Your high school deserved to be bombed, since it had an ROTC unit in it.

By the IDF’s own numbers, the IDF has a worse civilian collateral damage rate than Hamas.

So arrest them and charge them with a crime?

Ah. Makes sense.

He probably did something similar in his past. Maybe raped a drunk girl at a party or similar while in undergrad. Never got caught for it, and never went on to do it again. So he figured if he can learn his lesson and not repeat the crime, why not this kid? Justice to the victims isn’t even considered.

There’s a lot more frozen food served at restaurants than you realize. And not just at crappy national chains like Applebees. There are different grades of frozen foods, and the better restaurants use higher quality ones.

The language of scientific literature is not the same as the language of everyday use. There’s a reason grad programs have entire courses dedicated to scientific communication.

Funny how trans people never have religious rights in these discussions. Or how they refer to “trans ideology” rather than trans religious or philosophical beliefs. If I were to opine on my beliefs of the soul/spirit, I would say I was created with a female spirit in a male body. If I have any religious belief, then it is a religious worldview where such a thing is possible. Yet trans people never seem to have their religious rights acknowledged.

Hell, a business or industry run primarily by men in their fifties and older can be referred to as “a boys club.”

I know, use the worst of all options, “lawyeress.” /s

There are obviously still contacts where the distinction is important.

I don’t think that’s really the spirit of the question. Not all frozen food are made equal. The stuff in restaurants is higher quality frozen food than what you typically find in the frozen foods section of your local supermarket.

I think “fight wagon” is probably a better descriptor than simply “tank.”

Although, it’s funny in a way. At least in American English, we don’t really use the word “wagon” much anymore. And when we do, we’re usually referring to something like this:

So the idea of one of those bristling with guns is quite humorous.

This and a hundred other issues would be settled in the process of negotiating the breakup. Odds are only a handful of states would want them, as only a handful would have the economic base to support their upkeep. Nukes are expensive as hell to build and maintain. New York, California, Texas, etc. Like any divorce, you have to negotiate and find a way of dividing communal property.

My favorite incidents of bungled auto transcription:

First, on a a voicemail, the caller said, “this is _____ over at Rice’s pharmacy.” The transcription read, “this is _____, overt racist pharmacy.”

I mean, I suppose if the pharmacy is racist, at least they’re overt about it so people can avoid the place.

Second, I have some lecture videos on YouTube, and in one course we used a text by Hibbeler. A few times in the video I will say something like, “this is problem so an so from the Hibbeler text.” The captions have me referring to “the Hitler text.”

Apparently I was referencing Mein Kampf while teaching undergraduate mechanics, for some reason.

Why is my ass always itching?

Because you don’t wash it, you dumbass.

Honestly, at this point, I think it’s time to just call it a day on the very idea of the US as a single unified nation. The Constitution has been demonstrated, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to be utterly incapable of actually doing its job. It’s a 200+ year old document written in a different age, by people who didn’t have hundreds of examples of modern democracies to draw upon. It was a good attempt, but it’s horribly obsolete at this point. And our institutions are equally not up to the task. And it was written by 13 states who each joined willingly. If you gave each state a chance to join the current US today, how many would actually do it?

We need to peacefully dissolve the whole thing. Dissolve the federal government; grant every state full independence. The states can then come together into whatever number of new nations they wish to form.

This clearly isn’t working. Half the country has completely given up on the Constitution, and the other half thinks institutions and laws alone will magically fix the problem. We’ve crossed the Rubicon. Once a president is allowed to get away with this level of flagrant law breaking, once the courts have become this corrupted, once the system has become so sclerotic and fundamentally incapable of meeting the needs of the people? It’s time to call it quits. There’s no repairing a system like this. Even if free and fair elections happen, electing a Democrat in 2028 will not fix this problem. At best, we’ll get 4 more years of useless waffling, and then another fascist will get elected in 2032.

The US is a couple that has reached an impasse of irreconcilable differences. The US had a good run, but at this point it’s time to admit that it’s run its course, and it is time to move on.

The US isn’t even really a nation; it’s more of an empire. There are vast regional differences in the country. The cultures and desired governments of the people in the different regions vary substantially. But because we’re all locked together in this bloated dying husk of an empire, nobody is happy. There’s a reason the oldest countries in the world tend to be smaller ones. Empires are held together by force, not by common culture and shared values. They tend to collapse under their own weight and contradictions eventually. And the US is no exception.

And we shouldn’t mourn this. The US had a good run. It did some cool things and made some real advancements on the human story. But governments exist ultimately to serve the people. Can anyone really say with a straight face that the people of the US wouldn’t be better served by breaking the US into a series of smaller, more manageable nations that better reflect the will of their people? Would all the nations that border the Mediterranean really be better off if they were still united in the Roman Empire? Would all of Latin America outside of Brazil be better off if it was all still New Spain? Would the people of Asia be happier if they were still united in some post-Mongol empire? I don’t think so.

Sometimes you just need to let things die. It’s time to put the United States out of its misery. We can do better.

Exactly. So if we want to be pedants, earth or Earth would be fine here. Even if he’s in a building, that building is still on the soil. Even if he’s flying in an airplane, that airplane is supported by air, which it itself supported by earth. The only way you can’t be “on earth” is if you’re in space and/or in freefall. And Musk is too much of a coward to climb aboard one of his own rockets.

My prediction, built on assuming we’re in the stupidest timeline, is that Germany will try to help the Palestinians…by carving a new homeland for them out of Poland.

Well we exist in the present, not the past. There’s not much to be gained today by sanctioning the Italians for the genocide their ancestors committed against the Gauls.