. There is something I don't understand in the example though. The first scenario assumes that when you play a richer opponent and win, you get 20% of your total money before that flip (less than you started with, 960). But then later when playing as a person who won the first flip, if you play against someone who lost the first flip and lose, you would lose 20% of your money and the winner gains 20% of YOUR money, not 20% of their money, leading to them having 1040 and you having 960. So something is screwy here unless I missed something.

Agree with the premise overall. Maybe the example needs workshopping though? I can't quite tell what happens when people with highly disparate amounts of money play each other as far as who gets what I'm the outcome.

He's just doing it cause he thought there would be strippers involved

Trolling Republicans is a form of self care, after all. And we all need some more of that

Even for people who generally like the function of AI (which seem to be fairly rare here) the absolutely obscene climate impact and implications for peopes jobs and livelihoods, privacy breaches, and general internet enshittification is surely reason enough to be against it.

Our office allowed voting to elect a committee to determine what return to office should look like. I was elected to it. They also hired external contractors to mediate basically. Some people came into it thinking everyone should go back to office, but by the end of it we settled that being in office should be required for certain types of work activities and not for others, and apart from the required activities for in office employees could be wherever. We drafted this up into a formalized agreement and everyone was happy with it.

Then the president who did that program retired and the new guy immediately scrapped the whole thing and forced everyone back into the office overnight without any discussion from the committee or other employees.

I hear an alarming large number of people can trace their ancestry back to Genghis Khan and I am not sure you have him beat. Maybe though

Fucking good. They are just mad palworld is more fun than their latest pokemon launches

Meanwhile in America "you guys got trains?"

I feel this deeply. Others have said it already, but the thing that's helped me the most is getting involved with the solution. Local community organizing, mutual aid groups, political candidates in your area, etc etc etc there are many options (and feel free to message me if you want more help finding them) and nothing felt ok until I could feel like I was doing something other than passively sitting around watching the country/world collapse.

Others have also said closing off news and social media. This is also a good step, but I would caution against doing so 100%. Maybe set aside a day or two a week where you get caught up for an hour or two then turn it off the rest of the time. It's still important to be aware, particularly as the suffering is becoming more and more local and ubiquitous, but it definitely becomes all consuming if done too much.

You sound like an empathetic person, and people like you are needed to help drive change. Fascism won't go away in it's own or with one more election cycle to vote it out. The upshot is most organizing and community strengthing efforts are just generally positive for mental health in their own right and may lead and may lead to new friendships and activities that you enjoy

It's rude to discuss your salary at work

I sooooo wish this were true. Quality protest strategy

There are billionaires in the DNC, and billionaires who back them. Maybe not as many, but still enough that taxing the rich has never gained any traction even under democratic governments. Billionaires fear nothing in DC, they have proven over and over again they can buy pretty much whoever they need to.

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Typically people losing at monopoly actually prefer going to jail and sitting there since it is preferable to having to pay for hotels.

Not that it makes the analogy much less dark though