The issue wasn’t “try hard enough”. It was how systematic disenfranchisement hobbles people far more than their genetics.

Once you brand someone as “lesser”, their actual capacity is irrelevant. They won’t be given the opportunity to succeed (much less to fail and try again) while the presumed-superior cohort is offered advantage after advantage in order to prove they are better.

Okay, but the moral of the story was that “superior” people weren’t actually superior. They were just racist.

The protagonist outwits and outperforms them all.

I would not hold my breath

“Fat little larva” is a very funny way to refer to your kids

Anything bad?

I’ll just keep trying until I get one.

Literally all you can ever do.

That said, I never really got one-night stands as a thing. If I connected with someone enough for sex, I was typically getting along well enough for friendship.

Had three relationships that ran 2-5 years each before I got married, with a smattering of dating and perennial party girl friends in between.

But it’s so weird to want to hook up, then never see that person again.

4channers should probably just stay out of the dating pool entirely.

I hope you motherfuckers like raisins.

Most people aren’t celebrating the killing of Kirk

I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure

Okay, but what if we just repeal or ignore that rule in order to conduct a pogrom of WrongThinkers?

Basically why the grid exists to begin with. You’re not supposed to be solving these engineering problems on a household budget inside a single home.

You’d be better off simply reducing your consumption or finding alternative methods of power (nat gas or maybe wind or geothermal) during the longer winter nights.

If you really want to go crazy, you should consider investing in a bigger home with better insulation and roommates. An apartment/condo block can at least leverage economies of scale, if you’re dead set on DIY. More people benefiting from the setup dilutes the cost per person.

Every time this joke is posted, it gets funnier

Italian Unification but it’s everything from Hadrian’s Wall to Istanbul.

Tough but fair

Unlikely. It’s one guy running multiple comms. I got similar treatment. Then I think the guy who runs piefed has me blocked as a Tankie across all of his new instances.

So I’ve doubled you up.

Not going to lose sleep over it. There’s still plenty of content to enjoy.

Sartre was no fool.

An end to the war appears no closer, despite months of U.S.-led peace efforts.

Is that what was going on?

They’re some of the world’s biggest landlords. This is just aristocrats rubbing elbows.

Made up ceremony

Wait till the Brits find out its all made up and the nobility doesn’t matter.

There isn’t anything to discuss, really.

What if we talked about only doing the fascism in the red and purple states? Maybe create some kind of Vichy Republic for the liberals, off to the side aways, once the reactionaries have come through and purged them of anyone too threatening.

Surely you can just let Barack Obama continue his #blessed influencer lifestyle out in Martha’s Vineyard, at least? He’s a mega-millionaire! He’s in the club now, you guys! They can look the other way while you do your pogroms. You can look the other way while they do their Netflix autobiographies and Burning Man festivals. Comme ci, comme ça.

There is nothing to discuss with a fascist.

There’s always room for discussion. We just need a strategically managed surrender. Let the poors go into the meat grinder while the elites can install the AI chips that do all the prole work for us. Then we just segregate ourselves into partisan enclaves and rule as miniature local despots together.

Just so long as the fascists don’t become greedy and try to take further ground, things should be fine. And if we’re rhetorically clever enough and sensible enough and rational enough, they won’t do that.