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They're all going to be completely wrinkled.
I can't bring myself to go get them out. It's too much work.
Leading by example, I like it!
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well that sure is fab that we might be doing better than north korea and china with regard to how many of our citizens we imprison
I'm super glad I don't live in the US.
like wow.
Your healthcare situation is terrifying. Many of my family would have died or lost everything to pay for treatment.
I mean I'd take that risk if I could live in Kentucky and get cheap amazing bourbon but whatever.
I open the door to the washing machine (no dryer)
I generally let them "dry" that way for some time.
i like that america is big and varied and there's a lot of stuff for almost every appetite- that i could stay in my country and see every biome, every climate, every sensibility, etc. i like the diversity, the breadth of our artistic and scientific achievements (regardless of whether they 'belong' to humanity at large some of them are necessarily implanted in a local way, like american bands touring here or high tech city centers or whatever).
i don't like that we have so many evangelist bigots or anti-intellectual weirdos, of course, but again that's not something that ever touches me because i live a long way from any of those hotbeds. i don't like how hard it is to travel- how expensive and tedious a process it is to visit other countries, versus living in france. not a fan of the inferior social safety nets, stuff like worker rights and support for the low income.
the aggregate stuff (national ranking in this or that) is really hard to express or explore in an interesting way.
I grew up Catholic with my grandparents on my mother's side being devout United Church members and after going through that tension between them and the hilariously bad attempts by Catholic run schools to teach me how to live and think about stuff like abortion and gays, I flirted with Buddhism for a while before deciding to just throw up my hands, screw the middle man and commit myself to believing whatever I wanted to believe and felt was the right course for my philosophical and spiritual life.
I could never see myself staying a Catholic after I gave it a fair shake and read the Catechism and the Bible and even considered giving the priesthood a look after being an altar boy when I was younger. There was just too many questions that my religion teacher in high school would answer with "God will sort it out" and too much BS when it came to moral questions. I am fortunate I guess in that my immediate family was never very religious, but even if they were, I can't see myself accepting it forever.
Crown Royal is like maple syrup. I do love when you get the ones with the velvet bag.
Soak a hand towel, throw it in, turn the dryer on delicates, and steam them unwrinkled
My healthcare situation terrifies me whenever I think about it.
it seems reasonable to me that they can go without doing this for the couple hours or day or so it takes them to see the most recent ep.
I'm gonna look like I slept in my clothes, all week long.
Or I'm going to have to iron. Man, this is bullshit either way.
ahah!
atheist versus agnostic now there's something I could talk about.
But won't.
anyway if someone asks I'll say atheist even though I'm technically agnostic. Since people think they mean what you seem to think they mean :P
As is all Canadian whisky
FOR FUCK'S SAKE COUNTRYMEN STOP PUTTING SHITTY CARAMEL IN YOUR GODDAMN WHISKY
New fans, however, would be screwed.
That happened.
Am I proud of that? No, of course not, that's insane.
But I'm capable of being proud of the person I am now even though I was a very unfortunate sort at one point and it is completely impossible to divorce the human being I am now from the person I was leading to that.
A country, viewed as an entity, viewed as a holarchy of individuals, is as flawed, monstrous, or virtuous as any human being. Some are more historically monstrous than others. Some are seen only as virtuous because they've not yet aged enough to disappoint, if you're a cynic.
But, if a human being can rise above their past by acknowledging, not denying or ignoring, who they have been as part of an effort to strive to be better, not of others but of themselves
then a collection of people can do the same.
This might just be indicative of the difference in our life situations, but I consider the first thing a bonus since then nobody notices anything different when I do sleep in my clothes.
There was a study (I forget what population was being examined) that found that only 10% of all homicides are for some sort of practical reason (as part of a robbery, to silence a witness, etc).
The other 90% are all carried out in pursuit of the perpetrator's own personal sense of justice (killing a cheating spouse, retribution for a perceived slight, etc).
It ends up that the thing that would prevent the largest number of killings is if we just learned to forgive each other.
This is essentially what I do with the Game of Theons thread - I enjoy reading it, but as soon as it hits Monday morning my time, I just don't click on it until I get to watch the latest episode
I'm not trying to argue that the US is a utopia.
But any time statistics can possibly be at all manipulated and/or faked to make the US seem more awful than it actually is? Yeah, someone will go ahead and do so. There are at least a handful of countries that are worse off than the US but are hidden behind stupid statistics. And most shitty third world dictatorships simply don't have the resources to lock up as many people as they might want so you can't even compare them to the US.
The US should work to improve the justice system, but let's not spread bullshit.
We've apologized for a lot of it since and made recompense; we even gave the Inuit Nunavut to essentially govern themselves. But we really owe them more then I think we can ever truly repay.
How do I find enough good stuff so that Africa, China and the middle east no longer compose a significant percentage of the world's state.
thanks obama
i wonder how much all the specialists i've been to would have cost
guess i'll find out next year when im on regular people insurance
what, do you think the common man in china goes around and suffers all day long?
in a literal sense i am an atheist and i am also religious because religion itself is not bound to theism, they are different words for a reason
but trying to get folks to move past that is far too difficult, so i generally just
don't
i think
I think a significant number of people in Africa, China and the middle east live sub-standard lives.
If you could tour though the south and turn off the preconceptions, I think you would be amazed and gratified by what you find. You would like it down here, especially as a vacationer.
I was frequently surprised by how much the idea of Europeans visiting other countries is similar in, distance and finances, to me visiting Dallas or New Orleans or Memphis. Also surprised by just how vastly different the people are in that small range of distance.
when the dude finds out that the cool lady he is attracted to isn't a cisgendered lady he isn't like, "oh no!" Instead he's totally cool with it.
Actually come to think of it maybe he freaks out at first, maybe that's what's happening when he pushes Lola away and runs? But ultimatley he's cool with it.
Maybe the line about Lola almost breaking his spine is painting Lola as too much of a caricature? And maybe the line "I'm a man and so is Lola" is implying that trans women aren't real women? but then maybe Lola isn't a trans woman but instead a dude who wears women's clothing, and anyway I figure you have to give something written in the 70s a little bit of slack?
Take half of the time you normally spend reading bad stuff in the news
Spend that time on /r/aww
Trying to have a conversation about the meaning of agnosticism with my angry atheist friend was fun.
Well, they're probably closer to the worldwide average standard of living than you are
- Our inability to control our own natural resources; we basically sell most of it off to US companies and other nations wholesale and don't get as good a deal as we should on a lot of it, especially lumber.
- Our treatment of Quebec, even if separatists overblow it. It's a dumb rivalry.
- Our being in Afghanistan at all.
- A lot of shit to do with environmental controls in the Arctic, stemming from mining.
- Our support of Israel and subsequently it's apartheid system. Call it anti-Semitic all you want, it's a disgraceful situation and I can't believe our government ignores it just because the US does for strategic reasons.
also agnostic literally means not believing in any absolute truths - there absolutely is a god, there absolutely isn't
since both those positions are ludicrous - you can't prove a god, but you also can't disprove a god
but people interpret that as "I'm not sure if I'm religious or not"
which is most assuredly not my position.