I had a lot of fun completing Celeste!

Partner and I put a bunch of pride themed stuff on the cars in Rocket League a while back and just easily increased the number of slurs heard like 500%

Yeah Ive been doing a lot of puzzles! I’ll try those specific ones out. Ive won a fair amount by noticing that the game has ended up like one of the puzzles I’ve done before. Honestly I think it’s been more helpful than anything else at this point.

Ahh that’s absolutely brilliant. Yeah I think I’m learning a bit, but my biggest flaw at the moment is just getting too impatient and blundering a lot. Not always great and seeing what my opponent is trying to do.

Wow! This is so thorough and helpful! Thank you so much!!

Super interested in this. I have like 10 years experience doing random shit in the software dev world and would love to figure out how to apply my skills to helping out with organizing.

Always check around for giveaways or sales for second hand bikes too. Mfers are always planning on biking but never do it and then offer them up cheap on Craigslist and shit.

This shit has me dying lmao

Lmao nice. I’ve been trying to learn chess recently. Any recommendations on resources for improving? I’ve been mostly sifting through videos from Gotham chess

I always struggled with comprehending gender growing up but kind of just went hard into masculinity because that’s what I thought I was supposed to do. I now realize that I’ve always had an uncomfortable relationship with gender norms and just don’t really care for the performance. I just style myself and present myself however I’m feeling. Some days it’s more masculine, some days more feminine. Very mood and vibes based. I just don’t pay any mind to gender concepts any more really.

The feminazi shit is very alive in chud circles

Lmao I’m actually certified in scrum. AMA

These people literally suck the life out of me.

Not disagreeing with you at all, but I wanted to add that I can say from personal experience that if you are serious about joining, recruiters will literally train you to make the minimum standards. Idk if all of them will, but I had gone to a handful, and a couple had potential recruits running laps around the building.

BobDole gave the most accurate answer here for how testing works that I saw. All of the specific skill (mechanical, electrical etc) based questions are just used for checking whether you would be proficient for a particular role. Your AFQT score is the “actual” score people will refer to when you say what you scored on the ASVAB. So you can miss all the electrical questions and still score a 99 essentially, so long as you get all the reading and math questions right.

Nah they just fast track you to certain roles. Pilots and intelligence officers and electrical work for tanks or whatever the fuck. I almost joined when I was a desperate 18 y/o trying to pay for college and after they saw my scores they were blowing my shit up trying to get me to do nuclear stuff (navy recruiter).

I mean they basically did

$50,000 is a life changing amount of money for everyone I’ve ever met. Hell $10,000 is.

If the regulations are so stringent as to prevent people doing this for monetary reasons, then why are we even discussing money?

This is just smoke and mirrors to get around the fact that only people who need the money will sell their kidneys. Do you think Jeff Bezos will be jumping at the opportunity to sell his kidney?

And if there’s not enough monetary incentive, then we’re right back where we started anyway.

I don’t think it’s a reach to say that we should prioritize universal healthcare, universal housing, or universal food access before opening the market up for kidneys.

Way more people die a year due to not having proper medical insurance (in the US) than due to kidney failure. More difficult to get estimates for the lethality caused by food or housing insecurity, but it doesn’t take much imagination to see how these factors contribute to negative health outcomes. And these solutions not only save lives without exploiting anyone, but also raise the quality of life for everyone.

I think it will be a lot easier to take some of these ideas into consideration when everyone has their basic needs met and universal healthcare. I think up until then, we will still have a non zero amount of people having their kidneys harvested to get a leg up in this economy.

One organization called the Coalition to Modify NOTA hopes to legalize compensation and then pass a federal law it has titled the End Kidney Deaths Act. As it’s written, it would award living donors $50,000 over five years — $10,000 per year — through refundable tax credits.