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Do you? Or are your police reporting the most violent crimes differently now? Your own BBC says that for every 6 knifings, 6 people are attacked by broken bottles or clubs, and 79 people are assaulted without a weapon. The knifings can certainly be more lethal, but it's also an opportunity to connect an ethnic group to the attacks. If you're like the US, it's reported that young black males are the ones being caught with weapons, but you never hear that they're also the largest victims of assault by weapons.

We've been losing wages in the US since the time of Nixon, and have had a huge percentage of our population incarcerated as a slave workforce, but the beginning of the end for us over here was turning our informative, regulated news shows into unregulated entertainment. Watch out for your BBC, it's been getting less and less reliable for me, and I can see the bias more every day. You've also had a LOT of attacks on your wonderful national healthcare system, so I would imagine there are people paying to see stories like that. We never got a national program, and ours is quite simply pathetic. So many private hands out for what should be public monies! I paid into our Medicare system all my life, and they've now purposely made it so complicated you have to hire someone to help you decide which plans and supplements to buy (yes, still making monthly payments for health insurance at 65).

I associate this with Christian religious affiliations mostly, but it's not quite like the Amish, where they didn't want their children exposed to modern thinking. This seems more like parents protecting their children from outlooks that might make their lives difficult, or lifestyles that might expose them to harsh criticism. It's better to fit in than to be happy for these people, and I can't help but notice how well that serves the wealth extremists. It seems like half the Republicans and Democrats in the US just want status quo, and are willing to keep pretending slavery doesn't exist. The other half of each party have always wanted better representation for the taxes they pay, but that other half of the Republicans want to change the whole makeup of our government. Some want a theocracy, some want a fascistic order, and others just want to see this democracy die.

It's highly unlikely this can happen when we put those with massive amounts of money in charge of our ignorance. Above all, they don't want us smart enough to realize the power we have as people in a democracy rather than individuals. If we figure that out, ALL BETS ARE OFF.

I think we all appreciate that. I'm not so much interested in changing people's minds as I am in making sure my own perspectives are as reasoned and complete as I can make them. I realize that massive amounts of money have gone into skewing our perceptions to suit the needs of those with massive amounts of money, and it's going to take extraordinary critical thinking skills to rise above that and see what the world's socio-political landscape really looks like. TFG purposely painted whole countries and peoples as shitholes full of rapists and thieves. These are textbook colonial tactics, and it's just unreal that they're still successful today. Call them "poor, third world countries" to make yourself seem sympathetic so you can offer "help" that allows you to pillage them, and also hide the fact that it was your country who pillaged theirs for centuries. TFG was able to get Americans to turn against the families of American soldiers who'd lost their lives, just because they weren't white. That's the part I have a hard time interpreting. Do so many white Americans hate brown people so much that TFG looks like a good idea?

That would remove all meaning from the word, but I'm sure that's why you said it. More whataboutism. It's boring.

"He tried to reach out and talk to North Korea". Notice how carefully neutral even YOU had put this. His "reaching out", done with no diplomatic training and a fawning gratuitousness that made him look like a child next to the smaller Kim, gave Kim exactly what he needed, which is confirmation that the US fears war more than he does. More than that, TFG legitimized Kim's cruel regime by personally visiting and praising him. TFG did NOTHING to reduce their ability to produce nuclear arms, and eventually backed down from his strongest stances. A few years later we now find ourselves worse off wrt Kim and his unscrupulous plans. In what perspective do you see TFG's visit to North Korea as anything but a colossal mishandling of leadership?

Well, we learned well from our colonial masters, the British.

Good for you, that's what it's all about! I used to be addicted to soap, but I'm clean now. Just be careful around trees, some of them are pretty shady. And stairs always seem like they're up to something. And can someone tell me why the person who invented the knock-knock joke didn't get the No-Bell Prize for Comedy?

I heard two versions of this joke recently, and didn't really care for either, so I took the best from both to punch it up. I agree about Dangerfield. He was another master of misdirection. "The doctor said I had cancer, and when I told him I'd like a second opinion, he said, 'You're ugly, too!'"

Misdirection is probably my favorite joke formula. Selling it well is an art form, imo. Bo Burnham is a master at it. I love his bit about believing in the Zodiac, and how morbidly ironic it is that his grandmother was a Cancer, and she was actually killed by a giant crab. I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs. Like customs officers.... I had a few too many at a bar the other day, so I decided to take a cab home. That's the first time I've ever driven a cab, to be honest with you.

Since it's already been established that the whole Ukraine/Nazi connection is a complete gaslight, I assume everything said after this point is equally untrue and aimed at perverting the truth. Red herrings for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

When I make someone breakfast in bed, is it too much to expect a little appreciation, or even just a "thank you"? Lately all I get is a bunch of questions, like "Who are you?" and "What are you doing in my house?"

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American politics in general is a cult of personality, imo. The Republicans want to bomb more brown people than the Democrats do, and Liz Cheney and her dad were the old epitome of that tradition. The new Republicans are mostly split between the Reaganites like Liz who don't care for TFG, the Christian Nationalists who back him, and the Anti-Democracy Extremists who adore him, and none of them want to listen to anything progressive or liberal from anybody, or any kind of compromise even if it's the best thing for everybody. I don't see how she has a chance to bring the party back together, but she could be effective as a spoiler for TFG's chances (if he's eligible to run again). I'm hoping this is what keeps TFG from running again. You always know he's lying when he uses his trademarked brand of kettle logic. "There are no classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Documents are automatically declassified by my order. I don't need permission to declassify documents I want to keep." Remember Omarosa and the N-word? "I never called her the N-word. I've been told there's no tape of me calling her the N-word. You can't trust what she says because she's wacky and deranged. The media shouldn't listen to her because they didn't listen when she praised me." It really burns me that so many people are duped by this.

Drain the Boil! Make America Non-infectious Again! Lance him up! Give him four more years and he'll take the 5th again!

I've had these dreams before as well, exactly as you and KyleLeClair have described. For me though, it didn't seem to have anything to do with becoming lighter. I felt it was definitely more of a Peter Pan, believe-you-can kind of power that kept me aloft rather than any kind of aerodynamic adaptation or weightlessness. I never needed to run or jump, but rather just knew it was possible to ascend into the air for as high as I cared to go. I've had auditory hallucinations along those lines before, but never at that scale. It's absolutely bizarre what our ears can convince our brains of, isn't it? I think most things people throughout history thought were miracles were simply misunderstood marching band waterfalls.

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Is this the same event? That's hilarious! Come to think of it, I've seen some DG with the name Somerdale Cooper Hill. Yes. I stopped buying cheap food and started buying less food overall, but all top quality. Start another cheese thread in Physics or Biology! Hard cheeses are what the cardiologists all recommend, and I agree with you on that Costco parm. You're talking about the big wedge, right, not the pre-shredded? I suppose I could cut it down to Jarlsberg only, as long as I get some sort of official medical exemption in writing. Maybe a bracelet with a big J in the middle of a red cross or something. And I definitely want a senior discount at the store when I buy my dairy medications.

It may be cheaper here, but all gourmet items have gone up so much lately that it's tough to figure accurately. Many imported cheese prices have pegged somewhere around $17.99/pound, which seems to be the point where Americans question their love. A couple of years ago, Jarlsberg was about $11/pound when other Swiss cheese is about $7-8/pound. One of my favorite cheeses they promote in my local stores is called Cotswold, a double Gloucester with chives and onion they claim is from the UK. Is this a real English cheese, or is this like English muffins over here?

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This company sounds interesting: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/666725

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