EponymousBosh

joined 3 months ago

I don't know, but apparently people had some way of managing.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

the tribe will leave me behind on the next migration when I'm too old and weak to keep up.

FWIW, this part is almost certainly not true.

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/these-4000-year-old-bones-reveal-a-shocking-secret-about-humanitys-earliest-caregivers

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/17/878896381/ancient-bones-offer-clues-to-how-long-ago-humans-cared-for-the-vulnerable

https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2017/ancient-spinal-injury-a-story-of-survival.php

These are just a handful of these types of stories, there's loads more if you want to search for them. But the upshot is: your family or tribe would have taken care of you to the best of their ability, for as long as they could, and you would have been given a decent burial when you died.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Your best bet might be to try and pivot to in-person college/university if possible. You didn't say where you are in the world, but in the US, most schools will have on-campus housing you'd be able to stay in for most of the year. The financial part is always the limiting factor of course, but considering how violent your brother can get, it may be worth it. It's a lot easier to recover from student loan debt than being dead.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Which version? Barrett, Waters, or Gilmour?

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

Really surprised no one's mentioned Everclear, but that might just be because no one thinks about Everclear that much

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

It's specifically the fact that it's family that makes it hard for me to buy that it's isolated (hence "in this case"). It's possible for sure, but you don't usually get "my dad picklocked my bedroom door to try and catch me jerking off" without a shitload of other family weirdness.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

I don't see what the problem is. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The odds of these two deeply weird incidents being isolated in a case like this is about 1%

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If she knew about this list, she'd figure out a way to get herself to the top.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be clear: there are actually Christians being persecuted or killed for being Christian, just not in the US or anywhere else in the West. The people that Trump and Nicki Minaj are talking about are in Nigeria (and I'm sure Trump would want them deported if they sought asylum in the US, of course). Trump and Nicki both suck but we can at least not make light of religious persecution in other countries, just because Christianity is more dominant here.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I doubt I'm the first one to think of this, but for some reason as I was drifting off to sleep last night, I was thinking about the horrible AI "pop" music that a lot of content farms use in their videos and my brain spat out the phrase Bubblegum Slop. Feel free to use it as you ses fit (or don't, I ain't your dad).

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Are you not counting "Revolution 9" as a "song"? Understandable.

 

Last night I had a "back in school" dream, only in this one, the McElroy brothers were helping me cheat on a project. Unsurprisingly, Justin was the most helpful. What weird ones have y'all had?

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