Ya’ll only laughing because you’re imagining it’s bad movies and things you don’t already like.

The real problem is it’s the things you DO like and want. This is where the teeth gnashing starts and unity breaks down.

Revolution and general strikes sound great until you tell someone that this also includes their phone, their social media site, their new game system, their nice shoes and their chicken tenders.

If it’s a new thing in life, it’s alexithymia, emotional dysregulation, and likely a consequence of mental health problems, from trauma to other, deeper underlying conditions. The good news is this can be treated, it’s just a survival mechanism gone haywire, you can get better and have love and happiness and friends and family again and enjoy the full range of human experience. It may take time and effort to find a good therapist and stick to the plan, but trust me, it’s worth it.

If you’ve always felt this way, it still may be a chemical imbalance but also may be a personality disorder.

Personality disorders are incredibly hard to treat. But this is often because people with personality disorders don’t think anything is wrong with them, they think the people around them are the ones with problems. But the good news in this case is if this is your issue, you are already suspecting something is wrong and that’s already the hard part crossed. The rest is just structure and planning. The human brain is incredibly flexible and you can actually rewire yourself to be the person you want to be for your loved ones, for yourself, to experience more and feel more. But again, it takes time.

Be good to yourself. Take stock of your life and situation, make a few calls to some all-inclusive mental health clinics, there are a lot of places that will both set you up for insurance/financing, and they will do the preliminary health tests, medication recommendations and therapy sessions. You have options, don’t go into it alone.

Not very. The list of real-world obstacles is long, but there are a few top ones that leave super-heroes firmly in the world of fantasy. (Outside of a few edge-cases that others have listed here, people who really seem to have done small-time stunts for attention rather than a real effort to “fight crime.”)

• Guns. The biggest obstacle in the US at least would be the high likelihood that the criminals you try to beat up, people already willing to break the law and victimize others, will just pull out a gun and shoot you in the face because you seem insane and threatening. Body armor may help with some shots from some angles and some calibers, but most likely you will go down even if it stops the bullet.

• Getting your ass beat. I studied and taught self-defense and martial arts for well over a decade. The biggest lesson I learned from it is to NEVER get into a fight if you can at all help it. It doesn’t matter how big and tough you are, if you’re looking for a fight on the streets, you WILL get hurt. You will lose teeth, you will get maimed, you will get cut and stabbed, you will face off two people and one will trip you and you will end up with every rib in your body shattered. Every street fight ends up rolling around on the ground, do YOU want to end up on the ground with multiple people trying to kick your teeth in?

• Finding a crime. If you’re really lucky you might see a hollywood-style crime in progress once in your life. The “group of robbers hijacking an armored car” type crimes are vastly outweighed by the “ex boyfriend uses his key and slips in while everyone is gone and takes the playstation and perfumes” type crimes. The vast majority of ALL crimes are between people who know each other or family members, how tf you gonna find that shit going down?

• Cops. Their success rate at catching perpetrators and suspects is much lower than media would like you to believe, but they’re generally going to be better armed, more organized and more capable of finding and arresting your ass. They don’t take kindly to nutcases on the street upstaging them or causing public disturbances.

Let’s say you prepare. Let’s say you train and be the best fighter in the world. Let’s say you get money or investors who help you develop the highest-level meta-material alloy armors and weapons and electronics. A million dollars in advanced optics, ballistic armor that lets you move freely, drones that fly around and scout for you, machine-gun tasers or knockout-gas bombs and rope-bola launchers that let you trip up bad guys before they even get close… you still trip on a curb and get your ass beat and your gear stolen, because running around the streets in the dark is fucking hard and you are still always just going to be a lone human made of squishy meat and with limited capabilities.

I wonder if they will ever catch the person who did that.

You’re not thinking like a rightoid and that’s probably a good thing.

I wish the media outlets would publish pictures of them they didn’t pull from Linkedin but actual, social-media pics of these asswipes in their average, every-day, stained house-clothes and hoodies. It may seem superficial but these are the kinds of people who are deeply insecure about themselves and it would do far more damage than exposing their stupid conversations. They’re NOT ashamed of what they said, we have to understand that. If anything they are delighting in the attention.

These are just 4chan trolls who matured got older and managed to get a foot in the door of actual political action. While I don’t believe they are more serious in their beliefs than any 4chan self-proclaimed nazi, they are definitely going to empower the actual intelligent fascists and monsters who crave power. Showing them as basement trolls and tubby, pathetic social rejects would weaken them in the arena of aesthetic performance and aspirations for leadership in the party.

Here’s how you know how many of those are bots.

Wait 6 - 12 months and then look at Turning Point’s numbers. Whatever is left will be bots.

Conservatives broadly are not at all interested in donating any of their already-stretched salary past whatever their attention spans demand. This is why they need constant new threats, drama and ordeals to keep people engaged. They have the attention spans of toddlers, the human brain simply cannot always be on guard against existential threats that never materialize so the story has to keep shifting.

