I’ve seen that, and variations.

I’ve noticed house flys being more common than bees.

That being said, I’d piss on a fly. A bee could sting me. Rightfully sting me, I might add.

Someone pisses on me they have a good chance of being hit.

I had some, before I moved.

Let me just say this, what came easy to young me in boy scouts… well, I’m just glad if I hit a safe area in the general direction I’m aiming.

The other issues is as a boy I shot off the right of the riser on a longbow, and this was an off the left takedown (recurve) bow - still the amount I sucked surprised me a little, lol.

So hopefully you have time to practice.

Did it?

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

With a much heavier focus on policing and arresting people of color, as well as passing laws to target specific groups of people, expanding probable cause, and all that jazz.

So sure, you aren’t born into slavery per se, but being forced to mop prison floors because a cop didn’t like your face, no chance to go home or have any other real autonomy?

Its just slavery with extra steps.

Yeah, I didn’t mean this bill would pass but… the sentiment makes it more dangerous for some people I care about.

The politicians push this shit because they think they have the support of the people, at least in the form of votes.

I’m not so worried about the government. Not much most of us can do if the military turns against the people. I’m worried about bigoted neighbors feeling empowered.

Well shit, one of my relatives, and a few friends may be in trouble soon…

Oh shit, you just made me realize when I get my first pay check I should really invest in a decent UPS. I had to sell my old one before moving state lines to condense space.

Eh, task ChatGPT with it.

No service animal, but I was in the “down town” area of a college town, and donated plasma cause I was broke broke.

I’m epileptic, I don’t think the plasma donation contributed, but as I was walking back to my car, and waiting to cross a street… well, seizure.

No one helped me, but someone took my phone, wallet, and some meds I needed to keep on me at the time, probably other stuff I don’t recall.

The meds had no recreational value. They were seizure meds, and no, nothing like ativan that has any sort of redeeming quality outside of treating epilepsy.

Some people just suck.

Yep.

I work in IT, if I’m on a call or actively working a ticket that I can finish and just ran out of time? I’ll stay, happily, and finish it.

I’ll help cover vacations, and if I like the company, other people calling in to an extent.

The longest stretch I worked was when I was much younger (and dumber). Retail, before the holidays. There were a variety of contributing factors at work, but in the end I worked 22 days in a row, most often 12+ hours a day. The OT pay was nice, don’t get me wrong, but I quickly learned that my time and well being are worth more than most employers can offer, even with OT adjustments.

I slept over 24 hours straight, and my body hurt ALL over for two weeks. That was with a wonderful girlfriend at the time who knew her way around a massage, and was happy to do so when asked - and I needed it then, lol.

I rocked long hair from grade school to my mid 20s.

Then, a lady friend (platonic) sat me down and had a talk with me.

The thinning, now seemingly always greasy, strands of hair was not a good look. Like, don’t visit a playground or I would be arrested on site lol.

So, being a metal head there are two main options, or at least were at the time. Long hair. Or take bare clippers to it.

So, I did.

That first winter fucking suuuucked. Still to this day, I tend to rock a hoody in cold weather, and toss my hood up to cover my head for warmth when outdoors.

Sometimes I let it grow out for about a month before taking clippers to it again, out of sheer laziness. A month of growth, from shaved, isn’t much in the way of hair, but temperature wise it is very noticeable.

I loved Control.

I absolutely could not get into AW, and it bums me out because it seemed intriguing.

Linux is the key there.

All your complaints revolve around Windows.

That being said, if you don’t want to fuck with computers any more than necessary, that route won’t be particularly pleasing until Valve can release their OS and Launcher updates, assuming they keep things user friendly.

Linux gaming is leagues better than it was 20 years ago. Still hard to beat a fresh Windows install (key: fresh) and most certainly a console when it comes to ease of use.

I would posit that it could be based on something else entirely, a civic or moral obligation a person feels to abide by the spirit of the law to help protect fellow people, even if they would not be punished or could some how gain something - in this case, a finite resource - time, for violating the law.

I’m worse about eating and drinking water at home, by far, than at work.

At work I have a schedule. About halfway through my shift, give or take. I work alone, over night, and don’t have any scheduled or required breaks; however, the wireless headset reaches almost everything so I just get up and nuke whatever I brought in.

As for water? I’ll slug some water down and go refill my vessel just to get up and stretch my legs.

At home… Well, have you ever started playing a game at night and 5 minutes later the sun was up? Yeah, I’m always like that at home lol.

I can’t speak for where I live now, but back in Texas making brownies would get you fucked over.

Not only would they weigh the entire brownie (regardless of how much was used to make it), they’d weigh it in the baking dish. To top it off, since it was “processed” it was seen as a further aggravating cause.

I’m on W11 with my daily driver.

I don’t like it. I didn’t like it from the start.

So why?

Because W10 will hit EOL sooner than later; and I have to support that shit professionally.

Doesn’t matter that no one is testing or building applications for W11, no security patches mean any employer worth their salt will switch over to W11, despite not having the infrastructure to do it.

Admin VS IT. I’m nearly 40, and that story is older than I am.

Former retail worker here.

I was never paid enough to care about shit other than directly keeping my job. So, you know, look busy when the boss was around.

I had to stop people from stealing big shit, like TVs and such.

A hungry looking kid grabbing some food to eat in an aisle and leave the trash? Just throw the trash away please, I’m not your fucking maid.

I’d also add a lifetime subscription to Nexus, that alone can add so much life to so many games. Hell, if I’m checking out a game, I see what kind of mod support it has first.

Or do they not offer that anymore?

I think I got it way back when for $50 or so.

A bit between friends is different.

Fuck, I was a skater in school. I threw myself down a two story half pipe in a warehouse every weekend. I had bruises on top of bruises.

Pain wasn’t new to me, cause man, I fucking sucked on a skateboard.

Let me put it this way, the kid I gave a broken nose to was a wanna-be MS13 member at the time. Ran into him after high school - guess who was a member? I’m glad I had friends with me, and we outnumbered his crew. They backed down. I don’t know what they had, but we all carried knives - and at the time - were ready to use them. My late teen years were a little wild. He recognized me, and called them to back off.

I guess getting the cops involved over a pool table in a bowling alley would have fucked up their bigger plans.

You’re not wrong.

A school year of bullying stopped by a decisive punch?

Clearly both are the same. Not one kid being tormented to the point of violence in self defense because they couldn’t fucking breathe anymore, over the whole school year. Not something the teachers, our so called care takers, could have nipped in the bud a LONG time ago. No, clearly, both kids are violent offenders.