Why would anyone want to have 6 kids? That takes a huge toll on maternal health. I'm thinking more in terms of couples who want to have 1 and can't realistically do numbers in a way that lets them do it while staying out of poverty.
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Why would anyone want to have 6 kids? That takes a huge toll on maternal health. I'm thinking more in terms of couples who want to have 1 and can't realistically do numbers in a way that lets them do it while staying out of poverty.
I wonder if making changes that make people want to have kids has been considered. You know, affordable health care, childcare, schools that are not shooting galleries, and professional/economic stability? Crazy talk, I know...
The good, the bad, and the Gary.
They were more coherent and more concerned with appearances. The core beliefs have remained constant, the believers aren't bothering to pretend any more.
The fact that they were more coherent does not mean they were more moderate.
I can think of no possible way in which Richard "It's not illegal when the president does it" influences the modern Republican party. Or Ronald "Welfare Queens" Reagan, largely indifferent to AIDS for most of his presidency. Or Dubya's belief that the feds do not need to manage natural disasters.
It existed, but always as a barely-tolerated fringe movement in the party of Nixon, Reagan, and Dubya.
This is doing absolutely nothing to disprove the theory that he suffered a significant stroke resulting in a significant neural deficit. Just saying.
(Also, there are a lot of screen-Bond fans who have never read the books and have no idea the extent to which screen-Bond is actually less... uh... problematic than book-Bond.)
Believe me, American firefighters are aware of this.
I'm sure brain worms will be a health influencer thing in 2026.
Hunger is real, and we have a nice simple word for it ("hunger"). The irony is that there are a lot of Republican voters in the "dollar stores have driven out the grocery stores" food deserts who will be the first to claim that "food insecurity" is a weird left-wing concept.
"Divisive" = "You're absolutely right, but it makes me feel bad about being wrong, so while I may say 'f**k your feelings', please treat mine delicately"
(Yes, Trump will veto it, repeatedly if necessary. A functional political party would accept that veto as manna from heaven. Sadly, all we have to work with is the Democratic party.)
All they need to do is pass a law that says qualified Immunity is only a thing if you were doing a thing that was legal and compliant with all agency policies (and, if it involved things like "less lethal munitions", followed manufacturer recommendations on use).
Dunno, but it's happened to me. Recorded message that certainly sounds like a "your papers are not in order!"?
The stripes on pavement are usually a plastic tape that gets melted on, not a paint. Just saying.
There is, it just didn't chart. (AMA firefighter. There isn't widespread hatred of firefighters, but there are certainly a few people who do.)
(In fairness, I've sat in the back of a speeding ambulance and watched a human fail to gain IV access a number of times.)
If you look carefully, you can see where the Chinese sheet metal workers were like "ok, we've been making curved metal panels for approaching 40 years now, this is just making us look like Americans".
There's no good reason for problems like scurvy (not enough vitamin C) or even rickets (not enough vitamin D) to still exist, and yet they do. I'm shocked we haven't seen beri-beri (lack of complex carbs) or pellagra (lack of niacin) reemerge at this point.
It's not "hungry". It's malnutrition, leading to a long list of medical problems in later life due to way too much salt and a lack of essential micronutrients in formational years. There are plenty of calories available, they just involve way too much salt and a lack of things like fiber.
And if you let the right push you away from 2 of those 3 words (and possibly the third), you've chosen to walk into a killing ground where they will beat you every single time.
I think it's a euphemism for "he was too drunk to see the motorhome the young lady was driving, and he rammed it, causing violence to get domicile".
Remember, a real Trump posting should look like it was transcribed verbatim from a 5-year-old having a hissy about adults not taking him seriously.
And his social media has the consistency, grammar, and minimally egregious use of punctuation that usually indicates the ghostwriter who understands what the posts should look like but can't quite summon the necessary randomness.
"How do I spin ramming the motorhome that chick was driving in a way that glosses over me getting yet another DUI?"
Are you suggesting the "young woman experiencing domestic violence" might have been driving a motorhome when the motorhome was struck by a drunken former mayor of NYC?
Has he blamed the accident on the light post he hit being illegally in the country and not being forced to take a breathalyzer after the accident?
