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Think of the childre… oh, we’re not doing that now?

Pattern: 7, but I swear they were a different color.

Yeah, we don’t import anything. We’re smart like that. /s

They probably don’t even have time to read the contents of the bill they are voting for.

cough PATRIOT Act

I always wonder, there wasn’t enough time to read through it and debate it because we had to act quickly, but damn, someone sure wrote it quickly. Unless it was there all along, waiting for a crisis.

Not even suggesting the crisis itself was a conspiracy, only that they were ready to jump on anything to gain power.

I could see you not reacting well to the gift and them being upset, but then it turned into something more than that. They made the mistake of doing something that you claim is well known you don’t like. You held your line and rather than let it sit for a bit insisted it had to go. Now you’re both mad/upset over a gift. Doesn’t make sense, does it? Even more so if the value of this object isn’t that much even new. Who is hurt more by this? You’re confused about their reaction but were you hurt by the act of giving, even if it was something unwanted? The core thing you should ask yourself is why it became an argument, and was it worth it? It doesn’t even matter who was right.

Like the US, right? That’s what you mean, right?

Renewables also have their dark side that none of the proponents want to talk about, or if they do they use whataboutism to point out that at least it’s not as bad as X and Y. Even the name renewable is a falsehood to tap into the idea of some perpetual cycle that doesn’t harm anything.

Although I agree with your point, the real loss of focus goes even further than energy production. It’s energy demand. What was the first R in the three Rs of the 70s that was quickly tossed for just Recycling? Reduce. We have done a poor, poor job of any type of reduction, in fact we’re done the opposite thanks to consumerism and population growth, both warned about long ago. And now the rest of the world wants to join in on the higher standard of living (which is understandable), and that can only push the line faster up.

Overall not that surprising. Some interesting differences between states, but regionally it’s what I expected.

The old trick to get the right answer on the internet. You don’t post the question, you post the wrong answer very confidently. Someone will correct you.

Being against vaccines is definitely an unpopular opinion for good reason. You’re just trying to connect something that is popular to justify it.

Agreed, it was theirs to lose, as it often is. It’s a known fact that if more people vote it tends to swing left, so I’m not sure why they always seem to try and cater to the right side voters who are going to be much harder to convince. I mean I know part of it is most of the Democratic party is actually centralist, but still… go after the easier win that might actually help your case? And maybe move that way politically to ensure power?

I’d rather she stay in Congress a while, either side, and gain a leadership role. Lot more power there.

Or maybe whose vote didn’t get counted. I think the jury is still out on that right now.

I ran into this working with a Fortune 500 company. I came into the job with an amateur experience with PHP and SQL, saw them trading around large amounts of daily info in Excel via email and the cloud and asked, why isn’t this in a proper database? I was told it was how it’s always been done and we couldn’t change it. So I did it that way, muttering how stupid it was. A clear example of what DIDN’T have to be an email.

The higher charge would be some degree of manslaughter, not murder, unless you know of evidence that he planned to do this.

Obviously this is his fault, but given he’s only 19 this sucks for everyone - even with him getting a lighter sentence. This will stay with him his whole life. And it’s probably a combination of the area and how unfriendly it is to pedestrians, an issue with line of sight, and night now falling earlier. This is definitely the right place to post this. Even in an area around a university with heavy foot traffic there’s always some close calls, and like people said in the article, some people get behind the wheel and think they are entitled, using it to dominate a situation when it’s easier and safer to just let people walk by. Cars suck. Many drivers suck too.

There are topics to debate on concerning AI use, but in the end art itself is always subjective. What’s funny is that AI has gotten to a level now where if used carefully it might fly under the radar of AI critics, meanwhile they are attacking artists who aren’t using AI but have a style that seems to them to be “fake”.

Wonder what the audio version sounds like?

Rescue dogs from testing places are the saddest animals you’ll ever see, and paint a picture of how evil humans can be all in the name of “science”, or worse, “profit”.

Puppies who couldn’t walk right on carpet or grass because they had always been on a hard surface, or would cower from a pet because they never got contact at all… at least the ones that get out have some chance of a life worth living once they get past the trauma. They’re the lucky ones.

If they’re asking for them, they don’t know what they are. Therefore they don’t exist.

If they require you to make one to fill it out, then there are other jobs out there.