This is pretty much reaffirming my position that the only mercy and compassion that evangelicals should ever get is the wall.

In actuality it was always about maintaining a legal and socially acceptable avenue for continuing this country’s legacy of racism and slavery.

Sorta, in actuality it was created with the intent to get around the 1st amendment protections and silence the civil rights and anti war dissenters of the time, the relevant quote about this is below. After the Vietnam War ended and the Civil Rights Act got passed it turned into what you describe it is today.

"You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Sounds more like everyone used [realname][number] as their password because IT decided that changing your password every couple months is the most “secure”. Even though it’s not and causes [realname][number] passwords in the first place.

So, how were each of your Corvettes best Corvette?

Meanwhile in manufacturing: “First time working 6 (or 7) days a week?”

edit: I sympathize with anyone having to work a 6th day in a week under normal circumstances, but tbh my ability to sympathize goes out the window when I’m staring down a 6 day week this week, and had a 7 day week last week.

Honest question, let’s say you’re a 29M who has never dated before or anything remotely close to it, and rather suddenly you have a 18F going around asking other people about you and generally sending the vibe that they want to date you, what should you do?

I’m asking because that actually happened to me, and I decided to just go along with it because partly why not and my dating life wasn’t going to get any better doing with me nothing anyways.

Which is funny since if that scenario happens in the US (which is very rare as it would likely be ‘sorted out’ long beforehand), the construction company/developer will more often than not just run to city when they get fed up and next thing you know the holdout is being served papers for eminent domain.

Yes, but the best way to predict when a landlord increases the rent is usually tied to property value (which in turn influences property taxes). And the best way to tell if property value is going to go up is by paying attention to the kinds of stores opening up (or developments being built) in your neighborhood.

Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0, let’s fucking go!

I mean yeah, we’re all going to die horribly from that, but we can at laugh at it.

I’ve known that I should be going to therapy for years now, except I really just don’t have the time to. To explain, I work night shift at a factory from 11pm to 7am, and I have to drive about 25mi one way to get there so I leave the house about 10pm to get there and get back home around 7:40. And I try to go to sleep about an hour after I get home, and how much sleep I get isn’t exactly consistent, some days I get up at 4pm, some days it’s 5pm, and most of the time it’s normally 6pm by the time I actually get out of bed. Most places around here open anywhere from 8-9am and close from 5-6, so i’m already kinda SoL on scheduling alone.

And this isn’t getting into the last time I tried to seek therapy, it wasn’t really going well at all, and one time the therapist I was supposed to see had called in that day and the office didn’t tell me until I got there, and told me that they’d call me to reschedule. It shouldn’t take much to figure out what part didn’t happen, but the therapist I was seeing was kinda on the path of thinking my whole problem was just that I just needed to get laid. Which comes back to op about what i said of the quality of therapists i’ve heard that we’ve got out here…

Oh yeah, that mental health office that did all that is the only one within 5 miles of me.

Yes and no, it’s a bit complicated on the financial side of things.

Short of it is that I still live with my parents (we’ve come to an understanding that there was a lot of fucking up that happened, and they’ve also left religion too) and my 3 siblings. 5 of us are working, and I make the most out of everyone, and also the most stable income. The financial problems are that city (a rural city mind you) has decided that they’re all of a sudden going to start enforcing building code after years of not giving a rats ass, since there was a seemingly astroturfed movement to start gentrifying the city in a way.

So we’re staring down a $30,000 cost to have repairs done on a house that we know for a fact has a lot more wrong with it than what city has cited as being out of code.

Boggles my mind so many libs can’t see it.

Simple, they see Trump as a fluke.

They don’t rinse their canned beans!

That’s completely fine depending on what you’re doing. Essentially if you’re dumping a can of beans right into something that’s going to dilute the liquid (like say a pot of chili), it’s completely fine and hardly noticeable.

Same energy as John Bolton going on live television and telling everyone the reason why the US is sanctioning Venezuela is that “it’s about the oil”

At work atm, so I don’t have time to go find a video of it. But I distinctly remember it happened.

Also love the take that anyone in power in America who proposes gun control is only concerned about disarming the working class

He’s not exactly wrong though, since gun control historically in the US was a lot more about taking guns out of the hands of PoC. One modern case was in California with the Mulford Act, which came about because the Black Panthers showed off the the thing whites fear the most has and still will be black people open carrying guns.

50 years from now people will likely be told a heavily sanitized version of it, 100 years from now historians will maybe start finding out what we know now.

Of course this implies that there will be anyone around left that would care about history by then.

Honestly considering the players here, how history will remember this could very well depend on who wins in the end. As I can see the US outright doing suppression of info via jailing and executions, under thinly veiled curtains of ‘national security’.

Japanese cars can usually be expected to go 200k+ without major repairs

That’s mostly true of Honda/Acura, Toyota/Lexus/Scion, and to a degree Mazda. But the other two major ones have problems. Subaru as the joke goes, you replace the head gasket every 40k miles. And with Nissan… the transmission grenades itself at about 40k miles.

There are exceptions to this, the Toyota 86 (Scion FR-S, and Subaru BRZ) has a Subaru developed engine. And the new Toyota Supra… is a BMW underneath.

The same reason why it’s rare to ever find interesting stuff at yard sales, thrift stores, and flea markets anymore. The internet and that nearly everyone having a phone has made people a lot more aware of what they have, and if not that the existence of flippers. People who make it their life mission to be as close to a leech on society as landlords are. What they do more often than not is find someone who doesn’t know what they have, buy it off them, then fix any minor issues, then flip it for a lot more than they paid and put into it.

It’s still good music, like I still regularly listen to songs that are older than I am (29 years old).