Funny that.

What if you’re the politically motivated wife of a powerful, wealthy extremist? And you met Donald Trump as a beauty queen and had deep ties to defense contractors through your parents, and met said wealthy extremist at a rally and had a whirlwind romance that led to marriage just a few months later, and then stand to inherit the entire empire if said wealthy extremist were to suddenly die?

Look, I’m not saying Erika Kirk did it, but she sure isn’t suffering as a result. Maybe we don’t have the whole story yet.

The alien parasite that usually controls his brain faltered for a moment and the normal human inside was like “How the fuck did I get here?? SOMEONE HELP”

Search for Alex Honnald and he’s done TED talks and other interviews talking about it, but most interestingly, i found a 360-degree youtube vid of some of the climb to really get that pucker-up sensation. (You can grab and pan the camera view in all directions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRGF77fBAeM

Plastic is an organic molecule. Think of it like a complex set of legos, and the individual lego bricks have a tendency to want to stick to other things if they get shaken. At an atomic level, everything is always shaking, all the time. So this shaking energy, over time, will increase the probability that some of those lego bricks are going to fall off and stick to other things or just fly free. There are simply more ways these lego bricks can be arranged in ways that are not plastic than ways they can.

Or another way of looking at it, there are nearly infinite ways you can break or damage a porcelain teacup, but only one configuration where it works as a cup that people can drink out of. IE: The chances of it not being a teacup anymore are greater than the chances of it remaining a teacup over long stretches of time.

What does all this mean? Your tapes are literally falling apart. Even if they’re kept in boxes or on shelves away from other energy sources like light or heat, they are still vibrating, they are still shaking. A few molecules here and there, pop off every few minutes or more, never to return. While it might be centuries before they turn to dust, these changes over time will in fact start to smear or degrade the subtle magnetic alignment in that plastic tape which is what the actual audio and video is encoded as. This may take only a few more years to be unreadable depending on the age and quality of the tape.

If you want to save your collection, invest in something to record them onto a digital medium, and even then the best you can hope for is a few more decades. Currently we don’t have many commercially available methods for long-term data storage.

I love this comic’s accurate portrayal of how children talk.

“You’ll be dead forever on the moon” is something I want as some kind of signature when I defeat someone in an online game.

In before someone inevitably comes in to mindlessly inform us that they hate Litterbox comics because their parents didn’t love them enough as children.

(I’ve watched and sometimes communicated with the artist since they started, I am so happy this comic has found success when so many others have failed, and far less deserving ones have succeeded.)

Yes you should LOL JFC go get a job, save money, build your future. You are gonna be middle-aged saying “Why the fuck did I let international politics keep me from getting my shit together??”

I promise you, whatever excuses you’re letting your mind invent to keep you from getting a job are just that, internal validations. Take the reigns, don’t listen to the stories your mind tells you.

I have spent my life hearing stories that the world is ending, that world war 3 is about to happen, that we have no future.

Well it’s now the future, and I dearly, dearly wish the people saying all that actually helped me and others prepare for living as an adult in a world that continues to go on.

My entire life on Earth, people have been saying “World War 3 is imminent!” and when I was little, it actually was. In my life, I’ve seen an actual face-off between armed super-powers directly threatening each other with total annihilation, and a few times it came very, very close.

We are in a vastly different world now, with new super-powers all for the most part intertwined with each other financially. While what remains of Russia is a real threat, they aren’t the scary monster they used to be, but are still using the same rhetoric and hostility. However, more and more we have learned that they are not the unstoppable “red tide” that will cover the world, they are a struggling, impoverished nation pouring every ounce of their might into capturing one neighboring country with valuable resources, and not showing a lot for it other than a radically reduced male population.

I firmly believe that we are further from World War 3 than we’ve been since the end of World War 2. It’s possible Putin will lose his mind and try to kill the world, but that’s not a “world war” that’s just terrorism, and he won’t have allies joining in, because mostly, everyone wants to live. He knows this too, so all he would be doing is causing a lot of destruction to some countries and total destruction to his own.

Good, but it is normal so I was speaking broadly.

I would so love to have an AC game where you play a black assassin taking out slave-owners and warmongering southern landowners, it’s a universally* acceptable premise that should be celebrated and enjoyed.

* the people this would offend should be ignored like we used to.

“Okay team, we need to make this game about the American Civil war, but in a way that doesn’t touch on politics or race or offend anyone in any way, we have do whatever we can to make the Civil War seem like just some kind of completely neutral historical incident that couldn’t have been avoided, we can’t have modern slavery apologists or descendants of slaves feel ANYTHING about ANYTHING!”

Aside from the Americanized version, that sounds wonderful, I love the inclusion of mint.

That’s not even remotely the worst way we’ve bastardized italian pizza.

Also, we could dive deeper and talk about italian food before tomatoes were introduced, but I don’t think Americans are ready for that yet.