Cyrus Draegur

Bill wurtz reference \o/

To me it means “I take particular notice of this”

Such as,

[Third world country]: holy crap guys I struck oil!
[United States of America]: 👀

those teeth are all where they’re supposed to be. the tooth fairies gather the teeth to bury them.

gods what a blast from the past.

In august 2008 i was still (shudder) working at a bank.

Everything was so hopeful before 2012, and before 2016…

My what naive children we all were, weren’t we?

You were actually conscious during the latter part of the 80s. i was born in '85 myself. still, I remember having to deal with insufferable wastes of air like that old boss of yours. i don’t know if i’ll get to see future excerpts from your situation back then, so please spoil me: did that boomer sack of shit ever actually get canned like he deserved?

my gut suggests, depressingly, that younger and newer people were sacrificed to appease him even though they’ve done more to help and less to harm in their time there than his entire ‘career’, and that he never saw accountability, just getting to sail off into the sunset happily ever after because there is no justice in this universe that we do not carve out with our own bare claws.

I feel like this is the best option.

OP shouldn’t even TRY to take matters into their own hands.

Document rigorously and then send all documentation to the designated people.

Then document who you sent it to and hold onto backups
so that if they try to turn it around on you, you can dump all their dirty laundry out into the open

also am i detecting some revolutionary girl utena vibes?

You stopped being a bad person when you grew sufficient empathy to feel bad about what you did.

But your debt is not paid.

Consider the bad person you no longer are as though they were a dependent in your charge. Everything they did is, rightly, an embarrassment of who you presently are.

You will continue to be a good person as long as you work to make up for the things that your past self did.

Not out of guilt, though:
Out of gratitude that you’re no longer that person.

Remember kids: ICE is a human trafficking terrorist organization and they are active shooters. Run, Hide, and ONLY fight if you are cornered.

holy shit that fucking rocks hell yea

i’m sharing this info with all my friends :D

Why the fuck is the glass talking

I don’t think anyone in their right mind hates North Korean citizens. I just wish there weren’t anyone who would threaten or harm you just for talking to us.

But yeah man, the world doesn’t hate you.

The world feels sad because the world is convinced you’re experiencing hardship, and the world would like if you had more food, and more comfort, and less pain.

What would most improve the quality of life of North Korean people?

Many sentient beings extend their predictive modeling capabilities beyond the scope of physical cause and effect which is normally handled by pattern recognition and reconstruction:

When these capabilities are extended to simulation and emulation of other sentient agents’ sensory and logic systems, the brain temporarily borrows your own sensory systems in mostly-contained active hallucinations.

In order to better anticipate the actions, decisions, and behaviors of another being, your own memories of what a similar experience from your own life felt like is automatically and subconsciously indexed and referenced, giving you a contextual “flashback” of that memory–albeit “tagged” with the context that it’s not literally happening to you again but rather that it MIGHT be what’s happening (or may have happened) to the individual you are observing or interacting with.

You essentially “remember” something that you didn’t directly experience, fabricated from extrapolations of bits and pieces that you have experienced. Even though it’s just making an informed guess, it has demonstrated a great deal of utility, just as all predictive models do.

While that may be difficult to imagine as I’ve just (admittedly rather unhelpfully, my apologies) attempted to ask you to empathize with what it’s like to have empathy… Bear in mind this is almost entirely automatic and we don’t choose to do it–not even the organic “augmented reality overlay” effect of literally feeling whatever our pattern recognition subsystems predict another to have felt.

It is, nevertheless, a powerful communal cohesion tool because it disincentivizes interpersonal harm and promotes mutual benefit, which, while not as beneficial for individuals, DOES in fact lead to a population outperforming other populations that don’t exhibit this trait.

At the end of the day though it’s just a very abstract sensory system. There is nothing morally or ethically wrong with being blind or deaf, neither is there with lacking this sensory suite.

Edit to emphasize another point:
Empathy only attempts to anticipate how others feel but it’s not magic, you don’t literally feel the exact same thing as them or the same instance of experience even if you both observed the same events.
Recall touching a cold object…
The object itself cannot feel.
But your skin is detecting its own temperature falling.
Even empathy is an individual feeling their own emotions… just in reference to the circumstantial conditions observed in another.

If I see someone step on a sharp nail, my pain is what I anticipate feeling were I to step on that nail;
The relief I wish would come to assuage that pain is PROBABLY similar to what the person I observed is hoping for. I would not want to walk on an injured foot, and I would wish that someone would perhaps let me lean on them while I hobble to a place where I can sit and tend to any harm. Therefore, I offer this to them.

OOP didn’t complete the transaction so legally speaking he might actually have some wiggle room if they were trying to sting him.

Glad to hear OOP backed out though. The red flags were massive.

If I’m trying to make any kind of business arrangement with anyone, I have basically zero tolerance for if they start trying to modify parameters, move goalposts, add conditions, etc. AFTER they’ve already agreed to show up. Quote me the price, that’s what you’re getting. Oh there was tax? Oh there’s fees? Oh there’s a “surcharge”? Too bad you didn’t mention that before, GUESS THE DEALS OFF FUCKO. You can KEEP your shitty product and/or service.

Now, it’s different if I’m in a storefront for a business whose identity is verified independently such that if there’s a problem and I have to go to small claims court I’ll actually be able to reach them with certified mail, a subpoena, or other process papers that must be served.

Like, I get it, if I’m at a fast food joint there’s gonna be sales tax and a prepared foods tax. If I’m at my car repair shop, they’ve done business with my family for generations and have earned the right to tell me they caught issues wrong with my car UNTIL and UNLESS they get greedy, fuck up, and trigger my bullshit alarm; i’ll still pay but just never come back.

But even then, at a legitimate retailer, if the tax and other bullshit get too high, I have in the past canceled the transaction and walked out without product, and may still in the future depending on the circumstances.

I walked out of three car dealerships before I bought my current car because the price tag said something like $15,000 but they wanted me to sign for something over $20,000. All that paperwork, all those hoops, you wasted my fucking time with this bait and switch fuckery. And you also wasted your own. Good fucking riddance. The last place, they acquiesced and let me complete the purchase for the price that I came there for at the start.

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS try to have a backup option and already know whether or not you can just go without whatever it is.

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That girl got him to clean his room? She’s a good influence on him. Greenlight it!

May her body reach room temperature expediently.

thank you for understanding the intended tone (and kinda just a little bit making my day :3)

EVs have no gears

GOOD THING THESE AREN’T GEARS THEN, FUCKO
THEY’RE MODE SELECTIONS

EVs do, in fact, Park.
EVs can, in fact, Reverse.
EVs must, in fact, need to be capable of rolling free (Neutral) and it would be BETTER if you could do that by disconnecting the drive train to eliminate the risk of the “regenerative braking” system overloading its electrical system and making the battery explode.
EVs furthermore OBVIOUSLY Drive.

“Low” in the traditional sense is clearly not necessary, obviously, but it could be nice to have a mode selection for what people have sometimes described as “single pedal driving” where regeneration is configured so aggressively that letting up on the accelerator pedal will cause the car to decelerate rapidly without the need to touch the brake pedal.

yo SAAAAAAAAAAAME
and also actual fucking buttons switches knobs and dials for HVAC and media control
not to mention a normal fucking PRNDL shifter for selecting how I want it to move
why is this so gods damned much to ask for -_-