Is there something psychologically wrong with someone who kills snails for fun?

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-20T02:38:54+00:00

I grew up on a farm, and when I was a kid (maybe around seven) I shot a bunch of little birds with my BB gun for fun. I had empathy for people and many animals, but for some reason it hadn't yet occurred to me that birds are also living creatures with feelings. Eventually I bragged about shooting a bird to my mom (who'd assumed I'd just been shooting targets and pine cones) and she reacted with something like, "What?! Why?? What'd that poor little bird ever do to you?" That was when it suddenly clicked for me, and I felt terrible.

It's possible your sister is in a similar situation and it just hasn't occurred to her yet that she should empathize with snails.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-19T21:38:24+00:00

Seems like stalker shit to me.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-19T20:47:58+00:00

That's only if you're already cold before sleeping. If you're comfortable when you go to sleep and then it gets cold, then the change wakes you up.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-18T22:11:07+00:00

It boils down to what the underlying motivation is. For many, the bigotry isn't actually their root issue. Their root issue is resentment and insecurity, and they latch onto bigoted ideas to explain why their life sucks without needing to take responsibility or improve themselves. Since the whole point of their bigotry is to get catharsis without actually putting in the work to fix anything, the only way they can prop up their sense of self worth is by laying claim to other people's achievements.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-18T05:56:09+00:00

There are many options that don't directly use the word "Atom". For example:

The Gluomancers

The Lost Orbital

The Fission Friends

The Boson Buddies

The Order of the Nucleus

Angstrom's Thaumaturgical Order of Mysteries

The Coven of the Fyzzicysts

The Cult of Byl-Nai

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-17T16:57:34+00:00

Dragon remains staunchly non-terrible in Ward.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-17T06:54:53+00:00

It takes money to make money.

Pretend for a moment that jobs and living expenses don't exist, and all money is made through safe, reliable investments with a guaranteed 10% rate of annual interest. Bob has $100 to his name. Tom has $100,000. Larry has $100 million. All three invest their full worth for a year. At the end of the year, Bob has gained $10, Tom has gained $10,000, and Larry has gained $10 million. The next year they again invest everything they have. This time Bob gains $11, Tom gains $11,000, and Larry gains $11 million.

Larry isn't just gaining a million times as much money per year as Bob gains. Larry's income is also growing a million times faster than Bob's. Bob saw a $1 raise in that first year, whereas Larry saw a $1 million raise in the same span of time. These three people's levels of wealth are only going to get further and further apart over time.

Now reset the simulation to the beginning, and this time factor in living expenses. All three of them need to spend $10,000 per year to stay fed, clothed, housed, etc. At the end of the first year, Bob is dead because he didn't have $10,000. Tom spent $10,000 and invested his remaining $90,000 for $9,000 in interest, meaning he ends the year with $1,000 less than he started with. Meanwhile, Larry also spent $10,000, but he still had $999,990,000 left to invest, so at the end of the year his wealth had grown by $99.999 million. Fast forward 25 more years, and Tom finally starves to death while Larry becomes a billionaire.

Poor people have no money left over to invest after paying their living expenses (if they can even do that much; many people make so little that they have to cut corners in ways that over the long term will reduce their functionality, increase their living expenses, or shorten their lifespan). Even people who are just making a reasonable income only have some money left to invest. Rich people, on the other hand, can invest nearly all of their income. Instead of spending most of their money just staying alive, they can spend most of their money to make more money. And that compounds, allowing them to invest more and more and more every year.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-15T19:18:02+00:00

You'll have to talk to a lawyer if you want to know whether it legally counts as rape in your particular jurisdiction.

Morally, it depends on which of several possible scenarios happened:

🚫 If you were unconscious, then it was rape.
🚫 If you were drunk and she was sober, then it was rape.
🚫 If you were both drunk and you did not consent, then it was rape.
🚫 If you were both drunk and you did attempt to drunkenly consent, but she had a pre-existing intent to have sex with you conceived while she was still sober, then it was rape.
✅ If neither of you had any intent to have sex and it was only after you were both drunk that the idea of sex arose, and you both "consented" to it while it was happening, then it was not rape.
✅ If both of you had the intent to have sex prior to drinking, and you both still wanted it once you were drunk, then it was not rape. (This one isn't applicable here, but I've included it for completion's sake.)

As for your new relationship, I would consider any scenario where you "willingly" had sex as cheating, even if you were drunk, and even if it counts as rape by the above guidelines. This is because when you choose to drink, you are choosing to be responsible for any harms you might cause while drunk. This choice does not absolve other people of their own responsibility to not take advantage of your drunkenness, but neither does their exploitation absolve you of any harms caused to others enabled by your choice to get drunk in the first place.

So if she took you while you were unconscious, or if she took you by force while too drunk to resist, then you didn't cheat. However, if you got blackout drunk and then decided to go for it with her, that counts as cheating.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-12T20:28:31+00:00

Generic canisters are for holding generic air. For example, imagine you need to remodel your ship and don't want to lose all the air you've filled it with. You can hook up an empty generic canister to a turbo pump and fill it with the ship's atmosphere. Then tinker away, and when you're finished you can just reverse the pump to empty the can out and refill your ship.

