Best posts made by Derp

@silverfox

You are not silver! I feel so betrayed!

But the cats are adorable so you are forgiven.

(Kidding. In case it wasn't clear.)

@arkandel said in RL Anger:

No, it's people who are themselves low/middle class, struggling, and who are protesting against those same benefits as some sort of communist/socialist agenda. That is just genuinely crazy - folks opposing their own self-interest on behalf of billionaires.

It's not really that crazy when you consider the fact that many of those people are only just barely making enough paycheck to paycheck to afford the things they need, if they're managing to afford it. Many of them are deeply in debt.

Every dollar out of that check hurts. It's felt viscerally, especially when it pays for a program that most state governments have put up serious hurdles to actually qualifying for. So they're paying money they can't afford for something they can't actually use.

They aren't acting against their self-interest. They're very much acting in favor of it. Although we assume the existence of the program is a long-term benefit for them, that is hardly guaranteed.

@saosmash @ganymede

I'm kind of torn on this one. In some instances I can see where that would be good for general matters of justice, and can think of at least two or three instances that I'd carve out for myself, but -- ngh. You should be ably to rely on the promises of the state when it comes to life and/or liberty.

@crawfish

Ok, super digging the Haak-hawk, lol.

@bluebird

I love that your dog is named Agamemnon.

@wretched

This is so me it hurts.

@lotherio said in Good TV:

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@greenflashlight said in Good TV:

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@lotherio said in Good TV:

Without TOS there would be no Star Trek.

But without Dracula, there would be no Twilight. Just saying.

Dracula's more TNG to The Vampyre's TOS. Also I don't get the point. Are you insinuating that the new Star Trek properties are to TOS what Twilight is to Dracula?

I'm saying that if a sequel's quality reflect on the original material, then that goes both ways. If you prefer, pretend I said that without TOS, there would be no Voyager, or no Star Trek V.

Certainly more consistent to the comparisons being drawn, at least.

Yeah I don't know where folks were going with comparisons. I was implying TOS is my favorite despite being very dated to the time it was created. It brought science/ fiction forward to pave the easy so to speak. It's better than the other campy, very dated series that did the same. I'll take Shatners Kirk over Wests Batman. All the other Trk series are good, but they had time to gather more sources and influence to their writing and filmography. TOS is still my fav.

Pike > Kirk. Fite me.

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

What they say: "You should stay open until 11 on Fridays, you're leaving money on the table!"
What I say: " Cash or card?"
What I don't say: "You should go FUCK YOURSELF YOU FUCKING ENTITLED-"

That's the worst.

@aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yes, self, I am aware of the irony of studying fiscal and monetary policy while listening to punk songs about fighting the system.

I am keenly aware, thank you.

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- Friedrich Hayek

So for the fans out there:

Avatar: Braving the Elements

A podcast about Avatar and Korra, hosted by Janet Varney (Korra) and Dante Basco (Prince Zuko), where they explore the various episodes and interview some of the minds behind the work.

@wizz

F you, buddy, I love Black Summer for all those reasons.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, is safe.

It's glorious.

I'm with you, but also I would like to expand this to:

Uniform requirements in general are kind of bullshit.

@wretched said in Good TV:

I am really loving season 2 of Evil.

It's so good. It's everything I was hoping it would be so far. Moving at a good enough pace to keep the story going with the built-up momentum but not just dumping it all on you at once as the world adjusts in all these little ways.

@too-old-for-this said in Good TV:

I eat well, I exercise, and I'm still fat.

Same.

Can we also throat punch the 'eat less, move more' and 'calories in, calories out is all that matters' people?

@grayson said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@horrorhound Which is interesting, because engineering is full of people on the spectrum in one way or another.

We all rage against the architects, though, because what bloody idiot puts that there and this over here and that girder through the chimney and how the hell are we supposed to make any of this actually work?

Engineers only have to make it work in theory. Not in practice.

And everything works in theory.

@greenflashlight @Arkandel

It's really not useful, no. I mean, it's a good representation of actual numbers but the causes behind them are so varied and diverse that you can't really draw any conclusions just from the ratio itself. There' no magic bullet answer there.

Just from a perusal of the available data, I would say that a major driver would be the difference in alcohol consumption and alcoholism in general / drug use, which is a significant driver, but hardly the only one.

This sort of graphic is what hapens when you take, like -- alll the mountains and valleys on a continent, measure their heights, and then add them together for stuff like 'Average Altitude of Asia'. It's maybe interesting as a side thing but doesn't really tell you anything terribly valuable.

@kanye-qwest said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

Engineers are all about making things work in practice. I think you got something swapped mentally.

Think we're hanging out with different groups of engineers, then.

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I get home at the end of the day and I haven't the druthers to slip into a persona.

I feel so worthless, but I know I just need to recuperate.

Stupid trial.

That's been my, like, last two years. I feel you. hugs You stuck it out longer than I did. You're a badass. Never doubt it.

@crawfish

I am clearly missing context on this.

Why does the cat have so many arms?

What is even happening?

@mietze said in RL Sads:

And it feels real good to be the success story about how you refused the mark of the beast, went through your tribulation, and survived.

Then they failed to read the manual. You aren't supposed to survive refusing the Mark. That's the whole point.