a strange fowl posted:

while we've got all this new traffic, let's workshop exactly what kind of mental illness we want to foster itt

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

eh, most of the funny people are on discord or in jail or whatever at this point

Paracaidas posted:

chicken breast, salsa veggies, herbs, and spices in a pressure cooker, shred the chicken after in a food processor and whisk lowfat cream cheese and something cheddarish into the veggies and juices until creamy, then readd the shredded chicken

V. Illych L. posted:

arguing itt was one of my only consistent pleasures during an extremely depressing period of my life, so i hold steadfastly to the old ways

cinci zoo sniper posted:

one of [where i tactically don't mention stealing lumber from the fair people of norway]

litany of gulps posted:

How does "you people" rate up against "your people"? Like if you had to assign a number

Lib and let die posted:

Koos Group posted:

This is some of the value I saw in the USPol thread, and why I'd like to have a political thunderdome RSF. The counterpoint, though, is that there's already that sort of thing on Twitter, so there needs to be something better about it on SA.

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such as discouraging posters from contributing to D&D in a couple cases

cinci zoo sniper posted:

that is a fairly chunky sauce

Lib and let die posted:

all troops are war criminals.

RBA Starblade posted:

Well, let's hope not

WoodrowSkillson posted:

they are.

RBA Starblade posted:

That's really going to tie up the courts

Elephant Ambush posted:

Gonna be fun to see how this thread deals with Starblade

Paracaidas posted:

Depends on the amount of cheese, cream cheese, and veggies typically I can toss it cold into a salad and the 'sauce' has minimal texture, doesnt even conflict with the dressing.

Lib and let die posted:

Paisano Protection Program

e: lmao

Lib and let die posted:

maybe those users should reconsider their internalized transphobic stances, then. if a theoretical poster is afraid to post about why the perfidious trans rights activists should pipe down because people are going to "reframe" that poster as being transphobic, perhaps the problem is the poster with the transphobic biases, not the posters going "what the gently caress is wrong with that guy?"

just my $.02.

ACAB, all troops are war criminals.

Cygnids posted:

The common sense statement of “asking certain questions / repeating certain arguments can be a harmful act” clashes with the core tenant of d&d being “positions are not moderated / arguments are all valid as long as you’re representing your beliefs accurately” so this line of criticism isn’t going to go far unfortunately. Blatant bigotry’ll get hit but since we’re all humans other actions depend on whether the posts in question harsh the vibes of the particular thread(s) involved rather than analysis of the position.

not to say that there aren’t good posters/threads in d&d and I hope calling this out doesn’t harsh the chat vibes here too badly or make y’all think I’m a posting warrior that should be outcasted; I think it’s hard to deny this line of reasoning though, to me it feels like it follows directly from the stated rules.

Elephant Ambush posted:

So is that you getting doxxed again or is that someone I should know

cinci zoo sniper posted:

this is arby's

Elephant Ambush posted:

Shut up

He's right

cinci zoo sniper posted:

the only apparent quality of that post is “unreadable”

cinci zoo sniper posted:

this is arby's

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

I had no problem reading it. Can you explain what you mean?

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

I've never actually eaten at an Arby's before.

cinci zoo sniper posted:

no

Lib and let die posted:

It's Matt Yglesias, an incredibly transphobic "JAQ" type hack journalist.

Because calling out the transphobia of D&D's favorite posters makes me as much of a transphobe as good ol' MattY is. Great own on me, boy howdy do I have egg on my face.

RBA Starblade posted:

He looks like an egg

Lib and let die posted:

It's Matt Yglesias, an incredibly transphobic "JAQ" type hack journalist.

Because calling out the transphobia of D&D's favorite posters makes me as much of a transphobe as good ol' MattY is. Great own on me, boy howdy do I have egg on my face.

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Also, as someone who grew up in a lower SES household and shopped mostly at discount stores or large retailers growing up, I'm connecting some of the questions that got asked during yesterday's AHM about supporting work with places like Walmart and Pepsi... and that some of our resistance to supporting their CSR efforts seems at odds with the socioeconomic reality of some folks who shop those brands.

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On consumer choice - this is difficult! At the risk of "outing" myself, the simple answer is that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. The denser answer is that one of the primary reasons Walmart is able to offer such low prices is by keeping overhead - that is, compensation - as low as possible. Unfortunately, all of us have material needs we have to meet - given the choice, I'd rather not individually contribute to the success of a retail chain who abuses workers while their executives lavish in excess but the simple fact of the matter is that my convictions aren't legal tender to be traded for a gallon of milk - if the only place I can afford to shop is the place that exploits its workers, then my hands are tied - and no one should feel ashamed for being in that situation!

Walmart's annual gross profit for 2022 was $143.754B, a 3.54% increase from 2021. Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. If each of these associates is paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr, and work a 40 hour week* this works out to a salary of $15,080 annually, pre-tax. To pay the minimum wage of $7.25/hr to each employee costs Walmart 34 Billion dollars ($34,684,000,000 to be specific!). At the current federal minimum wage, this leaves Walmart with ~$110 billion in profits.

To conduct this math in good faith of course, we have to take the opposite into consideration - if Walmart were to pay the current highest minimum wage in the country ($16.50 in DC), this would work out to a $78 billion payroll cost - this still leaves a profit of $~70 billion back to shareholders and executive team members at Walmart.

Lastly, in a theoretical labor win where a $20 minimum wage becomes Federal law, Walmart would pay out $95b in salary - leaving a comfortable $50b in profits for shareholders and executives.

Because of Walmart's low compensation practices, many employees require government assistance, use community resources like food banks and free medical clinics, or turn to illicit drugs to replace costly pharmaceuticals - so long as these practices continue, Walmart continues to create inequity. Any measures they take to advertise they engage in CSR to address inequity are meaningless *until they stop creating inequity*.
Walmart also routinely maxes out political donations to regressive, fascist-aligned Republican congressional candidates who, if I am to speak frankly, would be perfectly happy to see our LGBTQ+ colleagues run out of their homes - or worse. While putting this response together, it took me roughly 5 minutes to find the records for Walmart's political PAC and find that they donated $7,500 to Republican Kevin McCarthy in 2020 and 2022, $5,000 to Steve Scalisi in 2022 and $10,000 in 2020 - it is, I hope, not controversial to say that these politicians that Walmart - an alleged "doer of good" - is elevating into office is in direct conflict with the progressive values that are so important to us whether we are the victims of the reprehensible social policies they push or allies of those who are.

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

Well then what's your issue other than you can't argue with the point?

Perhaps this is not in fact an Arby's

Fritz the Horse posted:

probably not great to import the same posting from the containment thread that helped get it closed. dadchat thread doesn't need peoples' screeds about the nature of d&d and kvetching about specific posters