Franklin strikes me as a ThisVid type of guy. There's fucking weird stuff on there, and he'd be so fucking into it
dharmacurious
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It's a really clever comic! You're one of my absolute favorites, and a huge inspiration for some of the comics (yet to be posted anywhere!) that I've been making with some friends recently.
But I can't help but wonder... Can I trade that trophy in for a man with 8 nautical inches? ;)
The other guy has that worried look because a nautical mile is 15% larger than a standard mile, so a nautical inch would be 15% bigger.
Meaning if he claimed 8 (which every fucking body on Grindr does) he's 9.2 standard inches, and that man is about to discover what it's like to get a colonoscopy
"Y'all" spelled "ya'll" bugs the shit out of me. It's my "I'm a descriptivist until..." Moment.
But "we ... For y'all people" absolutely is how they'd say it where I'm from. The quotes around the word read to me like they're shaming them (which, honestly, in the South, I'm sure I'm sure they are), but the sentence structure itself is perfectly in line with how it's normally spoken in my experience.
Man, don't get my hopes up like that!
That
Grew up in Virginia, from and currently live in South Carolina.
Nova and Hampton roads go to 1. The rest of the state goes to 2, but it is definitely not SC. SC actually has black and Latino populations, and a pretty solid chunk of blue voters. Rural Virginia has neither, and is basically east-east Tennessee.
That was the intent.
So, in my experience, it's less unhygienic, and more a problem with not covering up their natural smells. Sounds similar, different things. I'll explain me experience with TTRPGers.
All the ones I know who fall into the funk trap are autistic folk, and the issue isn't that they don't bathe, it's that they can't stand those strong chemical smells they associate with body washes and deodorant*. So they bathe, but they use mild soaps, soaps designed for children, or unscented soaps, and they don't wear deodorant.
Which creates a situation where the hygiene is okay, but the funk is still there, once they're all in a group together. One on one, you really don't notice, but get 10 folks in a room for game night, or a couple thousand together for an event or convention, and the funk becomes overpowering.
That said, I do know two that have just a general aversion to bathing, and consistently reek
*Edit to add
Also an issue with texture on the skin. One of my best friends is autistic, and he cannot handle the feeling of deodorant on his armpits. It tacks the hair down, it's apparently sticky feeling, and he just goes into total meltdown until he can get it off. He can't focus on anything else.
Nah, nah, nah. Doggystyle, so we can both watch X-Files
I can brook the argument that capitalism is the only system that works, or that it's the best system yet devised so long as we regulate it. I don't believe them. But I can understand the argument.
But that it can serve everyone's benefit? No. No it cannot. The system is, by its nature, contradictory. It will always leave one side with less than the other. Profit is created by paying a worker less than the value of what that worker has produced. If my boss pays me to make clocks, and I make 100 dollars worth of clocks in 1 hour, my boss cannot pay me 100 dollars per hour. There would be no money left for the boss to collect (ignoring all the other costs). In order for the boss to make any money for themselves, they must pay me less than the value of what I have created, after accounting for all the utilities and such that I am also paying for. I'll get 20 bucks if I'm lucky, the boss will get 50, and 29.50 will go to utilities, and half a buck will go to a pizza party that will hopefully convince me that unions are evil.
Again, you can say this is fair, or the best yet devised system. But it does not benefit everyone. It benefits the owner of capital, and leaves me with less than I put in.
A worker owned factory could take that 50 that the boss gets paid and give it back to the worker who actually produced it. Or give an additional 20 to the worker, and put 30 in a relief fund for when workers encounter tragedy or unexpected expenses. Or do whatever the fuck they want with it.
The choice isn't capitalism vs the Soviet model. The choice is capitalism vs literally everything we could possibly imagine. The possibilities are endless. Especially with wide scale computer access like we have now. I cannot imagine the absolutely incredible things Tito or Allende could have done with real access to computer modeling and the Internet like we have today. Or the horrible atrocities that would have come out of the USSR having that much information on each citizen. Major double edged sword there.
I forgot to post on the day of, but the 8th of this month was my bestest buddy's 15th birthday! He went to the store and picked two toys himself (literally the cheapest toy they had and the most expensive. He knows what he's about), and he got duck flavored biscuits, and went for a ride, and got w brand new bed.
Happy birthday, Monty!
His quinceañero is May 8th!
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Yeah, as a (maga despising) American who's just beginning to get into soccer, this one... This one stings.
But fucking Cabo Verde! Damn that was something