depends on the reason for it.

Generally, I’m of the “its your life, do what you want,” camp. There’s some valid reasons for voluntary euthanasia- like terminal diseases that are painful. We do it for pets that we love, we say ‘we don’t want to prolong the suffering’…

why is it wrong to let humans make that decision for themselves?

so… send it to Helen?

If those anonymous sources weren’t accurate, why weren’t they refuted, repudiated or otherwise denied?

There’s one of two reasons: the sources were authentic and accurate, or the “sources” talked to the press at Biden’s direction, specifically to push that narrative in an unofficial, deniable fashion.

Either way, the campaign intentionally mislead by insinuating and implication.

To my knowledge, biden never corrected that assumption- which was a commonly voice belief, considering his staff ran with it to persuade hesitant votes wanting somebody who hadn’t been in government longer than most of us have been alive.

so your going to have to drop a source- dated to 2020- showing biden correcting that narrative. Especially when his campaign staffers "leaked’ him saying he would be a 1 term pres privately.

It’s not possible to ignore words that were never actually said, or a campaign that did everything to imply it short of stating it.

Because words have meaning and were understood to mean he would be a 1 term presidency.

The simple fact that he didn’t correct that assumption until the run up in 2024 shows he absolutely meant to imply that he would be.

Stop gaslighting. We’re not stupid.

He kind of implied it. Later he said that’s not what he meant. But back in 2020, he was saying he would be a “bridge” to a new generation.

Most people assumed that meant a 1 term presidency to buy time to develop talent.

It’s also not an opinion, that when people feel like you don’t actually act in their interests, they start voting for others.

Mainstream and centrist democrats do just enough to be less awful than republicans, but that’s not what we need as a country. Biden did just enough to return to the old (and only less awful) status quo.

See people who give a fuck about genocide watching most dems support genocide by Israel.

See people who are smart enough to know this economy actually sucks for the bottom 90%

See people who watched as Biden and his government agencies pissed away four years and failed to hold a fucking insurrectionist to account.

See people watching democrats treat that insirrectionist’s party as if they were somehow reasonable and fair minded people with whom “compromising” is acceptable; and deciding that, no, maybe we shouldn’t vote for people willing to parrot the republican party line on immigration.

I voted Harris, but damn was my nose aching from pinching it closed. At a certain point party leadership needs to pull their heads out their asses and realize the reason voters left is because they keep running to the right. You want more voters? Try running to the left.

Climate resilience. Universal healthcare. Tackle income inequality. Tackle the cause of education debt. Tackle the cause of gun violence and throw in solid, reasonable restrictions on guns. Tackle homelessness with proven strategies. Tackle drug addiction in ways that actually work. Open up immigration and tackle that crisis too.

Like, it ain’t rocket science. (Though we also need to fund that and keep all the patents here and not held exclusively by Chinese companies making bank off our research grants.)

Edit: this is like a store blaming the customers when the customers stop shopping there because the store doesn’t sell what they want.

Smoothies, if you have blender. Get some frozen fruit, some yogurt (or milk or cream,) maybe some water to help it blend, mix in chunks of ice if you want that, too.

Any frozen fruit will do, but I particularly like strawberry or mango with a not-frozen banana tossed in. another more dessert-y smoothie was raspberries with chocolate sauce.

you can also add things like kale or whatever greens, if you want the fiber and stuff.

what’s funny is Trump didn’t directly change the name. that takes time. the relevant naming-people have to take it up and formally do it. All Trump did was order them to, and, uh, that only affects goverment things.

Everybody else, Apple included, are going to be using the familiar name. because Trump is a moron.

yes, but it asked to be called “The Rainbow Gulf”… and he decided to maybe forget that ever happened.

Tell me again why should I not consider that the ADL itself is a nazi org.

if you have a table with ten people and 1 nazis, you have 11 nazis.

Also, just to add to that list of things that makes musk a nazis… he donates to the AFD. You know. the neo nazis party in germany.

Also, also, just going to drop this open letter/oped to the NYT’s that was signed by many then-promenient american jews denouncing the State of Israel for being fascists. it should be noted that the political parties mentioned in this letter became Netanyahu’s party.

of which it says:

To the Editor or Thk Nbw York Times :

Among- the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. … <snippy> … The public avowals of Begin’s party are no guide whatever to its actual character. Today they speak of freedom, democracy and anti-imperialism, whereas until recently they openly preached the doctrine of the Fascist state. It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to do in the future.

… … … eu should give me asylum and set me up someplace reasonably comfortable.

I’ll end up fucking them over less.

fobs don’t turn off. but the car sends a signal to the fob, the fob responds in kind. fobs don’t constantly transmit

the farraday cage blocks the intial signal sent by the car. Or as already noted; by the guy standing near enough to get it. (frequently still outside the house.) who then relays it to a guy in/at the car.

it never ceases to amaze me what people will call “medicine”… and more so how much they pay for unproven treatments like gallstones

Legally shaky ground? Lol.

No.

Not in the US. Unless this is all laid out specifically in the contract, there’s nothing preventing from an employee coming in on an off day and doing some work, legally speaking.

Your employer can decide you’re not supposed to be there and tell you to go home, mind. What days you work or don’t work are between you and them. You doing extra work as a salaried employee is gonna look at as you doing favors.

Boss probably doesn’t care, though.

So others have already addressed most of your concerns, so, I’ll just leave it at that.

but, eh, I do want to point out that it’s surprising to me that EU people frequently seem to assume we’re all just one big sameness. Like you would look at me weird if I suggested French and Spanish cultures were the same, right? In terms of population size and landmass both, the US is more comparable to the EU as a whole, and we have a lot of diverse sub cultures here.

Some of that is divided along racial lines- do remember that roughly half of the 340 million people in the US aren’t white, and even if we were, most of our states have their own cultural quirks (and that includes variations in accents and dialects.) Which really shouldn’t be that surprising, considering at 85 million, Germany has subtle variations of culture too. y’all don’t all speak Standard German (which is funny because we tend to think of the stereotypical German as being Bavarian. complete with the lederhosen. I blame Oktoberfest.)

hell, some of your dialects may in fact be different languages than Standard German (Low Saxon, for example.)

Suffice it to say, we’ve got a lot of variation here, and the culture that you experience will largely depend on where you go. and since you’ve mentioned Nashville… definitely need to try the BBQ there. it’s delicious.

if you visit Minneapolis or St Paul (“the twin cities”… in Minnesota) let me know. I can give you some good recommendations on places to go. (if you want to be outside, dress accordingly. I like camping at the Zumbro Bottoms, there’s also Itasca State park, which is the headwaters for the Mississippi.) (the cherry on a spoon is a must see, though maybe not in winter.)

Warheads.

They’re hard candies and not gummies, though.

plenty of us saw this coming.

it’s why we don’t have bambus.

Make it so incredibly annoying to maintain. Break it just enough so they don’t start from scratch, but still have to waste shitloads if time sorting everything out.