“look how I’m making fun of political violence even existing”

Youre hilarious, brother

Why do you think it’s “a flex?” Are you by any chance a relatively young man? (Because taking everything as a competition is most often associated with that demographic.)

It’s not “a flex”. It’s people being worried about the US. I am too, because while I’m not American, I also know that the US is a significant world power, especially military-wise. (As in lots of expensive gear, although the soldiers are second grade.)

Why do you take someone worrying for you as them trying hurt you?

Trump is hurting you. This guy isn’t. He’s trying to help.

Well this is kinda easy to understand even as a westerner; you probably consider a gray/flecked pigeon as a something more or less dirty, but a white dove is the sign of purity and whatnot.

Exactly the same animal, just different colouring.

Somehow we just think eating French fries off the ground makes pigeons dirty but doves eating insects is completely fine.

hold onto a thought longer than I.

If you were speaking about someone else, would you use “he/she” or “him/her” in this context?

Because if it’s the former, then you use “I” to replace it, and if it’s the latter, you use “me”.

other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than she.

Doesn’t sound right.

other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than her.

Sounds better.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/pronouns-personal-i-me-you-him-it-they-etc

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-ISS-use-power-to-heat-or-cool

Only if “Big Freeze” turns out to be more accurate than the “Big Crunch”

I’m with this guy.

Because like it or not, TV sets an example.

Sometimes it can be used for positive things as well.

Developed in Scandinavia over decades starting in the 1920’s, the concept of a designated driver was imported to the United States on a large scale in 1988 through the Harvard Alcohol Project,[2] an initiative by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health Communication, led by Jay Winsten. With heavy involvement by television networks and Hollywood studios, the campaign popularized the concept through public service announcements, as well as the encouragement of drunk driving prevention messages and designated driver references in popular television programs,[2] such as Cheers, L.A. Law, and The Cosby Show. The U.S. Department of Transportation used public affairs commercials with the phrase “friends don’t let friends drive drunk”.

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

Like those super unknown shows like “Friends” and “How I Met Your Mother”, “The Big Bang Theory”, etc?

Nvm you were talking about R-rated youngsters not TV-14 rated adults.

Actually a youtuber and a comedian. No idea whether he’s ever actually worked retail, well aside from in these skits where the point is to be Uncle Roger and act rude.

What’s the point?

“You better believe we have weapons you can’t defend from, like, at all! We could totally take on NATO, easily. So like, don’t, like, even think about helping Ukraine any more!”

Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) has been doing variations of that to Finland since WWII.

That’s basically why it took us so fucking long to join NATO, because the argument used to be “uuuh, we can’t afford to piss off Russia!”

But since they obviously don’t care about their own capacity for war and invaded Ukraine, we thought, “fuck it, why not”.

So Russia used to have a bit of a buffer with Finland but since we joined, Putler is having even more heatenings.

Thus this sort of saber rattling.

Seeing as we’re on .ml I wouldn’t be surprised if Davel or Dessalines or one of the others just deletes this as some sort of anti-Russian discrimination and bans me.

Oh and just to remind Vanja. Don’t try to come over our Eastern border. #(Unless you’re alone and escaping Putlerism, but you should do that before the remining is done.)*

The Way is Shut!

A bit of a tangent but just today I watched a short about the history of what British colonialist did to the Hijra in India.

Basically they went over there and went “more than two genders? THAT’S ILLEGAL.”

Yet nowadays we have transphobes always reciting how it’s somehow a woke new thing to not have the sexual sensibilities of a Victorian British person.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_India#Colonial-era

I watched some Ted-talk’esque thing about a guy who chased the perfect coffee and he came to the conclusion that after toasting the beans, coffee only has a shelf life of two weeks, ground or not.

Obviously it keeps, but for optimal coffee…

Due to this he started developing small home toasting devices. I’d like to try that, see there’s any difference.

earned through their labor

The people who are on hourly rarely have yachts. Fishing boats, perhaps. Sailboats are more rare, but the random fanatic boatbuilder? I’ve seen it on occasion. But yachts? Nah. That’s some intergenerational wealth going there, inherited something or rich parents back loans which enable the person to start their own company to rip off the labour of others. I know a bunch of them, born with a golden spoon up their arses.

People don’t get rich working hard. They get rich by stealing the profit from the hard work of others. I’m sure you know this.

It is very arbitrary, sure.

I think a main thing is people who describe their boats as yachts usually aren’t going from paycheck to paycheck.

Sure, man. Sure.

Boats are typically considered yachts when they are or exceed 24 meters.

A potential buyer of a superyacht with a net worth of around €25,000,000 might consider that 10-30% of their net worth invested in a used superyacht is something that they can reasonably afford, whereas potential buyers of new yachts might want to have a net worth in excess of €50,000,000 to feel comfortable.

It is estimated that around 130,000 people may have this level of wealth worldwide although experts reckon that only a few thousand individuals are actively involved in owning, building, buying and selling the approximately 8,700 motor and 1,750 sailing superyachts over 24 metres that have been built.

This guy gets it

Yes to the former no the latter.

https://norse-mythology.org/concepts/magic/

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