Ah, but is a chicken egg a chicken egg because it came out of a chicken or because a chicken comes out of it?

That is the real question.

Maybe it likes the hose. Don’t kink shame!

It hides the problem

Seems to be working as intended

… Doubling every day…

Yeah, I disinterested, “Who? Ronald Dump? Is this someone who matters?” Wouldn’t be bad either.

As a US citizen, I really wish the official reaction was just:

Fuck off.

I’d argue that the last two months have been the culmination of the last ~50 years of US fascism.

I think you can dislike pedophiles and even want to see them punished, yet still recognize that some asshole doing it to get revenue from their YouTube channel is not the right solution.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that most crime is the result of either poverty or neurological flaws, and torture is not the best solution to either problem.

People need to be kept safe, and the criminal justice system is ostensibly the mechanism we’ve decided to use for that.

I just want to say that while scrolling by the thumbnail for this post, my brain guessed that the article was about chickens playing checkers using their eggs as game pieces.

That’s why I stopped to check on what it was about.

Brains are odd.

As an American, if they showed up at my front door the most polite thing I’d say to them would be the “fuck off and die” they’d hear right before I slammed the door.

Anyone uninvited gets the door slammed in their face, but I am rarely inspired to make a verbal statement as well.

There used to be an exception to the door slam for people selling girl scout cookies, but they don’t go door to door anymore.

My door mat says “GO AWAY!”, so I feel getting a door slammed in your face if you ring the doorbell is justified.

Not just a Nazi, but a chickenshit Nazi.

If you’re gonna be a Nazi, be one. Don’t deny it after you’re noticed.

Can someone explain what is up with all the “poses for a portrait” captions in the article?

Of course, there’s always posed pictures in an article like this, but usually the caption has something beyond “[person’s name] poses for portrait”, even if it’s just a quote from the article.

Why would anyone bother with sanctions? Nothing a foreign government could do would be worse than what our own is doing.

Just wait it out and hope you manage to find a way to secure our nukes after everything disintegrates.

As a US citizen, I cannot get over how fucking dumb this country is.

I skimmed through the Romance genre in my media server. Here’s what I came up with. Not sure if any of these would work.

WALL-E

Dracula (1992)

Starman. He’s not human, but don’t hold that against him.

Warm Bodies, if you don’t mind a zombie theme

Return to Me. A wife has to die, but there’s a nice romance once she’s out of the way.

On Golden Pond. There’s a romance in there, but it isn’t the main part of the story. And they’re elderly.

The Man with Two Brains. True, she’s just a brain in a jar, but none of us is perfect.

Love Story, just don’t believe it when she says love means never having to say you’re sorry.

Little Manhattan, but the romance is on the other end of the age spectrum from On Golden Pond

The Fault in Our Stars

The Natural

Obedience and conformity.

Same as always.

I think I’m down to 2 hours and 12 years, 9 months.

Assuming it’s still possible to retire by then.

I think you misunderstood. He wasn’t defending the January 6th terrorists, he was defending the FBI agents who were investigating them.

I’ve never worked for a for-profit company since I graduated college. There is variation in non-profit employers, but there are some that are great places to work.

I got a job at a university after graduation (different university than where I got my degree), and I worked there in different departments until I took a job in the university hospital. I’ve worked here for more than 25 years.

The pay tends to be a bit lower than what you’d get at a for-profit company, but not as bad as some would lead you to believe. I’ve been able to buy a home, raise a family, and live fairly comfortably.

The benefits are very good. There’s a strong focus on education and growth, and work-life balance isn’t just a lie they tell people in the interview.