@SerenaHellbent@jokerkebab7 You can get a mass market moby dick for $5. This copy of alice is on backorder on penguin though so who knows if you'll ever actually get it.
@Anchovy_Pizza Tragically people read 2.1 as 2 with some people having 3 but it is actually 3 per couple. Between only children, failure to find a spouse, and infertility 3 is the actual target couples need to aim for for replacement.
@arguablywrong@QuasLacrimas Obviously stuff like triple bombers and super subs is absurdly over powered and you can get it with a single research roll if your lucky enough. Its really funny when a guy rolls all game and doesn't ever get anything though.
@arguablywrong@QuasLacrimas Every once in a while Axis and Allies is almost like this. To hit its 1/6 plus a coin flip (half of the techs are mostly useless). You can easily spend 1/3 of your income every turn and never really get anything out of it.
@megbasham This is part of what makes Jun Maeda's stories so charming. Half of his characters do nonsense like this. This happens like 3 times in Kanon.
@Dykes4Congress@WaifuverseAI Its still spiritually true because the left spun it into the justification for everything that they did afterwards. You wouldn't have seen nearly the level of left wing political involvement if they didn't have the anti-war line to sell people.
@OftCorrect@youngwerther123@0xAlaric Yeah if you don't include the fact that in most red states if you have above median on your sat you basically get a full ride and probably roughly half of people (that will actually get a good score) have a good state school within commuting distance.
@seamus_coughlin Theres some old documentary on Antebelum New York where a guy said that as the city expanded it became a "place of multiple realities", that always stuck with me.
@Thinkwert I remember even as a kid they would always only have like a season of what I wanted and the licenses would go in and out constantly. To say nothing of all the stuff I would have liked that they just simply didn't have.
@Fat_Electrician At a certain point you realize that probably 90% of stuff academia does is just to stay employed. No one actually cares about the life of the one indigenous slave in colonial Detroit or whatnot but everything about it there is to say was already said 100 years ago.
@theemmacasey@constans@Empty_America The big problem is lots of people aren't even able to get jobs in their field and so have no track to getting back to where they were born.