Yep, I was literally coming in to say that Skype was trashed the instant Microsoft bought it.

In my defense, your honor, I did not consider that someone would intentionally do this until I read your response.

There is a North America, and there is a South America,

Those are two separate continents.

You can check on any map of continents and that will show you that this is true information.

One could even say America is two continents.

I mean, given how much money she has, she could actually have a mattress with a divot specifically for her ass.

I think it was Jesus that said, “It’s better to ban an entire nation from existing than it is to work out your own sexuality with fear and trembling”.

If my dick is out, I’ve already won.

I would say that any… if the people live in a group or a society that is religion-based, and that religion requires it, then I am not against infant circumcision.

Basically, if you were born to Jewish parents living in Israel or Palestine or born to Muslim parents living in a Muslim-run country, then yes, participate in the culture that you were born in.

But, like in America, where every single person decides their own faith for themselves and only the most culty stay in this same religion that their parents were in, infant bodily autonomy outside of life-saving procedures should be the rule.

It seems to happen less often in Europe, but wouldn’t hurt to add that as a rule there, too.

At least wait until the kid is 13 years old as a minimum.

I can definitely get behind that. Like, if you read the Bible, especially some particular chapters, there’s a lot of old man yells at clouds vibes.

“I will cuteth off the member of him who pisseth against the wall”

Doesn’t really sound like a god thing. It would be very weird for the ruler and creator of the universe to get really, really fucking mad that any person who pees on a wall anywhere, regardless of the situation, should have their dick cut off.

It kind of sounds more like, you know, one of the leaders of a community is writing down laws and threatening to cut a bunch of boys’ dicks off because they keep peeing on walls and stinking the place up rather than using appropriate facilities.

I wish we had accurate historical records of the time, so I could see if this was ever actually enacted. Like, how much would it suck to be that guy?

Walking home late from the bar, you gotta take a whiz, you piss, the cops catch you, and like three hours later, your penis is lying in the trash.

And, I mean, talk about disproportionate response, like, did the concept of community service not exist? Like, what the fuck?

Then there was one phrase about, do not go and shave the sides of your beard, something something yada yada, and it reads like a protest against the kids and their fashion.

There’s lots of stuff where if you have the capacity to take the one mental step to say that every single word in the book may not have been written by God himself, but instead the texts chosen to be in the bible contain a historic medium of communicating laws, rules, and regulations that made sense at the time, inspired by God and definitely containing some legitimate things that were directly written by the Holy Spirit, but also invariably containing some information that was derived from that original mandate.

I mean, even the whole thing about the Sabbath, it was more a nicety to say, even God rested, you should rest too. You should have at least one day off a week where you’re not beholden to labor for somebody else, where you can enjoy life.

I highly doubt that God is throwing people into hell for working on the Sabbath. I get that it’s special to God because he rested for a day, which is something he had otherwise not done throughout existence. But at the same time, why torment someone forever for just working one extra day out of our comparatively very short lives?

I don’t know. I can rant forever. I’m sorry, I’ll stop here, but yeah.

My favorite one is do not boil a calf in its mother’s milk, which has been interpreted to mean no cheese or butter on beef.

Which means that cooking and eating a bacon cheeseburger yourself after sundown *on a friday while wearing cotton underwear and polyester pants is 4 sins, 3 of which are burger

Its not stupid to be optimistic. Every good thing starts with optimism as far as I know

The problem with most companies is that they are not led by people with clear visions.

Companies that succeed typically start with a clear vision. However, once that vision is fulfilled, then it starts to become run by people who are simply trying to make money.

Chasing after money becomes the vision, and that is how you get to the way things are in America today.

Having a vision often times means having goals that you’re willing to lose money if it gets you closer to achieving them.

That being said, ratuer than voting for your paycheck, something that is much more straightforward and less prone to being taken advantage of would be having set wages based on years of experience and time with the company.

include an opportunity to earn extra during the year by going above and beyond while making it clear that this is not expected of the people at their current job role.

Going above and beyond would be determined by your boss on recommendation, and they would have a limited number of recommendations every year.

Another thing you could do would be to publish what everybody earns on a website that is internal to the company, and make the going above and beyond rewards part of your annual meeting or something so nobody would know if they’re going to get an above and beyond reward until then.

Then to actually make it a good thing, you would need to make it a rule to fire the people that do not meet their performance metrics, at least after a set number of times or like failing to fulfill a pip or something.

If I see a 40 plus year old man and a 16 year old girl going places together, I’m going to assume the girl is his daughter.

Pretty high Ick factor.

It’s amazing the lengths people will go to to avoid a difficult conversation.

Whether you like it or not, you are a part of the total equation and if you have issues with it, you should try to communicate your concerns with all relevant people.

Once you have communicated your concerns, It’s not your problem anymore.

People don’t have to listen, don’t have to do what you tell them to do, and they don’t have to take your concerns into consideration.

If they choose to do something stupid that’s on them.

The author is active on bluesky and she’s actually quite nice and everything you would expect her to be.

Regardless of the truth, I prefer Diane Duane’s explanation in the “So, You Want to Be a Wizard” novel, In that all of the steam in the subways are generated by a breed of fire worms. These worms, if left long enough, can grow to the size of a respectable and quite terrifying dragon.

I feel like this is one of those things where, even though there is a likelihood that you are right, you don’t actually know that you are correct.

People are weird.

People are occasionally evil, especially towards weird people.

There’s an entire possibility that atheists have stoned somebody to death, and since you’re the one making the claim, I feel like you should be the one to scour every single instance of death in all of human history to verify your claim.

My favorite theory about pinky and the brain is, in the opening song, they say “one is a genius, the others insane”, but when they say “one is a genius”, they show pinky, and then they say “the others insane”, they show the brain, indicating that pinky is the actual genius in the group and the brain is the insane one.

Yeah, this is spelled correctly and grammatically parsable. No way it could be his tweet.

NASCAR might do those speeds fairly regularly for short bursts