The Incredibles came out twenty years ago?

Entropy is a helluva drug

I think my point stands.

“Just calm down” is better articulated as, “stop saying things that make me feel uncomfortable feelings.”

The rhetoric of manipulation and abusers.

Only fair to lock the teacher in a room with the parents for the same duration. See how much calmer they come out.

The Metropolitan Police (Met) in London accounts for about 25% of the total police budget for England and Wales, with a budget of £1.148bn. Which has doubled since Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, took office.

This is just book-version Hermione Granger

In the Office of Hell and, actually, also Hell

You’re making some huge assumptions about the quality of sex and health education that those kids have had access to. It’s easy to point a finger and say, well you should be more responsible, but the reality is that adolescents are still learning and developing. So even with great education, they make bad decisions. They won’t have adult brains until their early to mid 20s. And there’s no reason why those decisions should ruin lives, when modern medicine can resolve the dilemma in minutes.

In other words, you’re making an argument for much better and more widely available sex and health education. Which religious types are likely to oppose. Can’t have it both ways- either the kids are fully informed and made an error, or their guardians failed them and set them on a track with a veil of ignorance.

You’re just making an argument for better regulations and testing. Let’s start with elderly drivers, who are no longer physically and mentally capable of the maneuvering required to operate a vehicle at speed. Anyone over 65 should have to retest on a regular schedule. And when they fail, they lose their car too.

And all of this is an argument for effective and reliable PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

The beginning and end of Leadership is accountability. The Dems refuse to accept their part in this loss.

The President and Vice President have zero outward indications that this is personally painful to them, at all. If anything, they seem relieved to be passing the potato. If they are so out of touch, or so insulated from the pernicious outcomes of their doleful stewardship of this country, then WHY should voters place their trust in that party again, considering it’s been helmed and staffed by the same obstinate members for decades?

I don’t see Leadership, I see a kind of craven capitulation, at a time when America most needs its leaders to have fire in their bellies, and compassion in their eyes.

“I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly. Together we’ve changed America for the better. Now we have 74 days to finish the term, our term. Let’s make every day count.”

Jesus fucking Christmas. Nothing will penetrate his perfect shield of fantasy.

Buy an analog, non digital scale. That piece of junk is just e-waste.

Where is the home owner hiding in the bush with a garden hose?

There used to be more trickery. Or Boomers are twisted.

If you’re gonna gatekeep Halloween, just turn off your light and be a cretin on your own. This ain’t about you.

And you can swap scopes depending on, uh, context.

A primary function of Capitalism is to concentrate wealth. Preferably in as few hands as possible. Regulation is required to keep that from happening, particularly to such extents that cash/speech proxy crosses the threshold beyond which private citizens are no longer bound by State controls.

We probably blew through that tipping point sometime in 2012-2016, so now the train is off the tracks.

For some people, having children is their only life accomplishment, so they perceive other people’s choices as an “attack” on their sense of identity, which makes it feel personal, to them.

The cost is to the whole world, because they consume enormous amounts of energy and produce essentially nothing. Like bitcoin miners.

Which means they’re adding profit margin to the otherwise zero marginal cost of said information good.

MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2024:

The Institute’s pooled investments returned 8.9 percent last year; endowment stands at $24.6 billion