I’d say Cartman represents our basest and darkest thoughts, fantasies and desires.

The thoughts we have but most of us do not act upon. They’re harmless as long as we don’t act upon them. Except Cartman does.

Not a teacher (but I work with people that sometimes want to give me gifts when we say goodbye) and I agree, card or a letter is great!

Either that or something I can share with my colleagues (chocolate, assorted sweets).

It boils down to the old ‘nature vs nurture’ debate.

Current consensus is that it’s a bit of both. Or, to be more precise (and modern), social factors, biological factors, and psychological factors all interact.

‘Fuck you, got mine’

The same guy yes.

He’s had that look long before Trump was involved in politics in an any (‘serious’) capacity.

I prefer to think of Donald Trump as ‘American Geert Wilders’.

Wilders been in politics for far longer than the Orange Man has been and he can string together a coherent sentence. His politics are terrible and I hope he fails though.

Sure it shifts the burden to the taxpayer and I would like my tax money to be spent on other things please.

Companies aren’t going to change their policies voluntarily, it’s up to governments to make better decisions with my money and make other options more viable.

Funneling subsidies and tax breaks from fossil fuel to sustainable energy sources. In the Netherlands alone, the around 40 billion euros are spent by the government each year directly or indirectly subsidizing fossil fuel.

Kerosine airplane fuel is untaxed for example, while consumer car fuel comes with a 20% (ish) tax.

Good.

I’m pretty sure most denominations of Christianity bury their dead without embalming them first and have done so for most of history.

It can look fresh enough without embalming if kept cool right? Maybe a little makeup?

I know, but other than manmade laws, why?

As far as I know, it’s a US thing right? In the Netherlands embalming has been expressly prohibited up until 2009 I think. Granted, Dutch laws concerning what you can do with a dead body are pretty strict but embalming just seems weird to me.

Or just bury people without embalming them first? As a non-American I find it super weird that it’s the norm in the US. Why would you still do that anyway?

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Short answer: Sure, why would you need our approval anyway.

Longer answer: it’s a complicated conflict where shitty things are done by both sides and it’s probably not as simple as supporting one side over the other all the time.

I’d say a lot of it is politicians being political for their own gains and normal people (Israeli and Palestinian) getting fucked. But who am I eh?

I can see why that would be the case.

It pained me to see the obituary news items for one of the greatest guitarists ever to feature the one song where he isn’t even playing his guitar.

Not just vibes either! That’s actually what the song is about except for some reason no one ever really listens to the lyrics.

Don’t get me started on Jump! What were they thinking!?

‘Right guys, we’re one of the biggest rockbands in history right? And Edward, you’re one of the hottest guitar players since Hendrix are you not?

What if, and hear me out on this one, you don’t actually play any guitars in this song except maybe for the solo?’

Drives me crazy that that’s become their most popular son!

It don’t actually think it’s about Ragnarok though?

It’s about Vikings going on raids and Valhalla and all that good stuff but I’m pretty sure there’s not mention of any Ragnarok type stuff.