Super Mario 64 on my switch. Reminds me of great childhood memories.

My point was that I had linked to plenty of countries not located within north or south America.

I have a surface pro 8 and love it for school work in grad school. I love the stylus for note-taking and load it up with pirated textbooks. Saved $670 - $780 (used vs new) on next semester's books.

I can't see myself buying a new one tho once I finish school.

Oh whoops, my bad..

The false belief that systemic racism is in the past is widely perpetuated, and (aside from the blatantly obvious police problem) many do not realize we are still very much a country which operates on white supremacy.

The most powerful book in transforming and informing my position on racism was DiAngelo's "White Fragility: Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism." I highly recommend this to everyone.

Some other great books are "How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram Kendi and "Privilege, Power, and Difference" by Johnson.

This doesn't look heavenly to me.. looks ominous as fuck.

Pretty awesome tho.

My first thought was an altered item in Control, but SCP also works.

I felt like Control was practically an SCP universe. Absolutely loved that game.

Yeah they are so incredible!

One of the biggest hindrances for their species is the lack of social learning. The mother starves and dies protecting the eggs, so all octopuses have to learn for themselves over their short lifespans.

And that is a testament to their cunning intellect and problem-solving capability. They learn so much and so quickly.

I've wondered what would happen in an experiment where a mother octopus was hooked up to machines to deliver nutrients to prevent her from starving to death while guarding her eggs. What kind of social dynamic would then follow once they hatched? Would she teach her young?

I totally agree with your criticism about the headline, but declaring octopuses have consciousness isn't a stretch at all in my opinion.

I highly recommend reading my blog post on animal cognition, culture, and personhood.

I have ads turned off and do not benefit in any way from my blog. I feel confident that my write-up should persuade open-minded individuals to give other animals the benefit of the doubt regarding possessing consciousness.

I have doubts about insect consciousness is any sort of relatable sense to humans, but many other animals absolutely possess consciousness similar to humans.

Yeah, like Italians, the Irish weren't considered White. Whiteness was a concept invented to justify slavery and human exploitation in the New World. It's interesting to see how different races have become accepted as 'White' over time.

A book I highly recommend is White Fragility by Diangelo.

So formidable.. Earlier detection of a severely outdated aircraft that's being phased out...

Elephants are incredible animals. They have complex communication and even communicate through seismic vibrations through the ground via their feet, and they can even recognize the elephant sending the seismic message. Additionally, they have cultural practices, including funeral rituals.

For citations for these claims and more information, here is a blog post of mine (I have ads turned off and don't benefit from my blog in any way).

You also lose your native rights/laws in international waters. The security operating on the cruise ship might hold/be bound by starkly different ethical/lawful beliefs than you are accustomed to.

I do agree with your sentiment. I think it should be a more gradual shift to madness. That makes a lot more sense to me, and it's how I always imagined it.

I liked that they are saying their name trying to maintain that last shred of humanity, but they present as more rabid extreme shifts. Like the ghoul that's killed and cannibalized going from having fluent conversations and vivid recollections to screaming his name is a bit much...

I think they should be in a confused and disoriented state like in dementia, and they should be near totally nonverbal by the point they're trying to remember who they even are. If it's caused by an irradiated brain essentially rotting away, then they shouldn't be able to articulate and be reminiscing at that point...

That ghoul and the one in Super Duper Mart saying their own names trying to retain their last shred of human consciousness was a nice touch.

It reminded me of Admiral Keyes losing his mind to the Flood in the 2nd Halo book, where he just kept repeating who he was as it stripped his mind away.

And was this weak spot not present when fighting Maximus in Filly?.. Was Maximus wearing a different armor set, or was this a plot hole??

But showing one tit would be way too much, man.

There is nudity in a scene in a later episode. Not of Lucy tho, if that's what you're complaining about it lacking.

Edit: Wait, maybe you're talking about the games.

That was the same airship as FO4. It had the name "Prydwen" on the side of it and everything.

Thanks!

I bit for a minute there, until I realized that video is 3 hours and 45 minutes long... I don't care that much..

The only show that peirces thru imo is The Boys.

There's no question the planet and all other life would be better off if we died out in the stone age. Climate change, PFAS, microplastics... We're parasites to the planet (channeling my best Andrew Ryan impression there).

Well the world would certainly be a better place now if that were the case.

Gives me major Inside (videogame) vibes.

I'm going in hoping it will be decent, but the little I've seen of trailers (which I avoid) felt kind of like a toned down, tamer Fallout than the gritty games...

It made me feel like it won't be any heavier than a Star Wars film, which will be utterly disappointing for a Fallout adaption.

I had mixed feelings on The Last of Us show, but at least they kept it adult and gritty. I so hope this Fallout series isn't some daytime PG-13 silly bullshit.

I read it for a social-cultural diversity class (it's not a textbook), but I would highly recommend White Fragility by Diangelo. Very eye-opening, perspective-shifting book.

Also read How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi for a book report, and it was also a great read.

