Belly_Beanis [he/him]

Journalism has always been this way under capitalism. Journalists lied about Iraq. They lied about the Black Panther Party. They lied about Vietnam. The term “Yellow Journalism” came about in the 1890s to describe the inflammatory newspapers of the era.

The Edward R. Murrows and Walter Cronkites are the exception, not the rule, under capitalist news reporting because the entire industry relies on selling what sells, instead of broadcasting what informs.

Wow that’s incredibly out of nowhere. I only know him from LSV’s channel since he’s a regular player on that stream. Really young guy.

You’re describing monarchies lmaooo

Time gets shorter. I’ve already experienced this going from my teens to my twenties and into my thirties. I can remember entire weeks of my childhood. By the time I was in my mid twenties, days and weeks blurred together. Now it’s like months go by and I don’t even notice.

People talk about it more as they get older. Eventually when you enter your 80s and 90s, it’s like entire decades can come and go. So imagine when you’re immortal. If you’ve been alive for 100,000 years, that’s longer than writing has been around. Entire civilizations will have come and went.

But from your perspective, it’s all a blur. Entire genealogies were experienced, yet those people barely registered in your mind. If you had a favorite food, maybe the recipe disappears when you went four centuries without eating it. Jokes and fashions you’re familiar with are completely alien to everyone else. Are you even capable of noticing when things change at that point?

There’s also the question of how human are you? Everything and everyone would seem inconsequential. Would you even be able to socialize with others, or would you be completely sociopathic? That’s if you don’t hurt anyone and get tossed in a jail cell. What happens if you spend a few centuries in prison? Fight in multiple wars? Would you even feel the slightest discomfort when you kill someone?

Okay but if we use “Late stage capitalism and the quest for profit above all else is causing the quality of goods and commodities to drop while their value stays the same or goes up,” it’s going to result in 20 minutes trying to explain things correctly followed by 20 hours of anti-communist arguments.

Can they use bows or crossbows? What about pikes? Just crazy how they respect rules like that when the eventual conclusion is guns.

I inherited this pet peeve from someone else and at the same time, developed the pet peeve of inheriting other people’s pet peeves.

Counterpoint: Agu is volseal and will let you smooch him if you ask nicely.

Then you get the women who hate ethnic minorities, foreigners, sex-positivity, other religions that aren’t their own denomination, and LGBTQ+ people more than they hate sexism. They will put up with misogynistic bullshit if it means they get to be racist and homophobic.

There’s probably more of the former, though. Like you say a lot of them trick themselves into “being the exception,” often because their partner is nice to them specifically.

EDH’s banlist needs a complete rework. The problem with the format is fast mana (artifact mana especially) and tutors. Banning Jeweled Lotus and Mana Crypt was a good thing. And the same needs to be done to Mana Vault, Chrome Mox, Lion’s Eye Diamond, Demonic Tutor, etc. Then a lot of cards could be taken off. Sway the Stars is a 10 mana sorcery. If you let your opponent resolve such a card, you deserve whatever comes after it. Cards like Upheaval are only a problem because of cards like Sol Ring and Mox Amber.

EDH players and the RC don’t want to swallow the hard pill it’s currently a $5,000 turn three format. If you want it to be cheaper, there needs to be more viable strategies instead of goodstuff piles using staples tacked together. If you want it to be slower, you need to ban things that allow consistent play patterns.

Prismatic was the “big deck” format for years on MODO and it’s what EDH could be with the right banlist. People played with four copies of Darksteel Colossus and would hard cast them into play. That was only possible because Prismatic understood the power of cards like Tooth and Nail and moxen. EDH players want to live in some magical Christmas land where they can use Vampiric Tutor or Survival of the Fittest, but not have anyone do anything broken that ends the game on turn two.

Something else that affects our teeth (though I’m not sure if it affects growth) is sugar consumption. Our ancestors had very little access to sugar or even spices. They ate things like meat and veggies plain. Back in prehistoric times, this meant they wouldn’t have to brush their teeth, since the bacteria in their mouths wouldn’t have produced plaque.

That’s why a lot of human remains of 80-year-olds from 20,000 BC have perfect teeth or only a few missing after those teeth got knocked out by getting hit in the face. If you’re ever stranded on a deserted island, you should avoid eating all those coconuts and bananas with every meal.

So much content on YouTube are just commercials. Makeup tutorial? Infomercial for makeup. Game streaming? Commercial to buy said game. Painting lessons? You guessed it: commercials for art supplies and specific brands. Very, very little content isn’t sponsored and is the creator just shitposting.

Now, I happen to like some of these commercials that are also tutorials, product reviews, etc. but I sure as shit am not paying YouTube for the privilege.

There’s some guy on YouTube who was showing how to lift boulders and logs by himself using only simple levers and inclines. It’s been a while since I watched it, but if I remember right he moves a rock the size of a car 100 yards and lifts it a few feet into the air.

He does this with tree branches, rope, and scrap wood lol

“General Slide”

“Apartment hide”

“Glenner lied”

“A part thigh”

Covid may possibly be spreading via cigarette and marijuana smoke, so that’s neat.

Apocalyptic Booty Call: Jurassic Edition

You forgot they’re also criminal masterminds who smuggle in thousands of dollars in drugs over the border, kill hundreds of Americans without getting caught, are master engineers that build massive tunnel networks underground, and scam the government out of billions of dollars via welfare programs.

Honestly I wish immigrants were the people conservatives think they are because they’d have an insane set of skills we could use.

I think I’d rather be launched into the sun over Jupiter. The sun you die pretty quickly as you get closer to it. I can’t imagine there’s much that could stop heat once you get past Mercury. Jupiter though? Jupiter is fucking spooky. Its core is hot like any molten core, but there’s no crust. You’d fall through the sky and just keep falling for hundreds of miles. You’d eventually die from the heat like you would with the sun, but you wouldn’t be able to see anything. At some point all you can see is goop. It’s like being underwater in the Mariana Trench, but the water is nitrogen, metallic hydrogen, and liquid silicone.

Yah the reason Europeans have stuff like free education and healthcare is because the US does all their dirty work. Iraq is a perfect example. The US took very little oil for itself, continuing to rely on South American and domestic fossil fuels. But Iraq wasn’t keeping its oil for itself, it was all being siphoned off to Britain, France, Norway, Germany, etc.

Is Trump actually a Hexbear doing deep undercover? Someone needs to check his e-mails.