That’s much more significant of a difference for bipedal animals, so mostly just humans. 1 of 2 legs vs. 1 of 4 legs touching the ground. Elephants will never get airborne, but you certainly wouldn’t describe a stampeding elephant as “walking”

That’s not how belief works. “It could happen tomorrow” isn’t a belief, it’s just a vague, noncomittal thought.

“The rapture will happen in our lifetimes” is a belief, and the vast majority of people - religious or not - simply don’t believe that.

… you would if you genuinely believed it was supposed to happen tomorrow…

If it’s financially possible, maybe consider healthcare tourism, as it doesn’t sound like you’re willing to pursue traditional options at this time. It’s highly unlikely you would be able to receive any longterm care outside of the country, but they wouldn’t be integrated with any domestic information systems.

At the very least you could get a diagnosis, and bring that answer back to the states with you to fast track the process. There is a hidden side of the US healthcare system that is surprisingly, almost depressingly effective - oncology. If you are diagnosed with cancer, you will almost certainly witness a level of treatment and expedience that you would not believe possible. Some of the best, most hard-working professionals in the world work in the field, and the nature of their work requires efficiency at all costs.

Whether you pursue the diagnosis inside or out of the country, cancer screening is remarkably fast. If you tell a healthcare professional about your lump, you will receive diagnostic imaging and possibly a biopsy at the highest priority. Depending on the location of your lump, most of these tests can be done outpatient.

Your past hospitalization might be mentioned, but an oncologist won’t really be interested in your psychiatric history beyond the questions “are you currently taking any medications?” and “have you had any surgeries?” There are some questions that relate to anesthesia that may surprise you, but they are asked with a purpose, not as a trap.

My best advice is to provide the minimum data requested of you - you do not need to volunteer information, you do not need to answer questions that you were not asked. But you should answer the questions they do ask you to the best of your ability, as simply as you can.

Oh wow yeah this is awesome:

https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/my_campaign/

It’s a random campaign generator. You could run a whole one-shot off that, or populate any region in your world at will

The OP provided in the link under context

Such fiction became science in the 1600s, according to Harrison, and greatly influenced Morton’s theory of the moon migration. But in 1676, a man named Francis Willughby set us down the path to avian truth when he published Ornithologia, a masterwork of bird science we can file with such classics as John James Audubon’s Birds of America. While Willughby, like Morton, refuted Aristotle’s notion that swallows hibernate, he wasn’t under the impression that they instead went to the moon. More modestly, it was to the warmth of northern Africa.

Though, it’s funny you mention the mud, given Aristotle’s belief that eels - which apparently lacked genitalia - just spontaneously generated from mud. Eels are weird, so I don’t fully blame him, but it’s so goddamn funny to think that they just spontaneously form into existence when it rains.

Billions of people don’t actually believe that. Not even close. They might say they believe in a religion, they might even think they believe in it, but if the sky lit on fire and they started floating into the sky the vast majority of them wouldn’t think “yay I win the Rapture!” they’d think “oh God oh fuck what is happening?!”

Rendering immune from military operations also involves posing civilians as military personnel for the purpose of distracting enemy combatants and drawing their fire. Think the Joker’s plan from the Dark Knight - if you put fake guns and fake uniforms on civilians for the purpose of having the enemy attack them instead of the real target that is a human shield.

They are not serving. That is conscription, and would involve arming the personnel or otherwise having them perform the expected duties of military personnel. They are being placed unarmed intentionally in the line of fire in a way that military personnel would never be used, so they are not being forced to serve.

Geneva:

to render […] military forces immune from military operations

With respect to non-international armed conflicts, Additional Protocol II does not explicitly mention the use of human shields, but such practice would be prohibited by the requirement that "the civilian population and individual civilians shall enjoy general protection against the dangers arising from military operations”.

The source you are discussing:

[…] to make sure they were clear of bombs and gunmen

It is a human shield walking into a house in case there are bombs or gunmen in the house, in order to render the military forces outside immune from military operations.

They either force the bombs to explode or gunmen in the house to open fire on the civilian, thereby exposing the gunmen to counter-fire with minimized risk to the military personnel, or they force gunmen to avoid opening fire at all.

Just because you dress the civilian in military fatigues does not change this. They are human shields.

As others said, the best key to your diet is decision-making in the store, not in the home.

As for exercise, try to find something you actually like doing. These can sometimes be expensive :/. Cycling, rock climbing, swimming, hiking, whatever you enjoy so it doesn’t feel like a chore.

