If this turns out to be true, and really even if it doesn't, I'm just tired of MAGA on MAGA gang violence in the USA. Can't these people just settle their differences over a Bible or the blood of baby Jesus?

I haven't completed a run in Hades 2 and at this point I'm not sure I will any time soon.

I'm not really a gamer, but the first Hades just clicked with me. It's a game I can pick up and just have some fun.

Hades 2 just isn't clicking like that. I enjoyed what I've played of it, but things are a lot more complicated, just a lot more going on and a lot more to keep track of, and the main character just seems so much weaker or maybe the game is a lot harder in general, I don't know. Either way, it hasn't drawn me in. Hoping it will one day, and perhaps coming out of beta will help on that front.

We've already seen the playbook, though. His race only matters if he's not white. His sexuality only matters if it's not heterosexual. His gender only matters if he's trans. His religion only matters if it's not Christian. His politics only matter if he's not Republican. Source: Last summer's attempted assassination attempt against Trump.

But honestly, none of that matters. Most people did not reason themselves into their opinion on this matter (minds were made up before there was any evidence or credible suspect at all), and most of the time you cannot reason people out of an opinion if they did not reason themselves into it. Which sucks. But also, this applies to us all, so hopefully most of us are keeping that in mind.

You can tell it's real because of how clean the suit is and chickens are well-known for being super tidy.

In a way, I'm glad you mentioned it.

In another way, it's really sad that the state of affairs on Lemmy is such that anyone would feel the need to have to explicitly state that as though the headline / title wasn't clear enough. Like I know it's an international Fediverse and not everyone is fully fluent in English, but on the other hand, some people do legitimately have reading comprehension issues and a desire to dump some rage on random folks on the internet.

My stepfather once made the comment that Christians are the most discriminated against group in the USA. He said that to me, a gay man.

Now I'm absolutely certain that gay men are not the most discriminated against group in the USA, pretty high up the list, but not #1. On the flip side, the audacity of that bitch.

Ya'll don't know me in real life, so I'm going to explain that I'm probably the most even tempered and non-confrontational weirdo that most people who know me know, if that makes sense. Not perfect by any means, but I don't let people know when shit gets to me unless I know them and trust them really well. And it took every ounce of self control I had not to make a scene. But I did make my point.

The problem is, when you have a group of people who have been indoctrinated since early childhood with a specific religion, and particularly when they've also been indoctrinated with conservative ideology, there's just very little opportunity to make tangible progress in their beliefs. We literally and figuratively and wholly live in different realities. Theirs where magic and prayer and god are the solution and answer to everything, and mine that sees their points of view as illogical, unrealistic, hypocritical, and so on. I honestly am in a high degree of agreement with the philosophy that you can't reason someone out of a thing they were never reasoned into because I have experienced it and I see it firsthand every day.

To be clear, I have no issue with super religious people or most religions. I just don't think those are good reasons and frameworks to make sound, logical, and realistic decisions -- particularly those that affect and bind other people.

During Trump's last term when he fucked over soybean growers, at least locally in my rural community, the soybeans didn't go to waste. They didn't rot in the fields or in storage. However, farmers ended up having to sell for way less than normal, and basically they didn't make any profit (many even saw losses) that year.

This issue with this year, again I can only speak to my area, is that by the time Trump was elected, most people would have already placed their orders for seed and the specific chemicals/supplies they needed for soy, so they're on the hook for it. They would have been facing the decision to take a sure loss (ex: if they didn't plant the soy they've already purchased and/or if they had to go procure some other crop seed and related supplies) OR they could go ahead as planned with the soy and hope for the best.

Where I live, most farmers aren't "soy farmers", they're just farmers. They rotate crops from year to year on a pretty rigid schedule, so one year it's soy, next might be corn, grains following that, then cover crop / hay. So, they better hope the weather holds up next year for whatever crop they were planning because I doubt a lot of them will be able to tolerate multiple years of essentially no profit.

Soybeans can be dried, then stored for some time. And, at least some of the soy farmers will do what they did last time: Eventually sell it for at or below cost (a loss) to be used as animal feed.

Some men were avoiding the covid vaccines specifically because they believed it makes men sterile. As one of my neighbors said in reference to a family down the road who lost two adult sons (and cited sterility as the reason they didn't want to get vaccinated), "They definitely aren't having any kids now."

If you're applying for a management job, it works a lot better if you send a photo of your gaping asshole instead that way they know they'll be getting their money's worth.

Today I learned I might be an axolotl with siblings because my grocery bill is costing me an arm and a leg.

For a solid few years, the signature on my driver's license did not match the signature that I use to sign things nor did it match my normal handwriting.

This is because the small town, fascist, dick cheese of a police officer who was handling my renewal decided he didn't like my signature. So, he told me I had to sign the thing with a legible (to him) signature. After redoing the signature multiple times and having him reject it each time, I finally signed it like I was trying out for the Olympic handwriting team. He accepted that one.

Like what even is the point of this exercise besides just being a giant festering asshole? Fortunately the signature mismatch was never an issue because it's such and unimportant and useless detail that almost nobody cares when they check your license.