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Here's the thing... if America really cared about NASA... I mean REALLY CARED... we would have been up in arms when they abdicated the shuttle program 14 years ago. That was, what, under Obama's first term? 2011.

I was super interested in the shuttle stuff when I was a kid, from Enterprise forward, and was pretty disappointed with what they were doing with it.

"Oh, look, they're sending up mice again... shouldn't we be PAST that by now? We landed on the fricking MOON already, why are we sending up mice... AGAIN?"

Fidel Castro offering to send election observers to the US in 2004.

Is that the one with all the dicks on it?

Yup! 94 swingin' dicks!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/25/bayeux-tapestry-historian-genitalia-dispute

(88 on horses)

I'm not passing judgement on good or bad, I'm asking "Isn't that how it always is?"

If you send rescue workers into the middle of a violent storm, then you have to rescue the rescue workers.

You're advocating punishing an entire population for having the temerity of selecting their own elected government.

There's a term for that:

https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/collective-punishments

Isn't that standard procedure though? Not much disaster workers can do until actually stops raining, right?

Katrina hit August 29th, 2005. Bush signed the relief package 9/2, 4 days later. And that was just approving the money to be spent, not actually spending it.

I mean, if the area is actively being destroyed, how do you even get people in to help?

I can't believe this whole 50+ comment slapfight started over an argument of possessive apostrophes.

Internet - Don't ever change!

For the record: If you want to imply that the Clintons are owned by someone, it's NOT "Clinton's". They are the ones BEING posessed, not the owner.

"The Clintons (plural) were Epstein's (possessive) clients (plural)."

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives

U.S. fertility rate is actually up the last few years, still below replacement level, but up.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/fertility-rate

Our son was 14 at our wedding, his bio-dad died when he was 3.

Oregon / Washington - Deep fried sweet walla walla onion rings:

https://youtu.be/a2tTg0HpGrE#t=1m56s

Everyone should have realized it was security theater when nobody was asked to remove their underwear after the underwear bomber.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

Next up is to ditch the fluid restrictions.

"I'm sorry, that's too much fluid, here, let me dispose of it right next to this massive line of people in case it has an explosive, chemical, or biological component..."

Everyone should have realized it was security theater when nobody was asked to remove their underwear after the underwear bomber.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

Next up is to ditch the fluid restrictions.

"I'm sorry, that's too much fluid, here, let me dispose of it right next to this massive line of people in case it has an explosive, chemical, or biological component..."

How about this... Not "buying" a game that's disabled if it's no longer online...

Helps if you view it from the side:

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The key flaw in the logic is that American police are there to protect people. They aren't.

https://prospect.org/justice/police-have-no-duty-to-protect-the-public/

I think the top link is busted, it just goes to the red image on a loop.