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3·11 hours agoI’m sure there are people who go to Mexico/Canada as often as Europeans seem to be popping into other countries, but most of us very rarely do.
But most of us do have to visit other states often, which works out to a similar radius as hopping countries in Europe in many cases, that’s why I made the comparison I did.
That’s pretty funny, but I’m years past accepting the “hurr durr ignorant american knows only one language” thing. Except as a response to someone harassing someone about their English capabilities, as seems to be the case in your example. 😁
The way I figure it, if the people two states away from me in every direction spoke a different language from me, and from each other, I’d probably be multilingual, too. (As would most of us)
I always hope that everyone speaks English and if they seem worried about how it sounds I remind them that their English is way better than my their language which usually breaks the ice.
That’s hilarious and I hope you don’t mind that I’m going to steal it to post.
Robot Drug Delivery Dog is so much better than Robot NYPD Mass-Surveillance dog that I almost can’t express how happy OP makes me.
https://apnews.com/article/robot-dog-nypd-61bd64c94360e30f110f65626cc1687c
The city’s first robot police dog was leased in 2020 by Adams’ predecessor, former Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the city’s contract for the device was cut short after critics derided it as creepy and dystopian.
Adams said he won’t bow to anti-robot dog pressure.
Jesus. For just a second I had some hope that they learned something.
Just gonna copy paste this response from @mhague@mhague@lemmy.world because it happened to sort right next to yours and is the obvious reply (edit - not reason, reply, fixed) for this.
Republicans seemed to have successfully done a false equivalency. They lied about witch hunts and then did one, and then when the president swatted it away people reacted with, “Oh, they’re both the same.”
Trump pardons traitors, insurrectionists, Nazis. A witch hunt victim is in the same league, because family I guess. Not like that was the reason for the witch hunt or anything!
Regardless, when I get to 82 years old, if I have the chance to keep my son out of the grip of a president who has vowed revenge and retribution on all his political opponents, AND get a couple more years with him before I die, you can bet I’m taking it. Damn what anyone thinks about it.
42·1 day agoI can reluctantly believe that is true (despite the laughable first paragraph where he gives example after example about why such “assumptions” are reasonable) - but he’s old enough to know that once an artist puts art out into the world, their interpretation of it is no longer the only one.
The song IS a gay anthem even if it wasn’t written that way.
edit - they the
Why wouldn’t they? It will be a bare minimum of four years before anyone in power pressures them on environmentalism, and we all know where literally anything else ranks against profit for corporate America.
Fair enough. 🙂
I’m like a notch below you on that. I won’t condemn him, but I acknowledge there are valid reasons he should not have done it.
They did accidentally make a decent ruling recently (though I’m struggling to remember what it was now) so they do fuck up and do good things from time to time. 🤞
On the one hand this is pretty hypocritical. On the other hand I probably would do the same in his position given that trump plans to weaponize the Justice department.
Seriously. Here’s the scenario I put myself in:
- I’m 82 years old
- Three close family members, including my first wife and two of my children, have died.
- I’m being succeeded by someone who has promised to leverage government agencies to attack his political enemies
- My son has symbolically become one of those enemies
- I have choices:
- I can wait to see whether my successor does some third world shit to him while he’s in prison and be powerless to stop it if he does
OR
- I can use my current powers to free him, saving him from that fate, and getting more time with my remaining son during my final few years of life.
Fuck I know what choice I’m making.
I understand every single argument about why he shouldn’t have done it. I agree with some of them. Still no problem for me to put myself in a state of mind where I do the exact same thing.
Go ahead and come at me if you want, folks. I understand, but I won’t be changing my mind. If I’m 82 years old, my son stands a good chance of being abused while in a jail cell after I retire, and I can both avoid that plus also get an extra year+ with my son before I die, with nothing more required than expressing my wish for him to be released, I’m doing it.
IME you are pegging entirely the wrong group of people.
For at least 10 years the only people I’ve heard making a stink about being able to get raw milk are the same folks complaining about fluoride in drinking water.
That’s not so much the crystals and oils crowd as it is the fuck your feelings crowd.
This is an innate skill in the days of the internet for anytime you are looking for just the right moment in a video of any kind. 🤔
- I love the baby shark song. It would take months for me to get sick of it.
The pattern is that it fits in perfectly with Trumps overall positioning and past policies, and lying about it fits past behavior also.
This argument matters not at all though, as I said before. I can’t even run back here to claim victory if he does it (not that I would anyhow) because:
If he thinks it makes him more powerful to do so, he’ll do it when he gets in, regardless of what they are saying now and regardless of whether they are lying currently. I have no doubt of that.
What’s the over/under that his dad is one?
