American/British count palm forward but also learned to count BSL style with the only modification I use my thumb for number 3

Rule of thumb more people should follow you call people the name they want to be called period that includes pronunciation to the best of their ability.

Or creating the myth it just works. As someone that supports corporate macs this is definitely a myth.

Bravery is not about not having fear, its doing it anyway fear or not.

The moment journalists started just reporting social media posts as news was the downfall. The internet has never reflected reality but journalists being lazy or news corps being greedy spent years convincing everyone that it was.

Magic erasers will do the trick but you have to rub lightly to not scuff up the wood

Yep went down hill after the BlackBerry Storm

While i get the desire not giving your love ones closure would be hell for them. Also being missing can make insurance harder to claim.

Please note its an April Fools joke

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324

Its the same Parliament as the current Parliament there is no such thing as the EU Parliament. Word do have meaning and you need to learn to read.

What ever you want to call it the EU Parliament was founded 10 September 1952 if you want to be generous the first election that shows continuity of leadership was 1979 well before the fall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_European_Parliament_election

What the EU has been around since 1952?

Your correct I do in 99.5% of cases but depending on your location sometimes you only have the choice of Republicans then it goes into harm reduction mode. I have also had to vote for what I call ratchet democrats as they are put in power by corporate interests to stop any progress when dems are in power. I hold my nose as I do it but like I said at the end of the day its about harm reduction.

Most independents I know are very progressive but don’t pick a team. They defined their political views on an issue by issue basis. The problem with picking a team is picking that identity and letting the party dictate what you should think. Being a proper independent takes more work. You have to read into each candidate not just pick a letter.

Also you have tactical voting. I vote in every primary as a Republican to put the progressive in the best position then vote against them in the general if that makes sense for that race. Sometimes the progressive are not running in that district so in that case you vote the moderate Republican in the primary to do the least amount of harm to progressives.

I honesty wish more progressives would run in Republicans races incognito. so we can fuck up their numbers like Sinema or Fetterman.

Me in 1998 watching ZDTV and playing quake and loving everything about computers and the internet.

Me in 2026 me straggling to even like computers and loathing the internet.

Of course what I mean is with the people I’m dealing with. For example airline flight crew goes on strike. The guy at the ticket counter is not the one that did it. But I would blow up the executives in a heart beat.

The moment I get inconvenienced and hear its about a strike. I never blame the workers and my annoyance is halved.

I should have never gone to that bookstore.

Iris West, hawkgirl, jimmy olsen, Starfire, batwoman, Jim Gordon, Mary Jane

That is just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Note I don’t mind them at all changing the race of a character. But swapping gingers for another race just doesn’t seem like progress to me. Just shows they are only willing to make superficial changes. Instead of making awesome characters that just happen to be black or any other race or identity. Them writing a black sidekick or supporting character makes them just one dimensional.

I would like characters of all color, shapes, sexual preferences where their trait they don’t have a choice in becomes their whole personality.

That’s why old school star trek got it. Uhura was not on the bridge to tell black stories. She was there to be apart of the team that just happened to be black. It could have been better in terms of screen time but the core idea is still relevant today. A more modern example of them doing this really right was Brooklyn 99 with Captain Holt. That show showed him being a Captain and a father figure first. Him having a husband and being gay was shown as being what it is, Normal.