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Thank you for asking my opinion on this! This may sound odd but I really love all of Peter’s bad qualities; the bad along with the good helps make him such a fully realized character. He’s more interesting for his flaws than he would be without them. And personally I think a lot of Peter’s good qualities and bad qualities are the same, just with the focus inverted. He’s incredibly tenacious; that also means he can be stubborn to a fault. He’s very driven; this means his focus can be narrow to the point that he ignores things he shouldn’t. He’s incredibly independent; this can mean he can isolate himself and shut people out. He has such a huge sense of responsibility; it can make him borderline controlling when he’s under stress, because he assumes he can make decisions for other people: his power is greater than theirs, and that essentially makes them his responsibility, whether they like it or not:

(Spectacular Spider-Man #199)

Amazing Spider-Man #596 – that’s him pinning a spider-tracer onto Harry’s collar. His intentions are good! Bugging your friends is still bad. One of the complaints I’ve seen about The Amazing Spider-Man 2′s portrayal of Peter is in regards to the fact that in the first half of the film he is like, benevolently stalking Gwen, but that tendency is actually pretty in character for 616 Peter too. He’s very protective of his friends and family, and that’s usually a good thing, but he can utilize that tendency in ways that aren’t, shall we say, the best or healthiest.

(Daily Bugle #2)

One of the things I do bring up a lot is that Peter is a pretty aggressive person. Without that nature, he wouldn’t be as effective as Spider-Man. It’s something that fuels that drive and that tenacity. But – and this is one of the things I see get downplayed in Peter’s characterization both in fandom and in very recent comics – Peter traditionally does have a definite temper, and it can be violent.

(Spectacular Spider-Man #173)

(Amazing Spider-Man #194)

(Amazing Spider-Man v2 #47)

(Amazing Spider-Man #154)

(Amazing Spider-Man #539)

I feel like “with great power comes great responsibility” gets thrown out a lot as a catchphrase without much consideration for all the facets of what both power and responsibility actually mean in various contexts. Peter, for instance, being much stronger than the average man – and, quite frankly, having that temper and that deep well of anger in him – has the power to easily kill, maim, destroy, etc; it then becomes his responsibility not to use that power that way. And he is incredibly responsible, but that responsibility and that control over himself is not always infallible in the face of things like rage and grief:

(Amazing Spider-Man #122)

(Amazing Spider-Man #200)

(Amazing Spider-Man #512)

Or even stress:

Spectacular Spider-Man #199 – I like this moment not just because it involves a subway harrasser getting his (right before this in the scene Peter tells the guy to stop bothering a woman on the train) but because it’s a really pedestrian example of what can happen if Peter gets annoyed – even if he’s got good reason – and forgets his strength. Greater power, great responsibility, and if Peter’s not keeping himself in check with that responsibility, he could easily crush someone’s bones. And if I’m going to pull out the relatable card here – I think it’s a pretty common feeling we’ve all had, when we’re stressed out and really annoyed and in a public place where someone’s being loud and grating or bothering other people or even getting in your face to kind of fantasize about getting one good hit in and punching their lights. The difference being that most of us can’t literally put our fists through anyone’s face. 

(Spectacular Spider-Man #134 – note the indents of Peter’s fingers where he was gripping that metal pole.)

He’s also very sharp-tongued (the flip side of all that quipping), and even though he’d never intentionally physically hurt the people he loves, when he’s angry or stressed he can lash out verbally. He’s got a real knack for finding sore points, too:

(Amazing Spider-Man #136)

(Marvel Knights Spider-Man #5 – no, he just does it for free.)

(Spectacular Spider-Man #211)

I mentioned Peter’s fierce independence above. That same independence can sometimes be a thing he puts ahead of practicality:

(Amazing Spider-Man #314) And I don’t think this is entirely unrelated to his machismo issues:

(Peter Parker #39) Peter has a lot invested in being a self-sufficient man and an adult and in not being who he was before the spider-bite, where he had all this stuff inside him but lacked the physical abilities to have any kind of productive outlet for it, and that can all feed into his temper. It’s one of the reasons I think it’s a mistake to identify “youthfulness” as part of his personality – he might be a fairly young man, but what he values and strives for is his maturity and independence and a uhhh possibly unhealthy dose of masculinity in there too. And that’s another one of those things where, depending on how you flip the focus, it can be a very positive part of his personality – or it can be a negative one.  

