Ginny [they/she]

Many such cases!

Cowuuube!

If I had a million dollars we wouldn’t have to eat Kraft dinner.

But we would eat Kraft dinner.

Ice cubes and artificial sweetener?

So no.

If you’re inclined to be charitable, I believe the capitalist-brained reasoning goes something like:

These grocery stores will inevitably run at a loss and/or need to be subsidised - costing the taxpayers money - because the state couldn’t possibly run them as efficiently as a private enterprise competing in the free market.

(Not saying I agree.)

If I had to describe my feelings about this, I would have to say that I am bivalent.

It depends on your definition of “legitimate”, I suppose.

My point is that the targeting of civilians is still and always has been common in war. It may now be de jure illegal but it is de facto not policed.

According to the British (during the Malayan Emergency) and Americans (during Operation Ranch Hand), indiscriminately starving enemy civilians by spraying Agent Orange everywhere was legal.

In more recent history, we of course have Captain Drone Strike’s reign of terror against wedding parties and aid workers in Afghanistan.

The only thing that’s changed since the Geneva conventions of 1949 is that when civilians are targeted, the rest of the world says “tut tut, that’s a war crime” before it proceeds not to do anything about it.*

* Unless you’re from Africa or the Balkans, apparently.

Since when?

Why does anyone get to have nuclear weapons?

Because once you have them, who’s going to try to take them away?

I sought an ADHD diagnosis.

I’d warn you that it’s a pretty horny film, but Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (by Clive Barker /j) was also very horny, so that may not be an issue.

A fellow Plan 9 enjoyer?

Jonathan Harker proves that he can’t do accent work, but he did do some decent acting in The Devil’s Advocate.

I am an introvert. But I’d really prefer to have a five minute call to a text message conversation taking place over an hour. Organising plans with people is infinitely more painful over text messages than it is over a group call. Am I unique in this?

Edit: I do appreciate it when people text to ask if now is a good time to call, though.

Yew-ess-ay-ian doesn’t flow like yew-ess-ian.

I think there’s a difference, though, between liking it in private, and talking it up publicly.

If someone still listened to their Lostprophets albums I’m not going to judge, but if they spent a lot of time posting about how much they loved and still love Lostprophets… that still feels a bit off.

I say we should go back to calling engineering crafting. Furthermore, physics ought to be natureken, and science ought to be worldken. We could call atomic theory uncleftish beholding.

The prevailing consensus is that the gospels of Matthew and Luke were cribbing from the gospel of Mark and a text that is lost to us that is referred to as Q. The gospel of John is original as far as we know.

Also, a lot of the Pauline epistles weren’t even written by Paul.