TheLepidopterists

joined 4 years ago

If you're concerned about talking heads putting a spin on something, maybe you'd like to see some on the ground reporting from within southern Gaza?

https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1713229280874803382

Warning, I guess, it's CGTN, but the reporter is in front of a hospital in Gaza and discusses what she's seeing (and you see with your own eyes) for about 10 minutes.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Both sides are bad. Ukraine and Israel.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Researchers examined the median home prices last year for roughly 575 U.S. counties and found that home prices in 99% of those areas are beyond the reach of the average income earner, who makes $71,214 a year, according to ATTOM.

This sounds like they compared the national mean income to local median home prices which honestly probably makes 99% too generous, it's probably closer to 100% unless the article is explaining what they did poorly.

The lowest cost of living areas are going to be the ones where these houses are most affordable but they're also lower income areas normally and a normal person isn't pulling 71k a year in middle of nowhere Tennessee or whatever.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So there's not an article about the event yet?

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

So there's a separate article about the event and he should just be mentioned there? It doesn't merit two separate articles?

Cool, where's the article about the Canadian parliament honoring him?

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

Forgot WotC. They sent Pinkertons after a leaker and tried to drain every last dollar out of third party creators with their OGL update.

Casting light on someone's eyes so they go blind

Funny enough, in b/x D&D this was explicitly allowed. They got a save though, and light was a 1st level spell, not a cantrip so it was more like color spray that also gave you a magical light that followed you around afterward than an infinitely castable save or suck cantrip.

Ah, yeah, I should say my opinion is entirely based around my experience as an American. It's pretty deeply ingrained here- I mean imagine telling an American that they have to tolerate children running around at 9pm in the dark, they can't drive their cars around because the streets are clogged with those children and furthermore, they need to stock up on candy because they will be giving it away to the kids.

And there is a culture tradition of vandalizing the homes of people who are stingy about the candy.

If it were new here it'd never even catch on, just like public libraries.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but you get to dress your kid up as a velociraptor or a ghost buster or something and then interact with people who live near you in a friendly way which doesn't exist outside of Halloween in this atomized hellscape. Plus it's way more than one day, I'm putting giant spiders all over my place for at least a month. The webs are hell to take down so I might even leave em up through November out of laziness lol

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Halloween sucks as a holiday

I've never seen such a bad opinion from a Hexbear user.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're not wrong

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think he might have gotten you mixed up with the lib you were arguing with.

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