I mean, it’s kind of a prerequisite.

Global warming: Hold my CO2…

Capitalism and the “American Dream”. The idea that if you just work hard and keep your head down, all your wildest dreams will come true.

Some people keep monkeys as pets.

“Crime, boy, I don’t know”

It was a pretty bad point. They were entering a discussion about extremes and brought up center-right politicians.

I’m 100% with you there. It’s of vital importance to make your voice heard, and voting is one of the simplest ways to do that.

Not at the end game… yet. Plenty worse it can get still.

If you let them define your politicians by a single issue, you will only exacerbate your problems.

Only a little less than a third voted for it! Slightly less voted against, and significantly more just couldn’t be bothered!

Technically my shit is edible, technically.

Hey now, it was slightly more than a third, not half!

Isn’t the implication that he’s saying Tesla will fail if America fails, not that America will fail if Tesla fails? He’s basically saying he has tied his fortunes to America’s future, not necessarily the other way around.

But your “fair and balanced” puts all the onus of clean up on the next person. Kind of like how parking far to one side of a parking spot puts all onus of creating enough space for people to get out of their car on the next person.

It’s passing the buck because you can’t be bothered to clean up after yourself.

You’re the kind of person who parks all the way on the passenger side of a parking spot, aren’t you?

As someone who used to take care of office supplies (I was in accounting, btw) because everyone in the office is lazy and doesn’t wanna deal with complex things like grounds and filters.

Life is unfair, but unless we acknowledge our own failings it will never get better.

You want to walk through life blaming everyone else for everything that goes wrong in your life and take no responsibility for your own actions? Feel free. But just know nothing will ever get better for you.

I even acknowledge, multiple times, that it is not solely the fault of the person. But that does not mean they have no will of their own, no ability to change their circumstances. Sometimes that freedom is not enough, but unless you do something to take charge of your own life, again, nothing will ever change.

Failure often comes at multiple points, it doesn’t just fail at one. It’s a failure of education, of social pressures, of lack of positive environments, and yes of choice. The problem with free will is that you have the chance to choose wrong. You can blame everyone in the world, but if you don’t take accountability for your own actions and choices, nothing will change.

There has never been a time with as much access to information as now. While there as much, likely more, misinformation… that does not mean individuals have no culpability for their own lack of knowledge or understanding.

That doesn’t mean it’s exclusively their fault, or even anywhere near a majority. But that does not mean they lose all free will for their own actions. It does not mean they have no ability to be better.

Should we place the weight of the world on their shoulders? Absolutely not, that is liable to break them. But we also shouldn’t hide them from the burden of their own free will. That only weakens them.

Spoofed number, maybe?

Admittedly I don’t understand how spoofing works.

The Orville had that in the first season or so, after that it went heavy into serialization. I dont think I even finished whatever the last season was because of it.