[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I'll just wait here quietly for Doonesbury to address this.

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

I can see how the cartoon is inappropriate. A Star of David references Judaism as a whole. It paints an entire religion as the perpetrators of bad acts that can only reasonably be laid at the feet of Netanyahu's Israeli government. An Israeli flag might be more appropriate, but it would still be painting ordinary Israeli citizens with too broad of a brush.

On the flip side, the military controlled by Nethanyahu's government seems to be painting all Gaza citizens as targets, regardless of affiliation with Hamas or lack thereof. This stance sucks and is evil.

Killing innocent people like Hamas and Israel have is a clear ethical failure. Fomenting culture-wide hatred of a group in a way that encourages future killing of innocent people like Hamas and Israel have is also an ethical failure.

Harvard was right to condemn the cartoon, but there is no real good guy here.

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I can never trust multiple exclamation points.

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago
[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 99 points 10 months ago

On the plus side, if the Foot Clan attacks, you'll have easy access to allies.

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago

I'd be worried about me freaking out, causing the horse to freak out and stomp me to death. This thought itself would of course (of course) increase the chance of me freaking out about the horse.

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Getting an Oregon Trail vibe from that message.

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

My brother insists on calling Roblox "Robots" to his kids. This appropriately infuriates them. I'm workshopping Fork-knife to bug my step kids.

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Now Homer, don't you eat this pie!"

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The US may not back them, but it certainly doesn't condemn them either. This is the tightrope that has been walked between the nuclear-armed parties of interest since the beginning of the conflict.

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The Amish have been steadily moving west since they arrived at Ellis Island in 1800. It's just taken most of them this long to get to Ohio with their approved devil-free transportation.

In another 200 years they may make it as far as Idaho.

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There have been some impressive (and scary) temperature records set in the past couple weeks. That said, there are parts of Canada that are currently on fire that likely have a daily temperature in the hundreds of degrees. Clearly that doesn't count for any sort of temperature record. What I'm wondering is: where's the dividing line? How far away from a big fire do you have to be to record a valid daily temperature?

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There have been some impressive (and scary) temperature records set in the past couple weeks. That said, there are parts of Canada that are currently on fire that likely have a daily temperature in the hundreds of degrees. Clearly that doesn't count for any sort of temperature record. What I'm wondering is: where's the dividing line? How far away from a big fire do you have to be to record a valid daily temperature?

[-] Lawyerator@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I was in college, it was night, and several friends and acquaintances of mine had lugged a case of beer to a giant empty wire spool that sat next to our campus at the time. The spool on it's side made for a good table.

Having completed an entire class about world religions, we were set to debate whether Buddhism or Taoism was a more reasonable philosophy.

The girl to my right was definitely engaged in the conversation, but she hadn't said anything yet. I asked her "so what do you think about all of this?" She looked at me, crossed her arms, and fell backwards into the ground. I immediately said, "holy shit, did you guys just see that?" Nobody else saw the girl. As it happened, the wire spool was on the lawn between the campus and a graveyard.

Maybe I'm nuts or maybe I saw that. Never saw anything like that again though.

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