(I'm not saying it'll be any more honest, I'm just saying that anything not benefiting Vance or Thiel is going to meet the same fate as anything not benefiting Trump now.)
Trump and his inner circle know that anyone not on the Thiel friends list will not survive in the Vance administration, and a number of their scams are going to get burned.
As opposed to RSA dongles on RedHat, where the module periodically falls over and takes the rest of the auth stack with it.
(It's not always 29 days, sometimes it was like 21-28 days, but the only times it went 30+ days, it was a full year deployment)
Gonna do that thing I hate doing and point out that this (probably) isn't Trump (he doesn't care, and it's not like he's smart enough to figure it out), this just how the Guard gets activated (and has for decades now). I have extended family members who got this under every president since Reagan.
A year ago, yes. A decade from now, probably not.
Why buy Constellation-class when you can get a basic FREMM without all the gold-plating (and with significantly improved commonality with allied nations) for about 10% of the price?
I drive a fire truck, and our garage is set up like this. Except I still usually have to back in because someone parks an ambulance on the other side.
Currently enjoying "Everything's on Fire But I'm Fine" by @asdecemberfalls.bsky.social and thinking it's an amazingly apt title for the times we find ourself in.
When you look at his supporters, remember that they may or may not be rapists of trafficked children, but the fact that their mango messiah is one wasn't a deal breaker for them.
Gonna do one of those things I really, really hate to do, and point out that this isn't Trump (who, frankly, isn't smart enough to think of this), this is a pretty normal thing that the feds have done to the Guard since that rule went into effect.
Hoping we get a new batch of Dems in the midterms, ones willing to fight, and smart enough to find a way to deem those bonuses having been improperly awarded. Because if they showed up for money, I guarantee they'll f**k right off as soon as they find out that their paycheck is being garnished.
You realize that the moment you draw that line is the point where they discover an interest in it, right?
Knows he's dyslexic and is worried that it'll go out "moron".
In WW1 terms, this would be the (failed) Assignation of the Archdouche Ferdinand.
He's a member of the Pedo Party, lead by the Pedo-in-Chief.
Suspecting that armored vehicles will start having organic drone support + some sensor fusion stuff going on. Makes it that much harder to ambush an armored column if some of the guys in the IFVs are spending their time scouting via drone.
Even if Cheetolini were popular, Virginia has a history of electing governors from the opposing party of who is in the White House.
Florida Government may not be the government Florida Man says he wants, but it's the government he keeps voting for...
At least Virginia (probably...) gets a female governor (unless Cheetolini decides to appoint one, for which there is no legal basis, but in the absence of the other two branches stopping him...)
Normally, I'd wonder if any of the rights-holders had given permission for this...
I've noticed that female political figures (like "Kamala") get first names and male political figures (like "T***p") get last names, by no means always, but frequently enough that you'd think it's in a style guide somewhere.
Gonna point out that Life of Brian very nearly didn't get made back in the day (ended up mostly funded by... I want to say George Harrison?), so I'm not sure how much has changed.
Yeah, just spent 2 weeks in an 'extended stay' hotel, and at breakfast, one TV had local news and the other had some kind of hotel advertising channel (slideshow of local attractions, weather, ads for the chain, ads for local restaurants, etc).
Why I'm on this place instead of the bird place. (The bird place is also hopeful, but for... other things.)
Which is weird, because they made damn near zero effort at fare evasion enforcement before all this started.
(Yes, I'm aware that there are legitimate doubts about his famous beatdown actually involving trying to pick up a minor, but something about him suggests that he's tried other times.)
So his attempts at picking up a minor was the Assignation of the Archdick Ferdinand?
It's because there are 30ish definitions for the word floating around out there, and they don't even come close to agreement.
Depends on the definition you use for "addiction". One I'm fond of (that is, I admit, clinically lacking) is "you do the thing to get the magic brain juice to the point it interferes with normal life", and there are definitely people who do that (though they are a tiny minority).
Too bad none of those people have lawyers with vast amounts of experience in intellectual property. Oh, wait...
AMA firefighter. Routinely Google patient meds to find out what they're taking. I don't even bother looking at what YouTube recommends any more.
