Not surprising, real art is used for that as well. 

“When should we see returns?”
“Oh, in about 6 months in the form of a corporate hack and or terrorist event.”

Some money got laundered.  

The valedictorian revealed to D Magazine that school officials had suggested withholding her diploma, but the threats never materialized.

You want an even more impressive story about “teen girl shoves bear”....hats off to Paxton Smith, who ditched her pre-approved valedictorian speech on Saturday to instead give a speech decrying the new anti-abortion laws in Texas. I’m actually amazed she wasn’t forcibly hauled off stage by her teachers.

“Relatively small bear” is a mama bear with her cubs, and is relatively large enough to seriously fuck up a human.

I see you’ve discovered that you can make anything sound boring and stupid if you strip it down to just it’s most basic parts, and describe it in the least interesting way possible.

Oh dear, that’s quite the angry rant.

Could he BE anymore of a distraction??

During COVID I hit the bottle way too hard. It finally took a friend to remark to me that I sounded way too sloshed on a call that I realized I really needed to take steps again to control my addiction.

This is extremely shitty of you and I encourage you to delete these comments.

So you aren’t being anonymous member really then? What you are effectively saying is he still goes to meetings? Doesn’t much help his anonymity.   

Irrespective of the context of the whole thing, I do think “I know that I’m a good person” is a statement that genuinely good people don’t often make. I feel like usually genuinely good people are always trying to be better people. 

I just checked mine and it was turned on.

After detailed and thoughtful analysis like this, I really don’t understand why the “debate” continued and became so toxic and aggressive

Well....those orphans aren't going to crush themselves

That’s nice. I had to uninstall it as I couldn’t devote the majority of an SSD to a game I played rather sparingly. I may go back and reinstall it now.

Now, with a revenue model built around harpooning hapless space whales to the tune of thousands of dollars, for the right to “own” concept art of imaginary spaceships,

lol.

I was super excited for this... (wow!) nine years ago. Now, with a revenue model built around harpooning hapless space whales to the tune of thousands of dollars, for the right to “own” concept art of imaginary spaceships, that they can’t even fly in the incredibly limited alpha solar system they’ve made available,…