It seems to me that if the economies of many, many nations are heavily dependent on the maintenance of that static state, we kinda do have a responsibility to maintain it, or at least not do anything to alter it ourselves.

I can only surmise you used a microscope to split that hair so finely.

Nobody likes attention-whoring trendsters. Those people - not legitimate celiac sufferers - are the ones that are annoying to others. They are appropriating a very real and very serious disease as part of a ridonkulous bullshit trend.

Did this change in diet manifest by you cutting carbohydrates from your diet?

It's "celiac." No "s." It is neither plural nor possessive. Sorry - pet peeve.

I've frequented various survivalism forums for ages, partly as an outgrowth of my interest in Cold War history.

Dear God, the top photo looks like a mushroom cloud or something. Then, on the fourth photo down the page, a horde of locusts. That's effigies of two of the Four Horsemen, made by *balloons.*

So...you're drunk by the end of every dinner with your mom? I know *I* would be if my mom acted that way...

Sorry, I can't support you - I voted Kodos last election.

Foreigners I can almost excuse; they might not know (though they should learn the customs of the countries they visit, I'd think).

I'm sure you, undoubtedly pure as the wind-driven snow, have never contemplated revenge, there, Siddartha.

I suppose it's possible, but...I dunno. I'm not sure how AAA is figuring $9K a year to drive a car.

Sometimes the articles themselves are clickbait as well.

Today On Jezebel: Social Retardation and The People Who Can't Be Bothered To Address It.

Yeah, I suppose...if you ate nothing but ice cream for four days, you might have the shits. (That IS what these "cleanses" do, isn't it? Give you explosive, horrific diarrhea, thus "cleansing" your colon of everything you've eaten since you were 5?)

So...y'all are just continuing in a storied tradition, then?