Slightly more political now, I feel like there used to be a lot more learning and sharing of culture. We did have some other oddballs though - flossdaily, Unidan, voilentacrez - not sure we have as much of that on the fediverse…at least not those that reach the front pages.

Snowflakes pelted by snowflakes. The commissioner must have an icy cold brow. The perpetrators are snowed.

For someone to completely uproot their life, separate from most of their family, their friends and their upbringing takes guts. I’ve moved within my own country a few times and it was jarring enough.

People who are willing to such should be celebrated. I personally appreciate the culture, entertainment and food that they bring with them.

That said, I worked at UConn for a few months for a project, and I was taken aback by how many students were of Asian descent compared to how many were white or black. It made me reflect just how much more populous that part of the world is.

And while I do celebrate culture, and am even a proponent of open borders generally, I do think culture needs to be preserved. I live in the US and not China for a reason. The people who move from China, for more than a short term visit, should expect to follow American laws and social norms. That is to say, come freely to add onto our patchwork quilt here, but be ready to add to it, rather than replacing an existing patch with your own.

As for what people think here. I live in a small college town. We have folks from other cultures here already. I think they would be welcomed in town generally, but the outlying county folks would have more reservations - they’d be more accepting for those that talked or acted like them, hunting, fishing, 4-wheeling, big trucks and all of that.

Which chamber you plan on running in? House or senate?

And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say, his small heart grew three sizes that day.

Also, why does this article mention 2019?

Buy land from the lunar embassy. Guaranteed to go to the moon!

I agree. I was an early adopter. It’s a compelling idea to have a public ledger, but so far it’s been terrible execution, and what a disaster for the environment.

Sure, ok, but more lethal to whom?

The Thing is a Christmas movie.

We are all living in Cthulhu’s world now.

Maybe something by Gloria Estefan? The background music you provided has that crooner / Latin flair.

The more well off ones usually have a connected airport and “fuck-you-money” level security. As someone else mentioned, helicopters are an option, or perhaps boat if they’re by a waterway.

So congratulations, you’ve trapped the community doctors and lawyers, maybe a very well off Grammy or two with limited faculties, but you’ve set off the alarm bells to the true predators of society, who’ve now made it to Madagascar and shut down the ports.

It’s all in the method. Some bots can fuck us. Other bots can go fuck themselves.

Oh bud, are you new here? Welcome. This particular corner bar of the Internet that you’ve stumbled into doesn’t take kindly to technology that severs the person from the job.

One of the wittier guys in the trailer park I grew up in did that trick where it looks like you can pull one of your fingers off from one hand. As an 8 year old, that was fucking cool. Perhaps you could even augment it with some fake blood.

Another time he did the quarter behind your ear trick and then gave us the quarter.

To this day, I still remember him more than any shucker of a Milky Way or Babe Ruth candy bar. So yeah, go for it, make an impression.

You know it’s because they ate it right? That’s the only possible reason.

Federal workers will get back pay. You’re parroting the right’s messaging. People wanted the left to fight.

Because of how the people gave the right all of the levers of government last election, this is one of the few areas where dems have any power to wield - senate needs 60% to pass any funding legislation.

You wanted a battle, the dems took it to the mattresses. We should be praising them for being bold and we, the left, should be seeking out those government workers who are struggling the most and doing gofundme’s to care for them. This is a war and they are soldiers on the front lines, directly in the line of fire. We need to be their support regiment.

Conversely, the right needs to feel the pain of what a lack of federal government looks like, because a lot of them don’t value it at all, because they don’t understand how it serves them. They only see it as “protection money” that come out of their paycheck. For them, we need to find the union workers who left the left. We need to gain back the dirt farmers in Montana, the disenfranchised Hispanics in Southern Texas and in the burroughs of NYC and the suburbanite moms in Bucks County. Moreover, we need to fight like hell to show that we give a damn and have a spine and that we will, we will, fight for them.

Ever cut a channel into a beam of wood? Measure once, maybe twice. Take your table saw and cut until you can’t keep cutting. Serial Mahoganist should be one tick before last.

Guy just has to live everything by his own eyes doesn’t he? I guess this is what happens when you don’t trust anyone.

Gives Bagaram to the Taliban, decides to take it back. Dissolves NAFTA, mostly brings it back Wants to give Ukraine to Russia, now wants to fight Russia Wants to dissolve NATO, now wants to use NATO to shoot down airplanes What’s next, the TPP? Siding with Palestine?

Dude is the pure definition of that “I made this” meme

Not sure why I hadn’t thought about this before, but this seems like a fantastic idea for missile defense. Just have a constant wave of drones near each significant city that can move in unison to the threatened area and act as explosive chaff to absorb the strikes.

I could see this being used as a line in nuclear missile deterrent if they were high enough - just flood the zone.