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Others have mentioned money, but I would like to propose this: horny

Many such cases, unfortunately

Am I misremembering, or was he also disturbingly obsessed with an underaged girl?

Pattern recognition. There are only so many stories and story elements that people work with. Familiarize yourself with them for long enough and most stories can be correctly ‘read’ before act 2 even begins.

Good authors know how to take advantage of this and fake out a seasoned audience, but most stories follow fairly simple patterns.

That is cool. Maybe don’t tho.

I can click my tongue really, really loud. Like a baseball hitting a bat hard. Aside from making people jump, I have yet to find any practical use for this talent.

I have only ever lived in slums and ghettos except for the two years I spent living with my mother after her second divorce. There was also a half a year spent at my exes family’s summer home. Never felt so free as being able to wake up, go outside and see nothing but trees and hills in every direction.

Other than those two spots, it’s been shitty landlords and inconsiderate neighbors all the way through. Color me surprised if I ever find myself with enough money for more than food and housing.

Even a laptop in hs seemed like an incredible luxury to me. Only “rich” kids got that stuff, from my perspective back then. All my toys except a single gameboy color and two pokemon games were gifted to me by my far better off cousins/aunt and uncle.

The way things are going in my country, I don’t expect this to change before I die. Money and the comfort it can bring are a pipedream for people like me, who grew up in dirt, now still live in dirt, and can only imagine a life above all the grubs and crawlers down here in the dusty, dusty dirt. Oh well 🤷‍♀️

A butterfly complaining about change is low key really funny

Give it time and there will be more than 9. Dude is a known problem.

It kind of is though. Any ass licking is technically anal sex because it is sex that involves the anus, but not all anal sex involves ass licking.

I think the possible motivations/reasons behind this prolonged effort could be read in a number of ways tbh.

Scenario 1: they simply haven’t played all their cards yet.

This is, in my opinion, the least likely on its own because it was made clear early on that Putin intended for this to be a quick operation. It only undermines his perceived power to say this and then choose to feign weakness. Compound it with either or both of the following, though, and it does start to seem like a picture is coming together…

Scenario 2: putin is not acting on reason.

There are rumors that he is terminally ill and acting on a desire to shore up his legacy before dying, leading to frantic miscalculations. Who knows if the rumor is true, but, given his age and the commonality of mortality, I could be convinced. He’s clearly got the ego necessary to fall into this sort of thought if circumstances gave a little nudge and securing Ukraine as a Russian territory would probably do wonders for a fragile pride like his.

Scenario 3: the invasion of Ukraine is not the actual point of this operation.

With the Kremlin’s well known affinity for espionage and psyop tactics, this one seems the most likely to me. I won’t pretend to know what the actual goal beyond control would be here, but it would never surprise me to learn that they have done one thing 100% in order to set up or hide another. From wars, to negotiations, to tactical games; controlling where the opposition looks, or further, what they think of when they see it, is often a key aspect of securing a win condition.

Their wheels have been turning toward toppling their fellow contenders for the title of #1 world power for a long time now, and Putin seems real ready for something to budge. Either he is a mad fool, lashing out at the world to appease his ego, or he is playing a devious long game and aiming for something bigger than he is letting on. Whatever the cause and whatever else he’s still got up his sleeve, it seems very likely that he is confident in the cards he has yet to play. If he doesn’t secure that legacy and he’s on his way out anyway, why would he care if he permanently blacks the skies with nuclear war? I wouldn’t put it past him to hold his confidence up on this final “fuck every fucking one of you” to the world.

But at the same time, I’m a legitimate dumdum so idk whatever. Just like people obsess over ww2 these days, people are gonna go nuts over this era someday soon tho. I’d bet on that

Yall is convenient and flowy. I am from the US (fml), but not from the south and use it regularly anyway because I just like it’s sound and how it feels to say.

Hello, rich people? This is Troy. Yes, I’ll hold

They’re capitalists first and foremost. If they think the nazi can make them money, then they will embrace the nazi.

5’5 and no. It’s usually my outlandishly goofy and immature sense of humor that scares folks off, based on what I’ve been told about it. For context, my favorite podcast is bigsofttitty.png, so…fair enough lol

Louie Zong has a comparable schedule and has been doing his thing since well before ai was anything but scifi fodder.

I’m not saying you’re wrong on the ai part of this, but some people definitely do just make a lot of music very fast.

Edit: spelling and phrasing

That’s just easy electrolytes. Nothing wrong with that, chum

Reading “god is conscience” in Kermit’s voice was surprisingly hilarious

I would be interested! But I think the best way to implement this would be to give people the power to choose. Maybe, for whatever reason, they want to work that day? Or maybe they’d rather go home and get some good zzzs in? If the goal is cultivating a healthy work environment, then I think letting people take the day to recharge in whatever way suits them best would be ideal. Having a fun activity or excursion available to join in on only enhances this imo

It’s a shame they’re not bulky enough to convert into lunchboxes like people used to do with GameCubes. I have nothing helpful to add lol. Good luck tho!