@benegotherit
As a 13-year-old I came in bleeding from the head and my mom asked what happened. I said my friend hit me in the head with a rock. She asked what we had been doing. I said throwing rocks at each other's heads.
I'm frankly amazed the Y chromosome has lasted as long as it has.
@first_merch
@Brizzletrips
I have never in my life had anyone "push" drugs on me (who are these people who are supposed to be giving out free drugs?) but pushers of alcohol are *everywhere* and get really mad if you don't have a "reason" for not drinking that satisfies them.
@Madame_Ennui
The sad sack passport bros in SE Asia who believed her when she said "for tax reasons the house will need to just be in my name" and are now broke and looking for airfare back to the US are almost pitiable. But not quite.
@unusual_whales
He said he cut the annual deficit, not the aggregate debt, and this is true. A finance account should really understand the difference.
@EndWokeness
"The environment" doesn't mean "the presence of plants". This is a much more energy efficient way to live than a bunch of SFHs and it's not even close.
@medevoto
@danielleiat
@clairewillett
And then dudes on Twitter will point to those literal proximate causes of the gender pay gap and use them to argue that the gap doesn't exist.
@BradleyAllanD
@pmarca
What's weird is that Office Space and the Matrix are at heart the same movie: a computer programmer experiences an altered state of consciousness that leads him to destroy the system he works in. Even Lundburgh and Agent Smith kind of talk alike.
@BrandonLBradfor
@resistredaction
There's a whole aisle of 7-11 that people who have never been out of doors probably don't notice. Prepaid mobile, prepaid debit card, prepaid mailbox, check cashing ID card. The hardest working people you have ever met spend *years* in that aisle getting back on the grid.
@BrandonLBradfor
@resistredaction
Ding ding ding. And remember that banks will now charge a fee for cashing a check drawn *on that bank*. It's often actually more than the skeezy "checks cashed" storefronts, but can be your only choice for a personal check.
@fakegreekgrill
The religious right stopped going to church over the past decade. It's weird and the only person I've seen talking about it is Tim Carney at the Examiner, but the numbers are absolutely staggering.
@TimBroderick20
@Imposter_Edits
Yeah it's funny how none of these people cared when Joshua Bell was handed a 300-year-old Stradivarius. They're just scared the big black woman is going to break a flute.
@Heritage
The US has had a plan since the invasion started: Russia leaves Ukraine and the war ends immediately. Why not pressure Putin to accept that offer?
@maiamindel
@UrsulaV
I stayed at a hotel in Florence once and the guy at the desk said "It's been in the family since 1100 AD". Still think about that sometimes.
@vituperativeerb
@revhowardarson
@fakegreekgrill
Bingo. The single biggest predictor of Trump support among white voters is "used to attend church weekly and no longer does". That's stronger than any economic or regional signal.
@bperez1776
@ObsessedTeach
How do you become a person who tweets something like this in response to something like that? Like, genuinely, what's the life path that leads here?
@ruby_darling98
Duolingo is crowdsourced, so that means Klingon speakers are more willing to do free labor for a for-profit company than Tagalog speakers are.
@IDoTheThinking
We will never be the kind of country that can have universal healthcare until we're the kind of country where customers at Aldi don't complain that the cashier is sitting. We can pass whatever laws we want, but it won't happen until people stop being trash.
@bengrossbg
Sisters, somehow still managed to produce a baby out of wedlock with Virginia. His marriage to Minnie was so short that Wanetta's entire pregnancy with his next child happened over the course of it, and he could marry Wanetta in time for the birth.
The South, man.
@BrandonLBradfor
The idea of your house being an investment. Because that means housing has to rise in value faster than inflation (otherwise it's an awful investment). But that means your kids can't afford to live anywhere.
@michaelgeller
@BobRansford
@neil21
Thanks for implying that those of us who live in tall buildings destroy nice neighborhoods! I have no idea why people call you a bunch of out of touch elitists!
@Habiboooo4
@MarinaMedvin
Because nobody is forced to be a nun, they can stop being a nun if they want to, and there's no police force that beats them to death if they take their habit off.
