Your reading comprehension is the problem here, nobody but yourself is fucking with you, so I propose you calm down a bit before continuing to make an ass out of yourself.

Combat Wombat meant comparing between countries the train prices of a 250 km ride inside those countries and not comparing the prices of a 250 km ride over country borders.

And even in the beginning the question wasn’t comparing different modes of transportation but directly train prices.

So is it like saying

non-greek polytheistic pantheons didnt have Zeus

?

No, not really.

Because if you do think about it, you would realize that a wide variety of species shows a wide variety of different behaviours. Which in turn means that all these opposing ways of behaviour are indeed natural, but not necessary natural for humans, as they are contradictory to each other. Or if you want to follow your proposed line of thought to the logical end, I await your proof of human males attaching to the much bigger female and atrophying to a simple ball of sacks for insemination as angler fishes are proven to do.

Or to make the point even more direct: the whole concept of laws to give or take ownership is in itself so counter to all other animals behaviour that it is ludicrous to try and argue any part of that is in any kind of way natural. Or by definition of ‘humans as animals’ would mean any political system we adopt is natural by design.

Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production.

There are special subdivisions with certain extra features, but the bare bones definition is just that.

GOG isnt setting the price, the publisher is. So maybe turn it down a notch or at least think about it first?

And the problem with the price policy is that steam demand no lower cost on average on other platforms, so that stops developer from selling it for cheaper somewhere else. Except if they put in a bit of extra work and sell it as a different version from the steam one, which is something they evidently don’t see as worthwhile.

Which again has the responsibility on the developer/publisher, not GOG.

Why would that be a bad job? You provide a service to the community, that is better than a lot of other, so called prestigious, jobs. You didn’t make the world a worse place at the end of your day. So a lot better than many others.

Well, in another comment they mention that he is a far right loonie. So maybe not that satirical after all.

First: hats off to you for being this open and self reflective with yourself. That is the first step and you are already doing the most important part: thinking

As the other comments already addressed a lot of good points, I want to highlight one thing:

In these polarized times, I’ve tried to be a centrist; to take aspects of both sides and combine them into something that represents me. However, I fear that, with the right & the left in America having become so incompatible with one another, that may not be possible anymore.

Looking at the available political options and choosing what fits to you is exactly the right idea of what to do, but don’t make “being between the two” your ideal in itself! Only crazy people and liars are agreeing with political parties in every aspect. Saying your always between them is nothing different.

Look at what is offered by the political actors, choose what is important to you and then choose who to support at this moment.

You still seem to be a bit in the mindset of political parties as sport teams to support instead of considering it as a group of political actors that convey certain ideas and you choose what is important to you.

If you currently think party A is doing crazy stuff, then no sense in supporting them. That doesnt mean you need to like everything that party B doesor make supporting them your personality. At that point of time, their political message resonated strongest with you.
As you in the USA sadly have a less than optimal First Past The Post voting system, you have 2 options. In a good world, you would choose what is better for you, in your current situation you need to choose what is less worse. And that’s OK (kinda), as harm reduction is not optimal but ignoring the bigger harm is even worse.

And I still need to add: growing up on tax payer money (military) and hating taxes is peak USA.

The psychology is that it is literally gambling. It activates the same patterns in our brains. So read up on what makes us gamble and how it can be addicting and how to counter those urges.

Close but wrong, it was the alignment during the cold war:

• First World: USA & allies
• Second World: USSR & allies
• Third World: non-aligned

What is the background to one eyed dragon? Sounds awesome to me.

Yes! /s

As somebody who grew up without religion: I never really cared about all the metaphysical stuff. I was always interested in learning new things and wanted to understand how the world works. Yet that stuff never even brushed my mind to my knowledge. Maybe I asked my parents when I was smaller which I can’t remember anymore, but I definitely didn’t get anxiety over it. I accepted what I saw with my own eyes, that was enough for me. I don’t need something else besides this world.

And regarding their child converting: a cousins child is raised atheist and in elementary school got interested in Christianity since most of their class mates went to church. So the child asked the parents, they said: innour opinion there is nothing, but if you are interested, feel free to go to church to learn about their explanation. So that’s what they did and last I met the child, they weren’t a bible thumbed but still went to their religion class, so the result is not yet in.

The honest answer is: we don’t know.

The common name and interpretation is as the others already mentioned.

But it is part of the so called black paintings of Goya. He created them at the end of his life when he was depressed, maybe insane and utterly lost all hope in humanity. He painted them inside a house on the walls and never showed them to anyone or talked about them. They were only found after his death, so we literally have no information about them.

But they are all pretty haunting and have dark themes. And this one got memetic usage and was also often referenced and is therefore the best known one of the 14.

All Hail the Abh Empire!

I mean they are even right. If they would really believe in their ideas, they could throw money at us and we would be far more accepting of their LLM bullshit. But they aren’t, so they don’t.

True, but it was more in regards to those two being neither declared an element nor a mental illness.

And what are Lithium and Neon? The long sought after unnatural matter?

I understood it as swatting in general if somebody made a false accusation and the police raided somebody. Doesnt need to be physical harm involved.

Police knocks on the door and ask if everything is alright? -> not (successful) swatting

Police breaks down your door and stands in your living room but then leaves after realising you are not a bloodthirsty kidnapper -> swatting

Police kills an innocent due to swatting -> swatting in USA