The US founding fathers were vehemently against a standing army, because it could be used for exactly this very thing: seizing control from cities and states. That’s why they only wanted militias.

You mean… The country at war won’t go “no thanks, we’ve got enough weapons” while the war is going on?.

I don’t want “lots of the safety tools”. I want something useful and effective, not just heaping a whole bunch on and assuming more is better.

Honestly, you only need three at most: a way to set limits beforehand, a way to calibrate during and a safe word for when it goes wrong. Thats not “lots”

Another reason to hate Israel. They’re making me agree with Iran.

Ew.

I feel a little judged now…

Well, there might be a single common denominator in those observations. Have you considered therapy?

My account is brand new and I just wanted to help with some problem reported in a post and was attacked by an asshole I blocked after trying to get an explanation for the attack.

They gave you a reason though, a lengthy one too. You probably didn’t notice it because you were too busy posting about putting your dick between a woman’s breasts.

Absolutely. Great individual action in a pretty shit situation.

Username checks out.

I took a drafting class in high school many years ago (late 80s) and for the first half of the year we did all of our drawing on drafting tables with pencil and paper. It was crazy. Fortunately they had computers too, so once we had the basics down we transitioned to using AutoCAD.

I took one in uni, because at one time I wanted to be a civil engineer. We had a drafting class, and we started off on paper, because “you’re here to learn drafting, not computers!”

One day, when dutifully following instructions the teacher said something “oh, did I say 10cm between these two (huge and complex) parts? I meant 6cm. Move them closer together”.

So we all stared, and he said “and this why tomorrow we’re moving onto AutoCAD, bring your laptops”.

I want an adult-sized ball pit. Like 2m deep

Surinamese slang (kaolo is a fun one)

I love people using it as a synonym for “very”, when in fact means “shit hole”.

Dutch is also great at mugging others for words.

Eh, it’s a bit of an overreaction, but I hate people being cutesy over something that’s really pretty terrible for the animals

The Cat Distribution System

That’s just assholes intentionally neglecting to spay or neuter their pets. It’s something we should feel terrible about

Also didn’t the Nato general secretary recently say that Russia is outproducing the entire NATO in terms of tanks, ammunitions, etc.?

Not too surprising. Russia is on full war footing, NATO is at very-slightly-above-peacetime production.

The frontline updates in realtime, you just can’t see it move

Pickled herring. Or soused herring. Or really, any kind of cold fish.

So, funny thing.

In the EU, we have a system where we label certain ingredients with e-numbers. The EU did that because nobody knows the difference between, say, perfectly safe calciumferrocyanide (to prevent spices from clumping) and calciumcyanamide (a fertilizer that will release poisonous gas when wet).

So they said “Lets give all those safe chemical a unique number, so that people know the difference between what we vetted, and what we didn’t!” and Calciumferrocyanide became E-538 and we all lived happily every after!

Hahah, no of course not. Moronic crunchy parents and immoral liars jumped on that system and decided that e-numbers were the source of all evil, the cause of ADD and hyperactive kids and they poisoned the well and rustled the cattle too. Dozens of allergies were literally invented without any medical cause or evidence, because it became really easy to identify, say, E-133 instead of erioglaucine disodium salts. In the 2000’s, you’d frequently hear “My kid is allergic to food colouring” by people who had not a single clue that maybe their kid would get super active because the food colouring is mixed with 99% sugar in that candy you’re feeding them.

That has mostly passed now, as the grifters moved to other things, but there are still a ton of people who would never think of eating E-300, who would panic over anything that contains scary-sounding ascorbic acid, but who happily buy pills containing 10000% of the recommended levels of vitamin C, blissfully unaware that those are all the same thing.

Technically, everything is toxic. Sugar has an LD50 of about 30 grams per kilo of bodyweight (and I promise you’ll be throwing up long before you get there).

But sugar really is pretty bad for you, especially in the amounts some people eat it. It’s not “Toxic” though.