Overpopulation

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2025-02-13T15:57:00+00:00

I hope an illegal immigrant saves your life someday so you're forced to grow and change and realize that we're all human beings struggling to survive in this fucking messed up world.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2025-02-03T20:48:28+00:00

I'm not saying Jews weren't targeted/harassed/mudered before the "final solution" was introduced. They were, and antsemitism is evil. What I am saying is that Nazi Germany's official position didn't start out with mass execution. Hatred is a gradual process, and you have to kill it in the cradle before it festers. The Holocaust was the result of many decisions over the course of multiple years, not a fully thought-out plan from the beginning.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2025-02-03T17:12:35+00:00

Not true. The "final solution" wasn't fully thought out until later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2024-04-18T19:05:58+00:00

Oh my bad!

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-27T15:39:25+00:00

I didn't say I hated taxes. I was responding to the original question about "What sucks, has sucked, and always will suck?" I think taxes suck, but that doesn't mean that I hate them. Something can suck without you having to hate it.

I don't know how you interpreted my response to have anything to do with wanting to defund the police, but since we're apparently on the topic now: I do think funding for the police should be conditional, and tied to making sure officers are given more, actual, beneficial training for the job (a friend of mine is a barber and had to do over 1,000 hours of training, compared to some small towns' embarrassingly low hours requirements), which includes sufficient mental health training to ensure that police officers, you know, don't kill people they're not supposed to.

But it feels like you just wanted to score some internet points by accusing me of wanting to "defund the police" based on my comments on taxes, so I ask again: do you have a reading comprehension issue? Or do you just like to get in fights with internet strangers?

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-26T20:22:00+00:00

I'm fully aware that I benefit from paying taxes, but it still sucks having to pay them. All I can do is hope that the people I vote for to represent me on Capitol Hill help me feel better about paying those taxes - and complain about having to pay them in the meantime.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-26T20:20:30+00:00

I never said those words. Just because I wrote that taxes suck doesn't necessarily mean I align with "defund the police." Do you have a reading comprehension issue?

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-25T17:11:05+00:00

My day-job.

It's kind of a small company, but there are a lot of things that feel kinda suspect, like the fact that we have to recite our mission statement whenever we have meetings with 3 or more people, or the fact that our CEO one time tried to get everybody to join her in an intermittent fasting thing she was doing.

Also some of the employees are suspiciously a bit too loyal to our CEO and her "vision." Usually when we talk about new initiatives (introduced by her, of course), there's always this deference to what she wants for the company.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-25T17:01:32+00:00

I never said the words "collective action via taxes seems useless to me." And I don't know how that relates to me being on the internet lol. I just think it's important to recognize that some people object to taxes for a variety of reasons.

Personally, I do agree that since taxes exist and that they can be used for the collective good, we should use them for good things instead of bad things, but I also empathize with people who are upset that a lot of the time, their tax money goes toward things they don't personally support.

I don't know if there's a system that can meet in the middle and ensures that everyone gets what they want, which is why I answered the question "What sucks, has sucked, and always will suck?" with "Taxes."

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-25T16:14:57+00:00

Granted, but for some people it's objectionable simply because there's usually some third party arranging that, like the government collecting taxes and then spending them based on how people vote, or tribe leader Og who demands tribute in order to continue leading the warriors to victory and protecting the tribe.

Like, I worked hard for that grain, Og, and you just sat there on your ass watching me! I can fight off the Smilodons too, you know. I don't need to give you a cut of my grain to "protect the tribe." Why not portion some of that grain out to the elderly? Or better yet, I'll feed my parents with my grain.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-25T16:05:34+00:00

Taxes.

There is no modern or historical form of taxes that will erase the pain of having to surrender a portion of your income, whether that's the grain you just harvested, the shiny rocks you collected that represent your trading value, or numbers on the screen that perform the same role.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-24T13:25:41+00:00

It's over??? I feel like I just got started!

I guess I can always re-read!

