"God told me to do it."

The first time I heard that as a teenager, I made sure nobody ever felt comfortable saying it around me again.

Some mild stripping, knocked over glassware, and "speaking in tongues" later, sorry god made me do it.

Who would have thought that making millions of people's lives actively worse in an already not great time in the most widely-armed country in the world could have POSSIBLY led to current events???

This reminds me of that one time in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

Okay okay okay.

It's a funny meme, but Picard had more game than Kirk and it's not even close.

Kirk was a super nerd who did super nerd shit to beat a unbeatable test.

Picard got into bar fights with nausicans and threw down with klingons.

The only reason anyone thinks it's the other way around is their first officer.

Spock was the super level headed logical voice of reason, and anyone looks like a bad ass hunk in comparison.

In contrast, Riker would bang anything with a pulse that was willing. Arguably anything femme enough, or at least masc-stereotype enough, that also wanted him, was open for The Riker Maneuver. And anything standing in his way either gets intimidated or beaten down.

I challenge anyone to find mea being that looks like a slutty hothead in comparison to Riker.

Taken to police..... For wasting their time? I'm confused what actual harm they did.

Oh no they ate a fungus. Hardened criminals. Probably ms13. Gotta deport them now.

Based on my experience, having never used TT myself, but married to someone who does and friends with people who do...

You DON'T really get different perspectives. In ANY of those platform styles.

It's literally designed to show you whatever you engage most with, and usually that's "things that get you angry" regardless of who you are. For my wife, it's "here's how my family is shitty/aita" for some of my friends it's "here's how I was being misgendered/deadnamed/not accepted" and for some people I know, it's "here's a person who is not cis/white/christian/male existing in my general area"

I guess you get the different perspectives if you know a wide variety of people who use it and don't actually use it yourself?

News flash!

This, just in: "Leaders of capitalist meat grinders prepared to lie to keep money flowing and try to pull in more"

I'm shocked.

The way I figure it, one of a few possibilities is true:

1 there is a god. He lets all the bad shit happen, and therefore isn't worthy of dedication.

B: there is no god. Shit happens. Nobody is there to be worthy of dedication.

III- there is a god. It kicked off the big bang and sat back to watch. Either it has the ability to affect positive change and doesn't, or it can't. In which case, it's still not worthy of dedication.

The end result is the same for me

I see their junk at every thrift store and flea market in Ohio.

I legitimately thought they went out of business.

One of two things is going to happen when companies decide they own (all) the fresh water (and people become desperate)

Either the company hires enough goons and/or thugs to keep their "investment" safe through lethal force and scare the plebs away, possibly ~~employing~~ ~~bribing~~ "lobbying" governments to do it for them

OR

The people who are right there next to water sources they are being told to pay more than they can afford to drink from will arm themselves and overwhelm the defending forces with sheer numbers, resulting in an internationally covered bloodbath, kickstarting Water War 1 as other companies rush to beat back any perceived defiance, nations attempt to secure access to fresh water whether it's on their land or not, and normal people prepare for the worst.

He's right about one thing, the CIA (probably) isn't "as bad as tankies say"

It's (probably) MUCH worse.

What's insane to me is that someone clearly looked for a list of people to find a REAL name, but didn't bother checking if the owner of that name was still alive and able to say "hey that isn't me, they're lying about being me"