That’s why they make that empty hollow carton sound when they finish sucking all the blood out.

I do this on purpose to myself every time because if I buy chips, I’ll just eat them all on the first day. If I have a chance I’ll buy more next time and on and on and on.

Instead I just cut myself off because I know I can’t trust myself.

My own worst influence is myself.

Test tube babies probably … because giving natural birth has become so politicized and affected by religious beliefs that fewer people will actually want to have children and countries will try to figure out alternative ways of creating expendable humans.

and the big argument that a lot of first world countries debate is the lowering birth rates … why in the hell would anyone want to have children in this environment?

They should just exclude pregnancy, births and anything associated with it from health care.

Sure they both launch big bombs at each other

one side has ten missiles (and a buddy that can give them ten more)

the other side has a thousand

doesn’t matter what anyone likes to argue, people are going to die and the only way to stop is to negotiate

“An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves a world full of blind, toothless people”

I’m Indigenous Canadian and I grew up in a semi remote community where my family only spoke our Ojibway/Cree language. That was my first language for about the first ten years of my life.

I went to school and learned English and could understand it from a young age but I never needed to speak it.

At 14 I had to go high school in a city where everyone spoke English and I didn’t. I could understand everyone but I had a hell of a hard time speaking or even to be heard. My brain knew what to say but my mouth parts were so out of practice that I couldn’t speak properly or be understood. The software was working 100% but the hardware didn’t cooperate.

I had a hard time speaking English all through my teen years. I didn’t get comfortable with it until about 20. Even after that I spent about another five / ten years before I got fully comfortable with the language. I’m almost 50 now and I can comfortably speak English now and I have no problem making myself heard. Sad part is that in all that time, I’ve lost some of my ability to speak my Indigenous language.

Basically it’s just practice and sticking with it. You won’t sound right or you won’t sound good for a few years but keep at it. Make mistakes, make yourself sound goofy or silly … who cares … keep practicing and eventually you’ll get better with it. It took me a long time because I just don’t like interacting with people. I saw others like me who were more extroverted pick up the language a lot faster and within a year or two just become as normal of a speaker as anyone else.

Practise … it’s like saying you want to learn to sing … you won’t be good at it at first so you have to practice and not be afraid to fail and fail often … keep at it and eventually you’ll be just as good at speaking as anyone else.

The next step will be to demand that these migrant workers stay … as slaves to work without rights, recognition or protection.

The world has left everything on the shelf in full public view and access for anyone to take. Everything is based on a system of trust where we willingly pay for things and take what’s on the shelf, knowing full well that we could just take the thing off the shelf and walk away without paying. We all trust one another to be fair and do the right thing … and for the most part, the majority of everyone agrees with that.

Unfortunately, some asshats decided that it was a good idea to make everything expensive or to nickel and dime everyone to death … most people especially young people just get so pissed off because they can afford fewer and fewer things that they decide that the system of trust is no longer working or worth it.

So they just take the things off the shelf and tell the asshats to go fuck themselves.

so you agree with half of half of young Norwegians

I’m mid way through life and I haven’t even left the first chapter

Crushing poverty and the threat of starvation

Libreoffice is slightly worse because all the proprietary office suites keep lowering the bar for everyone to follow them. It’s not a quality issue, it’s a never ending contest to figure out how to complicate writing a simple letter so that everyone has to buy only your software.

Hallmark: get this person a $10 million budget, we’re making a movie … hurry we’ve only got one week to release it in time for the holiday rush!!!

Where in pornhub can I find these

Cancer man! … sing me the cancer song!

Lead Paint Girl and Asbestos Boy were just here!

I’m no historian … I just remember reading about this history a long time ago. The most famous story is about Cincinnatus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

The most famous story related to Cincinnatus occurs after his retirement from public service to a simple life of farming. As Roman forces struggled to defeat the Aequi, Cincinnatus was summoned from his plough to assume complete control over the state. After achieving a swift victory in sixteen days, Cincinnatus relinquished power and its privileges, returning to labor on his farm.

Whether or not it was true is anyone’s guess as it was written Roman history and it is debated as to whether or not it happened but there are enough examples through Roman history of government being handed over like this to a ‘Dictator’ and then handed back. It was considered just a way of getting things done as quickly as possible during emergencies and then when things normalized again, senates and groups of elected officials could take their time debating stuff again.

Dictatorships were created during the Roman era as a form of emergency government during times of crisis or war. Government basically just decided to hand over everything to one person, a Dictator, who was agreed upon to handle everything unrestrained in order to get things done as quickly as possible. Once the emergency was over, the Dictator agreed to hand back control to government. Power was exchanged like this several times during the Roman era.

Dictators were originally meant as a form of government that was needed and created by the people … it wasn’t until later that the process was hijacked and used as a form of control and totalitarianism.

There will still be someone out there that will try to one up this piercing.

[Wearing the US flag as a t-shirt and a pair of pajamas]: “I believe in the UNITED States of America!!! … but I want a divorce”