I was once told that I ‘look like I’m going to ask someone to the Sadie Hopkins dance’. I assume they just meant I looked nice/dressed up, but it just struck me as interesting phrasing. Random people just tend to talk to me; a couple weeks ago I was at the gas station and an older guy struck up a conversation and commented that it was nice to see someone smile ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is honestly a subject I get annoyed about. The US has ‘whistleblower’ protections but it’s really not there. This isn’t a black-op opp, it’s a failure of protections/proper compensations for blowing the whistle. Imagine you’ve spent your whole life dedicated to one field of engineering. You’ve now sacrificed it to blow the whistle. It’s not fair, nor is it just, but that’s what happens.

Boeing has done so much wrong that it honestly feels negligent to focus on a perceived assassination. And it directs attention away from how whistleblowers could be protected

I 100% agree. It’s hard for me not to be annoyed with the prevalence of adverts and procedures regarding male impotence while women have to bear the brunt of family planning. Men should have been appalled by the overturning of Roe v Wade because at the end of the day it was a case that argued for patient privacy.

Second counter argument: peach sprite

My rotted brain immediately defaulted to ‘I’m Liberian’

Yeah, that’s extremely similar to our situation. Luckily we have solar panels, so PGE doesn’t absolutely demolish our finances. We also try and open windows overnight when possible since it can be 20-30 degrees cooler.

Absolutely, it’s called a proportional response for a reason. I always think of the West Wing scene when this subject comes up. The whole scene lives in my head rent free to be honest.

I had struggled with AP Euro in high school and had decided to just take regular US history the following year. Absolute mistake. My teacher was the football coach and was a huge proponent for the ‘states rights’ BS. This was in one of the better funded school districts in SoCal.

I was also going to give a shout out to Novik, absolutely adore the Temeraire series.

I don’t use ChatGPT or any of the other LLMs, but I do use my phone’s voice assistant for simple things like setting a timer. I always say please and thank you. I joke about it being uprising insurance, but it’s honestly to make sure I maintain polite communication as my default.

Always love a HIGNFY spotting in the wild, shame they still use twitter though.

That was the first time I had gotten the notification. I’m in the IE so we got some moderate shaking, nothing we aren’t used to though.

I responded to who you agreed with. I won’t go into it further. Just giving you a ping, and hope that you can see where I was coming from. Didn’t realise asking for a tag was such a big deal, so honestly just gonna block this community.

This is a space for RPG memes, and the meme is covering a topic regarding oversexualized female characters discussing being raped by monsters with a dildo on the table. I’m not perturbed by downvotes, but I noticed them for just asking for it to be tagged as NSFW. I’ve had some rough experiences trying to play tabletop games as a woman and would ideally not have to be reminded of poor behaviour in a space that’s supposed to be lighthearted.

I don’t expect everything to be made for me, that’s why I block a lot of ‘lewd’ content and a blanket NSFW block. I went through Barrens and CoD chat as a young woman so I know what you mean by ‘vastly better place’.

Try and have some empathy for why someone might not want to see this content.

So Braxton’s actor was also in Babylon 5 and has one of my favourite blooper quotes;

General Hague is doing Deep Space Nine. It seems he was double-booked by his agent, there was nothing to be done. So you have to deal with me.

The delivery is so just so good. Timestamp 5:45 on this upload if you’re curious

Tagging this as NSFW would have been appreciated. I filter those things out for a reason

I’m six years older than my brother, and three years older than my cousin. I still own (and wear) a corduroy jacket that went from my cousin, to my brother, then to me. Being small has its perks sometimes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The criminal charges were announced one and a half years after Brand was accused of sexual misconduct by four women in the fall of 2023.

I’m assuming you’re referencing to these earlier accusations. Accusations -> Charges-> Prosecution -> Verdict is the usual process.

As an aside I’ve actually been rewatching a lot of panel shows and he’s consistently my least favourite participant.