I absolutely defy the implication that US credibility is in any way whatsoever reflected by trump… Even if he manages to get elected again, he’d still obviously not be representing all of the US…
It’s like saying all Canadians are super liberal because they elected Trudeau… People know better.
I’d go with “reputation”, but not credibility.
Encephalitis is caused by viral infections. Our immune system usually suppresses said viruses, and HIV takes away the ability to suppress them.
This happens with a lot of illnesses… thrush, Tuberculosis, fungal infections. HIV allows a lot of stuff to have far worse impact than it normally would.
That’s not quite the same as HIV causing them… Pedantic maybe, but since we’re talking about words meaning things… ;)
We need laws addressing shit like “if you don’t say no in 30 days, we’ll take it as a yes”…
If you can get convicted of rape for assuming silence to be consent, then why the fuck does shit like this pass muster?
Except that it’s wrong… AI is capable of creativity. It created the artist name. It’s clearly not a very developed or robust sense of creativity because it clearly just hashed up the name Hanna Montana, and the song is probably likewise just a hashed up existing song, but I’m guessing it probably did a better job of creating an original work than vanilla ice…
Every bn will have a challenge coin (or several, sometimes the senior NCO will have his own design), so there’s a unique design for roughly every 1,000 people in the army, and they get redesigned fairly often, because the command teams change out after just a few years and often want to have their own version.
Which is just to say that it’s fairly common for someone to go googling to look for images to put on challenge coins, not that it’s normal for yours, out of billions of possibilities on the internet, to have been picked out :)
Please tell me they did you the courtesy of sending you one of those coins…
So… Just turn a blank round into a live bullet…
Shuttering their central bank and converting to dollars… Meaning they aren’t actually getting rid of a central bank, but are rather converting to a foreign central bank.
White paper and black text is the norm because until relatively recently, it was much more cost effective… This could be done cheaply with modern tech, and should 100% be a thing…
I’d buy the hell out of dark mode books.
And they’re gonna go away because some wingnut convinced a bunch of people that their fins cause boners.
Maybe someone should sue them for overly tight integration of their browser into their os…
Might work, I mean, it worked once before, lol
Lol… “Study shows what we want it to show”
It’s a comparison between drivers and riders using four cherry picked criteria that would most likely generate the predetermined narrative. It’s science for hire.
Drivers run the gamut from tree huggy beetle driver to Ford f950 with the extra black smoke package and factory standard swastika paint job, and cyclists, while on a narrower scale (you’ll never see mr super smoker on a Schwinn…), still have a similar scale and can absolutely be assholes.
The dissociation part is accurate, but it’s not a matter of vehicle type or size, because commercial drivers are commonly on the same end of the awareness scale as motorcyclists. It’s not about personality, it’s about risk.
"went home, kicked sarumans ass for good, and then got to slammin…
Oh right, the whole battle of the shire isn’t a thing because some dork chopped it and Tom bombadil completely out of a movie script.
What? No… I’m not bitter… much
Pay income tax on income you aren’t collecting?
I live in my house. The neighbor rents theirs. I have twice the square footage, and I maintain my house like it’s mine, whereas they maintain theirs like it’s a rental, which is to say my house is way fucking nicer… I don’t have the paper thin wall paneling with the lines millef in it to look like shiplap, and the babyshit green pile carpet out of the fucking 70’s, you know? That pileif shit rents for $1800/mo, and my mortgage is almost exactly $1k with homeowners, taxes, and warranty included. I don’t know what the fuck I could get if I rented it, but what you’re suggesting is that I should be obligated to pay income tax on what I might get??? Not the 1% property taxes, but like what? 30% or so?
How about fuck no? Do you own a house? Do you want to own a house? What you’re suggesting could price anyone who makes less than a million dollars a year right the fuck out of the property ownership world… forever… That is a batshit crazy fucked up idea.
So instead of being bought, he’s being extorted? Yeah that totally makes the current version of his story more valid… Throw this motherfucker off the witness stand and send him on his way, he’s either full of shit or he’s full of shit…
Are we planning on indicting everyone who testifies for the defense on fraud charges? Is that how this shit works now? Tell me how this is an improvement over trump buying witnesses or slipping religious fervor inducing drugs into their food or whatever ye fuck he’s doing to get people to back up his bullshit?
