Honestly, I can see that. A lot of suicides are spur-of-the-moment, and the more a person has to actively work at it, the less likely they are to actually follow through on the attempt. Even just those couple seconds of working at it to get a whole box of blister packs open could be enough for a lot of people to stop, think, and say “actually wait”.

I’ll second my hero Mr Rogers.

We should all want to be like him.

It’s not about doing that. It’s all about the fact that he CAN, and that Miller and Hegseth and the rest of the Heritage Foundation sees the entirety of North and South America as potential vassal states at best and colonial plantations at worst.

There’s also the Gilboa DBR AR15.

Technically it’s a cipher, BUT it’s also perfectly constructed to work as a language (by making the cipher easier - vowels only get replaced with vowels, consonants with consonants).

It’s a real language, it’s just German spoken by a person with a head injury /s

1989, when Nicolae Ceasescu got killed by the Romanian Army officers he ran to for protection.

Pretty much this. Even if your eyes are bad-bad, generally you can find a task you can do, even if it’s “go spread fertilizer on the crop beds over here” or “hold this metal down at this end while I hammer the other end into shape.” People with bad eyesight have historically survived in conditions nearly identical to what a commune of survivors would be facing if the T-virus decided to escape tomorrow or whatever, it’s not magic. Depending on the community you wind up with, you will have SOMETHING that you can do to meaningfully contribute even without eyeglasses.

It also doesn’t help that you have AGI evangelists like Yarvin and Musk who keep saying that the techno-singularity/techno-god is the ONLY WAY TO SAVE US, and that we’re RIGHT ON THE EDGE, so a lot of dumb fucks see that and go “well obviously this is like querying an average human mind which has access to all of human knowledge for the problem if superhuman jntelligence is right around the corner.”

I had to make these when I sold cellphones. So much sock money.

I’ll also throw in November Kelly’s No Gods No Mayors, and occasional guests Failure To Launch (space disasters) and Beyond The Breakers (shipwrecks).

But you know who does employ children, Sophie?

Also, civil resistance historically only works because there were people sitting there saying “well yeah THEY’RE nonviolent, but if we don’t get our change soon…”

I was about to say, legally this is an act of war. There’s also some parliamentarian from the EU on there, so…

Nah, he’s not that kind of dictator. He doesn’t need to feel like he’s in the military - he needs to feel like he’s above them, on top of them as it were. The big military parade isn’t for him to feel like a general - it’s so he can copy his authoritarian friends without actually having the military cred himself to back it up. It’s cargo cult dictatorship.

You would be incorrect. Many wealthier high schools put a ton of money into their sports facilities and equipment. Several HS in my state operate 10-thousand-plus-seating stadiums that look a lot like collegiate or semiprofessional facilities.

3. The schools that aren’t underfunded have millions of dollars in funds earmarked for sports usually.

Genocide. The Clinton admin invented the term “ethnic cleansing” to justify the US government disobeying their own laws requiring intervention against genocide (at that point, in Rwanda).

Let’s call it what it is.

It’s in the frame. Literally they do not have drains in the frame, it’s all solid metal. So the second you get water anywhere in the frame, it’s there forever.

China sure won’t sit by while people are lobbing nukes at countries on their borders.