I would argue you can absolutely disprove it, empirically. By demonstrating. Just do the thing and go “wow it didn’t take forever!”

View it from the perspective of someone who doesn’t hate McDonald’s and the grease their food slid in on.

I’m sure there’s someone out there who thinks the fallout series is all bad.

They’re objectively wrong of course, but they still hold that belief.

It allows rainwater to be absorbed rather than running off causing flooding.

There’s an old theater I performed at twice in Southern Ohio. Built before the Civil War, and surrounded by brick buildings, a brick street out front, brick alley, and brick parking lot area.

The second time I was there, the street had been paved, as had the back parking area, and large portion of surrounding alleys. Only the single side alley was still brick.

The first time it rained the week I was there, the basement, while not flooded completely, had so much water running through it to the sunken boiler room, the owners had to toss down some quick 2x4 walkways so nobody was ruining costumes and footwear or slipping and suing. The walls of the basement looked like mini waterfalls.

I popped outside during a lull and the back parking area and alley were basically acting as a funnel, pushing all the water right up to the sides of the building.

I just checked a satellite map view and it looks like they’ve at least re-paved the back alley (don’t know if it drains any better but it’s clearly much darker and there’s lines painted) and the building beside it is gone and instead there’s a ton of grass. So maybe it’s better, but I’m sure they shortened the remaining life of the building by a ton.

That hat is very cunning, I think.

Person walks down the street wearing that, people know they’re not afraid of anything.

“this is the future the left wants under COMMIESOCIALMARXISM!”

dystopian picture of current day late-stage-capitalism in the US

It’s okay to admit when you’re wrong, you know?

“oh a new form of power generation? Sweet! looks inside it’s making steam to spin a turbine…”

That’s why they scream until they die. They held it in all that time.

Lmao Tone is hard to read, I wasn’t upset so if I came across that way my apologies, I was just adding more info in response to points you had raised.

I would assume if they meant it as some kind of a dig, they wouldn’t accept the invitations to hammock with us. Their tone was friendly, it’s just not a term I’ve heard and given the different comments so far, it seems to be a mixed bag as to whether other people would consider it an insult or a compliment.

Really though given the context, I’m going to take it as a compliment even if it was meant as an insult.

And we are very CLOSE to winning! Just some more brave soldiers will die, but that’s what happens in war. We have secured victory and are winning and will win!

Ą̴̙̭̲̬̖̙͌͊̓̊̈́͜r̷͈̯̮͍͓̖̕͘͝ͅe̸͙̱̫̙͋̀̓̅̂͛̈́ ̴̩̜̝̬̟̙̀̈́ẁ̷͇̱̻̱̪̉͆͒͋͑̕̚e̷̛̱̩̲͓̩̫̽̆̂̅̿̆͒͠͝ ̸̣̹̙͌̅̉̏̀͘͜ḡ̴̨͙̗̬͎̝̟̋͠r̵̯̝͔͛͌̽̈́̀́̈e̸̞̩̜͉̫̺̣̗͒͐̀̊̐͠͝͝a̷͕͊͒͆͒̔t̶̡̛͖̳̬̟̥̳͛͂̓̉͗͗ͅ ̵̹͙͙͍͌y̸̺̰̥͌̇̇͜͠ę̸̢̪̤̖͈̣̙̀̔̚͝t̷̙͔̃̿̏͘͜?̴̧̨̩̼͉̳̺̺̪͊̐͑̉̀̏̾͆̍͜ ̵̛̙̀̓͠

I have no job currently, my clothes are mostly 5+ years old with most of my stuff being around 10 years old from my last retail job when I got them discounted and on clearance, my car rolled off the line before I was conceived and has the damage that says it lives in deer country, and my food comes from wherever is cheapest.

And they all know these things since we talk about such things at meets along with basically every other topic. pretty much everyone is in the same boat, and with only one exception we all live with roommates and parents.

If you’re thinking of a 2010 hipster with a man-bun and Abercrombie clothes driving their Leaf from the iPhone store to the fancy food market where everything is 5x the price because someone put the word “organic” in front of “tomato”… I mean, imagine me however you wish, but we are definitely more the type to live in a log cabin we built ourselves away from any kind of technology. I like what gadgets I do have, but I’d trade them for “not living in capitalism hell” any day.

Lmao “upper”

I have no job currently and can’t afford more than basics for food, but thanks for making assumptions.

A bit more of a relatable explanation than UD gave me, and honestly I doubt it was meant negatively as most of the people in this group are very left leaning and while a few aren’t quite “paint a brick rainbow and smash a cop’s window” levels yet, they’re certainly closer than anyone else in my life. We have discussed camping so several at least enjoy outdoorsy stuff.

I like my gadgets if I could live in the woods with 15 other people and grow out own food and not have to worry about dying of gangrene I’d give all my things up in a heartbeat.

By this metric, I’ll be “crunchy” over “silky” any day of the week.

Oh man, urban dictionary is still going? I haven’t seen them in forever…

If that’s how they meant it… I mean, it’s pretty spot on.

I’ll take it as a compliment, then!

I personally believe it is on purpose, to try and get you to download the app.

Then they can get way more of your data to sell.

Does it come with a drink cooler?

a few minutes earlier

“hmm, I’m bored. Oh look here’s some people enjoying a small laugh. Imma shit on the fun. How DARE they enjoy a joke I personally don’t like. The FOOLS! THE ABSOLUTE MORONS! I simply MUST tell people their frivolity is absurd.”

Same. I found a funnel that fits perfectly in a plastic cup keep a couple rags in, and the cup is tied to my small can.

Got tired of spilling gas on my fingers.

I might need to make myself a little pump, since I already have everything I need and a 3d printer…

Bruh you can tell us you have superpowers all you want, we have science telling us otherwise.

Well, most likely you will be the poor fucker.

Or you’ll show up next time to a little thank you note and a small box with a single beer inside.

I guess you couod show up to all the wood gone, but fingers crossed!