This is absolutely manipulative.

Whether she realizes it or not, refusing to engage or talk about it, except in her own time frame- is not a good sign for a healthy relationship, and when she did decide to talk about it, put you into a compromised position- being unable to think clearly.

The questions she’s asking are meant to elicit fear and massive guilt. Though to be blunt, I’m going to assume there’s no real danger of any of that happening, I assume the neighborhood is fairly safe. Because usually it is.

As for what you’d do…? Call the cops. Duh. You (probably) don’t have the resources to find any one and kill them, and besides which, if she’s really asking that you do, uhm… dodge that bullet.

Sleep deprivation is a form of torture.

This is absolutely manipulative.

Still rampant manipulation, though.

I’d say at least on the level of gaslighting

They wouldn’t even need to actually abuse power at all.

Just order the secret service to take over their personal security details, and attach members of the seal teams to each detail…. “As advisors”.

It would be an implicit threat, sure, but also, a totally legal one, and they could hardly argue that “ensuring their safety and wellbeing” is not an official act,

because humans are a trashy species.

it’s still not satire, really. it lacks the punch. for example this headline+thumbnail photo really hit home:

oh shit. WebMD finally fixed their symptom checker.

used to be you’d plug in headache and it’d be like…

• You have a headache
• you have a migraine.
• you have a concussion
• you have [a whole lot of scary shit that will kill you]

now it just says “we couldn’t find anything wrong with you”

they forgot to model the aeromethane-spike from the cow fart.

I mean it definitely reduces over all drag.

I think he’s force-choking out his human for not bringing sushi.

“You have failed me for the last time.”

A lot of the typical cardboard boxes used in food services are treated with things to make them not totally get destroyed on contact with water and aren’t safe for marine or aquatic life.

They’re also filled with heavy amounts of clay and other stuff ti get that nice colorful box.

Sure maybe the exaggerated, but the article doesn’t read like satire.

Too many syllables.

Just saying, we’re idiots over here, and in any case Emantaller cheese sold as Swiss in the US install made here.

How does this sound like an Onion article? This is actually pretty cool.

For the record… if your shep isn’t occasionally an asshole…. You’re playing it wrong.

(Like on the starter mission, knocking out the researcher. Or the fanboi on citadel.)

Like. Yeah.

Absolutely.

Especially compared to games of the era.

that’s one way to stay rock hard longer.

of course.

They have to explain why you need to buy absolution.

They’re talking about as the nominee.

the only way another candidate can be successful is if Biden himself drops out and endorses (and indeed continues to campaign for) them.

But Biden’s ego won’t allow that, so the party’s choices are either to forcibly remove him and split the vote or take the flaming, burning ship down into the ocean.

hope people can swim.

If sin is defined as anything that separates you from god….

And god’s non-existence is what separates us….

Then isn’t god the sinner here? Not me.

For the record, mountain rills have some of the best trout in them.

Linked worked just fine for me.