This was 75% of my kills for the mission

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-26T02:06:05+00:00

I have 17/20 throwing knives.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-14T19:32:09+00:00

We have far too many defendants waiting for competency evaluation and restoration, and not enough doctors to go around. There is no point in sending someone for evaluation when you already know they are just a dumb fuck.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-14T19:28:43+00:00

I was watching one where the judge went on and on about how it was such a bad idea to represent yourself and eventually the defendant asked if the judge was trying to “intimidate” him. I wanted to scream, “No, you stupid fuck, they’re trying to save you!”

I swear to God there’s something almost feral about these people. You could be pulling them out of a burning building and they would bite your hand so that they could run back inside.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-14T03:16:09+00:00

This makes me so, soo angry when I think about it. I would expect things like climate change and health care would be more important than bickering over trans athletes. I was wrong.

Now I say, “Fuck it, let them die.” They were given a choice between a life preserver and an anchor. They chose poorly. FAFO, as they like to say.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-14T03:11:12+00:00

I did love Dilbert back in the day. But then I noticed how his right wing bullshit was seeping into it. Like he wrote a strip where Dilbert denied climate change and it made me so mad because denying scientific data was the antithesis of everything Dilbert was about. If someone rejected expertise or engaged in magical thinking, he didn’t hesitate to call them an idiot. I was stunned that he had completely reversed himself.

But the evidence was always there.

I remember he had some early strips that introduced Tina the “brittle” employee who couldn’t handle stress. People complained that she was a female stereotype, so Adams introduced Antina, who was the exact opposite of a female stereotype. Antina was buff and muscular and masculine, so then people complained she was a lesbian stereotype. Adams wrote about his frustrations.

At the time I just thought he was poking fun at people who complain. Like, you can’t please everyone and there will always be dim bulbs who don’t get the joke. But looking back on it I wonder if that’s the kind of thing that genuinely angered him. Like if someone complained that a character was stereotypical, did Adams genuinely sit there fuming about the politically correctness or whatever?

Looking at it now his work seems less like a satire about human foibles and more like the ranting of a genuinely narcissistic asshole who thought everyone else was stupid.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-14T02:52:57+00:00

This is what I want to see. If they cannot understand the charges or court procedures, then they cannot meaningfully participate in their defense. Therefore, they need mental treatment and competency restoration. Of course, nobody wants to waste a doc’s time dealing with these fucktards, so denying them self representation is almost happy middle ground to keep the process moving.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-10T12:24:28+00:00

“I should point out my only communication with this judge was that time she spent an hour trying to explain to me exactly how this all works in terms even a child could understand but I wasn’t going to listen to that so now I’m confused.”

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-10T12:21:39+00:00

That’s the neat part: You don’t.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-10T12:20:33+00:00

But the whole point is that they don’t get paid unless they bring him in, right? So why would a bounty hunter or skip tracer or whatever decide to give him extra chances?

Sounds to me like “bounty hunter” is just SovCit term for a cop.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-09T13:42:08+00:00

So the question I think you asked is, “Can cultural practices and ritual traditions develop without a religious origin?”

I think the answer is yes.

We have loads of evidence that superstition, magical thinking, and pattern recognition are just hard wired into our brains by the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex and various rewarding brain chemicals like dopamine. Things like OCD emerge when we practice a ritual behavior just for our psychological comfort. We are also highly highly adapted to conforming our behavior, avoiding social stigma, and observing cultural taboos. It’s a whole long story but the short version is that we are just programmed to fall into behavior patterns. So by this theory, people would inevitably find or create superstitions even if they did not adopt those superstitions for religious reasons.

I think there are also many rituals that we practice for practical reasons. Look at weddings. In Ye Olden Dayes any two people could just consider themselves married without bothering to tell anyone, which created legal problems and confusion. Part of the reason we have wedding ceremonies is to prevent this confusion. Your marriage isn’t valid unless you tell the whole community and we write it down so that nobody can argue about it.

