Because fire doesn’t give a fuck about your imaginary lines in the dirt…

So I’m not disagreeing with you about fire not caring about borders. It is worth noting, though, that the border between the US and Canada is not just imaginary. It does have an actual physical demarcation. And that demarcation actually can slow the spread of fire across the border, if only slightly. The trees at the border have been cleared for a 20 foot wide gap, often referred to as “The slash”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada–United_States_international_border_vista

They got cut from the team

So, ostensibly, pardons are meant to be a way to override the Justice system where it has failed to provide justice. If the law is unjust or it’s application was unjust, a pardon can correct that. And ideally it is used sparingly and by a President that that can be trusted to be an arbiter of wisdom and morality. So there’s just about no limitations on the power. And the other branches are meant to give consequences for unethical applications of it, like quid pro quo pardons/bribery. But obviously that is not how it works in practice.

https://youtu.be/09uqgELv54o

Insulation is insulation, it can keep something hot as much as it can keep something cold. And a refrigeration system reversed becomes a heat pump. Would cost next to nothing to make something like this happen from a mechanical standpoint.

Modern slang often seems to be recycled slang with a new cadence that makes it feel more Gen Z. There is some truly unique stuff too, but it’s kind of funny how just changing how you use a word in a sentence or with a specific inflection can make it feel fresher.

I see what you did there. Would that I were a sword nerd. I was just googling the original because I couldn’t remember how it went and noticed it had an entirely different dude in it.

Idk. I’m not aware of the transport too of the situation or the route. The other guy is being walked in public too.

This isn’t the original image and that sword doesn’t really look like it goes with that scabbard. Did someone recreate/enhance the image with AI?

The original:

“Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky and loaded with danger.”

My Junior year of high school, my English teacher was going over some commonly misused words and got on the subject of “hanged” vs. “hung”. She said “When a blanket is clipped to a clothesline to dry, it is hung. When I man is executed by noose, he is hanged. Men are hanged. Men are not hung.” My classmate raised his hand and… well, Long story short, my classmate got detention.

That’s fair. I’m sure it’s more the concern for someone attacking them than him

Alright, yes, the Justice system is clearly overreacting to one type of murder over the other, yes. But, just for clarity, those armed guards are not there to maintain control of Luigi like he is a super villain that could take down 10 men with his bare hands. And they are not just there to send a message to the public (although it can’t be ruled out that there may be a conscious component of that going on). But they are there because his incarceration is high profile with a lot of supporters who might wish to attack the guards to free him AND a lot of people who might wish to hurt him becuase of the political symbol he has become. It could definitely be argued that the other guy should be as big of a deal, but he just isn’t as high profile, so the risk is way lower there.

And several people die from it each year. The chicken is meant to be sterile and safe. Chicken can be sushi grade like fish can be. But cross contamination, careless handling or use of non-sushi grade meat can make it extremely dangerous. I really can’t stress enough that IF you were going to try it, you should only do so at a very high quality restaurant with an experienced chef, and even then, you should be very very careful.

ACAB. All Cops Are Bots-sent-from-the-future-to-kill-John-Connor.

PBS exists. People would make things with no profit motive.

🤣 Do you think the people that produce content for PBS dont get paid?!

Let me ask you this; would you be okay with members of certain terrorist groups making money off movies about 9/11 or other attacks? Are you okay with that song made by the J6 choir being on streaming services?

First of all, you are making a false equivalency. J6 rioters and terrorists are actively criminals and you are asking about them making money off their own personal crimes. It is a little different to be talking about people making shit about people in the past that did bad shit that happens to share their race or culture. You get the right?

But I’m not going to cop out of this question even if it is an unfair exaggerated comparison. My answer? No, idgaf. I care about their crimes and that they get justice for them. I dont care even slightly about their films, songs or whether they are profiting on them. If someone wants to pay to consume that shit, all the power to them. On the scale of things they have done, that doesn’t even come close to ranking.

Such a weird fucking question…

Cool. I disagree entirely. I think we should even be encouraging it. Awareness, Cautionary tales, accurate history, these are the only ways we, ideally, prevent recurrence. It will always be better and more personal for the creators to be a part of that culture. But I think those of the perpetrating culture also bare a responsibility to learn and amplify knowledge of the mistakes of the past. And if there is no profit motivation, no one, regardless of culture, will make these stories. That’s just the reality we live in. Call it evil if you must, but it is a necessary evil that serves a greater good.

Also, you have a problem specifically with production media profiting from these stories… do you have a problem with a white teacher telling kids about the Underground Railroad? Because they’re paid to do that too. How about a black person making a show about America’s oppressive history and including stories about Native Americans, Asians, Hispanics and Hawaiians? I just want to know where the line is.

In this particular case, with the film Pocahontas, the problem was the whitewashing, the inaccuracy, and the insulting implications of those inaccuracies. But by your metric, the History channel producing a documentary about Jamestown, or about Columbus, and giving every accurate gritty detail of those cultural clashes, including the raping and pillaging, you are saying it is fundamentally wrong to make such a thing because they are white and profiting off of their work. Right? You’re ridiculous.

What are you talking about? How is negative history not part of your cultural history? Would you have them erase that history? How is that not whitewashing? Wars? Colonization? Subjugation? These aren’t culturally relevant? Arguably the negative history is more important, especially when it collides with other cultures because that history can be defining for the other culture.

I know. That is what I said was the problem with the movie. You said it was a problem inaccurate or not.