Compounded issue! Since you know, heavy metals are still an issue lmao

I took some cardboard from cereal boxes and wrapped some crafting paper around it, then put the pins on that and hang it.

Otherwise, backpacks, jackets, vests. Just gotta gauge which are worth potentially losing, if they are at risk of falling off or anything like that.

It was soooo good!

I grew up in the same area so I knew them when they were Sweet Children! Can’t believe it’s been so long!

For a second I thought you were talking about writing, and I was like holy heck that’s a lot of books!

And well, it still is!

I’m excited. I’m going to see Green Day tonight! Plus Rancid and The Smashing Pumpkins

I fear the amount of harm that would come from another event like Stonewall. What it would look like in the landscape of today…

Ah nice somehow never came across that term.

Thanks!

What is STG?

I have some bad news for you, I think the poisoning might be poisoning you.

For days I thought this was saying “make X number more girlfriends”

Then I realized

Lol, part of me thought this may have been posted by him

I feel like the main reason would be money laundering prevention. It’s slightly harder to create new accounts than it would be to have one account repeatedly buy, remove, and repeat for new licenses.

I can’t remember, are bone spurs a disability?

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen

Most things by Henry James

James Joyce has a good catalogue, I recommend treating a book like the Odyssey as a college course and reading prerequisite reading such as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the original Odyssey (and it’s precursor the Iliad).

This should be a good years worth on its own!

I think as long as we don’t give them thumbs we should be okay, right?

I would support compulsory voting, however it would need to be very, very safeguarded against Jim Crow laws. Simply put, compulsory voting needs to be rooted in uplifting communities and from a place of education.

I would say something like a one week voting period during which time American’s learn about their local candidates, policies, and anything else about the platform. It should be treated like career day, where the entirety of the time is spent learning about things that we don’t see in our day to day lives.

However, even that I know would fail. Just looking at Trump rallies should be enough to prove that it is still flawed, because inherently it being a group of people with an ideology of hatred will come up with the worst possible {gestures at something all encompassing} imaginable.

That said, I do think having some ~40% of American’s actually voting is far, far too low. Increasing this through citizen engagement is probably how it would be best accomplished, but again, you have 63% of American’s voting for Christian policies, not for American policies. So ultimately, we are in a stage where Democracy is mathematically at odds with the base of voters, with two parties that only represent a small portion of their constituents (R’s with persecution through religious corporatocracy and D’s with corporatocracy) all while the rest of us are just trying to vote to get some local changes that will have a positive effect.

All in all, while I support a form of 100% voting, I do think it’s a multifaceted problem ranging from the issues others have mentioned, to including everyone in the vote means we also get the entirety of places like Utah and Idaho who do not want people like you or I to even exist. Not to say I want to exclude them, but I do not want policies based on anti-humanitarian agendas or hatred – that is incompatible with and antithetical to the progress and betterment of humanity.

In our current state, any form of compulsory voting will be primarily anti-humanitarian because that’s what religious voting necessitates. For compulsory voting to be viable, we would need to bolster education for both emotional and critical intelligence, and I would consider a more than single day period of voting.

Which inherently makes it so that specific demographics of people will never be able to use it.

Man I had completely forgotten about that aspect until I read your comment and it all came flooding back.

I was never huge into firefly, then I tried rewatching it years and years later to give it another chance, before the stuff about Whedon and Fillion, and it just felt so… Not right. Couldn’t place why though.

Then the stuff came out and it clicked - it was completely phony. Any pretense of feminist lenses are flipped into the male gaze, some sort of betrayal that’s exponentially worse.

I liked Serenity more, but now the whole thing is just tainted in general. That’s part of the tragedy of firefly. It could have been something great, but it was written by a misogynist which muddled an otherwise well put together world of conflict by turning it into a really, really weird fantasy. I never took Morena’s role (actor who played Inara) to be created with good intentions. It was always creepy to me, then the events that ousted him made it all very clear why I had always felt this way.

Cause the dudes a creep and writes like one. Buffy is the only thing outside of marvel stuff that I can watch, and even those aren’t safe from his sham.

Yeah that’s the exact vibe I get from it too