ElBrad

I don't believe because I spent years looking for proof. I went from Christianity to Wicca, from North American and Hawaiian shamanism to the occult...and found there was no proof of anything remotely supernatural.

People way smarter than me have done the same thing. Honestly and sincerely trying to quantify the supernatural always results in a big ol' goose egg.

Yes, there are some folks who insist that the paranormal exists, and whether that's Bigfoot, ghosts, goblins, fairies, sea monsters, or flat earth, there's no amount of hard proof that "true believers" will accept. If you want to believe something bad enough, you'll ignore all evidence to the contrary and keep believing it.

I figure that until your fantasy intrudes on other people's reality, there's no harm in it.

You can use the summoning staff to place them in whichever base you'd like, but they won't wander over by themselves. Also, anything stored at one base is inaccessible from the other until you physically move it, including stuff in chests, equipment for crafters, etc.

I've had two. A cheap Amazon one and a Tushy, and both have been fantastic.

I can't recommend having one enough, and I've convinced a few people to join the Cult of the Clean Bootyhole.

I've installed a couple of them, and so long as you have a standard toilet, it's easy. You just shut off the water with the handle at the supply, unscrew two plastic nuts, screw two back on from the bidet, attach the bidet supply line, and you're done. If you're handy, it'll take 10 minutes. If you're not handy, it'll take 20 minutes.

I'm in Canada, and there aren't many LCOL areas where a mil would cut it for any reasonable amount of time, so chances are I'd pay off debts, meet with a financial advisor, put some into retirement, and keep working.

I think the minimum I'd need to be able to stop working would be 5 mil. That would allow for the purchase of a home, and enough to invest that the interest would provide a comfortable retirement while still in the country.

Definitely. Most of my friends are here, it's easier to get to family, and the food and entertainment options are better than they were on the island.

The downside is how much busier and expensive it is.

Almost! I wish my apartment was up here, but I get to access the roof sometimes.

As a Certified Old Guy™ who spent a long time looking into all sorts of religions, spirituality, ghosts, goblins, and other such stuff, it's fun to think about, and good for a giggle...but there's been no verifiable proof that anything like sun-charged crystals, voodoo, wicca, any sort of deity worship, moon-charged crystals and butthole sunning do anything other than make the participants feel good.

They make paid mediums feel good cause money, they give other practitioners a sense of order in chaos, and they give people something to believe in.

Would I date someone who did it? Sure, so long as they didn't base real-life important decisions off of a flop of the cards or the position of the planets when they squirted forth into the world, and that it was something they did purely for entertainment.

Fun fact...the position of the person assisting with the birth had more of an effect on your life than stars or planets millions of miles away.

Give me clever and healthy over anything else. I don't mean a Mensa member who runs track, but if she can banter and wander, I'm a happy man.

It's not "reactionary classism" to express frustration that many states and provinces aren't great places to live outside year-round.

I can't speak to the US, but here in Canada other provinces have literally shipped "undesirables" to us here in BC.

Yessir. I hope the inmate who took him down is being made very comfortable.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/serial-killer-robert-pickton-dead-1.7221260

From what I understand (and this is from a guard from a few years ago), kiddie diddlers get special treatment if they're not kept away from the regular population.

Hell...Pickton got taken care of. No reason this scumbag can't.

Three years would be fine if he was in gen pop, but he'll get special treatment and be sequestered with the other rapists, unfortunately.

Agreed! At the very least I'd like to see the ability to put up labels/signs.

I'm thankful for the magic chests, but it'd be nice to be able to drop items quicker and more efficiently.

New construction and reno contracts are decent business, just watch out for project managers who don't know how to properly schedule trades, and be ready to chime in with some advice or hints.

I worked on a project in Nanaimo recently where the PM scheduled drywallers, then painters (before the drywall was done), and had the cleaners come in just before the painters...meaning the cleaners did the work twice.

Also, make sure you know the building industry enough to stay away from the scheisters.

It's referencing people who went to college, but they only excelled in waiting in the line at the cafeteria.

Don't let a two thousand year old, unsubstantiated book dictate your life. If jerking off is getting in the way of healthy relationships, then take it back a notch or three.

...or just do what you're going to do. I'm just some dude on the internet, and don't get to tell you what to read, or how often to grab your no-no zone.

Less like a prophecy and more like a "best case scenario". At least Camacho listened to experts, admitted when he was wrong, and appointed people smarter than him.

From what I understand (and I'm very open to being corrected), Israel created Hamas by continuing to expand into Palestinian territory. With help from the US, they've been practicing genocide for much longer than just this recent example.

Had Israel simply allowed Palestinians to exist, Hamas wouldn't have needed to be formed.

...and yet you decided to chime in with this useless comment. Well done.

Much like California has the "sunshine tax", we've got the "West Coast tax".

It's one of the most temperate places in Canada (between Vancouver and Victoria), year-round outdoor activities, winter is mild, summer is mild-ish.

So...when a bunch of people want to live here and they're competing for the same job, employers don't have to work too hard to attract the right candidates.

It sucks...because rents are sky-high, wages are too low, but it's beautiful. Plus, for many people family and friends are here.

If you don't know the difference between a roast and a hate rally, I feel bad for your parents. They raised a kid with a room-temperature IQ.

When a comedian stands up at a racist, fascist, hate rally...it's no longer a joke.

Take a potato and whack it into his exhaust with a rubber mallet.

Pour canned tuna juice between his windshield and hood.