Predators are just extreme doomsday preppers, setting up on their own planets and killing any trespassers. The rest live in a post-scarcity society and have no interest in convincing those weirdos to come home.

Not at all, I meant it when I said I appreciated your comment! I was just adding my own thoughts to the conversation.

It’s really hard for most people - man or woman - to make any headway in this arena precisely becase of the points you made. These poor men are very effectively primed to only respond well to traditionally masculine role models and talking points, and yet it is that very same traditional masculinity that is holding them back.

I just wanted to clarify in the context of the OP why they might feel like “the left isn’t doing enough,” and why that is actually just a part of the alt-right pipeline working as designed.

But I’m afraid I don’t have a mental health issue and the thoughts of suicide come from a place of logic.

I am sorry to say that there is no logic behind suicide.

Logically speaking - that is, without emotions - death is not inherently better than life. There is no logical value added by death. You don’t need to choose to live, it just happens on its own. Trust me, it’s surprisingly hard to just wither away. The body doesn’t want to stop.

You would need to choose to die. If it is not inherently better to die than to live, then it is illogical to choose to do something that you do not have any reason to do.

It is only emotion that changes the equation. Emotionally speaking, it sounds like you currently feel that death would be better than life.

But it does not sound like you wanted to die before this year. At least, not nearly like this. If you did not feel this way before, than there is no logical reason to think you will always feel this way later.

It is therefore only temporary, it is only emotional, and it is exclusively a mental health issue that can be resolved with time and effort.

I feel like it’s weird to say “the left isn’t doing enough for men” when the left is full of men who are struggling with the same thing. They grew up in the same society, filled with the same outdated “suck it up” mentality.

So I appreciate you calling out the issue of younger men not being in a place to listen to women, and the issue of men in general not being in a place to emotionally support their fellow men. It’s not a left vs right thing, it’s that most men are simply ill-equipped to handle emotional labor due to these outdated cultural norms, and yet those same men are naturally the primary providers of support for other similarly ill-equipped men.

Just because the alt right is pretending to care about the needs of men doesn’t mean the left is worse at this. The alt right isn’t standing up for men, they’re using vulnerable men as a means to an end, and replacing “suck it up” with “blame women and leftists”. They’re not telling you how to truly process your emotions with patience and care, they’re just shifting the blame.

There’s plenty of men on the left that serve as excellent role models, they just don’t spend their time constantly talking about their gender, because a large part of evolving past these outdated cultural norms about gender is actually moving past these cultural norms about gender.

This means viewing people and their problems as human first before viewing them as <insert gender>. The majority of people who constantly fill the airwaves about “what it’s like to be a man” are actually just men who are still desperately clinging to those same self-destructive norms. They perpetuate this divide between genders, and leave their fellow men feeling alone and misunderstood and vulnerable to manipulation.

Not in Pathfinder 2E!

There are four possible results to a roll:

• Critical failure
• failure
• success
• critical success

Natural 1’s and 20’s are not automatic misses or hits, they only move you down or up a step in the result.

if your modifier for a statistic is so high that adding it to a 1 from your d20 roll exceeds the DC by 10 or more, you can succeed even if you roll a natural 1!

https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2287

It wouldn’t even roll dice. With a weighted die to roll all natural 1’s, all results would still be decided by modifiers alone, and the results would be death.

The best case scenario is that the creature acts as the immortal snail, and your character spends the rest of their life on the run.

“This is the live cannibalism option”

“… the what?”

chomp

Regardless of the political system

We understand what you’re trying to say. You’re just not saying it the way you think, though. Words matter. Feudalism is a specific political system. It’s effectively nonsense to say “regardless of political system, everything is <political system>”

Easily one of the weirdest “solutions” to unemployment. It’s a tax. Nobody needs a gas station attendant (aside from disability, but that’s not why NJ has the law). They are taxing gas companies to provide money directly to people. They’re just also making those people work a meaningless job, because capitalism.

Can’t have something for nothing - no, no, in this society you can only have something in exchange for an appreciable portion of your remaining life on earth, even if you ultimately give up that portion of your life for literally nothing.

I love these “star signs” themed political commentary though.

Much love for the antipasta! Thanks for the writeup.

This bellowing bit is awesome:

We suggest that male mating-season bellows function to reduce physical confrontations with other males allowing them to space themselves apart, while, at the same time, attracting females.

Emphasis mine.

Koala males really be out there screaming so loud so other males will stay away? I think that’s neat. Like biological magnets, pushing and pulling with the same scream.