Yes, absolutely.

What do you mean back? This is happening right now.

Are you implying that birds are not animals?

Does the job also involve supervising their child slaves?

The president of what?

Yup, that’s pretty much what I figured.

How rich are we talking? Owns-three-islands-rich or just upper middle class? Because the latter’s wealth isn’t very visible, but they also don’t really have an issue with forming relationships with those less well-off.

Then, for actually rich people who do not wish to associate with riffraff, there’s plenty of signs:

• Where did you meet them? There’s plenty of settings that are almost exclusively full of rich people, such as yacht clubs or expensive hotels.
• What are they wearing? Things like brand-name clothes or expensive jewelry are some notable signs.
• What is their home like? Some shitty apartment or a mansion with a manicured lawn and a swimming pool? Things like size, location, the condition of the home, their furniture, items, electronics, etc., tell a lot about the person’s wealth.

None of these is 100% waterproof, of course. They could be in that expensive place with a rich friend. They could be wearing Gucci because they got lucky at a thrift store. But when you have multiple of these combined, it’s pretty safe to assume the person is rich.

Literacy 6/5

You can pry em dashes out of my cold, dead hands.

… You realise that that’s because a forum moderator has no meaningful amount of actual power, right?

If a war liberates kills a woman in a country you’ve never heard of, and no one posts about it on social media, did the liberation killing even happen?

fixed it

The thing is, artists often don’t have “make it realistic” as their primary objective.

coming soon: Americans are fucking drowning in debt

neofeudalism here we come!

Same reason as why wheels aren’t very impressive today, but they probably were the shit for quite a while in Sumer back then. Things don’t seem as impressive, or as [any other adjective], when they have been around for a long time and people have gotten used to them.

Maybe if we started treating people as human beings regardless of age? Or is that too radical?

“Why aren’t the kids going outside anymore?” “Why are there kids outside?!”

Let teens exist in public spaces for fuck’s sake.

Not sure about predators, but I believe that the reason it works with herbivorous mammals like deer is because they can smell a human scent and don’t stop to snack there since they think there might be a human nearby.

I’m not a man. Nothing to do with testosterone.

Pro tip: sprinkle your piss in the garden regularily, it works at fertilizer and keeps deer and possibly most other herbivorous mammals at bay. If you have neighbors, it’s recommendable to, uh, collect it in the bathroom into a jar or jug instead of doing it on spot.

No this is not a joke, the deer haven’t eaten my plants nearly as often when I started deterring them with this.

You lost me at “almost no calories”. Fuck diet culture.