Indicting witnesses isn’t the fucking high road. Fuck trump, but fuck this bullshit too. This is exactly the sort of shit that “defund the police” types bemoan when it’s done to a nobody, but hey, as long as we get trump, it’s all fucking good… it’s fucking not good…
Shit… Video on this one is disturbing, but not in the way it’s being billed as disturbing…
Female officer was doing a pretty good job of trying to keep shit calm, her partner did try to use non-lethal when shit went sideways, they were obviously not on the warpath or anything, but if you Google the video, when she takes the two shots at the guy, there’s a kid standing like 10’ behind the guy DIRECTLY in her line of fire…
Im pretty indifferent on her having shot the guy, but the video pretty clearly shows she’s basically firing a gun at a child.
The best clothing for a hotter environment is a tad counterintuitive, because it’s less comfortable in the short term… you want full sleeves, full pants or a long skirt/kilt/toga/whatever (I’m reasonably certain that if heat waves continue cranking it up, these are going to become a unisex thing, whatever we’re gonna call them…). You want everything loose so there’s room for evaporation to happen (it’s your body’s natural swamp cooler), you want large openings everywhere so the air can ventilate, and you want lighter colors that reflect. You’ll also want to cover your head, preferably withsomething wide (and/or includes the little neck covering flap deal) that creates a lot of shade, but it’s currently more common in deserts to see less shade producing scarves/wraps.
You’ll feel hotter in the immediate, and overdressed, but you’ll overall be absorbing less energy from direct sunlight, and that means a more stable amount of body heat overall, and less risk of things like cancer.
I wear loose t-shirts, jeans, and a wide boonie/fishing hat. Less overall clothing is better, but more coverage is also better. Gotta find that balance is all.
TL:DR, the clothes most people associate with the Middle East… clothes that are worn by people who’ve dealt with a hotter climate for millennia. The white robe looking getup is what’s gonna work best in a hotter climate.
Don’t give a fuck about the balance between individual rights and positive rights. I’m not entitled to any determination of your options, values, or ideals, and I’m against anything or anyone that does.
I can piss on the bathroom door… I don’t need the bathroom, it’s a courtesy that we use the bathroom (ask San Fran…), and I have the right to wait a little while out of courtesy.
What you’re missing here is the responsibility that an individual has in a completely free environment to not break the unwritten rules of not being that one fucking asshole that’s always gotta fuck it up for everyone else…
Fuck positive rights. That’s what I think :)
General officers come with flags, placards, and assorted other bric a brac. The rule of thumb I quoted is decades old, and intended to help clarify how all that goofyness should be addressed, and generally benefits joe.
An officer in civvies carrying his uniform with his rank visible is actually an outstanding example of how said rule of thumb precludes stupid shit, because that guy is almost definitely playing the bullshit game… I’d just salute the fucker, ain’t nobody got time fo dat ;)
Technically, you salute the rank and not the individual.
In reality, as you’ve discovered, common sense still applies :)
Your question would be much better applied to height discrimination, which is something that’s almost never mentioned, but is a lot more indicative of the nature of discrimination itself.
It is instinctual, as others have said, but it has nothing to do with tribalism or war, its about resources. Discrimination is almost always about resources (the notable exception being gender/orientation based discrimination, which I guess is religious?).
The discrimination against small people (and obesity and age as well), is more basic, and likely older (in evolutionary terms), and is oriented towards hunting and fighting. We think less of smaller, fatter, and older people because they’re assumed to be less capable of gathering (and fighting for or defending) basic resources.
Discrimination against races is more recent, and more societal, and is more about monetary resources, and isn’t even entirely a matter of race. Poor white people can be discriminated against in the exact same way for the exact same reasons. Racism is more classist than discrimination against height, weight age, etc. but is essentially still a matter of these classes being seen as less capable of getting resources.
You can see it more easily if you look objectively at the discriminatory tendencies of women (and I mean that in a very generalized way). They tend to be far more discriminatory towards resource based biases… Height, weight, physical condition… They’re often inexplicably attracted to overly aggressive partners, occasionally to their own detriment. The more instinctual a woman is, the more likely to pursue the overly aggressive men. Race isn’t anywhere near as much a factor, and there are notable exceptions in all factors for women if a man obviously has a lot of resources already (no indictment intended ladies, just is what it is, and generally)
And of course it’s more obvious among women for the same reason… The disparity (again, in a very general sense) between male and female in ability to gather and defend resources affects women’s choices of partners more so than men.