Firestorm17

[firestorm172001]

If you wouldn't take 50,000 dollars, drive to the most convenient casino, and put the whole thing on red on the roulette wheel, then you understand why a person would hypothetically prefer a 100% chance of 50,000 dollars over a 50% chance of a million dollars, and claiming you don't is disingenuous. For everybody else, the US gambling addiction hotline number is [phone], the UK number is 0808 8020 133, the Canadian ones are listed on this website https://canadasafetycouncil.org/gambling-addiction/, and the Australian number is 1800 858 858.

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Unless your response to someone being a dick to you in real life is to explore the societal and personality reasons for it, then it's stupid to expect it of a fictional character (or even anyone role-playing a fictional character.)

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Whenever anybody claims that "nobody" does a specific thing that the specific asshole under discussion does constantly said asshole should end up stranded in the Mediterranean for a decade.

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Asking that problems be compared by default to "the worst imaginable" is vanishingly unlikely to ever yield particularly useful analysis.

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If a fictional politician in the Marvel Cinematic Universe campaigned praising the lower unemployment and increase in median hourly wages after Thanos snapped his fucking fingers, the audience would rightly cheer on the "supervillain" tearing said politician apart.

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I really wish that people trying to defend their favorite character by arguing that rather than setting out to ruin a different character's life they did so incidentally and collaterally while not caring who they are or what would happen to them would understand why that's worse.

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Persons claiming that doing objectively good things is secretly selfish if done for any personal reasons can go get stung by a bee like in that Friends episode.

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I have no patience with the alleged literary analysis of anyone who thinks the narrative condemning falsely smearing characters' characters with unsubstantiated rumours means that one should also ignore one's "lying eyes" when a character literally does the things a rumor claims they do on page.

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When the only thing you know about what someone you've never met did is that the person you're interacting with is very upset about it, choosing to tell said person that they shouldn't complain or be upset will rightly be viewed as taking the absent person's side sight unseen and thus as asshole behavior 99.9% of the time.

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I really wish I could stop running across people claiming that a man in a position of power who expects a person's eternal fealty for not leaving them to die is somehow "female-coded". I'm sorry their mothers were awful that way, but it's not an innate aspect of women.

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Since LLMs are wasteful, plagiaristic bullshit machines, comparing any human to them is a huge insult to said human that should be expected to piss said human and anyone who cares about them off.

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If the block function only works for the shittiest and most inconvenient way to view the site, then it doesn't fucking work. Tumblr should be fucking embarrassed that Bluesky of all apps is doing this better than them.

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We all should be more careful to make sure that we're not putting the Baileys in our heads ahead of real life people.

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Niceness is like NFTs in that its value lies in manipulating other people for your benefit and imagining that it has any inherent value separate from that makes you the mark.

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If someone has been arguing that a given extant modern phenomenon is proof of the unique decadence of the modern age and then when presented with evidence that said phenomenon has been ongoing for centuries instantly pivots to claiming that said phenomenon is an antiquated remnant of a bygone age with no place in modern society, that should be grounds for immediate loss of argument and indefinite suspension of further arguing privileges.

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Assuming by default that a shopping cart left in the middle of the parking lot is there because my fellow shoppers are lazy and inconsiderate: 😞

Assuming by default that a shopping cart left in the middle of the parking lot is there because the goddamned anti-homeless mechanism spontaneously locked up again: 😀

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Imagine the mayor in Jaws re-election campaign. Suppose he had the fucking chutzpah to boast about all the job openings he created in the fishing and lifeguarding industries?