There's only one answer in my mind..

PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can eat read a dick.

If you want to become a better resource, I'd start by making more LGBT+ friends.

I absolutely agree with you and I'm hoping to do just that. I have trouble making/keeping friends in general due to life's inherent chaos. The older I get, the harder it seems to be to make new friends. In undergrad, I'd make good friends for that semester, and then slowly lose touch after the semester ended.

Being naturally introverted makes it a bit of a challenge too. I've thought about going to a local bar that isn't exclusively a gay bar, but it is very inclusive and popular with the local LGBTQ+ community. There's also a really great support organization downtown that welcomes volunteers, and I plan to pursue that for sure.

Just sent you a PM, thanks!

I think it's funny but I feel like PM vs DM demonstrates age range. I also say PM, but most people seem to say DM now.

I don't think you got carried away at all in your comment! I appreciate your feedback.

I plan on being trauma-informed and operating through a person-centered lens, because I believe everyone's story is unique. A counselor I interviewed said "We must have an insatiable curiosity for the individual's unique story" and I really liked how she put that.

I definitely hear you with the privacy concerns. What I did as an adult caseworker was have my notes coded in a shorthand that wouldn't make sense to anyone else. I plan on doing this as a counselor (as well as other measures), that way even if my notes were subpoenaed, it would require my testimony. This would allow me to choose what to say in order to advocate for my client, and insulate them from their progress notes being used against them.

Thanks for the encouragement!

I had such bad imposter syndrome as a caseworker, so I know I'm going to have it as a counselor as well haha.

I want to be as prepared as I can be.

I appreciate you sharing your perspective.

I am currently living in a Midwest city. Since it's a big college town, it has a mix of support and hate... The surrounding countryside is certainly intolerant. I was originally going to include that in the text body, but didn't want to make it too long.

I definitely plan on being up front about being an ally in my bio once I'm practicing. I plan on getting involved with a local LGBTQ+ youth organization downtown as well.

As for gender roles, I don't really support them. I believe in egalitarian relationships and gender fluidity.

Enshittification had already been largely discussed here.

I saw users minimizing the aberrant business practices of Meta and doubting their role in assisting in genocide.

My point was to highlight how unethical and horrendous Meta itself is.

For the Meta apologists, I have a reality check for you:

Threads was immediately subject to mass amounts of radicalizing, extremist content, and there have also been instances of users having personal information doxxed on Threads due to Meta's information-harvesting practices. [1]

Threads was marketed to be open to 'free speech' (read: hate speech and misinformation) and encouraged the Far-Right movement to join, who have spread extremism, hate, and harassment on Threads already. [2] Threads has been a hotbed of Israel-Palestine misinformation/propaganda. [3] They also fired fact-checkers just prior to Threads' launch. [1]

As already established, Meta also assisted in genocide! [4]

Meta/FB/Instagram also have a strong history of facilitating the spread of misinformation and extremism, which contributed to the January 6th insurrection attempt. [5], [6]

This really should be obvious by now.. but Meta mines and sells their user's information.[7] Just look at the permissions you have to grant them for Threads...

FB users have to agree to all sorts of unethical things in the TOS, including giving Meta permission to run unethical experiments on their users without informed consent. [8] Their first published research was where they manipulated users' feeds with positive or negative information, in order to see if it affected their mood. It did, and they successfully induced depression in many of their users!

I will now turn to an article that surmises well the core practices of Meta as a company:

• Elevates disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories from the extremist fringes into the mainstream, fostering, among other effects, the resurgent anti-vaccination movement, broad-based questioning of basic public health measures in response to COVID-19, and the proliferation of the Big Lie of 2020—that the presidential election was stolen through voter fraud [16];

• Empowers bullies of every size, from cyber-bullying in schools, to dictators who use the platform to spread disinformation, censor their critics, perpetuate violence, and instigate genocide;

• Defrauds both advertisers and newsrooms, systematically and globally, with falsified video engagement and user activity statistics;

• Reflects an apparent political agenda espoused by a small core of corporate leaders, who actively impede or overrule the adoption of good governance;

• Brandishes its monopolistic power to preserve a social media landscape absent meaningful regulatory oversight, privacy protections, safety measures, or corporate citizenship; and

• Disrupts intellectual and civil discourse, at scale and by design. [9]

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

Edit: In case you need more citations for why Meta is a worthless and unethical company...

True, but when I hear "tips for cashiers," restaurants/food services don't come to my mind. It makes me think of like supermarkets, clothing stores, dollar stores, etc.

It's not a thing here, at all... This is the first I've ever seen it said. Same goes for tipping cashiers.

Our tipping culture is bullshit, but this just isn't anything close to reality.

I was disappointed he didn't end up with double gold, but double silver was still very impressive, especially given the size difference of his final 3 opponents.

I'm not sure what "American countries" means haha. I wouldn't consider the EU American.

That's the resource that I'm familiar with, but I'd bet similar counselor databases exist for Asian countries.