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It's interesting to me how divisive reactions seem to be on Avowed, some people loving the hell out of it and some being very lukewarm. It's not even falling along the usual IGN reviewer love vs indie reviewer scepticism divide like Starfield or Veilguard. I wonder what's driving the difference?

My father was a penis inspector, like his father before him. He had to work for years at a penis factory to get by, working long, hard hours. All while taking penis inspection classes at night. When he finally graduated, he said it was so satisfying to tell his boss he was quitting, and that from now on he would be inspecting his work. He went on to be the best penis inspector in our county, and oversaw Penis Inspection Day at 4 public schools and 7 private for over three decades.

The fact that they think they can automate this entire proud profession with one scanner in a public bathroom is an insulting joke. It’s a single camera! How will it check the underside of the shaft for melanoma? Can it check the foreskin for proper length and cleanliness?? How does it check erection durometer? Not to mention urethral diameter. For fuck’s sake.

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It sounds like your life will be immeasurably improved by cutting him off. But it's such an intense, personal decision that I'm not sure any internet stranger could honestly say one way or the other.

Perhaps if you are able, consider volunteering? It feels a lot better than anything you can consume and helps build a routine with clear purpose that can help some people with anxiety.

Seems like smartphones are generally used more often than PCs among younger cohorts compared to older. In Britain at least.

You should check out the work being done by the anti capitalist Solidarity Collective.

If there is one thing that is clear, it's that the Ukraine war is a late stage capitalist war. Units are sponsored. Ukraine has not resorted to widespread nationalisations or labour conscription. Unlike the total war of the 20th century, Ukraine’s war effort heavily relies on market mechanisms and civilian donations.

Ukrainians are left in darkness and many without heating. Yet, shopping arcades are lit in garish lights, with lavish displays of luxury fashion brands.

And yet this has created an opportunity for grassroots movements like solidarity collectives who supply anarchists, human rights defenders, trade unionists, eco-anarchists, anarcho-feminists, punk-rockers, and political refugees from Belarus and russia as military units with everything they need laying the foundations and build the knowledge needed to topple the authoritarian ruling class, independent of the state.

Going from decline to fall. To be fair it took Rome 200 years or so I'm sure the US will limp on for a while yet. But it won't ever be what it was again.

It's actually not very fun watching a country fall to fascism.

"In a Sea Parks??"

What a fucking whinge

It's seriously upsetting to see how many in leadership want to save their bacon instead of doing what's right.

What do we owe to each other? For coexistence without inherent meaning in an afterlife, is the only source of moral good the social contract that we've made with each other to coexist peacefully? What are the bounds of that contract? What are the terms of our coexistence?