Lesson is, do not fight people when you are famous and people know you are going to be a multimillionaire.

That tracks. Hans Rosling's book Factfulness made much the same case about how much life has improved for the world's poorest.

In our supremely pampered ignorance, most of us have no real idea of how bad world poverty was just within living memory.

Things aren't great and they could be much better but holy damn, things are much better today than they were.

Fair, I probably should've mirror flipped the pic.

I remember reading a great thing on the economics of gyms... Iirc, they basically depend on those NY resolution folks to pay and not show up.

Battle Angel Alita was a lot of fun. (Admittedly, I'm a sucker for good action sequences.)

I went to the pool in the first week and wanted to cry, felt like we were damn near nose to toes.

Also, great username.

"Oh no, he fell out a window. On his way down he was yelling about giving Ukraine back to mother Russia though..."

Admittedly, if I had slaves, I think I'd be pretty worried about weapons just lying around...

"Yes, we've contemplated military force but to hit us where it hurts? That's just rude!"

I'm not sure about pure evil so much as sociopathic. I worked briefly in door to door sales, got taken to some high performer award celebration nonsense and was standing in one of those group circles as people were recounting war stories. "Give her the discount? Hell no. And then I realized she was too old to read what I was writing so I just added an extra year on to the contract!" Huge round of laughter, light applause.

To make it more gross... The discount was standard, we got no extra commission for having or not having it, was purely a free promotion to grease the wheels. He just didn't because, well, the old lady he'd scammed was too trusting.

I quit shortly after.

I love the texts that are clearly just anon's personal fantasy.

So it took that dumb fuck 9 months to realize that Putin's the bad guy, Ukraine isn't to blame for being invaded and that Western support could win this war?

Imagine how many lives would have been saved if he'd just listened to every goddamn adult in the previous administration.