David Pakman, is that you?

As an Atlanta Braves fan, I'm going to miss Wash. He is an integral part of the team.

I'm so sorry to hear that my friend! I hope you find work quickly. You're going to be more up to the challenge with a month of sobriety under your belt, though. Congratulations there, that's no small potatoes!

I always love DarkMatter2525's content. His stuff was helpful for me when I was deconverting.

Thank you!

This is my first time to do this, and I'm just a few days in, but I will not drink with you today! Edit: haha, this post is for Monday lol. I didn't drink yesterday either, so...

I think it's probably more newsworthy when he tells the truth.

She fucked around and found out. I'm exhausted by people talking about their ethical failings "as a Christian." If she were successful in her attempts, along with others, to overthrow the election, she wouldn't be apologizing. She would be saying that God helped her. The issue is that she just doesn't have an ethical spine, and she has to borrow a misguided one from a religion.

Fucking great time to figure that out, Joe. I'm all for ranked choice voting and options like it, but he's just talking about a third party option, which means we'll just feel the negative effects of the party system more quickly, and possibly spoil the election to shoo in Trump for another term. We don't need him running for a third party as though that's the fix, we need to overhaul the voting system as a whole. Things like ranked choice, automatic registration of voters, voting at any location, etc (not to mention getting rid of the EC) would all significantly improve the voting system, and access to it.

"Felter? I hardly know her!"

It's the high speed that lets you know he is right, and that the full-speed gish-gallop that runs over you is legitimately discourse...

Oh, gotcha! I thought it was some sort of tech lol.

I feel very silly because my google-fu usually gets me an answer, but I can't for the life of me figure out what "hevy" means here. Can someone enlighten me?

I don't think this is a joke.

Earlier in this fever-dream hell-scape timeline, I didn't imagine that kids would literally need a VPN as they tried to just exist. Yet here we are, and I'm right with you, I've been setting my kids up with VPN as well, and talking to them about what sort of things they need to be careful about looking up without the VPN connection. Fucking dystopian.

My locally owned bookstore has a display featuring banned books. It's not an entire store of banned books, but I think that's good. I don't think a store with only banned books would be viable in the long term.

Number one, that's some seriously good craftsmanship. I love this. It looks so cool and detailed. Number two, I have zero knowledge about the historical way these were done, so apologies for a very ignorant question. Did metal suits of armor have padding like this? It occurs to me that it makes total sense to have padding, but I don't recall ever seeing "historical" preserved pieces with padding like this. Was that the norm? Either way, that's the type of helmet I'd want. Looks beautiful.

I feel like Galaxy Quest with Tim Allen, Susan Sarandon, Alan Rickman, Rainn Wilson and Tony Shalhoub is a criminally underrated movie.

This one is one of my all-time favorites. "Spencer knows how to deal with floaters!"

This is really cool!

I can't believe that you've left out Portu-gulls.

This makes the most sense.

This made me laugh. I'm in my early 40s and in the past six months I've been using the Merlin app to identify birds by their song. It's really fun to see what's going on around me in terms of birds. I had no interest before.

Well, the police are there to basically protect the property of wealthy individuals and corporations. They don't do jack shit for private, middle or lower class individuals except "file a police report" for the stolen belongings. But if you try to walk out of a store with merchandise, you're fucked, because it's the wealthy that they are paid to protect.

To be fair, Plex/home theater stuff is so stinking fun tho.

Last year my youngest was in kindergarten around the time of St. Patrick's Day here in the U.S. At some point they went out to recess and came back in to find little chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil on their desks. I picked him up after school and as we were driving away I asked how school was. He told me that he thinks leprechauns might be real. I asked what made him think they might be and he gave me the "we left class and when we came back there was chocolate on our desks" answer. I asked him if something else could have happened, like a teacher leaving them, and he said no, because the door is locked when they leave. I told him "maybe it was a rainbow unicorn who left the chocolate." His response was very dismissive. He said "no Dad, that's impossible because rainbow unicorns don't exist." He's a sharp kid but he's not quite at the logic stage. :)

I feel silly now, I thought climate change was because all the books in libraries about gay and trans frogs.

Just to be safe, yes.

Yeah I bought a Samsung range and it started to fail after the warranty ran out. Terrible quality. Range eyes stopped working so we wound up with one eye that we could cook on, and the oven temperature sensor went bad and after replacing it twice (an easy part to replace) it wouldn't keep temperature. I'll never buy a Samsung appliance again. Went with an inexpensive, used Frigidaire Gallery and even though it has fewer features, it's rock solid.

YES. Yes yes yes.

Weird, all I see are asterisks.

I'm not sure what it means, but I avoid anyone who has any form of flag on their truck/hat/coffee mug, etc. Experience has taught me that the louder, more vocal or self-proclaimed "Patriots" are just ignorant, bigoted blow-hards.

Thanks! I appreciate the response. I've seen some videos on 3blue1brown and I've really enjoyed them. I think if I were to go back and fill in all the blank spots in my math experience/education I would enjoy math quite a bit.

I came here to find some cool, mind-blowing facts about math and have instead confirmed that I'm not smart enough to have my mind blown. I am familiar with some of the words used by others in this thread, but not enough of them to understand, lol.

I'm sure this will go well and will never be abused. I mean, good that doctors, attorneys and MPs are exempt, because fuck the everyman Joe worker. /s

This is one of those images that I will save, thinking I will need it because I have needed this info in the past, and I will in reality probably never need it again. Thank you for sharing!

It's global average temps, not every area will be as hot as it's ever been recently.

That's really clean, love it!

Oh that's painful. I was really hoping to see Culberson play for us again.