Well depending on your diet, that square could have been fertilizer, so I'd say it was considerably more valuable than any claims made by ICE.

Don't undersell your own shit.

I started running games for my wife and her niblings, and the oldest boy is getting into that "I'm such a rebel" phase where they think they're bad ass for taking slightly longer to do a chore than needed and say "no" the first time you ask them to do something.

He thought it was hilarious to have a character that refused to join the rest of the group, so I said "okay, you can stay at the inn if you want" and then proceeded to intentionally ignore anything he was saying or doing, leaving him out of rolls, and never addressing him.

He's 12 and started literally crying to his mother about how we're all being mean to him. Apparently "he had the opportunity to participate and chose not to" wasn't a good enough response to his mother. I stand by my choice. Although my wife managed to convince me to let him "rejoin" at the next town/session.

He doesn't pull that shit anymore though, when he's playing he's playing or he gets shut out again.

Genuine question to anyone reading: does that make me a bad DM? If so, suggestions on how to handle it?

media outlets were intentionally toning down the coverage

American media, or media in general, toning down police brutality? Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Noooooooooooo. They would never do such a thing.

I miss my built-in IR emitter on my phone.

I used to use an app that would rotate through a bunch of common signals for "off" and I'd just stop it when the annoying-ass TV turned off.

Nobody would even notice, because I'm just another person on their phone, not some rando with a remote out in the lobby.

That's the point.

Set the bar low, but just high enough that tons of people still trip over it.

Sit back and enjoy the comment wars.

The people who are confident but wrong are too proud to admit they were wrong even if they realize it, and comment angrily.

The people who are right and know why, comment for corrections and some to show off how S-M-R-T they are.

The people who are wrong but willing to accept that just have their realization and probably don't think about it again. So do the people who don't know and/or care.

But those first two groups will keep the post going in both shares and comments, because "look at all these wrong people"

It's all designed to boost engagement.

Good luck collecting blood from all these stones.

Okay I know I like to joke about how bat's look like sky puppers, but this is CLEARLY a bat-canine hybrid of some sort.

BAT-DOG!

The taxes from it go to schools.

Dozens of people have gotten a chuckle out of this over the years. dozens!

it sure seems like they’re colluding to restrict the amount of oil in the market

Um....

Yes? 100% always has been, they literally have meetings and what is essentially a corporate union specifically to do it. And they're not subtle about it.

Is this really news to some people?

On the one hand, it would be the national guard shooting at the zombies, and not regular military.

On the other hand, I'm from Ohio, and know what the national guard can and will do...

I guess my point is they'd still shoot, they'd just miss a lot?

Honestly there isn't a legitimate reason.

Tldr "tradition" and insecurity, probably.

There was once a issue with Cuba a long time ago, but that got resolved and the US just decided to keep punishing Cuba as, in my opinion, a warning to other neighbors who would dare oppose it. "help out our opponents and get smothered"

The only reason it's continuing is because of weak administrations thinking that admitting people who ran the country in the past were wrong somehow makes them or the country look weak.

Honestly the only thing that seems weak to me is continuing to kick someone who's been down for decades but still manages to find areas to flourish and be better than the "superpower" that's kicking it.

Oh BDSM in general isn’t like that

That..... Was their entire point?

Because the OP started with "BDSM IS" which reads as is "all of BDSM is like this" regardless of whether OP meant to generalize or not.

First comment then said "BDSM is not all like that"