KoboldCoterie

Whenever I get pennies (or any change less than a quarter, really, and only then because quarters are useful for vending machines), it goes into the 'Take a penny, leave a penny' cup or a tip jar anyway. I use cash rarely enough as it is and I hate having change in my pocket.

I mean, this is actually valid. Pennies cost more than a penny to make. I don't think anyone likes pennies. I wish we'd done this a long time ago; it's not the first time it's been discussed. First thing I've heard of Trump wanting to do that didn't piss me off, to be honest.

If he's willing to weaponize the pardon power (which we already know he is), there's no current way to stop him at all. Anything he does is protected by the 'presidential act' ruling, which is untested, but anything his lackeys do can just be pardoned, even pre-emptively before charges are brought. Since the pardon power is absolute and has no oversight, this would, as far as I can tell, stonewall any attempt to stop them unless that attempt is by literally barring the doors as they try to enter. The system was not designed to stand up to a bad actor of this magnitude; the recourse would be an impeachment but that's not happening unless he oversteps so massively that his own party turns on him.

This is a great example of survivorship bias! Someone surviving those types of events is a very rare occurrence, so when it happens, it's noteworthy and the word gets around. You don't hear about all of the times those things happen and the person doesn't survive (or at least, you don't hear about them as prevalently.) Similarly, when someone stumbles on a curb and survives, it's not news, but when someone stumbles and dies, it is!

No, see, when white people oppress black people, that's fine. When black people want to recoup some of what was taken, that's DEI. Gotta stamp that shit out.

Yearly Fediverse event that's based on Reddit's Place. Basically a giant blank white canvas and everyone can place colored pixels, with a cooldown between placements. Last year's is viewable here; next one should be coming in early July.

It's a very, very slow version of Canvas! Heh

Something like many Reddit subs do with the snoo, where they took a common, recognizable icon and customized it for their instance would have worked well if there was a similar icon for instances to latch onto, but we're past that point now.

This looks pretty dumb. Who would ever use this?

We (including you, unless you'd care to share some credentials) are all laymen here. Therefore, the logical thing to do is to look to the opinions of experts. The experts and scholars generally agree that Israel is committing genocide. The article even admits that (in the sentence I quoted above). Are you, like the article's author, suggesting that your expertise trumps these experts and scholars?

The prosecutor in The Hague and all the learned professors, from Omer Bartov on down, who talk about a genocide, are wrong.

This line made me think the author was being sarcastic. "It's not genocide, because Israel hasn't decided to commit genocide! All of these experts on the subject agree that it is, but clearly it isn't!", but no, they appear to actually genuinely hold this belief, which is just... I don't even know what to say. The mental gymnastics required here is just wild.

They found a crazy loophole - this one neat trick that humanitarians hate! If you just keep saying "We're not committing genocide!", you aren't! Wow!

Do you happen to have a link to a store with that tree structure, or know what it's called? I would love to get my dragon something like that, and have been having a hard time finding good ones.