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If they are basing this at all off of the IDW comics, then my every dream will come true. Transformers has pulled off some remarkably smart content for kids over the years (TF Animated, Beast Wars, etc.), but the comics (particularly More Than Meets the Eye) have honestly been better than anything bearing the name…

Credit where it’s due for trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. Because you’re right, people (even those who should know better) are all too quick to resort to misogynistic attacks on prominent women.

GHW Bush always struck me as one of the last sane Republicans. Hell, the guy called Reagan out on the fact that trickle down economics was bullshit (before selling out for the VP slot, of course).

Personally, I’m right there with you.

Sweet, thank you for pointing this out - I was at that ceremony the other day, but didn’t get to see the actual bottle breaking moment because my lady friend and I snuck out at the end of the First Lady’s speech to avoid the ridiculous traffic.

“I think it’s an offshoot of the concept that if you just believe hard enough, you can bend reality to your will. Reality is increasingly seen as a flexible thing that can be changed if you want it hard enough.”

You’d certainly think that, right? Most people who glorify the King James Bible have an answer to that, though: they claim that the KJB was a divinely inspired translation, on par with (or even superior to) the original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic versions. It’s holy in a way that no other English translation can be...…

It’s an old school thing - English used to capitalize all nouns, and a lot of the hard core religious types are deeply into reading things like the King James Bible in their original format.

I remember when an old roommate of mine came back from Afghanistan a few years ago. He was haunted and enraged by this very issue, and his experiences helplessly standing by why his Afghan “allies” assaulted young children eventually led him to become very Islamophobic.

At the risk of dogpiling, I’d like to explain two of the reasons why the mentality you mentioned can actually create significant problems down the road, because I know it’s not always very well spelled out in a culture that takes this sort of thing for granted:

Great news... until that price tag.

I know! Full credit where it’s due: the friend in question quickly defriended the guy and apologized to everybody, saying the guy was a coworker whom he’d never liked that much and was thankful to finally have a reason never to speak to him again.

Exactly! But of course, we’re talking about a) a sex worker, so the value of her life is trivial at best, and b) Texas, where for far too many people life is only valuable if it hasn’t left the womb yet.

That’s exactly what I was thinking about, too - the Texas case a couple of years ago, right? Where the goddamn jury acquitted the guy for killing the sex worker because they believed she was “stealing” from him by refusing to do everything he demanded after he payed her.

Not to be at all snarky about it, it’s a horrifying situation all around but I still feel like she earned it:

My ladyfriend and I, who EVERY WEEK suffer outrageous scorn from our friends for DARING to enjoy Miller High Life and Bud Light, have now officially declared your our personal saint.

My next door neighbors always have their 4 kids running around outside if there’s even a hint of sun in the sky, and one girl around 4 or 5 communicates entirely through high pitched shrieks. This is not hyperbole - I once kept a log and figured out she was shrieking an average of 5 times per minute. Every. Day.

Sting approves.

Sure, and I get that, it is a potential issue. But when you take into account the amount of water a dishwasher saves over the course of its life... as California is showing us, water conservation is a big issue that can’t be ignored.