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Metal Legion continues to be the most immersive fictional metal band experience.
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I think you're forgetting someone.
Wait…why are busses depicted as a dangerous way to commute in American media?
I never really thought about it before but busses are one of the safest ways to commute to work I can imagine. I’m not ever worried when I take the train but if I had to pick which I’d feel more safe on it would be the bus.
I used to travel between towns late at night when I was a teenager/young adult woman and it would be straight up cozy and a nice way to end my day.
I think a bus feels safter to me because the driver is always right there in case something happens, while you’re kinda on your own on a train late at night.
So did you ever see Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Remember the plotline about the Red Car trolley being bought out and dismantled by Cloverleaf, and the villain's Big Reveal that they planned to demolish Toontown and put a highway through it, and people would use it because the Red Car trolley wasn't there to use anymore and so they'd be FORCED to buy a car?
That really happened, in the US. Only instead of the villain being an evil cartoon posing as a judge, the villain was General Motors and Ford and all the big car companies. They bought public transit lines and dismantled them. They lobbied congress to fund the interstate highway system and they CONTINUE to lobby the us govt to keep trains and public transit from having any money, while making sure the roads get lots of it. They are responsible not only for the dismantling of public transit but also the public's perception that public transit is bad and even dangerous.
American media thinks busses and trains are dangerous because the car companies have spent DECADES and billions of dollars on propaganda making sure Americans think that so they will continue to buy cars and not question how much roads and highways have destroyed the landscape.
its also a healthy dosage of classism and ableism and a hatred of homeless people and addicts all of which are the largest demographic of people who use the public bus
Also the racism. Can’t forget the racism.
Fellas is it racist and classist to not want to get stabbed to death or set on fire?
"It's statistically rare!" Well, like the IRA said to Margaret Thatcher, you only need to get unlucky once.
Are you mixing up busses and subways? Like, seriously all the cases of that type I recall were subway-based, not specifically busses.
Also multiple things can be true simultaneously; public transit really was damaged on purpose, and also racism is part of it, but people still have a valid reason to not like their odds when having to be in close proximity to the large percentage of bus users who, as @pingintech points out, are statistically disproportionately mentally ill addict homeless people for a total of an hour or more per day every day. Hence we can lay some blame for this situation on Republican Ronald Regan for closing the asylums and putting all these poor crazy people out on the streets, and on the drug dealers, etc.
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was not a documentary.
Despite the wishful thinking of Communists, who do not understand "wrong" the way that fish do not understand "wet," large companies do not work in concert with their competitors to annihilate value that they could have used as a part of long-term plans to vaguely harm "workers" that they do not directly benefit from. The reason the car companies were able to buy the streetcar companies was that the streetcar companies were failing and going bankrupt and not worth very much! Streetcars were shit and useless by the time they were bought out, and not making any money, because people didn't want to use them, because streetcars fucking suck the moment cars exist because they still have to wait in traffic but you can't control where you can go. Once cars existed, people did not want to use streetcars. Car companies bought them, when they were purchased, for their manufacturing capabilities. Most of the time that didn't even happen.
"mio look! Abuellas magic tortillas have come to life!"
As we know, of course, the apostle Paul did many terrible things before God saved him. Arson, murder, marijuana....
Marijuana?
2 Corinthians 11:25 "Once I was stoned"

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Collapsible batons are considered a concealed weapon and will land you jail time even if you don’t use it.
Noguns/anti-gun mfers always have the most distorted ideas about self defense and how it's viewed in the eyes of the law.
Their conclusions shape their understanding of the world.
"Gun control is a solution for violence. If violence is happening, than it must be because there aren't enough laws controlling guns."
And that's how you get the "I wish women had as many rights as guns" rhetoric that is hilarious when you compare it to the reality.
"You just need a few simple moves to defeat anyone!"
Just take the gun out of their hand! <- actual suggestion I've seen made
my favourite wikipedia article is the middle english article about frogges
“A frogge ben a wee beeſt wiþ foure legges, þe whiche liveþ boþ in water and on lond. He ben broun or grene or yelwe, or if he be tropical, he may be dyuers coloures. He haþ longis and gylles boþ. He haccheþ fro an ei and he þen be a tadpolle. He groweþ to be a frogge, if he be nat eton.”
nothing makes me laugh like “if he be nat eton”
This trailer is the greatest thing ever
I was telling a dude about a TTRPG project I'm working on where you play as wizards whose magic is incapable of harming living beings, so you must find non-violent methods of solving violent situations, and his immediate response was, "You're alienating too many players! The game should be about finding loopholes in the magic rules so you CAN kill people!"
I don't think I've ever had such a visceral reaction to a single sentence.
I'm not sure if he understands RPGs but he definitely has a firm grasp on the wizard mindset
He has a firm grasp on the typical TTRPG player mindset as well

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NYC rents hit record highs under Mayor Mamdani amid millionaire exodus and rising living costs.
They elected a communist. Just what did they expect to happen?
Higher wages, lower prices, fewer working hours, cost-free and freely-available high-quality public services.
They expected this because they've been deeply indoctrinated into believing that everything they hate is because of "Capitalism" and if only they get rid of "Capitalism" and install socialism then every problem in society will correct itself. They absolutely refuse to acknowledge what socialism actually does.
HATE this "Christian" take "It doesn't matter what we do to the earth, it's here to use up because the apocalypse is nigh". HELLO? Jesus is COMING BACK, and what do you think he's going to do when he finds you DESTROYING HIS STUFF?
We need to talk about "Dominion" for a second too. Like you know this means divinely appointed rulership. Yes: Humankind are the divinely appointed rulers of creation.
But what does this MEAN? Given what we know about the character of biblical leadership do you really think this means God appointed man to subjugate the earth into whatever it is we like in our own image and destroy whatever we don't like and make sure whatever is there exists to serve us and nothing that doesn't? To be maximally extractive?
No way, we are there to make sure the creation is flourishing in accordance with God's design!
I even heard preachers who had the nerve to say animals were created for man's enjoyment. No?? They were created to give glory to God, of course, like everything in the universe.
We have a unique responsibility to them as their rulers, not some kind of mandate to take whatever we can.
“Buy X to make Y mad” is like a pathetic mindset to have
it is not a “gimmick blog” i juts like kitties a whole bunch and want to think and talk about kitties to the world

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I've seen some posts trying to make fun of former gifted kids by comparing them to former student athletes who insist that they could have gone pro if not for a specific injury, and those posts always backfire, because my reaction to them is "You're right, we should treat former student athletes with more compassion than we currently do"
I went from being very physically active to getting the "your body doesn't make energy properly anymore" disability so I can completely understand the grief that comes with circumstances outside your control destroying parts of you you were once proud of and locking you out of the life you could have had. It's not a good feeling.
In both cases, the chain of events is “We noticed you were good at something, so we pushed you into it full force without proper support, you excelled for a few years, but now you can’t do it at all. You’re probably just lazy. Anyway, why are you so obsessed with the past?”