What’s Kennedy driving these days?

"It was just a prank, bro!

Thanks. I don’t take my work home as such but I also do have a partner that lends a sympathetic ear when I need it. So I’m lucky in that regard. Truthfully, I get to focus on my home life the moment I’m off the clock.

At the time of answering though, we could have used a few extra hands.

My work. We’re understaffed and underappreciated.

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I can’t imagine being able to travel the world at my leisure eating the finest foods mankind has to offer and saving millions of lives through charitable donations and yet wasting my life, money, and time picking losing fights with governments while defending indefensible shitbags on the internet.

Must just be something about billionaires I don’t understand 🤷‍♂️

I’ve lost four senior pets in the last 3 years, all between 14 and 23 years old.

You make them as comfortable as possible for as long as you can, and you shower them with love and treats for as long as they live.

When you have to let them go, you stay with them until their last breath and you thank them for all the years they gave you.

Go home and bawl your eyes out. Grieve for as long as you have to.

But never, ever, ever give them up or give them away. They deserve better.

That’s some high-level incel shit right there

You guys have friends?

Def strikes as an old fashioned phrase

What I really find disappointing about this exchange is how disingenuous this scenario is that you paint. You set up a very vague and overbroad situation and then follow it up with a very specific to the point of anecdotal example as if that refutes my rebuttal.

Like, do you really think I should get bogged down in a response to this new scenario like it’s worth considering? Do you genuinely think a random person on the internet is incapable of imagining a scenario such as the one you described and would be floored by it? C’mon dude.

But ok. Sure, let’s do this like you have a good point. Here’s what should happen. Domestic violence experts who are trained in psychology and deescalation techniques could intervene and create a safe exit for victims of abuse and violence. But you know what? I don’t know what exactly that task force would look like or how it would operate. What I do know is, it shouldn’t look like those guys in blue who shoot black people in their own homes while existing and chuck flashbangs into cribs.

De-escalation.

The first way to achieve this is to stay off someone’s porch.

It’s worse than that. They have impulse control. They’re weaponizing r* as a method of punishment and control. Expose yourself at your own risk. Be silent or be killed.

Not pictured: Nopebot, who declined to participate.

Enjoy it, because your 40s will require sacrifices.

Reading A People’s History of the United States put that on my radar. I hadn’t given the idea any thought until a college course assigned this book. I was educated in a standard American public school during the Reagan and Clinton eras, complete with Pledge of Allegiance. The standard schoolbooks omit a lot of atrocities and smooth over the ugly reality.

Whatever legitimate criticisms you lay on it, Zinn’s takedown opened my worldview and intensified my pre-existing anti-authoritarian streak.

9/11 happened shortly after and by then I considered Bush an illegitimate president. I watched him wage an unjustified war, and with the whole of our bloody rampage across the globe that clicked neatly into place. “America #1” is a sick joke.

Agree with both above parent comments, but what can they hope to gain by starting to point out his meltdowns now? Do they think they can convince him to step down as well? To change his rhetoric?

No unfortunately he has the right two bear arms

Panel 1, Everett has pulled over to assist a driver whose vehicle has flipped into a ditch. The driver is half-emerged through the window, dazed but alive, holding his head and gazing up at True, who is scowling. “Lucky young man,” says True, “that I happened along when I did. Allow me to assist.”

Panel 2, same layout, but Everett is in action. His foot stamps down and crushes the cellphone lying next to the driver, and he has brought down his umbrella on the prone driver’s head. “Luckier still you didn’t kill anyone else because you were too busy texting to pay attention to the road!”

An internal leak is a breach of security.