Sometimes if the dollar amount is low enough, it's automatic. Like the ones you just tap.

Most European credit cards require a PIN, so they wouldn't be much use to a looter. And I doubt there are many of the right kind of POS terminal thingies in rural Ukraine to begin with.

Oh shit. I poked a hornet's nest. Sorry everybody.

Shakira? Meh. Surprised to hear she is still a thing.

Good point.

Slightly OT: I can't for the life of me see what was attractive about Richard Burton. I don't think he was handsome and with his drinking and smoking he must have just reeked. He can't have been emotionally healthy, with all the drama all the time. I know he was considered talented and yadda but... ugh.

This comment needs all the stars. People get WAY too stuck on the idea that there is this one (maybe 2 or 3) thing you are doing wrong, something you would fix if you weren't so stubborn, clueless, lazy, issues-sodden or selfish to change. Our culture is not set up to facilitate successful courting and partnering,…

Yes, people lived in real communities back in the day. Plus they usually had their religious community as well, and some were very active in social causes. We will have to learn all that all over again.

Mhuahuahua!

Scrunchies slide out of hair more easily than regular hair elastics, resulting in less snagging and breaking. So there.

Hmmm...cockfighting seems pretty antithetical to the hippie philosophy/outlook.

"While Canada and Australia are baby countries, too, their populations and origins aren't quite as diverse as ours."

That was true 100 years ago when the labour movement was doing all that stuff. It's hard, terribly hard, but not impossible.

With stories like this, and the ones in the comments, I don't understand why Americans aren't calling general strikes and marching the streets and burning shit down to FORCE the issue of workers' rights, universal health care (the real thing), living wages, pensions, paid sick leave and all that. I'm completely…

That video. I couldn't do it. He's so horrible.

I read about a couple who flew a rescue dog from Afghanistan to Canada. I mean, really.

I'll bet it just that it costs more to fly them someplace and have them properly disposed of than just to leave them there, where eventually they will be someone else's problem.

Interesting how MegSwan dropped out of the conversation when it turned to applying the "we were here first so this land belongs to us!" logic to other situations. By that logic, many of us are descended from invaders and occupiers and should probably fuck off back to where we came from.

I'm saying it's not poignant.

So you would be against indigenous peoples taking back their land? Have I got that right?