The Republic of China is the One True Government of All China, and Taiwan is its Capital.

I fell down on a skateboard in my later 30s, hit my elbow and it didn’t even break the skin, but I developed a really nasty staph infection that I waited way too long to bring to a doctor, and I got a scar that looks extremely like the one in the picture.

If you eat the bread ends, you will grow hair on your chest

It would be cruel to send women criminal convicts to prison with men.

Obama won in 2012. Trump won in 2016. Then a bunch of his voters switched and Biden won in 2020. And then a bunch of his voters switched to Trump in 2024.

It seems inarguable that a critical number of voters are absolutely capable of changing their minds.

Does anyone know if there is a better way to remove a circuit component with 6 studs, than cutting the studs off with a hacksaw?

Real Facebook ads for anyone curious

A few years ago I made a Facebook post jokingly pointing out how the ads on Facebook include ads for fake rolexes and illegal drugs (including a screenshot of the ads) and Facebook took down my post on the stated grounds that I was violating someone’s trademark.

I can confirm people have been pointlessly tapping soda can lids since decades before the existence of Youtube.

And the cars would stay nice and cool!

No one liked Sadda Hussein’s Iraq but that war had quite a few protests.

The difference I see is that we weren’t lied into justifying this war. It isn’t popular even among Republicans. Hell, the Republicans ran the last election in significant part saying that Kamala Harris would start wars and vote for Trump because he would not.

There are no Iran war protests because in 2026 America has a widespread feeling like nothing people can do fucking matters at all.

Thanks, you are the first person out of many to provide a real answer and not just get angry at the question!

I was thinking more along the lines of a factory or a farm, but ok let’s go with a rental home.

Let’s say the billionaire’s security guards stop allowing the nonpaying tenant to access the property. Does the nonauthoritarian communist government go arrest the security guards?

I have a general rule where if someone is not able to summarize their thoughts in one or two paragraphs, I am not going to waste time reading their 134 page document or 2 hour video they throw at me.

Billionaires do exist, currently, already, in our non hypothetical world.

I wrongly assumed the proponent of nonauthoritarian communism had some idea how to bring about their ideal society from our current world.

How does a nonauthoritarian communist society handle a billionaire who buys up income-generating property and pays people to run it for the billionaire’s main benefit?

Let’s also assume he pays people to be security guards for this operation.

We need the electoral college because without it the ignorant masses might elect an dangerously unqualified reactionary demagogue they saw on a reality TV show.