Signtist

This is what people don’t understand. Those in power, whether they’re part of the government, a wealthy CEO, or a religious leader, will do what benefits themselves if they think they can get away with it. We keep talking about powerful organizations and what they could do to benefit everyone, but fail to realize that powerful people don’t want to benefit everyone.

They only do what benefits everyone if they feel like they can’t get away with just doing what benefits themselves. It’s our responsibility to make sure they don’t think they can get away with it, and clearly strongly-worded letters and quippy signs held outside their offices for an afternoon or two isn’t enough to do that.

I literally had to run as they were calling my name over the intercom. If that’s a normal Tuesday for you, I’m glad I’m not you. And yeah, of course I have 3 hours to kill doing “nothing,” it’s exactly the same as what I’m doing now. I can browse the fediverse, watch videos, play games, or just have a nice conversation with my wife. I feel no obligation to be productive to the point where I need to squeeze out 2 more hours of activities just so that I can risk having to run to catch a plane. What you do with your time is up to you, but I’ve never regretted sitting peacefully with my wife for a few hours in an airport.

I wholeheartedly believe that anyone who’s amassed more than 10 million dollars in this country is doing something unsavory to get it - we shouldn’t blindly trust anything they say about anything. Mark has orders of magnitude more than that; everything he says should be considered a lie until proven true from multiple sources.

Missing a flight is flat-out unacceptable to me. I know you can reschedule or whatever, but no, I’d never even consider letting that be a possibility. A near-failure isn’t success, success is when you get there without the thought of missing the plane even crossing your mind. For me and my wife, that happens at the 3 hour mark.

My wife and I are usually the 3 hours early type, and the one time we carpooled with her parents who are more like you, something had gone wrong at the TSA stations, and only 2 were open, causing a huge slowdown with the line going well past the zigzag ropes and down the hall.

We barely made it on the plane before they closed the doors. My wife and I agreed then that 3 hours will always be our time. Neither one of us minds sitting at the airport and chatting instead of sitting at home chatting - it barely makes a difference.

I used to work at FedEx, and while most people did try to get all the packages in safely and “this way up,” they just want us to pack so many boxes into each truck that it becomes impossible by the end of the shift no matter how good you are at Tetris, and you end up just having to put things wherever they fit, even if they’re crushing another box. But also, yeah, there was one guy who took great pleasure in punting boxes into his truck, so pack that shit up good.

Doesn’t always work, though. I remember I broke a pen as a kid while trying to take it apart. I knew my mom liked that pen, so I took apart another pen to try to fix the original. I broke that pen too and ended up just taping them back together and hoping she wouldn’t notice.

Yeah, if you’re like me and like the fun dialogue the most, I’d just focus on DQ8 and see if you like it enough to finish it. If you do, I’d suggest giving 11 another go after that, since that’s definitely the most similar title in the franchise. If you do want to try getting into the custom characters games down the line, 7 reimagined would probably be a decent starting point, since they have some customization while still having distinct characters with personality and voice acting.

It’s somewhat divisive. Some people liked it a lot, but I thought it was a bit of a downgrade following DQ8. Since it’s a 3D game on the original DS, it’s a little bit low on the graphics side, and there’s no voice acting or anything. You also get to create and customize your party members’ looks and class, which is something it shares with other games in the franchise like DQ3; some people really like that, but I think it takes away from the interesting party banter like what you get in 8, since the customized characters don’t have dialogue and end up feeling samey. The story is still on par with any other dragon quest game, though, so if you can look past all that, it’s still pretty fun.

Good choice to start - DQ8 is my favorite of the mainline titles! 11 is a close second, though. I’ve been playing 7 reimagined, and an really enjoying it as well. I tried playing 7 back on the 3DS and couldn’t finish it - it’s really long - but now I’ve blown past where I stopped back then and am still invested, so it’s shaping up to be a good choice, too!

The worst part is that you know she doesn’t understand what happened, and thinks her grandson “sent” her the preview.

No! Argue with the porn! Haha, yeah, definitely block that kind of crap.

As someone working in construction who just re-bid a project that was initially supposed to finish being built last year, I can say it’s also applicable.

True, but it also represents access to the complete compilation of lies, half-truths, and general brainless slop of humanity. It’s like mushroom hunting; it’s not enough to find mushrooms - you also need the skill to notice the small details that differentiate which is edible and which is deadly. The time traveler is probably halfway to thinking birds aren’t real by the end of the comic - after all, the magic box of truths says so.

Yeah, even in instances where one side is clearly right, it’s still important to be challenged often enough to know exactly why it’s right. As soon as you’re comfortable enough with “knowing” something is right without being able to explain why, you risk believing things that “feel” correct but might not be. You don’t have to actually argue with trolls, but you should still see and process their arguments enough to formulate a counterargument in your head that would stand up to a hypothetical person arguing in good faith.

Thanks! I couldn’t get past the idea that they were somehow using telepathy to see their own futures without her in them.

Hey, now, I remember Party Rock! That was the only dance song of the 2010’s, right?

Well, the work I did last month made my company over 4 million dollars, and my salary earned me about 7k. That’s a normal salary for my position, but if you and a partner made that much money together and they took 99.8% of the share, it’d feel pretty scammy, right?

I’m not sure how much money my ISP, electric company, grocery store, or hospital make, but I can imagine that they have a similar issue where the people doing the work get way too little of a piece of the pie. We consider it normal because it’s so prevalent, but it used to be that the CEO and other executive suite members had a much smaller piece, allowing for everyone else to get relatively more.

Sure, the higher-ups always took the biggest chunk and always will, but at this point our economy is entirely based on the idea of extracting as much wealth from the people generating it as possible, which is definitely a scam.

I’m sitting here wondering why I ever trusted one that didn’t.

You’re expected to bring your own. Have you not been doing that? Awkward…