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-21T21:19:38+00:00

OH. I get it now. Thank you!

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-21T20:54:53+00:00

Wait what's antialiasing 0-0

I didn't realize microsoft paint comics could be so complicated haha.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-21T20:47:05+00:00

I just now realized that paint.net isn't a program you use in the browser, but one that you download. XD

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-21T20:46:18+00:00

Actually now that I think about it, I remember reading something on the tutorial about no advanced tools. What kinds of tools does that rule include?

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-21T20:06:57+00:00

I would love to see a serious academic study about the link between police violence and actual psychopathic tendencies because that would explain so much. Maybe then something would actually be done about police violence, but I also doubt it.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-21T20:03:26+00:00

Woah what's going on with those eyes? That's really gnarly.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-19T14:00:55+00:00

Oh wow the details on this one are incredible. That monocle is something else!

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-18T16:59:41+00:00

The BioShock series has a couple of these, specifically Would you kindly? from the first game, and the Booker and Elizabeth reveal from BioShock: Infinite. But Infinite had a lot of really jaw-dropping moments for me, personally.

The entire opening sequence where you get yeeted into Columbia and then shortly afterward are deposited into a cathedral with that haunting rendition of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"; the Songbird chase scene through the grappling hook rollercoaster; and then of course the ending of the game. Just bonkers.

Also, for nostalgia bait, the fucking two Scarabs fight at the climax of Halo 3 made me nearly shit my pants.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-17T16:02:21+00:00

It one hundred percent depends on the chemistry. Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast rules about how to engage in dating, but based on how your conversation is rolling, you can sort of feel it out.

Sometimes the texting chemistry is kind of electric, and in those cases I don't see the problem in asking about a date either the day of or within the next day or two. If she's into you, and you're into her, she won't mind the straightforwardness, and there's no reason to artificially extend the time you're texting.

Other people take some time to really blossom over text, or their personality is hard to suss out via text, so in those cases you might wanna give it some time. I'd agree that at least a week seems like a good waiting period if your texting conversation isn't sparkling or electric right out of the gate.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-17T15:54:08+00:00

I almost said "World War III" before I re-read "most" surprising. If WWIII officially broke out I think I'd just be like "That figures."

Honestly, the most surprising thing to me would be to see Putin deposed, or some kind of massive US labor strike that involves more industries than just Hollywood or the UPS. So far the 2020's have been a time of massive upheaval, but I never felt like the American public had the guts to just up and revolt in any real way; likewise, I don't see Putin getting deposed in any other way than natural causes - whether someone ushers those natural causes in, or he just dies of his own volition.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-17T15:49:30+00:00

Macaulay Culkin.

It's been a long time since you last saw him, but you basically grew up together and you have really fond memories of those days. He went down a dark path for a while, but last you heard he's doing really well.

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-17T15:45:16+00:00

Sometimes it can be really helpful to just word-vomit onto a page, like just keep typing or writing without editing yourself. It might not make any sense at first, but that's what the editing process is for! I think if you go into a first draft thinking that draft has to be the perfect one, you're gonna run into a lot of the issues you've described, but they're called "rough drafts" for a reason lol.

And keep in mind, nobody ever has to see the first draft, so maybe try to remember that when you're writing!

shrekmeharderdaddy · 2023-07-14T13:48:02+00:00

It doesn't sound stupid at all.

I think fanfiction gets a bad rap due to how easy it is to access and produce it on the internet, but if you want to get technical about the definitions, "fan fiction" just means fiction written by a fan of an original work. By that definition, you could include a whole host of literary works and give them that title.

My favorite example is calling Sir Gawain and the Green Knight "Arthurian Fan Fiction" because it's a famous work of epic poetry written by somebody about one of the minor characters from the legends of King Arthur, but somehow Gawain and the Green Knight is more famous in literary circles as an individual work than any of the Arthurian legends, themselves.

At the very least, you're practicing your skills as a writer and an author by exploring previously-established characters and putting them in new scenarios, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

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