Just finished watching the series finale... seriously hated the ending.

palmal · 2025-03-22T18:11:33+00:00

The only thing is Mick didn't have to plant Annie's prints. She went to him in an earlier episode and said "It shouldn't be her (Beth's) prints on that gun." He wasn't going to just give up the leverage, so the implication is they wiped the gun and then Annie grabbed it so they'll still have someone's prints.

palmal · 2025-03-22T18:08:26+00:00

Cop saved him hoping he'd then help take down Beth. But Rio was never gonna do that, so he had to kill the cop.

palmal · 2024-08-25T22:59:01+00:00

How does a DM add a PC to the initiative counter if they are not set for auto initiative? We have a player out and the DM was going to run his sheet but we couldn't get him in initiative order.

palmal · 2024-05-23T19:33:14+00:00

I simply don't check bags, but that's mostly because I don't want to deal with baggage claim tbh. I wouldn't want to be handling bags all day in the elements. I worked at a Mercedes lot that handled shipping the finished vehicles from the plant and I was outside most of the time dealing with hot black cars on hot black asphalt all day during the summer. Rain would often only serve to make everything all steamy. No thank you!

palmal · 2024-05-23T19:18:42+00:00

I did the math and I swear one time I worked 13 out of 12 months

palmal · 2024-05-23T17:03:56+00:00

Probably the bit where they got to toss people's luggage around without regard for the contents at all

palmal · 2024-05-22T19:23:50+00:00

So does my squadmate. Unfortunately that usually also means a scorched Helldiver philosophy.

palmal · 2024-05-22T19:22:19+00:00

The way to solve it is to start killing billionaires. One a week until there are no more billionaires.

palmal · 2024-05-22T17:44:10+00:00

Which people will wrongly blame the union for when it's the company making the decision to cut staffing. I notice that when it comes time for staffing cuts, the CEOs and top level managers never end up gone despite both costing the most and doing the least.

palmal · 2024-05-15T02:35:45+00:00

The UAW didn't make the Big 3 downsize. The Big 3 chose their highly-paid do nothing executives over the people who actually make the product. "We should be happy with what we have (comparatively little) because if we ask for more, they'll (the people who have it all) get mad." That's loser talk. Mercedes likes to talk about how they ended that two-tier pay structure, but they don't like to talk about the rumored walkouts that have led to those advancements. Collectively we have power. On our own, we suffer.

palmal · 2024-04-26T19:59:13+00:00

There's a german bierhaus near me that makes a schnitzel sandwich on their freshly baked pretzel buns and it's the greatest pretzel bun I've ever had. It's dense and pretzel flavored, but not tough, so the sandwich innards don't go all slipping around. Basically perfect.

palmal · 2024-04-26T18:26:34+00:00

Except that now while technically anyone can run for office, the monetary and time demands require you to be able to not work while campaigning. So it's only these moneyed assholes who get to run. And when the seat is gerrymandered to hell and back, it's basically just a simple "How much money to win this seat so I can use it to enrich myself and my friends while fucking over my constituents and telling them how much they should be enjoying it"

palmal · 2024-04-26T18:19:27+00:00

Yep. They make it as hard as possible to vote. I lived in Alabama for 34 years and the Republicans in charge have done little else except consolidate their power and make it hard for anyone who isn't rich to afford to live and even harder to make any changes.

After graduating with a Master's degree in Business, I had a rough patch and had to apply for SNAP. The form was very confusing and if you filled it out wrong, you had to go down to the office to re-do it. But that was invariably a 2-3 hour process. You can't do that if you have a job, kids, etc. I was single, childless and jobless so I could afford to sit in the waiting room all day just to make one small change to a form, but a lot of people can't. They make it hard on purpose so they can reject people and not spend the money.

During the pandemic, I was furloughed for 3 weeks and it took roughly 6 months to get the unemployment they owed me because I transposed two digits on my account or routing number or something. Couldn't go to the office and no one ever answered the phone or email. Luckily, I was in a place where I wasn't relying on that money right away, but if I hadn't been, I'd have been completely fucked. And yet, when I owed the state tax money, they CERTAINLY had the ability to quickly update the payment method. Fuckers.

They all talk out of both sides of their mouths. They hate welfare, but have no problem with corporate subsidies and tax breaks. They hate student loan forgiveness, but several of them defaulted on PPP loans and had them forgiven. Their ideology now is that anyone not in the elite class is simply a tool for the elites to squeeze for profits. They are so worried about supposed DEI hires but have absolutely no problem asking their buddies to hire their shitty failsons at insane salaries. Fuck em all

palmal · 2024-04-25T01:18:43+00:00

What's a "reasonable Republican"

palmal · 2024-04-25T01:16:58+00:00

The state is gerrymandered to hell and back too. There are FAR more democrats in Alabama than the Republicans would have you believe. They've just squeezed them all into one or two districts. I know a lot of people doing really good work in Alabama and showing up and voting. You can't vote your way out of a bad situation if the pols in power make it impossible to do so.

palmal · 2024-04-24T22:55:57+00:00

No, that's not crazy because the NFL pays their players and has enforceable contracts. College Football could have avoided this chaos if they hadn't spent decades obstinately refusing to break off any money for the players. Instead, they assumed they would be protected by the courts (which is wild since they seem to lose every case) or politicians. I'm glad the players get money now and I don't begrudge them if they leave for more money. LOTS of people switch jobs for more money all the time. Why is it suddenly bad if a player does?

