I’ve always been a fan of the movies even in my youth and one important life lesson I learned early on came after viewing the movie Midnight Express which was doing or selling drugs of any kind is a no no while visiting a foreign country. That lesson has followed me through life. At one point I wouldn’t take a Aspirin…

In other news, you really shouldn’t try smuggling drugs in to a foreign country.

I personally feel very sorry for her and it goes without saying, that under Western standards, 9 years is a ridiculous sentence. However, I am also angry at her for putting the United States in a position to have to release murderers in order to free her. I know she is 31 years young, but one should know that you…

Fully agreed on the lack of connections to the MCU, but this was structured that it didn’t need them? It was actually kind of refreshing to have an actual standalone MCU show for a change. No connections to any Avengers, the only shout out was to locations like Asgard and Madripoor, and it was in keeping with the…

1) No-one cares that she wasn’t personally on those flights; she is still enabling those flights by loaning her private jets out to people and by owning them in the first place. As other commenters have pointed out, privately-owned jets are necessarily going to end up taking a lot of unnecessary flights just because…

Trolls like SoftSack are bagging on Swift for topping the list this year like they’re making a point,

Just to clarify, are you suggesting that she did not, in fact, take the most private jet trips this year, and that these bloggers are lying? Or, she actually did take the most private jet trips this year, but each of her 170+ trips was an attempt to escape this warzone you speak of, and each time she discovered,…

It’s not an investment. It’s gambling. Gambling is a form of entertainment.

When the jackpot gets big enough to be in the news, I buy tickets. For me, it’s worth a few bucks to have the chance to win, and to dream about what you’d do with the winnings.  Dreaming about $1000 isn’t worth a dollar to me.  I don’t dream…

The real question is who is sitting outside in 95 degree heat playing a Nintendo switch?

He’s legally an adult (and he’s actually 21). When does he stop being “a kid”?

I believe most people have some level of ignorant racism and that when it comes to the surface, it needs to be met with a calm and non-aggressive explanation of why that’s incorrect and not-okay.

The interesting thing to me here, as an anthopologist, is that citizens of extraordinarily ethnically homogenous Eurocentric countries like Sweden or Estonia, will almost uniformly demur that they have any animus whatsoever to ANYONE based upon their racial or ethnic origin. But when pressed to the point of discomfort…

Your insight was not lost on me dude. Great perspective!

Brazilian here. First of all, fuck Nelson Piquet. He is a fascist dick. Even if he had referred to Hamilton as “that awesome fella”, you bet that he would be trying to be a dick. He is the Brazilian equivalent of a MAGA. Seriously, fuck that guy and the car he rode it in.

His daughter liked his post this morning defending his use of the word, there’s that.

He used to be more a Silicon Valley “lifestyle liberal” type with more progressive social policy beliefs.

Except witness testimony and behavior is part of the evidence. It’s why we have live testimony. The jury is able to see how the witness behaves in response to questions.  Body language makes up a large part of human communication, so it’s not to be discounted. If we didn’t think it was important trials would consist…

In fairness, the longest expansion in history (roughly 10 and a half years) ended only as we shut down the economy in the wake of a deadly pandemic and part of the deflationary aspects of that were because businesses chose not to use federal funds the way they were intended (paycheck protection was designed to allow…

Something tells me not noticing for hours and then paying so little attention to the huuuge influx in customers and continuing to not notice was the thing that did him in.

Hear that?