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https://www.healthline.com/health/quit-smoking/does-zyn-cause-mouth-cancer#other-risks-and-side-effects

More research is needed. Nicotine on its own is not cancerous. Tobacco is. Nicotine pouches that aren't tobacco might carry much lower risks, but there is other stuff in them.

Some people definitely agree with the xenophobia. That sort of anti immigrant ideology is on the rise outside of the US too. They might not like Trump but also not quite fully disagree with what the MAGA people stand for.

I mean ffs people are now finally getting sick of Trump, but not because the damage they've done with deportation but because they're spending money on war and food and gas prices went up as a direct result. Some of the people that are anti Trump these days just care about their bottom line.

You might tell your DM to look up Sabir, where the term Lingua Franca came from, the "Frankish tongue" which wasn't really from the Franks.

This is where the idea of a common language comes from. Sabir was a simplified pidgin mix of Mediterranean languages so traders could communicate. They still spoke fine but didn't conjugate verbs, used Me/you a lot without different forms (myself, I, yourself, them, they, etc).

Sabir was a Mediterranean lingua franca, then Latin for 1500 years throughout Europe. Now it's English. The idea of Common in D&D comes from Westron or "the Common tongue" in LotR which D&D was heavily inspired from, which was basically written by Tolkien so that his constructed languages had a reason to exist. He was a scholar of languages, and the idea of a common tongue comes from actual history. He wasn't just making it up. Something like that would likely exist in a Fantasy world with lots of trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

It has real historic roots though. A common tongue isn't unrealistic. They once used Sabir or "Frankish" where lingua franca came from, then Latin throughout Europe, now English as a global lingua franca.

As much as people think having "Common" as a language is weird, it literally has historical roots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

People have been using a Common language for millenia. Today, the global lingua franca is obviously English. For about 1500 years, the lingua franca of medieval Europe was Latin. And for a while in the Mediterranean it was Sabir, where Lingua Franca the term came from, which was a weird simplified Mediterranean mix of languages (no verb conjugation, etc).

Other areas with multiple languages have had their own Lingua Francas. It's a common thing to happen if you have big areas with multiple languages and lots of trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas

So it's really not weird to have a Common tongue in games. It came from LotR which came from history since Tolkien was a huge language nerd and wrote a world for his language to exist.

It's the price you pay if you're the kind of idiot who has to get the super techy luxury version of something that works amazingly well and functions perfectly fine at $1.

Literally one of the cheapest parts of tabletop games, and 100% functional at less than a buck or two. It'll last your entire life too, if you're careful. If you make a fancy electronic version you can charge whatever the fuck you want because the person already decided they'll pay more than 100x what they need to for luxury they don't need.

it isn't a complete sandwich without the tomato, queso, and increment

At this point I'm convinced that wealth disparity is just a knob they twist by printing money and doing stock market manipulation, and they found the right spot where we keep working and are terrified to strike, and also complacent enough to keep just watching TV and trying to ignore the ridiculousness.

State controlled social media generates the signal they interpret to know how much to twist the inflation knob, AI and misinformation is another knob they twist to allow greater wealth disparity by convincing people their hunger pains are caused by something else, and it's like a weird management game to them where they want to keep us working as hard as possible, to the point we won't even take a day off during a fucking pandemic.

I think it's because he looks like a dead baby cybernetic yoda that's in pain

Look up Olney's Lesions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olney%27s_lesions

They can result from heavily abusing DXM or PCP. Be careful, don't overly indulge.

that snail sucks old man dick