i met an old lady on a plane once. she was distressed and speaking spanish. no one understood her. i speak spanish so i tried to ask what was wrong. what she was saying sounded like spanish but didn’t make sense. she just kept repeating one short phrase without wrapping it …
We dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, twice, and 80 years later they light up their cities in our colors as a show of how much they love us.
Meanwhile, we bailed half of Europe out, twice, and their governments take every last opportunity to signal how much they despise us.
I would like to remind you all that a major plot point of Supergirl is that an alien woman infiltrated American politics, became president, and then declared Earth a refugee planet where any alien can seek asylum.
This is treated as an unequivocally good thing by the show.
A lifelong criminal in Minnesota tried to use a counterfeit bill at a 7/11 and then died of an overdose-induced heart attack when the police arrested him, so now half the cast of The Odyssey adaptation are black women or troons.
The short answer is because 'apartment', first attested in 1645, is the older word that used to be commonplace in England. 'Flat', in the sense of a dwelling place, was originally a Scottish dialectal word, and is only attested since 1737. As usual, when British and American English differ, it is usually the American form that preserves the original state of the language.
Have you noticed that liberal justices suddenly call unborn babies ‘people with full rights’ the moment the topic changes from abortion to immigration?
To me "I said" is a direct quote as it was delivered in the moment and "I was like" is a general paraphrasing of what I said that may include my interior emotional response plus the general unspoken vibe of the interaction
Still thinking about how in 2013 the equivalent of SCOTUS in Dominican Republic ended birthright citizenship retroactively, denaturalized 200,000 babies born to illegal alien Haitians, and ruthlessly deported 600,000 Haitians in 2024 and 2025.
You can just save your nation.
You would be charged with a hate crime if you described this scene to another person without video evidence.
THEY ARE LITERALLY DRIVING FREE CANDY VANS AT THE PRIDE PARADE AND GETTING KIDS TO GO IN THEM. ARE WE SERIOUS???
Hasan Piker was born in New Jersey to Turkish nationals who then took him back to Turkey, where he was raised.
Basically the poster child for why the Supreme Court got it wrong today.
A 20 year old French man accidentally bumps into a North African man coming around a corner then apologises.
The North African chases after him & stabs him in the neck then casually walks away.
We cannot coexist with 3rd world savages.
“The Amish? The people who have been in America since its founding, produce virtually no crime, consume almost no welfare, and don’t demand the country be changed for them?”
So let me get this straight.
The House passes Internet ID (ending anonymity/free speech online) but not Voter ID (to prevent election fraud) meanwhile the Supreme Court rejects ending Birthright Citizenship—the entire US Government is against the American people at this point.
Birthright citizenship tale... Our social circle in Maskachusetts included a guy married to a Honduran. Every time one of his wife's relatives is pregnant she comes to stay with them. When it is time to deliver the baby, the relative Ubers to one of the most expensive hospitals in the world, e.g., Beth Israel. She gives birth, says the magic words to avoid ever receiving a bill ("I'm undocumented"), and, after a few weeks, heads back to Honduras with baby, birth certificate, and U.S. passport. This one family has likely cost taxpayers at least $300,000 in payments to the hospital for "uncompensated care" and more than 10 U.S. citizens have been minted. When the kids are adults they have an automatic right to sponsor their parents for green cards, so eventually this one family will be responsible for perhaps 40 or 50 legal immigrants from Honduras to the U.S.
if we're stuck with birthright citizenship indefinitely,
and we are,
the policy implication is "be extremely careful about who you let into the country, because this decision will have an eternal and significant impact on the makeup of the citizenry"
NUCLEAR POWER.
IT DOESN'T CARE IF THE SUN'S SHINING OR THE WIND'S BLOWING.
IT DOESN'T NEED BATTERIES FULL OF COBALT OR LITHIUM DUG UP BY CONGOLESE CHILD SLAVES IN CHINESE-OWNED MINES.
AND IT HAS LOWER LIFETIME GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS THAN SOLAR, AND ABOUT THE SAME AS WIND.
IT'S NOT EVIL DEVIL MAGIC. IT'S METAL THAT GETS HOT AND BOILS WATER TO MAKE STEAM THAT TURNS TURBINES.
THERE'S NO SMOKE. THE SHIT THAT COMES OUT OF THE COOLING TOWER IS JUST STEAM.
NUCLEAR PRODUCES AT LEAST A HUNDRED TIMES LESS RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION THAN COAL WHICH CONTAINS TRACE RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS WHICH GO INTO THE AIR WHEN BURNED.
NUCLEAR POWER DOESN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM BECAUSE ALL NUCLEAR WASTE IS CONTAINED, AND NO NUCLEAR WASTE CASKET HAS EVER LEAKED IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN NUCLEAR POWER.
NUCLEAR POWER IS SAFE.
IT'S EFFECTIVE.
IT DOES LESS DAMAGE TO THE ENVIRONMENT THAN COAL, OR EVEN WIND AND SOLAR WHICH REQUIRE A FUCK TON OF LAND AND TOXIC METALS FOR WHICH WE HAVE NO PLAN TO DEAL WITH.
NUCLEAR POWER IS THE CLOSEST THING TO A PERFECT ENERGY SOURCE THE HUMAN SPECIES HAS EVER DISCOVERED.
WE'VE HAD THE TECHNOLOGY SINCE THE 1950S. IF WE EMBRACED IT FROM THE START, WE WOULDN'T HAVE CLIMATE CHANGE TODAY. WE COULD HAVE HAD ALL OF THE AIR CONDITIONING WE EVER WANTED, ALONG WITH EVERY OTHER MODERN CONVENIENCE WE'RE CONSTANTLY SHAMED FOR TODAY.
BUT WE SAID NO.
WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING AS A SPECIES?
ARE WE FUCKING RETARDED?