They looted the old structures (what was left to loot) then peed on them and said, “These are mine now.” (A professor I had once said, “What the barbarians didn’t do, the Barberini’s did.”)

On one hand, it helped preserve some significant and important art/architecture.

On the other hand they looted, “christ-washed”, and destroyed so much. Even their own art over the centuries.

Let us know which town. Sounds like it’s already full of trash.

I wish douchiness was fatal, so I would never have to hear/read about those douchebags again.

That is a separate issue. The Age verification law is for viewers. PornHub doesn’t want to store, or be responsible for, your Driver’s License info.

I happen to side with PornHub on this one. It’s a privacy issue, and the age verification is just an initial step in the direction of censorship.

Now verifying identity/ages of the performers, supporting the fight against sex trafficking and the predation of minors, that is worth putting restrictions on PornHub.

My dentist disagrees. He recommends moderation, but says it is not harmful, much less dangerous.

I do it myself, about once a year, and I don’t have any issues at all.

My dentist said I could do it more often if I felt I needed to, 3-4 times a year, and my enamel would be fine, as long as I followed the directions.

I tried googling it and found no source that corroborated your statement. (I did find a Mayo Clinic and NYTimes article that both support my dentist’s claim.)

I’m willing to listen if you can provide an article, but your “objectively wrong” comment seems a little, well, objectively wrong.

I definitely see images, but not specifics. For example, I can see my wife’s face, in my mind, but I can’t draw from that memory.

Like I am seeing the images from a distance, but if I try to focus on a detail, the image falls apart.

I still think in words and images, but there is no voice.

Something else that came up in previous discussions. I remember emotional response more than specific things. For example, my wife can remember what we wore, what we ate, and other specifics, of a date we had years ago. I barely remember even the location, but I can easily recall that I was happy about the date, but there was some mild frustration early on, something about the restaurant, but then feeling better about it later.

I say this and my wife says, “Oh yeah, we were annoyed because we had reservations but still had to wait 20 minutes, but then we were given an appetizer.”

However, before my comments, she couldn’t recall if we liked the place or not.

I’ll remember if I liked someone, but not why or even their name.

What do you mean by seeing? Like they don’t see images in their mind?

I do not have an internal monologue.

This has been at least discussed/studied before but I don’t know if there has been any sort of formal poll to find a rate between those that do and those that don’t.

Nice call back!

Can a small sinkhole swallow up Abbot/Patrick/Paxton already.

Those three are absolute trash.

In cases like these, I wish there was a god, because then there would at least be accountability for these dipshits.

I don’t think you’ve seen some of these movies if you think it has anything to do with how sad it made them.

It wasn’t him, it was the one armed man!

Cuz Dodgers and Yankees always get a pass.

Umm, what?

Imagine if D&D hadn’t gotten fired, how much worse that trilogy would have been.

Still, Disney seems incapable of recognizing good vs bad writing.

You are right, we’ve gotten some pretty awesome content, but then they fuck away most of the movies.

Close but not correct.

It’s an established marketplace, where legislated “middlemen” buy from the utilities and then sell to the consumer.

You can’t actually buy directly from the utility generating the power without going through the marketplace.

It is sold as a “free market” that would drive competition and keep prices down. In actuality, it just allows leaches, who don’t actually produce anything, to sit in the middle and suck money out of the economy.

Sure some of them will lose money, while others will make a billion, but the system works just fine as a regulated controlled monopoly.

Texas is a perfect example of Republican hypocrisy. The Governor, Lt Governor, State AG, etc… are quite literally the worst kind of politicians.

I seriously dislike Sheila Jackson Lee, but I feel bad about her situation.

I would laugh if that wheel chaired, piece of shit rolled off a cliff.

I would laugh if Dan Patrick caught on fire.

On second thought, I might use Ken Paxton to put out the fire, by that I mean, push him onto Dan, hoping he would catch on fire too.

Shit, that went a lot darker than I intended.

Can’t tell if that bar is gold or silver.

With that try-hard moustache, it is probably gold. 😏

(That patch also makes him look like an Air Force doofus.)

Tell your friend good luck, and make sure his landings = his take offs.

We need a cabal to kill these super-rich.

Think of free market capitalism. In an ideal world, where people played fair, this system would work. But it has been clearly shown that any and all abuses of a free market will be made in order to gain an “edge”.

You are clearly so naive that you think the meaning behind a vote somehow makes that vote more important.

I wish you were right, but you are not. I am a registered Republican and I have been voting Democrat, down ticket, as a protest for the last two elections because the GoP has become taken over by fundies and fascists.

Project 2025 scares the shit out of me. It should scare the living shit out of you too.

But here you are, arguing that Biden doesn’t deserve to be President because he did horribly at the debate, ignoring that Trump was 90% full of shit.

I don’t want Biden to be President either. JFC, he was a corporatist asshole 30 years ago, but at least this country has a chance to move forward with him in the oval office. If Trump gets elected, this is the fucking end of our Democracy. Do you not realize the point of project 2025?

I wish you would just shut the fuck up. The time to talk about different leadership was three fucking years ago.

I’m trying my best to change the local party but I’ve been blacklisted from every local GoP event. What the fuck are you doing, besides watering down opposition to literal fucking Nazis?

I think this says more about you and the people choose to hang out with.