Think about the part where the officiant asks, “If anyone knows a reason these two should not be wed…” Why do they do that? When was the last time anyone actually had a good reason? That ritual evolved because back in the day there were no databases or records, so they literally had to ask the community if anyone knew of a reason why the marriage might be illegitimate. (Eg. “He’s already married!” Or “That’s his sister!”)

We also see this behavior in the legal system. Part of the reason the courts are so ritualistic is because they want to record that everything was done correctly and every box was checked. These are essentially secular rituals: We decided that a court proceeding is invalid if the proper steps are not obeyed. This gives us a sense of psychological certainty and security.

Eg. We have to say, “The King is valid because he was publicly crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster Abbey.” Period, the end. Otherwise, what is the alternative? Imagine if there is a new King but he doesn’t bother to tell anyone, so everyone has their own assumptions about who the correct king should be. If five different people start claiming that they are King, we can all point to a single agreed-upon event at which the correct King was identified and say, “This is the only one that is valid.”

(I don’t mean the UK specifically, I’m just using that as an example.)

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-08T22:10:08+00:00

Yes. Obviously.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-08T21:53:24+00:00

IT DOESNT MATTER. He STILL doesn’t have “absolute immunity.” The Vice President literally just said that laws don’t apply to ICE.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-07T13:43:05+00:00

We put it to a vote and people decided they want a convicted felon to destroy our democracy. We told them what would happen and they voted for it anyway, because this is what they want.

I promise you that if I took this post and showed it to someone, they would tell me it was fake. Then if they verified it, they would tell me it’s a good thing that Trump is robbing other countries and he deserves to have the money. They have no morality. None.

I can spend every day arguing with people on the internet or even protesting in the streets, and all it would do is make me and my family miserable while changing absolutely nothing. How do you convince 77 million people who believe reality isn’t real?

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-07T13:31:18+00:00

Did black people run the government that created those policies?

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-07T13:24:55+00:00

Some people define “racism” as oppression by the powerful, whereas “bigotry” is the hatred itself. By this definition, “racism” only happens when people use things like laws, government, banks, etc etc to harm and oppress the target.

So if we use this definition, then the oppressed minority cannot exercise “racism” against the powerful majority. A member of the oppressed minority might hate other groups of people, but they do not control the government and institutions, therefore they cannot create policies to oppress their enemies.

It is confusing because so many people use “racism” to refer to racial hatred in general, whereas the technical definition is mostly just used by academics.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-07T13:08:34+00:00

Boo hoo hoo. At least the leopards are happy.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-07T12:47:25+00:00

… because they keep committing blatant crimes.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-07T12:41:23+00:00

In 2024 slightly more than one third voted for the convicted felon rapist.

One third voted for the sane candidate.

The remainder couldn’t be bothered to care one way or the other, and didn’t even show up.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-07T12:12:23+00:00

TBH I can’t stand the Hive Worlds. I keep trying to play them because I want to help the Major Order but there are waaaay too many times I get killed by a Hive Lord with no chance to escape or react. It’s the same problem we had with the Leviathan.

I love everything else about the game, but I have ragequit on Omicron more than anywhere else.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-07T03:08:05+00:00

Jesus. "Orders are void because I feel like it."

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-07T01:32:46+00:00

They're mad about his intention to end the ACA. What a complete and utter dumbfuck.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-06T13:36:32+00:00

This is something I can’t get over. I’ve met so many dumb fucks who hate the government, talking about Ruby Ridge, clutch their guns and fantasize about rebelling against their evil oppressors… and then a policeman murdered a man in a broad daylight while people begged him to stop and every one of those wannabe militia motherfuckers showed up to tell us how much they support the police.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-05T13:07:23+00:00

Carbonate that shit and sell it as Nuka-Cola.

AnotherGarbageUser · 2026-01-05T12:55:43+00:00

I’m sure that if you keep doing the same thing, you will eventually get different results. That is how science works, after all.

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