So in the end, while smoking tobacco isn't a good habit, and chewing it is disgusting, as long as a person doesn't do it around others who object, I'm cool with it.
Every time I have someone else's tobacco smoke come into my car in traffic I wanna puke. I don't get a chance to object to their face. If smoking is so fucking great, why don't they roll the windows up?
If you punish companies for firing, you get less hiring.
I want companies to think before hiring so that they do less firing. That naturally means they're going to do less hiring. But firing causes chaos and overhiring masks actual unemployment. If you're not employed for long enough to get out of a hole, it doesn't count in terms of the nation's economic health, but it looks like it does because it reduces unemployment statistics.
Because people have been convinced that having people pay for things, let alone necessities, is the natural order. But before money was invented, there was another natural order, and it was equity — not equality. We know this because we've studied hominid skeletons from prehistoric times and found that people were caring for each other, they didn't just abandon the inconvenient, despite health insurance not having been invented either.
I have this but not with mosquitoes, instead it's with these bastard ants you find in Panama. They live on specific thorn bushes and their bites raise welts on most people... but not me, I accidentally brushed one and got about a dozen bites and they were nothing, less than mosquito bites.
Alas, mosquitoes adore me.
Fuck off, you demented moron.
You know we can all read your posts, right?
Musk set up OpenAI as an OPEN SOURCE NON PROFIT because he is paranoid about AI.
Yeah, he was paranoid about it turning into MechaHitler when someone else was controlling it, because he wants to be in control of MechaHitler.
Obviously she needs to get Starlink, it's the American way. Heil Musk!
In many areas of California, pulling someone over actually increases the danger for everyone due to the heavy traffic and the dangerous impact of unexpected slowdowns on the expressway.
When you're driving, you should expect slowdowns. If you're not sufficiently aware to handle them, you're not sufficiently aware to drive. Also, if you don't know you can proceed to an exit or another safe place when being pulled over, same. This is what happens when we don't expect basic competence from drivers. Which, again, is because we want to maximize profit. In this case it's related to the war on public transportation still being waged by Big Oil, Big Auto, and Big Rubber. None of this has anything to do with serving the public.
So the thing you claim they don't want, nukes. Isn't even in the list of unrealistic things they'd give up in a "negotiation".
This is one of those times when the handclaps between ever word are actually warranted, not to try to wake you up which is impossible, but just for fun. WE *clap* HAD *clap* A *clap* NUCLEAR *clap* DEAL *clap* BEFORE *clap* CHEETO *clap* BENITO *clap* BURNED *clap* IT *clap* DOWN.
If they had better judgement they'd agree to a compromise or split instead of have a pettiness contest in public.
The reality is that they are very much still one of the biggest risks of destroying humanity and very much a worry for all.
Their existence is insane. The problem is, they go with nationalism like bread and butter.
We regulate certain things more or less out of existence because they're dangerous. Certain types of products which people can't or won't make themselves can be prohibited from sale, for example. I generally am in favor of legalizing things and enforcing laws against fraud, so that people get honest information about consequences, but I also like for people to be protected from other people.
Tobacco products are my favorite example because they affect people who aren't even using them. We allow them to persist only because of a profitable and highly taxable industry, not because of any notions about freedom. Freedom would be to permit you to grow your own instead of enabling the cancer stick industry, and let all the smokers move to farms in the south.
How do you feel about Iran's terrorist demands?
I feel like they are asking for the sun. Are you new to negotiations?
I also feel like all of this could have been avoided by just not doing what we've been doing. For decades.
Here's a fun fact, there's a clearing house colloquially known as the "federal hub" where your name, DOB, SSN, and ID numbers can be rubbed together and your citizenship verified in seconds if you're well-documented. It takes longer to verify noncitizen status, but citizenship is stupidly easy to verify once identity has been verified, and registered noncitizens are required to carry their citizenship documents anyway... authorization to work, legal permanent resident card, passport, etc etc. Those are also all photo ID.
The passport is the gold star of verification, as it verifies both citizenship and identity anywhere in the US.
"Act of God" is a legal term of art. You should be blaming lawyers and governments.
I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work I will do it.
