I thought about that after I saw something recently here about being excited some character wore glasses or something. I don't remember the exact reference except it being about glasses.
I've worn glasses since I was four. I really can't at any point in my life felt like I ever would have noticed or cared in any entertainment if someone wore glasses or not.
That's not to say certain characters aren't more relatable to me in fiction, that's always been the case, but it's never because of appearance. Nor are they ever exactly like me.
I thought at first what I saw about that game was a parody. Then it keeps rolling in. So we have the actual wokest game ever?
Seriously. It was probably just some boys talking among themselves that need to learn to not put things on record in texts. As with nearly any boast among boys that age, it's all talk and almost none of it ever actually happened. How about calling out whoever is leaking private conversation instead?
Girls are 100x worse with their gossip than boys are anyway.
I don't know, it's what looks like 81 minutes prior to the game. It's some generic trivia they put up there to give people that were going to sit there for a ln hour something to to do. Not like it's something they put up during a timeout in the middle of the game.
this is not representative of our institutional values
Educating about the birthplace of an important figure in history? Yeah I guess that couldn't be further from the values of an indoctrination institution.
I haven't noticed the first bit in the US. Only the really hippy establishments use paper straws around here. I don't like disposable electric things though, like I saw a video recently about an electric lawnmower that broke and they don't even sell parts. Either its under warranty and they give you a new one or it's garbage. My gas lawnmower will have parts available for decades most likely with the prevalence of Honda engines out there. Also been looking for a toolbox and that stuff has cheaped up badly. Surprisingly quality hand tools are still very prevalent and made in western countries.
There's about to be a lot of unemployed university professors
I'd go back to about Woodrow Wilson for a uniparty with some exceptions mixed in as President that didn't play along. Although the ruin of the United States goes all the way back to Alexander Hamilton. There's been issues from day 1.
I bet it's part of it. That or they have to lock it up and I guess have someone to retrieve it employed if you're lucky enough to find someone. Getting tired of being light on shoplifting making it a pain in the ass to get anything. I had to track someone down to buy a $15 tool at Home Depot recently, then they have to walk to the front and watch me pay for it. Those stores policy is otherwise to help the shoplifters out the door. I might just start carrying a magnet around in my car for when I want to buy something, I think that's all it takes to defeat most of those anti theft things.
My son regularly mixes with younger kids, kids his age, older kids, Gen Zers, Millennials, Gen Xers and members of the Silent Generation (he’s a little low on Boomers for some reason).
That made me think of what friends I had in school. I almost never had actual good friends my age at any point in my life. I consider that age segregation a factor to why I was so weird and quiet in elementary school age especially. Even now, my two best friends are 11 years older and 11 years younger than me. School age, what I remember positively more than friends are adults who gave me the time of day and would treat me like a person. (definitely were not teachers) My cousin is middle school age and homeschooled and has more good friends around his age than I did that age by far, despite not being forced around them all the time. It happens organically. He's also basically a friend with me in a lot of ways as he's never had beaten into his head that friends should only have been born +- 6 months of him. Cramming kids in a group of people their age and not really ever being around anyone else is not social development at all, I'd argue it's socially stunting.
Aren't tourism boards typically government funded marketing entities of the place they are advertising? Why would the Iranian tourism board try to scare people away by saying its dangerous? Their entire purpose is to bring tourism dollars to their place.
Who your neighbor is aside, love does not mean coddle unconditionally. Supporting someone’s choice to lead a life of sin that condemns them to hell is the opposite of love.
I got more than that at Christmas when I was a kid, but that was about the only time in the year my parents bought me fun things I wanted. There was no every time we go to the store you get something. Outside of Christmas I probably got $50 total on my birthday and got to rent a video game a few times a year and buy a few books.
Still, my family now loves to revolve around presents too much. They have all these rules they don't explicitly define but about money and how much it's supposed to be and the other person has to get the same amount, etc. I've noped out of most of it. I'll give my Mom, my nephews, and my teen cousin something, but it's totally random and specific to them. Mom is kinda broke so hers is just for that, and the kids are the only ones close to me. Sometimes I splurge, sometimes I'm cheap. They'd be fools to count on a specific fixed amount of present from me. Don't give to them in the big "party" to be seen either, it's not about the show of it to me.
I've told the kids before too that I'd much rather actually do something than give them things. Like a couple years ago I hung out with the cousin one night the weekend of his birthday, stayed up all night watching horror movies and playing games with him, went out at like 2am to drive around the empty town and get some junk food. He thought it was the greatest thing ever, and it cost me practically nothing.
It always reminds me of the attitude many atheists feel like they have to carry around with them where they talk down to everyone below them. It's not like they just don't like sports, they want to be condescending to anyone that does.
Sure there are issues with tons of these sports leagues all over the world and current year stuff, but watching men compete for entertainment goes back almost all of recorded history and is perfectly fine.
Had that argument years ago with people trying to convince me Joey Gallo was a superstar. Not a chance. He wasn't even capable of putting a ball towards the third base side when they leave it entirely open. But holy shit 40 HR wow! Turned out I was right. It's fun to watch the cat and mouse of a good pitcher and hitter. Watching a guy swing full tilt at everything and hope it goes out, not so much.
Yeah I don't see how the NFL could count as any sort of escapism anymore. I can manage baseball and hockey a bit and for the most part at least day to day it's just watching a sport. The NFL and NBA is like turning on The View and having a sports game break out.
Down with the south Oklahoma Rangers!
Sounds about like my Civics teacher. I suspect she was old school southern Democrat, because of the way she'd talk about certain politicians some. It was subtle though. She also talked about her guns a lot. I'll give her credit though, she had high standards, made sure you learned the stuff, and still managed to treat students totally fair and not feel like she had favorites.
Her tests too, damn. It was like a blank page. List the Presidents in order. Describe every amendment and what it does. Stuff like that.
They aren't helping their case blaming or mentioning directed energy weapons, only making it more easy to dismiss as just another crazy conspiracy theorist. Look at the facts, it's simple enough to draw much less crazy conclusions based on probability.
Lying fake victims are worse than the actual real criminals that do violent things. Yet the liars continue to win in the court of public opinion, because our public are idiots.
They have such a stupid made up case. The best smoking gun they can come up with is talking up a property to a lender. I mean really?! This guy is supposed to be the biggest threat to "our democracy" in history and that's the worst he did.
I still can't figure out how it's a crime. If I go to the bank and ask for a mortgage on my property and tell them it's worth 500k and an appraisal says it's worth 100k, I'm going to jail I guess? That's literally why property appraisal exists, they are the supposed experts on property value. I am not an expert, so why would what I say have any value?
Albeit, I could probably learn to be an expert at generic normie house appraisal. They can't do basic math and don't dare try to point out their flaws. As far as I'm concerned they can get replaced with AI.
So there once was this guy with a bulldozer. I've even thought he went a bit too far. I can understand though, because if this happened to me I might just be buying my own bulldozer.
Oh ok, I never buy old coins really and just stick to highly mainstream commodity grade coins, not collectible stuff. Although I do have some old 90% silver US coins, but those were just things I've acquired occasionally, and there are so many of those in existence they are a known commodity.
This is the second time Ive seen it today, I'm curious you're logic on being so insistent on bars. I tend to prefer coins if they don't come at too much of a price premium. They can be authenticated to a very high certainty by look and feel alone and come in various sizes for easy trade. It's not like whatever government minted them can decide later its not authentic after the fact.
I’m not a “stand with Israel” at all, it taking away from the IRS works for me. The money Biden wants for Ukraine I’d rather burn for heat though. They can have $0