rent out its monarch like a sex worker,

I don’t know if they’ve been paying attention, but their monarch is too old for our President Pedophile. They’d have to offer up Princess Charlotte to interest him.

They should ask Prince Andrew. He knows.

If more fascists in this country thought the way Goebbels did, we’d have less fascists in this country.

1850’s? Yes.

You’re right. Capitalism is when you use your power and resources to get the government to allow you to steal people’s private property without force.

His sense of shame was hiding behind a misplaced apostrophe.

Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he “100%” regretted voting for Donald Trump as president.

Fuck you, Jim Brown, you selfish, inhuman piece of shit. You were fine voting for fascism when you thought you’d benefit. Now that it affects you and you find out you’re just as worthless to them as everyone else suddenly you have regrets.

There was a reporter talking to him. Does it occur to the reporters to dig deeper into the regret? Maybe point out that he was fine with this until it affected people he cared about? Maybe ask him if it would perhaps make sense to treat everyone like they are human beings instead of only the people in your family?

Literacy isn’t Trump’s.

I did. The article that was posted didn’t mention kicking.

Edit:

Also, this particular comment thread was about a person experiencing ding-dong ditch personally, not necessarily what happened in the event described in the article.

News reporting was different then.

In the 80s, most people got their news from broadcast network news shows or newspapers. CNN only just started in 1980. The Fairness Doctrine wasn’t eliminated until 1987. Fox News didn’t start until 1996.

There wasn’t ever a need for a 24x7 news channel. There still isn’t, but we have multiple 24x7 news networks. They have to blow things out of proportion like never before to try to get viewers.

While that’s all true, I think it’s a worthwhile exercise to examine if the number of people being shot for ringing a doorbell or turning around in someone’s driveway has experienced a statistically significant increase over the number of instances 40 years ago*.

It could be argued that the media (and the fascist scum running the country) blasting stories about made-up or exaggerated crime are directly responsible for any increase in insanity by chicken-shit gun-fetishists.

* Of course, you’d also need to factor in the reality that 40 years ago, in some areas you could murder someone for ringing your doorbell, and depending on the skin tones involved it might not even be reported.

Statistically, it is just being blown out of proportion by the media. No one sells ad space by reporting that nothing terrible happened again today.

Ignore the stories you’ve heard about things happening “somewhere”, and think about what’s happened on your street.

Your neighborhood may be a cesspool of violence and death, but the smart bet is that it’s just as peaceful and boring as mine.

Except, Moakley didn’t say they are trying to kick down the door. You brought up kicking. Moakley just said they are ringing the bell and running away. No kicking involved, so disfigurement seems extreme.

However, it’s also a wish, which means it has no effect on anything. Feel free to wish anything on anyone, it won’t happen.

Although, my high school bully did get brain cancer and die, so who knows? Maybe wishes work sometimes.

Pathetic.

https://www.itv.com/news/2014-06-06/guinea-pig-to-become-father-to-400-after-breaking-into-female-enclosure

It’s not about being sure about what’s involved, but being sure that it is what you want regardless of what’s involved.

The reality is no one knows what you’re getting into when you have a child, even when it’s not your first child.

However, you can be sure you want to commit your life to something without knowing the future.

Forest rats.

If they are the right kind of Styrofoam, they can be recycled. See if there’s someplace near you that takes them.

I was more concerned about AI before AI really showed up, and now I’m okay.

HA!

“Oh no! AI is gonna replace us!”

“Here’s the AI.”

“Um… Ok, never mind. I’m fine.”

I guess I kind of got lucky.

I always liked computers, and I like solving problems. Got hired as a database administrator for a small research center in a large university.

I’ve changed jobs a couple times over the years (decades, actually). As it turns out, computer nerds who like to solve problems are valuable, and I’ve been generally left alone to solve problems ever since.

Current leadership team doesn’t want to solve problems or work more efficiently now because if you depend on one person to make the team more efficient, and that one person leaves, you’ll have to hire someone to replace him.

So instead, you just hire 10 people for the same pay to do the extra work they have to do when you don’t have someone making everything easier.

Oh well.

Yeah, I’m aware. I pretended to not see it because of all the people who would ignore it and consider your post confirmation that they can let their cat be an outdoor cat.