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Fox News is already going with "lawless mayhem after Knicks win" so

FWIW, he's canonically a white guy portraying a racist Chinese stereotype. I never figured out what to make of that. It doesn't exactly make it funnier or inherently more satirical. But it is a thing.

Maybe they asked like, "SERIOUSLY thought about shooting someone" or perhaps "thought about shooting someone at a time that you actually had the means to do it" or even "made mental plans to shoot someone."

Or maybe I'm more of a psychopath than I thought I was. Like I don't actually want to hurt anyone, and I don't even own a gun, but the number of times it crossed my mind...

One of the fun things about learning Japanese is that on rare occasions I can read a little Chinese. I'd pronounce the words wrong, since it's different spoken, but the English translation would be correct and the meaning would be understood, like numerals.

Don't get too comfortable with the idea of the US in any way being a roadblock to the UK. Our government is extremely interested in exactly the same kind of bullshit.

tbf I don't think teenagers generally need the government saying "don't be interested in sex" to make them more interested in sex.

TBH we need to bring back fireside chats. A more direct communication from President to people. Imagine if that was just the expectation

For my part, if I were President, I would explain what I am working on and who is in my way. Just every week. "This week, my main goal is still universal healthcare. I want everyone to be able to get the medical care they need. Here is a list of the senators currently opposing, and the state they represent...."

I don't even think capitalism requires infinite growth. It's just how we built it. Not even since the beginning. That is, you could buy stock in a company to help them grow. Then they make a profit, and give you a share of that profit. Everyone is happy. You could sell that to someone else, and maybe they pay more than you'd get in a year, but they'll make more in a long run as long as the company stays alive and can keep distributing profits. Everyone is happy.

It's this idea that the money you make from investment should grow exponentially. This demand from professional stock traders that they be able to sell for obscene profits. The company must grow, and those profits must grow, or the shareholders will all sell in a panic and abandon them, and even a profitable company may go under.

Like why can't the company just make some profit and distribute that profit among shareholders and employees and everyone be happy? It doesn't HAVE to be more profit next year than last year, we just made it that way over time.

TBH this isn't a great argument for open source code. You know it's not doing something stupid in the exact same way you know a human written application isn't doing something stupid.

1- You review it yourself to double check OR

2- You hope that the community is reviewing it and that you would be made aware of problems OR

3- You just don't know.

We also underestimated the number of idiots in the population. Or their ability to find little niches in which to congregate.

Was thinking my response would have to be something like "hold up while I Google something real quick." I know Ariel is supposed to be 16 but that's the only one I know.

I interpreted it as general disgust that this is the only thing that seems to have put a real dent in his support from the Republican base. Maybe I'm projecting. Don't get me wrong, I get why people are upset about it, but it just strikes me as crazy that "oh no, the man who's a petty tyrant and obviously a rapist and probable pedophile won't release the files about the pedophile human trafficker" is the straw that broke the camel's back for so many.