Damn, you weren’t kidding. I was expecting a cop car, not six.

To anyone looking, you have to get the corner/mid-intersection shot to get the mess of police. If you’re just going up Pine, it looks pretty benign.

Got that Alaskan Airframe and Powerplant license, I see.

“My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”

-Malcom Reynolds, CAPT.

Yeah, but it would be disappointing. Still plenty I’d like to do, and I’m only a handful of years from retirement, so I would be just shy of some well-earned down time.

As far as fear? I’ve never been afraid of dying. The time immediately prior to dying, yes, that is potentially scary. Being dead isn’t something you experience, though, so what is there to fear?

Oh, yeah, I loved ToTK even more. It was an engineering game cosplaying as an RPG and I was loving it.

I realized how overpowered i was when I was launching laser/cannon drone strikes on lines of Bokoblin, but I definitely felt how weak I was getting through the underworld area without a fan scooter.

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

But not like you think. I was fairly early in the game, and I was just treasure hunting in the castle to get some good gear before I continued on (good swords and bows that respawn regularly but break over time). Also, if you’ve never played it, the game is not entirely linear, you have four main powers you can gain from fighting and freeing four spirits in different zones, as well as shrines for additional powers and health. But you could spawn at the beginning of the game, do the initial questline to get the paraglider, and then go straight to the castle to fight the BBEG. And you’d die, but you could try!

So I was treasure hunting and I accidentally fell down a hole and ended up fighting the final boss. And then won. And then had to reset to the previous save before falling in. I spent the rest of the game thinking “I don’t actually need this to win, it’s all for overkill.” And it was. So much overkill. It really wasn’t fair at all. The separate storylines were really good and worth doing anyway, though. Beating the game was just kind of a fight tacked on to the end of a fantastic story.

Short, memorable stories that show people getting punished for misdeeds and others rewarded for positive deeds is much easier to impart onto peasants than the nuances of collectivism.

I would agree if the stories consistently portrayed that. In the Bible and Torah, Job is the most righteous and good and gets fucked because of that. David has a faithful soldier that goes so far as to refuse to go home to his wife while his comrades were still fighting, and David has him killed in a fucked up way (told his general to send him where the fighting was worst and then have everybody pull back from him), all to try to cover up fucking the soldier’s wife. David’s “punishment” was he married the hot widow and the child conceived in the affair was miscarried. And as soon as she miscarried, David shrugged it off and moved on with his life.

Also, the entire Christian religion is based on absolution for whatever evil you do, you just have to be part of the club. If Hitler had “come to Jesus” right before he died, he would be in heaven while an atheist who spent their whole life doing good would be in hell. Deeds are irrelevant for punishment.

And let’s not even get into Greek Mythology, where how good or bad of a human you were was completely irrelevant to what happened to you at the whims of the gods. Same for Norse.

I don’t know how it is for any other religions, as I haven’t studied them, but I don’t think religion was required to establish a moral code and accountability. The Code of Hammurabi didn’t require religion to have a legal code (while recognizing the relief at the top showing the god of justice handing it to Hammurabi, it seems pretty clear that was artistic expression), and it pre-dated the Ten Commandments.

Someone could point to the horrible acts done in the name of religion, but just imagine if those people didn’t have the fear of god in them.

I just… what kind of argument is this? Do you think the people running the Spanish Inquisition would have tortured harder if they didn’t have the “fear of god” in them? That the Crusades would have been bloodier? What reason do you have to think that the horrible acts done in the name of religion would have been worse if it wasn’t for religion?

So… look, I hate having to pick at something that I generally agree with, but it wasn’t illegal for women to have bank accounts or credit cards or whatever prior to 1974. It just became illegal to discriminate against women for bank accounts as of the 1974 law.

I get that it’s a subtle distinction, but the reason it is important is because there are those who would think that as long as the government isn’t actively oppressing a group, then it’s doing fine (“it was illegal for women to have bank accounts, now it’s not. Job’s done!”), as opposed to recognizing that it is people who oppress others and it is the government’s job (like it was in 1974) to prevent it.

