That explains the republican mindset so well. If joy doesn’t exist in the world, you’re not taking it from others when you spread your misery.

Attitude, personality and confidence can make an ugly man look good.

Or at least that’s how it’s worked out for me.

Don’t intentionally spread invasive plants, local ecosystems have it hard enough as it is.

“Great” is a massive overstatement. They were passable movies that suffered from bad pacing and exposition dumping. I don’t hate reloaded or revolutions, but I’m not going to go out of my way to watch them like I do for the first one.

So then you don’t have 6 replicas, you have 6 fragments that can make a replica.

I work a very sedentary career and don’t have a ton of energy after work/kids, but I’ve found having an under the desk pedal cycle to use during the day has done wonders for my physical and mental health.

I don’t understand why it needs to be this long

Money and ratings. Since money is free speech and the media is a receptical for infinite speech, they can engineer a multi year campaign to keep that money flowing in constantly. And making it contentious means more eyeballs on the story and even more money for the media orgs.

Becoming a parent has been one long strong of these moments. By doing the right things for my child, I get reminded of just how bad my childhood was, and it’s hard. But I’m determined to give them a better life than I had, to break the cycle.

Washington: “Wait, all my slaves are free?!? I can’t just keep moving them every 5 months to keep them from their freedom?”

Regulate it, keep the workers safe, ensure they’re well compensated and tested. Basically, treat is like every other profession.

If two consenting adults want to exchange money for sexual favors, who cares? If the worker chooses to sell their body for money via sexual acts, why is that inherently worse than someone who does construction selling their body for a living?

Making decent progress with some automation projects at work after not having time to work on them for a bit.

Always nice to be able to directly see the fruits of your labor.

Also, working on playing a game of kids on bikes with my partners. Never done the GM role before, so it’s a bit nerve wracking even going through a tutorial module.

Dad?

“I gotta go do some paper work” or “I need to get something down on paper” are my two go-tos

Thinking about my career, I think you’re right. Of the industry jobs I’ve had, only 1 of them I got without knowing someone in the company or being referred to the company by a mutual 3rd party.

Ironically, the job I got on my own is the best paying by far.

Along with asking them things, go do shit with them when they show interest in things you might like, you never know if you’ll get that chance again.

I still remember turning my grandfather down on a trip to go see Sue (the big fukkin TRex) when I was younger because I was playing with a friend that day and was a little shit. That memory is like a core regret, and I don’t think he ever made an offer like that again…

For point c, it’s actually cheaper depending on how they do it. One of my favorite artists, mc chris, has done USB discog sales for over a decade. He charges like 100 for it last I saw, but it’s also a custom USB along with having like 10-20 albums and Eps.

It would be much more expensive to press, bundle and package/ship that many CDs in comparison to a single USB drive. And since it’s also merch, point 4 is unlikely. He’s never cared about his music being pirated (and even has lyrics about his music being ‘forever free for the poor kids’, so B isn’t an issue either.

Option a is basically do you trust the artist, which one would hope they’re trustworthy, but they could also Sony you if they weren’t…

Yeah, but that’s Pantera. Any time you go to an old head concert they’re going to charge you fuck you prices. My wife went to see Motley Crue a few years ago, and they were charging about the same, and a bit less for Jett’s merch. As she so eloquently put it, “the main reason old bands go on tour is they need money”.

Going to smaller/newer bands’ shows has much more reasonably priced merch. But for those old heads, you’re paying for the well known name and so they can supplement their social security payment while trying not to break a hip on stage.

That’s probably just because those are old acts that have the benefit of charging fuck you prices for a shirt. The last time I saw disturbed, their shirts were priced like that.

Other I saw alestorm and gloryhammer last year and the shirts were like 35, CDs were 20, and I got a rubber duck captain thing for like 15. mc chris had similar prices, but he also had a full discog flashdrive for like 100, and as much as I’d love to support mc on that, I have all but like 2-3 albums so it’s just not worth it to me.

Yes, and we all know that the military has never violated that vow anywhere ever.

Electoral fraud is meaningless if the army backs Maduro.