I completely forgot that doing all the bullshit for Reptile was just to fight him and get a 10 million score bonus for defeating him, not to actually play as him.

Back in my day, we unlocked characters by meeting a specific list of obscure criteria, which are only possible at random times, during gameplay that are only ever hinted at through a cryptic set of clues hidden throughout the game.

Security theater to assuage the public’s (scared, rich, white people) fears after hyping up the threat of foreign terrorism.

Essentially, the establishment made a booboo and hurt the airline industry’s bottom line in their efforts to destabilize the Middle East. So, they devised a sideshow circus to get people flying again.

It isn’t even about jobs. They never gave a shit about jobs. It’s always about the money.

Considering I’m against the concept of living in hierarchical government structures, such as republics, that’s not exactly a benefit from my perspective. It just exposes the flaws of living under hierarchy.

The most scientific method would be one that doesn’t rely on a singular entity to represent the majority. It is impossible to adequately represent the interests of all within a community through one singular political entity who has full authority to dictate law, especially in a stratified society of differing classes with diametrically oppositional interests. Due to the implicit biases of the individual holding power of authority, they will always choose what is in their best interests of their respective class, which intrinsically will be to the detriment of the oppositional class.

Instead, power of authority must be distributed horizontally, all parties of interest retain autonomy, representing themselves through a multi-tiered, federated structure where any political agreements come about through consensus of those involved.

The only way to do it would be to fundamentally change the structure of the system so that power is distributed horizontally instead of top-down. This way, no singular individual can consolidate power over others. Essentially, we need an entirely new government and economics (as capitalism is inherently hierarchical and exploitative), a total redistribution of wealth and power of authority.

Sexualizing mosquitoes by giving them giant tits is kinda creepy, bruh.

Uhh, no the idea is most certainly not “fine”

It’s only fine if you don’t think about it at all beyond the surface level presentation.

Judging from the rest of this author’s work, I highly doubt they thought about this any deeper than a puddle.

Wakee when this actually happens and they don’t simply ignore it like they have been for most everything else. Hard to enforce rule when the ones you’re up against control the methods of enforcing those rules.

Naive to think they won’t simply fall in line. Dump is gonna jingle some keys, the idiots will forget everything, and go right back to their blissful, bigoted ignorance.

No one is placing blame on the authors. It’s just a statement of fact. They created a system that had intrinsic flaws they were not aware of, due to the mechanisms that exposed some of the flaws not yet existing. Remember, the fundamental basis of this system we exist under was devised long before industrialization changed our economic and political landscapes. No one is faulted for their ignorance, you cannot account for things you do not know, but that doesn’t change the fact those systemic flaws still exist and have had far reaching consequences which have shaped society as we now know it.

If anyone is to “blame”, if you so need to assign it, it would be those who came after who saw the flaws manifest and, instead of correcting them, saw that they were exploitable for personal gain; so, endeavored to obfuscate those flaws as it served to entrench their own power of authority by exploiting them.

Been saying this for years. This country has been sick long before any of us were even born. The US has sorely needed a cultural revolution but the powers that be have done everything they can, from how they design our cities and infrastructure to our individualist culture they push in our media to the very fundamental structure of our government and economics which they control, to frustrate and obstruct the formation of close communities which can resist their authority while simultaneously extracting every iota of wealth from us.

The biggest road block is too few are willing to take risks to protect others but that is exactly what is needed: a mass of people joined together for the sole purpose of risking themselves for the sake of those who are being rendered powerless. It requires us to fundamentally change the way we think about the world around us.

The most common rebuttal is always “but I have a family and responsibilities! I can’t put myself at risk!” Yea, well, so do the people who need our help. We all have those things, that’s why we all need to protect each other, so that we can all protect those we care about together. People need to abandon this myopic individualism and start thinking from a communal perspective.

It’s like, everyone knows the poem “First they came for…” But no one seems to have understood the message.

Or just how much we are now capable of producing with industrialization.

The opening passage to Kropotkin’s “Conquest of Bread”

During the long succession of agitated ages which have elapsed since, mankind has nevertheless amassed untold treasures. It has cleared the land, dried the marshes, hewn down forests, made roads, pierced mountains; it has been building, inventing, observing, reasoning; it has created a complex machinery, wrested her secrets from Nature, and finally it pressed steam and electricity into its service. And the result is, that now the child of the civilized man finds at its birth, ready for its use, an immense capital accumulated by those who have gone before him. And this capital enables man to acquire, merely by his own labour combined with the labour of others, riches surpassing the dreams of the fairy tales of the Thousand and One Nights. / The soil is cleared to a great extent, fit for the reception of the best seeds, ready to give a rich return for the skill and labour spent upon it—a return more than sufficient for all the wants of humanity. The methods of rational cultivation are known. On the wide prairies of America each hundred men, with the aid of powerful machinery, can produce in a few months enough wheat to maintain ten thousand people for a whole year. And where man wishes to double his produce, to treble it, to multiply it a hundred-fold, he makes the soil, gives to each plant the requisite care, and thus obtains enormous returns. While the hunter of old had to scour fifty or sixty square miles to find food for his family, the civilized man supports his household, with far less pains, and far more certainty, on a thousandth part of that space. Climate is no longer an obstacle. When the sun fails, man replaces it by artificial heat; and we see the coming of a time when artificial light also will be used to stimulate vegetation. Meanwhile, by the use of glass and hot water pipes, man renders a given space ten and fifty times more productive than it was in its natural state.

That is a sharpener, and a really shitty one at that. Those legit suck and ruin an edge. They work “fine” for at home cooking, but the way they create the edge, running parallel to the knife itself instead of perpendicular like a regular whetstone, makes the edge incredibly weak. It will start to dull after only a few cuts.

Honing doesn’t take off material from the blade itself, simply removes any burs of metal that have formed to prevent them from dulling the edge ( unless using a fancy ceramic or diamond dust one, then they will have a small sharpening effect) and bring the edge back into alignment.

Sharpening is the only thing that removes material from the blade itself due to using materials that are harder than the blade. Even cheap knives are made of stainless steel, which is what a regular honing rod is made from, so they won’t be doing any damage to the blade unless you’re being incredibly rough, which you should not be rough at all, so yea…

That’s a great way to cut the lifespan of your knife in half if you are actually sharpening and not just honing it before every use (which everyone should be doing); especially if you’re using it for your career and not just at-home.

That’s a lot of wasted time and effort, particularly if you are getting it actually sharp and not simply “sharp enough”. A good set of knives can last a lifetime and keep its edge for months if taken care of.

I would not trust the advice of that “chef”.

No chef worth their salt would ever drop their knife like that. Most chefs I knew would treat their knives better than their children. Those things are expensive as fuck.

Yea. Those types don’t just exist on TV, they are everyday people in our communities for some of us. To just say they aren’t “normal” erases the lived experiences of those who live where these mentalities are still very much the norm for that locality.

Yea, this is definitely attempted murder by a road-raging loon but, a terrorist attack, this is not.