I mean, yeah. And that’s not a great place to be if your show cost 700 million to produce!

Well if anonymous Pentagon officials are claiming so, then it obviously must be true.

I mean, if I had to justify spending millions of dollars to shoot down a weather balloon, I’d say it was important too.

Well they are hardly likly to say it was transmitting weather information before they destroyed it

Huh. We don’t hear about this for months. Seymour Hersh comes out with a report. Suddenly we have a counter report that the media gloms on to like a lamprey.  “Quick!  Look over there!!”

You are absolutely vile.

50 Bucks says she was looking in a mirror and ended up attacking her reflection.

Similarly, Garfield creator Jim Davis went on a disturbing, hate-filled rant about Mondays in a recent strip, which he then followed-up with an effusive essay about his favorite food lasagna.

you’re making a number of assumptions that need correcting:

Global south solidarity

Jesus Christ you’re a scumbag.

lol neoliberals

Dude, a bit up-thread you tried to justify calling Russia inherently uncivilized by linking to a Wikipedia article. Just admit that you don’t know shit abut history and shut the fuck up. There would have been no “civil war” between North and South Vietnam were it not for American interference.

This will probably come across as hardcore “whataboutism”, so with that out of the way:

I might suggest one better. I saw a documentary once about holocaust denial and it ended with several deniers meeting with an actual Auschwitz survivor. The courageous, amazing woman, smiling and without missing a beat, greeted them and said, “How nice to meet phony Nazis. You know, I met real ones.”

That just makes it sound like you always agreed with Rowling’s stance but wanted an excuse to blame someone else for your behavior.

Can’t go wrong with ‘Comrade’. Kids in school can use ‘Comrade Teacher’, for example.

Everybody hates having to change their clocks twice a year, sure, but I don’t understand why people think the solution is permanent DST. No, make standard time permanent, dammit, not DST. Then at least you’ll have a better correlation between what the clock says and where the sun is in the sky.