I’ve told my kids that I don’t condone intiating violence, but if someone else starts getting physically violent first, feel free to fuck them up (provoking them will still get my kid in trouble, though).

However, if the institution itself fails to protect the kids, and my kid told me they and their friends were doing this on purpose, I’d take the day off for their suspension and take them to the arcade and a movie or something. And then I’d have a very serious talk with their principal.

People keep talking about crime, but I tend to hold off on even putting up decorations until a week or less before the holiday because where I live the weather will destroy or launch your decorations, and the storms often come at night with no warning.

So my immediate thought was, he wants to preserve those decorations. It’s something I would do if I didn’t just accept I’d be replacing a third to a half of my decorations every year because I can’t be assed to take them down for storms.

Leaving before the rush?

I, due to volunteering my seat on an earlier flight to get a voucher for a future flight, got put into first class on my replacement flight.

When I was sitting down, and the woman next to me pulled her legs up so her shins were parallel to the front of the seat (this position), my mind was blown.

That is not the problem. Population declines as countries move to first world status, and I think the people not having kids due to financial constraints are few and far between. Otherwise population would not start and continue diminishing as an area becomes more affluent. People have less (or no) kids because they don’t want kids, don’t want a bunch of kids, and can reasonably expect the kids they have to survive to adulthood. And access to birth control, education, and other opportunities (mostly for women) makes having less kids (by their own desire) possible.

So bringing capable workers in means they pay into taxes that support the aging and school-age population, and never had to have their school-age years paid for. They’re a productive member with half the cost over their lifetime.

It’s a no-brainer… as long as you’re not worried about changing the… shade or hue… of your population over time.

Our replacement rate has been low for a long time, but our population has stayed relatively steady… because of immigration.

Low replacement rate is only bad if you’re racist/xenophobic. Otherwise there’s usually (in a supposedly first-world country) an easy solution.

And if you think this is a dig on specifically the US, it isn’t. Japan and South Korea are about to have insane difficulties with a very obvious and simple solution, and the US had that solution and are destroying it in favor of racism and xenophobia.

No, like, for some of us no pic shows up whatsoever.

Was it from carrying /c/tenforward while The_Picard_Maneuver was on sabbatical?

Isn’t that the bad guy’s rationale in Collateral?

I don’t know about this mid-October one, but for the Satanic Temple there is Lupercalia on February 15th, which is “hail yourself” day, so pretty much Treat-yo-self day. The two days prior are for feasting.

My wife and I take those three days and each of us takes one day to treat ourselves while the other watches the kids and handles things. And the third day of the three ends up being feasting (where we order out from each person’s favorite restaurant and have a feast of everything).

For parents, I highly recommend it.

I’m not pleased they’re being deployed, but these guys aren’t choosing to go to these places. They signed up for national defense (and not the kind that blows up schools in a desert on the other side of the world) and often helping with major disasters.

The Texas National Guard absolutely did not sign up for policing cities in Illinois or Oregon, and I’d bet vast majority are not pleased to be there.