The best ever.

That was the hardest part. if I caught it earlier I would have done anything to afford the amputation to keep her around with me. But it had already spread to her lungs. But she hid it from me.

Even on her very last day, hobbling around on three legs, she easily had the energy to standing jump into the back seat of the truck to go to the vet. Three hours and an xray later, I saying goodbye to my baby-girl.

Well, that’s just what the ass-crack bandit would say to throw us off their trail, isn’t it…

Everybody keeps asking me when I’ll get another dog and I keep telling them, I don’t want another dog. I just want Ripley back. Until that changes, no new dog for me.

90% of me doesn’t give a shit. But I admit there’s 10% of me that wonders if he inherited the “dumbest goddam student I ever had” gene.

Friends.

While Seinfeld is certainly overrated and hasn’t aged well, at least it had its memorable moments that still get talked about today (Mostly Kramer Hijinx, to be fair…)

• Kramer vs Kenny Rogers Roasters
• Kramer and the Rickshaw
• Soup Nazi
• 'They’re real…and they’re spectacilar"
• Mulva
• George saves the whale.

Just of the top of my head.

Friends, while popular, is ultimately forgettable generic sitcom crap. I struggle to think of any actual memorable moments other than “Pivot”

100 percent agree. It was a propaganda plan from the very beginning.

US wanted a “friend” in the middle east to ensure access to oil. And used holocaust guilt to push it to the people back home.

The study was published in “No Fucking Shit” Quarterly.

X-Com: The Bureau Declassified. Your “teammates” are fundamentally suicidal, making keeping them alive almost impossible. But the setting, story and challenge made up for it. It was inventive.

The Technomancer: Mid-budget game by Spiders. Was short and straightforward, which most people disliked, but I thought it was a blast. The story still sticks in my head screaming for me to write a novel based on it.

A giant honeypot operation whose goal was to ensnare as many prominent politicians and business leaders as they could into raping children.

So powerful they couldn’t even handle fucking IRAN…

All they managed to do was prove that, much like Russia, they are completely unprepared for the type of asymmetric warfare taking place in the modern world. Numbers don’t mean shit anymore. They only lost 12 soldiers and STILL lost. it’s a new world. Has been for a long time. America still thinks troop numbers and money spent actually matter.

How about instead of being baffled you just go ASK the people who voted against it why? It’s not like it’s a secret ballot or anything…

The fact that they even say this like it’s a “good thing” is just another sign of how truly fucked up the U.S. has become.

The real worldwide depression is the fact that this fucker hasn’t died yet.

Over-confidence. He thinks is being told that Israel doesn’t have the guts to actually release the files because they need America more than America needs them, or some shit like that. He’s being told that he’s too big to fail.

I agree whole-heartedly about he separations necessary. But (to me) it all starts by getting power back in the hands of the people on the street, rather than the rich assholes and CEOs. Citizen councils at least take that first step.

In my world, the council reps are like jury duty.

Elections proceed as normal for the Congressman/Senator/Member of Parliament, or whatever it is that is being elected. In that person’s riding/constituency.

7 Averge, working class citizens are drawn randomly from his/her constituency for a 1-year term with the mandate being that, once a month, that representative has to present himself in front of that panel to defend their voting record, their expenditures, and their conduct.

Declutter what is unnecessary. Ditch the senate. In Canada it’s an appointed useless position used for Cronyism, While in the states it’s nonfunctional for it’s supposed purpose (being a check and balance for the congress). With the representative now being directly answerable monthly to the people in their own constituency, the Senate is rendered moot.

I think every single elected representative needs to be under the direct scrutiny of a panel of seven people from their own constituency, made up of ordinary citizens from all walks of life. This panel has the mandate to scrutinize every expense, investigate every “donation”, question every vote that representative has made in the house/senate/etc… and ask “Does this representative continue to work for our district’s interest?”

If the answer ever becomes no, they have the authority to oust him immediately and have a recall election.

And yes, I’m fully aware that this was the original Marxist ideal of the concept of the Soviet before Stalinism purged that all away and went full authoritarian.

No. Not wrong. But like everything else in this propogandized polarised world, I generally believe nothing is either as bad or as good as the loudest voices like to pretend.

Cyber risks aren’t unimportant, of course, but our risks from China are certainly no worse or better than the Cyber risks from the American government or even our own.

In a statement, Canada’s big three automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — said the entry of these EVs “undermines” the domestic auto industry and opens Canadians up to “cyber risks.”

A hard cap of 49,000 Chinese E.V.s (roughly 3 percent of the market) doesn’t undermine the Canadian manufacturers, it just forces them to actually fucking do somehing to make their own EVs more appealing.