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- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 days ago:
This drives me nuts with the news cycle. “The US won’t get involved in X”. The media shows how awful fighting/revolt/etc are in X. “Why won’t the US do something about the horror in X!?” The US gets involved and, of course, some civilians die. This is guaranteed in war. The media then goes “The US is awful for killing civilians in X!” The US pulls out of X. The media goes “Why has the US abandoned X!?”
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 days ago:
After WW2 the US became addicted to being the world police and many other countries were happy to have the US cover the cost of their defense or income from hosting US bases.
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 3 days ago:
He is the white trash of presidents
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 6 days ago:
Wait until they get kidney stones from being chronically dehydrated
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
Send in Newman, he can make a room full of muffin stumps disappear.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 weeks ago:
NC here and I haven’t found one this didn’t work on. Maybe the button is broken from people rage pushing it? :D
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 weeks ago:
The 2nd button down on the right side of the screen mutes it. I always hit it when pumping gas.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 5 weeks ago:
It never stays pristine but the worst of it took decades to accumulate. We found over a dozen tires, a safe, a beaten up rowboat, tons of old clothes piled up at an old campsite and of course the every present cans and plastic bottles. We also worked on removing invasives. As time went on most of the trash was what got carried by the streams feeding it from drains. There was one time I found a car had been dumped off of the bike path and set on fire.
Thanks for cleaning things up. It is very satisfying if a bit frustrating too. It is one of the few things in life where the result is obvious and clearly positive. I’m always picking trash up on hikes. Maybe the owner of the land would be willing to assist you by providing a place you can deposit the bags of trash and they could truck it out weekly or so. We did something similar with the state (it was public land) and had a storage shed with tools a local business let us use.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 month ago:
I worked on regular cleanups of a wetlands near my old apt and the bike path that ran by. We’d pull literally tons of crap out of there but over time it got less and less.
I remember the 70s-80s and the trash but that doesn’t excuse littering even less now.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 month ago:
If. Old bottles, pizza boxes, etc aren’t going to identify you.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 month ago:
What you do when no one is looking is your true character.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 month ago:
It is like a game designed by a bitter English teacher.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 month ago:
The old text adventures where being able to solve a puzzle required hitting the right words. “Oh, twist, not pull.”
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 months ago:
Size 3? You have peg legs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I used to work with a guy from Syria who had US/Canadian citizenship. He said every time he crossed the border he budgeted in 3 extra hours while he was detained.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
People in border towns are always on alert for people walking remote roads, hitchhikers, etc. The border strip itself is cleared and monitored with remote cameras, drones, patrols on horseback and ATVs, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Pssst pssst, I’ve got Shaoxing wine, Three Crabs brand fish sauce…”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“What are you in for?” “Smuggling dark soy sauce.”
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 2 months ago:
Volcanism
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
Some kid tried that from a rooftop already
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
Keep sending him burgers and fries
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
Shitty people seem to be indestructible, like Hitler and the bunker bomb. Stalin died of a stroke (probably).
- Comment on Petty pedantry 2 months ago:
Technically he is standing on earth unless he is standing on ice.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 2 months ago:
Mixed case, brilliant rebuttal!
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 2 months ago:
Extremists on both ends demand purity of thought
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Only in the official public sphere, off to the side it is very sexualized. Ads and tv shows are full of sexual references. You hit strange limits though like genitalia cannot be shown in movies (not X rated) but you can use a fake penis on men and a merkin on woman which is ok for some bizarre reason. The US forced its prudishness with genitalia on the Japanese after WW2 which is why they pixelate it. It likely has its roots in the US as a mainly evangelical Protestant settled nation vs the more Catholic and reformation Europe. Eastern cultures also have their own rules about nudity and sex but it isn’t seen as inherently sinful.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you go to the roots of it the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) see the natural world as corrupt and a barrier to god. Nature was something to be “conquered”, human impulses are sinful and sexuality is especially impulsive and therefore sinful. It encourages all kinds of stuff like adultery, kids born out of wedlock (a big problem back then), and STDs (generally considered a divine punishment for sex). Clothing also denoted social rank and was even enforced by law.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The 700 Club. It was on constantly during the day when I was a kid.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hitler was very narrow minded when it came to international politics. His mindset barely extended beyond Europe. To him the US was “over there”. He thought though that Britain would side with him as racial peers with similar attitudes (i.e. colonialism).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Stalin wiped out the officers in the Red Army because he perceived anyone with any authority to be a potential threat. Anyone who had been around for too long was a threat. This set the stage for the Germans to steamroll them in the opening of Operation Barbarossa because you had a Red Army that was completely dysfunctional due to the slaughter of its leadership. He probably would’ve turned on Beria (NKVD) too if he had the chance.