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Warehousing a person for decades as just a vessel for the life you intend to eventually take is competitive with the brutality of any torture I've ever heard of.

They share a dormitory with other inmates in a prison notorious for bad conditions. By American Standards.

I love you Philip Morris this is not.

The individual explosives were probably 15 or 20 grams of material that could be disguised as part of the case, components, or battery. Plastic explosives can be molded, painted, and wired to resemble almost anything.

IDK for sure, it could be as you describe, but I doubt it because the pagers were in place for months and many of them were likely disassembled/repaired in that time.

Were do viruses fit in the "tree of life"?

If you think people are stubborn for sticking with Youtube and Reddit, just think how many people cling to the belief that customers control corporations by voting with their money.

Just a tiny push-back here: The political philosophy of the founding of America did depend on the 18th Enlightenment, but it also has roots in the 17th century Protestantism of the English Civil War.

Specifically ideals like "Equality before the State", separation of Church and State, and universal (male) suffrage, have a direct through-line to anti-monarchist, anti-Catholic, radical Puritanism.

I'm no David Barton, but America didn't fall out of a coconut tree.

What toppings? Are we talking fresh Moz? White sauce? This is very important.

Is this just a stealth "cellphone bad" comic?

I hope he does run: for inmate trustee of the month.

There has been a lot of coverage about how state Republican organizations have been taken over by MAGA. The result has been incompetence, mismanagement, and an alienation from the "elites" who we used to call the "donor class".

I'm too old to be optimistic, but Trump sure looks like the leader of a loosing campaign.