There’s one in particular who for some undefined reason has been able to essentially say ‘go off and do this thing’ that my own brain said is stupid and impossible, and then I succeeded at doing the thing.

Probably the first example, when I had finally gotten the idea to do some gym work (which she helped at that too) I commented to the effect of maybe I could look at doing a 5k. So she says let’s go do 14k which of course sounded nuts, so we went and did that. Next thing I know I finished a marathon because why not…

Similar to the markings used on trucks hauling hazardous materials. Might be for the fire dept if the place goes up in flames.

Secondary bar for starfish pose crucification, the proper origin of putting stars on holiday trees

Who was it that said the rule was ‘half your age + 7’, think it was from a movie or something?

It’s not too far of a gap to be an issue in general, but some places it might get legally twitchy. Here they have what they refer to as a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ law that if I recall has a sliding window of a couple years around 18 that allows for people on either side to date within some number of years.

Ethically I wouldn’t think much on it. You could well have been a single grade apart in school depending on when each birthday falls in the year, that’s hardly worth noting.

Ummm Ermmm Ohmmm

So here we have an example of a common .ml and others of the tankie triad technique. Come in, make a big fuss about something and the evils of capital society, then bail when they get pushback, in this case even deleting the account.

They’ve downed half a bottle of whiskey to avoid being ‘woke’.

Casting I would say is kind of a separate deal. You can still find somewhat ornate cast things today, although more often it’s injection molded plastic coated in paint.

You could do this kind of thing with wood in a CNC machine, but more often it’s just some straight cut or moulded particle board stuff with no life in it.

There are far too few in positions of power who have the courage to tell Trump to stuff it when needed. This guy is one of those few it seems and now the crybaby turns his tantrum on him.

Given the trash that passes for furniture these days I expect that in 50 years or so people will still be hunting for stuff from the early 1900s or earlier to put into their place.

Decorative flourish for the most part. A lot of that old stuff was crafted by hand rather than a machine so it tends not to be designed for mass production.

Are you suggesting testies are millionaires? Castrations bout to become a new trend?

You can download a torrent of the whole thing, they don’t need to give it to anyone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Well maybe if they didn’t send their kid off dressed like a member of the Hitler youth they wouldn’t have these issues…

Is that one of those comic books the religious nuts hand out on Halloween?

That’s actually surprising, I would think that Musk & Donnie would have been all over the idea of having front row seat visibility into new CVE. Info like that could be worth a few bucks.

You’re trying to talk sense to people of an extremist ‘comply or die’ style ideology here. Proper leftists have empathy enough for the well-being of their fellow humans and the planet we live on to recognize that simply burning everything to the ground benefits nobody. What we have in this place for the most part are keyboard commandos who wouldn’t have the first clue what to do in the event of a full societical collapse.

I hadn’t made any implication that he shouldn’t be challenged, unlike some he took a largely proactive route to apologize and resign without a big fuss so there wasn’t much need to push or challenge.

The overarching premise is that while conservatives obstruct and defend their behavior as ‘no big deal’ liberals are much more likely to say go ahead and put them on trial if their own fuck up. Consider the charges for the last 3 presidents impeached, there are 2 Republicans acting in a outright criminal fashion to use their office for personal gain, and one Democrat who got a BJ. The type and scale of crimes against the public is pretty heavily weighted in one direction.

The big challenge with a leftist/liberal alliance to work against the would-be dictators come at least in part to the method and level of moral compliance demanded. To take some from the other comment I saw, Al was accused by several women of various things, probably the most egregious mentioned as having his hand on the side of someone’s breast during a photo. There are far too many hard line leftists who would have someone blacklisted as no better than a maga supporter for that, or at least their online personas would, for something that could have legitimately been an inadvertent error and putting it in the same basket as the current admin.

Liberals will throw people acting a fool out without a moment’s hesitation, hell they’ll throw themselves out for disgracing their peers.

Remember Al Franken who stepped out of Congress because of a picture of a crass joke vs the current ‘grab em by’ prez on tape who all but made it a slogan to promote himself as being a big macho dude.

That’s the gimmick, saw them around the 90s skater culture and a bit after as I recall.