Worst offenders are the people in my apartment block who don’t seem to realize how small a room an elevator is. I can’t even get pissy at them because they know where I live.

Related but a lot of smaller LARP clubs (European style at least, can’t speak for America) end up extremely culty because of a perfect storm of factors:

• takes up loads of time and resources just to be average; making costumes, learning stats, downtime activities etc before you’ve even left the house

• predominantly twenty-somethings who recently moved out of their parents’ house and end up house-sharing with other LARPers from the same club

• spending whole weekends in the middle of the woods with no outside influence, where you have to follow instructions given by refs. It’s also not unusual to be up until sunrise or even do all-nighters playing through the next day as well

• success or failure at the game is often at the whims of said refs, MUCH more than in Warhammer

• …as a result of which, the club management hierarchy ends up translating into social hierarchy outside of official events. The people at the top are the ones that effectively determine whether a party, day trip or even a wedding is going to be a big event or not, and the regular membership treats them accordingly. So, culty as heck.

Yeah, Dean Fucking Cain did.

Only in as much as they know it’s bunk that only works if the participant believes it does.

the tech lobbying group CCIA Europe, whose members include Alphabet, Meta, and Apple.

Freedom of speech is nice and all, but shit like this needs to stop because it’s a direct assault on democracy

Why are Republicans so keen to maintain oil dependence on Middle Eastern countries?

That’s what I meant by “slightly”. It’s an expression that gets used when we all know the answer but it’s one that’s slightly under the surface.

Ah, OP makes more sense now. I’ve only ever played strategy and RPGs and was going to say I’m better now than I’ve ever been.

Right, but saying “three guesses” implies that the answer is something that’s slightly hidden. “Capitalists” doesn’t really make sense because it’s essentially going “three guesses who it is that’s doing all this capitalism… that’s right, capitalists!”. If OP didn’t intend it as an antisemitic dogwhistle then it’s an odd title for other reasons.

(edit: I just had a glance through their post history and I think it’s probably not supposed to be a dogwhistle, but just unfortunately titled; I think maybe OP just assumed everyone reading it were already on the same page on whatever specific thing they themselves blame capitalism on?)

Ignoranus n. Someone who is both ignorant and an asshole.

I think this above all many other things over the last couple decades are where the Democratic Party have gone mask-off about who they really are.

They’ve lost the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and both Houses in recent years, and finally the moment they get one small chance of victory they’re just… nope, we’d rather lose yet another election than allow a left-of-center candidate to win.

Yeah I can’t think what else OP could mean though? All the other answers I can think of are too broad and obvious for “three guesses” to be a thing you’d ask.

You know someone’s no longer talking in good faith when they use words like “inappropriate and outrageous” to describe the suggestion of abolishing a department that didn’t exist 25 years ago. This is someone consciously and openly attempting to shift the Overton Window so that they don’t keep getting called on to defend the indefensible.

lol, I have been thinking about rules for a competition where you go on reddit to see if you can get certain types of disproportionate responses:

• most innocuous foible for which someone recommends a divorce

• most inoffensive post about Japan that causes someone to complain about WW2 war crimes

• most reasonable mainstream position that causes someone to call you a tankie

any other suggestions?

Yup. It was traumatic enough that ever since then I’ve always made sure that my current partner always has enough money in an account under their name to be able to leave whenever they want. It’s nice knowing that they’re staying with me because they want to.

Ugh thanks for an unpleasant flashback :(

Ex was cheating all over town and my only choice for over six months was either put up with it or be homeless

I once told this story on reddit, and the majority consensus was that it was my fault for not working harder or whatever

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I would rather see a barely intelligible first-grader level drawing of a taco than AI slop. Stop it.

Most sex predator tells are avoidable stylistic choices. Nobody’s forcing Bannon to do his hair like that.

A lot of people in this thread are falling for the classic weasel headline reporting trick of using the word “after” to imply a connection, when there’s zero evidence in the article body to suggest it means anything other than two different events happened a day apart.