Lol yep. Fun perk of being 5’11"

Eh more like that decision was the supreme court’s version of a valet standing around and saying “ahem” before taking your car away

Assuming they’re Americans talking, it’s basically impossible to get convicted of defamation against a politician here. Like, it’s genuinely impressive that Candice Owens is managing it. It requires you make statements that are defamatory to them, presented as clear statements of fact, and display reckless disregard for the truth. And in edge cases courts tend to lean with free speech over defamation. That’s just for any public figure, for politicians the courts are even more cautious to avoid chilling political speech.

That would be good, and in line with Plains Sign Language’s legacy. It was created as a trade language and adopted by the deaf. That said, sign languages are living languages and without much mass communication in them they drift pretty hard and fast. All said Plains would be a really cool choice, but French Sign Language (LSF) would probably be the most practical choice.

So yeah, if everyone could agree on a sign language to learn, my deaf ass is in.

And teachers. And authority figures in general. My favorite is when psychiatrists aren’t understanding of adhd behaviors

Idk I’m pretty sure that’s the trauma associated with growing up/living with adhd.

Also it’s not that I didn’t do anything wrong or forgot anything, it’s that I have no idea if I did. I could be sitting around having completely forgotten to pay rent until the landlord angrily calls.

I’m all for returning fire in the class war, I just really don’t want everyone the populist right accuses of pedophilia to get attacked, because that’s everyone.

That really relies on their ability to accurately identify a pedo. The moral panic in which people are being called pedos for anything and nothing is still going on even though we have learned that the Epstein conspiracy was huge and horrible.

Now if they only targeted the people heavily present in the files, yeah probably they’d be seen as heroic

Yeah, he doesn’t even understand how to hit up a divorcee. You don’t tell her she’s young, you tell her that she’s aged like a good scotch, gaining complexity to be cherished by those who understand the value of it. That the subtle sweetness one finds in vanilla notes are much better than that of a saccarine drink for a 21 year old.

He wishes he was president of a thriving country in a thriving time. He will likely never get over the fact that he isn’t JFK but is instead Hoover (for any non Americans, Hoover is the one who really fucked up the great depression in remarkably similar ways). FDR was the sort of man who could not only get that divorcee into bed, but get her to stop living so damn self destructively while doing so, and it begins with an honest appraisal of the situation and seeing the value underneath anyways. Donald Trump has never been someone capable of doing that with anyone or anything.

And yeah, the scotch line has worked for me.

“If mr president says it’s raining then that’s why my leg is wet!” /s

For real though I strongly agree with the thesis here. Don’t give the carney (as in carnival person, not the Canadian politician) a stage, and especially don’t give the clown a respected stage unless you want him to use it to mock the stage and all it stands for. Trump revels in public speaking and direct attention, and he hates writing outside tweets. Hell, congress can openly rebutt and fact check a written state of the union.

The institutions and norms are broken. That’s bad, but you don’t fix a damaged deck by replacing the broken part of one board and painting over the other damage, you check the structures and you replace anything that might be damaged, and you try to make it able to resist what happened. The wood of our deck grew soft after incomplete repairs to damage and people kept jumping on it and stabbing it trying to break it for a long time, then this jackass showed up with an axe swearing he’d fix it. Now it’s partly on those who let him try, but there’s a lot of damage to fix and we really need to take this opportunity to do that and fix some errors in the initial designs that seemed good at the time

Yeah I have a friend who’s really into the bronze age, and I just think it’s fascinating how the stories we tell and the ways we reinterpret stories says so much about us. Fiction is a tool to share our values and ideas in a palatable and entertaining way, even if we don’t mean to do so.

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I could never go down on her, I’d just keep getting distracted by the cute snakes

Also within mythology different people completely change the story to fit their narratives. There are stories of Medusa where she’s just an ancient monster from before the Olympian age.

Also to add to your bit about the Amazons, it’s likely that they were just the mythologization of the people of the Eurasian steppes such as the Scythians. They had a lot less divisions in gender than the Greeks including female warriors and leaders. To the Greeks that’s the same as a society completely run by women who are “less of women” where men are subjugated (though be aware, I’m telling this story, and that right there was a parallel I threw in to compare the Greeks to modern anti feminists, just like how bits of mythology got tweaked as they entered new cultures and contexts). But yeah Tomyris of Scythia is said to have killed Cyrus the Great of Persia. And the Romans continued the Greek tradition of accusing any society where women could hold the same power as men of being a matriarchy totally comparable to their patriarchy, something we have no evidence of ever being a thing historically.

Congrats! Nothing better than being cancer free, except maybe being cancer free for free.

Ah yeah that sucks. I’m an industrial engineer and routinely days of heavy snow have been “show up to work an hour or two late because of the snow, get sent home with pay after an hour because nobody showed up and the power is about to go out”

The GDR’s is exactly what I would expect out of German communism. “We have the two working classes: laborers and engineers”

That’s fair, i just suspect that that element won’t be upheld and am still bitter that it wasn’t then

Yeah that’s straight up an attempt to relegalize segregation

Full faith and credit never stopped the refusal of some states to recognize other states’ gay marriages. It should have but didn’t