(Also a whole lot of orders don't wear habits anymore)
@existentialcoms
The whole setup ignores how most theft actually works. "I need this and can't afford it" doesn't really explain most theft; "I'm strong and the victim is weak" does, particularly wage theft (the largest theft category there is). But even shoplifting is mostly UMC people.
@redsteeze
I admit it's an odd painting for a Senatorial office but it's pretty clearly of three ice climbers attempting a traverse with the last one holding a belay. It's a bit dangerous but sometimes it's the only way to go forward
@Karl_Was_Right
Not really. The obsession with Israel isn't universal among Islamist militants -- Central and South Asian Islamists don't particularly care for the most part, but have a long series of grievances with Russia.
@AlecStapp
Fewer than two thirds of Vietnamese teens attend high school to begin with, and you have to attend high school to take the tests. Lots of countries do that trick.
@walkabilityfan
I'd love a UK-style walkable village: cluster of maybe a few hundred homes in walking distance of a central district with retail and services and some public space, but self-sufficient-ish; you don't *need* to leave the town.
@LqLana
I don't even understand the 4% thing. Are they saying 4% of the population was enslaved? 4% of slaves in the US were born in Africa? 4% of the trans-Atlantic slave trade went to the US?
@brent_peabody
@ECaliberSeven
What will be hilarious is if Alaska Republicans not being able to bring themselves to mark Palin as their
#2
choice is what decides control of the House.
@BenedictTown
There's one banjo player who plays old bluegrass songs. She tells you the name of the song and the key. She plays it once full speed full screen, then half speed close-up on the left hand, then half speed close-up on the right hand, then plugs her patreon once.
Heroic.
@baegislash
@GadzooksB
But, fine, take West Bengal in the 1970s: the factories were cooperatives owned and managed by the workers, and they polluted the hell out of the Hooghly
@KarlyKavanagh
@CitizenFreePres
Is it the people selling luggage that bothers you or the people selling scarves? Is it all capitalism in general that you hate or just something about this particular case?
@waxyjax
@Madame_Ennui
The State department used to do PSAs that said "you aren't in better shape or less bald overseas". They should probably go back to something like that.
@ArmandDoma
Muslim financial law is legit fascinating. Pure arbitrage is not allowed, so there are clearinghouses in Dubai where a stack of gold is moved an inch with a transaction and the arbitrage is marked as "freight", which is allowed.
@katkatkatkat7
@Utwitily
We didn't have Pokemon yet. It was Magic: The Gathering.
That one game kept more kids off drugs by taking all our money than all the DARE classes put together.
@ejrosetta
@AlexandraErin
Not "too", "cistern" is etymologically unrelated to "cis-" as a prefix (it comes from Latin "cista", "box").
"cis-" was introduced more or less as a joke based on the Roman provinces of Transalpine Gaul and Cisalpine Gaul; it's not like the prefix was pulled out of nowhere.
@_DarKnightYT
@JerryTurin
@Inhumansoflate1
There have been like 5 referenda and independence never even gets a plurality. Statehood is most popular, followed by status quo, followed by independence.
@DeanPreston
@damienISgoodmon
I mean, since 2 million people are trying to live there and you only have 900K units, yeah: a million new units or so is what you need. Not sure what's so confusing about this.
@Transthropology
@elonmusk
People have this exactly backwards. The right of free speech means Twitter (or any person or company) gets to decide what messages their property (servers in this case) are used to send.
@roddreher
@LPJamison
@conor64
I don't think people misunderstand you, you're just wrong about who the ruling class is. it's not the humanities professors you find smug and condescending; it's the crass, boorish, tasteless heirs of real estate fortunes.
@yashar
@_AndrewAllen
OK but "I'm very angry at you but can't name a specific thing you can do that would make me less angry" isn't a very good position to advocate from, just as a practical question, right? We abstained on a UN vote and are starting visa bans on WB settlers, which are steps (1/)
@IRHotTakes
The production company I worked for pitched a barracks comedy 20 years ago and everybody we talked to said somebody pitches one every couple of years but there's never a market for it because so few people have served in the military.
@revhowardarson
It's also weird that so much energy was spent on the question "Did Trump request Russian assistance for his campaign except for the time he did it on live television?"