You can place them in a room insulated with asbestos … and painted with lead paint.
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
You can place them in a room insulated with asbestos … and painted with lead paint.
That’s beautiful… great way to meet new friends
The stupid part is not that he said this
The stupid part is that a good percentage of a large powerful country like the United States allows and accepts a political leader like this to speak for them.
Turnip isn’t the idiot
Everyone else is for listening to him and keeping him in a position of power
Launches entire US nuclear arsenal against Russia
But still get up with a broken nose to mutter …
"… UHHH LUNK TREK DAR? … " … then pass out in embarrassment
It’s like meeting someone in an empty desert.
You go through life secretly liking Trek while everyone around you either doesn’t know about the show or have heard of it and think it’s some kind of nerdy thing from the past. Or they think there’s something wrong with you for liking a terribly made show in their opinion.
Then you meet a stranger who likes Trek and wants to talk about it.
You jump over a railing, flail your arms in the air, and land with both feet, then with a serious look point at them … and ask which series do they like the most.
You have found your people
The fact that most of the world has decent access to food. And the fact that here in the first world (I’m in Canada), just about everyone has access to some kind of food.
I know it isn’t perfect and there are still a small percentage of people that may have difficulty with access to proper food, plentiful food or enough food … but everyone everywhere here has something to eat.
I’m Indigenous and when I was growing up in the 80s, mom and dad had enough for us to eat but we weren’t starving or anything.
However, my parents were born in the 40s and they said they had to live through famines as children … in modern Canada! They remembered a severe famine that swept through northern Ontario in the 50s where every hunter and trapper just couldn’t find enough wild food anywhere to feed people. It was a normal cycle that happens in our part of the world that takes place at least once a decade - most times it is just small decline in animal populations but other times, everything just disappears for one reason or another (disease, migration, weather, temperature, animal movements, etc)
In my grandparents time … starvation was a normal part of life to the point where lots of our old legends are filled with stories of cannibalism and murder because people were starving to death.
It all just means that in our modern era over the past hundred years … food has become plentiful for the majority of the world and that starvation has become less prevalent than it ever was in human history.
In our modern world of interconnected finances, services, governments and systems … it is all hinging on a very delicate balance … because as Will Durant put it …
“From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day”
Our easy access to food for everyone is only possible if we maintain a functioning world order of cooperation.
because the US has spent decades creating a culture that allows this level of stupidity in their national politics
Stupid people saying stupid things in public is only considered acceptable if everyone that is listening in to all the stupidity are stupid themselves.
… too close … deport him to the sun instead
… so he wants to avoid creating a “one party state” … by electing someone who openly wants to develop a one party state
I love how this medieval knight decided to use a recently invented folding lawn chair to do battle with his opponent.
Then it must involve a medium sized metal food bowl … one about the size of a human (or Vulcan) skull … and a very unskilled barber … perhaps a sibling or a parent
I’ve only ever watched one or two episodes of the series and hope to watch the whole thing some day … but these memes make me feel like I’m going to have to listen to the entire theme song every time now.
I hope it involves Edward Scissorhands
Imagine being a barber and cutting the hair of a Vulcan.
Isn’t this basically how Taylor Swift got her start … her millionaire father just buying thousands of her debut album at the beginning.
It’s also a sign of things to come
We will reinforce our false and superficial ideas of the past or even present with the help of AI
All the vague uneducated and ill informed ideas we all have about anything and everything will all be magnified and exaggerated a hundred fold.
People want to only believe what they want because they hate being wrong … and they never believe or want to believe that their side, their group, their community no matter what it is can ever be wrong.
I’m not immune to it myself and I constantly have to remind myself that I can easily fall into that same mentality.
Most of us are never taught to be self-critical or to properly question the world or the people around us.
This is thing I keep pointing out about AI
We’re like teenaged trailer trash parents who just gave birth to a genius at the trailer park where we’re all dysfunctional alcoholics and meth addicts …
… now we’re acting surprised that our genius baby talks like an idiot after listening to us for ten years.
They did make floor tiles with asbestos but they’re hard to find unless you remove them from somewhere else