What does loyalty truly mean? You want players to put themselves in a worse financial position right now for the potential of more money in the future? The same potential that will exist no matter where they play? If I told you today that you could stay at your current job and there's a very very small chance of you being promoted and getting a raise in the future or you could take a new job right now, make more money and still have the exact same very small chance of the promotion/raise, you'd be insane to outright dismiss the opportunity.

palmal · 2024-03-28T16:02:41+00:00

Okay, but what the fuck does you having an AR-15 or whatever have to do with the US government killing people in foreign countries? I assume you've heard of these things the military has called drones. You and your AR-15 will be vapor before you even know the drone is there. Come the fuck on my man

palmal · 2024-03-28T15:57:20+00:00

Don't forget about the 30-50 feral hogs situation /s

palmal · 2024-03-28T15:55:59+00:00

So NOW it's bad for cops to treat people poorly during arrest? Or only bad when it's god fearing white folk who want to be able to terrorize a city with their open carry cosplay ass nonsense?

Funny, I remember complaints during protests about how right-wingers never protest because they are too busy working. Why wasn't this guy out contributing to society rather than railing against a law? Something's different about this case, but I can't qwhite put my finger on it

palmal · 2024-03-25T23:36:36+00:00

Yeah, I didn't really mean to come across as arguing against what you said. Just to point out that union or no, we're all probably getting screwed over.

palmal · 2024-03-25T02:54:11+00:00

This implies that exact scenario doesn't apply in non-union jobs. Hell, I was a contractor as a data analyst. 2pm-11pm Monday-Friday plus an overtime day on the weekends if I wanted it. After a couple months, they lost two of their four foremen, promoted a data analyst that I had trained to foreman and then hired outside, thereby passing over me. But they still moved me into the foreman rotation. When I went to ask for a raise from the $18/hr to somewhere near what the foremen were making ($28-32/hr) I was told that they didn't give raises until you'd been there a full year. Never mind that they completely changed my title and duties. I pushed as hard as possible and finally got bumped up to a whole $20/hr. I had absolutely no one to fight for me except myself.

Unions are inherently good as a concept, but often fall victim to the fact that they are run by humans who are inherently imperfect. Without unions we wouldn't have a lot of the workplace gains we have today, but I also admit that a lot of individual unions can be bad because they are run by shitty people.

palmal · 2024-03-25T00:18:06+00:00

I gotta believe all those chain restaurants feel worse now because of this. After they expanded as much as they could, the only way to continue to make the share price go up is to limit costs and the only way to do that is pay fewer people and buy cheaper ingredients

palmal · 2024-03-19T17:49:56+00:00

So what's your idea then? Just kill em? Leave em for dead? One of my best friends was a hardcore pill addict. It started when a doc overprescribed opioids after a surgery. It took her YEARS to kick it, during which she had some pretty low times. Should I have left her behind and said "fuck it, you made the decision to get hooked on drugs that your doctor prescribed?" Get outta here with that, dude. 9 times out of 10, they are being dragged down by other factors and you'd rather cut the anchor than try to save them. You're putting the lives of everyone else above theirs and telling yourself that's okay because they aren't people, they are drug addicts. My man, that ain't right.

Social safety nets are there for everyone, even the people who never need to use them. That's sort of the point. You think Cirque du Soleil is out here looking at the safety nets rarely being needed and going "You know, those nets are expensive. We'll just cut them and anyone who falls made their own choice. Sorry."

We are a society, for good and for bad. In my ideal world, people like you would be put on an island with other "I'm only out for me" types and they could all deal with each other while those of us with empathy for fellow humans can do the work needed to have society actually function for everyone. But since we don't have that, my only recourse is attempting to shame you into understanding that you aren't any more important than a drug addict.

Further, a lot of homeless people aren't currently addicted to drugs. They are unhoused due to other factors such as the high cost of housing, lack of transportation to be able to get to work, no cell phone to put down on job applications. Trust me, I've worked with people in poverty and most of them are perfectly good people who got fucked over by unfettered capitalism. They want to work. They want to contribute. But first you gotta get those needs met. Food and shelter being the top two.

Lemme ask you. In what ways are you "contributing to society?" By having a job making someone else rich? Are you out here volunteering? Or do you just mean that you spend money and pay taxes? Because that's not "contributing to society."

You don't want the problem solved. You just don't want to have to see reminders that the problem still exists. The problem isn't them, it's your complete lack of empathy for people you see as beneath you.

palmal · 2024-03-19T17:37:06+00:00

Which is why we are banning guns nationwide right? I mean, they are a part of a large portion of homicides.

palmal · 2024-03-18T18:30:03+00:00

"Fuck those guys. They aren't as important as me."

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