I just got it yesterday and I agree!

An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process.

Everything was fine until dickless here shut off the containment grid.

Thanks, but the unfortunate problem I see among many of my white peers is that’s a deep valley. You don’t get to the other side of “they must have had a reason” without exposing yourself to multiple instances where they clearly had no such reason.

And it’s not exactly something you can force on people. A couple people I know have started paying a bit more attention when cop videos float across their tiktok feed based on comments I’ve made, and they are coming around too, but folks need to want to see to the other side of that valley, and it’s a very comfortable valley to live in - but more importantly you’ve always got a fresh batch of people moving into the valley.

“Oh, I can’t support those cruel acts, but the sad reality is they probably didn’t happen for no reason either” is the refrain of the embarrassed white moderate.

I’m ashamed to admit that specifically with regard to police brutality, I was in the “they must have had a reason” camp (without looking any further into it) for many more years than I had any excuse to be. Rodney King put a crack in that, but I was still pretty young then, and surrounded by my own privilege. It was many years later before I realized that sort of shit and worse was happening constantly.

I’m just barely old enough to recall when Sir Mixalot alleged that Jane Fonda does not have a motor in the back of her Honda.

😂

Starting with my grandmother, I’ve been warned by the various bakers in my life for about 50 years that the various kinds of raw dough I have wheedled them into giving me or snuck off of their work area will give me a stomach ache or cause other issues. The most recent time I was warned in this way was surely less than 2 months ago.

So far so good, not a single problem, and I never pass up a chance to eat uncooked batter or dough. (Edited to add - if you haven’t tried basic homemade pie crust dough you haven’t lived. It’s not sweet, it’s just good.)

I am absolutely not saying the risk doesn’t exist, but the chance of it seems so minuscule (based on my anecdotal lifelong experience) that I only ever think about it when someone brings it up.

If I bought something prepackaged on a grocery store shelf, like from nabisco or whatever, that was undercooked, I wouldn’t eat it. From the kitchen of a relative or right from a bakery - has never given me pause.

I agree with all that, but less so that she’s capable of doing anything meaningful with the demographic she’s targeting.

She should be targeting younger boomers and older x’ers if she wants to find a group that might want to listen to her.

(I say this as an older x’er)

I’m just barely old enough to for Jane Fonda having an opinion to be meaningful for me in any way, and I’m in my 50s. How on earth is she going to rally “disaffected young US voters” when most of them have likely never heard of her?

Missouri’s Republican attorney general, Andrew Bailey, has fought to allow the execution to proceed.

"The attorney general’s office, who had nothing to do with this whatsoever, are the ones who are trying to lead him to the death chamber. It’s pretty startling and extraordinary.”

I recognize that this is a horrible tragedy for this man and his family, and I hope there is somehow a last-second reprieve, but let this be yet another reminder - R is the party for those with no empathy, no compassion, no concern for anyone not like them. (and that includes the ones jumping from Trump’s sinking ship to cozy up to Harris.) If a Republican is running for any position in your town, any at all, vote for someone else.

It really is a fantastic album. It bummed me out to realize that the actual lyrics to Particle Man were not quite as meaningful to me as they were when I was mishearing them (lol) but yeah, great album, and honestly I like Lincoln just about as much.

This is how I’ve loved cookies for my entire life. I’m just happy they are easier to find now.

Edit: I’m sincerely amused that someone downvoted me for expressing my opinion on the kinds of cookies I like. I didn’t know this was a “ketchup on steak” level issue. 🤣

I enjoyed Beauty and the Beast. shrug

white is thrown around but its a very imprecisely defined thing.

The meme isn’t about what kinds of people are called white. It’s about non-white characters being replaced with white characters, and no one uttering a peep. Then a mermaid is re-imagined as black and everyone loses their shit.

(another possibility is that I am not understanding your point)

Unbridled corporate greed and the always relevant racism…

Sorry, musta missed it.

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I totally agree with your comment that I replied to. But I also know that making literally anything a requirement for gun ownership is a bridge too far for enough gun owners that I am doubtful we’re going to see any meaningful new restrictions anytime soon.

At least until the right stops salivating for a second civil war, but even that might not be enough for some sane attitudes to prevail.

JD Vance: See, just like I said, I created “stories so that the American media actually pays attention,” and now these Haitian businesses are getting the community support that they needed, just as planned!

I’d say if you are appropriating a name from a fictional character for your child (which seems an odd choice, but which I think people should be able to do) it probably doesn’t matter much whether you take further creative liberties with it in that way.

Ah I see now, I misread what you were trying to communicate.