Banks (most, anyway) did not allow women to have bank accounts or lines of credit. And they’d do it again (or some other discriminatory bullshit) without government regulation.

Those kids all look fine. Once they disentangle themselves from each other. Kids are squishy and flexible.

Side note, that girl in the front middle looks like she was hyping herself up for the roll. She was ready.

No, because she was gorgeous and wanted by a god. She was a priestess of Athena (who valued chastity), and was raped by Posiedon. So Athena made her hideous and made her gaze turn men to stone. Then Perseus found her and cut off her head to use as a weapon.

She was three times a victim of the gods, and any telling that has her as a monster or villain doesn’t get it.

I had to convince my primary care physician for a vasectomy. At almost 40. With two kids. He was on the fence about saying yes or no (and I am a military aviator, so I don’t get to have second opinions or choose my doctor). Ultimately he gave his blessing, but it was still a “what the fuck, it’s my goddamn decision, I just need you to write the referral.”

So it happens to men as well, just not as frequently (or as condescendingly, usually).

Lol, this was the one I immediately thought of. I was going to send it to me wife followed by “Magicians.”

congratulations you are in the top 0.1% of parents/dads

This right here is what this whole question is directed at.

No, doing the basics does not put them in the “top 0.1% of dads,” like it’s some sort of anomaly (they might be, but it’s not because they changed diapers). Almost every dad I know is heavily involved in their kids lives, including when they are babies. I’m never the only dad at the park or the birthday party, and everything else. I have had many discussions with other guys about taking care of our babies, and it is very clear that it is a shared responsibility.

Do more men bail on their kids or dump responsibility on their spouse than women? Sure. Is that currently the common thing, or what 99.9% of men do? Absolutely not.

Stop perpetuating this stereotype, especially in a post about negative stereotypes.

I think that it is unfortunate that he got shanked, as he was convicted and appropriately sentenced for the murder he committed. That is as it should be.

Shank the ones that get away with it, not the ones in jail for it.

I didn’t watch it specifically because of Leto. I was absolutely stoked each time I saw an ad for it (forgetting that Leto was in it) right up until his stupid face popped up in the trailer.

If they had somebody else, even a complete no-name actor, I would have watched it. It is impressive how effectively they pushed away their audience.

I have made the argument to the “think of the economy” Republicans I have known for years, and come at it from a relatively heartless angle:

With automation (and now AI), it takes less and less humans to do the work. Not everybody can “start their own business,” obviously, and when self-driving vehicles that don’t require a human driver become effective and accepted, about 70 million jobs will disappear in a blink. And those won’t be shifted to another industry, because it doesn’t take 70 million people to code and maintain self-driving vehicles. And that is just the people who drive for a living. So either a significant chunk of the population is unemployed and can’t buy things or live anymore without significant help from the government anyway, or everybody works less hours (and still paid a living wage) to spread out the available work hours.

If there is a UBI that effectively covers shelter and food, then people would need to work less to pay for other necessities and what luxuries they can afford. If everybody gets it, it is completely fair.

And you do this by taxing the shit out any automation (enough that the business still gets a benefit, but so does the society they are taking jobs from), and taxing billionaires.

This isn’t about taking care of the sick or poor, or providing handouts, it’s about maintaining society with the rise of automation, and it not being possible without it.

Those I spoke to were remarkably receptive to that argument.

It’s the horn of a goat that Zeus broke off when he was a… child? God-child? Whatever. It was magical and provided an endless supply of food.

I imagine they’d want to give her something for the pain, and potential pregnancy might be a factor? I don’t know, I’m not a doctor, and this is a comic.

I’ll do a lot, but I’ll often start with Wagon Wheel, because it gets people singing along, and once they’re singing, they’re signing up to sing.

Sometimes people need encouragement.

That sounds excellent… i might pitch that to my wife for next year.