So, what is the point of Annuals? If a story comes in monthly issue form, and they're numbered as such, how would you know where an annual fits in with the story? If you're buying in real time, you might know "Ok, Issue 64 came out last month, issue 65 comes out in a week, and the annual came out today. Therefore, the annual comes out between 64 and 65."

But what if you're only discovering a series years later? And what would an annual do that they couldn't just cover in the main series?

I'm not much of a comic book guy, but I do like them. I dabble here and there, but it's VERY overwhelming, which is why I stick mostly to batman. At least with batman, they nuke the whole thing every few years, so you can start over, and follow a series through.

With spiderman, it's like "Ok, he's a high school nerd, who has super powers. And the whole series is all canon to each other, and it all fits in a series. But also, Peter Parker has been in high school since the 1940s. But also the world around him ages, and now J Jameson has a podcast, and other modern day reflections are shown in the comic.....but also the series was very much set in modern day 1940s when the series originally began."

THAT'S CONFUSING AS FUCK!!!

And so now, I'm seeing a Harley Quinn series that started in 2021, but there's annuals. I haven't read the series, but.....why do those exist? I don't understand!

If you look at how the USA has progressed, the south is STILL stuck in certain trends that affect current day society. It's why they're the bible belt, but states like Arizona and California aren't reffered to as "the south".

Geographically it makes no sense. California, Arizona, New Mexico, they're all geographically south, but that's not what that means.

And racism in the south is just so much more amplified than it is in other states. When you think about it, the 1860s are not THAT long ago in terms of societies.

I think we're still being affected by actions from those times. A family experiences hardship. So they raise their kid to not trust those that caused it. And that kid grows up and does the same. Without a break in the chain, it just perpetuates more of the same.

So we're only about 8 generations removed from that time. It's really not that much. And OBVIOUSLY slavery is going to cause racism.

But what if the slaves were left on Africa, and the plantation owners just had automated drones that did all the work?

What would racism today look like?

How is that even possible???

If he wanted to, couldn't spez just buy it, and make it serve as a redirect to reddit? I don't understand how SOMEONE hasn't bought/used this domain for fediverse purposes.

So, I started going to the gym about a month ago. Doing dumbell curls I started at 10lbs. I tried 50lbs at first.

Mistake!

Sized down until I got to 10lbs. I was looking for the first one I could do 20 reps. Then, as days went on, I kept moving up sizes. I'm currently at 25lbs. I keep wanting to move up to 30lbs, but my body gives way around the 12-15 rep range. So, not quite there yet. But the first 10 reps of 25lbs aren't even hard anymore. It only gets increasingly more difficult after the 10 mark, but more often than not the 15 mark. 15-20 are the hard ones.

But with 30lbs it's hard right from the start.

So, should I be doing the 30lbs reps, even if its less than 20 reps? Or do the 25lbs reps which I can easily do 3/4ths of before it becomes a struggle for the last few reps?

I figure if we make this the standard and normalized way to refer to these tariffs, then it will really drive home the point to republican voters that THEY did this. THEY are getting hurt by their own party. Because I'm sure right now they're trying to find a way to blame obama, or biden, or hillary, or kamala, or whomever.

Fuck that.

Your goods now cost more because of trump tax. Plain and simple. It was an uneeded and nonbeneficial policy set by trump and no one else, in his obsession with hurting china.

Well I don't fully disagree that china needs to be dealt with, as they're becoming a global powerhouse that threatens to dominate the global ecconomy. I get that. But these tariffs are like trying to kill a house fly with a handgun. Even if you somehow hit the fly, you do more damage to your own home for no reason in the process.

Ok, so here's what you do.

Step 1) You take out a sketchpad. You come up with concept art for an outfit/costume you can wear to parties. This costume is not something based on other influences. It's not something that's kind of like something else. It's not something that you'd say "Oh, this would belong on this tv show, or movie". It's completely unique. It stands out. It has a presence all in it's own. You wear it, and it looks good on you, and people remember the outfit. If Spiderman were real, and he just showed up to a party, you'd be like "Whoa, look at THAT guy!". Your costume doesn't need a mask, and in fact would probably be way better without a mask. Just a guy/girl at a party, doing their thing, and completely stealing the show just by being there. That's step 1. Buckle up, because it only gets crazier from here.

Step B) Hire about 10 people to walk everywhere with you. Like an entourage. Have them basically simp you in public. Except the idea is that nobody knows they're paid actors. From the general publics point of view, you're just some guy at a party, and these people love you for some undefined reason.

Step ∆) Now you release T-Shirts of you. And your simps all have the released T-Shirt on. And now you also hire another 10-100 actors. These ones will NOT hang around you as if they're in your circle. These new actors just spread out amongst the party. And they too are also wearing your new T-Shirt. So now there's 10 people all wearing the same shirt, all following you around, and another 10-100 people all single, and drifting about the party, all wearing that shirt. So now it looks like your inner circle love you, but so do the general public. And these shirts can be purchased for $80 each.

Now do this same set of steps every weekend, at every party, and really fuck with peoples perception of what the fuck is going on? All these people bought an $80 T-shirt for some guy? What is happening right now, and also, who IS that guy? You could also adopt a stupid show name, like Princess StinkyPooButt. Even though you're a 6'1 250lb guy with a beard and no legs.

And now the question becomes: "Will idiots buy an $80 T-shirt of absolutely nothing?"

