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In response to blip #105059

"the grass is never greener" is a fallacy. would you say that moving to Syria would just be "moving somewhere else on the globe"? there's no perfect or magical place on the map, that much is true. but to say "you wouldn't have pride/more happiness in this country if you moved there because things can only seem better somewhere else" can't be true unless the reverse is also true. which, it clearly isn't.

it's also a personal thing. the things here (like individualism, liberating and nondescript societal behaviors, and unchecked democracy) that really bother me are probably seen as boons by others around the glove. it's just really, really not my cup of tea; even on top of all the things that are indisputably fucked in our government/society. i can't bring myself to a positive or patriotic state of mind in this place.

also, the country i'm moving to doesn't deal with the globalist movement 😁

In response to blip #105057

@Shishigumi: You realize you're not saying goodbye to the self centeredness or unhealthiness you're really just placing yourself somewhere else on the world map. The world is connected by climate, economies (globalization), etc. That said, you're going to meet good or bad people no matter where you are.

@Shishigumi: @French_Fried: I mean, generally speaking, I'm not a huge fan of Americans because most of them are definitely all the things you described. But the country itself isn't that bad. Plus I think most of what you've described is also accurate for large swaths of Canada and Europe, as well. It's less America than it is unrestrained capitalism, corruption, and greed. That goes beyond us.

In response to blip #105055

French_Fried said:
@Shishigumi: I take it you’ve had a less than favorable experience with the United States in some way or another

https://youtu.be/TVp7yLfnmrE?t=192

I'm leaving by 2/21. Saying goodbye to this degeneracy of self-centeredness, physical unhealthiness and government run worse than a McDonalds franchise. It can all collapse for all I care. Let Canada have whatever's left; they'd make much better use of it at least.

In response to blip #105050

I look through tickets about once a month because it's an easy way to find some quality cringe

I show up there fairly often, which isn't at all surprising. Luckily I've learned to walk the line here pretty well and they get denied. But it's always funny seeing a ticket pop up from something I posted, especially comments from months and months ago.

Best I've seen put up of me was "spoils shows on other websites"'

Praise kek

In response to blip #105048

Shu_Lover said:
Trump cares more about his own money, than he does about human god damn beings. He's doing very little now, but he acted too late. Nothing can save the people in the states now unless they stay the fuck inside. If you think this is going to end in a week, you couldn't be more wrong about that. Disease experts have said it will not end so soon. Canada where I live, is safer than the states, because my prime minister actually knows how to run a fucking government.

So again, I'm sorry if your business has to be shut down, but you could probably pick it up again once it finally does die off

Rhyasa said:
This wont last for months-- my business cant last that long. Fuck sake thing of what that would do to the economy if this shit went on for months. The government wont let that happen. This will be gone soon and people who are paniccing now and buying lifetimesupplies of TP and stripping all the meat from the marts will look and feel like idiots when this shit blows over.

Trump cares more about his own money, than he does about human god damn beings. He's doing very little now, but he acted too late. Nothing can save the people in the states now unless they stay the fuck inside. If you think this is going to end in a week, you couldn't be more wrong about that. Disease experts have said it will not end so soon. Canada where I live, is safer than the states, because my prime minister actually knows how to run a fucking government.

In response to blip #105042

@Sharp_Coyote: I'm lucky my company is legitimately essential and production hasn't slowed down at all.
We have contracts with the defense industry, manufacture medical supplies, as well as food production.

Having said that, while Yellow Tail Shiraz is not a particularly good wine, it does come in 1.5 litre bottles ...

Having a full 10 hour day / week cut from my schedule sucks mightily, yet it still means I am above the unemployment insurance payout line, and can still pay rent.

Also drinking way more as a mechanism to deal with stress.

I ran the numbers today: monthly sales down 33%, but staff cut 50%

COVID profiteering?

Nah.

Thankfully, my company is large enough to soak up a couple of body blows,
and I am like 2 bodies away from being laid off.

In response to blip #105032

Wasatch said:
Easy there... Not everything is meant to be taken absolutely literally and I know plenty about world War II I'm a historian and weapons collector...

You can't even follow the rules on a furry art archive. I doubt you have the self-discipline to be a historian. A historian would have more sense than to flippantly call someone a Nazi because they held him accountable to something. And why are you telling us you're a weapons collector? That has literally nothing to do with the conversation. 🙄

In response to blip #104735

CCoyote said:
@Wasatch: If you think the mods are Nazis, then you don't know a damned thing about World War II, the Holocaust, or actual Nazis. Read the site rules and grow up.

