So you all are just nice, are on my side politically, and sometimes kind of funny???

Y-you doing anything later?

I was making a shitty little joke to myself with that one. One Piece isn’t exactly the literary gold standard for plot twists. But there is a twist that makes you go back and look at all the early stuff with a discerning eye.

I’m still in shock about the pacing in one piece. When I think of Thriller Bark, I think “oh, you’ve gotten to the newer stuff! You’re almost caught up!” Because that was my perception… IN HIGH SCHOOL

“value to be given back to consumers”

I wish I lived in a world where the CEO of Fritos was a big corn man whose visage was clearly that of someone who loved corn. The smell of salty grease and corn wafts into the room to introduce him before you see him. He speaks, instead, of trying to find ways to optimize getting corn into everyone’s, big or small, hands with the least wasted resources and the easiest methods for those that toil to make it so.

That would be a plot twist on par with One Piece. If that’s the case and we, as an audience, had to learn a bunch of class consciousness for it to make sense then that’s good writing. If, then, JFK were the victim of a negligent shampoo company, then I would spend the rest of my life curating and teaching American history so it can be told in the same order I learned it.

“Hey, wait, I want to be mystical and magical! I-”

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I was so sure the upsurge in coconut memes was a DNC op to increase goodwill for copmala. Does the khive really exist?

I think I was simply AFK for a couple days and then never bothered to find a good youtube video to get me up to speed for gamergate. So I saw some Anita Shavvershivvermetimbers bashing but I didn’t have any context so I kept being preoccupied with something else. I still don’t know what it was.

I play a primarily luck-based build in life.

Yeah, the most propagandized people on Earth really let a whole eldritch monster’s worth of horror slip by undetected and still did nothing with an angry deity’s worth of punishment that directly affected them. I suppose one more flagrant, unfair advantage taken against a record breaking-ly popular, party crossing candidate is just a drop in the bucket.

My work at the adrenachrome factory, especially during COVID, had some heavy overlap with people coming and going from nursing and nursing school. We would say “yeah, you make more money, but in exchange you have to be a nurse, so it’s not really worth it.” I am intimately aware that nurses are crazy overworked. I think I had an insight that was worthwhile in reply to Frank:

If you could remember a few key markers of what makes for effective restraint (recovery position, top arm across the face, bottom leg in the air), it might make a 6 people fiesta into a three person struggle session. But I could absolutely see it the same way I’m CPR certified, but I only remember a vague outline of what I’m supposed to do and why if I were actually faced with an emergency.

The same way health care workers sometimes are pulled aside for 4 hours for CPR, HIPPA, bloodborne pathogens, etc. it would be 4 hours a year of considering why grabbing two hands on a flailing shin is a bad idea when it comes to emergency situations.

You’re totally right about collateral damage and (un)friendly fire being concerns for police officers. You’re also on the money about the suspect being liable to grab at your toolkit. However, one piece of relevant context comes right around 0:45 in that video where cops have a go to method for restraint and it sucks. The worst day of my life included someone trying to make me pass out by squeezing the air out of my abdomen. Especially compared to a baton, pepper spray, or a tazer being grappled and talked to while being able to breathe until you run out of the will to fight would be dramatically more tame. It’s definitely a limitation that it’s designed for 2 on 1 restraint, so someone by their lonesome would get near 0 residual benefit.

I guess, in essence, the nutshell of my perspective is that they’re advertising an effective product, but they’re advertising to cops and I hate cops, so it makes me feel funny.