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Absolutely, but also remember that they will eventually track you down and kill you for it, once their regime reaches full power.

Do I retain my inertial momentum? If so, I immediately slam into the ground or shoot up into the sky, turning into a fine mist or burning up instantly, or both.

If the planet (and the universe) stop moving, but I don’t, I’m dead, haha.

Similarly if we say that I don’t retain that momentum, what happens to my ability to see? Light is no longer travelling, so I’ll be mostly blind? Will I be able to move through the air, given that I’ll be pushing on time-frozen air molecules? If I can move them by exerting force, are they sufficiently sparse that they have somewhere to move that doesn’t require pushing even more frozen air, to the point that moving becomes very difficult?

Will air that I’ve moved continue to move after I breathe it out, or will it go back to being frozen in time, such that I can’t sleep or stay in the same spot for long, because I will build up an unmoving cloud of CO2 around my face and die?

What other ways can you think of that would make pausing time this way suck or kill you? :-D

Honestly, there’s too many school shootings to keep track of over there, it’s basically just routine now. Awful as it sounds, reporting on them seems as pointless as reporting on motorway crashes - they keep happening regardless and are horrible preventable tragedies, but are limited in scope of their effect on a national or international scale.

High profile political activist assassinations are far less frequent though, and far more impactful on that country and potentially on an international scale depending on how the country adjusts it’s policies or social norms (it’s not a good thing I know, but they have become jaded to shootings in their schools and barely bat an eye when it happens on a national scale any more, so it doesn’t really affect anything worth reporting on over here).

So, I can understand why one would get more attention than another, even if it’s not remotely just or fair.

But yes, I can’t imagine why our government would offer condolences or anything positive towards that fascist’s memory or family. We’re not afraid of calling a spade a spade over here, but our government isn’t exactly stellar, alas.

I have long hoped that they would sort out their school slaughter problem, it’s ridiculous that they’ve built and maintain a society that not only allows it to happen in any but the rarest most extreme of circumstances, but that they aren’t interested in fixing the issue enough to actually make meaningful change.

Heck, I see them installing special equipment to slow down gunmen, I see them trying to arm their teachers (insanity), and give kids bullet proof backpacks and such. It all sounds ridiculous looking in from the outside so I don’t know how much of that is even true, but it seems they’re trying to treat the symptoms not the cause :-(

Anyway yeah, our current government sucks, I certainly didn’t vote for them. Their stances on a great many things don’t represent my views.

Now hold on, the United Kingdom’s Labour government in all their infinite wisdom and omnipotent godlike knowledge just concluded that there is no genocide there, so who do I believe?!

Recipes that don’t specify things in grams and millilitres can go screw.

“Now add a traditional american furlong of bushel sauce to the 25 ounce pot until it bubbles up by five and a smidge horse hands” … yeah, no 😅

A very good point.

I’m sold, this sounds fantastic! Where might I procure it in the UK do you reckon?

God I wanna eat it right now

I really could care less either way.

My pet peeve is people who say this expression wrong, because it’s not only slightly mispronounced, but entirely turned on it’s head to mean the exact opposite of its intention. This reversal of meaning seems clear, so I’m not sure why the error is so prolific, though it does seem more of a thing in other countries like the USA, not so much here.

It’s “couldn’t care less”, not “could care less”. You’re trying to say “I care so little that it is not possible for me to care any less than I do already”.

Instead, by saying you “could care less”, you are being ambiguous about how much you care, but confirming that you care at least a little bit (or possibly due to the ambiguity it’s the most important thing in your life and you care so, so much).

Sorry if I sound grouchy, it’s just something that’s bugged me for a long time and here at 5am is when I decided to finally say something about it, haha. No shade on you personally though, as the hip youths would say! :-D

I haven’t heard anything from this guy in years and then yesterday I see he gave a speech about that bloke that got shot in America, and now this post too suggesting he’s Santa.

Is he making a bit of a comeback? Or just a random coincidence!

Why does it credit you for chocolate milk though? That stuff is basically liquid chocolate bar, it’s not at all healthy haha.

I have a small bottle of it as a sweet sugary treat every few months but I’m not kidding myself into thinking it’s healthy.

Ah Fitz, you’re the best of us.

You’ve got a fantastic journey ahead of you by the way, there’s like 3 more trilogies directly following on from that one, and together they make up my favourite books of all time <3

their leader was revealed to be a bender

Now there’s a gay slur I’ve not heard in a while!

Still, that tracks, plenty of good ideas or movements through our history have died because people found out the guy leading them was gay.

The above chap hit the nail on the head in terms of the UK.

Sure, hardcore criminals can get their hands on a gun, but the sort of people who want to cause trouble at a school certainly don’t.

I went to one of the worst schools in the country and while some of our students did occasionally murder people out in their private lives (I lived in the biggest shit hole in the country - the government even said so), in the school itself the worst thing I ever saw was a pupil throwing a chair at a teacher. And that was incredibly rare and shocking.

A student did arson one of the maths rooms too but that was over the weekend when nobody was there. They really hated that teacher haha. We had to do the rest of the year’s maths lessons in the Hall. So weird.

But ya, that’s all the extreme cases, and they’re nowhere remotely near “gun” territory. That’s just insanity. I never felt unsafe in a school.

Don’t you become an informant when they catch you and offer you the deal; You get to walk free for the crime you committed, but have to risk your life spying on your fellow criminals for the fuzz?

That’s a term? What’s it mean, besides identifying someone as black and Irish? O.o

American boomers*

Thankfully the ones we get in England have delicious flavours like aniseed and the like! It’s worrying how much I want to gulp it all down…

Is a C-Party one of those sexy sex terms that people who are hip sexy swingers would understand

It is too late, yeah. Good to realise and feel it sometimes I think.

What’s with the picture tho? Is that a frozen chicken? Just a random choice?

Hey no fair, the US is just copying us! (UK)

We targeted Wikipedia first recently waaaaa