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Panfilo posted:It's all 'tinfoil' about "social credit scores" and how the government can ruin you by deleting all your Apes or Slurp Juices or whatever the digital monopoly money is called. Yeah, I gotta scratch my head at some of that supposed logic. I mean, unless you keep all of your money buried in mason jars in your backyard, the majority of your cash is already nothing more than 1s and 0s in a computer somewhere.
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Medullah posted:BECAUSE*THEY* ARE FORCING IT ON US YOU SHEEPLE I'm guessing they're also surreptitiously bitching about restaurants actually paying their waitstaff enough to not need to supplement their income with tips.
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Panfilo posted:It's all 'tinfoil' about "social credit scores" and how the government can ruin you by deleting all your Apes or Slurp Juices or whatever the digital monopoly money is called. realtalk here in Kazakhstan the majority of payment is via an app owned and operated by the national bank. everyone still takes cash. the worst thing that will happen is the person having to man the register rolls their eyes at you later when you roll up with a wad of tenge (or dollars, or euros, or rubles, cash is a free-for-all). no government hit squads.
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Panfilo posted:You'll note these types of folks never bring up the actual existent issues of a cashless society (weed dispensaries in the US unable to use the banking system effectively, and sex workers being overly reliant on the mercy of credit card processors).
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And any of that might matter if anyone was serious proposing a cashless society, and if CHUDs didn’t all explicitly want to murder every houseless person.
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You guys are crazy, I got the intended message from that clear as a bell: Joe Biden wants to murder the tooth fairy
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:joke's on them, I already didn't give to busking musicians They all have qr codes now
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If you don't put a QR code under your bed the tooth fairy won't be able to leave you money
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I have had 4 junior high girls basketball games to go to for my daughter this last week. I wish the door people and concession stands took Apple Pay so I did not have to get my wallet out like a Neanderthal when my daughter wanted a thing of sour punch.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:You guys are crazy, I got the intended message from that clear as a bell: Joe Biden wants to murder the tooth fairy Joe "Te-a-ti-me" Biden
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Sounds like Mark didn't get that sport scholarship.
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There's at least a 50% chance that sign will be vandalized.
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CuddleCryptid posted:Sounds like Mark didn't get that sport scholarship. Of course not, he lost 9 to 42
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Yeesh, that's gonna be a millstone around his neck.
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Now I’m picturing Jesus blocking the gates of Heaven like Shaq or Dikembe Mutumbo.
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White Jesus getting posterized by the lead singer of Gwar.
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Silly Burrito posted:Now I’m picturing Jesus blocking the gates of Heaven like Shaq or Dikembe Mutumbo. *nba jam voice* REJECTED!
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Weatherman posted:*nba jam voice* REJECTED! *nba jam voice* HE'S ON FIRE!
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Silly Burrito posted:Now I’m picturing Jesus blocking the gates of Heaven like Shaq or Dikembe Mutumbo.
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The Islamic Shock posted:What this is making me picture is a b-ball court you have to get past and your level of piety determining what form Jesus takes. Mother Teresa has to play defense against a baby. Hitler has to solo win a game against the 1996 Chicago Bulls. You have to win a game of Jesus Horse on the court to make it into Heaven.
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Dameius posted:*nba jam voice* HE'S ON FIRE! I met that dude (Tim Kitzrow) at the Houston Arcade Expo last year. Real nice, and I found out he was also the voice of one of my favorite pinball games (World Cup Soccer 94), and my mind was blown although it’s so obvious now. He did offer to record a voicemail for those who wanted to pay, but I just got a photo with him.
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Dameius posted:*nba jam voice* HE'S ON FIRE! HE'S HEEEEATING UP!
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What if I just pray that my kid becomes a professional athlete? I was told that prayer works. Did... did they lie to me? 
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tek79 posted:What if I just pray that my kid becomes a professional athlete? I was told that prayer works. Did... did they lie to me? Unfortunately everyone else is praying for their kids too, so if you don't get the church multiplyer to proc God's Strongest Solider perk then your PrayPoints won't make the cut.
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tek79 posted:What if I just pray that my kid becomes a professional athlete? I was told that prayer works. Did... did they lie to me? CuddleCryptid posted:Unfortunately everyone else is praying for their kids too, so if you don't get the church multiplyer to proc God's Strongest Solider perk then your PrayPoints won't make the cut. 