There’s definitely more – Peter can be obnoxious, he can be rude, and I’ve mentioned probably half a dozen times already that he can be really, really aggressive (this doesn’t tend to come out in team books where they regulate him to comic relief! which is a crime! because a lot of people know Spider-Man through comics that aren’t his solos!), but it doesn’t hurt repeating it one more time:

(ASM Annual #35 – a characterization tip: never be afraid to have him yell at somebody.) He’s extremely smart and he knows that, which can feed into the whole obnoxious thing. He can jump to conclusions without looking at the whole picture or bothering to talk to the other people in his life. (This was the cause of some romantic drama between him and Gwen in the early days.) He can be an extremely warm and loving person; he can also be cold and cutting. I do think most of these traits are worse when he’s younger; he is a character who has mellowed out with age, and through his relationships with his supporting cast. Left to his own devices and not tempered by those relationships, I think his worse traits tend to come out more.

Also, on a last and less serious note, he has a real problem habit about referring to himself as “daddy”:

(Avengers: The Initiative #7)

(Marvel Knights Spider-Man #1)

(Webspinners #7)

Many people might not even notice that something had been stolen from them and say "wow, isn't it wonderful that all of this stuff is free?" and not even ask where it came from.

Some people might know where it came from but not care because it is free and they can go there and load up everything they can carry and make off with more than they are robbed for.

Some people will shut their ears and not want to hear about where it came from because they don't particularly miss their junk and don't want to believe anything bad is happening.

Some people recognize their things and are offended.

Some people got robbed for more valuable items and see others making off with them or pieces of them, and yell at their neighbors who reply, "what? I didn't get it from your house and it is only one bead from the jewelry collection you assume is yours but it could have been anyone's lmao."

AI-generated art consists of verbatim quotes from its training data

AI training somehow deprives the owners of the training data of their original works

Unfortunately, both of the above are false. The original creators or owners of training data still have their works and the rights to it, and while you can certainly get an AI to stylistically imitate other artists, in general it's incapable of producing anything exactly.

Intellectuals' obsession with "deconstructing" everything good in the pursuit of whatever the fuck they're after is a massive, massive factor in the overall collapse of our society. Or, as C.S. Lewis put it over 80 years ago in The Abolition of Man,

Also, as I recall, the left in general was making a big fuss about #NoKings protests at the time. Y'all didn't care much either.

I didn't hear the word "Hortman" out of a single left-winger's mouth until Charlie Kirk was murdered, and y'all wanted to accuse the right of hypocrisy (while not actually addressing the terrorist assassin.)

None of which counters the fact that you have one incident of someone murdering a Dem, vs three attempts on Trump and a successful one on Charlie Kirk.

Even this post is an attempt to reframe the discussion away from left-wing terrorism, to how the right is bad for complaining about left wing terrorism, using a cherry-picked post by some rando who was wrong.

Which is precisely what folks like you have done against all the attacks on right-wingers I just mentioned.

The ushering in of fascism in real time.

assuming you’ve got either a college degree or baseline normie work experience (i did backstock at Victoria’s Secret and Target), don’t be afraid of temp/employment agencies

in both my first office job straight out of college (selling refurbished telecom equipment to the government) and my current job (financial data analysis for a laser hair removal company), temp agencies hooked me up with jobs i never would’ve known existed and fought on my behalf to get me better pay than i could’ve gotten on my own, and then the quality of my work (unfortunately yes this matters) led to the companies hiring me as a full time employee within a month or two

as for getting recognized and promoted once you’ve actually landed the job, my professional advice is always “under-promise, over-deliver”. is this project going to take you 4 days of actual work? tell your boss it will take 2 weeks, finish it in 10 days (more time than you need), and you still look like you used your unique skills to solve a problem ahead-of-schedule

For me, it's code analysis and zoning. They see it as some arcane lore that's impossibly deep and complicated. Me, it's dead simple; find section, read section, make sure section complies. It's character creation for buildings. If you've ever built a working high power character in Hero GURPS you've done something more complex than most building code sheets.

👇2010…but Somalis in Minnesota. Imagine that.

For as long as humans have had social organization larger than a single tribe, there have been power struggles between the central government and the fringes of a state, swinging back and forth, decided sometimes by violence and sometimes by moral or intellectual legitimacy.

A century ago, Max Weber came up with the idea of the state monopoly on the use of force. This is one of the single worst ideas in the history of politics, contrary to the right of self-defense and natural law. But it spread and became a popular idea supporting the central government side of the power struggle.