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Mira

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  1. This is why people associate your words with antisemitism and other disreputable ideologies. The article you linked isn't a masterpiece of investigative journalism unveiling a sinister conspiracy, it's an entertainment piece. The only person mentioned in it who says even one word about Israel is the one who's actually Israeli. People wouldn't normally see the information in a silly article like this as proof of some deliberate evil zionist scheme unless they already possessed an inherent aversion and mistrust towards Jewish (or Ashkenazi, whatever, that makes it no better) people in general. The target of your ire is the Israeli government: criticize the Israeli government, don't criticize a group of people whose sole common characteristic is that their ancestors happened to congregate in the southern Levant area two-thousand years ago. Some lovely sense of humour you've got:
  2. R.I.P. Chick Corea ?
  3. nah honey, watching the God's Not Dead trilogy doesn't count as having engaged in good faith with atheists to the point of knowing with any certainty what atheists usually do or say. I guess we now know the value of your "random samples" and "anecdotal evidence" from which you derive your worldview in lieu of professional journalism
  4. Who would've thought 64% of people were childless atheists
  5. I'm gonna have to decline my nomination too; I really don't think I would do a good job and it doesn't feel right for me to take on a responsibility like that when I've only been active here for about a year.
  6. If the crimes committed by the government of a Jewish nation motivate them to label anyone as suspicious solely for being of Jewish descent and proclaiming them to be part of an international conspiracy that pulls the strings of world affairs then yes. At the very least they're misdirecting their anger and causing inexcusable harm. I've been on the internet long enough to recognize patterns. Don't insult everyone's intelligence by pretending to be anything other than what you really are.
  7. What is it about this website that attracts so many not-so-subtle nazis Take a long walk down a short pier
  8. This episode inspired me to recreate the oil rig theme from the game in the style of Michiru Yamane: (some liberties needed to be taken because the first half of the original is basically just drums, bass and noise so I had to create some baroque-ish melodies over it based on motifs from later in the song; it should start to sound like the original from around the 45 second mark onward)
  9. I just don't know about this one, I feel like I got nothing out of it. It's one of those games that looks promising on first glance and that I'll play all the way through hoping it'll eventually feel worth it but after it's done I just end up hating myself for putting those hours into it. I didn't find the story or the characters endearing or interesting at all.
  10. I forgot to mention: this game has a character whose name is literally "Burke Carter". Couldn't they have at least named him Kirk Barter?
  11. I'm beginning to suspect that Reddit is not a very nice place to be
  12. It's Eric "Speedy" MacDoughan, everyone!... Speedy MacDoughan. I for one don't recognize the mushroom next to Harry Buster (and should no doubt be ashamed because of that)
  13. No need to apologize; you've already done an astounding amount of unpaid work for the community. I hope things turn out better for your personal situation in the upcoming year.
  14. For some reason it looks fine to me in the quote box of your post. Might just be a weird browser thing
  15. Mira

    Hell Jobs

    The worst month of my life was when I worked as a dishwasher at the National Museum in Amsterdam, two and a half years ago. I've worked several different manual labour jobs but none of them were as strenuous as that one. On the first night I had to work from 6PM to 2AM without any breaks, being ordered around by impatient aggravated people who all hated being there, and was only given leftovers to eat during five-second interludes when there was no work to do. After my shift was done I found out that, contrary to what I'd been told, there's no bus service between Amsterdam and my home town on weekdays after 2AM which meant I was stranded until daybreak. To top it all off, I found out later that they wouldn't fully cover my travel expenses. The actual work involved running back and forth between the kitchen and the dishwashing machine carrying heavy loads of dirty equipment (which involved a lot of bending over to pick up said heavy loads; I heard most of my coworkers were getting physical therapy), put all of the equipment and all of the dirty dishes and cutlery in the machine, put everything back in the right places (which changed frequently), clean out the machine during quiet moments and take out all of the trash. Ideally you would need at least three people to make everything run smoothly, but I was often expected to do everything by myself for eight hours, sometimes with one other person. As a result, I spent my whole shift in a state of near-panic trying to keep the restaurant afloat and always found myself having to skip the one 30-minute break I was granted every day (only during day shifts, which is thankfully what I was mostly assigned to after that disaster of a first night), and still I'd leave a mountain of work for the guy after me. Also because I constantly carried around hot plates and my hands came into contact with hot water all the time they were covered in blisters and the ends of my fingernails kept coming off. Also, the trash bags were really cheap so they'd usually tear open when I tried removing them from the bins. The only good thing I can say about it is that they gave their employees free dinner (again, only during day shifts), but since I never had time for a break I couldn't really make use of that offer. Everything combined with coworkers snapping and yelling at me when I failed to keep up reduced my mental faculties to those of a scared cat within a matter of weeks; I was still getting flashbacks of that time up until the last time when I was able to go to a restaurant.
  16. There have got to be more diplomatic ways of conveying this to the person without whom Game Dungeon wouldn't have turned into anything...
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