America still has an alcohol problem. It may have been worse back then, and it may not be as bad as some other countries today, but still. You can’t convince me there’s anything healthy about the drinking culture surrounding sports, college life, and all manner of special events.

1. The temperance movement wanted prohibition to be extremely difficult to repeal. They wanted abstinence from alcohol to be permanently enshrined in the legal and moral fabric of the nation.

2. At the time, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of federal powers was more narrow than today. Any such act of Congress was likely to face an uphill battle because it would be seen as regulating commerce, and such powers were supposed to be left up to the individual states.

Prohibition was definitely the wrong way to go about it. It introduced all kinds of problems. I think the aim of ending alcohol consumption is a noble one, but the only way for it to work is for people to want to not drink.

I think restricting the advertisement of alcohol (as stringently as we currently restrict the advertisement of tobacco) would be a huge step in the right direction.

That’s fuckin’ metal. Like a Venus flytrap of the deep.

Brad Savage looks like he’s about to ice C. Thomas Howell in that photo. No trigger discipline nor muzzle discipline whatsoever.

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12.5 is average for an adventuring hero using the standard array plus typical adjustments for race.

Even if you roll 3d6 across the board with no adjustments, old school, 10.5 is average.

FOR SALE: MAS-36 rifles in excellent condition. Never fired, only dropped once.

An especially interesting example, given that the Swiss Confederation usually did all they could to prevent Swiss-on-Swiss fighting.

Apparently in this case, a treaty had already been signed and the bulk of the Swiss defenders had returned home prior to the battle, intending to cede Milan to the French. The Swiss who stayed to fight were a smaller force of fresh reinforcements who were hungry for plunder and misinformed about the strength of the French army. They actually launched a surprise attack against the French instead of waiting for the French to reach Milan.

Why is the bill wearing a Pepsi logo

Red-handed, or orange-fingered?

Hey, Janet Mills is only 77! She’s a spring chicken!

I wouldn’t, but then again I’m not a drunk Marine.

Like the other user above, I’ve also never heard of the Totenkopf and I don’t recognize the emblem. Looks like any other skull and crossbones to me. I’m not saying it isn’t a harmful symbol, but I can understand how a lot of people would be totally ignorant to its history like I am.

Did you read the full comment? They said they reuse them for cat litter disposal and wastebasket liners. Y’know, the sort of things for which someone would normally purchase single-use plastics anyways.

I’m happy to reuse a bag after it’s held canned goods and fresh produce. Cat poop and used tissues? Not so much. My old stock only lasted so long.

I don’t see. Not trying to be obstinate, but I must be missing the nuance. What does it mean for a tax to have “association with representation?” Elected representatives passed the laws that implemented these taxes, right?

And they get Social Security and Medicare benefits.

I didn’t think the issue of “taxation without representation” hinged on whether or not the citizens benefitted from how the taxes were spent.

It’s not like the Stamp Act of 1765 was an income tax, either.

But they pay other federal taxes… Social Security, Medicare, and less common taxes like customs and commodity taxes… and D.C. residents do pay federal income tax.

I wonder how the permanent residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the District of Columbia feel about paying federal taxes without a having a voting representative in Congress.

Huh.

If Virginia hadn’t attempted to secede from the Union, thereby forcing West Virginia to secede from Virginia, would we have 49 states today?

50 is such a round, satisfying number that I can’t help but wonder if we would have made Puerto Rico or another territory into a state to make up the difference.