For as long as I’ve known it I’ve preferred the version of Ghost’s Cerice done by Saint Raven, a much less known band out of Utah.

Starts out pretty good but goes quickly downhill.

That Gnome TV makes gno sense at all.

That orc TV has too many thoughts, not enough shouting and explosives. Orcs would watch wrestling, Michael Bay movies, and Russian candid camera shows where they surprise people with boobs.

Halflings are absolutely not known for their passion. Simplicity with a spark of mischief is their bag. They’d go for gardening shows, cooking shows, home improvement shows, and true crime to remind them about how great life is at home compared to those crime ridden tall folk cities.

The Fae don’t have TVs. You and your loved ones are their TV. Dance, puppet, dance. …unless you’d like your daughter to dance for us?

Rice cakes. The contrast between the dry, crispy, puffed rice and the smooth, unctuous nutella provides an accent to the sweetness that I quite like.

Why is it so hard for employers and employees to understand the most basic principle of professionalism? The employee works and is paid for it. If the employer wants them to work longer, they have to pay for that time. If the employer does not want to pay, they cannot obligate the employee to do that work. If the employee wants to be paid, they have to show up and do the work. It’s not rocket surgery.

I have yet to see any place with a good hiring procedure, this nonsense included. People saying they work in HR should generally be looked at as if they just admitted to being in a cult, which is terrifying because it means cultists will be deciding whether you get to do the thing you do to keep from starving in the street.

You kidding?

(Looks at them)

That empty spot is where those two would be, if they didn’t have to do 55 hours/wk at work and care for their families the rest of the time.

He got depressed and vanished a year ago. No one knows where he went. He didn’t leave any contact info.

He’s literally too stupid to breathe. We keep him around for the laughs but no one is going to tell him anything.

And he’s literally dead.

Did you read those papers you signed when you started your job? You probably agreed to this there as well.

Wait til you find out about the pilonidal cysts!

On a certain level, privacy always was a luxury. Through most of human history, you lived bumcheek to jowl with othet people. The trick is, now it’s a different beast. Corporations have the ability to be much more powerful in their invasions. As for your specific situation, there are some VPNs that try to hide that you are using a VPN. I think proton has something like that. I forget what it’s called. And you could technically go VPN on VPS and get a much easier time but you’d have to switch it out all the time if you wanted anonymous-at-server browsing, and you’d have to pay for the privilege which comes back to privacy as luxury.

VS is great. It’s what Terrafirmacraft would have been as a game instead of a mod, and it has a fairly vibrant modding community of its own. I’d still like to see some more development on it but it’s great so far.

Chonky and fat are the same thing. Did they mean floofy?

Probably dying at age <1.

That one goes there. That one goes there. And that one goes there.

Neither. I just never hear they are going to happen, only that they have happened. The earliest I have heard of any of the recent protest actions was while I was at work and reading that it was already under way.

I hadn’t really considered the sex of the authors in what I’ve read, but looking at my shelves and picking some feminine names in the genre:

• Jacqueline Carey’s Godslayer duology (Absolutely amazing. Plays with themes of morality, religion, and war with a deep lore to bring it to life) I’ve only read the first two of her Kushiel’s Legacy series but I’ve enjoyed those as well.
• Trudi Canavan’s Highlord’s Apprentice trilogy (not the hardest or heaviest read but quite fun)
• Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman’s Death Gate Cycle (7 books, massive story with woven storylines and a wild lore creating a world with its own redefined science)

Your username in YELLING CAPS combined with the mundane comment made me chuckle.

‘Shut up! You can’t tell me what to do! You’re not my real mom!’

‘What?’

Every time something happens in my area I find out about it the next day.

My old workplace used to encourage people to use all caps on their reports because it hid the fact the people they hired didn’t know how to capitalize grammatically.

I’ve been thinking like that for a long time but recently I’ve been thinking about it in terms of internalized opposition. One of the most pernicious elements of the fight against stupid and bad ideologies is when their framings gain dominance even in the minds of their opponents.

At some point, someone said ‘black people are blah, white people are bleh,’ and the person next to them probably said ‘What do you mean black people?’ because the concept was new but the ideology of race turned into such a common one that people who were oppressed by it were forced to consider what the powerful thought about it, like an atheist prisoner being forced to think about how to convince a Christian jailer to be less awful to them. They internalized it. And now even people who are ‘anti-racist’ often treat ‘blackness’ and ‘whiteness’ as if they were real, and not just conceptually different in the same way you can live in a different country without moving because the lines on a map change. Even as they battle the concept, they try to do it from within the system, prisoners demanding to be free without acknowledging the world outside the prison walls.