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I joined the Air Force because I didn't qualify for the Army or the Marines. I scored too high on the ASVAB.

Yes I do understand capitalism, which is why I understand things like marketing which are used to make items look more valuable than they really are.

Meanwhile an idiot overpaying for paper is not acting subjectively?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e0f0d1f7.jpg

Ladies and Gentlemen... The Throat Goat
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If this was like 50 years ago yeah, but you see tattoos on employees at all sorts of places nowadays. Everyone's got one, they're not even counter-culture anymore.

Just because an idiot pays $3.25 million for it, doesn't mean it's worth it.

Man fuck off netflix

I see nothing wrong with harmlessly posting a speculative experience here. I know it's Duncan but sheesh

Because you brought up the word photorealistic. Perhaps you should study what that word means in the art world. It's not a good thing.

Edit: Here I'll even help:

https://tinyurl.com/53knhekz

"Photorealism rejected the painterly qualities by which individual artists could be recognised, and instead strove to create pictures that looked photographic. Visual complexity, heightened clarity and a desire to be emotionally neutral led to banal subject matter that likened the movement to pop art.

The early 1990s saw a renewed interest in photorealism, thanks to new technology in the form of cameras and digital equipment which offered more precision."

Hot take that shouldnt be a hot take: NOBODY should be taking their spouses last name. You are not their property and you already had a last name.

As a kid, I always imagined that RPGs would evolve into really dynamic battles where the characters would move about the battlefield during their turn. Everything being hybrid hack and slash with intermittent cut scenes is definitely way more boring.

I'm a continued advocate for the concept of great ape personhood protections. Orangutans, chimps, bonobos, and gorillas are all crazy smart and I have a hard time believing folks that say they aren't sapient.

MICHALECOLE posted... He read the bolded part, which is still impressive but much less so

is she really like 3 feet off the ground?

who does that without a harness

well it's good to know you don't actually know anything about healthcare, especially mental healthcare

healthcare workers get assaulted all the time, especially in mental health facilities, and because of attitudes like this they're expected to just deal with it.

Or it sounds like you could just not touch his Nintendo Switch and things would most likely not escalate.

even if this kid was in a mental health facility he'd have to be pumped full of drugs just to be controlled, apparently. nurses aren't any better equipped to deal with this violence than teachers are.

School staff aren't super human and this is the kind of behavior they're dealing with. And this isn't like 20 years ago where parents were supportive of teachers and were active in disciplining their children at home so that they were cooperative in school for teachers. The lawyer is demanding the world here.

What makes this even worse is that she thought the girl was underaged when she did it

Edit: also it's wild that in 2024 people don't know what boingboing is, that site used to be huge and now it feels almost obscure

Honestly, the background context of this makes me feel bad for everyone.

This kid was institutionalized because his mother knew he was this awful. Insurance refused to continue to cover the institution, then moved him to a halfway home, which then subsequently moved him back into the school system. The mother from what I saw tried the entire way to keep this from happening.

This feels like a failure on multiple levels here unfortunately, and I'm not sure there was a good way to fix this outside of locking the kid up...which tragically his mother was trying to do for people's safety and his benefit but it just did not get paid for.