I confess… I am a dog. I have been burdened with this venomous secret for years. Nobody suspected a thing.

How does trump get oil and minerals? He doesn’t, because Venezuela is still an independent country and is not occupied by the USA.

The replacement is little more than a US puppet. She will be indebted to Trump for as long as he remains in office, be it three more years, or for the rest of his life.

They will be electing a new president/government.

That has technically already happened. Maduro just refused to transfer power.

As far at the PR goes, Trump doesn’t need PR anymore. His idiot base are unshakable. If he can get convicted of multiple felonies and still get elected, and then the Epstein files drop and implicate him and he still doesn’t get brought up on impeachment charges, then there’s no social ramifications for him any longer. Congress and the courts will protect him from run-of-the-mill abuses of power and scandals that would otherwise be devastating to a normal political figure. About the only thing he’s in danger of is letting people starve, which will cause mass riots. As long as he can avoid total economic collapse, he’ll be fine.

Your code sucks. I don’t even need to see it, I just know.

That advice was likely a holdover from the time when wedding rings were essentially insurance for the wife if her husband died suddenly - sell the ring and be able to live for a while on that money while you search for a new husband.

Now that women are, y’know, allowed to work for a living rather than being forced into homemakers, it makes a lot less sense for the wedding band to be outside of one’s means to purchase.

I just tell people to buy what looks nice to them and is in budget. My wife has a gold band with some inscribed decorations, and I have a band of silver and inlayed meteorite. They were both under $1000. No need for flawless diamonds, rare stones or precious metals. We’re happy.

Don’t worry, I found the phylactery.

Which hamburger? Kfc, mac, wendy, fiveguys?

Listen buddy, if I wanted a precise unit of measurement I’d be using metric.

Follow your heart~❤️

Can you convert that to hamburgers or bald eagles?

I think even Dhalsim would be impressed by this level of yoga.

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We all came from the same slimy creature that slithered out of the primordial soup and never looked back.

The end of a text is already final enough, so a period doesn’t add any functionality that way unless you somehow believe someone got raptured mid sentence and still hit send.

Sure it does. It disambiguates sentences from questions.

If you received a text that read “Buy bread”, there are multiple ways to interpret that. If I assume the lack of a period is a statement, then I would assume the person is instructing me to buy some bread at the store. But if there were a question mark at the end, the meaning changes - they are asking if they need to buy bread, or perhaps asking if I have already bought bread or am planning to buy bread.

Now, if you are familiar with the person on the other end of the text, you might already have the necessary context to parse it out without the need for formal punctuation, but if it’s someone you maybe don’t text very often or a complete stranger, wouldn’t it be nice to know for sure if they were making a statement or asking a question, definitively and clearly?

Adding an intentional period removes any doubt that it might have been a question. It eliminates the possibility that the person on the other end simply forgot to add a question mark while typing out a hasty text at the grocery store.

You might argue that period or no, the message got across just fine, and that assuming no punctuation is the same as having a period, but that’s not the point. The point is that the period does add functionality, it just isn’t functionality that you deem useful.

I certainly wouldn’t want to replace the effectiveness of proper punctuation in favor of having the period be reduced to a means of signing off my messages in a passive aggressive manner. I can do that all by myself, thank you very much.

He’s still the governor, unfortunately.

The only reason your phone doesn’t add the punctuation in for you like it does the automatic capitalization of the first letter is because it can’t tell when you’ve finished your complete thought.

I’ll never let lazy cunts tell me I’m being passive aggressive for using goddamn proper punctuation. I’ll be actively aggressive about that.

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Can anybody in this thread who actively omits periods in texts specifically because of the negative connotations explain to me why they think that having that be a normal convention is actually good?

Like, why would anybody want an option to sign off their texts with a passive aggressive slant? I can’t wrap my head around it.

The firm believers in the whole “language is constantly evolving and has no rules” thing would probably not like it if future generations decided fuck using punctuation altogether. No commas, no questions marks, no paragraph breaks. It’s easier for them because they normally communicate in five dimensional haptic virtual reality where punctuation is an anachronistic holdover. How come you aren’t on board with their wacky language rules?

I don’t give a shit if you don’t use punctuation in texts or not, that’s entirely on you and I don’t judge people for using shortcuts, but fuck if I’m going to let someone tell me using a period to end my sentences indicates anything other than “I have finished my thought / I have finished speaking.”.

I warned when they announced the program that Trump never fucking pays.

Anybody who took that deal was asking to get scammed.

Ribbon cutting ceremony? Groundbreaking ceremony?

All rituals to please the eldritch crane God, so that a suitable avatar can be summoned to the material world. Praise be.

Ok, now I’m inappropriately laughing at work. Thanks 🤣

China will be the dominant world superpower for a while and their standard of living will drastically increase. Middle East will be unlikely to stabilize any time soon. Africa might be put into play as serious economic competitors to fill the gap in skilled labor and services that the United States will leave behind in its wake. South America might finally have a chance to heal from the destructive regime meddling of the USA.

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“I don’t use social media.”

You can’t prove a negative. Shift the onus back onto them. Any attempt at them trying to connect the dots should be met with “That user is not me, any similarities in their name is purely coincidental.”

Create a bogus email not tied to any social media and they won’t have a leg to stand on.

Not to mention how incredibly difficult that enforcing such a policy would be. Could you imagine the manpower required for people to trawl through 5 years of social media history searching for verboten political speech against Dear Leader? Wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to use AI for this, since they’d have a hard time finding enough die-hard Trump loyalists to pack into the DHS to actually perform the background checks at the rate they would need to happen…

Better yet, just avoid coming to this rapidly declining country in the first place.

Thought I was in /c/yiff for a sec, lol