1000% look. Not even a question. Can you imagine how dope it would be if Jar Jar in the movies had a deep ass voice? Like shit, imagine if he was voiced by Samuel L Jackson or some shit. He would be chill as fuck. I'd want to smoke some weed with that funny looking guy. People who pick voice want to hide from this life changing experience, but bro you gotta own it.
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If it gives you any comfort, I was recently thinking about the Civil Rights era and how many of the old Trunp supporters you see were alive through that era. These are people who grew up in a time where Civil Rights were not a given. Same for LGBT rights. People out there still remember an era where that hate was normalized. There are young people that are anti-LGBT or explicitly racist, but they're exceptions to the trends. So find comfort in the fact that we're still in an era of transition and that these fuckers will die out sooner than the rest of us. Also, when it comes to war it's the young who fight and these old fascists are overwhelmingly geriatric.
What purpose does throwing someone in prison for ten years do though for something like forgery? Would it not be better if they were forced to do community service and lost access to the tools that led to them committing forgery? Why pay money to remove someone from society for a decade? Is it to teach any other potential forgerers a lesson? Is it to teach the forgerer themself a lesson? Is that really a lesson that needs to be worth a decade in a cell to learn? The world's justice systems have generally erred too much on the side of retribution instead of rehabilitation. It's especially sinister when you consider how much our capitalist system places more value on things like capital over people's lives and wellbeings. To be clear, I consider myself to be a capitalist, but a social democrat that believes in heavy regulations on our capitalist systems. I think our retributive, excessively pro-business justice system is a clear example of what happens when you let capitalism go unfettered and bleed into every aspect of our lives. Forgery is not violent. Most of the time it is not actively dangerous. Why don't we come up with more creative and proactive ways of punishing people that would benefit people at large rather than ruin the criminal's entire life? Even in a case where I am not on the criminal's side I find myself pretty appalled that ten years could even possibly be on the table in a forgery case.
Seriously. Why the fuck is it even a possibility for ten years of prison over something like this? It's crazy to me that a nonviolent crime could be punished so severely. I mean, why do we have prison? Is it to remove dangerous people from society? That's certainly how I think it should be, but these sorts of punishments really show that it's all about sating the bloodlust of victims.
I thought I was so smart spamming the caterpillars into the password. I overfed Paul.
The funniest moment has to have been when I Googled "9 minute 34 second Youtube video" and there was at least one video literally titled "9 MINUTES AND 34 SECONDS TIMER COUNTDOWN [574 seconds - 9:34]" and the video was 9 minutes 49 seconds long. I proceeded to Google different numbers of seconds looking for one that hit the perfect number and literally none of the videos, despite seemingly hundreds of videos of very specific times happened to fall on the 9 minute 34 second mark. Like, what insane world is happening in the great depths of Youtube where people spend hours posting completely arbitrary timers on Youtube, but specifically avoid ones that are 9 minutes, 34 seconds in length. I felt set up. I was rolling in laughter. 10/10 would spend my night Googling Youtube timers and overfeeding an emoji chicken again.
Regardless of whether you believe the economy is good or bad right now, saying it's the "worst it's ever been" is blatantly hyperbolic and untrue. The Great Depression and the 2008 Recession are two incidents we all still talk about. Today's economic situation can't hold a flame to how bad those periods of time were. I hope you're using exaggerated language without ill intent, but it certainly comes off as disingeuous and manipulatively partisan to use language like that when it's so clearly untrue.
Honestly it would probably take around five minutes for FOX news to 180° flip the minds of most American conservatives these days with how little commitment they have to ideological consistency. I could absolutely see Republicans hating Russia tomorrow for some stupid reason like Putin saying something bad about Trump or Russia accidentally helping their gays be slightly less miserable.
I appreciate your patience with my ignorance. Thanks for that 😅 Seems I spent a bit too much time in old hostels in cities to have a good understanding of European infrastructure... Probably not unlike coming to the US, seeing New York City and Boston, and assuming our infrastructure is all old...
All good points, though speaking from the US/Canada, most of our sinks now only have a single faucet so if hot water is dangerous in any way then this certainly doesn't prevent things like residual amounts of microorganisms or harmful substances left from the hot water from coming into contact with our cold water by the time it reaches the faucet. Our single faucets are probably a result of modernized newer plumbing in our newer buildings - water heaters in the US are huge, sealed very tight, and are designed to be replaced fairly regularly. I'm guessing many places throughout France and other parts of Europe still have older plumbing systems because replacing them would be difficult and costly in all the older buildings you guys have. Do you have mostly dual faucet sinks in France?
US/Canada here as well as someone that has visited most of western Europe (UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland) and stayed in hostels - no boiling necessary in any of these places.
There's actually a pervasive myth I've encountered that hot tap water is dangerous and that one should only drink cold water. As far as I'm aware, this myth is due to an old setup for water systems that many western homes had before modern taps. The tap was separated into separate cold/hot faucets. The cold water came safely from the city, but the hot water came from tanks that were stored in people's attics. The water in these tanks sat stagnant and was therefore prone to rats and other creatures dying in it or bacteria building up. This is why still today, most British homes have separate hot/cold taps - to keep the "safe" water separate from the "dangerous" water. I occasionally encountered such taps in the US and I assume that's why my dad raised me to make sure the water was cold before drinking it. My father's understanding of this was clearly outdated though. I learned all of this from a Tom Scott video.
Some day the orioles will discover the same technology. I'll be walking through a forest and hear a really sexxed up voice saying "Hey big guy, why don't you come up here and make me moan?". So I'll naturally climb up the tree to investigate and all I'll see is an oriole excitedly staring at me and holding its phone using the Birdnell Humanology app. Only then will the birds have their revenge in full.
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