Personally I’m sad they didn’t get a majority, because that’s probably the best cure, people need to see how damaging their policies are, and how stupid they really are.

Be careful what you wish for. That’s the attitude America had that earned us another run of the Orange pedo.

It was also the attitude of Weimar Germany towards the Nazi party.

OMG can you imagine if people did that though? ‘This person posted about the Dodgers! I hate the Dodgers! I demand that nobody post anything about them ever because I don’t want to see it!’

Oh man, my cousin had a classmate that was shocked and confused when she learned that not everyone had, or could afford, a yacht. To her, that was just something everyone had, because they weren’t that expensive.

No, but their preachers all talk Prosperity Gospel at them. And a preacher wouldn’t lie about the word of God!

It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them, and every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough, all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are.

Man, the people at sh.itjust.works are really trying to compete with the .ml folks for the most garbage takes lately it seems

Well, very few people like to be told they’re the villain…

Even when not grown as a crop, alders, willows, and birches tend to have a more ‘human’ lifespan, around a century or so.

Then on the other end of the spectrum, there are trees like yews, sequoias, and bristlecone pines, which live for millennia.

Editorial Page editor Adam O ‘Neal testified that he doesn’t have a Bluesky account, and doesn’t regularly check social media in the mornings. But he did receive messages from various individuals about my posts. Individuals whose names and identities he then could suddenly not remember.

Sounds like Bezos got butthurt that not everyone was mourning his darling little Charlie lol

The same fantasy world where feeding ducks makes them forget how to eat grass and touching a baby bird will make it smell too much like humans so the parents reject it lol

If we’re going by Stoker’s rules, they can, but can only leave the ship for land at certain parts of the tide.

To people who don’t know, or who know just enough to be dangerous.

For instance, let’s say this person knows how the CIA admitted to messing with another country to put a puppet government in so that the US would have control. And that they biased the people of the US against the people trying to run the country that they didn’t like via lots of nasty propaganda.

Tankies will take that, and use it to claim that the US is trying to do that to China/Russia/North Korea/favorite-tankie-flavor-of-the-week, and therefore any bad thing you hear is nothing but lies and propaganda. Then they start listing good things about said country, making it actually sound amazing and wonderful and sparkly-perfect. In fact you’ll see them do this sequence quite a bit.

A person might be swayed to think that since they’d been lied to once, it was happening again. So they believe the tankie, because no-one comes along and says things like ‘that government actually admitted themselves that they did x bad thing’, or something.

True, but the argument isn’t necessarily for them (although some have spoken of arguments starting cracks in their thinking that developed into them breaking out of the mindset years later). It’s for other people reading them.

There are, unfortunately, too many people who blindly believe what they see online, and tankies are masters at seeming reasonable. And so if they go unchallenged, people will think that means that their opinions are valid, and they are much more likely to drift towards the tankie mindset themselves. A challenge makes other people think.

My right to privacy in a fucking doctor’s office is not an insecurity you ass

Oh, I am so sorry. Sending hugs

You look like a girl to me. My husband’s cousins both have a body profile similar to yours, so I can say with confidence you have a fem bod.

Maybe if you’re getting tagged as a boy still, it’s your voice? Speech classes might help.

Something is better than nothing, and it’s not as if the sale ends tomorrow.

What are you doing to help the laid-off devs? Because whining on the internet about people who are trying to help ain’t it.

TBF it’s technically a Daoist philosophical treatise, rather than a how-to on war. To really understand it you have to look at it from that perspective.

It’s a grave.

Those pics are awesome, especially the coast and the Seattle skyline shots!

Which is just further proof that twat had no taste lol