Reuters and AP News are really the only two sources I pretty much implicitly trust anymore. As far as I’m concerned, the person reporting false news and attributing it to Reuters should be hung by the neck until dead.

Tom should be used to peddling a false narrative.

Shhh, you’ll spoil the narrative.

Lmao, I was so busy looking at the can art for a logo I never even looked at the glass.

Peanut butter stouts are some of the most disgusting, vile, sacrilegious beers on the planet. We should be boycotting them. What is the name of the brewery that created this filth? Specifically, what brewery? And do they distribute to Oregon? I’ll buy them all so no one else has to suffer their creamy sins.

It shocks me that this has to be stated. It’s like yelling “no hit backs” when you punch your sibling. Yeah. Strike back. Neutralize the attacker. Fuck Russia, fuck Putin, Slava Ukraini.

You’d have to self-host anything you want to have up “forever”, and that hosting would have to continue after your death by whatever means you set up. In reality what you’d want to do if you want to preserve your digital life is create physical back-ups of it so that family or friends can revisit it after you are gone. If everything is up on the web, and that’s it, then it will all be deleted as soon as the money stops coming in to whomever is hosting it.

The same goes for your email, though to a lesser extent. If you have a gmail account, I believe there was a kerfuffle about them deleting untouched accounts a few years ago, and I don’t know if they ever did or not, but your account with whomever you use will persist until such time as they deem it not to.

Ahh, it’s a good thing you brought AI into this. I had almost gone a full minute without reading disparaging comments about it.

What a sad state your country must be in to take weapons from fucking North Korea. That’s like getting a busted slingshot from the kid who eats his own boogers.

But it doesn’t operate as a part of France. If it did, this law wouldn’t be necessary because a French citizen living there would already have the right to vote by virtue of being a citizen. This measure seems to remove that block and allow outside influence to control the politics of the island. Honestly, I can’t think of a non-nefarious reason to do this. It reeks of a political coup.

Really it should operate the same way that voting in France does. If I move to France and live there for 10 years, do I get to vote in elections? Do New Caledonians? I honestly don’t know 100%, but it looks like you have to live in France for 5 years and then apply for citizenship in order to vote (or be born in France, or marry someone who is a citizen, etc.) So, it seems like they should apply the same rules to New Caledonia. If New Caledonia doesn’t want you as a citizen, then you don’t get to vote. Living in another country for 10 years and suddenly being granted the opportunity to change national politics seems like an easy way for an Oligarchy to get started. A bunch of rich people buy apartments on the island, and boom, 10 years later they control the politics of the island. Again, I don’t truly know the ins and outs of the system, and I could be completely wrong, so if there is something I’m missing, please, let me know.

Edit: or just downvote without explanation. You know, whatever works.

I’m not denying the imperialism of the US, I’m just saying that a group of islands with a total population 1/10th the size of my city isn’t really the chief problem, and kinda comes off as anti-American for anti-American sake. There are myriad other problems, and a couple of islands that gave us some strategy in the Pacific are hardly the East India Trading Company.

Ahh yes, the mighty empire of… checks notes the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.

You are a bad person.

Hmmm. Well, that does change things, doesn’t it. I hadn’t thought about it from the opposite perspective, or even dreamed about the ramifications of what could happen if mind altering substances were in the mix. Fuck. Now I really have to think about it.

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Yep. 30 months. Keep your shit together or face the consequences. If you can’t be trusted to not get handsy when you are on the sauce, then it is your responsibility to stay away from the gutrot, not society’s responsibility to condone your actions.

Whew. You sure you want to argue that child molester punishments should set the bar on sexual assault criminal punishment? Cause I’d be OK with stringing up pedophiles by their ball sacks and letting fire ants eat them from the asshole out. But I digress.

What you are saying is that if you were out at a bar, and someone, anyone really, but lets say for the sake of argument it’s Harvey Weinstein, came up and kissed your partner on the mouth without their consent, a month is fine? What if he kissed your daughter? Just grabbed either of them by the ears and planted a slobbery mouthful of sexual assault on them. A month is good? He could walk free? How do you think your partner would feel? How about your daughter? What if it was televised? What if it became their life for the next year in a very public court case? A month? Just let me know when you are out and about with someone you care about. I’ve got a few weeks of vacation saved up, I can take the hit and spend some time in the clink.

You should be a lawyer. That’s a hell of an argument. I bet if you read a statement by her about the issue, or researched the court case at all, all of the things you just said would stand up.

No, wait, they wouldn’t.

Well, then, by all means, put a figure on it. Remember, justice should be blind, so “disciplinary action” doesn’t really cut it on the civil side of things. What is a valid punishment for nonconsensual sexual contact in a court of law? What should any member of society receive if they were to do this?

So, it’s Ok for a man to kiss a woman without consent as long as they are celebrating something? I just want to make sure I’ve got your permission to start snogging marathon runners. Or should I go to an Italian marathon, since nationality seems to play a role in consent in your mind.

30 months?

For a kiss?

You’re goddamned right.

Keep it to yourself, fucking creep.

Edit: Everyone move to the sidewalks, the anti-woke parade is marching through with their cute little batons and hats and the giant balloon mascots of their precious egos.