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tek79 posted:What if I just pray that my kid becomes a professional athlete? I was told that prayer works. Did... did they lie to me? Your kid will become an athlete in christ, running the spiritual race just like saint paul wrote. It’s like being a professional athlete, but even better!
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Soricidus posted:Your kid will become an athlete in christ, running the spiritual race just like saint paul wrote. It’s like being a professional athlete, but even better! Doing reps for Jesus.
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It still kinda amazes me that the current anti-LGBTQ panic is largely fueled by a completely made-up scenario where a teacher just arbitrarily chooses one of Our Precious Children, tells them they're actually trans, then boom, secret bottom surgery within the week. Completely unmoored from reality poo poo, and a third of the country is terrified that it's happening down at Bumfuck Public Elementary every day.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:It still kinda amazes me that the current anti-LGBTQ panic is largely fueled by a completely made-up scenario where a teacher just arbitrarily chooses one of Our Precious Children, tells them they're actually trans, then boom, secret bottom surgery within the week. Completely unmoored from reality poo poo, and a third of the country is terrified that it's happening down at Bumfuck Public Elementary every day. Back when I was a kid there was a not-insignificant number of adults who were 100% sure that half the town was part of a secret child-murdering Satanic sex cult. People are dumb.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:It still kinda amazes me that the current anti-LGBTQ panic is largely fueled by a completely made-up scenario where a teacher just arbitrarily chooses one of Our Precious Children, tells them they're actually trans, then boom, secret bottom surgery within the week. Completely unmoored from reality poo poo, and a third of the country is terrified that it's happening down at Bumfuck Public Elementary every day. That's how the panic works. They fanfiction up this completely illogical and extreme scenario that has no basis in the realm of possibility, and then insists that it's happening everywhere at all hours. Just like metal/rap/pop/anything that isn't gospel or country hypnotizing kids into doing sex and drugs with reverse lyrics, Dungeons and Dragons convincing ARE KIDS to murder each other in satanic rituals for magic powers, and Harry Potter turning kids into practicing pagans (before Rowling went full-mask off TERF)
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generatrix posted:Back when I was a kid there was a not-insignificant number of adults who were 100% sure that half the town was part of a secret child-murdering Satanic sex cult. Yep I'm an old so I got to grow up during the great 80s Satanic Panic. One of my friends' ultra religious parents took all of his Dungeons and Dragons books and threw them into a bonfire. Jokes on them, he became an atheist!
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:It still kinda amazes me that the current anti-LGBTQ panic is largely fueled by a completely made-up scenario where a teacher just arbitrarily chooses one of Our Precious Children, tells them they're actually trans, then boom, secret bottom surgery within the week. Completely unmoored from reality poo poo, and a third of the country is terrified that it's happening down at Bumfuck Public Elementary every day. There's a lot of "if my kid knows about The Gays then he might end up being one and the community will treat him like we treat gay people", but it's not for nothing that a lot of stuff clicks into place when you understand their panic in the framing of someone whose only exposure to transgenderism is porn. If you have someone going "the only reason I would dress like a woman is to jack off" and then they turn it into a crusade then they convince themselves that a teacher even mentioning that transgenderism exists is similar to her talking about BDSM. Which, like many conservative witch hunts, is a consistent and logical conclusion that is built off an initial absurdity, in the same way that firebombing an abortion clinic is perfectly logical were you to honestly believe that they are killing babies.
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the_steve posted:That's how the panic works. They fanfiction up this completely illogical and extreme scenario that has no basis in the realm of possibility, and then insists that it's happening everywhere at all hours. Yeah, like it's actually pretty easy to trace back the origins of the "schools are transing the kids" myth - the popularization of Sudden Onset Gender Dysphoria and the "social contagion" theory, followed by a conservative media blitz on trans-supporting school policies piggybacking on lockdown-era grievances and echoes of Qanon. It makes sense that a panicked conservative would make the logical leap, but as an outsider it's just bizarre since we weren't led there by brainworms. It's like how we can look back at the McMartin preschool case and immediately see that it was bullshit, but that didn't stop grown-rear end adults from thinking Satanic high priests were torturing their kids for 7 hours a day and using dark rituals to hide the marks. Funnily enough, I've heard more than a few Evangelicals and conspiracy theorists starting to refer to LGBTQ acceptance as a "sex cult", so if current trends continue, we'll be full swing into Satanic Panic 2.0 by this time next year. (Or depending on how you define it, Satanic Panic 2.5.)
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