• this is your regular reminder that blind, unswaying commitment to a dating relationship is actually not a virtue as such. the point of that season of life is to discern whether the relationship is good and life-giving, not to stubbornly grit your teeth and stick it out, make it work, no matter what. part of knowing how to date is knowing when it’s time to leave.

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  • Except didn't "break the door down and get out." Hamas wasn't even locked up.

    They had free reign of their country. And had no entitlement to enter Israel, which Palestinians did on the regular for jobs and healthcare. They were even allowed immigration to Israel and elsewhere as long as they actually went through the immigration process.

    More accurately, what Hamas did is look at you locking your door so they can't get into your house and decide to break down the door to enter your house, kill you and several of your friends and neighbors you had over for dinner, and then drag your wife, kids and grandparents to their house as hostages and then scream "police brutality! They're infringing on my rights!" to the world when the cops busted in to try and save them and bring the murderers to justice.

  • Another thing about the walkable city/anti car people is that they always seem to be rather shy of dependents.

    I mean of course you would think it's nice to just stop at the nearby shop for what you and you alone need for a couple days, because it's very easy for you to carry those objects a few blocks.

    There is no extra burden on your wallet either, because you can't benefit from buying in bulk as much as someone who is feeding a half dozen people can.

    Somebody with children and pets however doesn't experience the same ease in bringing the shopping home unless they visit once per meal or so, which is silly unless the little grocery is on the bottom floor of your building or something similar.

  • Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is now proposing a new "head tax" to fix the deficit after destroying their budget.  All companies employing 100+ people in Chicago will have to pay a tax of $21 per employee per month, simply for having employees.  A punishment for hiring people. pic.twitter.com/yS4OyuGvlj  — Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 16, 2025ALT

    I see socialists are now at punishing jobs creation.

    Will the government pay taxes to itself for all its public sector employees?

  • If you can afford more than 100 employees, you can afford that tax, and if you can't you shouldn't be open

  • Case in point, a socialist wanting to punish job creation solely due to their own spite and envy.

    Not even arguing that money is needed or would be better used by the government and how, just mindlessly screeching to take it away from those who demonstrate that they put their money to a beneficial use by creating jobs.

  • Just to note, for every 100 employees the company will pay 20 minimum wage salaries worth of taxes. For the crime of employing people.

  • Reminder that socialism requires the punishment of productive people to fund government incompetence and payoffs to leeches.

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  • My Babci always told me fortune tellers and fortune-telling was demonic and not only unreliable, but deliberately malicious.

    Sure it's okay to shake a magic 8 ball as a kid cuz that's a toy. But in general? They're evil and made to enslave your faith in them and not where it properly belongs, in God.

  • "Don't trust anything that you cannot see where it keeps it brain." -- Arthur Weasley

  • I think the most incredible thing about the guy who accidentally put his head in a particle accelerator is not the fact that it happened, or the fact that he survived, its the fact that after getting blasted with a wave of protons traveling at 99% the speed of light and seeing “the light of a thousand suns” he just quietly left the room, went about his day, and went home without telling anyone. Really just speedran the five stages of grief and arrived at the attitude of “welp, whatever happens next happens.”

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  • Screencap ID: Doctors expected him to die, but he survived with severe but non-fatal injuries. The left half of Bugorski's face swelled up beyond recognition and, over the next several days, the skin started to peel, revealing the path that the proton beam had burned through parts of his face, his bone, and the brain tissue underneath.[5] As it was believed that he had received far in excess of a fatal dose of radiation, Bugorski was taken to a clinic in Moscow where the doctors could observe his expected demise. However, Bugorski survived, completed his PhD, and continued working as a particle physicist.[6] There was virtually no damage to his intellectual capacity, but the fatigue of mental work increased markedly.[3] Bugorski completely lost hearing in the left ear, replaced by a form of tinnitus.[3][2] The left half of his face became paralyzed due to the destruction of nerves.[1] He was able to function well, except for occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures. The paralyzed side of his face never aged.[a][1] (End)

  • He's retired but still alive

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