bilgetea

11706 pts · February 13, 2016


I possess a Y chromosome of my very own.

They never thought their charges would stick. It was always about threatening and intimidating people. This has Steven Miller all over it. He wants to make an example and make all Americans afraid.

2 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If it makes you feel better, he’s ruining the USA’s economy too.

2 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I agree that interacting with them gives them power, but the way we used to ignore them was so successful that they ended up dominating the country.

Once someone has decided to dominate you, there is no solution that doesn’t involve either combat or escape. The latter is not tenable for the majority of the population, so we have only the first solution. This has been repeatedly demonstrated in the past.

3 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

“Moving on” is overrated. We are all carried along whether we like it or not, and there is a big difference between being stuck in the past and kepping hold of what is important. “Moving on” often means “stop incomveniencing me with your grief.” It’s really a terrible phrase that diminishes the speaker as well as the intended audience, because it’s almost always a euphemism for selfish behavior.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Probably when projected on a sphere - as one does.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

BUT IT’S NOBODY’S BUSINESS BUT THE TURKS!

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

I find the nation’s capitol being bathed in a creepy orange light to be amazingly apropos.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No, six flags was fun for everyone who showed up. This is private amusement at public cost.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Theoretically this is also a group of people who have had their backgrounds checked and “should” have less incidence of crime. So it suggests a systemic problem with officer selection.

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I suppose “thanatopsis” wouldn’t have fit.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I understand the historical accuracy of your statement, but I don’t think it’s as important as it’s often made out to be. Europeans and their colonists believed that non-whites were inherently inferior long before the 17th century, so does it really matter that “race” as we know it today didn’t exist? There was an equivalent idea in play.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Who is this?

3 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but ackchuyally… congress makes laws. The court just vets them. Supposedly. Except now with the “shadow docket” that is something they made up themselves, it’s a star chamber. Blech.

3 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Sadly, it _is_ very normal. Not as in “acceptable”, but as in “this isn’t unusual.”

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is one of the most impressive examples of a lack of reading comprehension that I’ve seen lately.

3 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Why, yes, we’ve learned something: we’re far more efficient at killing each other than we were then!

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Objects in orbit are falling, but they are moving forward at the same speed, so they don’t get any lower in altitude. Think of it as falling forwards. They’re traveling parallel to the surface, so the flight path has a curve in it to change from their starting orientation.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He deserves it, but it would hand martyrdom to his zealots on a silver platter. He should be taken down - legally - and made to face consequences. That would be the most useful thing. Having said that: COVID: YOU HAD ONE JOB!

3 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Same. I don’t want to help Darth Vader run the Death Star.

3 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

*sigh* unzips

3 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Right?! It looks like sci-fi CGI.

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

“…if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.” -Nate White

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It could almost be inspiring: “This repellent, corrupt moron wouldn’t have achieved anything without the power of working together! A team can accomplish what an individual cannot!”

4 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Putin doesn’t do what now? Have you been hiding under a rock?

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Water pressure is not a factor - the wreck “feels” no pressure, because it is filled with water. Even where there may be gas pockets, they are also equalized, so there is zero pressure differential between inside and out.

4 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I’m a non-boomer software developer and yet I too feel this way about outlook. There are genuine reasons to resent it. People can tell when their needs are being subordinated to company interests.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love how this important question is buried in the comments.

5 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’ll bet $5 he is Latino. Boy, it’s a good thing that in the US we
are kicking dangerous people like this out of the country. I for one feel much safer knowing that my concrete will not be adequately repaired, and it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make for America!

5 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Something like this happened between myself and Richard Stallman. I found a “zippy the pinhead” reference in his software and sent an email saying “I always knew you were a pinhead!” His staff got me in trouble with the university, but when he found out he personally wrote me a nice email.

5 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Are the tut-tutting liberals in the room with us now?

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1