Were you under the impression we were disagreeing? Or have you not met such Christian women?

Yeah, we had plenty of bad spots, but we didn’t shrivel up and cry over a dead rhino. We had the problem dumped right in our lap. No, “Goodness! Children shouldn’t see such things!” We are all well aware.

And BTW, GenX eliminated lead paint, asbestos, and cigarettes (in America, smoke on Europe!). Another 10 years of DDT and we could have wiped malaria of the face of the Earth, but the US said, “We got it under control! Fuck the rest of y’all. And BTW, we won’t trade with anyone using DDT.” 10-years and malaria could be extinct. Fuck Racheal Carlson. Silent Spring killed more humans than Hitler.

I feel like you’re missing the economic system vs. the government system. Those are two separate entities that must be controlled for.

Mu point here is that capitalism is a fucking mess, with no government controls. Of course it is! As with any economic system.

So, what’s your solution? I am listening.

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beaver

Have these people never encountered wild beavers?

Their definition of misogyny differs just a bit.

And you would be morally bankrupt were you rich. I forget the psychological term, but the idea is well documented. When people attain wealth and power, they don’t feel the rules apply to them. And it happens to all of us. “I would be better!”, you scream. Nah, probably not so much. No one is immune.

Saw a great case of this with Hillary Clinton, though I forget the particulars. She’s stumping for some law or policy that she blatantly violated and a journalist (we used to have those) called her on the hypocrisy. “But… that doesn’t apply to me.”

Not like she started out rich and powerful. Sure, she had some privilege, but not First Lady of the United Fucking States and Secretary of State kinda privilege.

The whole concept is kinda horrifying. When I hit the “middle-aged white-guy with a decent income” zone, I started not giving a fuck about breaking simple laws. Fuck they gonna do? I’m driving without a legal license ATM. When I was young and broke, jail. Now? They won’t pull me over in the first place, slap on the wrist, at worst. See how that psychology builds with real wealth and power?

Now think on that kinda thought process as one get’s truly rich and powerful. Morals, out the window. You still think you’re doing the right thing, but you’re badly misaligned with the lowly common people.

As an American, it’s really weird hearing the German trains are not on time. I always looked to Germany to be perfectly punctual. (And no, that’s not a WWII jibe.)

In 1970s elementary school we had a children’s book showing a decapitated rhino with its horn hacked off. First time kid?

That’s a good thing! Nothing was terribly wrong with the plant in the first place and all that happened was a poof of radioactive steam, that affected nothing and no one.

Only reason people shit bricks was the summer block buster The China Syndrome preceding the event by 12-days. Movie’s about a nuclear plant losing its core in a meltdown, Chernobyl style. Imagine that!

A point I’ve been screaming about since Trump 1.0! These people are not exposed to the media we are exposed to. The scroll their FB feed, watch Fox News, maybe what they’ve inadvertently trained YouTube to show, no idea what’s going on in the world.

MTG is in their feeds! That cannot stand.

She’s simply getting ahead of Trump going down over dementia and the Epstein Files. LOL, looks like they’re ALL trying to get ahead. Not sure I’ve seen a bill pass both houses of Congress with 1 lonely dissenter.

I never stopped stealing media. Have a Prime subscription for the delivery, only used the video service one night.

I can’t log in to YT and use Firefox/uBlock Origin to stop ads. Works fine in Edge. What is that about?!

Picked up a keyboard at the thrift with a pink sticky note on the bottom:

user:admin

pass:password

Yes, someone had to write that down.

And… deleted.

^ Hob Gadling right here.

That scam works well for AWS. My last company was a very small software dev (120 people) and spent $6M a year on AWS. Can you imagine the infra you could build with that much money!? And still have plenty left over to pay a small team to be responsible for it.

I got thrown in the drunk tank in college solely for failing the recite the alphabet backwards and mixing M and N, cuffed me the second I mixed it up. They had nothing else on me, was riding my bike straight down the sidewalk after returning library book in the wee hours. Performed the roadside aerobics perfectly.

Right here, where ICE is not. Want me to chase them down in another state?