Rubber bullets are supposed to be skipped off the pavement in front of the people you’re shooting at. This reduces their impact and is supposed to make the bullets “less lethal.” These cops didn’t do that. Her maiming was the result of a deliberately aimed shot from a rifle.
The guy who literally embodies all of the Seven Deadly Sins “loves” the Ten Commandments.
It’s not the BB gun that got the kid killed. He literally put the gun on the ground and had his hands up.
It’s because the “security guard” is a stupid, trigger-happy moron.
It helps to establish a routine for going to bed. For example, set a nightly reminder on your phone 15-30 minutes before bedtime that it’s time to wind things down. Don’t have anything caffeinated after 5 pm or so.
Republicans and Democrats have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, Democrats are where the Republicans were in the 1980s: boring, middle of the road corporatists, friends of banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies. And the right has moved all the way into an insane asylum. We haven’t had a real progressive president since Jimmy Carter and that was 50 years ago.
I like how the vehicles match the drivers: the mice driving the cheese mobile, the dog driving the hot dog mobile. etc.
I love the Richard Scarey books. My favorite was. “What Do People Do All Day.”
The book would should things like how electricity is made or how to build a house. It would show all the plumbing, heating and electric, with little arrows to show which way things went. It taught me how to look beneath the surface of things and wonder how and why things worked.
Both parties have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, the Democrats are where the Republicans were in the 1980s: boring corporatists and friends of banks, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
And the Republicans have moved all the way into an insane asylum.
Feudal serfdom aka Company Towns. Conservatives would LOVE for us to return to that. You get paid in company Disney bucks that can only be used at the company store. You’ll live in company dorms, go to company schools and when you die, you’ll be buried in the company graveyard.
Slavery never went away in this country. It just became more profitable.
Well, that’s not embarrassing at all . . .
Yeah, subby. We get it. “Both sides are bad.” But one side is boring corporatists who don’t give a crap and the other side is 100% concentrated evil fascists, authoritarians and religious nutjobs. And while that’s a choice between the lesser of two evils, it’s not a difficult one.
The very first lesson you will learn from your very first job is that companies have no loyalty to anything but the bottom line. The days of guaranteed lifetime employment at a company disappeared decades ago.
It’s not about the gays vs straights or blacks vs whites or the Romulans vs The Federation. It’s about the billionaires vs everybody else. It’s a class war. It aways has been. And life is never going to improve for most of us until we figure out where the REAL source of our pain comes from. Like George Carlin once said:
“That’s the way the ruling class works in any society. They keep the lower and middle classes fighting with each other so that they . . . the rich . . . can run off with all the f*cking money.”
This is going to be a great year for indie games. (Currently playing, “Techtonica.”)
It is long past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of gaffes Biden has made over the last two years.
Trump can’t go a single day without making a fool out of himself.
This. Don’t let billionaires gaslight you into thinking that capitalism is some kind of holy word. THEIR idea of “capitalism” is the 19th-century, robber-baron kind that benefits no one but themselves.
Another Fox News host sucking up to the Russians.
I don’t know anyone who would accept an HP printer even as a gift. If I got one, I would recreate that scene from “Office Space” and bust it up with a sledgehammer.
The Yamaha YM3812 sound chip was the backbone of computer sound & music generation for almost a decade.