That seems like a really low number considering how many homeless people I’ve seen in low population areas. I would imagine the dark figure is massive.

Mute is your best friend. Unless you are playing with people you know there is no reason to talk to people. I just look at the players as bots.

Source?

Because it’s art.

There is a lot of skill and artistic talent needed to create a facsimile of real life. Anyone can draw a tree, but a realistic tree takes some amount of artistic knowledge. The more realistic the more talent that the artist shows. Similarly, when the artist deviates from recreating real life it shows an artistic vision beyond reality.

We like art because it shows a different perspective from the minds eye of the artist. And when the artist can render that vision as something that looks real, even if it couldn’t really exist, it is impressive.

I’m more of the opinion that it should be a height/ weight thing. Or a performance based analysis e.g. you could make sprinter tiers for people within a few seconds of each other based on personal averages. I mean this sort of system already exists for making leagues and tiers right now, we just also split by sex.

I don’t think this is a matter of life and death, but both of them probably contain iocaine.

It’s just the one turtle flying through space, the Great A'Tuin

Which is why the punk scene was so protective of its styles and motifs. They were trying to exclude the people who literally could not understand them.

As much as poser is an overused term now, a little discretion in which artists you support is important.

I’m so stinky I could breath a potato! I love mad libs.

Who are these for? They are definitely cool, but why not just use a MacBook of some type? Even in the business setting a laptop makes more sense because then the person can work from home.

Black, red, yellow. It’s Germany

Looks like if moebius designed 40k mechs.

Sure is amazing to continue to feel the need to represent people when you can’t relate to anyone under the age of 80.

I cried when they closed the old Walmart for a super center when I was a child. This isn’t an age thing it’s a comfort from familiarity thing.

“I have been wounded by an empty blue barrel. Captain, you must kill me.”

This, but they are all Romulans

Reparations will not lead to the systematic change needed to bring everyone to parity long term.

I would suggest looking into the several “going to the people” movements prior to the Russian revolution. The educated class conscious marxists went to the rural areas and tried to educate them about the goals and benefits of communism for the workers, but it ultimately didn’t work very well. This, in part, is what lead to the idea of a vanguard.

Education is a difficult thing to accomplish.

That is the real question. Communism is the main competition. We could try something in between like syndicalism, or some other version of socialism. But everything is theory because we’ve never tried a different system.

The dumbest man says capitalism is the best possible economic system. This guy is right if he’s referring to global economic systems, because it’s been the only global economic system.