As I look around the world today, I see a lot of idiots. I like my chances that I'm going to sell some stupidly overpriced T-Shirts of bullshit.

Maybe then she'll SHUT UP! Oh my god, is there a single person on this platform who doesn't get these messages every month???

Guys, you all KNOW what I'm talking about, right? Gonna have to go get Tim Misney on this case! And you KNOW what he DOES! eyebrows

It would show one of the Cox internet installation technicians as he has various shots of him doing his job, but also talking to the camera. He's the traditional image of what women want is. He's like 6'5, 320lbs of muscle.

"Here at Cox, we've been installing more homes with Cox high speed internet service, and connecting more people to the web. That means more photos, more videos, more video games, and more connections all across the county! With services like Zoom video conferencing more Cox customers are able to work from home than ever before. Bringing more people together by putting Cox services inside your home, inside your life, and inside of you. With an entire internet to explore, billions of websites, apps, home automation, and so much more. With so many pricing options, won't you let us put our Cox inside you?"

Then it cuts to two other Cox techs out by the van outside, getting a ladder. And the one guy says "Is Tom hard at work in there?" and the other guy replies "He literally might be..."

First time you start the game, grandpa is on his deathbed dictating a letter to you. It's kind of weird we see him talking, but this is supposed to be a letter. Are we the player made to believe that the main character is imagining his grandpa saying this as he reads?

Anyways, the reason you can tell it was made in the 2010s is, one of the first things grandpa says in the letter is:

There will come a day when you feel crushed by the burden of life

And you can tell that was last decade, because I assure you, anyone living on THIS side of 2020 has absolutely passed that day long ago.

Life is agony and it'll never get better. Everyday is just a new low. And you're in 2020 thinking surely thats rock bottom, right? And then 2025 is like:

"Buckle up shitbag, because we're about to take a fucking nosedive."

With all the crap going on in the world right now, comfy cosy games like stardew valley are about all that's keeping me hanging by a strand.....but at least there's a strand.

But seriously, if grandpa could see 2025, he'd be like "holy shit I threaded the needle between 2012, and 2020, and peaced out at just the right time."

Look at a map. Look right above Michigan. See that splotch of land right above Michigan? Yeah....that's ALSO Michigan. It looks like it should be Wisconsin on account of how obvious it is. But no. Michigan is just like "This is also ours because we lost a war to Ohio and so now we need a consolation prize."

Who the fuck did Wisconsin piss off to allow THAT SHIT??? Oh, just because we're not officially a state yet, you're taking our territory away??? The damn paperwork was already being drawn up with maps that CLEARLY included that land....because, obviously!

But noooooooooo! Michigan just had to be like "WAAAAH, WE WANTED OHIOS LAND AND LOST, SO NOW WE WANT THIS OTHER LAND INSTEAD!!!"

And the Wisconsin territory is supposed to just be like "Oh, yeah, cool cool cool."

So I say, fight back! But, raising an army is hard and expensive. Plus, I don't even know if there even stands a current protocol to follow for raising a regional military. Does that even exist anymore? So for the sake of not being accused of inciting violence, for the rest of this message, this war will be a TICKLE WAR!!!!

Yeah! Wisconsin needs to gather all their citizens, and grab their feathers, because it's time to tickle michigan!!! Make em giggle like little bitches!!! And then you get the land back! Then maps can stop looking stupid. There should never be a time that a map salesman should have to say "No, that actually is the official border. Nope, not a mistake."

Ok, so......I was just watching some youtube videos, right? Turns out gorillas are amazing. The gorillas at your zoo remember you. They act different around zoo regulars. They enjoy seeing the regulars, as if they're friends. They can tell the difference between a child actually crying as opposed to a child PRETEND to cry. They get worried when their regulars children are crying for real. It stresses them, because they're behind a glass wall, and can't comfort the child. They put their hand against the glass as if to show they want to be there for the crying child. But if the "crying child" were just faking, the gorillas would sense it was fake, and they'd play and roll around. As if to be part of the fun. So gorillas are really smart who understand the world they're seeing. They have empathy. They see life the way people do.

And dolphins are some of the other smartest creatures on earth. They have sex for the pleasure of it, rather than the mating, and are some of the only creatures on earth known to be smart enough to experience that. So they'll rape you. Make of that what you will.

And then I watched a video of a cat, on an airplane, looking out the window. But the video sucked, because the cat had no concept of what it was looking at when it looked out the window. It was just like "uhhhh.....ok? Some patchy green stuff. Great moving painting. Why are you showing me this?

But I'm thinking, what if we brought a gorilla and a dolphin onto an airplane? I don't even know HOW you get the dolphin to be able to see outside. Maybe it's a custom built airplane with the whole lower half being transparent, and serves as a water tank for the dolphin? I guess?

But the gorilla could just look out the window.

See these are the kinds of science experiments we need to be conducting. Someone contact FOX. I'm sure we could/should film this. Alternatively, hey PBS.....wanna get weird?

You KNOW you gotta see the look on the gorillas face when it realizes "Wait......how the fuck are we this high up??? WHAT is happening right now???"

Even better if you could do that thing where they nosedive and do the zero gravity thing.

Wait......should we bring a gorilla and a dolphin into SPACE??? HEY NASA!!! WHO WANTS TO DO ENOUGH DRUGS TO MAKE THIS IDEA SOUND GOOD ENOUGH TO GREENLIGHT???