The whole family is conservative shitbags with an axe to grind. A rich brewing family that makes second-rate beer and has shitty politics. They’re the rich that people talk about when they say “eat the rich.”

What if the day you decide it’s time you go outside to realize the day was two years ago and now half your friends are being “re-educated” and you have to hide that you ever knew the other half.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety. We only have soap, ballot, bullet, and jury boxes and obviously the soapbox has limited impact and the ballot box increasingly less.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

Go into the private sector and make the bank while you can then go into consulting. Save academia for later in your career when you’re getting burned out.

Just IMO, YMMV.

I’ve watched that video a dozen times and even in the heavily edited video you can tell the guy won’t leave him alone. That was apparently the third interaction they had

Bart Sibrel is a conspiracy theorist, liar, and a grifter and wiki makes it sound like he had it coming. Say what you want about “patriotism” and “heros” and the military industrial complex; Buzz Aldrin climbed on top of a rocket and rode it into space and was only the second person to step foot on another celestial body. He was a fighter pilot before that and was the first astronaut with a PhD. He lost close personal friends in the space program, they all did. IMO he be allowed another jab if he wants.

It’s time to start being afraid of the cult of elon.

He’s said he’s going to donate $45m per month to Trump until November. It’s becoming very clear he bought out Twitter to suppress free communication of people.

He sees which way the wind is blowing and is hoping he can help install Dictator-for-a-day Trump who’ll deregulate every industry and cut every tax that might apply to him.

I’ve done something similar a couple times I’ve been sick and masked up while (unavoidably) out. People stfu real quick if they hear that deep, rattling cough that sounds like you have TB.

Yeah of course nobody wants to be (the fourth wheel) if they’re not wanted. Three is just a Tuesday night though, four is an orgy.

Anything that’s asked of him.

Someones graphic design degree was absolutely worth it that day.

These are what we want to make, not advertisements selling products people don’t need, let me illustrate elderly animals!

Stop after your first 4 words and you’d be correct but all your other words are just your imagination and you trying to rationalize what you’ve already said.

You think “tankies” support Biden?

That’s certainly a unique take.

How do you think we got the 40hr work week?

Holy shit your assumption says a lot about you. How do you think AI is going to “help impoverished people live better lives” exactly?

No you misunderstand but that’s ok.

I was saying you have to speak to people on their level. Sometimes you need to say things in a different way, you might have to rephrase it for a different audience or even “dumb it down” for some of the simpler people on the internet.

Like I’m doing now.

It’s nice, you should try it.

I speak to people on the level they’ve shown they should be spoken to, if that’s kindergarten so be it.

That’s not an actual reply to the point they made. I know it feels good to call someone a child but it’s more effective to actually address the discussion.

So just being a pedant then.

We’re not conveniently geographically separated though, it’s more of a rural/urban divide and despite what a lot of people think the two areas actually rely on each other. Try growing corn in a city or educating competent medical/engineering workforce in a small town and you’ll run into logistical issues pretty quickly.

Mmm, tangy!