I read that the cargo ship suffered an electrical issue but no details beyond that.

I tried to think of a better way of wording it but didn’t come up with anything and I figured people understood what I was getting at.

It would be very different if we weren’t only including Western Europe.

I would love to know when was going through that Sentinel’s mind as he was getting this medal.

It still blows my mind how it was considered extremely racist to call someone “brown” when I was younger and now it’s what we’re supposed to say. Not as racist as the n-word, of course, but still very racist.

And “the gays”.

The “concern” is that the law prohibits the government from promoting diversity-oriented events, not that it prohibits them from happening independent of the government.

I know–I’m no fun. I do appreciate that this is almost certainly malicious compliance.

Much respect for that man doing his job regardless of who was violating the rules.

That’s an old baby.

I live in Seattle. I go to our biggest protests, which have a population that skews towards gen x and boomer, followed by millennial, followed by gen z.

Your link has nothing to do with protests, by the way, which is the topic of conversation.

No, but we can blame them for not going to the protests.

She doesn’t even look male.

I didn’t know that meth is transported so far, since it can be made at home.

Not in the US.

They helped to vote in Trump 2.0. Allegedly, a lot of them have switched away from that direction in the midterms, but they sure haven’t been showing up at the local protests.

“Extortion” sounds more dramatic in English. Probably partly because it’s a word everybody knows.

I think a lot of people say that evil doesn’t exist because evil is a fundamentally religious concept (or, at least, it is perceived by many to be so). Therefore, it’s not good versus evil in the real world; it’s good versus bad.

They have killed at least two people over the past year by doing exactly this and releasing them in some random location without adequate clothing, money, mental competency, etc, to survive the weather and get home.

Clever boy.

Humans eat plenty of things that cause digestive upset, even knowingly doing so, as long as the food tastes good.

I used to have a cat who loved nothing more than fast food french fries. You couldn’t put them–or their containers–in the trash without immediately taking it outside because he would get to them.

He also had an opposable thumb (pterodactyly) and him holding a french fry in his little fist was hilarious.