I remember a lot of kids getting spanked at school in the '80s. Most were more worried about the additional spanking they would get at home as punishment for misbehaving enough to get spanked at school.

You don’t have to lay hands (or belts, or whatever) on your child to set and enforce strong boundaries and expectations. Kids need those guardrails to help them learn to navigate the world.

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I’m seeing 79,264 votes with the same percentages now.

A couple of my doctors did that before I left the US in 2021. They stopped accepting insurance and started charging a monthly “membership fee” that would cover a certain number of visits per year.

It was fine to have my landline listed, because I didn’t have it with me in my pocket all day.

I would not want my cell number to be published. Mostly because I already get enough spam messages.

I just assumed this was the situation as soon as Dementia Don started talking about Greenland. I’d bet dollars to donuts he didn’t know where Greenland was before Putin put the idea into his addled little brain.

Anyone who thinks I’m a bot can bite my shiny metal ass.

As it turns out, there are tens of thousands of WWII veterans who are still alive. World War II has not actually passed out of living memory.

How did we get to a place where “Hitler was bad” is no longer the default in mainstream US politics?

This is not okay. This is not normal.

They’re well on their way to having exactly the same face.

He definitely has a type.

I’m surprised that Noem is still a brunette.

Only if the proposal gets enough signatures.

The proponent of the measure, Marcus Evans, must collect signatures of 546,651 registered voters (five percent of the total votes cast for Governor in the November 2022 general election) in order for the measure to become eligible for the ballot. The proponent has 180 days to circulate petitions for the measure, meaning the signatures must be submitted to county elections officials no later than July 22, 2025.

Contact info for Marcus Evans is in the link you posted. If you’re in California, ask him how you can add your name to the petition.

Who’s in command is dictated by a deeply flawed system that only ever pretended to be democratic.

You’re right. The founding fathers did not intend to create a democracy. They created a republic with elected leaders who were chosen exclusively by wealthy, educated white men.

We certainly can’t fault them for not foreseeing how much American society – and the electorate – would change and how little the Constitution would change.

I truly believe that if they had any inkling how little we would change the Constitution in 250 years, they would have written a whole article requiring a Constitutional Convention every 25 or 50 years.

It would be interesting to see the major blue states go on a tax strike.

They could send their tax revenue to escrow instead of to the US government for a while. It would be good for the red states with mostly rural voters to fuck around and find out how much they need the blue states with big cities to support their way of life … while the results can still be reversed with those escrow funds.

Bondi is terrible and all, but this is a photo of press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Strive (v): To try, a little bit, sometimes, if we feel like it

Mostly because he sees everything as transactional.

When you’re a drag to be around, nobody hangs out with you unless they want something from you. And that just reinforces the worldview that everything is transactional.

Has there ever been a year when Louder than Life wasn’t muddy as fuck?

An empty bio and one-word replies sounds like someone who’s not worth talking to. I don’t think that’s your failure.

In my experience with three different UU congregations, they can be pretty varied.

My former city had one that was Protestant-lite, one that was nearly neopagan, and one that was so insular that I felt unwelcome as a visitor.

An unsolicited photo of something random might not be something everyone responds to. I wouldn’t necessarily send a response.

So if she doesn’t respond, it doesn’t definitively mean she doesn’t want to talk to you. Maybe try again with something that actually indicates that you’re looking for a response. Like … ask a question about something you know you have in common.

Did you finish the reading for class? I think the part about ABC could be interpreted to apply to XYZ. What do you think?

You said you like comedians. Have you seen the new Marcello Hernandez special on Netflix?

Make it something that could turn into an actual conversation if she answers you.