This was a triumph! I’m making a note here, “Huge success!”

It just clicked in my head that the reason why all of this is happening is they’re punishing us for electing Obama.

The current turd in chief is acting this way to show us how they truly believe Obama is going to act when he’s president.

Overlook the fact that he’s already been president and is now no longer eligible to be president again. That sort of logic is not at play here. This is a deep and instinctual manifestation of racism with no valid target to execute their racism on.

They truly believe in their heart of hearts that they are not racist, that they are doing the right thing, that they are teaching us and showing us the error of our ways.

The insanity comes from the cognitive dissonance of knowing they know what they’re doing is wrong. They know what they’re doing is horrible. They know what they’re doing is fucked, but they can’t stop doing it because we haven’t learned our lesson because Obama was president.

Like, I think electing President Obama was one of the best things America has done in the last 50 years.

But I also think it was probably the wrong decision because obviously 40 to 60 percent of us were just not ready for the idea of having a black president, so much so that, what, like, 17 years later, people are still really, really fucking upset that a black man was elected President of the United States.

And the worst thing is they can’t cognitively process this information because it’s not clicking in their head. In their minds they are not bad people becauae only bad people are racists.

Because there is no connection between the idea that an action can be racist and that a person can be racist, while in most other categories being a good and decent person, they can’t actually move beyond this thing. They’re fucking stuck and playing on a repeat. They’re broken in a way that can’t be fixed.

It’s really sad and America is going to suffer for a very long time because its own people cannot understand that they can be racist while being otherwise good people, and that racism does not have to include screaming the n word or murdering people of other colors. It can be something as simple as feeling uncomfortable around another person because of the color of their skin.

That one singular tiny little grain of sand is what’s bringing down the Colossus of America.

Yep, I was literally coming in to say that Skype was trashed the instant Microsoft bought it.

In my defense, your honor, I did not consider that someone would intentionally do this until I read your response.

There is a North America, and there is a South America,

Those are two separate continents.

You can check on any map of continents and that will show you that this is true information.

One could even say America is two continents.

Like, aside from all of the concerns about the practicality of it, why can’t we just have weird shit? It’s okay for things to be weird. It might be kind of fun. It might be kind of cool. Like, if I were at an amusement park and they offered a ride where you could ride these things, I would pay to ride one.

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I mean, given how much money she has, she could actually have a mattress with a divot specifically for her ass.

I wouldn’t be surprised if anytime you get teleported arterial plaque and cancer and bacteria gets filtered out in a pattern buffer

The implication that I believe you are missing is that all humans are to some degree evil, and that goes doubly so for the type of human that finds themselves working in the world of politics.

It’s tongue-in-cheek, and that was very well known when the phrase originally came out.

The subtlety seems to have been lost over time.

I think it was Jesus that said, “It’s better to ban an entire nation from existing than it is to work out your own sexuality with fear and trembling”.

If my dick is out, I’ve already won.

I would say that any… if the people live in a group or a society that is religion-based, and that religion requires it, then I am not against infant circumcision.

Basically, if you were born to Jewish parents living in Israel or Palestine or born to Muslim parents living in a Muslim-run country, then yes, participate in the culture that you were born in.

But, like in America, where every single person decides their own faith for themselves and only the most culty stay in this same religion that their parents were in, infant bodily autonomy outside of life-saving procedures should be the rule.

It seems to happen less often in Europe, but wouldn’t hurt to add that as a rule there, too.

At least wait until the kid is 13 years old as a minimum.

I can definitely get behind that. Like, if you read the Bible, especially some particular chapters, there’s a lot of old man yells at clouds vibes.

“I will cuteth off the member of him who pisseth against the wall”

Doesn’t really sound like a god thing. It would be very weird for the ruler and creator of the universe to get really, really fucking mad that any person who pees on a wall anywhere, regardless of the situation, should have their dick cut off.

It kind of sounds more like, you know, one of the leaders of a community is writing down laws and threatening to cut a bunch of boys’ dicks off because they keep peeing on walls and stinking the place up rather than using appropriate facilities.

I wish we had accurate historical records of the time, so I could see if this was ever actually enacted. Like, how much would it suck to be that guy?

Walking home late from the bar, you gotta take a whiz, you piss, the cops catch you, and like three hours later, your penis is lying in the trash.

And, I mean, talk about disproportionate response, like, did the concept of community service not exist? Like, what the fuck?

Then there was one phrase about, do not go and shave the sides of your beard, something something yada yada, and it reads like a protest against the kids and their fashion.

There’s lots of stuff where if you have the capacity to take the one mental step to say that every single word in the book may not have been written by God himself, but instead the texts chosen to be in the bible contain a historic medium of communicating laws, rules, and regulations that made sense at the time, inspired by God and definitely containing some legitimate things that were directly written by the Holy Spirit, but also invariably containing some information that was derived from that original mandate.

I mean, even the whole thing about the Sabbath, it was more a nicety to say, even God rested, you should rest too. You should have at least one day off a week where you’re not beholden to labor for somebody else, where you can enjoy life.

I highly doubt that God is throwing people into hell for working on the Sabbath. I get that it’s special to God because he rested for a day, which is something he had otherwise not done throughout existence. But at the same time, why torment someone forever for just working one extra day out of our comparatively very short lives?

I don’t know. I can rant forever. I’m sorry, I’ll stop here, but yeah.

My favorite one is do not boil a calf in its mother’s milk, which has been interpreted to mean no cheese or butter on beef.

Which means that cooking and eating a bacon cheeseburger yourself after sundown *on a friday while wearing cotton underwear and polyester pants is 4 sins, 3 of which are burger

Its not stupid to be optimistic. Every good thing starts with optimism as far as I know

I also use Ouija board rules with AI.

You say please, you say thank you, and when you’re done talking, you say goodbye.

And, generally, you try to interact with it as little as possible.

The problem with most companies is that they are not led by people with clear visions.

Companies that succeed typically start with a clear vision. However, once that vision is fulfilled, then it starts to become run by people who are simply trying to make money.

Chasing after money becomes the vision, and that is how you get to the way things are in America today.

Having a vision often times means having goals that you’re willing to lose money if it gets you closer to achieving them.

That being said, ratuer than voting for your paycheck, something that is much more straightforward and less prone to being taken advantage of would be having set wages based on years of experience and time with the company.

include an opportunity to earn extra during the year by going above and beyond while making it clear that this is not expected of the people at their current job role.

Going above and beyond would be determined by your boss on recommendation, and they would have a limited number of recommendations every year.

Another thing you could do would be to publish what everybody earns on a website that is internal to the company, and make the going above and beyond rewards part of your annual meeting or something so nobody would know if they’re going to get an above and beyond reward until then.

Then to actually make it a good thing, you would need to make it a rule to fire the people that do not meet their performance metrics, at least after a set number of times or like failing to fulfill a pip or something.

If I see a 40 plus year old man and a 16 year old girl going places together, I’m going to assume the girl is his daughter.

Pretty high Ick factor.