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Can we launch it against Spez?

Good! HistoryMemes is starting to get other regular contributors. HistoryIllustrations and HistoryPorn also have been seeing more contributions from other posters.

I dream of the day when I can post only rarely and silently upvote other people’s content instead.

Because this was always the plan.

The actual employees threatened to resign en masse, because the employees own equity in the company and want this dogshit move too.

Best: “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth half-assing.” I was raised in an environment where an imperfect job resulted in negative consequences, while an unperformed job often went unnoticed, so I developed a very ‘all-or-nothing’ productivity mindset. Learning that it’s okay to just do a bit, or do it imperfectly, increased my productivity considerably.

Worst: “Scheduling.” I spend all my time obsessively checking the time and stressing myself out. ADHD stuff, maybe.

There are numerous reasons why one wouldn’t volunteer, but still willingly serve in a draft. Many people feel obligation towards their family, and volunteering would be abrogating that responsibility. The draft removes that issue of internal guilt. Furthermore, drafts can preserve needed skills at home - in WW2, volunteers were often turned away and told to wait for their draft card to turn up, because at that moment their profession was needed for the war industry.

I would highly recommend reading the accounts of soldiers who have been drafted in wars that weren’t wildly unpopular with the domestic population and/or 20 year occupations.

In WW2, the vast majority of our military forces were drafted, both US and UK.

My argument was in the abstract. Although one should never discount the possibility of the world changing, I’m inclined to agree that the US is unlikely to have a legitimate use for activating the draft with the world as it is now. But the draft, as a concept, is a tool that democratic governments are not wrong to hold onto in case of emergency.

Bread. If I wake up and I’m having a bad day, I buy a fresh-baked loaf of bread and eat it. That’s my meal for the day. It’s quite fantastic. Whoever invented bread in Mesopotamia or Egypt or wherever deserves the god-kingship they doubtlessly acquired for it.

The draft is not conceptually bad. In the case of a national emergency, like Ukraine has had, having the organization for a draft ready if needed is a positive.

Homelessness in no way has gone away, and in fact grew 7%, to 8,300 in January, according to the same federal count.

Oh, good, who needs to address a problem when you can ignore it?

I find this a far more compelling view. Trapping the equipment of enemy paramilitaries seems a very strange hill to die on to paint as a war crime. On the other hand, the haphazard distribution of the pagers and the lack of care taken to minimize civilian casualties absolutely suggests this was a war crime - just not for the reason of trapping communications devices.

I hope any informants in Mexico are demanding their pay in something other than rubles lmao

I definitely must be old, because reading that makes my skin crawl.

I mean, shipping was ubiquitous online even when I first hopped on the web as a wee lad in the late 1990s.

This stuff was ancient back in the 2000s. Or timeless, if you prefer. Except AO3, that’s relatively new. AO3 is just a website where the fans and their work congregate, though.

‘Shipping’ is when a group of fans of a piece of media decides they like the idea of two (or more) characters romantically involved, and have discussions, create fanart, etc, about it.

‘Slash’ is same-sex shipping. Usually male/male.

Nate Silver isn’t worth listening to.

That being said, I have my contingency plans laid out.

South Carolina executed a man on death row on Friday, days after the key witness for the prosecution came forward to say he lied at trial and the state was putting to death an innocent man.

Absolutely vile.

It’s the most ‘mainstream’, for better and for worse.

Regardless of his guilt, the death penalty should only be levied when there is no other viable option. This is a travesty.

We’re safer under this present system. And then, probably just as important, is now we are upholding our obligations to the Constitution of the United States and the rights of us as individual citizens in this country. We are deemed to be innocent until proven guilty. Bond is only set to make sure that you appear in court. So, when we talk about these things, we’re talking about somebody who has not been adjudicated guilty in a court of law yet. So, the assessment of how dangerous they are to us — and whether they’re going to reappear for court — is what we should have probably been doing all along.