Well, I ran in front of a bus and I’m still alive, so running in front of buses can’t be that dangerous, hey? Don’t be so overcautious!

Everything in life has risks and you have to weigh the potential risk vs. the potential benefit. Granted, if smoking weed is the most dangerous thing that you do as a child, you’ll be very lucky.

Beyond the point of being a good student, excess intellect at this stage of civilization is more curse than blessing.

Considering how many people are still ignoring the climate crisis, we need every bit of intelligence we can get. It’s the only thing that will determine whether or not we survive as a species.

You make a good point, but I would much rather have them doing that than drinking. That harms a developing brain and has a bunch of other shitty side effects.

How do you delete someone else’s comments? Were you arguing with an admin?

Too soon.

Many of the candidates from alternative parties are anti-genocide.

The DM for Critical Role did that in one of the early episodes. I think that if you’re making a podcast, you should check your words for pronunciation.

I could imagine somebody thinking of the word “segue” and thinking “Ah, so ‘fugue’ must be pronounced fug-way.”

There are non-biting mosquitoes. Those would just fill the same ecological niche.

Then the FEC could just find out who owns that PO box and arrest them.

So, they were okay with the racism, okay with the Muslim ban, okay with the insurrection…but now they’re anti-Trump because he’s acting weird?

Talking trash about him on X isn’t actively pushing him out.

I’m sure that shaming them will make them change their minds and will not backfire in any way whatsoever.

Hopefully they turn to Jill Stein.

If this is a joke, it’s a very bad one. If it isn’t, good luck on pulling your head out of your ass.

How would you feel if the US was sending weapons to a country that was killing your friends and family? What would you do?

You’d be surprised.

more than 20% of Black Americans own or have owned cryptocurrency assets, according to the campaign

Demonoid. They had a community that put together a lot of high-quality torrents.

You’re going to have to explain this convoluted logic to your grandchildren when they ask you why you voted for genocide.

Let me give you a real-world example. This actually happened to me. I’m a temp working for a large corporation. The corp decides that they aren’t satisfied with my work. I get a call from my temp agency saying “Your contract has been terminated.”

Okay, this sucks, but it happens. However, I have a bunch of stuff (which I own) on my desk, and now I can’t go back and get it because my keycard doesn’t work anymore. When I show up and ask for my stuff, they tell me to email somebody, and that person doesn’t reply. I even ask a friend who works there to go by my desk and set if he can get my stuff, and he says that my desk has been cleared off, and it’s likely in the trash somewhere.

So, I go to the police. The police tell me that it’s a civil matter, not a criminal one, and I’ll have to take the corp to small claims court.

Now. If I had taken something from the corp home with me (i.e. stolen it), which would it be? A criminal matter or a civil matter? You’d better believe that would be a criminal matter and police would be involved.

Right. But if a business steals from you, that’s a civil matter, and the cops don’t get involved.