I call bullshit, receipts or it didn't happen

Tbf you don't have to keep a pet bird alone in an undersized cage, I used to follow some people on tiktok that did wildlife rehab for crows, they had an aviary built into their screened-in patio with something like a dog door to the outside, they would introduce new injured crows into the group through the screen to keep them from fighting then gradually move them into the common area, let them adjust and recover then leave when they wanted, a decent amount of the crows just stayed and would follow them around their farm through the day being awesome little pals

Are you completely culturally illiterate?

Cool story, can't help noticing it's entirely unsubstantiated though. Again, if Chinese manifacturing quality was actually that much lower consistently than American manifacturing we wouldn't be losing.

Nobody currently alive will live to see it

Correct, the clothes and movies and music are the culture

If their versions were actually shittier we wouldn't be losing as badly as we are, you're verifiably wrong and it comes off as racist

Tbf the "US siding with Nazis" part isn't extremely surprising

They're not calling republicans liberals, they're calling republicans fascists

Lol good, fuck Boeing

Shit

I'm pretty sure Stephen King was sexually abused as a child, and I'm pretty sure this scene in It is just another example of him trying to work through it with his writing. It's a recurring theme in a lot of his work, and some of it feels like he's speaking from direct experience. The Library Policeman specifically. He also mentions in On Writing that he has sparse memories of his childhood with long blanks spots, which is pretty standard for traumatized kids.