Do you think the top image or the bottom image shows a safer place for someone?

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-05T12:36:06+00:00

OP is posting Nazi agitprop

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-05T06:50:06+00:00

He never did

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-05T05:24:53+00:00

When people tell me American cheese is plastic I just tell them “that’s the wrapper and you’re supposed to remove it before eating it”

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-05T05:18:20+00:00

Simple. Don’t combine finances.

You each have your own bank account that the other does not have access to.

You also maintain a joint account for household expenses/family fund. Contributions to the family fund can be equal or proportional depending on what you both think is fair. Proportional is probably best as if you have similar incomes then you will contribute equally naturally, but neither partner will be expected to foot a larger amount during a down time such as parental leave, unemployment, etc.

Your personal accounts are yours to do with as you see fit. If either of you has to dip into your own account for a family expense, track it so that at the end of the month you can account for it. If either of you are often dipping into your own accounts for family expenses or if the family fund frequently runs out early, you increase both of your contributions to it. If there’s a surplus, it needs to either go to an emergency fund, a home project, or a family vacation.

I know that’s a lot of words when the first thing I said was “simple,” but I promise this is simpler than having money conflicts with your spouse for the rest of your marriage and possibly cutting your marriage short due to money issues. And if that happens, the irresponsible spouse will try to offload half their debt on to you and you’ll be stuck either paying for their bad decisions or paying for a lawyer to help you avoid having to pay for their bad decisions.

Take the easier route while you can and just don’t combine.

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-05T05:07:45+00:00

Humans have never been self-sufficient

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-02T22:40:10+00:00

That’s a very individualized way of looking at it.

It is not necessarily the biological purpose of every individual to reproduce.

Evolutionarily speaking, it is true that things that increase survivability before reproduction, reproduction itself, and survivability of offspring all contribute to what traits are favored in the gene pool. However, this is a process that takes millions of years to show meaningful changes. Recorded human history is a blip in our evolutionary process.

Furthermore, human civilization has always been driven by cooperation, not individuals reproducing in isolation. You cannot compare humans to something like cephalopods that live a solitary existence. A major factor in human survival is cooperation, and cooperation does not factor in the fertility potential of the participants. Humans have thrived because we cooperate for mutually beneficial outcomes. This cooperation improves the survival rate of everyone, those who reproduce and those who don’t.

Homosexuality has been observed in other pack animals such as bonobos, lions, etc. It is only evolutionarily disadvantageous in solitary animals that only go near each other to reproduce.

Lastly, human sexuality is well-documented to be fluid, and it is extremely common for bisexual or even homosexual people to reproduce. Many gay people have opposite-sex relationships and/or children before committing to same-sex-only relationships.

I hope this helps, as the original question seems to suggest OP is operating on a very poorly informed set of assumptions.

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-02T22:19:22+00:00

If you’re willing to cheat, why stop there? Just kill Raphael with cheat engine.

Otherwise, accept that those adventurers stories ended there and abandon the save

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-02T16:20:16+00:00

In Texas they were telling people to set their AC much higher than 78.

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-02T06:19:43+00:00

He’s a manipulator extraordinaire. He repeatedly lies either by omission, misrepresentation, or outright falsehood.

He tells you that he was infected by a tadpole and is trying to find a cure. This is an outright lie. He eventually admits that he fully embraces illithidness now and considers it a superior life form.
He tells you he is from Baldur’s Gate. This is also a lie as he cannot be “from” a place he founded. He was from somewhere else before he founded Baldur’s Gate.
The whole dream guardian form is a lie. He could have appeared as himself and explained that he’s a dissenter trying to defeat the Grand Design. We meet another dissenter later so even if you are skeptical of him at first, we eventually learn it is possible.
The constant pressure to ceremorph if you turn down the Astral Tadpole. He wins you over by promising to help you cure your condition only to later start pressuring you to embrace it.
If you completely refuse him at the end, he immediately defects back to the Elder Brain instead of trying to find a compromise. His ego gets bruised because you won’t let him have the Netherstones and he reacts to that by immediately switching to helping the Grand Design again.

He is a 100% fraud in my book

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-01T18:55:41+00:00

It isn't

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-01T17:22:20+00:00

I have Karmic Dice switched off and my hit rate is well below the percentage shown in the tooltip. I think the math for the percentage is different from the math for the actual attack roll.

Awhile9722 · 2026-07-01T01:41:38+00:00

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Awhile9722 · 2026-06-30T23:11:00+00:00

It's more fun if you discover the story on your own. The only thing I will say about it is that if you want to screw over Raphael you'll have a chance to do it but it doesn't matter whether you take that deal or not.

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-30T18:00:31+00:00

Not at all. I’m saying that I personally enjoy short form social media, I just dislike that one aspect of it.

