The best thing I can say about Kissinger is that he’s dead.

I get where you’re coming from but I still disagree with your position. An internet conversation is not the same as a meeting in real life. I like most people here because I don’t have to see them or have to be around them.

I see it as a way to exchange information and opinions and as a way to escape from reality. Sometimes that goes off the rails and devolves into shitposting. Social media is a misnomer, it should be parasocial media.

OTOH, I don’t have a twitter account (nor Insta, nor FB, nor TikTok, nor whatever-new-hip-platform), so maybe I’m just fucking antisocial and wished I weren’t.

Goo-da is almost a pokémon

You can live in Cheddar. Nice town, good hiking opportunities.

Honestly just seems like a run-of-the-mill US red state take. “Muh gunz” is where it stops for them, fuck kids dying, we need more guns. If everyone carried an assault rifle the world would be at peace because there would be a good guy with a gun stopping the bad guy with a gun or something like that. They call it culture as far as I understand.

Russia during official events and gatherings, Israel the rest of the time.

Good thing I have a bike. My car broke down like 4 years ago, been biking since. People scare me, so I don’t have places to be.

This is what a software developer would call a con-action error.

Israel is just a US proxy state to incite wars in the Middle East. Same old, same old.

Slightly more believable than “the best in the world”.

So that Hollywood trope of using a gasoline trail as a make-shift fuse and lighting it by dropping a cigarette on it is a construct of fiction?

Edit: Damn, you’re right

I assume they meant the vapors from the gasoline, not from the cigarette.

The workers at my local gas station go outside of the shop to smoke. I once asked them if that wasn’t dangerous and they said they have a ventilation system that pushes the vapors out the other way and that it’s fine to smoke here (it’s still disallowed as per house rules but they don’t really care)

I guess it depends on what burns. Water is conductive, so you might not want to use it to put out an electrical fire because of the risk of electrocution.

Oh no, that is horrible. He should quickly pardon them, just like he did with the Jan 6 insurrectionists.

In the bumfuck town I live in, they are barring the streets in the old town every weekend because it increases foot traffic and local stores were dying off. It’s still pretty run down and in bad shape, but better than before.

Reminds me of that old TV trope of saying “over and out”. This is not how you end a radio transmission. “Over” means that you are finished talking and are now awaiting a reply, “out” means that you finished talking and are going to stop listening for a reply. Saying both together is contradictory, you only say “out” when you’re done.

I had to look up what TDS is and for others, it’s short for “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, an epithet MAGA put on people they don’t like to insinuate that they fear Trump and his ilk.

I never kill spiders in my house. I rather have a spiderbro than fucking mosquitoes. I would probably think otherwise if I were Australian, but the only “funnel-web spiders” we have are Eratigena, so whatev.

If you see your enemies making mistakes, do not intervene!