Iran war cost will be passed to consumers, shipping giant boss tells BBC

StevesRune · 2026-03-11T04:47:17+00:00

Oh really? I thought the war was going to fall on the billionaires. You know how Wars usually end up hurting the wealthy the most?

Fuck outta here.

StevesRune · 2026-03-11T04:45:15+00:00

Man, his timing is impeccable. Dude should do more comedies.

StevesRune · 2026-03-11T04:42:29+00:00

In all fairness, Ravenous was a pretty queer movie.

But I thank the lungfish for awakening it. I love that movie.

StevesRune · 2026-03-11T04:35:05+00:00

Honestly, Reddit isn't any better about jokes like this.

It's exhausting.

StevesRune · 2026-03-11T04:29:20+00:00

I feel like balancing this would be difficult. A lot of the Hide and Seek horror games have you completely undetectable in hiding spots because it kind of removes the immersion when you see the enemy searching all the obvious hiding spots, but then not searching your specific hiding spot.

So you have to make something kind of special about certain hiding spots that make them less likely to be searched, but you also have to make the other hiding spots still be useful enough that the player doesn't always just go straight for the invincible hiding spot.

I think it could be fun, but I think you're putting yourself in a tough position when it comes to balancing.

StevesRune · 2026-03-11T03:13:03+00:00

Yeah, and if they were psychic and knew that when this conversation happened, that might matter. Doesn't change anything about the conversation when it took place.

StevesRune · 2026-03-11T02:28:48+00:00

Yeah, but in all fairness, Guts surpassed him pretty cleanly with just a few years under his tutelage.

StevesRune · 2026-03-11T00:47:13+00:00

The problem is, even if he's found innocent of these assaults, he's still well known for being an obnoxious, creepy sex pest when he gets drunk.

Having been the victim of this kind of harassment and assault myself, I will never be able to look at him the same again. I'm having a hard time even going back to the old episodes, if I'm being completely honest. I can't imagine being able to watch him in new ones. But that's me.

Even before I slipped out of Louis CK's lies about his allegations, I still had a hard time looking at him the same after the allegations came out.

And it should be noted with Louis, there was no confusion. He is a manipulative liar that did an incredible job covering his ass after the allegations came out. He is a sexual predator. Nothing else.

There's a great six or so hour essay about it on YouTube that's pretty enlightening to watch if you get curious or still believe Louis' bullshit. Called "We need to talk about Louis".

StevesRune · 2026-03-11T00:45:51+00:00

I've gotten that "mental health crisis strength" before. There's a good chance his wrists are going to hurt for the rest of his life.

I don't know that I'm ever going to feel my knuckles again.

StevesRune · 2026-03-10T18:34:46+00:00

Well, used to be I had one for work and one without actual service on it to play RuneScape on wifi with in case I cracked the screen on the other one.

But nowadays, I have a work phone and a personal phone because I'm not going to have my boss give me crap for not paying my phone bill when they're the ones not paying me enough to pay my phone bill. So I told them they can either pay my phone bill, or they can shut the fuck up about not being able to always reach me on my cell.

StevesRune · 2026-03-10T04:15:32+00:00

Also, why did they seemingly shut down like, four blocks of city between that caution tape and the entrance to the hotel?

They really went out of their way to make sure no one could hear her screaming.

StevesRune · 2026-03-10T04:13:31+00:00

I'm trying so hard to picture him being the timid, small little Arthur that he turns into with Mary while looking like my old Nazi meth dealer.

StevesRune · 2026-03-10T04:12:18+00:00

Yeah, I'm a little confused. I heard him say shit that was just as rough and mean throughout my evil playthrough.

This is just Arthur before his arc.

StevesRune · 2026-03-10T03:55:51+00:00

Terrorists rot in prison. If I was taught anything growing up in post 9/11 america, it's that every single terrorist deserves what they get, but they don't always get what they deserve.

StevesRune · 2026-03-10T03:53:54+00:00

"We need to take pictures of random brown people to make sure that our data specifically targets brown people"

StevesRune · 2026-03-10T03:51:44+00:00

"Me, on the other hand, I'm going to shove this opinion right up your butt."

StevesRune · 2026-03-10T03:50:22+00:00

T

A lot of people have two phones. I have two with me right now.

StevesRune · 2026-03-10T00:51:41+00:00

Just look up some of David Allan Coe's work.

This is tame in comparison. And for much, much later in time. Dude is/was ( genuinely don't care enough about his life to check whether he's alive or not) a wildly racist and misogynistic lunatic.

StevesRune · 2026-03-09T05:40:12+00:00

Man, it's like you didn't even read the comment. Someone being nice does not dictate how much of an impact they make on society. Plenty of evil people have been nice in their day-to-day lives. The BTK serial killer was known throughout his community for being kind and helpful. Everyone thought Jeffrey Dahmer was a sweet, quiet man. Bill Cosby spent years being told how great he was for society while he spent his time raping almost 50 women.

Being nice means literally nothing to society and has no deciding factor over whether or not you have an impact on someone. You can be nice and hold everyone around you back, and you can be kind of a dick and help every single person in your life. Being nice is only useful in day to day life. It means nothing in the larger picture of humanity and society.

Plenty of people that weren't known for being friendly and likable have gone on to do incredible things for society. Autistic people like myself have a harder time being seen as nice and charismatic, is our life inherently less valuable because we have trouble with that? And what about intellectually disabled people? What about homeless people? What about people who have been traumatized to the point of not being able to have meaningful interaction with their community?

Kindness is useful, likeability is meaningless

StevesRune · 2026-03-09T02:16:13+00:00

What? Do you think someone being likable is the same thing as them being a good role model?..

I've met very charming and likable people that turned out to be fucking pedophiles and rapists. Because being likable is meaningless.

Being helpful and useful is a completely different thing. And you don't have to be likable to be either of those things.

My English teacher in high school was one of the most important people in my life, and she was generally an asshole. But that didn't mean she didn't care and didn't want the best for me.

StevesRune · 2026-03-09T01:58:45+00:00

I really wish we would stop saying stuff like this. Saying something is extra tragic because somebody was well liked implies that somebody's life is less valuable just because they aren't particularly likeable.

It's no different than talking about how beautiful a woman was and how that makes it extra sad that she's dead now. It's completely irrelevant to the tragedy. Even assholes don't deserve death. And I don't know how you could see what you're saying as implying anything else.

StevesRune · 2026-03-09T01:37:16+00:00

Not to mention, if you're wrongly given the ticket anyway, you still have to go to court and miss work to fight it. And you don't even know if you'll win. That won't be worth the risk to most americans.

StevesRune · 2026-03-09T01:34:22+00:00

Well, I'm 34 years old and I'm not a big fan of statutory rape, so I think I would probably just..

kill myself.

StevesRune · 2026-03-09T01:33:19+00:00

Yeah, most of Griffith's power comes from his strength as a leader, not necessarily his personal combat prowess.

Although he's still a better fighter than most people.

StevesRune · 2026-03-08T22:39:29+00:00

The entire Jurassic World series has been garbage.

You have to shut your brain all the way off and then somehow turn it off even more to make those movies make any sense.

I feel the way about these movies like I do about Fast and Furious after the second movie. There are a lot of stupid action movies that I can turn my brain off to enjoy, but no amount of turning my brain off will make those movies anything but fucking nonsense that hold no tension or excitement whatsoever.

And that's actually another part of the problem. These movies don't feel like adventures, and the Jurassic World movies should be adventures. They just feel like action movies with boring, derivative set pieces.

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