This is my take on it. Moron evolved to be a more general term associated with anyone acting foolish. It evolved to the point that nobody really associates it as a word targeted directly at intellectualy disabled folks. The r-word was always more commonly understood as “the word you would say to a disabled person if you wanted to hurt them the most”. Because of this people who use it weren’t/aren’t given the benefit of the doubt that they’re just being hyperbolic and not actually a bigot directly to disabled people. Why did one evolve to be more hurtful than the other? I’m not sure. There’s probably a parallel universe out there where the reverse scenario exists.

Edit: nvm, disregard. just realized this post is 10d old and people already articulated what I intended much better than me.

I usually get really mad for like 2 hours before realizing I don’t care about anything at all

There have been two mass shootings in my city in the last 4 years. The first was a mile from my house on a popular bar hopping street that I had been to countless times. Many of my friends were there that night, some while it happened, and the only reason I wasn’t, was because I flaked on plans last second to stay home and play video games.

Everywhere felt a lot different after that, it felt surreal. You could sense this difference on everyone around you as well. What helped the most was to just continue my routine and go out of my way to smile or be nice to strangers I passed by. Time went on, I kept doing my morning walks down that street, kept going to work every morning, and eventually it just stopped occupying my mind at all.

You can always tell when someone’s been a career contractor because they never adhere to any of the established patterns/styles in the codebase.

OPossoms are the best most chill wild animal ever. Recently one ate entire dead squirrel in my yard so I didn’t have to deal with it. Fuckin beast.

Fun fact: Reagon spent over $250B on a space laser program during the cold war. It failed and nothing useful was gained from it.

Can someone explain what the joke is? I’ve been staring at this for 10 minutes trying to figure out what the hell this is trying to say