We should definitely only listen to the voices in our heads.

State sanctioned dilution of what it means for things to be true. It’s not about the vaccines, it’s about getting people to accept falsehoods.

But there are fewer people needing to use ATMs with all the card/tap/digital money transfer. The only time anyone is using an ATM is because they have to. And a high proportion of those people who have to use ATMs are going to be poor.

“Make ‘em wait through an ad, what are they gonna do?”

Oh god don’t tell them about ATMs.

No no and fucking no (pun intended).

Where the hell do you get 12 grit and what the hell do you do with it?

When I was in the army, …

Consider, too, that the military needs every sack of meat to be able to shoot straight, load mags, clear malfunctions, clean and maintain. By extension, the light arms they use are designed to be as dead simple as possible.

Have the day you voted for.

I don’t like talking to people.

That’s abridgement of the First Amendment.

First Amendment guards against state repercussions for speech, with exceptions. Careful not to conflate the legal and colloquial usages.

Showed this to my wife, who responded, “I no longer feel safe going to protests.”

Headline is a bit overstated.

Dude has some Evil Twin look going on.

So do I.

Every day I drink O. E. and I don’t go to work.

What’s your spaghetti policy?

Wouldn’t be hard to build a paper board and play on that.

I’d think that having an empty 2x2 right in front of any of your pieces would limit your options for moving pieces. So I would put it in front of White, not in the middle, but on one of the edges. Also, White would not be allowed to shift the tile on their first turn, since that would just put the disadvantage on Black, who would shift a tile, yada yada. Maybe … maybe you would only be allowed to shift a tile if you didn’t shift a tile on your previous turn.

Another thing - would Queens, Bishops, Rooks be able to “jump” the empty space to cross from one side of an empty 2x2? I’m thinking yes.

There would need to be two missing 2x2 board pieces for symmetry.