I love the critical mass metaphor for Lemmy. Posts and comments are the neutrons that knock free other posts and comments after reaching other people. If we spread out our fissile material into hundreds of tiny pails, then the neutrons just fly away into the air without having any effect.
Price anchoring. The marketing trick in which sellers put some random, high number as the “regular” price or MSRP, so the offer price seems like a deal.
Yesterday was the first day that Lemmy activity tipped over the threshold, and there were too many overnight posts for me to read all of them over breakfast.
If only they weren’t making it so easy.
Obergefell v. Hodges: Same-sex couples have a fundamental right to marry.
Lawrence v. Texas: Anti-sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
Griswold v. Connecticut: Opposite-sex couples have a Constitutional right to privacy and contraception.
Loving v. Virginia: Bans on interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
The media still won’t mention the obvious signs of mental decline, so… not soon?
I had a run of animal names:
Beach Horse
Mounting Crows
Anger Mouse
The Dead Sloth
A Sheep at the Wheel
Feet Foxes
Squirrel Gut Zippers
Then others:
Garage
Blogging Molly
Matthew Sweat
Mister Hazel
W2
They Might Be Grants
Ratiohead
Basis
Toby
This is why I think Marc Maron was right: The guy needs to have a massive stroke, so his supporters can see him alive with weakness and disability.
Seriously, though, is it too late to rescind the declaration? If we’re gonna have a king no matter what, I’d rather have King Charles.
As an American, I’m gonna barge in with my loud opinion, 'cuz that’s what we do. Here’s something which people living elsewhere might not know that Americans aren’t ready to hear:
Automobiles are luxury toys and fashion accessories, and we shouldn’t base our entire lives on them. No, the car industry didn’t make our economy strong; it took off after we already had a lot of extra wealth to burn after becoming a world economic powerhouse. We can’t afford to keep wasting all that wealth on them as the world starts to burn, and half of our citizens sink into poverty.
I’ll continue to explain this as long as it’s still relevant: People hear words differently based on their beliefs. We hear “law” as rules that everybody must follow. They hear “law” as state power, or agents of the state who wield that power, like in “the law is at the door.”
That means we hear “rule of law” to mean that even the powerful have to obey the rules like the rest of us. They hear “rule of law” as the exercise of state power by its agents (police, ICE, ATF, et al.), and they prefer it to be exercised vigorously against outgroups.