As someone who grew up rural, it's amazing how many people don't recognize danger in animals. Worse still, they often think in mystical terms like "it can sense I'm a good person", or the animal's acceptance of you is some kind of approval. This is a trope in all kinds of media.
I once saw a tourist approach a small herd of buffalo to get a picture. Anyone who's spent time on the same side of the fence as a bull knows this is insanity. (he was OK, but Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon buffalo will subtract a few from the census every year)
Some of the most terrifying animals aren't even big. I knew a banty rooster known to have killed two venomous snakes and and a hawk. I've also seen him in hot pursuit of a grown men running for their lives. A house-cat in a panic can send you to the hospital.
What do you call a fly with legs without wings? A walk.
Two men are lost in the desert weak from thirst and starvation. One of them spots something and says Hey man, there is a bacon tree over there! The second man says "no such a thing as a bacon tree, that's just a mirage", but the first is already running toward the tree. Just then, a hidden soldier under the tree shoots the first man with a machine gun. As he lay dying, he shouts to warn his friend: "it's not a bacon tree, it's a ham bush".
Violations were not brushed aside. Soldiers are criminally accountable when we break the law. That accountability is what separates professional soldiers from mercenaries.
Bullshit! Lt. William Calley was convicted of murdering 22 people at My Lai, and he served 3 years. Nobody else was even charged with the 200-500 people who were massacred (and raped).
That accountability is what separates professional soldiers from mercenaries.
Also not true. The Nisour Square massacre saw 4 Blackwater employees convicted of murder, manslaughter, and guns charges only to be pardoned by Trump.
Just this year, the Trump regime reinstated the Congressional Medal of Honor awards to the solders who perpetrated the massacre at Wounded Knee.
The United States has a terrible record of holding soldiers to account for war crimes.
Windows is being re-written from the ground up to be 'agentic'. This means that Copilot is not going to be a feature of Windows, Windows is going to be a feature of Copilot.
Oh, and Copilot is going to be writing the code too. Microslop brags that 30% of their code is AI.
I've always thought that policing Kirk's grief was gross. And the kind of thing that conservatives worry about. I'm comforted that so many here recognize gossip-slop politics.
Yesterday there was a popular meme on Reddit comparing the Minnesota killings to Kent State shootings. I'm not saying it isn't apt, just frustrated that the obvious through-line isn't state violence, but state violence against white people. FFS George Floyd died in the same city like 5 years ago and you gotta go back to the fucking 60s to find your example of American State violence?
And this is the problem. Government violence against POC is seen as normal, natural, and right, even by the libs. Because that violence is normal. This is America.
Also…you don’t think that LAWYERS willing to go up against Meta would have rock solid proof from these whistleblowers FIRST before filing a lawsuit?
This is not how civil court works. It's not trial by combat. There is no standard for the quality of lawsuits filed. And despite what the ambulance chasers say on TV, Layers get paid even when they loose.
"alleged in a lawsuit..." is the same level of credibility as "they out here saying...".
For every 100 rapes reported to the police, about 3 people will go to prison.
Our political leaders are known rapists.
In the Catholic pedophile scandals, it's not uncommon for the parents of victims to side with the Church.
In all the hullabaloo over the Epstein files is about what powerful men are going to be embarrassed. Nobody is even talking about how to prevent billionaires from being able to snatch teenagers off the street.
Western culture loves and celebrates the rape of little boys and girls, why should our porn be more benevolent than our society?
Bread is one of those things that is cheaper to buy than make IMO
I checked my Walmart. Premium bread flour is $5.25 for 5lb (enough for 6-7 loaves). The cheapest bread is $2.50. Bread is a pain to make, I won't deny that, but your time would have to be pretty valuable to erase the savings.
it's about cost. They're more expensive to bury and to maintain.
And it's not that helpful in storms either because even if the lines near your house are burred, they're still connected to the above ground stuff that runs along roads, rural areas, and the big transmission lines themselves.
As someone who grew up rural, it's amazing how many people don't recognize danger in animals. Worse still, they often think in mystical terms like "it can sense I'm a good person", or the animal's acceptance of you is some kind of approval. This is a trope in all kinds of media.
I once saw a tourist approach a small herd of buffalo to get a picture. Anyone who's spent time on the same side of the fence as a bull knows this is insanity. (he was OK, but Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon buffalo will subtract a few from the census every year)
Some of the most terrifying animals aren't even big. I knew a banty rooster known to have killed two venomous snakes and and a hawk. I've also seen him in hot pursuit of a grown men running for their lives. A house-cat in a panic can send you to the hospital.