"Part of my religion is forced evangelism. The government getting in the way of me forcing my religion on others violates my Freedom of Religion."
TheDoozer
joined 1 year ago
The Battlefield 1 trailer.
I had never played a Battlefield game, and that trailer got me pumped enough to buy it at launch. Also, WWI was such an interesting (and horrifying) war.
The questions this begs kept increasing as I read the headline, and reading the article added answers I didn't have questions for.
But this feels like pretty inadequate journalism. What was the anime argument?! I need answers!
For bags of hardware (that get zip-tied to a removed panel for re-installation). Somehow all the zip-loc bags get used or lost, but tiny zip-ties just keep collecting in the bottom of my cargo pockets. So I always end up having zip-ties.
And honestly, that present two days a year is a drop in the bucket of debt if you're already dealing with debt.
I'm not saying putting yourself in $3k of credit card debt to take your kids to Disneyland is totally worth it, but if you're several thousand in debt and scraping, that ~$100 present twice a year won't be the thing that breaks you, and is worth cutting costs elsewhere on a regular basis.
If I'm in everyday clothes, a Leatherman Skeletor and a pair of ear buds.
If I'm at work... a Leatherman Signal and a pair of ear buds. And 8 zip ties.
So it's a quest in Appalachia?
Yeah, one of the most infuriating things, that we have to find ways for the people who caused the problem to profit from fixing it to get anything accomplished.
The reality is because of the lived experiences of people based on the color of their skin, people are different based on skin color. You're right that it's a stupid reason to think differently of people, but if people had been mistreated for many generations based on the color of their hair, and there was still a good chunk of people that something so arbitrary was somehow important, then you would want to approach a person with that hair color with understanding of that history and current struggle.
So why does it matter? Because 100 years ago, their great-great-grandparents had any wealth they managed to build up taken from them, 70 years ago their great-grandparents were kept boxed into separate, substandard areas, and 50 years ago their grandparents were kept from being able to buy homes outside low-income, substandard housing areas, and 30 years ago their parents were told it was their fault for growing up in crime-filled, poor areas with under-funded schools. And the whole time police have continuously treated them as that same substandard, poor, likely-criminal, so they have disproportionately been put in jail or grown up with one parent in jail. This obviously doesn't apply to everyone, but it's enough to lead people to treat them differently, either because they presume (until otherwise established) that they are poor, poorly educated, and likely criminal (by basically racist assholes) or with a certain amount of respect for their presumed struggles.
Taking it to an extreme, if a person comes across a very old person with a number tattooed in block letters on their forearm, they will respond one of two ways: with respect and concern for their presumed struggles and trauma, or with irrational hatred (by neo-nazis). Judging or "separating" a person for a barely noticeable tattoo that they didn't even put on themselves may seem arbitrary, but only if you ignore the entire history that makes them different.
I was under the impression it was forthe woman's benefit, that it is easier for a cut to heal than a tear. Is that not the case? Is the risk of tearing overblown?
That (the "crucifact" thing) is actually an excellent response to the stupid "it's the Theory of Evolution. It's just a theory!"
Because it makes about as much sense.
At the same time, how is it the right-wingers hate health insurance companies so much that they support the assassination of one of the CEOs... but they don't support universal health care?
Probably for the same reason a bunch of people voted to protect abortion while using the same ballot to elect the guy who got the protection taken away in the first place.