SARGE

Until citizens can pressure those in government to uphold the rule of law and create/enforce consequences for unlawful actions, this sort of thing will unfortunately continue.

Yeah, the only way this is happening from now on in the US is for some very much not legal things to happen.

But hey, didn't someone recently say something about whoever saves their country commits no crime?

If the punishment for doing nothing is death, the punishment for speaking up is death, and the punishment for acting out is death... Well what's stopping the masses from breaking out the guillotines?

Oh right, tons of us are still under the illusion of some kind of social contract being honored by all parties, and are so afraid of losing what little scraps they have they don't want to stick their heads up after seeing so many get beaten down.

I want Star Trek, not Mad Max or Water World.

But like.... Skip ww3 and the eugenics stuff... And the romulan and klingon wars...

The utopian future where energy is renewable and replicators make SCARCITY the only thing that's scarce.

Ah, yeah I read that wrong then. My B. Makes more sense now.

Whether they were rigged or not doesn’t matter,

Um..... "it doesn't matter that the very thing used to elect this person wewas rigged to specifically elect this person, you still elected this person"

Think about that for a second and get back to us on the logic behind it.

This is going to get people killed.

If I've got my CCW on me and I see a bunch of dudes in masks and no description clothing trying to force someone, especially a woman, into a vehicle, then I'm drawing and not stopping to ask questions.

Honestly I wonder if they're just waiting for that to happen so they can use it as an excuse to be even more brazenly brutal and operate even more openly.

burn the system down

My takeaway at least.

I have been filling out applications recently and one place wanted me to download a mobile app that would record camera and microphone stuff while I filled out the application

Another company wanted me to record responses on a Webcam.

I still have my 2005-2008 era Sony Vaiao in the garage at my parents house. If it booted up, I'd probably still have limewire running.

I need to wear a knee brace or use a cane, and I'm not even exaggerating.

Living in an echo chamber can make one pretty deaf to life's real problems.

My favorite group I have ever DMd for was at a convention, it was 2am, and nobody had ever met before except the two couples in the mix of 9. I just ran part of a campaign I was working on for a different group.

I barely had to interact with them for RP stuff unless it was to drive the plot, or play a character they convinced to join them.

It was great seeing a large muscular guy dressed like a Dwarven blacksmith role play a halfling, and the smallest person there was playing as a half-orc barbarian from the plains of icewind dale.

And of course since it was a convention, and some of them had LARP gear with them, a friendly competitive sword fight broke out during a rest and instead of rolling, they just went ahead and used foam swords and stepped away from the tables. And borrowed dialogue from the princess bride.

Most groups definitely prefer combat, and to be honest so do I unless I'm running the game. Maybe I just haven't played with the right group or character, or more likely I just suck at it. Either way...

I think everyone has "that one group" they wish they could play with forever and never have scheduling conflicts...

Social commentary.

People of color get stopped and arrested all the time because the cop "smelled weed" despite no odor being present. They would absolutely not be allowed to leave if the cop actually smells weed. They'd just make something else up if it was a legal state.

It's been a few hours, and I gotta say... My comment made a lot more sense when I was a little baked.

I tried being a moderator on a forum once, and after alerting admins and the FBI about csam less than a week in, I decided I was done being a moderator.

It was a forum for RC stuff, mostly diy rc planes.

Unfortunately, therapy only helps you cope, it doesn't let you forget.