Easy there... Not everything is meant to be taken absolutely literally and I know plenty about world War II I'm a historian and weapons collector...

i like to look at the list of tickets sometimes and watch people report posts they don't personally like, or report comments while attempting to reply to them.

In response to blip #105017

@Odisaodi: People assume the worst. They think society is going to fall apart and they'll need to defend their prepared stashes of canned beans and powdered eggs from hordes of looters. I think some of them even want that to happen.

As one person put it in 2008, "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

In response to blip #105012

@Rhyasa: Those are numbers reported by someone who spent the first two months of the pandemic pretending the pandemic itself was fake news. Calling something "fake news" doesn't make it fake. Saying something will be bad for the economy doesn't mean it isn't happening. Those are circular arguments. People who were in perfect health before this outbreak have already died from it.

It can last for months, it has lasted for months already, it will probably last into May at minimum, and you losing your business isn't going to stop that. You're not thinking clearly.

Oh he got blocked. Predictable. Kinda figured he was acting childish.

Anyways things here have gotten worse on my end thanks to the Quarantine. It’s been quite crazy from where I’m working.

In response to blip #105013

@Rhyasa: well, less cars on the road is good for the environment. Might want to rethink about things and cut your losses. Volunteer or go where essential work is needed. You will be sheltering for a while. No ifs ands or buts. These are orders.

The numbers are out there and it's not just TP the people are buying

Just be lucky that people have been pretty well behaved so far.

In response to blip #104913

Shu_Lover said:
I hate to break it to you, but this won't end in a week. Nothing like this dies off instantly. It will last for a couple more months at most before slowly dying off. I don't understand why some people think this will end in a week, because it's not going to. Sorry to ruin your day, but it's the truth.

This wont last for months-- my business cant last that long. Fuck sake thing of what that would do to the economy if this shit went on for months. The government wont let that happen. This will be gone soon and people who are paniccing now and buying lifetimesupplies of TP and stripping all the meat from the marts will look and feel like idiots when this shit blows over.

In response to blip #104920

CCoyote said:
Coronavirus case growth is multiplying exponentially right now, and that's without us testing everyone. God only knows what the numbers would look like if we were testing people and catching all the cases we don't know about. The most conservative estimates involve 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in the United States alone before this is over. It will NOT "be gone in a week for fuck sake."

Thats a bullshitty fake news number to scare people. No one is going to die from this thing who isn't already in poor health.

AN ACNH glitch? I'm in a villager house, but she's not home. The doors are locked if a villager is outside.

Edit: Left the house and now the lights are off and door locked.

Holy shit. Today is a great day as a phone user.

Thank you MODS for finally putting the Vote/Favorite buttons in the right place and making them pronounced and big enough.

Props.

In response to blip #104989

Lafcadio said:
You aren't special in that regard. Humans are deeply complex beings, shaped by innumerable factors, many of them so immeasurably minute that they are unknown to even the self.
We were all teenagers once. You'll move past all this and at worst your time on e621 will just be an uncomfortable memory of the person you once were.

I'm going to stop because you're just coming up with random shit.

In response to blip #104988

Jakku_NoShi said:
You don't understand my needs or wants, if you even tried to understand me, you'd go insane

You aren't special in that regard. Humans are deeply complex beings, shaped by innumerable factors, many of them so immeasurably minute that they are unknown to even the self.
We were all teenagers once. You'll move past all this and at worst your time on e621 will just be an uncomfortable memory of the person you once were.

In response to blip #104987

Lafcadio said:
Hard disagree. You've constantly lasted out on both of your accounts, following continued quality-based deletions. You clearly have emotional needs that cannot be satisfied by e621 or its userbase.

You don't understand my needs or wants, if you even tried to understand me, you'd go insane

Jakku_NoShi said:
Also your assumptions about me are entirely wrong btw

Hard disagree. You've constantly lasted out on both of your accounts, following continued quality-based deletions. You clearly have emotional needs that cannot be satisfied by e621 or its userbase.

In response to blip #104982

CCoyote said:
@Jakku_NoShi: And that's why I said your response told me all I needed to know. The only person who can decide that is you.

I put up a link to my FA in a blip

CCoyote said:
That you aren't willing to practice. That you aren't willing to work to be an artist. That you just want to slap things down on paper and call it done and have people like you. That isn't how art works. All the things you see and like on here? Those come from artists who have put in hundreds, thousands of hours practicing, honing their skills, constantly working to get better. If you're not willing to do that, to learn and grow and refine your skills and improve? Then no, the stuff you make will never be good enough. Art is not a talent you're born with; it's a skill you cultivate.

Also your assumptions about me are entirely wrong btw