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The helium used for balloons is of low purity.

The shortages you hear about are of pure or near pure helium. The stuff going into the balloons at Tommy's birthday party isn't the same thing used to cool superconductors.

EDIT: And I used to think Reddit was full of ignorant jackasses ...

You rang?

There aren't even any jeans in it!

No, it was intenjional! A stroke of jeanius!

Jaipers?

The plot of Looper, simplified.

Also, here's some manhunting chinchillas.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's exactly what I meant by letting politics dominate one's life.

I believe that a person's morals and values can be assessed and expressed in a more meaningful way through their actions and words in day-to-day life than by looking at their political beliefs. In other words seeing how a person treats the people around them, how they handle adversity, and how they enjoy life matters more than making sure they agree with you on issues X,Y, and Z.

Sometimes political beliefs do indicate core differences in values. A great example is differences in opinion on welfare policies. This indicates different ideas about the role personal responsibility vs the role outside forces play on people's lives.

My argument is that that sort of difference in ideals would become apparent very quickly without relying on political ideology to define it. Doing so shuts out any possibility of nuance and immediately turns slight differences of ideals and values into a larger, more hostile "us against them" issue. You're not dealing with a person with a slightly different perspective anymore, you're dealing with "the enemy".

This is going to come as a shock to some folks but people don't need to have the same politics to get along.

My wife is more conservative than me. We don't spend much time talking about politics and avoid being dicks to each other. When elections roll around we go to the polls and I'm sure cancel out each other's votes for a bunch of candidates.

When you and another person believe that there's more to life than politics it's easy to not get hung up on them when it comes to personal relationships. When you or the other person allow politics to dominate your life it isn't.

Context matters. If I see a man getting strangled on the street I'm going to call the police or intervene. If I see it on stage during a play I'm going to enjoy the show.

I think just about anyone would agree that the average person on the Internet doesn't exactly do their homework beyond reading a headline. That common habit lets rumors and misinformation spread like wildfire. It's important for hot takes to get challenged and questioned to make people think critically rather than making assumptions and walking away misinformed.

On the other hand if you're making enough money illegally to feel the need to declare it on your taxes (either for ethical reasons or because you don't want to get done like Al Capone) law enforcement is probably already looking at you.

For real. I've started to replace "AI" with "program" or "software" in my head every time I read a headline.

Ok, trolling for sure.

There's no way a person could be literate and have access to the Internet and be that ignorant.

The real reason the fear the English is their tea.

I'm sure I made a mistake while I was making it but the fact that I might have done it right and that's what they actually drink is ... unsettling.

American here. My wife bought a box of Yorkshire Tea Gold. I must have done something wrong because that shit was strong enough to strip paint.

Buy it for the meme. Keep it because when you stir in sugar it spits the spoon back at you and laughs.

Majordomo! Bring me another Duncan!

In the 1100's Pope Innocent II banned jousting under that logic. His reasoning was that jousting was super dangerous and the competitors were risking their lives for no good reason, going against the teachings of the Church.

To enforce it he denied a Christian burial to anyone who died while jousting. People still jousted, but there was an extra "oh shit" factor to causing or receiving a serious hit and it seriously curtailed the sport. Sixty or so years later the ban got lifted.

It really, really isn't common.

Here's an NBC report from two years ago: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/breaking-point-sf-suffers-highest-rate-of-car-break-ins-compared-to-atlanta-dc-dallas-la/2731757/

The TL;DR is that the top cities in terms of car break-ins (per 1,000 people) are:

San Francisco - 19.8 Seattle - 19.7 Atlanta - 12.9 D.C. - 10.4 Dallas - 7.8 Houston - 7.5 L.A. - 6.0

That shit ain't normal. Outside of San Francisco and apparently Seattle. The whole rest of the country doesn't have this problem.

What the actual fuck are you talking about? There is no other city in this nation where people leave their cars open. Not a single one.

You're either trolling or so disconnected from reality it's terrifying.

On the off chance you're just ignorant this is your official notice: the way you live is not normal.

You need a reality check.

There is no other part of the US where people leave their cars open so thieves can see there's nothing to steal.

There is no other part of the US where a mob has destroyed an autonomous taxi.

Other than perhaps Manhattan and sections of LA there is no place with higher housing prices.

These are very, very far removed from the rest of the US.