Well, it has been that kind of day

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Does he really need any convincing?

Did Boris Johnson just call Trump gay?

“Weird weather? It’s Nazi time!”

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

I get the over analyzing thing, but I think that really comes down to the style of teaching. I had some good teachers and bad teacher, teachers, and with a good teacher teachers, I did enjoy literary analysis as long as it didn’t get too bogged down in the analysis and two departed from actually enjoying the peace of literature we were analyzing.

And I’m particularly glad that I still have those skills for analysis as an adult.

Jayne memes aged like milk because Adam Baldwin is trash.

I don’t think the boys wanna kiss babies

The solution to the problem is so obvious

Because I’m 45 and went to a private school in the 90s.

United States education system was a lot better back then.

And, yes. You should read paradise lost by John Milton. It’s the story of how Lucifer became Satan (and, really, the story of the most primeval fight for independence ever told). It’s both apocryphal and hated by the Catholic Church, but the source of 99% of everything we know about Satan.

Just make sure to get an annotated version, because it’s written in 15th century iambic pentameter (like Shakespeare, but less humorous). It’s a bit much without annotations to help understand it

They already have, with the enormous amount of weapons and ammunition they’ve been supplying to Russia. And they’re about to cross it again because North Korean soldiers are going to fight for Russia.

You don’t need to convince me of the utility of it. Unlike the United States, Spain doesn’t have a national guard.

The people of Spain are already pretty pissed. The government is probably not interested in something that will anger them further. Of course, that leaves the government of Spain in a tough spot.

What they should do, in my own opinion, is to seize on this moment of the surge in volunteers and step in to help organize the effort better.

Because most people see the military as aggressively hostile. The last thing they want is to see their own country’s military marching through the streets for whatever reason. Especially in Spain, where it has a bit of a nasty history.

To be fair, those deaths can be blamed on the brutality of the likes of Stalin and Mao. Communism didn’t kill those people— but its authoritarian nature certainly provided fertile ground to be abused by monsters.

Like most things political, it’s highly nuanced and complex. I don’t particularly like to defend communism, but an ideology alone can’t do anything. It requires bad actors who use that ideology for their own ends.

That’s a leap even our Olympic gymnasts knew better than to try.

Our kids hardly get an education as it is. When those who hate paying their fair share of taxes throw a fit, politicians always make sure that they get to voice their opinions, publicly and loudly.

Makes you wonder: who’s buying all of these politicians? And it’s always the Republicans trying to take your rights away from you.

Everything I hate it’s finally coming to the fediverse! Yay!

Yes, now, anyway…

I agree.

I grew up in the age of c/c++ and then Java. I get it: people hate it and it’s time to move on, but jeez, folx, chill. It will happen in time, and there’s no reason to go all civil warsy about it.

Things like this should not be rushed.

I was referring to the lemmy devs, but ok, I guess