I’ve repeated this before, but here’s the truth:

They did not vote for him for the “economy”. Or for “America First”. Or for “Farmers”, “unions”, etc.

They voted for him for racism and bigotry against the LGBTQ+ community. That’s the only campaign promise they’re 100% sure he’s going to follow through on. Attacking immigrants and making their life a living hell.

Any other reason they gave is a dog whistle for their support of his absolutely transparent bigotry on display every moment his mouth is open.

We need to stop assuming his voters actually care about the same things we do, or even the things they publicly say. They care about him upholding their racist and bigoted views.

That’s it.

Ah, that’s possibly true as well. Good catch.

Alternatively: Don’t eat off Uranium cookware?

Franz Ferdinand was an excuse to start ww1, not the cause. The declining monarchies in Germany and other countries were looking for any excuse at that time to flex their remaining muscle in the face of a world which increasingly didn’t need them.

It was the last song of monarchist expansion.

But yes, killing Franz Ferdinand was the catalyst that gave them the excuse they needed. If it hadn’t been that though, it would have been something else shortly after they would have seized on.

I know exactly what happened here having just done a renovation on a basement with a completely fucked up bathroom.

They re-used the existing piping and lines when replacing the tub and shower surrounds.

They wanted to save a few hundred dollars and/or effort of moving the pipes to center up with the prefab tub/surround, and just figured they could drill the hole into the surround for the shower attachments wherever.

They’re correct, but that doesn’t make them right.

“Unhoused” is the preferred nomenclature.

“Unhomed” is the wrong tense and way to use when referring to someone in this situation.

“Homeless” makes it seem like they don’t have a home, which isn’t true, as homes are not always a structure and can be considered more of a concept.

Unhomed is past tense and still refers to them not having a “home”, which again, is not true and is generally seen as a demoralizing way to refer to their situation as if they don’t, or can’t build a home from the communities they find themselves in.

Unhoused is referring purely to the structure of a house, not the concept of a home. A house is a physical thing, whereas a home is where you make it, sort of thing.

And before that, Britannica

Will never happen until De beers exits the stage or is forced to.

We already have incredibly easy to make and cheap diamonds that can rival and surpass any natural sized ones.

They do not sell nearly as well because De beers has convinced everyone natural diamonds are a scarce resource, while they have a monopoly on the supply, of which there is no actual scarcity.

It is very much legal. It just gets used by jurors to try and get out of jury duty, and then, judges will try and hold you in contempt if you attempt to use it for that purpose.

Bold of you to assume there will be an FDA under trump.

Americans are about to get a harsh lesson in experience on this topic.

That is certainly one way it could go.

To clarify, we likely wouldn’t end as a species.

Dinosaurs were ended with a roughly 10-15km meteroirite hitting earth, and causing months of distortions and damage to the ecosystem that disrupted their way of life enough that they starved or died of other causes.

They were not nearly as adaptable as we are in modern times.

To be sure, a lot of progress would die, and life would be greatly disrupted, but we, as a species, would almost certainly survive a similar event.

The canonical example of: life is what you make of it.

Was going to post this. Not very sanitary (hand washing first is required) or attractive, but it is good for your immune system in the long run. Ken Jennings, the jeopardy guy mentions it in his book.

I’m sorry, are you taking the piss mate?

I feel like the emphasis should be on the special.

You know, like we do for the kids on the short bus.

You can choose flights that use airbus, as someone else said.

I’m on my way back from the UK on British airways because they use airbus. Was roughly the same cost as the delta flight using a Boeing.

Being rich and on a cocktail of designer drugs will do that to you.

Also being an uncaring sociopath leech upon humanity.

That’s not how it works. They use it as Capital to influence politics and things like that, which buys them more influence, which they use to reduce workers pay, rights, and benefits even further, which they absolutely use to acquire more wealth.

Every billion they gain comes at the cost to worker rights.