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In an at-will state, which I think is most or all of them.

Right-to-work is different; it means you can’t be required to join a union in order to take a job.

I’m interested but I’m not sure I have the brain cells for this right now.

Like the guys who literally get away with murder on film need an excuse.

To me I think it has to do with propaganda being dishonest about being propaganda. Regardless of whether or not the content is disingenuous, propaganda often is presented as not propaganda, and that sets people up to have a bad impression right from the get-go.

Depends. Is it Sunday?

I have this too. The sound of chewing is like nails on a chalkboard all through my bones. It’s awful.

That song is hilarious.

Goddammit… I’ve watched enough Bake-Off, I should’ve known that.

… wtf else do you call candy?

Glad somebody beat me to this.

I have a keyboard that supposedly does this. It has never actually worked as advertised.

Negative right. It’s freedom from interference. It’s not a positive right in that it is not compelling anyone to have or to perform an abortion, only preventing uninvolved parties from interfering in the decision.

I don’t mind the ones copying content from Reddit. I came here to get away from Reddit and I don’t really mind seeing the content so long as I’m not giving spez and his fucks any clicks.

I do mind the ones posting links TO Reddit. I… came here to get away from Reddit. I don’t need links back. I know where Reddit is…

I do when I can’t be arsed otherwise.

On a good day, I slowly simmer oat milk and water in two pans and Aeropress fresh-ground coffee to make something akin to a flat white.

Can’t be arsed? Oat milk in a mug in the microwave for 1-2 min and a tablespoon of Medaglia De Oro instant espresso powder.

Also isn’t Callum voiced by the guy who was Sokka?

ACAB

Couple of people beat me to Violet Evergarden, which I maintain is my #1 pick for “you will NOT be okay” shows.

BUT

In a thread about “anime that will mess me up,” how has nobody beaten me to Grave of the Fireflies? HO-LY SHIT. If you don’t feel like your soul has been torn out and stomped on watching this movie, you straight up don’t have one.

Came here for Violet Evergarden. My wife could always tell when I was watching it because I straight up sobbed like a child every single episode. Bring tissues; you will not be okay.

This was always my take on the matter, too.

I am my memories, my experiences, and the continuity of my consciousness, not the meat prison my mind is forced to reside in. If my consciousness continues, I am alive. Whether that’s this bag of meat, that bag of meat, or the Transmetropolitan-inspired nanite-cloud I wish I could live on as, I’m still me either way. There might be a difference, but from my perspective it doesn’t make a difference.

I could be wrong here – I haven’t exactly done a long-term study on this – but my impression is that the way young people are treated (in the US at least) sets people up for this. When you wake up is dictated. What you do with most of your waking hours is decided for you, without your input or slightest consideration. What you wear, what you’re allowed to say, who you spend your (increasingly limited) time with and what you spend it doing and where, even the emotions you express on your face, can be dictated to you by others who consider themselves in the right to do so.

This continues from before you are self-aware until nearly a decade beyond the age of abstract reasoning.

By the time you’re allowed to make a serious decision, others have been dictating them to you for your entire conscious life. It’s no wonder people never learn how to decide for themselves. I’m reminded of Brooks from The Shawshank Redemption: institutionalized. So conditioned to having no freedom that it’s terrifying rather than liberating when you finally do.