1. No.
2. Are saxophones better for music than pianos?

Fuck me, that was depressing. 😭

The example cited makes it seem like they are deflating game prices.

Charlie and the Fucking Chocolate Factory has a certain ring to it.

Or Fucking Neverending Story (can’t we all just empathize with that? 😅).

This makes me wonder what everyone’s mental image of a worm farmer looks like.

My intuitive association was Steve Urkel (I mean, the suspenders!) but a Google search suggests a more hirsute look for the average vermiculturist.

The important thing is you can’t grandfather in the corruption while you fix it.

100% this (from an Americanist’s perspective). Just think of slavery and how it was enshrined in the constitution despite being on the way out. You had to have a whole-ass civil war, shooting and all, to fix it. And arguably still didn’t, cf. the pervasiveness of Confederate nostalgia and the prison industrial complex.

The same forces that successfully lobbied to keep slavery going are lobbying to keep systemic corruption going. Telling you at every opportunity in all the media outlets they bought that it’s the American way, baby!

The only solution to this mess is to finally redefine who “We the People” actually are. If it’s still going to be a bunch of rich white dudes with an aversion to taxes, woe betide you.

Of course that raises the question who would have the authority to perform this redefinition and how they would gain it. Barring a bona fide revolution, I just don’t see it at this point.

Thoughts and prayers from Europe.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are big fans of spending on housing, not since the Red Scare of the 1950s. Investments in public goods carry a faint odor of socialism and are therefore verboten in the United States.

The (Republican-led) government did play a role in bringing about the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis: George W. Bush’s administration successfully lobbied for the abolition of regulations which had previously prevented people with insufficient credit from getting a mortgage approved.

But of course the right wing narrative held Jewish bankers at fault for inner city types defaulting on their mortgages, bankrupting Lehman Brothers et al. Not a combination of deregulation and corporate greed.

Darn right, boy. 🐔 The Foghorn Leg, I say, Foghorn Leghorn. 😂

No, my solution would be to vacate the area post haste. I was just referring to meco03211’s posting in which he wrote

If you took the explosive out of a grenade, put it in a metal pot with the lid welded on, and detonated, you’d just have a mangled pot.

Given your theory that the type of explosive used makes all the difference, I would definitely watch a Mythbusters episode about that (if there was one). 😉

With sufficient reading comprehension you (and the five people upvoting your posting) would have noticed that nobody is claiming a grenade in a pot would be harmless. The claim was about removing the explosive from the grenade and detonating that inside the pot.

While I have no evidence to support that claim I have seen someone putting live ammunition in a pot and making it cook off. That experiment clearly showed that cartridges are only really dangerous when used in a firearm. I expect the physics to be very much the same here.

Watch out, next thing you know you’ll be floating away on a balloon. 🎈😅

Phase one: Fuck around 🤡
Phase two: Profit! 🤑
Phase three: Find out. 😱

What would the proper language be?

Men and women?

Just to spell it out: There’s nothing wrong with using “male” and “female” as adjectives (e.g. “male audience” or “female drivers”). The problem arises from using them as a noun (e.g., “females want a man” or “males are more likely”) which is a very reductive way of describing a person. It also evokes the way we refer to animals, which is, again, reductive.

We are more than our respective genders, just as we are more than mere animals.

Yay! You got it! 😀

Ah, software developing nerds and expertsexchange. A story as old as time.

It starts with innocent questions, then thigh highs during long coding sessions and… you know the rest. It’s all in the name! 😅

Glad the Health Secretary has his expertise augmented by someone specializing in human penises.

He is, though, isn’t he?

God, I hope he’s not just another raccoon penis enthusiast.

Uh-oh! We might have a STUCK NMI ERROR on our hands here.

Just the other day I uninstalled Chrome & gave “Enshittification” as the reason when prompted. Not that I’d been using it since turning to Firefox a few years ago and Waterfox more recently.

We are witnessing Olympic levels of mental gymnastics here.