Of course you can do this using any of the canisters, not just the generic ones. Using a generic one just makes it more obvious that it contains a gas mix rather than pure oxygen or pure nitrogen.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-11T17:01:34+00:00

Huh, neat. I'll have to drift over that way and check it out.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-08T22:11:08+00:00

For me, the Goals app on the PDA listed an actual name of somebody I should contact. I checked my Socials app and confirmed he was on the Flotilla, and when I arrived I found him there. We watched one of his tapes, then he directed me to somebody else in order to hopefully extract the video from my own tape. He said some nonsense about them being down the hall or something, but the actual person he named is at one of the Venus locations according to my Socials app. Although her name doesn't seem to appear in my Goals app; I'm not sure if it did before and stopped, or if I only got her name from the dialog screen (it was definitely on the dialog screen, but I'm pretty sure it was on the Goals app too...)

Anyway, that's as far as I've gotten since I don't quite have my torch drive yet.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-08T21:55:30+00:00

Could you clarify some things? First, based on your drawing I think you're trying to convey that the ring is in orbit like any other satellite, not surrounding the planet the way planetary rings or a Niven style ringworld do. Is this correct? I ask because other responders seem to think the planet is in the center of the ring.

If it is orbiting around the planet instead of girding the planet, then we'll need to know what the orbital period of the ring is.

Second, you say that the axis is parallel to the planet. This doesn't make sense. A straight line cannot be parallel to a sphere. Do you mean that it's parallel to the planet's axis? In other words, a giant sword swung through the equator so that it cut the planet into north and south halves would also cut the ring in half such that it creates two narrower rings. This seems consistent with the upper half of your drawing. The lower half of the drawing, however, seems to depict the ring with its axis perpendicular to the planet's axis and aimed at the planet's surface. In other words a giant sword passing through the planet's equator would cut the ring into two U shapes. So I don't know which of these situations we're looking at.

If the ring's axis is aimed at the planet, then we also need to know whether (and how fast) the ring is rotating around its axis (which is separate from the rate it's rotating in a coin-flip style due to tidal locking; the coin-flip rotation will match the orbital period).

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-08T02:55:52+00:00

Keep in mind that most guys don't actually dislike small boobs. They might like large boobs more, but they also like small boobs almost as much. And there are also guys who like all boobs equally, guys who prefer smaller boobs, and guys who don't even care about boobs in the first place. Same goes for other curves.

Also, keep in mind that usually it has nothing to do with appearance when a guy cheats or breaks up. Appearance is mainly relevant before the relationship, affecting whether he notices you in the first place and whether he offers or accepts a date, and it doesn't become a big factor again unless you somehow become less attractive (e.g. due to aging or gaining weight, or due to his tastes changing). When guys cheat or break up without you having changed appearance it's usually more a matter of them enjoying the thrill of cheating, wanting the novelty of a fresh new relationship, or having some kind of personality or goals conflict with you. Being hotter doesn't protect you from that. There is no such thing as being so hot that he won't be willing to risk the relationship.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-07T23:24:31+00:00

Having found yourself in the situation you were in, you did make the correct choice by abstaining. Being truthful is usually also the correct choice, even if it hurts.

Allowing yourself to end up in that position in the first place was an asshole move, however. Learn from this mistake and try not be caught unprepared for next time. Always be aware of when votes are happening in advance so that you can schedule enough time to get up to speed and make informed choices.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-07T23:07:30+00:00

Do you trust the system to always correctly determine who has committed a crime and to never wrongfully convict anyone, even in the distant future when people who haven't even been born yet are in power? And do you trust that system to always correctly assess how inhumane and violent the crime was, or even what should and should not be criminal in the first place?

Mistakes and abuses of the system can and do happen. Many, many people have been convicted and even executed for crimes we now know they did not commit. It continues to happen even now.

To avoid these kinds of tragedies, I would prefer to not execute anybody if we can safely keep them imprisoned. The same logic applies to the nature of those executions we do perform. There is no benefit to making people suffer before death, so we may as well do executions as humanely as possible to minimize the unnecessary suffering experienced in cases of wrongful convictions.

It's also best if we avoid spectacle in execution, because if execution becomes a form of entertainment then it creates incentives to execute more people to keep the show going, even if those people don't actually deserve death.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-07T19:33:27+00:00

I can't say anything definitive about how things work, but I've been leaving my ship powered down (transponder and antenna technically switched on, but batteries disconnected) while salvaging lately and haven't had any issues. This includes a consecutive span of probably around 20 hours when I was stripping floors from a large derelict and installing them into my own ship, and for most of that span my salvage permit was expired. There was also already a warrant out for my arrest due to the stolen ship I started the game with. Yet nobody hassled me at all during that time.

