“Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?”

I’ve heard that, too. Hell, practically everyone is saying it.

So much for tolerance… in anonymous online forums? Schadenfreude for public figures is easy enough to come by in real life that it should be no surprise to see it shine through online

It’s a particularly bland style

God you fucking wish

“Hellen, you were supposed to only do the left arm! What am I supposed to do with a whole baby!?”

When I go to a restaurant, I look for the steak holders.

No idea why my previous comment shows as quoted, but whatever

My argument is that if they were actually competing that would mess with the performative nature of the storytelling.

Oof, yeah, forgot about that. Yeah, people are people everywhere… I just liked having a more idyllic version of things in my head

When I lived in Germany I found that the people were far more self-policing than Americans. There just seemed to be a general attitude of, “we know we’re not supposed to do that, so we don’t.”

Fully anecdotal, sure, and that was 15 years ago, but nonetheless it’s hard for me to imagine “ze Germans” tampering with odometers to sell cars.

athlete Athletes compete or strive against others to attain a goal, TV wrestlers perform, or enact a feat before an audience.

I wish all the best to Kat, and I hope she goes far

It’s called pre-crime and Tom Cruise said it’s illegal in his documentary, “Minority Report”

Aaaannny second now…

“It’s level 1 autism, what used to be called Asperger’s,” is normally enough for people to understand what I’m talking about. Of course, I’m not saying these things to every person passing by, but when a conversation goes there I try to be educational.

I find that I don’t like full games of chess, but chess.com has these little chess puzzles that highlight the surprising deviousness of the rules that can turn a sure defeat into a swift victory.

They also have an algorithmic engine that will calculate the general effectiveness of each move so you can get instant feedback, which I like.

I guess I need more focus in the things I play, and chess is just too broad as a game.

Chess is a logic puzzle that changes as you play it, with the randomness coming from player interaction. If you’re not into solving those kinds of puzzles, you’re probably not going to have fun.

I agree with you, the “unimportant” part was tongue in cheek. My point really is that if a person wants a job done for money, they need to either pay a living wage or admit that the work isn’t important enough to pay for. There shouldn’t be an in-between for people to take advantage of.

Then we make two wages, one we call minimum, the other we call living. That way it’s easy to know if a place is offering a living wage or if it’s just unimportant work.

Oof. So what should he be doing instead?