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There's also a video of a woman holding one not realizing what it is. "my first reaction was just "pick it up"

Meanwhile, in Mexico, an octopus swam near my brother and I and we both got the fuck out the water like it had turned to lava lmao

Yeah, I'm in Bumfuck, Tennessee, 0u812. It's rough out here for a gay anarchist. Lol. Grew up in Hampton roads, Virginia, though. I know it's probably bad there, too, but I like to pretend it's not gotten bad, and that I can return and be safe. Lol

It was a fun way to pass the night shift. I would do 2 or 3 twelve hour log sheets per shift, over the course of a few years. My favorite characters were the vampires who sat shiva for themselves, based on a concept from my 2005ish Myspace girlfriend. Lol. Every time they uncover the mirrors and there's no reflection they start the process over.

Yep! Well, not mine. Owned by a massive German company. But I worked there for several years, and reported on the weirdness my coworker/friend and I experienced in a funny and lighthearted way. One of the reasons I don't think I can recreate it, though, is that I have a terrible memory. I can recall the broad strokes (the freakishly large beetles, the weekend hauntings, et cetera, et cetera), but there were characters in it based on coworkers and clients and I don't think I can recreate those anywhere near accurately.

I can maybe see how CF isn't everyone's style, but check out some of their other comics. Pretty great, honestly. I've been accidently high on painkillers and this is hilarious

I'd argue that's still the case, and always has been, and likely always will be. I don't think there's a larger number of evil people intent on harming hitchhikers, just that it is a dangerous habit and the cases that end violently are the only ones that make the news. It's more that we're better educated about it now, and so less people are willing to hitch or pick up hitchhikers now

If so, it brings a whole new context to the term "never forget"

Sadly not. Probably the best thing I've ever written. Several hundred pages. But they were written on old security log sheets (written as log entries while bored doing night shift security at a warehouse), and they ended up lost or destroyed when I moved. I've considered rewriting them, though.

To the free market!

But in all seriousness, I absolutely would wear that. But I don't feel safe branding myself as a leftist anymore. :/

But my point was that I was wrong, and my penis really hurts from putting all those other penises inside it :(

Lmao. I'm not an expert on either docking or sounding, so if one comes along I'll defer. Lol. But also, I doubt you're the only kid who thought that. When I was much, much younger than 14 and learned about gay folk (before realizing I myself was gay folk) I didn't understand the issue, because I didn't realize sex played into it. I just thought a relationship/marriage was two people raising kids and makings dinner and shit. Lol. Didn't understand why you'd go to hell for that being two men or whatever.

Good news, then! Your problem is not with anarchist. Not in the no true Scotsman way, either. I'll quote a good one at the end, but essentially, anarchists do not believe there should be no authority, anarchists believe that authority should justify itself. Just and unjust authority exists, regardless of how you want to organize society. Anarchists even have groups, parties, organizations. The question isn't whether or not we should have authority or whether we should just go buck wild and live every man for himself. What anarchists desire* is to maintain the infrastructure of our society, with resources being distributed in a more equitable way, and the decisions being made by way of the people who will actually be impacted by it, and by whose labor it was created.

*For the most part, anti and post civ not withstanding

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

That quote is generally referred to as the authority of the boot maker and most anarchists would suggest not only not referring to the boot maker when you need a tooth pulled, but also having the right, and often moral duty, of consulting more than one expert when possible