Nah, I think I’ll just continue to smoke and vape to an unhealthy degree in order to disassociate from the banal horrors of modern day. If I keep myself mildly baked and consuming a steady stream of star trek and Stargate, I’ll keep myself from having thoughts.

I actually did a report on this during a Vietnam era history class.

The assignment was to choose a Vietnam era piece of anti-war art, a song about war, or if we could make a convincing argument to the teacher it could be something tangentially related.

I chose this song, even ran the lyrics by the teacher beforehand, and halfway through the song he realized it’s got gasp bad words in it and tried to actively censor it, which I thought was pretty funny.

Canon: they’re brothers

Fanon: THEY’RE LOVERS!

I’ll lift a lamp by the golden door.

Maybe I’m just too autistic to understand, but why are all these “gender-swapped” movies going from men to women leads?

I understand that there are far more male-led movies to pick from, but I have not seen any movies that “go the other way”.

Personally I think going in with the intention of gender swapping the male roles for the sake of gender swapping alone is a terrible premise. And the thought of watching The Sound of Music but with a male version of Maria is just weird. Or a male in the lead of Alien.

Granted, there are a lot of movies where the entire direction of the story, while not dependent on the person’s gender, they aren’t conducive to the opposite. Using my own example, Maria was a nun who became a governess, who became a step-mother. The swapped version would have to be a priest who became a (I don’t know if there’s a name for a male version?) live-in childcare provider, who became a step father. While not impossible, or even that wild to think about, it’s not typical.

Is it just one of those “it’s good to have representation” things? Like I personally know someone who thought black people couldn’t be royalty because until they saw princess and the frog, there wasn’t exactly a lot of diversity in Disney’s princess catalogue (with apologies to Mulan and Pocahontas) so clearly there is something to be said about representation in media.

I am definitely over thinking it, but I really don’t get why anyone wants, or thinks audiences want, gender swapped stories from 20/40/60+ years ago.

Thank you for coming to my TEDx Talk. Sorry you can’t get the last 3 minutes back.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought it was a poor choice.

I work with adults that mentally never left middle school. They already tell crass sexist jokes that make HR cry. I can only imagine the shit they’d come up with for something like this.

So theft and extortion. I remember when those were crimes.

I suppose my comment could be interpreted as “why are EU countries sending so many poor people”

I figured with the title it was just understood…

I mean, half of my hammers have had their handles remade with whatever hardwood was closest. So I’m gonna go with those.

However, the most complex thing that I can repair with sourced parts would be either my truck, or my truck. I’ve had to fix it with “close enough” parts before, and I will fix it until the frame rusts (which given Northern states and salted roads probably won’t be more than a few more years)

There’s a smattering of electronics that I’ve seen mentioned multiple times as well.

One thing that is theoretically repairable, but is hard to find parts for, my washing machine. It’s a old 50s model with a lever to engage the motor, a roller on top to squeeze water out, and a simple steel gear system to drive everything. I should be able to open it up with a crescent wrench and flat head screwdriver, but I doubt I will ever be able to find ready-made parts (I have looked briefly when I thought I had a problem with it that sorted itself) but I might be able to bodge some things together if needed.

Why do they always send the poor?

There’s at least cause for a citizens arrest at that point

Yes, but…

gives a reasonable person fear of imminent bodily harm or death

Driver could shoot the HSI douche in the head and I’d say self defense isn’t murder.

You hop in my car like that, you’re gonna have a bad day.

And even when they ARE “punished”, their profits far exceed the fine, which IS their only punishment.

If the punishment for a crime is just a fine, it’s only a crime for the poor.

Anecdote: a street near my house in high school had speed bumps next to the park. Occasionally people would be woken up at 3am to a dunk Douchebag shredding down the road at 50 and launching himself off the speed bumps and smashing into stretside cars.

Eventually they had the bright idea (after a few years in a row of snowplows damaging their blades and the road needing repairs) to make a gentle S-curve instead. Now you don’t feel like you can go 10mph over the limit, the road only needs minor repairs every 5 yearsnor so, and to my knowledge nobody has launched themselves into stationary vehicles in many years.

Former enlisted chiming in to agree.

Well, as long as you do it while driving a car, anyway.

… Kick them over like dominoes.

In fact, I insist.

The fact that people would rather see their taxes bomb a brown person’s house instead of building 10 is sickening.

Why would you give water to a country that has threatened to invade you in recent months?

Half the time when you see someone walking around with the wrong amount of pips, it’s just delicious street corn

Best I can do is clean out half a storage closet, put a broken wobbly chair in it, replace the warm orange-hued light with a harsh fluorescent one, put a security camera pointing directly at the chair, and then lock the closet so you have to ask to get in.

Congratulations on your new “Self-care/Mental Health room” please use it whenever* you need it**.

*on your breaks

**pending management approval