Professionally and creatively. To elaborate, I have two degrees that I’ve never ended up using and I’ve been working in customer service/tech support for the past twenty years. I’ve been at my current company in my current role for a full decade, and the lack of upward mobility is getting to me.

Not living up to my own potential. I’ve led a pretty uneventful life with few, if any, accolades. I know that I actually have the capacity to be excellent in certain regards, but I can’t seem to force myself to actually put in the work. Doesn’t help that I’ve been called lazy my entire life. Some therapists seem to think a “fear of success” is part of the pathology but I don’t agree. I’ve been extremely intimate with failure my entire life, success is like the one thing I’ve never had and am craving daily.

Critical thinking. The best security is useless if the user clicks the first crypto-locker posing as a harmless security update. That said, you can’t fix stupid. Some people are just destined to be fleeced by people with more acumen and less scruples than them.

I want a refund on this “no tears” baby shampoo. Didn’t do a damn thing for my depression.

Imagine him randomly running into Assad somewhere in a corridor of the Kremlin. Awkward wouldn’t begin to describe it.

Revolving door politics. Politicians retire as members of several boards of directors, while former industry plants become civil “servants”. Should be outlawed in every halfway decent democratic society. Which unfortunately means none nowadays.

I once asked for a virgin mojito during a lunch break. They didn’t hear the “virgin” part. That afternoon at work was… interesting.

My dyslexic brain somehow read that as “Chris Rock”.

Man, I hate having to watch the world slowly burn like this.

Mossad: “welcome back, operative!”

I’m not religious, but the bible clearly states that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich person to get into heaven. There’s debate about the “eye of the needle” being simple metaphor or whether it was an actual, but very tiny, gate to the city of Jerusalem. Regardless, the idea stands.

The actual sack of the city in 476 seems like the most obvious “end”. Of course it was only a carcass compared to a century earlier at that point.

Considering the last few Western emperors also intermarried with non-Romans (mostly the daughters of Gothic rulers) the actual end was obviously earlier than 476, but after that point no one in the world could ignore the fact that the mightiest empire that had ever existed until then was, well, gone.

I imagine it must’ve been somewhat similar to how we see the US losing relevancy day by day in modern times.

I used to think so as well, but as other posters have pointed out, we actually did manage to live in harmony with nature for tens of thousands of years. Humans aren’t the problem per sé, but our systems definitely are.

“The right pickle in the wrong place can… make all the difference in the world, mr. Freeman”.

My line is these payment processors being judge, jury and executioner about what material they deem valid. So I am fundamentally opposed.

Snakes have something called Jacobson’s organ, which is basically two cavities inside their nasal area, where they actually insert the two tines of their forked tongues after having “smelled” by performing the characteristic tongue flick. They can then decipher the olfactory molecules of whatever prey they’re trying to track and be able to form a sort of 3d map in their head of where it’s located, provided it’s close enough of course.

Snake olfactory sense is vastly superior. They can use their forked tongue to smell in “3d” and pinpoint a source exactly. It’s their main hunting mechanism.

First they came for the incest/rape games, which most people somewhat agree with (although the principle is still wrong) Next up is all nsfw games. After that, it’ll be mainstream and indie games altogether. This never stops with just one “victory” for these groups.

That, and teachers really fucking hate being called out on something for some reason.

Not to mention that studios like Larian have proven that it’s entirely possible to make a blockbuster game without teams of 400 heads, changing direction and leadership every few years and laying off the people who made the product in the first place. They really seethed at that one, so many salty comments lol.