There was an interview with Emma Watson around the live action movie release where she commented along those lines. Something to the effect of, “It’s sad in a way when he becomes human. I was just thinking, ‘You were quite nice before, actually’, you know?”

I’d be rather disappointed when he turned human, I imagine. Not what I was signing up for at all.

What am I missing? They were Nigerians abducted in Nigeria… How is this related to the US?

Some US states already do this. It’s mainly unpopular in red states, though, because their ‘protect the children’ rhetoric ends when it stops being synonymous with harming women.

Obviously the father was in the wrong here, but this was also potentially a terrible situation for him.

He then told him to wait for him before continuing his five-hour ascent to the summit with the child’s older brother, who had already gone on ahead.

The article doesn’t go into detail, but if the “older brother” wasn’t much older, and the father didn’t have a way to contact him, he was abandoning one child no matter which way he went. Really irresponsible to let the older brother continue on in this situation.

…what? As an American, I care. I hope Canada comes out on top of this exchange and every exchange they’re unfortunate enough to be forced to have with us right now. I hope our economy gets fucked (just like it did previously).

I applaud Canada and every country that stands up to Trump. If the whole world just collectively cut us out of global politics and the economy, I’d applaud even louder. We deserve it.

Definitely a thing here, too. If you’re going to put together some crazy DIY workaround to a problem, you can say you’re going to MacGyver that shit and everyone knows exactly what you mean.

Well, can you blame us? :(

And then you just have people who just don’t know any better.

This is an interesting perspective that I hadn’t considered. Can’t really blame folks in that situation.

This whole time, that was an option?! I feel so cheated.

I still refuse to believe that any of them actually believe the earth is flat. It’s either a grift in the case of social media accounts that push the rhetoric, or a big joke in the case of everyone else. Even if some of them do actually believe it, I still choose to believe this theory, because it makes me hate humanity a little less.

Man. I can’t imagine how someone could be such a complete and total piece of shit that they pose as disaster relief workers (I assume that’s what the military would normally be doing there) in the aftermath of a disaster just to steal from victims. Absolute human trash.

I didn’t know Jack Thompson had a Lemmy account!

The Decemberists have a rock opera called Hazards of Love and in one song, Annan Water, the main character is trying to strike a bargain with a river to allow him passage across it. It includes the line:

Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drowned be

For the longest time, I would have sworn the lyric was:

Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drown in pee

Have a listen and tell me you don’t hear that, too.

Or the entire Spire would be the story the uncles are telling Walt, from their perspective having experienced it in their younger days. Then Walt follows in their footsteps and after he completes the third run, they find The Heart hidden away in the barn cellar, instead of piles of cash, and they all go down to fight it but Jasmine comes to save them from certain death.

Then Walt’s mother comes back with a CPS worker and they take him away, and arrest the uncles for child endangerment. Roll credits.

So, there are no stupid products, only stupid customers?

Huh, TIL! Thanks for the explanation!

There is a brand of peanut butter here that has “WARNING: May contain nuts” on the label.

Seems completely plausible, as part of their rhetoric to turn people against drag queen story hour.

Draft-dodging, in the US?

All I could think of. Maybe they’re using statistics from 1973.