Countess425 @ Countess425 @lemmy.world

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Word on the street is that American English is actually closer to the English spoken by the British when they first landed and colonized the Americas. After the war they went back to their lil island and forgot how to pronounce their Rs.

The only reason here, is BS. The kid is real, he's a grown-ass adult with children of his own that he wants to keep away from the general public. This is conservative propaganda to make you think Johnson's statements on racial injustice (which lean toward "my white kids get opportunities and have an easier life that my black kid doesn't) are bunk. Which they're not, just because the guy doesn't want to do photo ops and give press releases doesn't mean he's fake. Johnson was first elected to Congress less than 10 years ago. His son made a decision not to be a pawn for his adopted father's political career to avoid the public, not his father; and the public are generally terrible, which makes it an appropriate and rational decision.

Maybe you just don't know the definition of "irony". People use it improperly all the time. I don't think anything in that song by Alanis Morissette is actually ironic.

Personally, I don't think there's ever an excuse for cheating; academically it really only harms the cheater. People in college offered me a lot of money to do their work for them. I never accepted, but I also never tattled on them. Grades honestly, really, don't matter in the long run.

That's not irony, it's karma? Consequences? Definitely not irony, though.

No, it's TNG because of all the purple sparkly stuff, big hair, and jazz music. It's very representative of late 80s early 90s adult contemporary aesthetic, which makes sense because that's when it's from. TOS is some other kind of retro fruturism.

This drives my husband insane. He can't figure out why anyone bothers to walk anywhere. Why do they still use bathrooms when you can just transport the pee from your bladder into the replicator recombinator or whatever?! I assume the transporters must use an amount of energy that makes it inefficient to use for every little thing.

I call TNG "Adult Contemporary Futurism"

There was an episode of TNG where a "passenger" got onto ship's comms and was contacting Picard on the bridge. When Picard told the guy that the comms were reserved for ship's business, the guy asked why they weren't restricted, if that was the case. Picard said that was unnecessary as people in Star Fleet generally just...behave themselves.

I'm betting on this guy not lasting until November 2024 (not sure what the over/under is on November 17, 2023).

How much is that in mooches?

My cat has to sniff the can of cat food after I dump it out in her bowl so she can decide if it's worth the 4 steps it'll take to get to the bowl. She's a cat, she can smell the food in her bowl from less than a foot away. But if she doesn't get to sniff the can, it might as well be poison for all she knows.

I'm a fan of slasher flicks! I love the Scream franchise the most. Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Halloween are all classic slasher franchises, though because there's so many there's some real terrible movies in there (Jason X...omg). But the crummy camp is part of the charm.

You're thinking of Mitch McConnell. Thomas wrote in his opinion on overturning Roe v Wade that it should also be considered to overturn gay marriage and access to certain birth control methods, but left out anything about interracial marriage.

I was one of these kids. I peed my pants at the airport in like 1992 because I was too scared to use the heavy-duty auto-flush toilet.

This is what I do too. I can usually just get away with two-three days during the work week with meds, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday where I need to get a lot done. I don't really need to force myself to do more than that; seems on par with everybody else's productivity. If I use stimulants more than 3 days in a row my brain kinda turns to mush, so that already puts a cap on my usage.

It's not closed to the general public, any member of the general public can join as long as you get an invite. I'm not sure how to get invites as I don't interact with BlueSky much, but I was invited by my brother and he's nothing special on the Internet.

I spend more time blocking furries on BlueSky than seeing any content of value.

Not to mention Hunter Biden is getting his in court? It's just boring tax fraud and a gun charge and he's taking his punishments without much fuss and working to rectify his transgressions, tho, so nobody cares. Also he never worked for the government in any capacity ever.

For real; what the hell?

There are certain crimes at certain levels that bar one from running for office; attempted coup and dissemination of national secrets to our enemies being some of the reasons to exclude one from seeking/holding office, and such charges account for 3 of his 4 current cases. The hush money to Stormy Daniels/campaign finance violations are likely not enough to keep him from office.

Edit: Also our judicial system is based on the premise that one is innocent until proven guilty, so just being charged with a crime is typically not enough to level punishments as if one had been convicted yet. It's supposed to make him an undesirable candidate, but decorum doesn't matter anymore all of a sudden. 🤷‍♀️