YES! I’m Lutheran and it wasn’t until I was 10 or so until I realized Jesus wasn’t blonde and blue-eyed. If you got into a Lutheran church, most of the time he’s a pretty white dude.

I’m so scared of that happening. My friends are in our early 20s and it’s already happening to some degree with the ones who have coupled up and moved in together. I know it’ll get turned up to 11 when they start making babies.

This so much! I hate that I’ve lost a lot of my friends who have had children. I do understand that new moms are really busy, and it can be a really tough adjustment - I don’t expect constant get togethers or anything. Hell, I work 60+ hours per week, *I* barely have time for all that. But it irritates me when I try…

Yes. I don’t do “Mom” friends, they are completely forced and boring. I also hate it when someone tries to make “Mom” friends with me, if you introduce yourself as “Adrian’s Mommy” I think less of you, as you obviously think less of yourself as you didn’t deem yourself worthy enough to even have your own name.

PLEASE do not use your brain on this site! PLEASE do not use your brain when confronted with one person who shoots people. STOP being intelligent! We do NOT need to actually think critically about what is happening in the world!

As much as I like to hate on America’s disgusting, awful, no-good public shooting and gun idiocy, you are right. “People got shot, near a school” is only a “school shooting” in the most literal definition of the word. It’s not what we’ve come to associate the term with. Yet, anyway.

How does saying that there is a difference between someone planning/intentionally murdering people and someone shooting someone because a fight broke out imply that either is okay?

You’re absolutely right. It’s more likely than not that this wasn’t what we think of as mass shooting. It’s more likely what I call a situational shooting (fight, drug deal, etc.) - there’s probably an official term, but I don’t know what that term is.

I feel bad for you because I get your point. School shooting to you seems to mean someone going to a school with the intention of mass murder and to others it’s any shooting at a school. I don’t think you’re a troll or think murder is ok. Maybe your timing was off.

I wrote another comment on here about what it's like and how FUCKED it is when you find out your friends are someone completely different than you thought. I'm sorry this happened to you and hope you've found some better friends! :)

smoke and mirrors, all just to throw as many roadblocks in front of a safe and legal medical procedure. They get *decidedly* less pro-life when the lives at-risk are poor, in the home of a gun-owner, or convicted felons.

Girl.

It’s always been an entirely unsustainable process, from the time the railroad industry and the improvements in food processing began allowing for the large-scale transport of perishable goods.

Agree. I mean, what in the world did people DO before strawberries (giant, gassed, bright red, crappy tasting berries — except when actually in season here in CA) were available year-round? This state’s farming industry could be scaled back quite a lot and still serve as the major supplier of produce for the country.…

Agriculture in California is not sustainable. It never was. We will run out of water and that industry will die. There is no doubt. Perhaps instead of ignoring this fact we could look at some options now? Yes, absolutely, we will take a huge hit. But there is literally no other choice. Food can be grown in other…

We don’t have to take away agriculture from California, or even massively restrict it. Reasonable reforms to water usage (growing slightly more water-efficient crops, drip irrigation, literally not flooding fields to make sure farmers use up their water allocation, etc.) could easily drop agricultural usage by 10-20%,…

When I was in Alaska a few years ago, one of the guides told us about a couple who thought the bear spray was supposed to be used like bug spray, and... yeah. I’m sure theirs was a memorable vacation, at least.

When you’re recovering from an eating disorder and it makes you feel slightly better about eating that piece of pizza even though you know it’s all in your head?

I doubt she could competently use bear spray considering her first instinct was to pull out her phone and yell at the bear.

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