Bob Ross gets it.
Only conservatives are allowed to harass people in public
Conservatives have nothing but good things to say about James O'Keefe and Breitbart’s tactics of using hostile video crews to harass people in public. They don’t complain when abortion protestors bomb clinics, or when Trump encourages violence at his rallies. (“Knock the crap out of them, would you? I promise you, I will pay your legal fees.”) But they think it’s awful when liberals confront Trump apparatchiks who orchestrated the unthinkably horrific practice of mass child cagings. Liberals are rude and uncivil! Bill O'Reilly, who harassed women so viciously that he had to pay $32 million to buy their silence and lost his platform at Fox News, is aghast that a restaurant owner privately told Sarah Huckabee Sanders to dine elsewhere. Some Democrats are also telling protestors to pipe down. But Michelle Goldberg, opinion columnist for The New York Times writes that “we have a crises of democracy, not manners.”
The entire column is worth reading, but here is one of many highlights in here piece.
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/only-conservatives-are-allowed.html
Capitalism is so insanely evil it’s honestly kind of impressive
“if you force companies to pay their staff more than starvation wages they’ll just fire people and then those people will starve even faster and that’s just how it is and there’s literally no way to change it or fix this serious problem of people starving”
“if you force landlords to maintain their properties instead of allowing the buildings to decay around their tenants then they will just charge higher rent which will price people out of housing and then they will be homeless, this is an incontrovertible fact and is both inevitable and a morally neutral phenomenon”
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“helping people is bad, actually, and hurting them is objectively a good and positive thing 100% of the time, the world would be worse if nobody was suffering and dying for stupid, preventable reasons”
Celebrities react to the director of Last Tango in Paris admitting that the rape scene in the film was real. The actress, Maria Schneider was 19 and raped by a 48 year old Marlon Brando. Bertolucci, the director, said that he wanted to film Schneider’s reaction to the rape as a person, not an actress. The scene wasn’t in the script and Schneider wasn’t told that it was added in. She passed away in 2011. Bertolucci is still alive.
She stated she hated the director and had some major psychological issues following the movie’s release.
I GUESS NOW I KNOW WHY.
Dude should be in prison, tbh.
i will seriously never get over how horrendous this must’ve been for her. maria says it best in this interview back in 2007. believe women. believe women. believe women. believe women. believe women. believe women. believe women.
Rolls Royce FAB1, 2065. Propably the most famous of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s fantasy cars. The six-wheeled Rolls featured in the original 1960s British science-fiction television series Thunderbirds as the ride of International Rescue agent Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward. The car is usually driven by her butler, Parker. In addition to the model used in the TV series several full-sized FAB 1 replicas have been made and more recently Rolls Royce Motor Cars created a pink bespoke Ghost Extended Wheelbase which has been used for charity events raising funds for Breast Cancer Care
It’s an extremely popular opinion among middle and upper class white people.
Also, aside from this completely uneducated reasoning as to why minimum wage was created…
I can guarantee that there are tens of thousands of teenagers who have to pay bills and help support their families or are the only financial supporter to their family.
Not to mention, if these businesses are only being run by teenagers, then they wouldn’t be able to function or run during school hours.
From now on, all McDonalds can only operate between 4:30pm-10pm on weekdays.
Someone already shared this on Facebook, and sorry, but I have to disagree. At least partially.
Here in Missouri, minimum wage is definitely enough to get by on. I’ve been surviving on a part time minimum wage job for almost two months.
Now - I’m in an apartment with a few other guys, so rent/utilities are split up between us, and even though Missouri’s price of living is dirt cheap - it leaves me very little spending money. But regardless, we shouldn’t be saying it’s impossible “anywhere in the US” when it’s plenty possible to live off of minimum wage in at least one place.
Easy? No. But possible.
With multiple roommates. So you arent actually covering the rent with your minimum wage job. Its taking multiple people in one house to do so. Thats the point.
A volt is a small levitating ball of fur with big eyes, small horns, a toothy mouth to drain blood from a victim’s neck, and an electrified 3′ long tail (Erol Otus from AD&D Fiend Folio, TSR, 1981)
I’m a fan of the fact that it got TWO illustrations in the same book so we could see its mouth
EFF has released STARTTLS Everywhere: free tools to encrypt email between mail servers
When you send someone else an email, your mail server connects to their mail server to transmit the message, and spy agencies have made a surveillance banquet out of these transactions, harvesting emails by the billions.
