Now the Governors have to vote on the immigration bill!

Governors don't vote on bills, huh-ha.

In a weird way, our fucked up execution methods were an attempt by past progressives to make executions less gratuitous, and every single thing we've come up with in order to do that has been worse (from a "causing unnecessary pain" standpoint) than firing squads and guillotines.

Founding Fathers specifically designed the system to be this way in order to limit the control of people not in the ruling class. Over time it has accumulated a lot of crust as many small changes have been made, but its never been totally overhauled to make sense and it has always remained in line with what the founders intended, more or less.

We embargoed Vietnam until 1994, IMO we changed strategy and improved our relationship with them primarily as a hedge against China (you know this is the case because Joe Biden recently said that it's not lmao). In South Korea and Japan we hedge against China by forcing a bunch of military bases onto them, but since Vietnam isn't a vassal state we had to take a different approach, and bear in mind that 1994 was the Clinton administration, when our country's global credibility wasn't completely in the toilet as it is now, so we were able to make deals and actually build something, in this case US-Vietnamese relations.

Vietnam had sided with the USSR during the Sino-Soviet split for a lot of reasons, and without the USSR they were looking for a new non-Chinese friend and major trading partner, a role which we gladly took on. Vietnamese people generally have positive interactions with Americans, since most Americans who visit are older tourists or military members who spend a lot of money but don't actually live in the country long enough to commit a bunch of crimes (not that crimes don't happen, it's just fewer than what SK and JP have to deal with). Combine that with the Vietnamese-Americans who maintain relations with their families in the mother country (the fact that many of them fled the South because they were afraid of the Communists redistributing their land is water under the bridge by now), and you have a recipe for a lot of soft power to build up in a very short amount of time.

Basically they did Sneaker Culture for the things. Limited edition "drops", artificial scarcity, a big influencer campaign on TikTok and Instagram that pushed collecting them. Prior to that the only people who bought Stanleys were hikers and preppers who kept complaining about them not being as sturdy as they used to be.

To be fair you can't really control what people will like. When a song off your album gets popular you either play that shit for the rest of your life and collect your money or you don't.

locked to terminal illness only.

tfw Canada would classify "poverty" as a terminal illness

The show was Tumblr as hell from the jump, they didn't drop anything, that's always been the whole point.

I wonder if you could even get tubes installed nowadays. You would probably have to spin up a bespoke company to install them, hiring a bunch of people who've never done it before and training as you go, and then everyone would lose their job at the end of the process.

Just like building railcars in the US.

There's a guy with a few wolf dogs who frequents a dog park near me. They're great and beautiful animals, but according to him you have to dilute the wolf in them for multiple generations before they become safe to keep as pets. I guess training a wolf is technically possible but wolves and half-wolves just aren't domesticated animals and they can and will react unpredictably no matter how "well behaved" they seem on the surface - and that's with a professional working with them, now imagine the average dog owner!

So uhhh I just checked the mod log and it seems like this time BMF got banned for a sus post about Harry Potter, not anti-anarchist sectarianism.