Those land yachts were terrifying. It felt like driving a boat, and by that I mean you never felt in control, like the road was the sea and you were at its mercy. Turning the wheel was a suggestion to the car. Breaking felt like a quiet request to a busy waiter in a loud restaurant. The whole experience was akin to a janky “I’m in danger” carnival ride.

This was my experience as a pre teen in my grandpa’s ~1970 Lincoln Continental with a power/weight ratio of 13.5lbs/hp I can’t imagine something with vastly more power feeling better.

(Holy hell that car weighed as much as a tri motor plaid model S)

Dec 31, 1999 11:59:59 was the last possible second you could be born on to be born in the previous millennium.

I choose to also have this hope

The whitespace is not only required, but it must be tabs and spaces.

if they’re int/dex/str, I make them roll a wisdom check to see if they do something impossibly stupid.

if they’re wis or cha, they roll deception against themselves with disadvantage. It’s excellent seeing a character literally deceive themselves into doing something dumb.

This happened to me once. Fast forward 6 mo, spine surgery.

:rattling chains in ghost form:

dooont be like meeeeeee

goooo see a doooctoooorrrrrr

The CPC is a highly selective group that picks its own members and runs the country. That doesn’t sound like democracy.

Also, new alternative parties don’t exist. Are they allowed?

From Wikipedia:

While only the CCP holds effective power at the national level, there are officially eight minor parties that exist alongside the CCP. Founded before the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China, these parties must accept the “leading role” of the CCP as a condition of their continued existence.

Throw some drone trucks in there and baby, you got a stew going.

I thought it was just op being meta

Caligula: You’re telling me those things have had one neck this whole time?!

Crawford 235:237

The meme economy will not be regulated.

This is the scene that got me to watch the rest of that show.

Worked in a call center once connecting terminally Ill old people to nurses (a specialized aska nurse line essentially).

My job was just to call people who needed a call back and then hand them off to a nurse when they answered the phone. I’m talking like 15 seconds of phone time with these people on average.

The shit I heard in those 15 seconds was wild.

“Can’t talk, I’m on the other line with Jesus” was one of my favorite dark replies from a person with essentially terminal COPD.

But there were plenty of “I lived a bad life, I know why this is happening to me” type digressions.

I’m convinced it’s because a shit load of old people have committed, and so far gotten away with, serious crimes at some point.

Random calls from “authority” decades later stun locks their brain in a memory loop.

Sure, but normal new car prices are ridiculous right now.

Apparently the average is 48K! https://www.moneygeek.com/insurance/auto/average-price-of-a-new-car/

Yikes, a new subcompact is 23K on average.

Always ask a credit bureau before asking your doctor if it’s right for you

Equestrification sounds terrible.

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