Worst bartenders I’ve known would only be virgin by choice, and they would have a hard time with that versus the pushy bar-flies.

Wait, is that another layer of joke?

The “where” I was referring to was, yes, by jurisdiction, but also roads versus trails, and public vs private property.

Depends where you ride, iirc

I mean sure, but the things people are prone to stealing physically, when they wouldn’t otherwise but for price, tend to be those they must have just to live. That’s not the sort of consumption we can ethically reduce.

The comment I responded to was regarding climate change and resource consumption, and piracy’s “impact” on them, so …

Where the hell have you been? Even I’ve already heard about this tyranical oligarch. Haiti has no effective government, and this fascist is largely to blame.

Nope. Climate change is a pollution issue. Reducing consumption can reduce pollution, but paying or not paying for a digital copy of something has effectively zero cost in the form of natural resources or pollution.

Everything I needed to know about school, I learned the first time I saw they would fire women over this stuff.

A Pimp Named Slickback is more progressive than too many people on both sides, and basically all of the DNC itself. Fuck all that “homies before hoes” non-sense. The corpos and military-industrial complex are homies, btw.

I personally know many who wanted the US out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, and trusted Trump over Hillary to do it. I know no-one who openly wanted the same and voted for her. I myself voted third-party the last two elections before this year, and Biden has only escalated our entanglements in middle-eastern conflics.

Jesus, just look at Biden’s rhetoric on Israel and Iran. Its downright bizarely pro-war, pro-genocide(in its failure to remotely acknowlege such is happening), and absolutely tone-deaf to what voters want.

The fact that you yourself have now said what you’ve said on the topic proves the opposite of your claims. You know no conservatives today, and you mock the notion that anyone is against the war more than you point out any reason anyone should have voted for Harris over Trump.

Muslims were a DNC lock-in vote till now, and absolutely no-one failed to warn them that was changing.

No one should be basing their “how to do it right” on a single forum comment. Talk about scope-creep for the offering of advice.

“… and God said, let us make man in our own image.”

Most amusing part was on first glance, somehow, I got: “For your safety, I have dwelt in the mountains…” I kind of wish I hadn’t checked myself.

Oh no, think of all the be-smirched well-adjusted people! Otoh, succeeding in the entrepeneurial world generally takes a pretty high-degree of being “well-adjusted”, regardless of mental-health issues stemming from abuse or otherwise.

There are also plenty of other things that can put a chip on one’s shoulder or break a person besides childhood trauma.

My wife had industry articles written about her mouth, and it was a battle just to get her mounts switched out for white ones and the metal removed for our wedding day, six years after she had braces put on.

Having seen photos of what her teeth looked like before braces, I would have still asked that girl out and eventually married her, although I see why she may have been even more self-conscious then than she was afterword(although I have my doubts anything was helped on that front too).

My own mouth is crowded with teeth I begged them to remove, now getting damaged by pressure from neighboring teeth and extremely difficult to clean between.

They don’t seem to care what we actually need or don’t need. Meanwhile, none of our kids have needed braces.

Bad fit for this community. He’s right. The entrepeneur world is full of the wrong sorts of people to be starting businesses, unless your only criteria for “success” is getting bought-out early for a ridiculous amount, letting all the employees go, and telling existing customers to go fuck themselves.

Those with a legitimate problem to solve tend to have the will and motivation to see that it, or more likely whatever small portion they’ve figured out, stays solved, at least for a good while.

Stop giving them excuses.

Maybe, but starting with sanctified ground is planning to fail. I pity the necromancer whose army or love or whatever is burried here.

The most believable part of the whole thing. Standard “Tech Incubator” bullshit.

joy. Wasn’t trying to engage with you, but I’ll live. I better be one of the bumbling villians, dammit.