The colors that appear in the sky during a sunset. Beautiful blues, purples and oranges, slowly dimming until it disappears over the horizon.

We built this kitty

We built this kitty a scratching post

I believe also that the predominating thought in this war among the generals that plan it is that a shake up to the current status quo was needed. Invading Russia gives Ukraine a bit of leverage, plus it draws away RU troops from the front line so that Ukraine may be able to retake a bit of ground.

Grand Poobah Pooty Putin can only say so many times that he’s moving nukes to ready status or whatever until it becomes clear he’s not going to use them. Nuking anybody, especially Ukraine, would be a tacit admission to the world that he’s losing this war. If he did, NATO would likely get involved presumably because they would consider the fallout drifting over Europe to be an act of war, but a casus belli is a casus belli.

So yeah, I can see NATO countries being ok with a strike inside of Russia now. Makes total sense to me. I’m just surprised it took this long to get there.

Star Wars: Galaxies had a killer open world housing system! I loved it and nothing else I’ve played has even come close to what SW:G had. Plus, after a bit of patching they included a system where you can create a city that shows up on the map, including shuttle/fast travel points and benefits to locals. Housing wasn’t instanced, so you could build nearly anywhere on the map outside of in-game cities and other players cities. It was truly awesome. Sony Online Entertainment screwed it over again and again and again, and now it’s gone. I played that game for years.

Never played UO but I heard good things.

Comrade Jill Stein? Спасибо, but no Спасибо.

I agree. Harris’s team is doing an outstanding job with handling his useless drivel.

Yeah, that one, lol. Ain’t gonna happen, but if it did, that’s how I imagine it’ll go.

He did agree, but he’s placed the Fox interview before the NBC or ABC debates. So, the plan is to do the Fox debate to roaring, paid crowds where he gets softball questions and Harris gets asked transparently sealioned questions. It’ll look something like this:

Interviewer: “Mr. President Trump, sir, how did you come by all of your elite skills playing golf? How do you maintain your unearthly, jaw dropping masculinity in the face of relentless feminization by the radical left?”

T: rambling, incoherent 3 minute long speech about Harris’ low IQ and how immigrants want to abort your 3 month old babies

Interviewer: “Kamala(pronounced incorrectly), why are you going to take everyone’s guns away so that they can be attacked in their own homes by the gay Mafia and immigrant caravans? Why are you going to force American man to get castrated, then put their privates into a blender, and use their extracted testosterone to turn all the girl kids into boys against their will?”

There. No need to watch Fox debate now, I just summarized it for you.

This attitude of clapping back at the absolutely insane actions of the Republicans has made me feel represented for the first time in my life. It’s also making me happy that I’m excited to vote for a candidate rather than just voting against the worst option for a slightly-less-worse option. Love to see that.

I mean. That’s what I was saying? I’m not in favor of book bans, I’m in favor of parents being aware of the content their kids are consuming. If you as a parent want your kids to read ACOTAR, then that’s your call. I’m not in favor of book bans or the government telling you what you can or can’t read. Not sure where all this hostility is coming from.

Bit of a leap there, but hey, if you’ve got kids and you want them to read those books then I don’t think anyone should be able to stop you. Your kid, your choice.

My only point is that I’d want to make sure my kid, if I had one, was able to understand the themes in the book before reading.

I was also making a point about other books with more violent or pornographic content not being on this reactionary banned book list, but everyone seems to have overlooked that. Oh well.

I did say that high school is where I could see this book being read. It may even be beneficial to read them in order to learn about abusive relationships.

I’m not for banning books by any measure. I also don’t have kids, so I don’t really have a dog in this fight.

However, I’ve read all the Court of Thorns and Roses series and it does contain some pretty explicit sexual scenes and themes. I probably wouldn’t want a child reading them until they were old enough to understand the use of sex in stories like this, and how you can tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships. The books in my opinion are very fun reads, but I feel that they were written primarily for an adult audience.

No idea when a kid should start reading ACOTAR, as again I don’t have kids. I’m not the right person to ask, but I’d argue that readers should be at least high school age for that series.

I haven’t read any of the other books on that list, so I can’t speak to those. It’s very evident that whoever assembled that list isn’t well read, because there’s oodles more books with much worse content than ACOTAR that aren’t banned. Off the top from books I read back in high school: American Psycho, Clockwork Orange, Blood Meridian, the list goes on…

I knew this intellectually, but in my heart of hearts was hoping for Kelly anyway because having a former astronaut for a president would be freaking awesome. That being said I’m not even a little upset with Walz and I’m 100% here for Walz and Harris both.

They ain’t big enough to scramble unless you’re a gnat.

Chicken embryos are good protein. Human embryos I don’t give a shit about.

The importance of coffee in this equation cannot be overstated. If you’re worried, try having a 12oz coffee plus lots of water an hour or two before your appointment. Don’t hold it in all day before the appt, you might hurt yourself. Just goose your waterworks with coffee and stay well hydrated before going in and you should be fine.

Also, doctors know about bashful bladders so just let them know you might be a minute. You may also be able to collect a sample at home if you discuss it with them first(don’t roll up to your doctor today with a cup of unasked-for pee). You’ve got options. Just when you’re in the moment, relax and let the coffee do the work.

It helps if your two choices for president aren’t Father Time and the Orange Rage Demon.

You also appear to be under the misconception that parents will automatically vote in the best interests of their children. Some may, but not all. It also pressures people to produce children needlessly in order to have more personal electoral power, which will result in a baby boom the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the end of WW2 - and back then, the US had a dominant economic position where there were more resources available to support these children.

I feel that you might be trying to argue your position in good faith. However, giving parents more rights to vote because they have children is a terrible idea. It will be exploited mercilessly by bad faith actors. Hell, the USA should be rewarding parents who choose to have fewer(2 or less) children, or those who choose not to have kids. This planet is already too overcrowded.

You may not like it - I certainly don’t - but many people put higher stock in opinions shared by celebrities. Hell, look at Trump himself - people were so enraptured by his celebrity that he managed to get elected President, despite his numerous pre-Presidency failings, which I’m too busy to list here today.