I dunno, for such things as necessary and uncontrollable as rain to ancient cultures, there is also the stress of ‘what if it doesn’t rain?’.

People (me) hate being helpless, especially during crises or crunch points, so giving people busy work to quiet their anxiety during this period is socially a necessary step. I recall being trained to do the same thing for emergencies: give people small discrete tasks to keep them occupied and out of the way.

I imagine certain tactics games could possibly count in this vein - you as the commander on the uplink give orders to the team what does the actual shooting.

Maybe my eyes are fucked, but it just looks like a purple hyperlink to me…

Bin Laden had a snuff film? I remember Saddam’s, but not Bin Laden’s.

How many decades of study does it take to come to the conclusion that ‘Israel was right to detonate pager-bombs’ and not deserve shit for it?

That is to say not every greybeard academic is immune to shit takes.

Everyone leaves. These lucky few leave wiser for the encounter.

Inner Mongolia is technically part of China, not the independent nation of Mongolia.

Not knowing the other arrest articles you clicked, it may be a byproduct of his alleged crime - pedophilia tends to be a popular “vigilante justice” kinda crime.

I think they’re talking about the s in older documents being written differently, such that if you weren’t familiar, you might confuse it with an f. But only the first s in such cases that there were more than one.

An ‘-ism’. Specifically anarcho-capitalism.

Barry Goldwater

I was gonna ask why 7.7? Surely a more modern cartridge would work at least as well for cheaper.

Ok then, prepare for my hugs of mild discomfort. They will be a mite too tight, or at a vaguely inappropriate time, but never so much as to cause a stir.

These I give to you as an unkindness.

I’m not gonna hold my breath on the Republican Party holding it’s contingent responsible. Thus the only other party with power better take some action.

It may not be the victim’s fault but it is their responsibility.

The world’s biggest car is a VW? They’re so little though! (I know how you meant it)

I’d say her attitude towards the Palestinian protesters at her rally in Detroit was the last straw for me. It was a misstep that may have been due to pressures of running a rushed campaign and the stress of detractors at every stop, but to carry on and at no point express common goals with the protesters showed her hand well enough for me.

First order of business: take out the assassin that tried to poison me a moment ago.

Keep my plate warm! Imma be right over.

Aww shit! Never expected to see Rain here… or anywhere, really!

I was gonna call out the Volvo Ice9, but yours is more jarring.