Yeah for a few competitions. It was a lot of fun for the one year I was still in school to do it.

I was in the speech and debate club, but there wasn’t a class. I remember it much more fondly than some of these comments. We worked on several areas, Group Discussion being one of them. Part of it was acknowledging and tracking how often other members spoke and bringing them into the fold and ensuring you didn’t go too far above or below the middle line.

Genuinely taught me a lot about having meaningful conversations and well structured verbal arguments, and why I now know what to do with my wacky inflatable arms no one ever instructed me on the proper use of while speaking.

But if it’s Ben Shapiro type shit? That’s for the birds, I agree with that sentiment I’m seeing in some places.

Hard disagree. What this picture is showing is ill-fitted clothes. Everyone looks better when their measurements are taken into consideration with the outfit. You don’t have to fit it close to the belly to be ‘fitted’ clothes, they’d probably downplay the extra waist size and focus on tailoring the fit near the shoulders and arms and ensuring the shirts mid area is more specific to the individual’s shape than the three-sizes-fit-all Walmart shirt strategy.

Most of my stuff isn’t fitted, and I’ve been a solid 50-75lbs overweight most of my life, but the stuff that is fitted looks nice (and cost a good penny more) and makes me feel better while wearing it

Lemmings don’t drink, party, have friends, boot and rally?

I don’t, but I thought you guys might

“You’ve never worked a tipped job have you?”

Proceeds to describe an illegal situation

That’s not. How. Tipped. Wages. Work.

Why do people insist that you get paid 2.10/hr? That’s 2.10/hr + Tips IF AND ONLY IF that wage equals more than minimum wage. That’s how it’s always been.

If minimum wage is 7.25 (in a lot of states, it still is), then they are paid 7.25x40 OR 2.10x40+tips, whichever of those two numbers is higher. They CANNOT LEGALLY PAY YOU less than minimum wage.

So when people say “If you stopped tipping today, all that would be hurt is the tipped workers” I’m less inclined to believe them if they also parrot absolutely false information without a second thought.

But I do agree with you, tipped wage jobs suck, and the tips seem to be the only benefit. So, let’s ensure they get a proper wage from their employer, stop tipping, and if service sucks until things are figured out, I guess I’m eating at home or eating shitty-service burgers because I’d rather the system get un-fucked than continue to engage in that system.

But the question then becomes…how many clowns have you let inside you?

“Damn, my finger slid right in, what are you, some kind of little butt slut” - your doctor, probably

Can I have some of whatever brought on those hallucinations? For a friend

-lucent? But also, do i need to rewatch the show so I can confirm this too?

Where’s the ‘baby Jesus’ in this post?

Loops…kind of sucks. I get the point of it, but I tried using it like 15 minutes a day for a couple weeks to get used to it, but the features are lacking and the content is…well it’s filled with people who would abandon tiktok and other apps, so, it’s kind of boring.

Not in a ‘there’s no brainrot’ way, in a ‘this is the third video in a row of just random AI slop and then it’s just some dude filming a tree for 20 seconds’.

Hey Hoosier! Hope your education wasn’t too lacking and that you’re loving life a little more as yourself

Yeah I saw a great one about how there’s a new book in a series my partner and I read that we thought was done for…saw the date, had a quick laugh about how silly we were to believe it so fast.

You formulated a question where your answer means you don’t have ANY culpability even though you can clearly see the murders coming and mitigate it’s damage.

Yes, outside of this decision, campaign to have Alice executed or jailed or whatever, but that won’t stop Alice from killing 5 people, she’s just GOING TO WIN if you don’t stop her. You CAN reduce the number of deaths and continue to fight, hopefully with 3 more people to stand up to that kind of tyranny.

Same scenario

You CAN’T stop Alice. You just can’t. You don’t have the man power or the legal means.

So your choices are, 2 people or 5 people. If you choose to do nothing, 5 people die, if you swallow the moral superiority, only 2 people die.

Which are you choosing?

The people who voted for the guy directly endorsed by nazis and hate groups, who has an agenda drafted by a prominent hate-monger, are indeed the problem.

Yes, the other choice was a genocide apologist who ALSO sucks corporate dick, but has the decency to throw the average populous a bone now and again and doesn’t fuck up (as many) foreign trade deals and alliances.

Yes, the SOLUTION is to change our election system. But the PROBLEM is fascism, and a shit ton of people voted for more fascism.

Chili con Carne is a way I’ve heard in ‘tex-mex’ (Texas mexican American cuisine) that’s essentially Spanish for ‘Chili, with meat’

Do you guys also watch Trek-likes when you feel you’ve watched the other true Treks too recently, like toss in some Orville when you want classic Trek but just finished Kirk and Picard?

God-Emperor (mostly dead sitting on a cybernetic throne preserving his life, requires like 100 psychics a day to feed on to live) wants to spread his Religious-no-religion religion across the cosmos, and the brutality with which is required is a small price to pay for industry.

And then they choose to like the guy unironically. But if they’re really into Slaneesh then they just get a special brand of weird.