Whether this was deliberate or not, it’s still pretty funny.

I take it back, if it wasn’t deliberate it would be especially funny.

Whoa, NFSW tag that!

MASTER CYLINDER!!

Also, whenever my wife and I are really sleepy during the day, one of us will pull out "People let me tell you 'bout my NEW BEST FRIEND! Barnaby Jones…

…NAP."

Leaving before the rush?

I, due to volunteering my seat on an earlier flight to get a voucher for a future flight, got put into first class on my replacement flight.

When I was sitting down, and the woman next to me pulled her legs up so her shins were parallel to the front of the seat (this position), my mind was blown.

That is not the problem. Population declines as countries move to first world status, and I think the people not having kids due to financial constraints are few and far between. Otherwise population would not start and continue diminishing as an area becomes more affluent. People have less (or no) kids because they don’t want kids, don’t want a bunch of kids, and can reasonably expect the kids they have to survive to adulthood. And access to birth control, education, and other opportunities (mostly for women) makes having less kids (by their own desire) possible.

So bringing capable workers in means they pay into taxes that support the aging and school-age population, and never had to have their school-age years paid for. They’re a productive member with half the cost over their lifetime.

It’s a no-brainer… as long as you’re not worried about changing the… shade or hue… of your population over time.

Our replacement rate has been low for a long time, but our population has stayed relatively steady… because of immigration.

Low replacement rate is only bad if you’re racist/xenophobic. Otherwise there’s usually (in a supposedly first-world country) an easy solution.

And if you think this is a dig on specifically the US, it isn’t. Japan and South Korea are about to have insane difficulties with a very obvious and simple solution, and the US had that solution and are destroying it in favor of racism and xenophobia.

Was it from carrying /c/tenforward while The_Picard_Maneuver was on sabbatical?

So, to your first question (about Antifa), MAGA don’t consider what the current administration (or anything they support) to be fascist. Because they tend to put the conclusion before the question: “I am against fascism. I support these policies. Therefore these policies must not be fascist.”

And because they’ve decided these fascist policies are not fascist, the term “Antifa” to them is similar to “pro-life” for pro-choice people. It’s a term that isn’t exactly accurate but makes the group naming themselves look like the good guys. And in the same way that pro-choice people don’t consider themselves “anti-life” just because pro-life people call themselves that, MAGA people don’t consider themselves “pro-fascist” just because Antifa call themsleves that.

Mobile terhering hotspot is: 8 HZ WAN IP

I’m waiting for somebody to be looking at their phone, smile, and look around. It hasn’t happened yet, but I chuckle at somebody getting it some day.

As the show went on, I ketp thinking that it was so good, and the end was going to ruin it. That it had to have an end, and there’s no way it could be satisfying.

And then it was perfect, and I loved it, and I watched the whole series over again.

If you’re not using one of these, you might be cracking eggs wrong.

My daughter’s class (6th grade) is reading Hunger Games. I feel like that’s a great way to get kids into it.

It’s a silly distinction. If you are “going to college/university,” you could be going for any number of degree programs, from a Bachelor’s Degree, to an Associates Degree, to a Master’s Degree, or whatever. The degree program is irrelevant. If you are going to school, and it is a college or university, you are going to college/university.

Any response to “ive been thinking”

I usually quickly respond “you okay?” in a concerned tone.

Yes and no.

I have never had a lust for power. I have never had a desire to do things that people in power abuse their position to do (like nightmare islands, sex with interns, crushing minorities). I don’t even have an intense desire for money beyond basic comfort (I would love to have money for a boat right now, but I’m content saving up for it). So corruption for any of that? No.

However, I am not sure I have the capability of doing good in a proper way. I can’t tell if I’d be a Sisko or if I would just fail to achieve any of my aims out of not wanting to do things the wrong way (if you go authoritarian to try to make things better, is that still corrupt or evil?). The world is a fucked up, difficult to navigate place, morally, when you are making decisions for a lot of people.

So yeah, I could avoid corruption for my own sake, but I don’t think I would be able to be a benevolent dictator.

I cut my own hair every weekend. I’m in the military, though (and no, I don’t just shave it). I found that I do it more to my liking (and consistently) than the barbers I’ve gone to, it only takes 20 minutes, I don’t have to pay $30, and I can shower immediately after. I use a 6 (3/4 inch) on top, a 3 (3/8 inch) around the curve transitioning to the sides, and then fade down from there, 2 to 1.5 to 1 and finally .5 (1/16 inch) around my ears, side-burns, and most of the back. Keeps everything clean, I always look good, and I spend about $40 every year or two.

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I think people haven’t gotten to the point of arguing with you because they have no idea what you’re trying to say.

To be clear, I’m not arguing with you either.

I feel like “render unto caesar what is caesar’s” to mean “pay your taxes. The money you’re using is theirs. Your faith and beliefs aren’t really part of that.”

Which is really funny in the current political context.