atx_aquarian

Rest of world dismayed by Trump's return to office.

I totally smirched him in the parking lot.

I think you meant to write "anything", but I have to laugh anf think this could be another internet moment like what started "Karen" or "Chad" or "Stan".

I think you're the kind of person I imagine when I wonder how the world would really work if we got to a kind of utopia thing where money didn't need to exist anymore and everyone just did whatever they wanted. Star Trek portrays one of the captain's dad as running a restaurant in Louisiana, for example, and I just thought how cool it'd be to have access to so much abundance of resources that you just cook big batches of food for whomever wants some.

But then someone challenged me to think about the other aspects of a restaurant, like serving and cleaning, managing access, etc. So once in a while I wonder about that--what it would take to really make restaurants work (as in, really work as places that celebrate great food) in a world with no money.

Maybe no money just means no need to limit basic resources. Maybe it doesn't mean no other incentive system, which might just still be money, after all. I don't know, just something I wonder about in a way to try to better understand economics and the evolution of society.

At mine, on that day, they started it by announcing over the intercom one morning that a popular classmate had been killed by a drunk driver on the way into school. Even though it should have been obvious that's not how it would really have been handled, it got the shock it was intended to get. A few people even ran out of classrooms crying. That was before everyone had cell phones.

I guess they wanted to make a point about the fatality rate statistic, too, though, so they kept going, announcing another person every however many minutes. It immediately became really obvious to everyone what was going on when they announced the second person. I think it lost more of its desired effect the more they continued.

Changing his mind isn't the goal. He constantly already does that for the highest bidder. The people who have to enforce this stuff and the courts that have to rule on it are the ones who need to be well aware of its nonsense, and the bigger of a mess that causes, the better.

It seems obvious to me now.

Many US states are now requiring age verification for adult sites. VPN companies will benefit if that requirement expands. The Republican party's pearl-clutching politics are what can make that happen.

The Swastika in the center of the nose cone was meant as a good luck symbol. (This was well before the Nazi party adopted the Swastika as its official emblem).

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/spinner-nose-cone-spirit-of-st-louis/nasm_A19890217000

(Also the wrong orientation to be the Nazi symbol.)

Edit: I admit I may have missed the point of your post. It just occurred to me I don't even know about the OP's cartoon, which I now realize is probably referring to Lucky Lindy himself. Gonna go get my learn on.

Anyone with a cable subscription has enough to toss a couple of bucks a month to wikipedia.

The thing is it's not a "hey, need an abortion? just do this." Look at what it's saying: if you drink the bitter water and God judges you guilty, it will cause an abortion, and that's how we'll know whether you're guilty or not.

Religious POV: No human has any choice in the matter. Drink the water, God decides. Zero choice.

Non-religious POV: I see a few possible explanations.

One is the person administering the "bitter water" might actually have some concoction that worked, but if it did work, that would signal to the community that the would-be mother was guilty under their harsh law. Not good for her, not really a choice.

Another possibility is that it's a ritual designed to let people move past perceived adultery. Drinking the magic water shows your faith and innocence because you would have believed you were poisoning your baby if you knew you were guilty. In reality, maybe not, but that's what the ritual presents on the surface. You drink the magic water, everyone feels better that God either didn't judge you guilty or forgave you, everyone goes on with life. Everyone's happy except if the mother was so desperate she would rather have been punished by the law than have that baby. Still no real choice.

I'd say "technically" because there's no such thing as magical water and because this is only a ceremony to give an appearance of leaving it up to divinity, not a way for people to actually have an abortion. This doesn't look to me like it helps pro-choice arguments at all since anyone arguing the other side is going to be able to say, "See, it's in God's hands."

Now I want someone to deepfake their faces onto the "girl explaining to guy" meme.