Soviet propaganda was usually pretty apt. You don’t have to lie to come up with reasons America is a horrible place.

One of the reasons we’re horrible is because conservatives actually used the fact that the Soviets criticized us for White Supremacy to dismiss Civil Rights as a communist plot.

The State needs to have procedures and guidelines in place to protect capital punishment supporters from any pain or suffering caused by executions.

This is crazy. The Artemis II had to get fast enough to escape our gravity, flew to the moon, did a Tokyo drift around the moon gaining speed the whole time.

There are few good options to slow down in space, and the plan is to hit the brakes by slamming into the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed that so far outside human experience that the numbers don’t make sense.

Re-entry is actually the craziest, and most dangerous part of this mission.

I don’t want to be pessimistic, but I’m a Challenger-kid and this whole business gives me anxiety.

My analogy is apt because both guns and drugs are dangerous and our society treats the things very differently for arbitrary cultural bullshit.

Pointing out that legally, guns are OK doesn’t contradict my point, it furthers it.

I pulled this off reddit. I know that’s gross, but this was too good not to share.

Just a reminder that Federal Law shields people who sell guns from liability over the just as inevitable consequences of that industry.

Had a friend who did this with poison ivy. I’m still laughing decades later just thinking about it.

I’ve seen figures that cars kill between 500 and 700 kids EVERY DAY, worldwide. Can you imagine if the Terrorists got 700 kids just once?

We’d probably do something about that.

I’ve never understood secure drop-off for used drugs. My mother gives everything to second-hand stores when she’s finished, but when it’s time to throw away pain pills, she jaunts off to the drug store like Jason Borne, to keep the drugs away from junkies.

I keep meaning to tell her that a junkie who discovers her oxy is going to be so much more grateful than whoever finds her old Capris on the rack at Goodwill.

I’ve never trusted full disk encryption because I understand the person most likely to get locked out of my data is me.

I can see the use case for laptops, but my security policy is “if you have physical access, you win”.

You should keep in mind that this is a negotiation position, and it’s normal to ask for the world at the beginning so the inevitable compromise may be more in your favor.

Andrea Dworkin is spinning in her grave. There’s something extra tragic about adopting the token persona for someone at the intersectionality of two identities that the right hates.

the problem with tokens is that sooner or later they get spent.

40 years ago, this article was titled “the toxic chemicals in no-smoking signs are the real cause of lung cancer”

My prediction is that it’ll come out that the Trump Administration was negotiating with Ahmed Chalabi the whole time.

What I’ve come to understand is that even if Trump and MAGA become histories villains, with their ideology, ascetic, and personas become toxic and reviled, everyone will just forget after a few generations and it’ll happen all over again.

The only way to purge MAGA is to overcome American bigotry; the strongest god in the pantheon.

The idea that the existence of crack was a government plot is an old and debunked conspiracy theory.

Not that our government isn’t that racist, just that it’s not that competent or forward thinking.

The real racism was the response to crack. The drug became synonymous with black Americans the same way AIDS became synonymous with gay men: because they were the early and obvious victims. Unlike AIDS, crack is actually much less dangerous than people think. Opioids are way worse.

But even the idea that crack was a “black” problem is a myth. My cracker-ass friend group experimented with free-basing cocaine (which is turning cocaine into crystal inside the smoking vessel, a practice far older than “cooking” crack, but produces the same drug and effect)

This relies on the assumption that Trump would make better decisions given accurate information.

Gaza she would have won easily, exactly as they were told before the election.

I can’t respect anyone who’d blindly accept the Democrat line. Even worse is a person who would claim to hate the DNC, but get’s credulous when they say something that confirmed your priors.