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  • It's not like the dog has to get up for work and this has made him late for his commute. Plus he gets super delighted when daylight savings starts and he gets fed an hour early for some wonderful reason!

  • You can suck your own dick; it's medically possible, and it's not illegal!

  • There's also an exception if they can't read the delivery address; they have the authority to open the package to try to determine delivery address. So make sure your label can get a little wet and still be readable.

  • I can't speak to what happened during his upbringing, but if the man I saw as my father, who took me in as a teenager, decided to enter into politics, conservative politics no less, I'd tell him to visit for Christmas but leave me out of the politics. I'd want to go to the grocery and raise my family without being harassed by reporters and crazy random idiots, especially if he was a minor local politician in the community where I lived, but even moreso if national office were ever a possibility. The best way to achieve that would be to not let the general public even know about him, but he can still be in the family text chat and bring the grandkids by to see the rest of the family in person and in private.

    The guy just wants Internet detectives like you to leave him and his family alone. Doing a good job of that doesn't mean anything should smell off.

  • The Renaissance is not "some homogeneous past", it's a pretty specific time period: the 15th and 16th centuries.

  • Word on the street is that American English is actually closer to the English spoken by the British when they first landed and colonized the Americas. After the war they went back to their lil island and forgot how to pronounce their Rs.

  • The only reason here, is BS. The kid is real, he's a grown-ass adult with children of his own that he wants to keep away from the general public. This is conservative propaganda to make you think Johnson's statements on racial injustice (which lean toward "my white kids get opportunities and have an easier life that my black kid doesn't) are bunk. Which they're not, just because the guy doesn't want to do photo ops and give press releases doesn't mean he's fake. Johnson was first elected to Congress less than 10 years ago. His son made a decision not to be a pawn for his adopted father's political career to avoid the public, not his father; and the public are generally terrible, which makes it an appropriate and rational decision.

  • Maybe you just don't know the definition of "irony". People use it improperly all the time. I don't think anything in that song by Alanis Morissette is actually ironic.

    Personally, I don't think there's ever an excuse for cheating; academically it really only harms the cheater. People in college offered me a lot of money to do their work for them. I never accepted, but I also never tattled on them. Grades honestly, really, don't matter in the long run.

  • That's not irony, it's karma? Consequences? Definitely not irony, though.

  • I've been a volunteer for a women's literacy prison programs, and an early-days Amy Schumer fan...I wouldn't allow her thirsty nonsense in prisons full of women with like a dozen male guards and no further oversight. It's just pure trash. That being said, I feel like all prisons would probably be happier and safer if they let all inmates (male or female or other) have porn.

    The inmates who'd benefit from Art of War are probably smart enough to have already read it, or get it via improper channels anyway. Women's prisons don't really deal with gang violence the way men's prisons do anyway. Nobody's "going to war" in a women's prison.

    People forget that when all the guards are greedy, racist, sexist morons it doesn't take much to cause massive corruption and sexual violence problems regardless of what the female inmates read.

  • No, it's TNG because of all the purple sparkly stuff, big hair, and jazz music. It's very representative of late 80s early 90s adult contemporary aesthetic, which makes sense because that's when it's from. TOS is some other kind of retro fruturism.

  • This drives my husband insane. He can't figure out why anyone bothers to walk anywhere. Why do they still use bathrooms when you can just transport the pee from your bladder into the replicator recombinator or whatever?! I assume the transporters must use an amount of energy that makes it inefficient to use for every little thing.

  • I call TNG "Adult Contemporary Futurism"

  • There was an episode of TNG where a "passenger" got onto ship's comms and was contacting Picard on the bridge. When Picard told the guy that the comms were reserved for ship's business, the guy asked why they weren't restricted, if that was the case. Picard said that was unnecessary as people in Star Fleet generally just...behave themselves.

  • I'm betting on this guy not lasting until November 2024 (not sure what the over/under is on November 17, 2023).

  • My cat has to sniff the can of cat food after I dump it out in her bowl so she can decide if it's worth the 4 steps it'll take to get to the bowl. She's a cat, she can smell the food in her bowl from less than a foot away. But if she doesn't get to sniff the can, it might as well be poison for all she knows.

  • Training a dog requires appropriate discipline, sufficient exercise + stimulation, adequate positive reinforcement, and most importantly of all: consistency.

    So no, most people do not bother.

  • I'm a fan of slasher flicks! I love the Scream franchise the most. Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Halloween are all classic slasher franchises, though because there's so many there's some real terrible movies in there (Jason X...omg). But the crummy camp is part of the charm.

  • You're thinking of Mitch McConnell. Thomas wrote in his opinion on overturning Roe v Wade that it should also be considered to overturn gay marriage and access to certain birth control methods, but left out anything about interracial marriage.