When are adults starving through their own fault?

It’s just something to add emphasis, no need to nitpick.

Just as many people died in Sudan in the last two weeks as died in Gaza in the last two years.

How long will you be angry over things in the past while being deliberately ignorant of atrocities that are happening right now?

They couldn’t pass up the chance to simultaneously ban religious freedom and freedom of speech. Double-tap on the first amendment!

How dare you ask people to do some basic critical thinking!

The best selling comic book of all time was X-Men #1. No it’s not the first X-Men comic from the 1970s, it was a comic Marvel released in the 90s. The collectors all bought it because it was a #1 thinking it would be worth a lot of money some day. And this is exactly why Marvel did this.

Right now there’s probably at least a million copies of that comic preserved in mint condition by collectors. It’s worth about what they paid for it in the 90s… because there’s so many out there.

Yup. When you think about it, if you were really libertarian you’d have an electric car and maybe stand up a wind turbine and some solar panels in your yard. That way you wouldn’t be dependent on complex oil refineries and a global oil system, the majority of which is directly owned by foreign governments.

But how many libertarians actually do this? Really libertarianism is about a vague feeling of distrust in the government and it doesn’t actually go any deeper than that.

Teacher tells a kid to be careful of social media, but the kid’s favourite influencer tells the kid their teacher is lame and they shouldn’t listen to that. Who is the kid going to believe.

Also we don’t let kids into bars until they’re of a certain age. Sure kids are going to still do shenanigans to get in and sometimes they might succeed, but it reduces children getting drunk at bars by significant amount. And even when kids are able to do something they’re prohibited from, they at least know it’s not a normal thing and might understand there’s danger in what they’re doing.

The war’s over, maybe you should find a new hobby LOL.

Accomplish stuff? Look up how many seats the respective parties have. The democrats aren’t capable of accomplishing anything, but they might be able to prevent the Republicans from taking away a few things.

You gotta get out of the mindset that the Democrats are the government. They are not. They can push a little by shutting down the government, but a majority of Americans did vote for the Republicans to be in power. The Schumer doesn’t have a mandate to do anything, just a very narrow area where he can make a case that while Americans voted Republican they didn’t vote for what little healthcare they have to be taken away.

Also having the voters make the final decision on whether healthcare should be taken away wouldn’t be a bad thing.

It’s sad that Americans on both the left and right seem to hate democracy now.

Russia is desperate so started making noise about testing some missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. They like making noise about nukes in general because their conventional forces are failing at taking over Ukraine. Promoting fear of nuclear war is a card they play often, it’s easier to list the months Russia hasn’t made nuke threats in the last three years than the months they haven’t.

Trump is an idiot and didn’t understand the distinction between testing nuclear capable missiles and testing actual nuclear weapons. He doesn’t understand the Putin is weak now and the noise he’s making is a sign of that weakness and instead thinks it’s a sign of strength. Trump likes to copy Putin and is too stupid not to understand the distinction between a missile test and a nuclear weapons test, so started talking about doing nuclear weapons tests.

His administration is full of idiots that are only there because they are loyal to him and so they didn’t explain it to him. When a reporter explained the distinction between nuclear capable missile and actual nuclear weapons, since Trump is incapable of admitting he’s wrong about anything he insisted that Russia and China are testing nuclear weapons. But he’s the only one in the world that knows about it apparently.

Now it’s a weird situation where Trump’s sycophants probably know it’s stupid to do, but they aren’t going to question dear leader’s orders. But that doesn’t mean it will happen since they may be too incompetent to be able to do such a test. I’m not sure if they know it’s actually the Department of Energy that does nuclear testing not the Department of Defense War that do them. The facilities to do them have been repurposed so there would need to be some work done to make it possible even if they figure out which department does them.

There’s a significant likelihood that Trump gets distracted be something else before the administration can figure out how to do it. But if it continues to be a controversy then he’ll stick with it, since distracting from the Epstein files and various other corruption is the top priority.

If you flipped it over and ran it upside down it would work for some reason.

Older generations gained their experiences in a monoculture, so maybe it kinda worked in the past. But with social media becoming a dominant force in culture, there is no longer any monoculture. A Gen Z person brainwashed by the “manoshpere” internet culture has a completely different way of understanding the world from someone brainwashed by the “leftist” internet culture.

Also older generations aren’t exactly frozen in time. When I was a teenager I laughed at the jokes at the end of Ace Ventura. In the decades since I learned some things and one of the things I learned was that trans people are people and those jokes were really mean. Others may not have learned that. Social media has caused algorithmic divisions in all generations, so thinking of things in terms of “this generation thinks this way and that generation thinks that way” is completely false. It’s just a way to make someone in Gen Z think “the other generations don’t think the way my generation does” which compartmentalizes people into left wing Gen Z vs. right wing Gen Z AND right wing millennials AND right wing boomers.

Kinda ironic that Gen X, the generation that first used the internet and watched all of it go down a dark path, is just being ignored completely in all of this.

McDonnell Douglas is actually the reason why Boeing sucks now. After Boeing took over McDonnell Douglas, the MD execs (who were skilled at office politics, but not building airplanes) wound up rising through the ranks and now Boeing is essentially run by the MD execs now.

Since Boeing became more like McDonnell Douglas after the takeover, I think it’s fair to call it a Boeing plane. It’s the McDonnell Douglas execs running Boeing now, so it’s fair to hold them responsible.

This guy is making a meme about not everything not being a meme LOL

It’s almost like an entire generation isn’t just one person. Maybe “generations” is just another made up thing used to divide people?

I prefer it that way.

Iran invested a hell of a lot more into air defenses and really it was Israel (which has significantly less military power than the US) that cleared the way for the one US air strike there. The effectiveness of that air campaign remains to be seen, but it certainly weakened the Ayatollah, and set back their nuclear weapons program. How much damage it did to their nuke program would be something that would be kept secret by all parties, so there’s no way to know. Doesn’t stop people with a political agenda from speculating of course.

Of course whether or not the strikes were effective doesn’t change the fact that Israel was able to establish air superiority over Iran rather quickly. The US has the same weapon systems Israel has, and more of it. A lot more of it.

The US doing air strikes on Venezuela would be stupid for all kinds of geopolitical reasons, but the capability of Venezuela to inflict significant losses on the US military isn’t one of them. Venezuela has older versions of the same weapon systems Iran had since Iran and Russia are their main suppliers.

Why else did they have four hobbits in the fellowship?

You need a few spare mules in case you gotta put the first one down.

Toast is a weird thing where you take bread, which is baked, and you say “no, this needs to be baked even more! In fact I’ll buy a machine specifically for doing this!”

Now if you want to flatten out everything, even the floor under the sea that is then also filled with what has been land before, then we do not even need to know how much the land is. The water will be above it, regardless the height of the land.

But wouldn’t moving the land from the high points increase the circumference of the solid part of the Earth and stretch the water around it a little bit, making the height of the water a little bit less?