RedPig [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 27th, 2020

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  • RedPig [none/use name]toPost Maine On MainGreat :)
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    4 years ago

    So there's a bit of flavor in one of the Shadowrun 5e books that states that the main thing corp doctors in arcologies deal with is medicating patients to deal with side effects of the preexisting mood drugs that are in the water and I thought it was cool cyberpunk fiction but here comes the happy water.



  • RedPig [none/use name]toPost Maine On Main*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Yeah you basically made an ass of yourself telling people to speak English if they want to live in America; "check your privilege" wasn't the right thing for them to say, but something else a little less woke and a little less nice was.

    Edit: OP I get that you feel like the one being punched down on because of the wealth aspect but "speak English if you want to get by here", even when said with reasonably good intentions, is a phrase and an idea that's pretty hate-laced in the history of this place. Being in the wrong here doesn't mean you're awful or unwoke forever or whatever, but like, be nice to people who can't speak the majority language, shit's scary. They're in a weird position and often having trouble with that. Plus if they're rich-ish definitely be friends with them for uhhh material reasons lol.






  • My grade school teacher SO has been in meetings planning the specifics of what school opening will look like at the sites she works at and I hope everybody knows we're gonna lose parents, teachers, and kids. They have nowhere near the resources needed to keep their classrooms and materials disinfected to a safe level, the kids don't have the discipline to distance and follow sanitary rules, and there are teachers on staff that think everyone is worrying too much lol. On an unrelated note does anybody have a good source on proper N95 masks in any sort of quantity? The district is only looking at distributing debris masks and maybe cloth ones love this place.





  • This has fortunately been my experience, too. The material reality of it is that most of the bits of productive industry we have left source loads of what they need from China and even the chuds know that's what's putting food on the table. I worked a warehouse job moving what I eventually found out were off the shelf components for navy shit (and left when that realization happened lol) and I was literally relabeling boxes straight from southern China it was hilarious. Trade relationships can of course change but I don't know if the rest of the world has the industrial capacity to feed the glutton that is the American economy if we cut out China.





  • RedPig [none/use name]toAnime*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Oh fuck it's just poor accounting? Thank god. I was worried it was a systemic issue related to an incessant need to cut costs and inflate profits at the expense of the worker but phew, it's just that we keep doing a fucky wucky with the numby wumbies.





  • RedPig [none/use name]
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    toPost Maine On MainTrains
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    4 years ago

    I haven't watched it. Sometimes I think stuff like that gets made just to water down the impact of the original work; I doubt the studio will even make much money off the series.