These are apparently called “Desire Paths”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

Yep, I went to school there, it’s actually pretty interesting to walk on.

Bananas, pickles, onions, mustard. Now it’s like, “Whatever, just shove it down my throat.”

I’d be fine if we get embroiled in a war with Russia, martial law gets declared and, oops, guess we can’t transfer power.

“We acted like garbage people, and then got treated like garbage, that’s antisemitic!”

In that context, that paints a very different picture of your Dad than what I read originally. Apart from general “issues” with prostitution as a business, I’m not sure I could say your Dad was really doing anything “wrong”, apart from facilitating an illegal business, but from what you’re describing, he seemed to do it in a relatively fair way (assuming whatever %'s they were operating under wasn’t exploitative, but I don’t even know what the cut-off is). It’s kind of a morally ambiguous crime based on what you’ve written (also assuming no trafficking or coercion or anything like).

Had it been my Dad, I don’t know that it’d be the sort of thing I’d disown him over, but I’m a guy with lenient views of prostitution anyways, so you may feel quite differently about it. Hopefully he’s able to stay out of trouble and transition to more legal ventures, I know how hard it can be for people to get out of the legal system once you start getting caught up with all sorts of restrictive conditions and such. Oftentimes it seems like the legal system is design to keep people spiraling around the drain more than it is trying to help people get better.

No idea about the particulars of the business or anything about your Dad, but sounds like he got caught because maybe he wasn’t ruthless or abusive, which I guess is a good thing in his favor (?). I could easily see that woman’s argument turning out much worse for her had your Dad been a different person and resorted to other negotiation methods. Did he just provide protection services or did he sort of manage the transactions from start to finish, almost like a temp agency… just for prostitutes? I’m always curious about how black market businesses operate outside of “normal” business environments.

Well, that doesn’t sound nice. Had you been exposed to that part of his life, or are you that close with your Dad? I should think part of the danger of being around somebody like that is that they could potentially bring you into that, which may not be so great for women involved with that. That he has a suspended sentence makes it sound like he’s still out free, he just has to keep to whatever conditions they set for him, so I guess he still has a chance to avoid jail.

Part of me thinks that Prostitution should be legalized (though heavily regulated), but there’s instances like this where I’m not so sure women wouldn’t just be taken advantage of (thus the need for heavy regulation). It’s been an ongoing trade for 1000’s of years, women shouldn’t be punished for providing something that men clearly value. Maybe it should be punishable to be a pimp or a madam, but the women themselves shouldn’t be punished. But on the other hand, is exploitation, even self-imposed exploitation due to economic hardships from a cruel and unjust system ever really justified? I say that women should have a choice in the matter, but do they really have a choice?

Wait… you’re not suggesting that voting for the lesser of two evils would’ve somehow helped the Palestinians somehow (or at least lessened the negative impacts)? Everyone knows that you either get everything you want or you just let the worst possible result happen, there is no middle ground.

Democratic voters just aren’t dependable, or the causes that Democrats tend to champion don’t provide them any benefits. Yes, it’s often the right thing to do to champion their rights or causes, but when the time comes and their help is needed, they’re seemingly nowhere to be found because things apparently weren’t interesting enough.

I just played it and beat it. It was good and has a great soundtrack, it’s just a shame that you can really only play the game once. I kind of wish there had been some sort of randomization mechanic added to it so that you didn’t play the same story twice and had a different crew each time. Otherwise though, an interesting little game that had me hooked.

As an American, I expected most Americans to be at least semi-rational and to recognize what a threat to democracy and our way of life that Trump is. I expected most Republicans to just vote for him out of reflex, but otherwise the rest of America would rise up in our hour of need to vote against this and save us all from this idiocy.

Nope. There was just more people lined up to vote for more idiocy. We failed the world. I’d say I’m sorry, but I don’t think that’ll help. This is America.

About an hour in 2020 I think. I’m in a semi-rural Republican-leaning district that won’t ever vote Democrat, but I still show up to vote anyways. Usually, I’m in and out pretty quickly every election, maybe 5-10 minutes at most. For some reason, guessing because of its importance, 2020 the line just took quite a bit longer. Every other election, presidential or otherwise, there’s never a wait.

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Americans are watching this too and wondering what the fuck is wrong with our fellow Americans. This should not even be close.

That’s perfect, that’s where I communicate to people what the voices are telling me! I expect they’ll just start showering me with money when I begin the ritual ejaculation.

Homeless, I just spend all day at the public library. Where do we go to to trade in all the upvotes for cash?

Hyper Light Drifter and Return of the Obra Dinn for different reasons.

Conservatives are likely just more emotional in general, their lives seem to be more dominated by emotions. Happiness, fear, anger, they just live in these extremes without any real thought about the reasons behind it. They just get triggered by whatever buzzwords the Party trots out for them, without any real mental analysis or realization of the manipulation that’s going on.

I wonder if that’s part of the ulterior motive for NK here, getting troops with combat experience for an eventual attack on SK.