Erm, cops fit that description.

Sailing, because it’s dozens of hobbies in one: It’s a competitive sport either with a team or solo, or it can be a relaxing diversion, or it can be a terrifying personal challenge. It can encompass skills such as sewing, woodworking, machining, plumbing, physics, mathematics, design, navigation, radio communication, astronomy, meteorology, geography, geology, environmental sciences, electronics/electrical engineering, history, linguistics, culinary skills, and more. You can basically always be thinking about it!

They all should have been on a plane to Gitmo before the sun set on inauguration day.

Nah, worse than that. The root of the conservative pathology is self-hatred. They fear that they are worthless, shit people. A person who believes that they are better than everybody else can sit smugly in the corner and be superior in peace. Conservatives need near-constant reassurance that other people are worse than themselves, hence the performative cruelty they crave.

C’mon, so lame. I mean, I agree with the comments saying that being obsessed with a war is dumb, but obviously the right answer would be the Thirty Years War. Far more factions, more casus belli, more fights. Plus, it bolstered German nationalism, which led pretty directly to the Great War, which led to World War II, so those are technically part of its history.

But maybe I’m biased, because my surname originated in the Huguenot diaspora?

Image search for “biblically accurate angel”. It’s nightmare fuel, like the hallucinations of early image generation neural networks. Or, more historically, migraine or seizure visualizations. The snake probably would be less frightening.

The land-value tax is the only fair tax, after all.

I don’t have to try, since here you’re claiming that hospitals in countries with brown-skinned people are substandard and unhygienic.

Not a myth, I’ve seen it.

And she was not one of the grossest humans alive, but just had some hangups about “down there” that kept her from washing her vulva well.

And then there are people who envision all brown-skinned people as performing FGM with a piece of broken glass in a grass hut, when in fact, most instances of it are also hospital-performed medical procedures.

It’s not controversial to say that women differ sexually, right? For example, some women can orgasm from penetration alone, and others need more-direct clitoral stimulation. Everybody knows this, or should know this.

Would it be controversial to claim that, hey, perhaps men differ, too? What if we’re not exaggerating how much of a difference it makes? There are intact men right here in this discussion who say that most of their sensation comes from their foreskin, and they don’t feel much from their glans. It would destroy their enjoyment of sex to cut it off, even while many men wouldn’t notice much change, because most of their sensation comes from the glans.

id rather bust fast than not be sensitive down there

For what it’s worth, my friend tells me that in his experience, intact men have better awareness and control of their level of stimulation, and therefore last longer.

The struggle is real! However, if you look closely, the U.S. capitol has a row of oval windows inset in its dome that the Wisconsin capitol does not have.

With all due respect, this sounds like sophistry. The U.S. is generally very laissez faire in many things, but very much not so in the realm of land use. We have plenty of habitable land yet, but Euclidean zoning restricts what we’re allowed to do with it. In my city, which is typical in this regard, most of the land area is locked-in by law to single-family dwellings. We had a pretty contentious fight at the city council about easing the restrictions on the number of unrelated people who could live together in a house. (Typically, only family members are allowed.) It passed, which increased our available housing supply by a marginal amount.

Changes like this one, the Transit Overlay District zoning, and an apartment construction boom have not solved our housing woes, but we have had among the lowest growth in rental rates in the nation. And, not conincidentally, private equity has very little presence in our real estate market. Other cities that have allowed construction of new housing have similarly kept rental rates lower. Hence the states passing laws to eliminate single-family-only zones, and allowing the next increment of density by-right. Compare to California, the epicenter of the housing crisis, and the effect of very restrictive zoning, and Proposition 13.

This may not be a popular opinion, but this one regrettably validates libertarian logic. If we had a free market for housing, it’d bring rents down exactly this way. But we don’t, and it’s not even the fault of landlords or private equity, it’s due to government regulation. Housing in the U.S. is one of the most restrictively-regulated markets in existence. We can’t build more housing in most places because it’s illegal to do so under the zoning code, or it can’t be financed under HUD requirements for backing mortgages.

And this government came about because of the usual reason we do anything in the U.S.: Racism.

Hmm, yes, I guess I forgot about anthropology’s Out of Africa (In a Minivan) hypothesis on the origin of the human species.

How do you organize an armed group that’s big enough to be effective without the fascists hearing about it in advance?

don’t face them alone

*pervasive surveillance state has entered the chat*

Hey, wasn’t this supposed to be an actual dome? The demented, old dingbat described it as a literal dome.

Simple: Kids can walk, too.