Wildly untenable concept in modern society…

I’m sure it would work great in a video game or something, but In the real world, this shit goes crony AF guaranteed.

We don’t measure aptitude or ability in our society, we absolutely suck at it. A person’s ability is measured by what pedigree they purchased at degrees R us, or worse, by how articulate and verbose they were when typing a resume. Occasionally, ability is measured by how well someone likes a person even…

Competence is valued in a very select few enterprises. Trades, IT, and at higher echelons, math nerds… That’s about it…

A couple quotes…

Be who you are and say what you mean, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Both are difficult in terms of original source, but the best quotes usually are ;)

Point is, there’s three classes of problems. Most are type one - not my fucking problem.

Type two is what you’re talking about here, your problem, but you didn’t cause it. I’ve found that like 90% of these require serenity, because you can’t fix stupid… You kinda just gotta consider that until the light bulb comes on I guess? I’ve never had any issue with this one personally, it just always seemed self evident.

I’ve always struggled with type three, the things that are my problem and I caused them. That’s the shit I dwell on, because you can’t take it back, and sometimes, you can’t fix those either. You gotta swallow the pill on the fact that you did a stupid…

You weren’t the guy doing the stupid, ya know?

I’ll object to their tequila, but everything else I’m totally on board :)

Encephalitis is caused by viral infections. Our immune system usually suppresses said viruses, and HIV takes away the ability to suppress them.

This happens with a lot of illnesses… thrush, Tuberculosis, fungal infections. HIV allows a lot of stuff to have far worse impact than it normally would.

That’s not quite the same as HIV causing them… Pedantic maybe, but since we’re talking about words meaning things… ;)

“Deep south”? Seriously? Why not “the stay puft marshmallow man”? If you’re gonna tempt fate with your naming choice, might as well have a little fun with it…

Karate Champ. I probably spent hundreds of dollars on that game and never got past the third match, and don’t have the slightest clue what would make a round kick score a full point or a half point… You could come up with strats that usually worked, but nothing ever worked reliably… Mortal Kombat you could come up with strats that would 100% get you double flawless, but it’s grandpappy would toss all manner of randomness at your ass and fuck you up pretty reliably :)

Anyone else’s back yard ;)

I moved out at 14, so I’m gonna go with yes, but I’ll caveat that I got a pretty heavy bias on the issue :)

I will say that parental consent is a shit answer. The kids capable of working consensually likely won’t need it.

Ya know… that’s not a bad point actually :)

Ill ponder that one. Definitely going to alter my perspective on Ukraine a little, but I’m not entirely sure how just off the cuff.

Yes… but I’m probably not going to last long, as there’s already a pretty huge bias here…

I have not received a wonderful welcome here with my lack of political affiliation, and your comment speaks directly to it.

I’m much less inclined to forums with a Republican bias though, so I’m here, and hopeful. If you want the wishy washy motherfuckers that flip flop their votes and basically decide elections these days to hear your side and not theirs, maybe you could be slightly less intolerant…

I don’t believe this is going to be the case currently… the trend towards conservative was a fiscal phenomenon, as young kids who didn’t have a lot of money and wanted a welfare state grew up and became financially independent, they wanted to keep what they were working to get. This would cause a self centric migration from trending democrat to trending republican.

That isn’t how the partisan tribes currently work… They’ve become more of a “morality” enterprise, on both sides.

The choice is now if you think it’s appropriate to ban huck finn and Tom Sawyer for the n word, or ban homosexual references. It’s a question of do we spend taxes on blacks and the poor, or do we spend it on cluster bombs for Ukraine.

I don’t think people will evolve from one side to the other the way boomers did. I think they’re evolving farther from center, on both sides.

I don’t like book bans period. I don’t like the budget growing exponentially period. I don’t like that 99% of the population increasingly wants the other half to be completely discounted… I’m essentially evolving towards not liking anybody at all.

I don’t think “liberals” are going to become more “conservative” as they age, because that scale is divorced from party politics. Liberal is no longer a democrat trait, and conservative isn’t purely republican. Both have adopted the entire con/lib scale in their own way. Democrats have conservative values, republicans have liberal values (the latter to a far greater degree, but I don’t think it matters tbh). Just depends on what issue you’re talking about.

The flag isn’t going to be taken away by racists… it’s going to be taken away by the 50% who insist that anyone who isn’t like they are is a racist Nazi coup supporting trump voting redneck asshole… Rednecks are flying the US flag, so liberty must be racist. That’s what’s gonna take the flag away.

I can’t say one single fucking word about how the trials related to trump are a complete out of control purely political witchhunt, without it being assumed that I’m racist, that I love trump, that I drive a diesel and love cops… that I have all the traits that the Democrats attribute to a republican… It’s either you agree 100% with one, or you are 100% the other… I’m neither. Never have been. I voted for Ross fucking Perot… That’s how long I’ve been sick of the partisan bullshit, and let me tell you motherfuckers, back then, it was like 1/1000th as bad…

I’m tapped the fuck out on fucks to give bud, I see someone spewing assumptions and bitching about how those assumptions are going to fuck themselves over and take their own flag away. If you like the flag, STOP TAKING FLAGS AWAY FROM PEOPLE. The US flag means racist because YOU are saying it does, not because they are… YOU decided what the flags, statues, street names, etc. meant, and tore the all down over the meaning YOU gave them. Billy bob isn’t taking symbols away, he’s banning books from schools. Tearing down symbols is your thing buddy.

Liberty and justice for all means it includes motherfuckers you don’t like… diesel driving Billy Bob has exactly as much entitlement to his symbols as you do to put books in libraries, and if you can’t understand that, then that flag doesn’t mean a fucking thing anyway.