A protocol called STARTTLS allows mail servers to encrypt the traffic between them, frustrating criminals, spies, corporate spies, and other nefarious parties (though bad guys have figured out ways to trick mail servers into skipping the encryption step in order to keep snooping).
STARTTLS is a pain for mail server administrators to set up, though, from the process of getting the encryption certificates to configuring the mail server to use them (including taking the countermeasures to stop spies from bypassing the encryption).
So the Electronic Frontier Foundation – as part of its ongoing quest to encrypt the whole internet (see also: Certbot, Let’s Encrypt, HTTPS Everywhere, and related toold) – has just released STARTTLS Everywhere, an automated tool that generates the certificates, helps install and configure them, and double-checks the configuration to make sure everything is safe and secure.
Unless you run your own mail server, you can’t do anything with this: but you can (and should) send it along to whomever administers your email and get them to have a look. It’s totally free, and solves a real problem, widely observed in the wild, of mass email surveillance.
deegandungeons asked:
Tell me more about yeen jesus?
argonian-alchemist answered:
Well, I was tasked with coming up for a new character and also set a personal goal of ‘what exactly will my DM let me get away with as long as it’s all logical and above board.’ So I took the age old alignment quandary “if you raise an orc child in a good society will they grow up to be evil” and did my own interpretation of it. So I rolled up a Gnoll Paladin.
So backstory; there’s this lovely little village on a quaint little river of goodly, gods-abiding people. But with rivers come trade, and with trade comes smuggling. With smuggling comes slaves, and with slaves comes slavers. So these gnoll slavers had been harassing this village for years, sacking and pillaging it, taking the good folk away in irons if they caught them. Basically they were the most vile and repugnant a society can be, a direct foil to the peaceful villagers.
After one of the raids an elderly couple found what they believed to be a pup wounded in the raid and took him home. Being old and not quite as sharp as they once were, they didn’t realize they’d adopted a baby gnoll, unceremoniously abandoned during the raid. By the time they realized what they had they’d grown too attached to him to kill him. Instead they raised him like the son they never had, raising him to be a good, gods-loving man. Knowing his monstrous strength could be a problem they taught him carpentry, a good humble discipline to keep his hands and mind busy. And so the gnoll carpenter was known throughout the village, often viewed with suspicion but more or less accepted as a part of society.
He had helped to build new walls for the city to repel the raids from the other gnolls. And they had held out… for a time. The gnolls returned though, with fire and pitch, and the walls he built instead became a cage of fire that burned the village to the ground, killing many of his friends and his dear only family. In a fit of rage, the humble pacifist yeen, who had all his life been taught never to raise his hand in anger, took his hammer and CRUSHED the skull of the nearest gnoll he could find. Something in him was urging him on with this righteous fury. He fought back against the slavers, taking as many of them as he could before they retreated empty handed. But the damage was done.
Knowing he had failed the village, that the villagers whom were already suspicious of him would never trust him again, and that there was no one here for him anymore he took him hammer and left to answer The Call. He swore an oath that day, that so long as he could heft his hammer never again would
He met up with some adventurers not far from his home that had been tasked with eradicating the gnoll menace and after an awkward exchange in which the ranger tried to kill him, he joined the party and helped them exterminate the gnoll menace once and for all. He wasn’t satisfied with merely getting justice for those lives lost though. So long as there were others who preyed on the weak, he couldn’t rest. The party returned to the main city. He went to the temple and (with some initial resistance) officially became a Paladin.
My favorite part was during the slaver massacre the human ranger had asked him “isn’t this kinda fucked up for you?” and without missing a beat and he replied “Do you not kill human criminals?”
Other players have prompted and prodded me about ‘when’s the arc where he has to reevaluate his morality and accept that he is part monster?’ and my answer has been consistently ‘never’ because that’s not who he is. He loved his mawmaw and pawpaw, they raised him well, and he honors their memory by holding close the things they taught him. He will never stray from the righteous path because it was lovingly paved for him to follow.
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So here’s a fortress worth of text about my very simple gnoll paladin. I have a couple more stories about him, but the original group broke up over a year ago, and I haven’t found a new home for him since, sadly. (not lots of people like gnoll PCs, much less PALADIN gnolls).
We are actually living in a cyberpunk dystopia but it’s *fucking boring*
Someone in LA please vandalize it
cleaned up some doodles of my terrible lich daughter. drawing her became 1000 percent more fun once i realized she was an idiot
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