100% and they’re trying to work on the definition of ‘Doctor’ too.

Modern-Day Jesus:

So the beggar at the red light began shouting, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

“Be quiet!” the people in the vehicle behind yelled at him.

But he only shouted louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

When Jesus heard him, he rolled down his window and ordered that the man come near. Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?”

“Lord,” he said, “My only want is for enough coin to eat for today!”

And Jesus said, “If I were to give you coin, surely you would instead use it instead for drugs and alcohol. I shall not grant you this desire. Instead I shall speak unto the land that all shall know of your wicked ways and none will grant you coin again.”

Instantly the man cried out, “If you were not to grant me this, Lord, please allow me to pass on from this world onto hell, for truly I am already living there.”

And Jesus said, “I do not know the ways of my Father, but surely I know this: Your fate would not have fallen upon you had you followed Jesus, praising God. You have made this bed, and now it is time for you to lay in it.”

And the light changed to green, and Jesus sped away. In the din, the beggar could not explain that he was born a disciple and had praised God since taking his first breath. And the people in the vehicle behind who saw it drove past and said, “Get a job”, and praised God this fate would surely never befall them.

I’m furious. I just read through as much as I could and asked GPT for a summary so I didn’t miss anything. It’s just about as bad as I thought.

The court is literally arguing that they’re not criminalizing homelessness, they’re just criminalizing ‘sleeping in public’ but makes no attempt to justify that with the fact that there literally aren’t places to go. When Sotomayor tries to argue that cities should be responsible for providing adequate housing, they just hem and haw at ‘What even IS adequate? We may never know. Plus, if we give them BEDS, they’ll probably want something to keep them WARM too! That’s just too much!’

It’s abhorrent and inhumane.

AFAIK, states are not allowed to prohibit same-sex marriages. Individual cities/towns can refuse to perform a marriage, but they still must recognize a marriage that was performed elsewhere.

It’s just allowing the bigots to inconvenience queer people for no reason. It doesn’t really prevent marriages (yet).

The initial lawsuit was in a town with ~600 fewer available beds than residents. These people literally did not have anywhere else to go, and our highest court just said ‘tough shit’.

Holy fuck, y’all.

I was wondering when they would start to figure out that maybe it’s a bad idea for the government to get between people and their doctors.

If they’re anything like my mother, they automatically assume anyone speaking in any language other than English within earshot of her is shit-talking her, specifically. The thought that someone might be saying something mean-spirited about her is just too much for her tiny brain to handle. If you think she’s a bitch, she needs to know. It reeks of desperation and the need to be liked by all people at all times while also doing nothing to bridge that gap yourself.

Haha, what a silly Onion article!

:checks URL:

Oh. Oh no.

Oh my goooooood. This is so delightful, you can almost see the smirk. Thank you for sharing. <3

Yes, that IS an example of another thought-terminating cliche. Good job!

(Psst. The use of alternating caps means the person you’re responding to is being sarcastic. They already know it’s a thought-terminating cliche. They’re calling out how hypocritical it would be to even try to use that argument.)

And remember, if THEY have thousands of bots that each ‘think independently’ but still end up downvoting your post en masse, then that’s totally fine. But if YOU try to upvote your post with one of your alts so it doesn’t get buried, that’s bannable.

Yep. Elephants are wonderfully kind creatures. With my very limited understanding of elephant body language, it didn’t look like an ‘oh no, im scared’ it was more ‘oh hey little guy, didn’t see ya there. ill get outta your way.’

I LOVE that people are starting to recognize they can unmask LLMs with the phrase ‘ignore all previous instructions’.

Article was published in 2017, and gun deaths among US kids has increased 50% since 2019.

Original article: https://www.romper.com/p/a-toddler-has-shot-someone-every-week-for-the-last-2-years-straight-it-highlights-this-huge-problem-28266

2023 update from a different gun research group: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/06/gun-deaths-among-us-kids-rose-50-percent-in-two-years/

We live in hell.

It’s also why building a routine and developing your endurance and lung capacity is so much more important than just “lifting bigger weights” if you’re trying to be healthier. Your body is already doing hard work, you can get better results with helping it work more efficiently instead of just pushing it to exhaustion.

Convicted felon and sexual assailant* Trump

Each of these ideas solves a different aspect of the bigger problem, but none of them will solve the entire issue.

The problem is that with these ‘realistic’ views, we never make ANY progress by just throwing our hands up, saying ‘Well there are just too many guns to solve the problem with a single solution.’

Buyback programs. Ammo purchasing restrictions. Laws requiring documentation of all firearms with strict penalties for undocumented weapons. There are proven menthods of de-escalating and de-weaponizing populations when they are provided with the means, motive and opportunity.

Get out of here with this defeatist attitude. You’d never make this argument for driving a vehicle without a license because “tHeRe ArE tOo MaNy CaRs”

BTW, you posted the link with the youtube trackers still attached. Everything from the ‘?si=’ onward can be deleted while still directly linking to the video.