Lives in TX, probably worried about the neighbors.
Well, there are a number of US military units headed in the direction of Venezuela, so that may be the first war Cheetolini is planning.
Once you decide you no longer care about the social norms regarding pedophile rapists, standing on the left is the logical next step.
Bad, but not openly psychotic (that's "Texas", at least in an older demographic)
If they want to negotiate, telling them that $10B/day gets turned over to Ukrainians for every day there are Russian forces within the 1992 borders of Ukraine seems like a good place to start (and anything not turned over is going to be held until reparations start flowing).
Well, it certainly tracks with Republican indifference toward crimes against children.
Less now.
Just think... If DC were a state, she'd be a governor, and they could find 2 similarly mentally incontinent people to be Senators.
(And Lord knows, the rest of us would be much happier with them not sending the most psychotic members of their population to Washington.)
(Because there are a couple red ones that, politically, would be much happier as part of Russia.)
Depends, a lot, on which states.
Fire teams: People trying to shoot down drones. Fire fighters: People dealing with whatever the aftermath is.
Doesn't he live in Reston?
( Korean fried chicken, in this case. Crunch game is on point. Presentation is fantastic. Someone in the kitchen has clearly confused "1/2 lb" with "1/2 kilo", so it's huge. Seasoning game is... uh... As far as I can tell, this chicken and the breading is unseasoned. )
TFW when you ask for a to-go box for something you are never going to touch again, because someone clearly spent some time on it, delivered by attentive wait staff who is clearly trying hard to sell it, because you don't want to say you only like the western version.
It's true. No other country is responsible for more holidays (usually ones named some variation on "independence day")
Given that the current administration is increasingly openly talking about slavery and the Secretary of HHS is talking about reeducation through labor for a wide range of conditions, I'd suggest being careful about what conditions you choose to claim.
Found the clanker.
( "But I'm not a pedo!" No, but it clearly isn't a deal-killer for you. )
At this point, there's the pedo party, led by the President, and there's the opposition. Or is that too much of the nuance that turns off undecided voters?
And people wonder why suggesting statehood for DC gets you looked at weird.
Kind of him to recognize that first responders tend to get massively more exposure than the general public. Oh, wait, he didn't.
Remember to thank them for their service in distracting from the Epstein Files, and let them know they should be very proud about their role in protecting a pedophile.
Yes, but you seem to be overlooking that they want us dead.
That exchange rate seems... unduly optimistic (in terms of "yeah, the official rate may have been 90:1, but the actual market rate was a lot worse, especially at the billion-dollar scale").
And his comment is "Americans have no idea how bad this can get, or how quickly."
If it helps, I'm working with a guy who grew up in what he describes as "one of the Soviet countries that don't exist any more", and he seems to be having no problem following it.
Is there a point at which the Bar can be convinced that his behavior reflects poorly on the profession or some such?
Did the "Senior US officials" comment on which side of the conflict those 'strategic enablers' would be supporting?
In fairness, the thought of Democrats imposing any meaningful consequences in the highly unlikely chance they regain power is pretty damn funny.
So... Make them laugh so hard they pee themselves and try to sneak away?
Democrats could do so much better. "The Democrats think what consenting adults do in the bedroom is their business. Republicans think what rich men do to abducted children in the bedroom is nobody's business."
Make sure they know you appreciate their efforts in distracting attention from pedophile rapists.
... because Cheetolini's tariffs and plans for runaway inflation aren't going to accomplish that soon enough. But hey, you can still get people to blame you for it when it happens.
Moot.
Just reply with "that reminds me, the Epstein files still need to get released".
I'm still waiting for one of the armed ones to forget their rifle in the shitter, one of DC's more aggressively enterprising yoofs to pick it up and walk away, and DC law enforcement, having been told that gun laws were no longer being prosecuted, doing nothing.
"Yes, but you've annoyed me, so it's gonna be more AT40 commentary instead."
Were my dog not leashed, she would have significantly curtailed the emissions of well over 100 bunnies by now (as well as countless squirrels, a couple raccoons, and, in one unfortunate and not to be repeated incident, one skunk).