Okay, so as a teenager I was a super nerd and got into swords. I took olympic style fencing lessons first, then got into the ren faire and also did some stage combat. Sadly, I have health problems and I couldn’t keep my knees in place, and had to quit. The difference between those is probably the same difference between WWE style wrestling, and BJJ. One is done with choreography, one is a competition.

They’re both sports. I don’t understand why people think the choreography somehow means it doesn’t have skills or rules? It was the same skillset, different rules. Stage combat was unpadded and used heavier weapons that left more bruises when we fucked up the choreography. They’re different, sure, but the amount of overlap is underappreciated.

Because they need to sell papers?

It was just the “goal” aesthetic I was trying to meet as a young woman. So many of my classmates developed an eating disorder or just started using drugs because the “strung out supermodel” look was what everybody wanted.

Its just a precursor carrying the same message kids are gettimg today. That you’re worthless if you don’t look the right way, and you should hurt yourself to look the right way.

Laptops should last longer than 3-5 years too. It should go without saying, but this is the internet.

It’s from a federal law passed under the Bush administration, tying funding to standardized testing scores.

But it was bipartisan, so you’re not wrong.

It’s honestly wild to me that people in my age bracket can grow up with heroin chic, and think it somehow just vanished into the ether. I don’t know why it’s so hard for them to understand that kids are just getting hit with an evolved form of the same bullshit message that you’re worthless if you don’t fit a specific aesthetic.

Gotta love how many self-identified leftists we have that are actually confused authoritarians.

If capitalists didn’t value the accumulation of wealth over consumption, they’d be in favor of wage increases. If they really did want us to consume more, they’d let us have more money to spend, knowing it’s going back into their pockets.

This is also colored by my experiences being homeless when the avocado toast thing was going around. I didn’t have regular internet access, so I don’t remember seeing the memes and media against it, but I do remember how regular society grabbed onto it and ran. I remember hearing avocado toast jokes about me from the people behind me in line when I was using food stamps, and that just strikes me as something that wouldn’t happen if the ruling class actually valued consumption.

That dog knows the donkey is in charge

That doesn’t track though. Consumption is just a vehicle for the accumulation of wealth, and is easily wielded as a weapon once it stops being effective. Like, if they were truly in favor of consumption, the whole avocado toast thing would have been encouraged instead.

Hell no. I moved halfway across the country to get away from them, and it’s still too close.

This is the way. My caffeine habit started in middle school because I was needing to be up stupid early for the bus, missing breakfast, and passing out halfway through first period.

Yeah, mania can present as rage.

Oh, it’s not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.

No, he just doesn’t carrot all.

Somehow Walmart is leading innovation, launching a butthole logo in '07. Truly ahead of their time.

Teddy sniffing glue, he was twelve years old, fell from the roof on East 2-9, Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug, twenty six reds and a bottle of wine.

But people don’t like that song, so you’re right about not wanting to talk about it.

If you can be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal, I can call you Betty; and Betty, when you call me, You can call me Al

You jest, but…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable

You can’t just say you made a youtube rant about it without posting a link.