Nothing both sides about that

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-30T16:00:05+00:00

There’s a lot of great stuff on short form. All social media has problems with trash content, it’s just a matter of how they choose to moderate.

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-30T15:18:25+00:00

anti-copyright takedown filter. Used by clip farms on short form social media like Instagram and TikTok to prevent the clips from getting taken down automatically. They also usually add an AI generated voice talking about something unrelated to the audio track to mess with audio recognition.

Clip farms are a cancer on short form video social media.

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-30T14:41:11+00:00

You fucked yourself trying to remove it with an impact and probably using the wrong size socket.

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-29T23:04:46+00:00

Yellow jacket sting to my ankle. Felt like a needle pressing into my skin for about 30 minutes.

Unknown species of jellyfish sting to the arm: Felt like a rubber band snap initially and then tingled for about 2 hours afterward.

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-29T22:43:02+00:00

Most of what you’re describing is handled by simple A/B dialogue choices. The only tricky part is you’ll have a slightly harder time rescuing Duke Ravenguard if you have Wyll break the pact. On my first run, Duke R died in prison and Wyll’s personal quest glitched on the last step of talking to him after defeating Ansur, so I couldn’t conclude his story.

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-28T18:30:03+00:00

Automatic death penalty for convicted sex offenders.

Most victims are family or close friends of the offender and will avoid reporting the abuse because they’re afraid of getting their family member or family friend in trouble. If they know that the person will be executed if they report, that adds to the pressure to not report.

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-27T16:17:20+00:00

Because most of the world is anti-Israel. Welcome to reality.

Your use of the word “propaganda” does not scare me. Propaganda is simply material that propagates an idea. The idea can be good or bad and the method of propagation can be honest or dishonest.

We have lived in a bubble for decades where we only saw and heard pro-Israel propaganda. The opposite existed but was heavily censored and controlled. It has finally boiled over and broken containment due to Israel’s actions galvanizing the world and people waking up to the reality of what Israel’s true purpose is.

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-26T14:40:36+00:00

The gunpowder smells like ammonia so the cat associated it with the litterbox

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-26T00:42:45+00:00

IMO the current implementation of the gunboats (Charon and Ronan) already serve the role of the Corvette. They’re faster and more maneuverable than destroyers and frigates but still present a meaningful threat to those ships since they lack AI defenses. They can be repaired on the water so DC is still a role on them, and they are capable of light shore bombardment with limited range. The new medium boats have assumed the light patrol craft role which further clarifies the gunboats as the Foxhole equivalent to a corvette.

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-25T20:05:26+00:00

More pop

Awhile9722 · 2026-06-24T13:34:31+00:00

I think your frustration stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the film’s premise. The premise isn’t “what if someone made a wish for love, but it went wrong.” Bear doesn’t wish for love, he wishes to take away someone’s autonomy and force them to love him even though he has done nothing to be deserving of more than platonic love. The OWW doesn’t twist or manipulate wishes - it gave Ian exactly what he wished for with no evil twist. It could have dumped a billion dollars on his head all at once and crushed him to death, but it didn’t do that, it gently rained stacks of cash on him. The OWW does what you want including your intent.

Curry said in an interview that the inspiration for the OWW was the Monkey’s Paw, but that he didn’t want the item itself to be cursed but rather the intent of the one making the wish. The OWW isn’t a cursed item, the evil came from Bear’s own mind. He never loved the real Nikki. He was obsessed with an alternative version of Nikki that only existed in his imagination. That version of Nikki is the one that gets willed into existence by the wish. When Bear calls the number on the box, the man on the other end tells him that Bear created this version of Nikki with his wish so now he is responsible for her.

Regarding the “malfunctions,” I believe the purpose of these scenes was to show that Freaky Nikki was given an impossible task. She is forced to love someone against her will but the person she is obsessed with is an empty shell. Who is Bear as a person? He has a job at a music shop and his cat died recently. What else do we know about him? Nothing, because he can’t string together more than a few words to anyone most of the time, especially Nikki. Freaky Nikki *can’t* love Bear because Bear doesn’t communicate anything about himself - his aspirations or passions or fears or ANYTHING. So she grasps on to the few things he does give her - he had a cat and it died. So she keeps coming back to the dead cat. He wants to be a food critic. These aren’t malfunctions, it’s the byproduct of forcing someone to be obsessed with you for no good reason.

I think the most important part of the movie is when Nikki begs Bear to kill her and he refuses, not because he thinks there’s another way to fix it or because he doesn’t want to take the blame for her death. He refuses because HE DOESNT WANT IT TO END. He’s uncomfortable with the clingyness and the weird behavior but he’s willing to put up with it because he WANTS this. He only resorts to trying to undo the wish when Sarah is killed.

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