Honestly even two parties would be an improvement over what we currently have.

Been a vegetarian for a while, but here’s a hot dog tip from my past:

Stick a skewer down the center, then use a knife and sort of barbershop pole around it. Then deep fry it. Then remove the skewer. You’ll be left with a corkscrew shaped hotdog of unparalleled crispy goodness. Maximum surface area. Nooks and crannies galore.

Though, my ideal hotdog is a classic beef dog on a classic plain bun, with boring old ketchup and mustard. I feel like the quality of the hotdog experience is more about circumstances than execution.

No.

NYPD has a field office in Kfar Saba. So, possibly more pertinent than it should be.

Fair enough. It still went on for a decade though. At the end of the day, how are you going to say “no” to a cop with an assault rifle?

I’m not so sure. They had plenty of time for stop and frisk:

In 2016, a reported 12,404 stops were made under the stop-and-frisk program. The stop-and-frisk program has previously taken place on a much wider scale. Between 2003 and 2013, over 100,000 stops were made per year, with 685,724 people being stopped at the height of the program in 2011.

The program also became the subject of a racial-profiling controversy. Ninety percent of those stopped in 2017 were African-American or Latino, mostly aged 14–24. By contrast, 54.1% of the population of New York City in 2010 was African-American or Latino; however, 74.4% of individuals arrested overall were of those two racial groups.

I don’t know, tow trucks still use gas, so they may still suffer some knock on effects.

Unfortunately at this point it may be us with the misapprehensions about what it is exactly that their job is. I don’t think they work for us anymore.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

• Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Hell yeah.

I think it was so successful because of how solid the song is. As soon as you hear that aggressive drum intro the song is so catchy that it all appears at once in your head.

Sure, I’ll just quit my job and travel the 4500 km to Washington DC, then I will stand outside and yell across the lawn to him that “I demand satisfaction!”, and when he walks down to the fence to talk to me I’ll challenge hin to a duel.

You can just jam a ballpoint pen through most zippers then zip back over it to reclose leaving the lock undisturbed.

Smart people make things good, people forget what bad is, bad people take advantage of good people, bad people subjugate good people, good people do something smart, repeat.

Well, strictly speaking, if your location didn’t change you’d be transported into empty space. So you wouldn’t have very much to worry about for long.

For real?

I mean, there’s already the one guy they sent by “mistake” and "can’t get back."But frankly, without due process, everyone they’re sending are “non criminals”, which is weird way to say “people who should be presumed innocent until found guilty 8n a court of law by a jury of their peers.”

The issue as I see it is reading comprehension. They place no value on lateral thinking, and so interpret things literally. I would argue that the bible is intended to be significantly more metaphorical. Like, people think that you must die to get to heaven, and that the afterlife is a literal place like summer camp. But maybe the idea is that heaven is what you create through kindness and empathy. Perhaps you don’t redeem good acts like tickets at an arcade for a prize. Perhaps if you live well, you don’t require/desire a prize at all. It seems like a much more helpful document as a thought experiment than some sort of recipe for a casserole.

I’ve spent some time trying to read the bible. No one compelled me to, I wasn’t desperate for answers, I just wanted to be better acquainted with something seemingly so influential to the world around me.

Just how perfectly contradictory the behavior of the most vehement devotees is to the actual teachings of the book is absolutely mind boggling.

Take for example global warming. How someone dedicated to the bible could read about Moses and the Pharoah, and not draw a parallel between scientists (Moses), the Pharoah (climate deniers/big oil/the wealthy), and the plagues (ruined water, crop death, livestock death, illness, unusual and extreme weather events), is beyond me. Pharoah just continues to arrogantly ignore the warnings of Moses, periodically acquiescing, but ultimately returning to his previous state of obstinacy once he thinks he’s in the clear. Only once Pharoah’s own life is effected, only once it’stoo late, does he finally listen. Hell on earth was not bad enough to persuade him, only personal hardship. Like…how do you not see that we are the rabble getting pummeled by hail and having our land wiped out, how do you not see that our leaders are the insulated, out of touch Pharoahs, who ultimately view us as expendable. And if you believe in god and all that, how do you not believe that unprecedented weather and pandemics and shit are meant to be course corrections from on high? It seems to be a pretty ear cut cautionary tale about ignoring warnings and explaining away inconvenient evidence. Like, how are the bible people the least humble, least patient, least tolerant, most materialistic, worst idolaters? They latch onto and obsess about all the ticky tacky window dressing shit about not casting your seed onto the ground and dick mutilation, but miss the main fucking point of judge not, and love thy neighbour, and welcome strangers, and forgiveness, and generally just mind your own damn business. It’s infuriating.

The type of people who relish regret in others, are people with regrets themselves seeking to pull themselves up by bringing others down. It’s always been my theory that these bitter hateful conservatives are just jealous and sad. They don’t want there to be a world with choices, because they’ve chosen a world without them. The conservative world is a world of poor work life balance, of loveless marriages, of secret shame, of judgement, of superficial happiness. The idea of a life free of these yokes calls their whole construct of reality into question. They’d rather snuff it out than admit they’ve chosen the wrong door. In short, they want everyone to be as cynical and bitter as they are. If they can’t have cake, they don’t want anyone else to have any either.