@Shoshannah6623@noname46693498@WomenBeingAwful@TamQueen89@Elenadaydreams It's not your cheek they'll be swabbing. This is born, no longer part of your body. You don't get unilateral control of parental rights and if you don't think the alleged father should have parental rights then, ironically, you should order a DNA test to disprove his paternity.
@Hip_Chimp@jere_codes@TiernanDeFranco Yes, they consider "artist" to be a social status with high symbolic value rather than just a term for a person with a specific skillset plying their trade.
They were laborers/tradesmen for millennia before their status was elevated above other tradesmen during the Renaissance.
@_Final_Man@potatoslav In this language someone wanting to express how important commas are for conveying proper meaning in English came up with this demonstration:
"I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse."
Versus
"I helped my uncle Jack off a horse."
We have a very rich history of puerile humor.
@headycrocker10@cyepler@gofishh77@TSH3_ No, they make most their money from from the percentage-based commission fee they charge the restaurant on every order made through their service... which they don't get to collect on orders that were refunded due to non-delivery.
@headycrocker10@cyepler@gofishh77@TSH3_ Oh, so then orders aren't going undelivered. That's a good thing... because soaking losses is also a sucker's game and businesses won't play it.
@cyepler@gofishh77@TSH3_ So when the platform is tired of soaking the losses of refunding orders that went undelivered, do you think they'll:
A) increase the per-trip fee they pay drivers,
or,
B) prioritize distribution of offers to drivers that don't have a pattern of selective acceptance
@MarcheseMethods I would have said "you learned to get long-winded when you you have your meltdowns because you think that makes them socially acceptable" but I wanted to give you the opportunity to latch on to something you could fashion into an ego-boost.
A little cope to compliment your seethe
@MarcheseMethods You use verbosity as a sophisticated tool to obfuscate and reframe your public meltdowns as being something other than the tantrums that they are.
@MarcheseMethods It's contemptible to expect anyone who has no interest in that form of petty social game to expend even a single calorie on thinking about the particulars of the latest match; let alone burn any learning the nuances of how it's played.
@pebkac101@its_The_Dr She absolutely does. In almost any other context she'll have no problem understanding the concept of 50:50.
In this context she will decline to even think about the concept. This is her faith, that concept contradicts several of its core tenets, and she is a zealous believer.
@ricciffar@returntim@stephentpaul@Kekius_Sage Expansion doesn't scale the volume of baryonic matter and there's a threshold for objects with mass called Turnaround Radius where their gravity wells influence each other enough that the acceleration towards each other exceeds the rate of the expansion of the space between them.
@BigDuke___6@HinkieCrypto@enjoyer_liberty 2008? Oh, I remember. That was when a massive number of people, the vast majority of which were GenX, gambled on having absolutely perfect long-term economic conditions and took out adjustable-rate mortgages. Then, when perfect didn't happen, they collectively defaulted on them.
@dukesofbastard@Gral_Julian_25@GreenTextRepost There's a Devo interview where they talked about a faulty synth that produced a very specific sound they liked. When it finally stopped working altogether they had a difficult time finding someone who could understand they wanted it repaired but not actually fixed.
@I_am_Superbro@BarronTNews_ The pinnacle of Machiavellian geopolitical fuckery:
Placing civilian infrastructure directly adjacent to a military base, less than 300m from the closest military structure, using it as a school, and specifically a school for girls.
You are the proof that it works as intended.
@sleepy_devo@AlbaLink@ArtemisFowl_003@Sargon_of_Akkad Shit, the framework predicts direct correlation between income and birth rate but the actual data is inverse.
I know what to do!
When someone brings up income's inverse relation to birth rate I'll narrow scope to the middle class and ignore the peak at low and valley at high.