bad and sinful

Lpt: you can use the Bible as an excuse to not push credit cards on customers in retail.

Deuteronomy 23:19 is quite clear when it says “You are not to charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned on interest"

Banks charge interest on credit cards.

If I push a credit card, that is the same as me pushing interest on my fellow countryman, and as I am a devout Christian (lmao no, I have donated money to TST to help pay for their clinics) I cannot in good conscience offer a credit card to anyone.

So far no retail manager has pushed back on it. Probably because they know I’m full of shit but if pressed I absolutely will make it a problem for them, and since I’m solidly in the Bible belt of the US (send help please), nobody wants to chance a court case.

Why do you not respect boundaries?

The boundary being “keep your religious stuff away from me”

Southern BBQ needs to make a comeback

If my employer tried to tell me I’m only getting paid when I’m actively using the equipment instead of the whole time I setting up and transferring materials, I’d have to get in line to set the place on fire

If the government declares a strike illegal, or tries to in any way compel the employees to return to work, they are explicitly telling the workers that they are nothing more than indentured servants, barely more than slaves. You exist to make these people money, now sit down and shut up before we throw you in prison for upsetting your betters.

“Sorry, you aren’t your own group of people because you aren’t stable and democratic enough. Oh, the reason you aren’t stable enough? Not the issue, next question. Oh, the countries that aren’t democratic that we recognize? Not the issue. Stop asking terrorist questions.”

They’re right about crime being way up in DC though.

Of course they’re leaving out the part where it’s the politicians being openly criminal.

They said “stupid”, not “evil”

Although I’d argue that any billionaire not actively dumping the bulk of their wealth and influence to sort out world hunger, homelessness, and inequality is being evil.

Fuck it I’m buying it now.

Half life 2 was my first “I can’t wait to get home and play” game, despite having played so many games from basically 97 onward.

Same shit, different tech.

The methods of madness change, but madness it remains.

1 it was too expensive to move out and honestly without the added income I provided my parents would have lost their house on multiple occasions

2 I got one the fall after I graduated

3 this one took awhile

4 lol no. Never. Children are the worst. I should know, I used to be one.

The older people I know who vote Democrat complain all the time about how expensive everything is these days and nobody can afford anything.

The bullshit “Nobody wants to work” narrative is absolutely pushed by conservatives.

It seems like every time it goes on sale, I am either between contracts or just not able to justify the unnecessary expense.

Now that I have more stable employment it hasn’t gone on sale.

Honestly this by itself might be enough to make me pay full price.

I wonder how long it took, considering they wrote a script to convert the original transcription into PZ usable stuff.

10/10 mod, no pattern buffer for you.

Oh my god so much yes.

Make it chilly enough to wear an oversized hoodie and I will never leave.

To anyone who doesn’t want to watch videos, it’s a reference to “Beauty and The Beast”, specifically the intro where the entire town sings a song containing lines such as "look there she goes that girl is so peculiar, " “yes she’s strange, no question” and “what a puzzle to the rest of us is Belle” (her name) the whole time she is walking around town, well within hearing distance.

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Mmmmm. Sweet sweet lead sugar.

I’ve gone a step up, and am inhaling chunks of metal.

(I operate a saw cutting aluminum and have decided to wear a face mask but should probably wear a respirator instead)

You know those metal benches with metal arches for “arm rests” a lot of cities installed about a decade ago?

A lot of them use standard size bolts and Allen keys. No security, or maybe torx if anything.

Also an adjustable crescent wrench and multi-size Allen wrench tool fit nicely inside a pocket.

A cordless impact driver and associated bits fit in a small backpack as well.

What do those tidbits of info have in common?

Well that’s up to the reader.

TO BE CLEAR, in case anyone doesn’t understand, I am advocating for people to go out and disassemble anti-homeless architecture as a fuck you to the people who put it there. Being homeless is never a choice (not counting extreme outliers). Life is already shitting on them, denying them even a bench to sleep on for the night is just evil.

You can be crummy Alpha Quadrant

We’ll be Quadrant 1.