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How about no

My UE BOOM died a couple of years back. Loved that thing. Maybe I’ll get another one…

Yeah absolutely… We’ve gone so long without having to worry about sooooo much water-borne shit, that people don’t even realize.

Can’t wait for the mainstream return of dysentery and cholera

Found this interesting Pew study about the internet from 1 year after 9/11:

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2002/09/05/one-year-later-september-11-and-the-internet-2/

Take it with a grain of salt, I think it comes off as a little overly optimistic, especially given some of the dire things it talks about (massive support for giving away our freedoms, etc).

I did just see at the bottom that there’s literally 8 pages, and I was basing all that on just the first page so maybe I’ll read more or at least skim through the rest.

Edit: holy shit (from pg 2):

I didn’t realize I was up any notches. Maybe it is you who needs to take your defensiveness down a notch.

Also, hate speech went way up online after 9/11. Just because you didn’t see it doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.

When I was a kid, before you could translate stuff on the internet and we were waiting months for the new batch of translated Dragonball Z episodes to hit Toonami (I swear, if I come home from school today and it’s goddamn Radditz again, I’m gonna Destructo Disc my mom’s Camry), I got like a tiny little I guess travel book for translating English to Japanese thinking that maybe I’d start learning.

The only word I remember is “hamburger” because the book showed the Japanese pronunciation as “haam baah gaah” lol

Is Nancy not entitled to the sweat of her brow??

Yeah how the fuck am I supposed to get 8 full hours of Rimworld without someone here to cook me chicken tenders?

The weekend which, by the way, is another concept that labor unions had to fight and died for.

Look, I’m not going to defend this bullshit decision, but humans survived millennia without regulated, clean, drinking water. Yes, some of the lucky ones had life, liberty, and maybe even some property.

They were drinking low % beer because it was safer. For literally thousands of years.

It was an absolute nightmare, and anyone with a working understanding of history knows exactly why we need regulated, clean, drinking water.

But unfortunately, here we are. A legislature that has abdicated it’s responsibility in prostrate to a mad king. With a Supreme Court with at least four justices, off the top of my head, that will have no issue poisoning our drinking water. And two more who could go either way.

This isn’t true, there were racist fucks immediately targeting Sikhs.

People were literally killed in retaliatory attacks (that often targeted the wrong fucking religion).

Life, liberty, or property. No pursuit of happiness to be found.

You don’t need to be Arab to write an Islamic poem…

A lot has changed (read: improved) in the CCP since 1989.

Regardless… Given my own country’s precipitous descent into full-on fascism, I’m not going to begrudge Chinese-born celebrities for doing PR for their homeland. Sorry, just don’t really care.

Not sure why I have to be the person in this thread to explain basic civics to everyone, but “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is from the Declaration of Independence, it is not in the US Constitution.

The Declaration is not law, it was just a declaration. You can’t cite it like this, that’s not how it works.

Just wait until climate change has us fighting literal wars over it in a decade or two.

Yeah this is total bullshit and all, but The Declaration of Independence is not a legally binding document. It’s irrelevant to the situation, unfortunately. You can’t walk into a court and cite the Declaration of Independence as law or precedent.

I mean, I guess you could, but no judge would take you seriously because that’s not how jurisprudence works in the US.

This is democracy manifest!

Good. Let’s start that phase as soon as possible

Eh, not sure sure since they were drinking low % beer back then instead of water because it was safer.

They didn’t put clean drinking water in the Constitution, because it didn’t exist on a large scale yet.