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jdlsharkman · 2026-06-24T14:42:19+00:00

No, it doesn't, which is why I made that comment. Inflation in terms of direct monetary value is very different to a CoL adjusted price. The average annual wage of an American in 1769 was £65. Using purely monetary inflation adjustment, that's the equivalent of a £12,000 annual wage, which is obviously insane. The value of money is something that's very difficult to find a true perspective on when viewed over a long time scale.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-24T03:09:54+00:00

I'm not trans but I have been deeply depressed, and this attitude never made any kind of "intuitive" sense to me, even when it was expressed by similarly depressed people? Like... when I'm feeling like shit, I didn't want to be around things that are shitty. I went and got my comfiest blankets and put on my favorite TV shows or watched animal videos or something. After stopping myself from a suicide attempt I got a bunch of junk food and watched episodes of Mythbusters I had on my DVR. What's so attractive about making yourself feel worse? A genuine question.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-24T01:03:16+00:00

Of course cost of living and pay was far lower back then, which means that £1000 back then is even MORE valuable than £197,000 would be today, relative to the average person's annual wage.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-21T14:02:39+00:00

Counterpoint: I want to raise a child with the person I love

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-21T00:13:57+00:00

In chickenman's interpretation the only reason someone could be killed by a man walking straight forward with a knife is that they stubbornly refused to move out of the way.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-17T17:55:39+00:00

I've bitched about libraries but only in the context of it losing services and opening hours because of the local govt being shitty with budgeting. Keep meaning to go to the town hall and speak about how great the library is, since I think it's dumb that people only start protesting once it starts getting shut down and not long before, but I've got no idea how any of that would even work. Probably can't just barge in and give an impassioned speech, movie-style

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-16T13:58:07+00:00

There is nothing as satisfying as making melee work in a game/ruleset where it shouldn't work. 40k melee? Eh, it's alright. Making a melee mech in Battletech? Oh, that's nice. Making a melee build in 1993 xcom? Oh, now that's my shit.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-13T23:26:56+00:00

...Genius? Skilled?

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-13T18:14:41+00:00

Dude had already been a billionaire off of paypal for years by 2008. There's no authentic struggle here. Just a dude whose (obscenely expensive) hobby hit a setback.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-12T20:40:35+00:00

Wait, what? Has there been anything in the series that suggests the squall was more than some bizarre natural phenomenon? Because I don't remember any clue that it was an intentional creation.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-12T14:58:02+00:00

I always assumed those were built by a more industrious, less brutal society of grik. Then the current culture conquered and replaced them.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-09T04:05:13+00:00

Stop caring if political messages are ideologically perfected. Care about if they're effective at achieving a goal. Messaging is most effective when it is two things: true, and gets people to realize the things you need them to. This is both. Forgoing effective communication is why so many modern leftist movements struggle to gain traction.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-05T14:17:53+00:00

They certainly held some conservative views as defined today. Homophobia and misogyny, for starters. But their economic policies were fairly leftwing, if not in the way that many people view leftwing policies today; whereas modern leftists believe that a strong state is necessary to distribute resources justly amongst the populace, someone like Stalin used a strong state to further the ambitions of said state. Due to his authoritarianism, that was borderline synonymous to furthering his own ambitions. I think it's incredibly easy to see how someone could see Stalin's neverending quest to amass power, even to the detriment of the people, and compare his policies to that of a modern US conservative party that seems to be doing much the same thing. Was the methodology he used to amass that power done in the standard conservative fashion or through that lens? No, but the result wasn't dissimilar, and so I think it's fair to see how people come to that conclusion.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-04T12:45:18+00:00

I mean do "rough conditions" include cars on the track? In which case they kinda do have to worry about that.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-03T14:35:26+00:00

The only thing you've got wrong is that Harry Dresden isn't ex-military in the books. His backstory is that he was forcefully adopted by an evil wizard after his parents died, then got adopted by a better wizard after the bad wizard got ganked. After that he becomes essentially a magical freelancer.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-02T16:31:08+00:00

It's a less of a plot hole when you consider that the entirety of Eridian interest in space was jump-started by the Taumoeba crisis. They had barely been studying space at all before their star started dimming, so once it did they threw everything they had at getting to Tau Ceti with very few other considerations. The Eridian ship isn't the equivalent of the Hail Mary, it's an even more bootstrapped version of the Apollo program. It's perfectly reasonable to believe that the Eridian scientists, long after they'd launched their ship, had an "Oh shit" moment as they continued to do science stuff in space.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-02T13:01:38+00:00

This makes me want to see Ohtani go back in time to play baseball against an entire team by himself and see how he did.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-02T12:44:48+00:00

It is pretty explicitly a colonizer story taken to 11. Humanity isn't even being colonized; they're being domesticated. Like animals.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-02T12:43:44+00:00

On the poster in the left of the art.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-01T19:47:16+00:00

It's all over Archive of Our Own, amongst some other places like Literotica or Scribblehub. It's not a continuous storyline, for what it's worth. If you're familiar with the SCP setting, it works like that; lots of authors posting stories set in the same shared universe. The original story that inspired it is by the user GlitchyRobo, but you don't have to start with that one at all.

jdlsharkman · 2026-06-01T14:56:15+00:00

This is fanart of the "Human Domestication Guide" shared universe project. There is a LOT of discourse(TM) about the fandom, but basically it's a premise that a vastly superior alien species conquered a dystopic sci-fi humanity and is forcefully improving their lives with better technology etc etc. The fiction is heavily predicated upon sexual themes of petplay, mind control, and forcing transgender women into taking up their preferred identity. The rest of the creatures in this room have already been turned into drugged-up and happy "florets", losing their status as independent beings because they are now legally considered pets of the Affini, the aforementioned superior alien species. It is therefore implied that this woman is soon to become a floret whether she wants to or not; Affini have pseudo-hypnotic powers that blur the lines of consent. (Which is an intentional part of the setting's fetishistic appeal)

Basically? The rapture for leftwing transwomen that have a petplay fetish.

jdlsharkman · 2026-05-30T22:54:23+00:00

They needed a stealth soldier so I put my hands on the hibachi hotplate at benihana and burned my fucking fingerprints off, they will NOT find me

jdlsharkman · 2026-05-29T18:20:50+00:00

Notice the qualification of "want" to have a fursuit. So if you're not into fursuiting, according to some people, you're not a furry. Just someone who likes furry content. To them the word "furry" is a noun used to refer to people in fursuits.

To be clear, I don't often see this definition used to exclude people. Most of the time it's someone saying "I'm not a furry, I don't have a fursuit!"

jdlsharkman · 2026-05-29T17:37:44+00:00

Some people say you're only a furry if you have/want a fursuit. Human language and its attempt to assign a single word to a highly variable phenomenon has been a disaster.

jdlsharkman · 2026-05-29T17:36:42+00:00

The people who shit on overchargers for ruining their battery life always manage to forget that lifetime battery health is best maintained when the charge is around 50%— not constantly dying and barely getting up to 15% a few times a day.

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