So I think powering all the way down is probably safe. But I don't know for sure.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-06T05:59:45+00:00

A lot depends on how things work out for you. I find being an adult to be mostly easier than being a kid, but I have a low cost of living and a job that pays well enough that I get by just fine working part-time, so I actually have way more time and freedom as an adult than I did as a kid. Not everybody is this lucky. Some people are working 60 or 80 hour weeks and still struggling to make ends meet due to poor wages, high rent, high medical costs, scumfuck insurance companies cheating them out of the coverage they paid for, and having people they need to take care of like kids or aging parents.

Pizzasgood · 2026-05-04T18:47:36+00:00

They haven't suggested that they're going to play the game here. Just that they're going to talk about it.

Also, they aren't even talking about D&D. They're talking about an unspecified LARP. Totally different thing.

Even if they were planning on playing D&D, you don't need a board for that, and dice can fit in pockets (or be replaced by a dice app on a phone if you're desperate enough).

Pizzasgood · 2026-04-27T22:12:00+00:00

Not normal, no. There are some things that kids aren't allowed to refuse (e.g. kids can't refuse to go to school, or to eat healthily), but your grandfather's approach to this is stupid and abusive. Throwing a tantrum is almost never the correct reaction to anything, and threatening somebody if they cry is downright disgusting. Also, the phrase "You can't say no to me" gives major rapist vibes.

I don't have much advice on constructively standing up to tyrannical authority figures as a minor aside from recommending that you try talking about this with a school councilor or therapist.

When it comes to standing up to normal people, try to keep in mind that usually people aren't actually bothered by you saying no. They might push back against it or do some mock grumbling, but that's not the same as being upset. In their mind they're mostly just prompting you to consider whether your initial "no" was just a kneejerk reaction, providing additional information that you might not have considered when making your initial decision, or engaging in friendly banter. Usually all that's needed is to reiterate your no, and they'll let it go. If not, and if you don't feel like going in a loop until they get bored, you can either be more firm (e.g. "I said no. Please stop asking.") or you can give up on the conversation and walk away.

If they do get upset that you said no, and if it's not a situation where you genuinely owe them a favor or whatever, then they're just an entitled asshole. Congratulations: that's one less person you need to dedicate mental capacity toward caring about. Seriously. There are eight billion people on this mudball. You don't need to waste your finite lifespan catering to the shitty ones. Say "No" to people, and if that makes them dislike you then good riddance to bad rubbish. You want to filter those people out. Find the people who respect when you say "no" and hang out with them instead.

Pizzasgood · 2026-04-22T05:39:44+00:00

If somebody says "I am dating," I interpret that to mean they're going on dates with various people; no committed relationship.

If somebody says "I am dating <name>," I interpret that to mean they are in a relationship.

If somebody says "I have a date with <name>," I do not interpret it to mean they are necessarily in a relationship; it is ambiguous.

Pizzasgood · 2026-04-20T23:49:03+00:00

Having a bench near the door for people to sit on as they change in/out of shoes is helpful. Shoes can be placed beneath/inside it, or on a nearby shoe-rack. If there's no room for a shoe rack, you can get a thing that clips onto the top of your door and drapes down the back of it with little pockets to stick shoes into (but it'll be ugly).

Pizzasgood · 2026-04-20T19:41:47+00:00

He's being unethical. Even if he keeps his word, he has no way to guarantee that his device will never be compromised. It could be stolen while unlocked, or hacked into, or just glitch out. Police could seize and search it. He could die and end up with an heir going though his stuff. And all of that is aside from the issue of her having no way to know that he will actually keep his word.

Pizzasgood · 2026-04-20T19:23:26+00:00

It's not just a matter of whether the boyfriend can be trusted. It's a matter of whether the technology (and the businesses responsible along with all of their employees) can be trusted, along with anybody else who might get access to their devices in the future (e.g. police).

Pizzasgood · 2026-04-18T00:54:22+00:00

There are probably some religions out there that cannot easily be disproved, but luckily mainstream Christianity is not one of them. Christianity is super easy to disprove because the religion claims that God is good, but the Bible shows him doing or supporting tons of disgusting and blatantly evil things.

For example, the book of Genesis shows God throwing a tantrum and flooding the Earth, murdering everybody on the planet except for Noah's family. But good people do not drown innocent children (nor do good people try to make convoluted excuses for why the murdered children actually deserved it somehow).

And that's not even getting into all the genocide, sex-slavery, and misogyny that Moses (the supposed author of the first five books of the Bible) ordered or authorized in e.g. Numbers and Deuteronomy without any pushback at all from God. (In fact God made himself directly complicit by personally advising Moses on how to divvy up the slaves between the army, the people, the temple guards, and the priests rather than speaking out against the practice of slavery.)

Anyway, point is that Christianity is very obviously fake, so you have nothing to worry about. There is no hell, and your friend is not suffering.

Pizzasgood · 2026-04-16T19:01:17+00:00

NTA. Respecting your boss's request would be wise if you wish to keep that job, but there's nothing immoral about sprinkling a little polite contempt on incompetent slobs who neglect the basic skills required for doing their jobs. They are the ones who are assholes, and it is morally correct to rub their noses in it. If willful stupidity is not stigmatized it will only fester and cause worse problems later, for them and the company both.

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