toadjones79

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even true. Like not even close. The Chinese liberation army forcing Tibetan children to murder their parents to “liberate” them from “religious oppression” is one example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I got called to Minnesota to serve two years as an LDS missionary back in 2000. I absolutely loved the place. But my first day was I was stationed in Brainerd MN, and my apartment was on the edge of a frozen lake. I took a picture of it, and colored in the old brick BBQ to look like a wood chipper with feet sticking out of the top, and a large red stain across the ice, and sent it to my sister. That picture sat in her cubicle for years after that. I can’t think of that scene without thinking of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha. Not what I meant but I guess it works too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a sci-fi book a while back where all humans were gone, and all that was left was a thriving android civilization expanding across the solar system. The main character was built on the base of a sex bot, and had the ability to set the speed of her hair growth, and color. At one point she gets tied to some tracks (a city on Mercury that traveled around the planet) to be eliminated (she was a spy) and ends up getting away by forcing her hair to grow at a rate so fast it came out weak and easy to tear. Super weird book, but I thought of it when I read the comment I was responding to. And yes, on/off was part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point I think I would⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the hell thought that anyone wouldn’t download a pirated house? How out of touch do they need to be?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The Taxer-in-Cheif can be a moron at the same time that corporations rape our wallets without either of them excusing the other.

  Prices are set by graphing a demand schedule and the supply. You graph how many sales you will get at each price point (sales go up as price goes down). Then you graph how many a company will produce at each price point (the more it costs, the less they will be willing to make/risk). The point where those two graphs intersect is the equilibrium. Which is the best price to charge. Taxes shift the cost, increase the price where they intersect.

  Digital is weird. Iirc, the risk is more in pirating. The more copies that exist, or the easier they are to access, the more pirated content will be out there. Don’t forget to include shareholder profits in cost, and the cost of other parts of the business (like a beloved endeavor that doesn’t turn a profit, Costco hot dogs for example).

  I’m not an economist and welcome any better explanations or corrections to this. It’s been a while since I took that class. But I love the topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sneezing/snot production. Sure, it can feel amazing. But the sudden urgency to stop everything I’m doing and focus on my nose or risk a disgusting eruption of green mucus all over my face in a public setting is something I could do without.

  Also, I’m waiting for someone with medical knowledge to come in here and mention Prions or something else silently devastating to the body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to 22 hour work shifts, with twenty minute breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just have the ability to control how fast it grows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, buying anything is going to absolutely suck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to be clear, most of us aren’t even remotely surprised. We have been losing our voices telling the idiots we live and work around that this isn’t stupid as hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was supposed to pick him up from preschool today? Whoops.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc that was the back page of a MAD Magazine. They used to publish tons of fake magazine covers like this so you could flip the last page around and make it look like a real magazine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably brighten peoples' day in ways you probably don't even know, just like this one lonely maga!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, right?! I can only imagine how utterly disappointing reddit is to MAGAts. Probably about as disappointing as it is to the rest of us lemmings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me he’ll is a place of our own making. Like, heaven is a state of being we grow into. Like dieting and exercise changes us for the better, commandments are there just to help us grow into a better being that is heavenly (more and more like God). Hell is the state of missing out on that eternal progression. Which means is is always an option available to us, and it doesn’t come from God but ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will We See Restrucutred UN in Near Future?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You started out strong on your first half. But we don’t need war, we need wise leadership. The power really is in the voters here. But decades of infighting (in each nation) over political stances have allowed scumbags to control all our nations’ UN interactions. We need to eliminate veto, or extend it to a three or four nation minimum (you need three nations voting to veto to block something) that is available to all nations.

  Down voting because war is always stupid and no one should ever sell the lie that innocent people need to suffer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you want to send me a toad pic every day?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love cheese. 🧀 Do you love cheese? 🧀😄⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are many really, really good cheeses in the US. Obviously we don’t compete over the same cheeses, like we aren’t trying to best the Italians’ zizzonas (yes, that’s a linguistic double entender). But Wisconsin is the origin of Colby (which a fresh Colby is my personal favorite) and has perfected quality mass produced cheeses (Colby, cheddar, mozzarella mostly). The local favorite is fresh cheese curds. They deliver them, still warm, to vendors like grocery stores and seven gas stations. They sell out within an hour, usually, so people have to plan their timing to get any without making a special trip to any of the half dozen local cheese producers in any given area. I think we produce a lot of American cheese, but we don’t eat that crap. Here is a picture of just about half the cheese at a grocery store in Green Bay. The prepackaged sliced cheeses and stuff take up another whole aisle.

  The East and West Coasts are good at more complex cheeses. And Wisconsin imports them in bulk and processes them for individual sales (cut and package) on a very large scale due to an unusually high demand for cheese here. Making it easier and cheaper to get really great cheese in Wisconsin than .most anywhere else in the country. Also, although I don’t drink, most wisconsinites can drink most Europeans under the table, which is extremely unusual as I wouldn’t make that claim for most of the world. There are a lot of signs in bars in Germany and England barring people from Wisconsin from entering drinking competitions there for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love cheese. 🧀 Do you love cheese? 🧀😄⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in Wisconsin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've evaluated my net worth to be over 100,000,000 (based on the appreciation of my beanie baby collection) so laws don't apply to me anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom used to be an official Ty ^® dealer. She has bags and bags if those leftover in her basement. Iirc she has the Erin one that is worth an absolute fortune.

  Right before the market crashed on them, some flipper sold one to a secret Ty representative and told a story about how she bought them at my mom’s store. They instantly pulled her from being a dealer. It was devastating at the time. Just suddenly cut off her main source of income. In the end though, I think it was a fortunate blessing.

  She was skirting and Ty’s rules though. She couldn’t sell them for more than the price set by Ty. But she could give them away as a promotion if people bought other merchandise. So she would give away the highly sought after ones with a purchase of $100-200 of other merchandise. She had lines out the door.