People don’t know/have forgotten that the Democrats really pushed the moral panic around violent video games and music. Both Joe Liberman (Al Gore’s running mate and promenant senator) and Tipper Gore (wife of Al Gore) were leaders in pushing for music/video game censorship

Even dumber, 95% of tesla drivers their phone as a key and you can use the voice assistant built into the car to text for you

What is 2000s club night if not an immersive historical re-enactment?

Generally speaking trafficking is bringing something into a place where it is not allowed to be

So in your first example, you are allowed to watch that kid, and both of you are allowed to be in that state and to see a movie, so no, you are not trafficking

Similarly if you are allowed to have that gun in both states then you are not trafficking. Additionally in the US if a case involves crimes across states it’s typically a federal charge and not multiple state ones

People can be trafficked against their will for slavery purposes or by their will as a form of illegal immigration. You can even “traffic” legal goods like cigarettes if you transport them without paying all applicable taxes. It’s a catch-all term for transporting things that a place does not want to let in. Typically the term is only used for bulk transportation, smaller amounts tend to have other more specific crimes

I mean HIM isn’t technically Satan but absolutely is serving cunt:

You ever see someone living your dream and think “damn, I wish I was a raccoon?”

God that is my mother. Even worse is that she makes up/ignores rules if she doesn’t think it makes sense, which, spoiler: is all the time. Because she won’t read the rules. Yes, you, a 64 year old woman who can’t operate a remote, know what would make a game more fun better than the PEOPLE WHO MADE THE GAME 🙄

That’s super normal. It’s important to remember objects don’t have any importance behind what we assign to them. If you still value that relationship maybe you can find a way to preserve it physically like the other commenters have suggested or it may be time to acknowledge that portion of your life is over and this can be symbolic closure. I have a beautiful handmade quilt from an ex-girlfriend and I haven’t seen her in almost a decade yet I keep it because the meaning behind it at the time is still important to me

An important thing to remember in these situations: “you cannot control your emotions, but you can control your reaction to them and allow that to shape you in the future”

Having not done a fascist run but having beat the game and listened to a lot of conversations about it I would say that ultimately the game criticizes centrism the harshest. It portrays communists as effete, weak, intellectuals and fascists as strong, opinionated, dipshits. The damage you take to your morale in right wing runs is about the inherent self-contradiction of fascists whereas the inability to impact the world around you reflects the impotance of left wing ideology. Ultimately I think everything in it comes down to a critique of capitalism as an ideology that subverts all other ideologies into using its language

Meanwhile the “centrist” route reflects a moral relativism where every decision can always be described as the least harmful in the moment but by never making a hard choice, the world is ultimately left in a much worse place

In short: fascists take mental damage for their contradictory ideology, communists take physical damage for being ineffective, and centrists make the world worse by hiding behind moral relativism

I know everyone likes to joke about this but just a reminder that in the Republican world porn and LGBTQ content are synonymous. So any time they go after porn it’s so they can later say anything queer is porn and then punish it. They like watching their cuckold and race baiting porn too much to give it up

I have pre-check which I presume also requires a Real ID but if I was waiting in line at TSA and I had to watch someone get out their wallet and pay a fine, I’d end up on the no fly list

I’ve got the same shit happening. I don’t like audiobooks but there’s a series I like where the third is an audible exclusive. So I have to pay money to Amazon for a service I don’t want if I want to read that book

Personally I pirate my books and if there’s one I particularly like then I’ll go find the author and give them money directly. Most have a substack/patreon/ko.fi and they get more money

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Doing a lot of heavy lifting there

Just putting it out there that it came out during the Watergate proceedings that Nixon had a list of enemies and that was another piece of evidence that got him removed from office

Pimento cheese and a slice of tomato grilled on buttered sourdough. A southern classic

Recently PLUR1BUS seems alright, one of the characters in the show even argues that things are better

"Don’t, don’t, don’t let’s start

This is the worst part

Could believe for all the world

That you’re my precious little girl

But don’t, don’t, don’t let’s start

I’ve got a weak heart

And I don’t get around how you get around"

Counter-point: they couldn’t have opened with the twink or Shinji would have just ignored him in school. So the number is above 1 but below 19

Possibly, but a lot of plants want to be eaten, for lack of a better phrase. Most fruiting plants reproduce by being eaten. You’re not killing a strawberry plant by eating the berry, you’re helping it

Plus if people are just eating each other then we’d only last 33 months. I don’t think that makes a lot of sense for an alien virus. Consider that whatever sent the signal knew enough to know our DNA. I think it’s reasonable to assume it has an idea of how many people are on the planet. If you wanted to wipe us out there are more efficient diseases and who knows how long it was going to take us to get the first person infected. It just seems short sighted for something presumably very intelligent