You don’t need 100% participation in something to make it matter.

It degenerates the society that makes it a spectacle.

Everyone knows shooting sprees are bad but people still do them in spite of the punishments.

We used to point at the public beheadings in Saudi Arabia as how barbaric they were and how much more civilized we were. Guess we can’t say that now.

It isn’t about him, it is about a society that has degenerated to this level to make execution a spectacle. No other civilized nation does this anymore. It makes cruelty part of society.

Can we have gladiatorial combats to the death next? How about people being torn apart by wild animals?

Australians complain about the brutal housing prices.

No matter where you go you bring yourself.

“Has no friends”, I’d be furious if it wasn’t true…

Taxes are fine as long as they aren’t regressive (sales), the spending is monitored/audited and the taxes are reevaluated occasionally to see if they still make sense.

You usually become more fiscally conservative though because you have decades of savings, home, car, etc that you’ve worked for.

I bought some healthy coca based cereal (the kind that is priced like steak) but my wife likes Cpt Crunch peanut butter cereal. So I make a 50-50 mix of the two and get a peanut butter cup type result that is slightly healthier. :D

Well she showed what personality type she is, unstable.

Maybe they’ve run into too many people looking for citizenship via marriage.

She works for the DHS?

Well they did say they were a potato.

You dodged two bullets there. 1 was a person who doesn’t understand metaphors or allegories, 2 was a person with no sense of sarcasm or humor.

I’m so glad I got married before the dating apps became the norm.

Just a bit about dementia, you know you should know something or you know you are struggling to understand others and it becomes very frustrating and that can show up as anger. On top of that the degradation of the prefrontal cortex results in less control of emotional urges.

There is going to be a LOT of used hardware on the market if it does.

That should be long enough to make sure consumer electronics, especially PCs, are dying.