Yikes, sounds like a nightmare. I don’t need a lot of planning, just a general idea of the plans for the day. Like if we’re near the ocean, is it a hang around and go to the beach day or is it a museum/tour and mini golf kind of day?

No wonder your government is running rough shod(sic) over you…

Since you talk about the 2nd Amendment and Open Carry, I’m just going to assume that you’re American, as am I. I could be wrong but that would mean you’re just a shill.

If we’re both American that means the same government is running roughshod over both of us. The only difference is you have a bunch of guns that have never used against the “government” and probably will never get used against them. So please continue to espouse your violence while hiding behind a computer screen.

Considering the original scenario is cops coming to arrest you, I don’t think you’ll get very far in “defending yourself”. But good luck in not dying in the shoot out with the cops.

I always thought of breadcrumbs as something that would lure a target down a path.

Lessslie

The US is struggling to sell new cars and EV’s make up only 10% of new cars sold.

I would love to buy an EV but a brand new car is too expensive and there’s not much in the way of reasonably priced, used EVs available so I’m currently sticking with the internal combustion engine.

I don’t care about Russia and their gas problems. I just know that I now need a poster of jacked Morgan Freeman.

I live in Denver and this has been an ongoing thing since Casa Bonita reopened, before the 2nd Trump regime and the latest season of South Park.

Stone and Parker seemed to be heavily involved with the renovation but seem to take a mostly hands off approach to the day to day management. Andrew Carnegie took similar action during labor disputes, letting others handle the dirty work while he fucked off to Scotland so he could appear to be outside of the issue.

I always liked Stone and Parker, I don’t know what their thoughts are but it’s not the best look. And to be fair, they are a bunch of “richers”

Welcoming immigrants with open arms is American.

Sadly so is being anti-immigrant. The Alien and Sedition Acts were created less than fifteen years after the Constitution. The Know Nothing Party was a popular anti-immigrant party in the mid 1800s. From then to the mid 1900s were, the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), The National Origins Act (1924), Japanese Concentration Camps (WW2), Operation Wetback (1954), and those are just the big ones.

The ideals that you have for the US are noble, I hold them too. It’s amazing what the US could be if we (especially our politicians) actually held ourselves to those ideals while addressing our current problems.

Along with greater reliance on the private sector, the report also pushed for more integration with volunteer or faith-based organizations and increasing personal accountability. “It is the responsibility of every American to embrace their individual responsibility to lessen this burden by being prepared for disasters,” the council wrote.

There it is! More reliance on the private sector so someone’s pockets get lined and we get worse services. The idea of faith based groups helping and personal accountability is just added Libertarian icing on top. Isn’t personal accountability what help get all those little kids killed at Camp Mystic in Texas last year?

I like the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies tribute band, the Hymen Bustin Fathers

Turner and Hooch

That was my first thought too. Pic for the uninitiated:

It’s not that they’re using AI to replace designers, that would at least make a little sense. They sold off the shoe designs and manufacturing to a Venture Capitalist company and Allbirds is now purely an AI company, they have nothing to do with shoes anymore.

More evidence that Saint Peter was a rabbit.

I feel seen. Been with my partner for over 10 years and I feel the same way as the dad in this text exchange.

Thanks for the info! In the early 20th c. “The Middle East” was defined as the land between India and the Ottoman Empire. The term has since changed to not include Iraq and Afghanistan. During the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US government used the term “Greater Middle East” to encompass those two countries. That’s where my confusion lies. Learn something new every day.

the vast majority of the US, and many of our allies, were on board for an invasion of the Middle East (Afghanistan) in 2001 after 9/11.

Spain did support the US in the war in Afghanistan after 2001. They did not support the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

I know this is a meme so I shouldn’t look for historic accuracy here but a the vast majority of the US, and many of our allies, were on board for an invasion of the Middle East (Afghanistan) in 2001 after 9/11. It was the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that turned many people off.