How do you ask the median voter? We used to do that with polling, but no one answers their phone anymore.

Half sarcastic, half not. The US had a wild amount of influence for decades, whether we liked it or not. They’re going to have a lot less influence going forward.

I don’t think the US will be hated, but they definitely will have lost their position as undisputed leader of the free world they’ve had since WW2, and countries will definitely be hedging their bets more with their defense spending.

Who says that’s their goal? Their goal is to force the women out of the workplace and making them stay at home wives.

They also want women to stay at home, though. So having them forced to carry the baby and then lose their job plays nicely into their goal of forcing every woman to be a stay at home wife.

They’re more likely to put up with domestic abuse if they’re completely reliant on the man, you know.

So good it’s worth the brain parasites. Just ask RFK Jr.

It’s especially bound to happen because it’s basically a medical procedure which is incompatible with being a medical professional. A medical professional would lose their license for performing this procedure, so the only way to do it is by using someone unqualified.

That sounds like a tea egg. Century eggs are cured in an alkaline solution for weeks to months. Both taste fine.

If it’s not medically necessary, yes. Not all wisdom teeth need to be removed, but some do. It’s kind of like foreskin in that way.

It’s not mutilation if it’s done to a consenting adult. This applies to both vasectomies and circumcision. Sometimes there are medical reasons for either procedure.

I can’t speak for people suffering from genital mutilation, but a flaccid penis with a foreskin is like a little stress relief fidget toy. You can squish it around a little, even through clothing. This does not feel sexual at all if you’re not already aroused. I’ve seen threads online where women claim they do the equivalent in private by idly squeezing their own breasts.

Yeah, he’s drinking butter.

If I was trying to influence the results towards Republicans I’d probably say the exact opposite, to make people rooting for El-Sayed not bother to vote.

Solid point. I donated to Bernie Sanders when he first ran for president, and I have been spammed to death ever since. It felt like I was being punished. I never gave them another dime.

That’s because the different shapes kind of group the signs, so you can see at a glance whether the sign is a mandate, a warning or purely informational. Well, that’s how European signage works anyway. US signage shapes appear a lot less organized.

Uncomfortably close, though.

Completely unrealistic. The monolith is not retiring, it’s just getting stuffed into a docker image and saying “Hello, fellow micro services!”, while achieving a fraction of the old uptime because you’re also trying to run Oracle or MSSQL on AWS using EBS as the underlying storage, and none of those components were designed for that use case.

It’s going to be a mess regardless. The monolith is just tangled at a different layer. The only way to avoid a tangled mess is to incentivize proper engineering, and everyone is incentivizing time to market and delivery of barely working features, which are the antithesis of proper engineering.

How does this differ from MasterMind? It looks like the same game with a different name.

Wasn’t there a whistleblower saying it was only a matter of time before this happened just a few weeks ago?