We’re always fighting the last war. Take their input seriously but also understand that the world you live in is different from the one they grew up in. They’re trying to teach you how to stay safe under a dictatorship, they don’t want your life to be ruined because you got mad about a thing once in college.
No video games? You used too be a real nerd, man, now you’re just another normie!
Including oaths of office? Politicians would be miserable
Hexagons are bestagons
I got a real Nigerian scam letter once, by lettermail. I was so proud of it, I showed it to people.
Locked in a dumpster in Mexico, I guess
I won’t let people forget about your ratio
This is a fairly common thing people actually do. I always have earplugs and a sleep mask in my bag when I’m traveling.
It’s actually pretty believable as a Mazda
I actually love apartments, but nice big ones. I love having a gym and pool that I don’t have to personally maintain, I love being up high and having a good view and a nice breeze on the balcony, and being walking distance to the metro. A detached house obviously beats the pants off a small, dark, poorly ventilated apartment with no amenities, which is probably why they cost 10X as much.
My distinctions are real, yours are just lines on a map
No, god, please, no
I would pull that lever so fucking hard. That amount of responsibility would basically take over and ruin my life, even if they never caught me
X-Com, baby 😎 It would be just like Edge of Tomorrow
We thought they would use this power to end world hunger, but it only took them 7 hours to weaponize it
I like the idea because it gives people job experience and forces them to interact with a broader cross-section of society, and might help some people who wouldn’t otherwise do so consider it as a career, making the military more diverse. It also helps us be more prepared in the event of a major war. And obviously teenage conscripts should never be given combat deployments unless the homeland is literally being invaded, we’ve seen how traumatic that is even for people who self-select into it. I very much doubt it would do anything to decrease gun violence.
We are normal, it’s the others who are weird