Just answering you question.

God.

This happened while I was volunteering on an inpatient ward before going to graduate school. They had just admitted this guy in a manic state, and had apparently convinced him to accept the admission by telling him the ward was “like a Best Western motel.” Every Thursday, we had a ward meeting, which includes everyone on the ward—staff and patients alike. Well, this guy had just been admitted the night before and proceeds to absolutely dominate the entire meeting, because he’d made a very long mental list of all the specific ways in which the ward was not like a Best Western. He eventually had to be escorted out of the meeting because he wouldn’t let anyone else speak.

I couldn’t laugh at the time, but it was hysterical.

HOLY SHIT.

This is awesome.

I strongly disagree that Kirsten Stewart has an iota of talent as an actress. She has two emotions she expresses: sulky and panicky, and she does neither well. She was no better than her baseline in Underwater and that film wasn’t very good either IMO (and I love Cthulhu stuff).

However, I didn’t like Snow White and the Huntsman either. I saw it years ago but can’t really remember much about it, because I found rather bland. It wasn’t just Stewart’s milquetoast performance.

Imagine being the CEO who approved a lawsuit against a government that is trying to protect children being subjected to the very documented harms of social media for profit. Imagine that.

I think we need a diagnosis for societally acquired psychopathy.

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For anyone looking for an explanation for this:

The city of Stillwater is in north-central Oklahoma, just over 60 miles northeast of Oklahoma City and about 70 miles west of Tulsa.

Probably middle school. Not really an altercation, just the last time I can remember being violent. My school bully baited me with insults and the teacher ignored it. I snapped, picked up a student desk and hurled it across the room at him. Missed, but it scared him enough to shake him. I got a talking to by the school principal, but that bully never bothered me again.

No, you can acknowledge that complexity of the conflict and history without condoning Israel’s actions.

Discouraging people from appreciating nuance and encouraging them to think about a complex problem simplistically (as you are doing) is what tends to serve an agenda.

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If you check out the author’s bio, he doesn’t sound like a Republican sympathizer to me. You pick a tiny bit of incoherence in the article and dismiss it entirely? You’re the one who sounds like they’ve got a slant. You didn’t even finish the piece. You sound like you’re dismissing it simply because you don’t like what it’s saying. That’s bad information consumption.

I read the article. It seems like some leftist organizations screwed the State by threatening to sue them and accuse them of racism if they didn’t approve the aid applications, so the State—not wanting to get sued, have bad press, and potentially alienate Democrats-supporting voters—approved the applications without thoroughly checking them, and thus allowing fraudulent applications to slip through.

There’s no Republican attack in there, it’s just facts. Now, it’s absolute gold to their Republican opponents, which is a shame in my view, but it’s no reason to deny the truth. Waltz and his government need to keep their goals the same but improve their implementation, and leftist organizations need to stop eating our own with frivolous, politically-motivated lawsuits.

We just gave Minnesota Republicans uranium-tipped bullets via our own fuck up. We need to stop doing that.

EDIT: And apparently voters in this sub prefer a ton of copium.

My understanding was that it’s only legal under highly restricted conditions. If you’re just Joe Schmoe, you’re not going to be able to get a firearm just because you have no criminal history and no evidence of mental illness.

I know plenty of people on the Left who want to ban guns, European-style. They think anyone who owns one is partially psychopathic and have a fetish about killing things. You’re right, they’re probably in the minority, but I question by just how much. I don’t think they’re as fringe as some people would like to believe.

I’m a Democrat who values the 2nd amendment and doesn’t think we should just ban guns in the U.S. Stronger regulations and safety measures? Sure, absolutely. But I do think people should have the right to own and use firearms for recreation, hunting, personal protection, etc.

Dual-vector foil from the Three Body Problem series. Everything just gets lethally downgraded from three-dimensional to two-dimensional.

Fairest apocalypse because notice was posted.

Russia has already ground through much of its resources in Ukraine and it’s not making meaningful advances. It doesn’t have the resources to attack other nations on top of that.

And European countries could easily cripple the Russian war machine with precision strikes, hit major resource production centers, infrastructure, etc.

But more to the point, once it’s Russia vs. Europe, Russian support for Putin’s war (because it is his war) will evaporate near-instantly, and he will be killed. Europe doesn’t have to decapitate Russia; the Russians will do that.

LOL, Putin’s war in Ukraine has demonstrated quite clearly the value of the Russian military. There’s a reason he’s terrified of NATO. Ukraine has held off Russia’s “superior” might with civilian-grade drones. Any actual military response from NATO would crush Russia like a brick through wet tissue paper.