I'm old enough to remember "Do you really want PMSing women in the military?" and this has some of the same energy.
arensb
joined 2 years ago
BURNINATED!
Yeah, there's a lot to be said for letting the hosting be done by people who know what they're doing.
How can something sarong feel so right?
He was also a teenager elevated way past his realm of competency, wasn't he?
I remember a friend telling me, "I'm going vegetarian: I'm switching to only corn-fed beef."
But the founding fathers were so terrified of poor people they created the Electoral College to ensure the “right” people [...] got in charge.
E-e-e-hhh... kinda. It also had to do with the fact that states like Virginia had comparatively few voters (they had lots of slaves, but fewer white men), so they were worried that they'd be voted down by the northern states. So the worry was that those states wouldn't want to join the Union. The Electoral College, which gave slave states a boost in presidential elections, was a sop to get them to join.
A modern equivalent would be a state like California or Texas, with lots of non-citizen immigrants: they're not citizens, so they can't vote, but they do count for purposes of assigning House seats, and thus Electors.
Agreed. And as soon as you set rules, someone will figure out how to game them, as they did here.
Minix.
But then I wised up and switched to FreeBSD.
This was what made me push my mom to go out and get a smartphone to replace her old flip phone. (That, and the fact that she had no idea how to send or receive text messages, or check voice mail.)
He didn't rewrite it. He got two copies of the Bible and a straight razor, and cut out all the parts he couldn't believe (things like Jesus' miracles).
Because change is scary; figuring out how to adapt to a changing world is hard, and it's a lot easier to just blame someone else for your problems. And besides, righteous anger feels good.