pingveno

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[–] pingveno 13 points 1 week ago

During the US occupation, the Taliban absolutely did attack civilian targets to further political goals. They attacked everything from restaurants to embassies to a university.

[–] pingveno 8 points 1 week ago

The left wing circular firing squad

[–] pingveno 2 points 1 week ago

Well, it's going through my head right now, so I will count it.

Ceilings in my ass

[–] pingveno 3 points 1 week ago

That works until it doesn't. Keeping your state out of play means Democrats can focus their limited resources on other states. Let it become a closer contest and Democrats may find themselves expending resources in areas that should be a slam dunk.

[–] pingveno 3 points 1 week ago

I just started looking up the different ways to order beers. Wow. Even if it's based on the metric system, each country really did go and reinvent the wheel.

[–] pingveno 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm doing a series of conversations/interviews with my parents' generation to keep a voice record of their stories. As part of that, I'm doing transcripts that start with the transcript feature of Google's Recorder. It can do some nifty things like assign speakers to individual voices. I have to clean up the transcripts some, but it's far less laborious than dealing with a 15-20 minute conversation. I can fix up a transcript in maybe 5 minutes.

[–] pingveno 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That happened at my university, though not to someone affiliated with the university. He was trying to break up a fight. He had a gun and it fell out its holster. He was grabbing for it as campus police were shouting not to. They shot and killed him. While you can argue about whether the police response and training was appropriate, one thing is definitely true. If he had not had a gun on him that day, he would not have been killed. A country awash in guns is not a better country, despite what the "a well armed society is a polite society" people claim.

[–] pingveno 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks I Hate It?

[–] pingveno 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's more than one Christian that's noted that, including Christians on the right.

[–] pingveno 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

An angel of God expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, but with Trump as the angel; Biden and Kamala as Adam and Eve; and the White House as the Garden of Eden.

[–] pingveno 1 points 2 weeks ago

Place names in general in the Pacific Northwest. Alaska is from an Aleut phrase. Out of the 36 Oregon counties, 10 have roots in indigenous language or culture.

[–] pingveno 2 points 2 weeks ago

Make America Great Again. Leave the dog shit.

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