Take my love

Take my land

Take me where I cannot stand

I don’t care 'cause I’m still free

You can’t take the sky from me

I pulled a muscle trying to pretzel my brain around that, too.

Hippos are extremely dangerous and viscious.

were?

I think you should follow that last sentence with a description of why that matters. I know by inference, but some may miss your point that by “killing any dog that pisses them off” they were selectively breeding for obedience to the alpha to the exclusion of all else. And then maybe extrapolate on how that trait translates into fierce loyalt to one individual which makes everything else a potential target for attack.

Are armor penetrating EMP rounds a thing yet?

“Did you kill anyone?” “Just cops” “No real people?” “Nah just cops”

They also discussed how students with higher grades had a better chance of going to college, while those with lower grades had a higher chance of going to jail, getting shot or getting killed, parents told The Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Although there was no intended malice involved

Yeah, what harm could come from making a gradeschooler think about getting shot or going to jail every time they take a test? I’m sure it will provide great motivation instead of turning the poor kids into nervous wrecks.

“The CIA apparently believes that it is not subject to federal law,” Byrnes said.

No point in riding bikes, then?

And gun safety 101 teaches you a gun is always loaded.

Not that the algorithms caters to nazis, but because they would have flagged Republicans as hate speech. As a resultn algorithms designed to combat hate speech, racism, white supremacy, and neo-nazism were atered down.

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-algorithm-crackdown-white-supremacy-gop-politicians-report-2019-4

Never too late!

I missed that, but pf course it’s true:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/trump-art-ambassador-home-paris-fakes-replicas.html

That’s sad to hear. I was in the same scene. Fortunately the raver friends that I still keep in touch with didn’t go down that road.

Think of all the people you’ve known who were open minded and accepting and how small the number of them seemed compared to the majority when we were growing up. Know that a lot of those people probably went on to inspire those qualities in others and raise their kids to value those things. I’ve seen mainstream society come a long way from my childhood in the 80s and teens in the 90s.

I agree, I had a lot more hope for Gen X but we were up against the juggernaut of the boomer voting bloc. As those selfish fucks age out we’re finally looking at the possibility of righting the ship.

I’m not British but I just say “cheers mate” to everyone. Works for me.

Grew up in the 80s and 90s. As progressive and openminded as I thought I was then…holy shit there are a lot of words and phrases I won’t touch any more because they sound archaic, racist, mysoginistic, or hateful today. Back then they were perfectly acceptable everyday things no one would bat an eye at. It does make me happy that at least in this small arena we seem to have made progress as a society.

(Should add that this is from a US perspective)

I’m ok now but for many years anything coconut would roil my stomach. Thank you Malibu rum.

“Each subreddit creates its own Community Points token, with a custom name and symbol.”

So based on the art in that panel: communities for a fidget spinner, pinwheel , and a brick…

• https://www.reddit.com/r/fidgetspinner is banned for violating the Reddit rules.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/pinwheel is banned for violating the Reddit rules.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Brick/ is a subreddit dedicated to…a brick? 33 total upvotes on 5 total threads.

Seems like par for the course.