I can’t believe you would rather let people die than let your house get spray painted. Monster.

but always break down as bad actors and grifters work their way in to cause trouble

This is the reason for having a slow, steady, methodical, skeptical approach to social change.

If your thing gets hijacked every time, eventually you gotta take responsibility for being so easily hijacked.

Yes I would say that about BLM. Justifying this stupid shit with that stupid shit doesn’t sway me. And no, now that I’m pissed off about this library vandalism, that does not in any way make me likely to support Gaza.

How do you not get that there is no mechanism of incentive here?

throwing shit on the Mona Lisa. Are you more aware?

No. I already knew about climate change.

Stonehenge. Are you more aware?

No. I already knew about climate change.

The audience is everyone who doesn’t give a shit about the protests but instead pearl clutches over the covers of books getting some paint on them

I am opposed to spray painting library books. But that does not mean that spray painting library books is a way to recruit my help.

In fact, there is no reason to think it would recruit my help.

I don’t give a shit if a hundred libraries burn to save the lives of even ten children.

There is no mechanism by which burning a library saves children’s lives

Imagine waking up and one of your toes is gone

Gee that sounds a lot like the men in this story who also got ZERO PRISON.

No, but they might be able to produce 300x the value.

Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want.

Why not? Why not value the work based on what others are willing to pay for it?

Why don’t you ask a conservative or a republican?

Go ask the person who said that for their source, and ask yourself why you didn’t start with them in the first place.

I take my consent from the dog. You’re its caretaker, friend, and family. None of that means the dog’s incompetent to decide and communicate desire to be touched.

edit: I should be more clear. I ask for permission from the owner. I say “Can I say hi to your dog?”

Then I say hi by putting my hand out to smell. Then if the dog wants a pet, I’ll pet the dog.

Permission to approach from the owner, but consent to pet from the dog.

What if I’ve frozen the dog in carbonite, and he fits in my carry-on?

I think the picture is trying to resemble both light and rain. Like the enlightenment is in the falling of the water back into the ocean. The dropping of the tense separation. But also, the resulting hole in the cloud lets the light come through.

Here’s a few pictures I’ve saved in the last couple years. I think it gives a pretty good idea, but you tell me

The galaxy is a bowl of M&Ms. One of every hundred M&Ms is poisoned and will immediately kill you. It’s only a 1% chance you’ll die. Well maybe pike 5% if you eat a handful.

Most of the civilizations might even be moral enough not to destroy us, but all it takes is one.

Oh I thought yeast was a bacteria, huh.

We’re willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh chest of gold.

All we ask in return is your cooperation in bringing a known evil to Mordor.

Don’t take any guff from these swine, Cabron

I do remember reading school books and science articles 30-40 years ago and the estimates then weredifferent, but that’s just how science works.